The bill addresses the authorities of municipalities:
Key Provisions:
Expansion of Municipal Authority:
The bill extends a municipality's full police power and control over land acquired outside its municipal limits for use as parks, parkways, boulevards, roads, open space, and natural areas.
This authority applies to all such acquired land, regardless of whether it is open or closed to the public.
Summary
Current law grants a municipality full police power and control
(authority) over land that it acquires outside its municipal limits for use as parks, parkways, boulevards, or roads. The bill extends this authority to land that a municipality acquires for open space and natural areas and clarifies that it extends to all such acquired land whether or not it is open or closed to the public.
