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QUESTION: What is the effect if one municipality annexes territory and, thereafter, the Legislature creates a new municipality encompassing some of the same territory as annexed by the first municipality?

SUMMARY: Although the binding resolution of this issue must be achieved within the context of appropriate judicial proceedings, it would appear from applicable judicial precedents that the boundaries of the City of Sanford, to the extent they overlap the boundaries of the City of Lake Mary, as defined and established in Ch. 73-522, Laws of Florida, are altered; and that the antecedent…