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Mr. Charles J. Cino Flagler Beach City Attorney Post Office Box 70 Flagler Beach, Florida 32136

Dear Mr. Cino:

On behalf of the Flagler Beach City Commission, you ask substantially the following questions:

1. May a municipality by city charter amend the procedures for annexing property prescribed by Chapter 171, Florida Statutes?

2. When may the city commission, on its own volition, call for a referendum on the question of contraction?

Question One

Article VIII, section 2(c), Florida Constitution, provides in pertinent part that "[m]unicipal annexation of unincorporated territory . . . and exercise…