(a) The hearing may be continued from time to time, but shall be completed within 30 days. At the conclusion of the hearing, the legislative body may abandon the proceedings, may, after passing upon all protests, submit the question of levying a special tax within the area proposed to be annexed to the existing community facilities district to the qualified electors of the area proposed to be annexed as specified in Article 2 (commencing with Section 53318), or may provide for the annexation of territory proposed for annexation in the future upon the unanimous approval of the owner or owners of each parcel or parcels at the time that the parcel or parcels are annexed, without additional hearings.

(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, when the question of levying a special tax within the areas proposed to be annexed into an existing community facilities district appears on the same ballot as the question of annexation of the same territory to a local agency the effectiveness of each ballot measure may be made contingent on the passage of the other ballot measure.

(Amended by Stats. 2007, Ch. 670, Sec. 89. Effective January 1, 2008.)