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Any portion of a district that will not be benefited by remaining in the district may be excluded as provided in this article.

A petition to exclude territory shall be signed by 50 or more freeholders in the portion proposed to be excluded from the district, or by a majority of the freeholders, if there are less than one hundred freeholders in the portion proposed to be excluded. The petition shall request the exclusion of that territory from the district on the ground that it will not be benefited by remaining in the district.

As an alternative to the procedure outlined in Section 4906, the board may by resolution entered in its minutes fix a time for a hearing on the question of the exclusion of any portion of a district which will not be benefited by remaining in the district. The time fixed for the hearing shall not be less than 15 or more than 30 days from and after passage of the resolution.

Upon receiving a petition to exclude territory the board shall fix a time for hearing it and for hearing protests to the continuance of the remaining territory as a district. The time of hearing shall not be less than fifteen nor more than thirty days after the receipt of the petition.

At least ten days prior to the time fixed, the board shall publish a notice of the hearing by one insertion in the newspaper circulated in the district that the board deems most likely to give notice to the district's inhabitants of the proposed exclusion.

Any person interested may appear at the hearing and object to the exclusion of the territory from the district, or may object to the continuance of the remaining territory as a district, and the board shall consider all objections and shall pass upon them.

If the board finds that the territory proposed to be excluded will not be benefited by remaining in the district, and that the territory not proposed to be excluded will be benefited by continuing as a district, it shall by resolution declare the district re-established excluding therefrom the territory found not benefited by remaining in the district.

Upon the exclusion of any territory from the district all property acquired for the district shall remain vested in the county and be used for the purposes of the district.