ANNEXATION OF TERRITORY PROCEDURE

SECTION 3. Boise City may annex additional territory contiguous to and adjoining the limits of said city, in the following manner:

Whenever a petition shall be filed in the office of the city clerk, describing any such territory and defining the boundaries thereof, signed by the qualified voters of such territory equal in number to at least fifteen percent of the qualified voters thereof voting at the last preceding general election, praying for the annexation of such territory, the council of Boise City shall consider and determine whether the annexation of such territory or any part thereof shall be submitted to the qualified voters thereof. And in case said council determines that the question of such annexation shall be so submitted, it shall be the duty of said mayor and council to forthwith call a special election in said territory, for the purpose of submitting to the qualified electors thereof the question of annexing said territory to said city. Notice of the time and place of holding said election shall be given in the same manner, and said election shall be conducted in all respects the same as is provided in this Act for holding special elections of said city. Elector, as used in this section, means any person qualified to take the following oath:

   "I,                              do solemnly swear (or affirm), that I am a citizen of the United States over the age of twenty-one years; that I have resided in this State for six months last past, and within the territory now proposed to be annexed to Boise City, for ninety days last past.

   S.L. 1907, p. 61.