Proceedings to exclude territory from an improvement district, formed pursuant to this division, may be initiated by the board upon its own motion, or shall be initiated by the board upon receipt of a petition for exclusion signed by not less than 10 percent of the voters of the area proposed to be excluded, which states reasons such exclusion will be beneficial to the district or the improvement district or the territory to be excluded.

(Added by Stats. 1978, Ch. 404.)