Section 14-40-1802 - Order for exclusion(a) After hearing the petition, if the county court shall be satisfied that a majority of the qualified electors of the corporation are in favor of the exclusion of the territory mentioned in the petition from within its limits, or alternatively that the city council has resolved to request that the territory be excluded from the limits of the municipal corporation and remitted back to the county, that the territory to be excluded has been accurately described, and that it would be proper and right to grant the petition, it shall make an order excluding the territory in the petition mentioned from the limits of the municipal corporation and remitting it back to the county.(b)(1) It shall be the duty of the clerk of the court to make out a certified copy of the order and to deliver it to the recorder of his or her county, whose duty it shall be to record the order in the proper book of records in his or her office.(2) It shall also be the duty of the recorder to make out and forward to the Secretary of State a certified copy of the record.Acts 1875, No. 1, § 90, p. 1; C. & M. Dig., § 7488; Pope's Dig., § 9531; A.S.A. 1947, § 19-321; Acts 1997, No. 140, § 2.