Section 702. Legislative intent

It is the intention of the legislature by
  the enactment of this article to  provide  a  municipal  annexation  law
  pursuant  to  the provisions of the bill of rights for local governments
  in subdivision (d) of section one of article nine of  the  constitution,
  which  provisions  specify  basic  prerequisites  to  the  annexation of
  territory from one local government to another including (1) the consent
  of the people, if any, of a territory proposed to be annexed and (2) the
  consent of the governing board of each local  government,  the  area  of
  which  is  affected,  upon  the  basis  of  its  determination  that the
  annexation is in the over-all  public  interest,  and  which  provisions
  require  the  legislature  to provide, where such consent of a governing
  board is not granted, for adjudication and determination, on the law and
  the facts, in a proceeding initiated in the supreme court, of the  issue
  of whether the annexation is in the over-all public interest.