§ 20-23-10-5 — Merger resolution; contents

School corporations in a county may merge
in the following manner:
(1) The governing bodies of the school corporations shall adopt
a concurrent resolution providing for the merger.
(2) The resolutions in subdivision (1) shall be adopted not later
than sixty (60) days after the date the first concurrent resolution
is adopted by a governing body. The resolutions must provide for
the following:
(A) The makeup of board member districts, including that:
(i) board members shall be elected from the entire merged
school corporation, but residence requirements may provide
that members live in different districts;
(ii) the board member districts need not be equal in size or
population, and one (1) board member district may include
the area in the merged school corporation;
(iii) the number of members of the governing body of the
merged school corporation to be elected from a board
member district need not be equal in number; and
(iv) concurrent resolutions may also eliminate requirements
that there be board member districts.
(B) The number of members on the governing body of the
merged school corporation must be:
(i) three (3);
(ii) five (5); or
(iii) seven (7);
members.
(C) The time the merged school corporation comes into
existence.
If a time is not provided when the merged school corporation comes
into existence or if a final judgment in the remonstrance proceeding is
delayed beyond the time set in the concurrent resolutions, the merged
school corporation comes into existence on July 1 following the
adoption of the resolutions or the final judgment, whichever occurs
last.
[Pre-2005 Elementary and Secondary Education
Recodification Citation: 20-4-19-2.]

Legislative History

As added by P.L.1-2005, SEC.7.