§ 20-23-4-13 — Hearings on preliminary plans; notice

(a) When a county committee has prepared
its preliminary written plans for reorganization of school corporations,
the committee shall fix dates and places for one (1) or more hearings
on the plans and give notice of the hearings to the residents of the
school corporations affected and all interested parties. The county
committee may hold more than one (1) hearing. The chairperson of the
county committee shall give the notice:
(1) by publication at least one (1) time in one (1) newspaper of
general circulation published in the school corporation or
corporations; or
(2) if a newspaper is not published in the school corporation or
corporations, in a newspaper having a general circulation in the
school corporation or corporations;
at least ten (10) days but not more than thirty (30) days before the date
of the hearing.
(b) At the hearing:
(1) the county committee shall:
(A) explain the proposed reorganization plan;
(B) summarize the educational improvements adoption of the
plan will make possible; and
(C) if the proposed reorganization includes division of an
existing school corporation, state the adjustment proposed for:
(i) property;
(ii) assets;
(iii) debts; and
(iv) other liabilities; and
(2) any resident of the county or of any affected school
corporation in an adjoining county may be heard with reference
to:
(A) the proposed plan; or
(B) an alternative plan.
[Pre-2005 Elementary and Secondary Education
Recodification Citation: 20-4-1-9.]

Legislative History

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