§ 20-23-8-14 — Notice of plan and further petitions

Indiana § 20-23-8-14

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Title 20: EDUCATION
• Art. 23: ORGANIZATION OF SCHOOL CORPORATIONS
• Ch. 8: Governing Body Composition Change

Text

(a) Not more than ten (10) days after a
governing body has:
(1) initiated;
(2) approved; or
(3) disapproved;
a plan initiated by the petition filed with it, the governing body shall
publish a notice one (1) time in a newspaper of general circulation in
the county of the school corporation. If a newspaper of general
circulation is not published in the county of the school corporation, the
governing body shall publish a notice one (1) time in a newspaper of
general circulation published in a county adjoining the county of the
school corporation.
(b) The notice must set out the text of a plan initiated by the
governing body or another plan filed with the governing body before
the preparation of the notice. The notice must also state the right of a
voter, as provided in this section, to file a petition for alternative plans
or a petition protesting the adoption of a plan or plans to which the
notice relates.
(c) If the governing body fails to publish a notice required by this
section, the governing body shall, not more than five (5) days after the
expiration of the ten (10) day period for publication of notice under this
section, submit the petition that has been filed with the clerk to the
state board, whether or not the plan contained in the petition or the
petition meets the requirements of this chapter.
(d) Not later than one hundred twenty (120) days after the
publication of the notice, voters of the school corporation may file with
the clerk a petition protesting a plan initiated or approved by the
governing body or a petition submitting an alternative plan as follows:
(1) A petition protesting a plan shall be signed by at least twenty
percent (20%) of the voters of the school corporation or five
hundred (500) voters of the school corporation, whichever is less.
(2) A petition submitting an alternative plan shall be signed by at
least twenty percent (20%) of the voters of the school corporation.
A petition filed under this subsection shall be certified by the clerk and
shall be filed with the governing body in the same manner as is
provided for a petition in section 11 of this chapter.
(e) The governing body or the voters may not initiate or file
additional plans until the plans that were published in the notice or
submitted as alternative plans not later than one hundred twenty (120)
days after the publication of the notice have been disposed of by:
(1) adoption;
(2) defeat at a special election held under section 16 of this
chapter; or
(3) combination with another plan by the state board under
section 15 of this chapter.
[Pre-2005 Elementary and Secondary Education
Recodification Citation: 20-4-10.1-8.]

Legislative History

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