§ 36-4-2-5 — Petition proposing name of municipality; submission to electorate

(a) If, at least thirty (30) days before an election
held under section 3 of this chapter, voters of each municipality
involved in the election file with each of their municipal clerks a
petition signed by at least the number of voters required under IC 3-8-6-3 to place a candidate on the ballot in each of the municipalities
and proposing a name for the new municipality, the election board shall
place that name on the ballot for the election. The election board shall
list names added to the ballot under this subsection in the order in
which the petitions proposing them were received, but shall place them
after the name included on the ballot under section 2 of this chapter.
(b) The names proposed under this section shall be submitted as
public questions in the form prescribed by IC 3-10-9-4 and must state
"Shall the merged municipality be named _________________?".
[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citations:
18-5-10-11 part; 18-5-10-13.]
As added by Acts 1980, P.L.212, SEC.3. Amended by Acts
1980, P.L.73, SEC.5; P.L.3-1987, SEC.555; P.L.12-1995,
SEC.128.