§ 36-7-4-214 — Membership of commission; additional members required for unincorporated jurisdictional area

(a) ADVISORY. When a municipal plan
commission exercises jurisdiction outside the incorporated area of the
municipality as provided for in section 205 of the advisory planning
law, the executive of the county in which the unincorporated area is
located shall appoint two (2) additional citizen members to the
municipal plan commission. The citizen members must:
(1) be residents of:
(A) the unincorporated area; or
(B) the county, and must also be owners of real property located
in whole or in part within the unincorporated area; and
(2) not be of the same political party.
However, at least one (1) of the members must be a resident of the
unincorporated area.
(b) ADVISORY. Initially, one (1) member under subsection (a)
shall be appointed for a term of one (1) year and the other for a term of
four (4) years. Thereafter, each appointment is for a term of four (4)
years. The additional citizen members are entitled to participate and
vote in all deliberations of the municipal plan commission.
(c) ADVISORY. If the unincorporated area referred to in subsection
(a) lies in two (2) counties, the executive of each of those counties shall
appoint one (1) of the additional citizen members. The executive of the
county having the larger proportion of the unincorporated area shall
appoint its member first, and the executive of the other county shall
then appoint its member, who must not be of the same political party.
[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citations:
18-7-4-214; 18-7-5-35.]
As added by Acts 1981, P.L.309, SEC.23. Amended by
P.L.7-1983, SEC.37; P.L.220-1986, SEC.8; P.L.126-2011, SEC.9;
P.L.6-2012, SEC.242.