Sec. 24. (a) The court may permit amendments to a petition to conform to the findings of the commission.

     (b) If a petition is amended to include additional land other than the land published in the notice for hearing on the petition, the court may make a final determination on the establishment of the district only after there is published notice of the amendments or of motion to amend by the petitioners. In addition, the petitioners shall mail a notice of the amendments or of the motion to amend to all freeholders of the additional land according to section 14 of this chapter, including mailing of notice under section 12 of this chapter.

     (c) If a petition is amended to include additional land:

(1) the requirements regarding signatures in sections 2 and 3 of this chapter must be satisfied as if the land had been included in the petition as originally filed; and

(2) the following may be filed with the court at any time before the conclusion of the hearing after the receipt of the commission’s report:

(A) Additional signatures to the petition for the establishment of the district.

(B) Signatures to a petition against the establishment of a district.

(C) Withdrawals from either petition.

[Pre-1995 Recodification Citation: 13-3-3-28.]

As added by P.L.1-1995, SEC.26.