Sec. 10. (a) A court in which a petition is filed shall order the proceedings transferred to the court having jurisdiction under section 9 of this chapter if:

(1) the petition was filed in the wrong court by mistake; or

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Terms Used In Indiana Code 14-33-2-10

  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
(2) the petition is amended so that another county has more land in the proposed district.

     (b) The court that establishes a district retains jurisdiction over the district regardless of a change in area of the district that results from later proceedings.

[Pre-1995 Recodification Citation: 13-3-3-15.]

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

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