Indiana Code 20-23-10-5. Merger resolution; contents
(1) The governing bodies of the school corporations shall adopt a concurrent resolution providing for the merger.
Terms Used In Indiana Code 20-23-10-5
- Concurrent resolution: A legislative measure, designated "S. Con. Res." and numbered consecutively upon introduction, generally employed to address the sentiments of both chambers, to deal with issues or matters affecting both houses, such as a concurrent budget resolution, or to create a temporary joint committee. Concurrent resolutions are not submitted to the President/Governor and thus do not have the force of law.
- concurrent resolutions: means substantially identical resolutions adopted by the governing bodies of the school corporations in a county. See Indiana Code 20-23-10-1
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- governing body: means the board or commission charged by law with the responsibility of administering the affairs of a school corporation, including a board of school commissioners, metropolitan board of education, board of school trustees, or board of trustees. See Indiana Code 20-23-10-2
- Judgment: means all final orders, decrees, and determinations in an action and all orders upon which executions may issue. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
- merger: means the merger of all the school corporations in a county into a single school corporation in which the rights and obligations of each school corporation, including the right to receive tax and other money, are transferred into a new corporation to be known in this chapter as the merged corporation. See Indiana Code 20-23-10-3
- Population: has the meaning set forth in Ind. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
(A) The makeup of board member districts, including that:
(i) board members shall be elected from the entire merged school corporation, but residence requirements may provide that members live in different districts;
(ii) the board member districts need not be equal in size or population, and one (1) board member district may include the area in the merged school corporation;
(iii) the number of members of the governing body of the merged school corporation to be elected from a board member district need not be equal in number; and
(iv) concurrent resolutions may also eliminate requirements that there be board member districts.
(B) The number of members on the governing body of the merged school corporation must be:
(i) three (3);
(ii) five (5); or
(iii) seven (7);
members.
(C) The time the merged school corporation comes into existence.
If a time is not provided when the merged school corporation comes into existence or if a final judgment in the remonstrance proceeding is delayed beyond the time set in the concurrent resolutions, the merged school corporation comes into existence on July 1 following the adoption of the resolutions or the final judgment, whichever occurs last.
[Pre-2005 Elementary and Secondary Education Recodification Citation: 20-4-19-2.]
As added by P.L.1-2005, SEC.7.