Sec. 2.1. Any locality that has elected city officers, and has governed itself as a city, for at least ten (10) years immediately preceding September 1, 1981, is a city for all purposes. All elections, contracts, acts, and other official proceedings of such a locality that occurred before September 1, 1981, and would have been valid if the locality had been a city, are legalized and validated.

As added by Acts 1981, P.L.44, SEC.38.