Section 20-23-10-5 - Merger resolution; contents School corporations in a county may merge in the following manner:
(1) The governing bodies of the school corporations shall adopt a concurrent resolution providing for the merger.(2) The resolutions in subdivision (1) shall be adopted not later than sixty (60) days after the date the first concurrent resolution is adopted by a governing body. The resolutions must provide for the following: (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: (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.