Indiana Code 36-12-4-4. Filing resolution; interim board; combination of budgets; new budget and tax levy
(1) the county recorder in each county in which merging library districts are located; and
Terms Used In Indiana Code 36-12-4-4
- Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
- Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
(b) After the resolution adopting the merger is filed, each library board that is not the board of the primary library shall appoint four (4) members to serve with the primary library board on an interim board.
(c) The interim board has the same duties and powers of a public library board under IC 36-12-3.
(d) After the resolution adopting the merger is filed, the budgets of the merging libraries shall be:
(1) combined for the remainder of the current year; and
(2) administered by the interim board.
(e) The interim board described in subsection (b) is dissolved on December 31 of the year in which the merger takes place.
(f) The members of a merged library board shall be appointed under IC 36-12-2, and the terms of office for the members of the merged library board begin January 1 following the dissolution of the interim board.
(g) If a merger takes place after December 31 but before July 1 of the ensuing year, the interim library board described in subsection (b) shall present a new budget and tax rate to the department of local government finance to receive a new tax levy for the merged library district.
(h) If a merger takes place after June 30 but before January 1 of the ensuing year, the merged library board described in subsection (f) shall present a new budget and tax rate to the department of local government finance to receive a new tax levy for the merged library district.
[Pre-2005 Elementary and Secondary Education Recodification Citation: 20-14-4-3.]
As added by P.L.1-2005, SEC.49.