Sec. 4. (a) Upon the adoption of a declaratory resolution under section 3 of this chapter, the city works board shall file with the circuit court for the county in which the city is located a petition requesting the establishment of a flood control district to include the territory described in the resolution. A copy of the resolution shall be attached to the petition. The petition shall be docketed in the court as a pending cause, and shall be entitled “In the matter of the city of ____________, petition for the establishment of flood control district”.

     (b) Upon the filing of the petition, the circuit court shall fix a time when the petition shall be heard, which may not be less than fifteen (15) nor more than thirty (30) days after the filing. The clerk of the court shall publish a notice of the hearing in accordance with IC 5-3-1. The notice must:

(1) contain a brief summary of the petition;

(2) set out the description of the boundaries of the proposed district, as set out in the resolution attached to the petition;

(3) state the time and place fixed for the hearing on the petition; and

(4) advise all interested parties that they may appear and be heard.

     (c) The clerk of the circuit court shall certify and send to the attorney general, by registered mail, a copy of the petition, together with a copy of the resolution attached to the petition and a copy of the notice of hearing.

     (d) After the publication and mailing of the notice, all persons having any interest in property or highways located in the petitioning city, or within four (4) miles outside the corporate boundaries of the city, are conclusively presumed to have notice of the pendency of the petition and all subsequent proceedings had under the petition.

[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citation: 19-4-18-2.]

As added by Acts 1981, P.L.309, SEC.105. Amended by Acts 1981, P.L.45, SEC.87.