Sec. 7.5. (a) This section applies to a county in which the county adopting body is the county council.

     (b) Before the county council may vote on a proposed ordinance under this article, the county council must hold a public hearing on the proposed ordinance and provide the public with notice of the date, time, and place of the public hearing.

     (c) The notice required by subsection (b) must be given in accordance with IC 5-3-1 and include the proposed ordinance.

     (d) In addition to the notice required by subsection (b), the adopting body shall also provide a copy of the notice to all taxing units in the county at least ten (10) days before the public hearing.

     (e) If a county adopting body makes any fiscal decision that has a financial impact to an underlying local taxing unit, the decision must be made, and notice must be given to the affected local taxing unit, by August 1 of a year. If a county adopting body passes an ordinance changing the allocation of local income tax revenue to a local taxing unit, the county adopting body must provide direct notice, in addition to the public notice described in subsection (b), to the affected local taxing unit within fifteen (15) days of the passage of the ordinance. The county adopting body must provide confirmation to the department of state revenue and the department of local government finance that direct notice was provided to the affected local taxing units within fifteen (15) days of the passage of the ordinance.

As added by P.L.197-2016, SEC.45. Amended by P.L.247-2017, SEC.11; P.L.236-2023, SEC.78.