Citations Affected:
IC 36-4-3-4.1.
Synopsis: Annexation of agricultural land. Allows Brownsburg to
exempt annexed agricultural land from property tax liability until the
land is rezoned under a different classification.
Effective: July 1, 2003.
January 15, 2003, read first time and referred to Committee on Local Government.
A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning local
government.
of more than four hundred thousand (400,000) but less than seven
hundred thousand (700,000).
(4) A town having a population of more than nine thousand
(9,000) but less than thirty thousand (30,000) located in a county
having a population of more than one hundred eighty thousand
(180,000) but less than one hundred eighty-two thousand seven
hundred ninety (182,790).
(b) Except as provided in subsection (c), the legislative body of a
municipality to which this section applies may, by ordinance, annex
territory that:
(1) is contiguous to the municipality;
(2) in the case of a municipality described in subsection (a)(1) (A)
or (a)(1)(B), has its entire area within the township within which
the municipality is primarily located; and
(3) is owned by a property owner who consents to the annexation.
(c) Subsection (b)(2) does not apply to a town having a population
of:
(1) more than five thousand (5,000) but less than eight thousand
(8,000); or
(2) more than nine thousand (9,000) but less than twelve thousand
five hundred (12,500);
in a county having a population of more than four hundred thousand
(400,000) but less than seven hundred thousand (700,000).
(d) Territory annexed under this section is exempt from all property
tax liability under IC 6-1.1 for municipal purposes for all portions of
the annexed territory that is classified for zoning purposes as
agriculture and remains exempt from the property tax liability while the
property's zoning classification remains agriculture.
(e) There may not be a change in the zoning classification of
territory annexed under this section without the consent of the owner
of the annexed territory.