SB 110-1_ Filed 02/11/2010, 08:56
Adopted 2/11/2010


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COMMITTEE REPORT

            
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                                                        NO:
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MR. SPEAKER:

    Your Committee on       Natural Resources     , to which was referred       Senate Bill 110     , has had the same under consideration and begs leave to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that said bill be amended as follows:

SOURCE: Page 1, line 1; (10)CR011001.1. -->     Page 1, between the enacting clause and line 1, begin a new paragraph and insert:
SOURCE: IC 14-33-5-5; (10)CR011001.1. -->     "SECTION 1. IC 14-33-5-5 IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE UPON PASSAGE]: Sec. 5. (a) Before the annual meeting, the board shall prepare the ballots and a list of the freeholders of the district, which must be certified by the county auditor and placed in the district's files. A deficiency in this process or an omission of the names of any freeholders does not void action taken at an annual meeting.
    (b) A freeholder as prescribed by IC 14-33-2-3 is entitled to Only one (1) vote may be cast per freeholder. freehold.".
SOURCE: Page 2, line 13; (10)CR011001.2. -->     Page 2, between lines 13 and 14, begin a new paragraph and insert:
SOURCE: IC 14-33-5.4-3.5; (10)CR011001.4. -->     "SECTION 4. IC 14-33-5.4-3.5 IS ADDED TO THE INDIANA CODE AS A NEW SECTION TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE UPON PASSAGE]: Sec. 3.5. (a) If in the opinion of the secretary of the district a freehold has been divided into multiple

freeholds for the sole purpose of increasing the number of freeholders eligible to cast a vote in an election under this chapter, the secretary of the district may determine to exclude the freeholders of those multiple freeholds from the list of freeholders referred to in section 3(f) of this chapter.
     (b) The determination of the secretary of the district under subsection (a) may be challenged by petitioning the circuit court that created the district.".

SOURCE: Page 2, line 27; (10)CR011001.2. -->     Page 2, after line 27, begin a new paragraph and insert:
SOURCE: ; (10)CR011001.6. -->     "SECTION 6. An emergency is declared for this act.".
    Renumber all SECTIONS consecutively.
    (Reference is to SB 110 as reprinted January 15, 2010.)

and when so amended that said bill do pass.

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Representative Bischoff


CR011001/DI 52    2010