Citations Affected: None (noncode).
Synopsis: City legislative bodies. Authorizes the legislative body of
the city of Jeffersonville to adopt an ordinance to assume second class
city status. Authorizes the city legislative body to adopt an ordinance
to increase the membership of the city legislative body to add one
member to represent a district and one member to represent the city at
large. Provides for the nomination and election of members of the
legislative body to fill the new seats on the legislative body at the 2008
general election. Makes findings to support limitation of these
provisions to the city of Jeffersonville.
Effective: Upon passage.
January 15, 2008, read first time and referred to Committee on Local Government.
A BILL FOR AN ACT concerning local government.
existed before January 1, 2008.
(7) That Indiana law does not authorize the city to provide
representation to the new residents of the city before the city's
next municipal election.
(8) That the citizens in the newly annexed territory of the city
should be represented on the city's legislative body without
undue delay.
(c) Notwithstanding any other law, the city legislative body may
adopt an ordinance to assume second class city status as provided
in IC 36-4-1-1.1.
(d) Notwithstanding IC 36-4-1-8, the city legislative body may
adopt an ordinance to increase the membership of the city's
legislative body to provide for:
(1) six (6) members to represent districts; and
(2) three (3) members to represent the city at large.
If an ordinance is adopted under this subsection and otherwise
applicable Indiana law, the new city legislative body districts must
comply with IC 36-4-6-3.
(e) If the city legislative body adopts an ordinance under
subsection (d), the first election of members for the:
(1) additional district seat; and
(2) additional at large seat;
established under subsection (d) shall be held at the 2008 general
election for a term of office beginning January 1, 2009, and ending
January 1, 2012. The successors of the individuals elected under
this subsection shall be elected at the 2011 general election and take
office January 1, 2012.
(f) The registered voters living:
(1) in the additional district established under subsection (d)
are entitled to vote for a candidate to be elected to that
district's seat; and
(2) in the city are entitled to vote for a candidate to be elected
to the additional at large seat.
(g) A political party may nominate candidates for the election
held under subsection (e) using the candidate vacancy provisions
of IC 3-13-1. Other candidates may qualify under IC 3-8-6 to be
voted on at the general election.
(h) This SECTION expires January 1, 2012.