School corporations in a county may merge in the following manner:

1. (1) The governing bodies of the school corporations shall adopt a concurrent resolution providing for the merger.

2. (2) The resolutions in subdivision (1) shall be adopted not later than sixty (60) days after the date the first concurrent resolution is adopted by a governing body. The resolutions must provide for the following:

   1. (A) The makeup of board member districts, including that:

      1. (i) board members shall be elected from the entire merged school corporation, but residence requirements may provide that members live in different districts;
      2. (ii) the board member districts need not be equal in size or population, and one (1) board member district may include the area in the merged school corporation;
      3. (iii) the number of members of the governing body of the merged school corporation to be elected from a board member district need not be equal in number; and
      4. (iv) concurrent resolutions may also eliminate requirements that there be board member districts.

   2. (B) The number of members on the governing body of the merged school corporation must be:

      1. (i) three (3);
      2. (ii) five (5); or

      3. (iii) seven (7);

         members.

   3. (C) The time the merged school corporation comes into existence.

      If a time is not provided when the merged school corporation comes into existence or if a final judgment in the remonstrance proceeding is delayed beyond the time set in the concurrent resolutions, the merged school corporation comes into existence on July 1 following the adoption of the resolutions or the final judgment, whichever occurs last.

      [Pre-2005 Elementary and Secondary Education Recodification Citation: 20-4-19-2.]

As added by P.L.1-2005, SEC.7.