1. (a) Not more than forty (40) days after the certification of a petition and a remonstrance, if any, under section 3 of this chapter, the township legislative body shall compare the petition and any remonstrance.

2. (b) If a remonstrance has not been filed or a greater number of voters have signed the petition than have signed the remonstrance, the legislative body shall agree to the expansion by written resolution. Not more than ten (10) days after the written resolution establishing an expanded library district is adopted, the legislative body shall submit a copy of the resolution for filing:

   1. (1) in the office of the county recorder in the county where the administrative office of the public library is located; and

   2. (2) with the Indiana state library.

      The expansion is effective as of the date the written resolution is filed.

3. (c) When an equal or greater number of registered voters have signed a remonstrance against the establishment of an expanded library district than the number who have signed the petition in favor of the expansion, the legislative body shall dismiss the petition. Another petition to establish the expanded library district may not be initiated until one (1) year after the date the legislative body dismissed the latest unsuccessful petition.

   [Pre-2005 Elementary and Secondary Education Recodification Citation: 20-14-5-5.]

As added by P.L.1-2005, SEC.49.