Ind. Code § 8-5-15-2 – Establishment; county membership; name; membership limitation

(a) A county served by a system of commuter transportation and through which the line, road, route, or right-of-way of the system passes is a member, subject to subsection (b), of a commuter transportation district. The district is created and shall be composed solely of counties which are served by the system and through which the system passes.
(b) A county is a member of a district if that county's board of county commissioners adopted an ordinance authorizing the county's membership in the district under this chapter before January 1, 1987.
(c) A district shall be a distinct municipal corporation and shall bear a name including the words "commuter transportation district". Such municipal corporation shall include all the territory of the counties that are members of the district and shall be coterminous with such counties.
(d) Membership of the district is limited to counties which are directly served by a commuter transportation system which provides daily interstate commuter service and which owns and operates over trackage within the boundaries of the county.
[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citation: 19-5-2.6-3.]
As added by Acts 1980, P.L.8, SEC.68. Amended by Acts 1981, P.L.67, SEC.5; P.L.385-1987(ss), SEC.2.