Sec. 5. (a) On the day designated by the auditor or clerk for a hearing under section 3 of this chapter, the petitioners may make proof of the publication and posting of the notice of the hearing and present the petition to the board of commissioners or common council. However, if on or before the day of the hearing a written remonstrance is filed with the board of commissioners or common council, the board of commissioners or common council shall fix a new hearing date at least thirty (30) days but less than forty (40) days after the original hearing date. A written remonstrance must:
(1) be signed by citizens and taxpayers of the county or city;
(2) be equal in number to the signers of the petition; and
(3) ask that the memorial not be established or protest against the kind of memorial proposed and provide reasons for the protest. Before the new hearing date, additional names of citizens and taxpayers may be added to or withdrawn from the petition and remonstrance. A person who signs the petition may not be counted on a remonstrance against it. On or after the first day designated, a taxpayer may be added to a petition and remonstrance for hearing.
(b) If a remonstrance is not filed, the board of commissioners or common council may grant the petition and order the establishment of a memorial, subject to the conditions of this chapter. If a proper remonstrance is filed on the first day designated for the hearing, the board of commissioners or common council may grant the petition on or after the second day of the hearing as fixed by the board of commissioners, unless there is a greater number of qualified remonstrators against the memorial than petitioners for the memorial at that time. If this occurs, the petition shall be dismissed at the cost of the petitioners.
(c) A taxpayer of the county aggrieved by the action of the board may appeal its decision to the circuit court, superior court, or probate court of the county within ten (10) days in the same manner as other appeals are taken from the action of the board. The cause must be tried de novo.
[Pre-2003 Recodification Citation: 10-7-5-5.]
As added by P.L.2-2003, SEC.9. Amended by P.L.84-2016, SEC.59.
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