Ind. Code § 20-46-1-10.1
Question form; resolution to extend a referendum levy; ballot question
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Current — January 1, 2025
As of January 1, 2018
Sec. 10.1. (a) This section applies only to a referendum to allow a school corporation to extend a referendum levy.
Sec. 10.1. (a) This section applies only to a referendum to allow a school corporation to extend a referendum levy.
(b) The question to be submitted to the voters in the referendum must read as follows:
(b) The question to be submitted to the voters in the referendum must read as follows:
"For the __ (insert number) calendar year or years immediately following the holding of the referendum, shall the school corporation continue to impose a property tax rate that does not exceed _____________ (insert amount) cents ($0.__) (insert amount) on each one hundred dollars ($100) of assessed valuation and for the purpose of funding _____________________ (insert short description of purposes)?
The tax rate requested in this referendum was originally approved by the voters in the _______ (insert name of the school corporation) in ______ (insert the year in which the referendum tax levy was approved).".
"Shall _______ (insert the name of the school corporation) continue to increase property taxes paid to the school corporation for no more than _____ (insert the number of years immediately following the holding of the referendum) years for the purpose of funding _____________ (insert brief description of the purposes) by imposing a property tax rate that does not exceed ______ (insert property tax rate) and results in a maximum annual amount that does not exceed ______ (insert maximum amount of annual levy). If this operating referendum public question is NOT approved by the voters, for a median residence of __________ (insert the school corporation's median household assessed value, rounded up to the next fifty thousand dollars ($50,000)), the property's annual tax bill would decrease by ______ (insert dollar amount, rounded up to the next whole dollar) per year. If this operating referendum public question is approved by the voters, it would be a renewal of the most recent operating referendum public question passed in ______ (insert year the original operating referendum public question passed) with a property tax rate of ______ (insert property tax rate of the original operating referendum public question).".
(c) The number of years for which a referendum tax levy may be extended if the public question under this section is approved may not exceed the number of years for which the expiring referendum tax levy was imposed.
(c) The number of years for which a referendum tax levy may be extended if the public question under this section is approved may not exceed eight (8) years.
Official source: Indiana General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Indiana statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.