2017 Indiana Code
TITLE 20. Education
ARTICLE 26. SCHOOL CORPORATIONS: GENERAL ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
CHAPTER 7. Property and Eminent Domain
20-26-7-17. Purchase or improvement of property and buildings for school purposes; notice to taxpayers; right to appeal
Sec. 17. (a) A school corporation may:
(1) purchase buildings or lands, or both, for school purposes; and
(2) improve the buildings or lands, or both.
(b) Notwithstanding this section through section 18 of this chapter limiting the purchase of school buildings, a school corporation may:
(1) purchase suitable buildings or lands, or both, adjacent to school property for school purposes; and
(2) improve the buildings or lands, or both, after giving notice to the taxpayers of the intention of the school corporation to purchase.
The taxpayers of the school corporation have the same right of appeal under the same procedure as provided for in IC 6-1.1-20-5 through IC 6-1.1-20-6.
[Pre-2005 Elementary and Secondary Education Recodification Citation: 20-5-28-1.]
As added by P.L.1-2005, SEC.10. Amended by P.L.146-2008, SEC.466; P.L.233-2015, SEC.114.
