Indiana Code
Chapter 10. Drawing Election Districts for Local and School Board Offices
3-5-10-7. Times Permitted for Redistricting; Schedule

Sec. 7. (a) Subject to section 8 of this chapter, a redistricting authority shall redistrict election districts according to the following schedule:
(1) If the census event is a federal decennial census, the following:
(A) For a county executive or county fiscal body, only during the first year after the federal decennial census is conducted.
(B) For a school corporation, only during the first year after the federal decennial census is conducted.
(C) For a municipality that conducts its municipal elections in an odd numbered year, only during the second year after the federal decennial census is conducted.
(D) For a municipality that conducts its municipal elections in:
(i) an even numbered year; or
(i) both an even numbered year and an odd numbered year;
only during the first year after the federal decennial census is conducted.
However, a body described in clauses (A) through (D) that has not completed the redistricting on March 1, 2022, has until December 31, 2022 to redistrict the election districts from the 2020 decennial census.
(2) For a census event other than a federal decennial census, only during the first year after the year the census event becomes effective with respect to the political subdivision, as provided in IC 1-1-3.5-3.
(3) Whenever a county adopts an order declaring a county boundary to be changed under IC 36-2-1-2 that affects the boundaries of the political subdivision.
(4) Whenever required to assign annexed territory to a district, subject to the provisions of IC 36-4-3.
(5) Whenever the boundary of the political subdivision is changed.
(6) As provided in the order of a court that has found the current redistricting plan unconstitutional or otherwise unlawful.
(b) A redistricting authority may not redistrict at a time other than is provided in subsection (a).
As added by P.L.169-2022, SEC.2.