Indiana Code
Chapter 4. Legislative Procedures
36-2-4-8. Adoption and Effective Date of Ordinance, Order, or Resolution; Requirements

Note: This version of section amended by P.L.22-2021, SEC.5, effective 7-1-2019. See also following version of this section amended by P.L.152-2021, SEC.39, effective 7-1-2021.
Sec. 8. (a) An ordinance, order, or resolution is considered adopted when it is signed by the presiding officer. If required, an adopted ordinance, order, or resolution must be promulgated or published according to statute before it takes effect.
(b) An ordinance prescribing a penalty or forfeiture for a violation must, before it takes effect, be published once each week for two (2) consecutive weeks, according to IC 5-3-1. However, if such an ordinance is adopted by the legislative body of a county subject to IC 36-2-3.5 and there is an urgent necessity requiring its immediate effectiveness, it need not be published if:
(1) the county executive proclaims the urgent necessity; and
(2) copies of the ordinance are posted in three (3) public places in each of the districts of the county before it takes effect.
(c) The following apply in addition to the other requirements of this section:
(1) An ordinance or resolution passed by the legislative body of a county subject to IC 36-2-3.5 is considered adopted only if it is:
(A) approved by signature of a majority of the county executive (in the case of a county subject to IC 36-2-3.5);
(B) neither approved nor vetoed by a majority of the executive (in the case of a county subject to IC 36-2-3.5) within ten (10) days after passage by the legislative body; or
(C) passed over the veto of the executive by a two-thirds (2/3) vote of the legislative body, within sixty (60) days after presentation of the ordinance or resolution to the executive.
(2) Subject to subsection (g), the legislative body of a county shall:
(A) subject to subdivision (3), give written notice to the department of environmental management not later than sixty (60) days before amendment or repeal of an environmental restrictive ordinance; and
(B) give written notice to the department of environmental management not later than thirty (30) days after passage, amendment, or repeal of an environmental restrictive ordinance.
(3) Upon written request by the legislative body, the department of environmental management may waive the notice requirement of subdivision (2)(A).
(4) An environmental restrictive ordinance passed or amended after 2009 by the legislative body must state the notice requirements of subdivision (2).
(5) The failure of an environmental restrictive ordinance to comply with subdivision (4) does not void the ordinance.
(d) After an ordinance or resolution passed by the legislative body of a county subject to IC 36-2-3.5 has been signed by the presiding officer, the county auditor shall present it to the county executive, and record the time of the presentation. Within ten (10) days after an ordinance or resolution is presented to it, the executive shall:
(1) approve the ordinance or resolution, by signature of a majority of the executive (in the case of a county subject to IC 36-2-3.5), and send the legislative body a message announcing its approval; or
(2) veto the ordinance or resolution, by returning it to the legislative body with a message announcing its veto and stating its reasons for the veto.
(e) This section (other than subsection (c)(2)) does not apply to a zoning ordinance or amendment to a zoning ordinance, or a resolution approving a comprehensive plan, that is adopted under IC 36-7.
(f) An ordinance increasing a building permit fee on new development must:
(1) be published:
(A) one (1) time in accordance with IC 5-3-1; and
(B) not later than thirty (30) days after the ordinance is adopted by the legislative body in accordance with IC 5-3-1; and
(2) delay the implementation of the fee increase for ninety (90) days after the date the ordinance is published under subdivision (1).
(g) The notice requirements of subsection (c)(2) apply only if the municipal corporation received under IC 13-25-5-8.5(f) written notice that the department is relying on the environmental restrictive ordinance referred to in subsection (c)(2) as part of a risk based remediation proposal:
(1) approved by the department; and
(2) conducted under IC 13-22, IC 13-23, IC 13-24, IC 13-25-4, or IC 13-25-5.
[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citations: 17-1-28-3 part; 17-1-28-10 part; 17-2-2.5-8 part.]
As added by Acts 1980, P.L.212, SEC.1. Amended by Acts 1981, P.L.11, SEC.150; P.L.192-1984, SEC.1; P.L.335-1985, SEC.32; P.L.100-2003, SEC.1; P.L.78-2009, SEC.23; P.L.159-2011, SEC.44; P.L.77-2014, SEC.20; P.L.278-2019, SEC.189; P.L.156-2020, SEC.136; P.L.22-2021, SEC.5.