Ordinance 2002-15

ORDINANCE OF THE TOWN OF MILLERSBURG
DIVIDING THE TOWN OF MILLERSBURG INTO NEW ELECTION
DISTRICTS PURSUANT TO I.C. 36-5-2-4.1

WHEREAS I.C. 36-5-2-4.1 contemplates that the Town Council of the Town of Millersburg divides and/or re-divide the Town of Millersburg into district for the purpose of conducting elections of Town officers;

WHEREAS said statue contemplates that such division shall be made in 2002, every ten (10) years thereafter, and at such other times set forth within such statue or other applicable Indiana law;

WHEREAS there have heretofore been three (3) election wards in the Town of Millersburg, for the purpose of conducting elections of Town officers, and it is the desire and intention of the Town Council of Millersburg to retain such three (3) election wards, subject to the boundary changes or realignments as hereinafter more particularly set forth;

NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, ESTABLISHED, RESOLVED, AND ORDAINED by the Town Council of the Town of Millersburg. Elkhart County, Indiana, as follows:

1. New Election Wards. The Town Council of the Town of Millersburg, Indiana hereby divides (and/or re-divides) the Town of Millersburg into three (3) election wards for the purpose of conducting elections of Town officers. The boundaries of such wards, to be numbered one (1) through three (3), are as follows:

A. Ward One (1) shall have the following boundaries/dimensions:
All that portion of the Town of Millersburg, Indiana which lies to the center line of Jefferson Street north commencing on the north Town limits line at a point where the center line of Jefferson Street extended north intersect said line; thence from Main Street to a point of ½ half a block east on Main Street then south through an alley ½ block then east through an alley ½ block and lies to the center line of Sherman Street to said line south of Town limits.

B. Ward Two (2) shall have the following boundaries/dimensions:
All that portion of the Town of Millersburg which lies east of the first ward and west of a line described as follows: Commencing on the south Town limits line at a point where the center line of Jackson Street extended south would intersect said line; thence north along the center line of Jackson Street and the center line extended to the center line of Elm Street; thence east along the center line of Elm Street to the center line of Larimer Drive; thence north along the center line of Larimer Drive then west on the Center line of Blessing Street then north of the center line Cripe Drive extended to the north Town limits line.

C. Ward Three (3) shall have the following boundaries/dimensions:
All that portion of the Town of Millersburg which lies east of the second ward.

2. Further Standards. Any part of the Town which has not been described as included in one of the wards established by this Ordinance shall be included within the ward that is contiguous to that part and which contains the least population of all such contiguous wards (if there be more than one ward contiguous to such area), such population determination shall be per that most recent Federal decennial census.
Any part of the Town which has been described in this Ordinance as being in more than one ward shall be included in that ward which is one of the wards in which that part is included in this Ordinance, is contiguous to that part, and contains the least population according to the most recent Federal decennial census.

3. Election of Town Council Members. The members of the Town Council of the Town of Millersburg shall be elected by wards. From and after the effective date of this Ordinance, there shall be three (3) members of the Town Council of the Town of Millersburg elected by ward with one (1) from each respective ward. The terms of office for the existing seats on the Town Council of the Town of Millersburg shall remain unchanged.

4. Seats Elected by Ward. The seats on the Town Council of the Town of Millersburg which are to be elected by ward shall be elected by the voters of the entire Town but the candidate elected or selected must be a resident from the represented ward.

5. Effective Date. This Ordinance shall be effective December 1, 2002 and shall control the election wards for Town officers for the next succeeding Town election and for each election thereafter until the boundaries of the wards would otherwise be altered by operation of law.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the aforestated Ordinance was duly adopted the 28th day of October, 2002.