Certain localities governed as cities; validation of elections, contracts, acts, and official proceedings
Ind. Code § 36-4-1-2.1
in effectSec. 2.1. Any locality that has elected city officers, and has governed itself as a city, for at least ten (10) years immediately preceding September 1, 1981, is a city for all purposes. All elections, contracts, acts, and other official proceedings of such a locality that occurred before September 1, 1981, and would have been valid if the locality had been a city, are legalized and validated.
As added by Acts 1981, P.L.44, SEC.38.
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