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Annexation

Remonstrance

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The Monroe County Auditor’s Office is in Courthouse Room 209
Monroe County Auditor’s Office Phone: 812-349-2510
Auditor Brianne Gregory Phone: 812-349-2515
Email: annexation@co.monroe.in.us

Prescribed by State Board of Accounts                                                                                                                 County Form No. 203B (2016)

[TO BE PRINTED ON WHITE PAPER - ATTACH TO EACH REMONSTRANCE COUNTERPARTS]

INSTRUCTIONS RELATIVE TO CIRCULATION

OF REMONSTRANCE AGAINST ANNEXATION

Bloomington City Ordinance Numbers 17-09 South-West A Bloomington Annexation Bloomington City Ordinance Numbers 17-10 South-West B Bloomington Annexation Bloomington City Ordinance Numbers 17-11 South-West C Bloomington Annexation Bloomington City Ordinance Numbers 17-12 South East

Bloomington City Ordinance Numbers 17-13 North Island Bloomington City Ordinance Numbers 17-14 Central Island Bloomington City Ordinance Numbers 17-15 South Island

  1. The person who circulates a remonstrance form for the purpose of obtaining signatures must be an owner of real property located in the listed area to be annexed, in Monroe County, Indiana.

    Owner of property means a person that owns: real property in the area to be annexed that was not exempt from property taxes under IC 6-1-1-10 or any other state law for the immediately preceding year and is not subject to a valid waiver of remonstrance.

  2. The person who circulates each remonstrance form must sign the verifying affidavit at the end of that form and must sign a remonstrance form. IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT THE VERIFYING AFFIDAVIT BE COMPLETED AND SIGNED AFTER SIGNATURES HAVE BEEN OBTAINED, BEFORE A NOTARY PUBLIC AND THAT THE NOTARY PUBLIC BLOCK ALSO BE COMPLETED BEFORE THE PETITION OR REMONSTRANCE FORM IS FILED WITH THE MONROE COUNTY AUDITOR’S OFFICE. Located in Room 209

    of the Courthouse, 100 W. Kirkwood Ave, Bloomington, IN.

  3. The remonstrance petition may be executed in several counterparts, the total of which constitutes the remonstrance petition. One person can pick up multiple remonstrance forms from the county auditor’s office. However, each counterpart may be circulated by only one person and therefore cannot be passed around from one person to another for circulation.
  4. An individual may not be compensated for or reimbursed for expenses incurred in circulating a remonstrance petition and obtaining signatures.
  5. The signatures on each remonstrance form must be made in the presence of the person who circulates the form and signs the verifying affidavit.
  1. Qualified signers are owners of real property located within the area to be annexed as described in the ordinance of The City of Bloomington Common Council, Monroe County, Indiana, as shown by the property tax records in the County. To qualify, the real property owned must not have been exempt from property taxes under IC 6-1.1-10 or any other state law for the immediately preceding year. Each person who signs a remonstrance petition must indicate the address of the real property owned by the person in the area to be annexed.
  2. Only one person having an interest in each single property as evidenced by the tax duplicate is considered an owner of the property and may sign a remonstrance petition. A person is entitled to sign a petition only one (1) time in a remonstrance process, regardless of whether the person owns more than one (1) parcel of real property.
  3. All names should be written and printed neatly, and as they appear tax records in the County as nearly as possible.
  1. Each signature must be dated the date it is applied to the remonstrance and the date of the signature may not be earlier than the date on which the remonstrance forms may be issued by the county auditor.
  2. Additional signatures or signature pages may not be added to the remonstrance forms issued by the county auditor’s office.
  1. After a carrier has finished circulating a counterpart and before submitting it to the county auditor’s office, the carrier must swear or affirm before a notary public that the carrier witnessed each signature and is executing the verifying affidavit.
  2. The completed remonstrance forms including the verifying affidavit must be submitted to the county auditor’s office. A remonstrance petition may be delivered to the county auditor’s office in person or by certified mail, return receipt requested; or by any means of delivery that includes a return receipt. The remonstrance petition must be postmarked no later than the closing date for the remonstrance period.
  3. No remonstrance form will be accepted by the county auditor’s office after 4 p.m. on Thursday, Jan 6th.
  1. A person who signs a remonstrance petition may withdraw the person’s signature from a remonstrance petition before a remonstrance petition is filed with the county auditor by filing a verified request to remove the person’s name from the remonstrance petition. Names may not be added to a remonstrance petition after the remonstrance petition is filed with the county auditor.
  2. The county auditor shall prepare and update weekly a list of the persons who have signed a remonstrance petition. The list must include a statement that the list includes all persons who have signed a remonstrance petition as of a particular date, and does not represent a list of persons certified by the county auditor as actual landowners in the annexation territory using the auditor’s current tax records. The county auditor shall post the lists in the office of the county auditor.

You can email us at annexation@co.monroe.in.us or phone us at 812-349-2510 someone will contact you