(A) Plan Commission established. There is established a City Plan Commission in order to promote the orderly development of the city.
(1998 Code, § 2-70)
(B) Plan Commission memberships. The Plan Commission shall consist of the following members:
(1) Common Council shall appoint three persons, who must be elected or appointed officials or employees from within the city government, as members.
(2) The Mayor shall appoint four citizen members, of whom no more than two persons shall be of the same political party.
(3) Two members shall be appointed from the unincorporated area, over which the Ligonier Plan Commission exercises jurisdiction, by the Noble County Commissioners. The members shall be residences of the unincorporated area or the county and must also be owners of real property located in whole or part within the unincorporated area and not be of the same political party. In addition, at least one of the members shall be a resident of the unincorporated area.
(1998 Code, § 2-71)
(C) Terms of members. The term of office of the Plan Commission members shall initially be as follows:
(1) For the members appointed from the unincorporated area, one member shall be appointed for a term of one year and the other for a term of four years. Thereafter each appointment is for a term of four years.
(2) The term of office of a member who is appointed from the membership of the Council, Board of Works, or the Park Board, is coextensive with member’s term of office on that Council or Board, unless that Board or the Council appoints, at its first regular meeting in any year, another to serve as its representative.
(3) The citizen members shall initially be appointed for the following terms of office:
(a) One member for a term of two years;
(b) Two members for a term of three years; and
(c) Two members for a term of four years.
(4) After their initial term, citizen members shall serve for a term of four years.
(1998 Code, § 2-72) (Ord. 830-2013, passed 3-25-2013; Ord. 959-2021, passed 4-26-2021)
Statutory reference:
Establishment and membership of the Commission, see I.C. 36-7-4-200