(A) Each ordinance adopted by the County Commissioners or County Council shall, if directed, be recorded by the Auditor in the minute books and a copy kept in an ordinance file. Due proof of publication of all ordinances requiring publication together with the affidavit of the printer or publisher shall be obtained by the Auditor and attached to the original of each ordinance adopted by the County Commissioners or County Council in the minute books.
(1984 Code, § 1-6)
(B) Each ordinance adopted by the County Commissioners or County Council shall, if directed, be published by the Auditor in a newspaper of general circulation in the county and printed in the English language, in two publications, each one week apart, and each ordinance shall take effect in 14 days subsequent to the date of the first publication, unless another date is later stated in the ordinance in which event it shall take effect upon the date so stated. Ordinances not requiring publication shall take effect upon the date of their adoption unless a different date is stated in the ordinance.
(1984 Code, § 1-7)
Statutory reference:
Recording, publishing county ordinances, see I.C. 36-2-4-8