CHAPTER 3. SCHOOL TOWNSHIPS

IC 20-23-3
    Chapter 3. School Townships

IC 20-23-3-1
Name; corporate powers
    Sec. 1. (a) A township is a school township.
    (b) A school township is a body politic and corporate, by thename and style of " _______ School _______ township of ________county", according to the name of the township and of the county inwhich the school township is organized.
    (c) A school township may:
        (1) contract and may be contracted with; and
        (2) sue and be sued;
in the name of the school township in a court with jurisdiction.
As added by P.L.1-2005, SEC.7.

IC 20-23-3-2
Employment of teachers; establishment of separate graded highschools; joint graded high schools
    Sec. 2. (a) The school trustees shall:
        (1) take charge of the educational affairs of their respectivetownships, towns, and cities;
        (2) employ teachers;
        (3) establish and locate conveniently a sufficient number ofschools for the education of the children; and
        (4) build, or otherwise provide, suitable houses, furniture,apparatus, and other articles and educational appliancesnecessary for the thorough organization and efficientmanagement of the schools.
The school trustees may establish and maintain, as near the center ofthe township as practical, at least one (1) separate graded highschool, to which sufficiently advanced students shall be admitted.
    (b) The school trustees of two (2) or more school corporationsmay establish and maintain one (1) or more joint graded high schoolsinstead of separate graded high schools. If a joint graded high schoolis established, the participating school corporations are jointlyresponsible for the care, management, and maintenance of the school.
    (c) A trustee, instead of building a separate graded high school forthe trustee's township, shall transfer the students of the trustee'stownship competent to enter a graded high school to another schoolcorporation.
    (d) A graded high school may not be built unless there are, at thetime the graded high school is built, at least twenty-five (25)common graduates of school age residing in the township.
As added by P.L.1-2005, SEC.7.

IC 20-23-3-3
Repealed
    (Repealed by P.L.2-2006, SEC.199.)
IC 20-23-3-4
Management of property
    Sec. 4. (a) School trustees have the care and management of allreal and personal property belonging to their respective corporationsfor common school purposes. However, congressional townshipschool lands shall be under the care and management of the trusteesof the civil township to which the lands belong.
    (b) School trustees shall provide janitorial help considerednecessary to properly care for the schools and premises under theschool trustees' control.
    (c) Each janitor provided by the trustees under subsection (b) shallbe paid from the special school funds of the township.
As added by P.L.1-2005, SEC.7.

IC 20-23-3-5
Repealed
    (Repealed by P.L.2-2006, SEC.199.)

IC 20-23-3-6
Repealed
    (Repealed by P.L.2-2006, SEC.199.)

IC 20-23-3-7
Repealed
    (Repealed by P.L.2-2006, SEC.199.)

IC 20-23-3-8
Kindergarten programs
    Sec. 8. An educational program under this chapter must includea kindergarten program that is at least a half day program.
As added by P.L.1-2005, SEC.7.

IC 20-23-3-9
Appeal from determinations of township trustees
    Sec. 9. Appeals shall be allowed from decisions of the townshiptrustees concerning school matters to the county superintendent. Thecounty superintendent shall receive and promptly determine theappeals according to the rules that govern appeals to the court underIC 4-21.5-5, so far as the rules are applicable. The countysuperintendent's decisions of all local questions relating to:
        (1) the legality of school meetings;
        (2) establishment of schools;
        (3) the location, building, repair, or removal of schoolhouses;
        (4) transfers of persons for school purposes; and
        (5) resignation and dismissal of teachers;
shall be treated as final.
As added by P.L.2-2006, SEC.91.