Indiana Code
Ind. Code § 3-8-1-27 (2025)
Common council member
✓ 2025 Indiana Code: the 2026 session is not included
Sec. 27. A candidate for membership on common council of a second or third class city must:
(1) have resided in the city for at least one (1) year; and
(2) have resided in the district in which seeking election, if applicable, for at least six (6) months;
before the election.
[Pre-1986 Recodification Citation: 36-4-6-2(b).]
As added by P.L.5-1986, SEC.4.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3
cases, 1991–2008 · leading case: Lockard v. Miles, 882 N.E.2d 288 (Ind. Ct. App. 2008).
Lockard v. Miles, 882 N.E.2d 288 (Ind. Ct. App. 2008). “Specifically, Lockard argues, “By virtue of [Miles’] death on April 18, 2007 (twenty days before the Primary Election), Miles was unable to fulfill the statutory residency requirements [Indiana Code 3-8-1-27] for a candidate for a city council seat.”
In re Nomination of Parker, 580 N.E.2d 1006 (Ind. Ct. App. 1991). “The statute, I.C. § 3-8-1-27, provides that a candidate must: (1) have resided in the city for at least one (1) year; and (2) have resided in the district in which seeking election, if applicable, for at least six (6) months; before the election.”
Callahan v. Parker, 580 N.E.2d 1006 (Ind. Ct. App. 1991). “…(§ 3-8-1-22), county assessor (§ 8-8-1-28), mayor of second or third class city (§ 3-8-1-26), common council member (§ 3-8-1-27), city clerk or city clerk-treasurer (§ 3-8-1-28) and school board office (§ 8-8-1-24). The candidates for lieutenant governor, attorney general,…”
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