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County surveyor warns drainage ordinance could conflict with surveyor practices; commissioners send it back for drainage-board review
Summary
The county surveyor raised concerns that a drainage-board draft ordinance mentions the surveyor's office 17 times and appears to repeal prior practices; legal counsel and commissioners agreed to a first reading by title only and to return the draft to the drainage board for further review.
The county surveyor, who identified himself on the record as "Natwershin," told the board that the drainage-board draft ordinance repeatedly references the surveyor's office and contains repeal language that, in his reading, could appear to supersede established surveyor procedures under Indiana law. He said the surveyor's office is governed by state statute and asked for more time to review the draft that he received only minutes before it was considered.
County legal counsel explained the ordinance language as limited to conflicts "only as to the issues in this" and recommended a procedural first reading by title only while referring the draft back to the drainage board for further consideration and potential amendment. The commissioners voted to read the ordinance by title for a first reading and to send it back to the drainage board for further action; no final adoption occurred at this meeting.
