The law of keeping: the town never made one

NO ORDINANCE, NO COMMISSION — AT SEARCHED-NEGATIVE STRENGTH

The Town of North Liberty has no historic preservation ordinance and no historic preservation commission in any carrier reached — printed as never created, at searched-negative strength. Searches against the town's name with "preservation ordinance" and "historic preservation commission" returned no town instrument, no commission roster, no certificate-of-appropriateness process; the town's own published site carries no preservation page, board, or ordinance reference (the cemeteries article records the same site's silence on its own ground). The settler that could overturn the negative is the town's ordinance book itself, which no pass has opened; the item stands in the note as residue. The frame the town would act under, at pointer: Indiana Code 36-7-11 authorises a unit to establish a preservation commission by ordinance — three to nine voting members appointed by the executive with legislative approval — with certificate-of-appropriateness authority over designated districts if the ordinance grants it. North Liberty has not, on the record reached, used it. Preservation law for this ground runs through the county and the state: the Historic Preservation Commission of South Bend and St. Joseph County is the standing body, the county acts as a Certified Local Government assisting the state programme (the capacity through which the Park nomination was staff-reviewed and recommended in 2005), and the DHPA keeps the record. County-level protection is therefore the only preservation law that has ever touched a North Liberty property in the record reached — procedurally, as a nomination recommendation, not as a local designation with regulatory force in the town.

Town-site and ordinance searches as logged's findings; Indiana Code 36-7-11 (enabling frame, via search extract); county HPC meeting record (19 Oct. 2020) and the Park nomination correspondence.