There were 10 landlords but no tenants who attended the landlords and tenants meeting Oct 15 at the Bicknell Library.

By a show of hands all in attendance was opposed to the Bicknell Rental Ordinance #13-2011.
The ordinance was discussed as well as Indiana Code that can be and is enforced by the county that essentially does the same thing by investigating complaints.

I announced that I have been in contact with attorney Paul Ledford who represented Vincennes landlords in their opposition to their ordinance. Ledford studied the ordinance and the Indiana State Code and while not acting as our attorney yet, Attorney Ledford suggested; due to being too broad and other errors and because it was not published in the required 30 day window that we do nothing unless the city initiates enforcement action. By unanimous, we as landlords decided not to respond to the cities requests to comply with Bicknell City Ordinance #13-2011.

If push comes to shove attorney Ledford is available to us and by unanimous show of hands we agreed that we would hire him if necessary. Also the group was unanimous in agreeing that all Bicknell landlords who would benefit from the efforts of the attorney's action should be willing to share in the cost.
Now the action we are taking is to do nothing unless the city makes contact with any landlord individually and then we will protest to the city that we will not comply with this null and void and unenforceable ordinance.

After that if the city wants to proceed we will hire attorney Ledford. And in the meantime we will possibly conduct more landlord-tenant meetings.
Ron Ackman