Editing Fairland, Indiana (section)

==Government==
The community, located about five miles (8&nbsp;km) northwest of Shelbyville, was incorporated as a town on June 9, 1866. Later on, for an undetermined reason, the town board stopped meeting. The town government came to a halt sometime after July 1883.

On August 16, 2008, for the first time in 125 years, a three-member [http://fairlandin.org/index.html Fairland Town Council] and a town clerk-treasurer conducted official business. Shelby County Councilwoman Tami Grubbs administered the oath of office to board members Rick Daily, John Hanson and Jeremy Creech, along with Clerk-Treasurer Chris Brinson, who immediately set about the task of organization, which included electing board officials. The board elected Daily as board president, Hanson as vice president and Creech as secretary.<ref>[http://www.shelbynews.com/main.asp?Search=1&ArticleID=57028&SectionID=1&SubSectionID=93&S=1 Fairland makes it official]{{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, ''Shelbyville News'', August 18, 2008.  Accessed 2008-10-25.</ref>  Indiana law mandates that all municipalities with populations under 2,000 people are towns.<ref>[http://www.in.gov/legislative/ic/code/title36/ar4/ch1.5.html §36-4-1.5-1] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080926104903/http://www.in.gov/legislative/ic/code/title36/ar4/ch1.5.html |date=September 26, 2008 }}, Indiana Code. Accessed October 25, 2008.</ref>