Title 8, TITLE 8. UTILITIES AND TRANSPORTATION

Sec. 1. Any public utility operating in any city or town, and any city or town in Indiana which owns or operates any public utility, is authorized, with the consent of the commission, to furnish utility service, free of charge, to any hospital that is located within the city or t…

Sec. 1. Any railroad company organized under a special charter, or under the general law of the state for the construction of railroads, whose lines are wholly within this state or partly within this state and partly in another state, which shall fail to keep up the directory of …

Sec. 2. Any company that is or that may be organized under the general laws of this state providing for the incorporation of railroad companies may complete any such abandoned road or part thereof, and shall, for such purpose, be invested with all the rights, privileges, interest…

Sec. 4. The said appraisers shall receive for their service, five dollars ($5.00) per day for the time by them employed, to be paid by said treasurer out of the amount of said assessment. Formerly: Acts 1867, c.80, s.4.

Sec. 5. Any such railroad company whose road is incomplete who shall fail to complete the same, or who shall fail to expend at least twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) towards the completion thereof in each year, shall be taken and held to come within the purview of this chap…

Sec. 6. All railroad companies in this state, or whose roads run into this state, shall, on the fifteenth day of January of each year, file with the auditor of state a statement in writing, verified by the affidavit of the treasurer of such company, showing the gross receipts of …

Sec. 7. Whenever any railroad company, coming within the provision of this chapter, shall sell or transfer their property, rights, or franchises to any other railroad company, it shall be the duty of such last named railroad company to complete the road so transferred to them, an…

duplicate Sec. 1. (a) Each railroad company whose road or tracks lie in any public street, road, or alley in any city, town, or county shall properly grade, plank, gravel, or asphalt the road and tracks in accordance with the grade and surfacing material of the public street, roa…

railroad or street railroad; failure to comply; assessment of costs; collection Sec. 2. The board of public works or board of public works and safety of a city or town legislative body may issue a written improvement order requiring that any railroad, interurban, or interurban st…

Sec. 1. This chapter does not apply to a Class II or Class III railroad as established by the Interstate Commerce Commission. As added by P.L.21-2001, SEC.1.

Sec. 2. (a) As used in this chapter, "operating crew member" means a railroad employee who is able to: (1) read and understand the timetables of the carrier that employs the railroad employee; (2) read ordinary handwriting in the English language; (3) speak, hear, and understand …

Sec. 3. As used in this chapter, "railroad" has the meaning set forth in IC 8-3-1-2. However, the term does not include a Class II or Class III railroad as established by the Interstate Commerce Commission. As added by P.L.21-2001, SEC.1.

Sec. 4. (a) A railroad company operating in Indiana shall establish a counseling or trauma program and provide or make available counseling or critical incident stress debriefing services to each operating crew member of a train that is: (1) operated by the railroad company in pa…

Sec. 1. As used in this chapter, "grant" refers to a historic bridge maintenance grant under this chapter. As added by P.L.158-2001, SEC.1.

Sec. 2. As used in this chapter, "historic bridge" means a bridge that meets the following requirements: (1) Is listed on: (A) the National Register of Historic Places; or (B) the register of Indiana historic sites and historic structures established under IC 14-21-1. (2) Is not …

Sec. 3. Before June 1 of each year, the county executive of a county having a historic bridge located on the county's road system may request a grant. As added by P.L.158-2001, SEC.1.

Sec. 4. Subject to the amount appropriated by the general assembly for historic bridge maintenance grants and not to exceed one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) per state fiscal year, the annual grant amount for a county is one thousand two hundred fifty dollars ($1,250) for e…

Sec. 5. Before September 1 of each year and subject to available funding, the auditor of state shall, by warrant drawn on the treasurer of state, distribute from the state general fund to each county the total amount to which the county is entitled for a grant under this chapter.…

Sec. 6. A county executive may commingle and accumulate money received under this chapter with money received under IC 8-14-1-10 for the maintenance of covered bridges. As added by P.L.158-2001, SEC.1.

Sec. 7. A county executive shall use money received under this chapter only to maintain historic bridges or covered bridges in the county in a manner that the county executive determines. As added by P.L.158-2001, SEC.1.

Sec. 1. As used in this chapter, "aircraft" means a vehicle used or designed for navigation or flight in the air. As added by P.L.28-1991, SEC.2.

Sec. 10. As used in this chapter, "person" means: (1) an individual, partnership, firm, company, limited liability company, corporation, association, trust, or estate; or (2) the legal representative or agent of the individual or entity described in subdivision (1). As added by P…

Sec. 10.5. This chapter: (1) applies to the authority only when acting for the purposes set forth in this chapter; and (2) does not apply to the authority when acting under any other statute for any other purpose. As added by P.L.235-2005, SEC.120.

Sec. 11. The authority may do all acts necessary or reasonably incident to carrying out the purposes of this chapter, including the following: (1) To protect a district and all property owned or managed by the authority and, to carry out this subdivision, to employ special police…

Sec. 12. The authority may take action to recover damages for the breach of an agreement, expressed or implied, relating to the operation, control, leasing, management, or improvement of the property under the authority's control, to impose the penalties for the violation of reso…

Sec. 13. (a) To provide free air space for the safe descent and ascent of aircraft and for the proper and safe use of an airport or landing field acquired or maintained under this chapter, the authority may establish by resolution or resolutions a restricted zone or zones of a di…

Sec. 14. (a) The authority may exercise the power of eminent domain to carry out this chapter and may award damages to landowners for real estate and property rights appropriated. If the authority cannot agree with the owners, lessees, or occupants of real estate selected by the …

Sec. 15. (a) The authority may: (1) finance improvements related to an airport or aviation related property or facilities, including the acquisition of real estate; (2) refund any bonds; or (3) pay any loan contract; by borrowing money and issuing revenue bonds from time to time …

Sec. 16. The authority may negotiate terms and borrow money from any source under a loan contract, subject to the following requirements: (1) The loan contract must be approved by resolution of the authority. (2) The loan contract must provide for the repayment of the loan in not…

Sec. 17. Any loan contract issued under this chapter is issued by a body corporate and politic of this state, but not a state agency, and for essential public and governmental purposes. A loan contract, the interest on it, the proceeds received by a holder from the sale of a loan…

Sec. 18. The authority may require a bond from any of the officers or employees of the authority in an amount, upon terms and conditions, and with surety that the authority designates. As added by P.L.28-1991, SEC.2.

Sec. 19. (a) The acquisition, establishment, construction, improvement, equipment, maintenance, control, and operation of airports and landing fields for aircraft under this chapter is a governmental function of general public necessity and benefit, and is for the use and general…

Sec. 2. As used in this chapter, "airport" means a location on land or water or a building or other structure that is used for the landing and taking off of aircraft, and that also provides for the shelter, supply, or care of aircraft, or a place used for receiving or discharging…

Sec. 20. Whenever the fiscal body of a local entity determines that the public interest of the local entity will be served by assisting the authority in executing the powers granted by this chapter, the local entity may furnish assistance by gift, or lease with or without rental,…

grants Sec. 21. (a) The authority may accept, receive, and receipt for federal, other public, or private money for the acquisition, construction, enlargement, improvement, maintenance, equipment, or operation of airports, other air navigation facilities, and sites for them, and c…

Sec. 3. As used in this chapter, "authority" refers to the Indiana finance authority established by IC 5-1.2-3. As added by P.L.28-1991, SEC.2. Amended by P.L.235-2005, SEC.119; P.L.189-2018, SEC.101.

Sec. 4. (a) As used in this chapter, "aviation related property or facilities" means those properties or facilities that are utilized by a lessee, or a lessee's assigns, who provides services or accommodations: (1) for scheduled or unscheduled air carriers and air taxis, and thei…

Sec. 6. As used in this chapter, "landing area" is that part of an airport or landing field designated and used for the landing or taking off of aircraft. As added by P.L.28-1991, SEC.2.

Sec. 7. As used in this chapter, "landing field" means a location on land or water or a building or other structure that is used for the landing and taking off of aircraft, but that provides no other facilities or services. As added by P.L.28-1991, SEC.2.

Sec. 8. As used in this chapter, "loan contract" means a debt instrument other than a revenue bond, such as a note. As added by P.L.28-1991, SEC.2.

Sec. 9. As used in this chapter, "local entity" means a county, city, town, or other municipal corporation (as defined in IC 36-1-2-10). As added by P.L.28-1991, SEC.2.

Sec. 1. As used in this chapter, "sufficiency rating" means any rating that assigns numerical values to each road section reflecting its relative adequacy based on an engineering appraisal of structural condition, safety, and traffic service and upon an economic appraisal of its …

Sec. 2. The department shall prepare, formally adopt, and publish a long-range program of its future activities with regard to the construction of highways under its jurisdiction. The sufficiency rating principle shall be applied, as far as it is practicable, in determining the p…

long-range program Sec. 3. The department shall cause a periodic reinspection of the system of roads under its jurisdiction to be made in order to revise its estimates of future needs to conform to the actual physical and service condition of the highways and economic needs of th…

program Sec. 4. (a) The department shall annually adopt from its long range program and publish a biennial work program of construction to be accomplished within the following two (2) fiscal years. This biennial work program must consist of a list of projects listed in order of u…

Sec. 5. The department shall prepare and publish and make public a report at the end of each fiscal year. The report must contain appropriate financial data concerning receipts and disbursements, the past year's accomplishments, the current highway improvement program, a proposed…

Sec. 6. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, the department shall annually prepare and publish a supplement to the report containing appropriate financial data and status of projects financed from the state's primary highway system fund. As added by P.L.18-1990, …

subdivision prohibited Sec. 1. A political subdivision (as defined in IC 36-1-2-13) may not take any action that would have the effect of impairing a public-private agreement under this article. As added by P.L.47-2006, SEC.39.

Sec. 1. The department has exclusive jurisdiction to adjudicate all matters specifically committed to the department's jurisdiction by this article. As added by P.L.47-2006, SEC.40.

Sec. 2. The department shall establish an expedited method for resolving disputes between or among the department, the parties to a public-private agreement, and affected jurisdictions, and shall set forth that method in the public-private agreement. As added by P.L.47-2006, SEC.…