Title 14, NATURAL AND CULTURAL RESOURCES

Sec. 3. A license expires December 31 following the date of issue. [Pre-1995 Recodification Citation: 14-2-7-16(1) part.] As added by P.L.1-1995, SEC.15.

Sec. 4. A person desiring to possess in Indiana at one (1) time more than: (1) five hundred (500) live minnows; or (2) five hundred (500) live crayfish; not intended for the purpose of engaging in the business of selling or bartering live minnows or crayfish for bait must procure…

Sec. 1. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), this chapter applies to a district if construction of works of improvement has not begun within six (6) years after the district plan is approved by the court. (b) Even if the construction of works of improvement has not begun wit…

Sec. 10. A freeholder of the district may vote absentee by written ballot. A written ballot vote must be signed and mailed or delivered to the district office. Ballots voted by absentees are valid if delivered or received before the scheduled date of the election. [Pre-1995 Recod…

Sec. 11. (a) The secretary of the district shall do the following: (1) Keep the ballots safe and secure until the end of the voting period. (2) At the end of the voting period present all ballots cast to the three (3) clerks. (b) The clerks shall do the following: (1) Count the b…

Sec. 12. A majority of all votes cast determines the issue of dissolution of the district, as long as the total votes cast at least equals the number of freeholders petitioning for the election. [Pre-1995 Recodification Citation: 13-3-3-96(b) part.] As added by P.L.1-1995, SEC.26…

Sec. 13. If a majority favors dissolution of a district, the court shall, upon receiving the certification of the results, order the board to take the necessary steps to terminate all activities of the district other than those activities required to certify and collect assessmen…

Sec. 14. Costs of the election, including legal fees approved by the court, shall be paid from district money. [Pre-1995 Recodification Citation: 13-3-3-96(b) part.] As added by P.L.1-1995, SEC.26.

Sec. 15. (a) When a district's financial obligations and the expenses of winding up the district's affairs are paid, the court shall order the board to do the following: (1) Make a final accounting to the court. (2) File all records of the district with the court. (b) The court s…

Sec. 2. A district may be dissolved by an election under this chapter. [Pre-1995 Recodification Citation: 13-3-3-96(b) part.] As added by P.L.1-1995, SEC.26.

Sec. 3. The freeholders of a district must present a petition to the board. The petition may be circulated and presented in separate parts, although all of the parts constitute a single petition. The petitioning freeholders must sign the petition, and the person who presents the …

Sec. 4. The board shall determine, in compliance with IC 14-33-2-2 and IC 14-33-2-3, whether the petition bears the same proportion of signatures of freeholders of the district as that section requires to initiate the proceedings to establish a district. If the board finds in the…

Sec. 5. (a) Within ten (10) days after the board certifies to the court, the board shall fix the following: (1) A convenient and suitable place for the election. (2) The date for the election not less than fifteen (15) and not more than thirty (30) days after the last publication…

Sec. 6. (a) The board shall do the following: (1) Prepare a list of the freeholders of the district. (2) Have the county auditor certify the list. (3) Make the list available for the inspection of any freeholder of the district. (4) Place the list in the permanent files of the di…

Sec. 7. The board shall prepare and furnish ballots in sufficient number in the following form: "Shall the ____________ Conservancy District be dissolved?" [ ] Yes [ ] No [Pre-1995 Recodification Citation: 13-3-3-96(b) part.] As added by P.L.1-1995, SEC.26.…

Sec. 8. The board shall do the following: (1) Appoint an assistant secretary. (2) Provide a voting list at each voting place. [Pre-1995 Recodification Citation: 13-3-3-96(b) part.] As added by P.L.1-1995, SEC.26.

Sec. 9. (a) Before the voting begins, the chairman of the board shall appoint three (3) freeholders of the district as clerks to conduct the election. (b) Before casting a vote, each freeholder must sign the list of freeholders opposite the freeholder's name in the presence of th…

Sec. 1. (a) The director: (1) may, after an opportunity for a public hearing under IC 4-21.5-3, assess a civil penalty on a permittee who violates: (A) this article; or (B) IC 13-4.1 (before its repeal); and (2) shall, if the director has issued a cessation order for the violatio…

Sec. 2. In determining the amount of a civil penalty under section 1 of this chapter, the director shall consider the following: (1) The permittee's history of previous violations at the surface coal mining and reclamation operation. (2) The seriousness of the violation, includin…

Sec. 3. Each day in violation of: (1) IC 13-4.1 (before its repeal); or (2) this article; may be considered a separate violation for purposes of assessing a civil penalty. [Pre-1995 Recodification Citation: 13-4.1-12-1(c).] As added by P.L.1-1995, SEC.27.

Sec. 4. (a) Upon the issuance of a notice or an order charging that a violation of IC 13-4.1 (before its repeal) or this article has occurred, the director shall, within thirty (30) days, do the following: (1) Inform the permittee of the amount of penalty assessed. (2) Issue an o…

Sec. 5. The director may request the attorney general to institute an action in an appropriate court in the county in which the permittee's surface coal mining and reclamation operation is located for recovery of civil penalties owed under this article. [Pre-1995 Recodification C…

Sec. 6. (a) A person who: (1) knowingly violates: (A) a condition of a permit issued under: (i) IC 13-4.1 (before its repeal); or (ii) this article; (B) this article; or (C) an order issued under: (i) IC 13-4.1 (before its repeal); or (ii) this article; or (2) knowingly makes a f…

Sec. 7. A person who willfully resists, prevents, impedes, or interferes, except as otherwise provided by law, with the director or the director's representative in the performance of duties under this article commits a Class A misdemeanor. [Pre-1995 Recodification Citation: 13-4…

Sec. 8. If a corporate permittee: (1) violates a condition of a permit issued under this article; or (2) fails or refuses to comply with an order issued by the director; a director, an officer, or an agent of the corporation who willfully and knowingly authorized, ordered, or car…

Sec. 9. All civil penalties collected under this chapter shall be deposited in the post-1977 abandoned mine reclamation fund established by IC 14-34-6-15. [Pre-1995 Recodification Citation: 13-4.1-12-6.] As added by P.L.1-1995, SEC.27.