Title 35, CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE

Sec. 11. (a) The board shall recommend placement of a substance in schedule V under this chapter if it finds that: (1) the substance has low potential for abuse relative to the controlled substances listed in schedule IV under this chapter; (2) the substance has currently accepte…

Sec. 12. (a) The controlled substances listed in this section are included in schedule V. (b) Narcotic drugs containing nonnarcotic active medicinal ingredients. Any compound, mixture, or preparation containing any of the following narcotic drugs, or their salts calculated as the…

Sec. 14. (a) The board may adopt rules under IC 4-22-2 to reclassify a controlled substance: (1) from a more restrictive schedule to a less restrictive schedule; or (2) as a substance that is not a controlled substance; if the board finds that the substance qualifies for reclassi…

Sec. 2. Nomenclature. The controlled substances listed in the schedules in sections 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 of this chapter are included by whatever official, common, usual, chemical, or trade name designated. The number placed in brackets after each substance is its federal Drug Enfo…

Sec. 3. (a) The board shall recommend placement of a substance in schedule I under this chapter if it finds that the substance: (1) has high potential for abuse; and (2) has no accepted medical use in treatment in the United States or lacks accepted safety for use in treatment un…

Sec. 4. (a) The controlled substances listed in this section are included in schedule I. (b) Opiates. Any of the following opiates, including their isomers, esters, ethers, salts, and salts of isomers, esters, and ethers, unless specifically excepted by rule of the board or unles…

Sec. 5. (a) The board shall recommend placement of a substance in schedule II under this chapter if it finds that: (1) the substance has high potential for abuse; (2) the substance has currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States, or currently accepted medical…

Sec. 6. (a) The controlled substances listed in this section are included in schedule II. (b) Any of the following substances, except those narcotic drugs listed in other schedules, whether produced directly or indirectly by extraction from substances of vegetable origin, or inde…

Sec. 7. (a) The board shall recommend placement of a substance in schedule III under this chapter if it finds that: (1) the substance has a potential for abuse less than the substances listed in schedule I and II under this chapter; (2) the substance has currently accepted medica…

Sec. 8. (a) The controlled substances listed in this section are included in schedule III. (b) Stimulants. Unless specifically excepted or unless listed in another schedule, any material, compound, mixture, or preparation which contains any quantity of the following substances ha…

Sec. 9. (a) The board shall recommend placement of a substance in schedule IV under this chapter if it finds that: (1) the substance has a low potential for abuse relative to substances in schedule III under this chapter; (2) the substance has currently accepted medical use in tr…

Sec. 1. A matter or performance is obscene for purposes of this article if: (1) the average person, applying contemporary community standards, finds that the dominant theme of the matter or performance, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest in sex; (2) the matter or …

Sec. 2. A matter or performance is harmful to minors for purposes of this article if: (1) it describes or represents, in any form, nudity, sexual conduct, sexual excitement, or sado-masochistic abuse; (2) considered as a whole, it appeals to the prurient interest in sex of minors…

Sec. 2.5. A governmental entity may not knowingly or intentionally: (1) organize or host an obscene performance; or (2) fund, in whole or part, an obscene performance with public funds. As added by P.L.218-2025, SEC.20.

Sec. 2.6. (a) If a governmental entity organizes, hosts, or funds an obscene performance in violation of section 2.5 of this chapter, any person may bring an action to seek injunctive relief. (b) A person who brings an action for injunctive relief under this section and prevails …

Sec. 3. (a) Whenever a person: (1) offers matter for distribution to the public as stock-in-trade of a lawful business or activity; or (2) exhibits matter at a commercial theater showing regularly scheduled performances to the general public; the person may be arrested under this…

Sec. 4. (a) Within ten (10) days after: (1) matter is obtained by seizure or by purchase under this article; or (2) the defendant is arrested under this article; whichever is later, and before trial, the state, the defendant, an owner, or any other party in interest of any matter…

Sec. 5. This article does not limit the power of political subdivisions to adopt or enforce zoning ordinances regulating the use of real property. As added by P.L.311-1983, SEC.33.

Sec. 0.1. The following amendments to this chapter apply as follows: (1) The amendments described in section 0.2 of this chapter apply as described in section 0.2 of this chapter. (2) The amendments made to sections 3 and 9 of this chapter by P.L.332-1987 do not apply to a case i…

Sec. 0.2. (a) The addition of section 7.1 of this chapter (before its repeal) and the amendment of section 8 of this chapter by P.L.328-1985 do not affect any: (1) rights or liabilities accrued; (2) penalties incurred; or (3) proceedings begun; before September 1, 1985. The right…

Sec. 0.3. For purposes of section 2.1 of this chapter (before its repeal), as added by P.L.284-1985, the juvenile record includes only those adjudications of delinquency after May 31, 1985. As added by P.L.220-2011, SEC.636. Amended by P.L.72-2023, SEC.13.

Sec. 1. (a) As used in this chapter, "Level 6 felony conviction" means: (1) a conviction in Indiana for: (A) a Class D felony, for a crime committed before July 1, 2014; or (B) a Level 6 felony, for a crime committed after June 30, 2014; and (2) a conviction, in any other jurisdi…

Sec. 1.3. (a) For purposes of this chapter, "advisory sentence" means a guideline sentence that the court may voluntarily consider when imposing a sentence. (b) Except as provided in subsection (c), a court is not required to use an advisory sentence. (c) In imposing: (1) consecu…

Sec. 1.4. For purposes of section 15 of this chapter, "criminal organization" has the meaning set forth in IC 35-45-9-1. As added by P.L.109-2006, SEC.2. Amended by P.L.192-2007, SEC.12; P.L.25-2016, SEC.27.

Sec. 1.5. As used in this chapter, "individual with an intellectual disability" has the meaning set forth in IC 35-36-9-2. As added by P.L.158-1994, SEC.4. Amended by P.L.99-2007, SEC.211; P.L.117-2015, SEC.55.

Sec. 1.8. As used in this chapter, "sex offense against a child" means an offense under IC 35-42-4 in which the victim is a child less than eighteen (18) years of age. As added by P.L.53-2005, SEC.1.

Sec. 11. (a) As used in this section, "firearm" has the meaning set forth in IC 35-47-1-5. (b) As used in this section, "offense" means: (1) a felony under IC 35-42 that resulted in death or serious bodily injury; (2) kidnapping; (3) criminal confinement as a Level 2 or Level 3 f…

Sec. 13. (a) The state may seek, on a page separate from the rest of a charging instrument, to have a person who allegedly committed an offense of dealing in a controlled substance under IC 35-48-4-1 through IC 35-48-4-4 sentenced to an additional fixed term of imprisonment if th…

Sec. 14. (a) As used in this section, "sex offense" means a felony conviction under IC 35-42-4-1 through IC 35-42-4-9 or under IC 35-46-1-3. (b) The state may seek to have a person sentenced as a repeat sexual offender for a sex offense described in subsection (a) by alleging, on…

Sec. 15. (a) This section does not apply to an individual who is convicted of a felony offense under IC 35-45-9. (b) The state may seek, on a page separate from the rest of a charging instrument, to have a person who allegedly committed a felony offense sentenced to an additional…

Sec. 16. (a) This section does not apply to: (1) a pregnant woman who terminates or causes the termination of her own pregnancy; or (2) an abortion performed in compliance with IC 16-34. (b) The state may seek, on a page separate from the rest of the charging instrument, to have …

Sec. 17. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, if: (1) an offender is: (A) less than eighteen (18) years of age; (B) waived to a court with criminal jurisdiction under IC 31-30-3 because the offender committed an act that would be a felony if committed by an adult;…

Sec. 18. (a) As used in this section, "felony terrorist offense" means the following: (1) An offense described in IC 35-46.5-2. (2) Money laundering (IC 35-45-15-5) committed with the intent to: (A) commit or promote an act of terrorism; or (B) obtain or transport a weapon of mas…

Sec. 19. (a) The state may seek, on a page separate from the rest of a charging instrument, to have a person who allegedly committed an offense sentenced to an additional fixed term of imprisonment if the state can show beyond a reasonable doubt that the person knowingly or inten…

Sec. 2.2. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) or (c), the court may suspend any part of a sentence for a felony. (b) If a person is convicted of: (1) a Level 2 felony; or (2) a Level 3 felony and has: (A) any prior unrelated felony conviction, other than a conviction for a f…

Sec. 3. (a) A person who commits murder shall be imprisoned for a fixed term of between forty-five (45) and sixty-five (65) years, with the advisory sentence being fifty-five (55) years. In addition, the person may be fined not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000). (b) Notwit…

Sec. 4. (a) A person who commits a Class A felony (for a crime committed before July 1, 2014) shall be imprisoned for a fixed term of between twenty (20) and fifty (50) years, with the advisory sentence being thirty (30) years. In addition, the person may be fined not more than t…

Sec. 4.5. A person who commits a Level 2 felony shall be imprisoned for a fixed term of between ten (10) and thirty (30) years, with the advisory sentence being seventeen and one-half (17 1/2) years. In addition, the person may be fined not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000…

Sec. 5. (a) A person who commits a Class B felony (for a crime committed before July 1, 2014) shall be imprisoned for a fixed term of between six (6) and twenty (20) years, with the advisory sentence being ten (10) years. In addition, the person may be fined not more than ten tho…

Sec. 5.5. A person who commits a Level 4 felony shall be imprisoned for a fixed term of between two (2) and twelve (12) years, with the advisory sentence being six (6) years. In addition, the person may be fined not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000). As added by P.L.158-20…

Sec. 6. (a) A person who commits a Class C felony (for a crime committed before July 1, 2014) shall be imprisoned for a fixed term of between two (2) and eight (8) years, with the advisory sentence being four (4) years. In addition, the person may be fined not more than ten thous…

Sec. 7. (a) A person who commits a Class D felony (for a crime committed before July 1, 2014) shall be imprisoned for a fixed term of between six (6) months and three (3) years, with the advisory sentence being one and one-half (1 1/2) years. In addition, the person may be fined …

Sec. 8. (a) The state may seek to have a person sentenced as a habitual offender for a felony by alleging, on one (1) or more pages separate from the rest of the charging instrument, that the person has accumulated the required number of prior unrelated felony convictions in acco…

Sec. 9. (a) The state may seek either a death sentence or a sentence of life imprisonment without parole for murder by alleging, on a page separate from the rest of the charging instrument, the existence of at least one (1) of the aggravating circumstances listed in subsection (b…

Sec. 1. IC 2-4-1-4 defines a crime concerning legislative investigations. As added by P.L.169-2014, SEC.2.

Sec. 2. IC 2-7-6-2 defines a crime concerning lobbying. As added by P.L.169-2014, SEC.2.