Title 36, LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Sec. 6. A unit may grant rights-of-way through, under, or over public ways. [Pre-Local Government Recodification Citations: 18-1-1.5-8(b); 18-4-2-23 part.] As added by Acts 1980, P.L.211, SEC.4.

Sec. 7. A unit may regulate the use of public ways. A unit also may regulate the use of school corporation grounds if requested by the fiscal body of the school corporation. [Pre-Local Government Recodification Citations: 9-4-1-92 part; 18-1-1.5-8(d); 18-1-1.5-8(e); 18-3-1-42 par…

Sec. 8. A unit may establish, vacate, maintain, and control watercourses. [Pre-Local Government Recodification Citations: 18-1-1.5-9 (Intro.); 18-1-1.5-9(h); 18-3-1-46 part; 18-4-2-22 part; 18-5-10-3 part; 18-5-10-4 part.] As added by Acts 1980, P.L.211, SEC.4.

Sec. 9. A unit may change the channel of, dam, dredge, remove an obstruction in, straighten, and widen a watercourse. [Pre-Local Government Recodification Citations: 18-1-1.5-9(f); 18-3-1-46 part; 18-4-2-22 part.] As added by Acts 1980, P.L.211, SEC.4.

Sec. 1. This chapter applies to all units except townships. [Pre-Local Government Recodification Citations: Part new; 18-1-1.5-1 part; 18-1-1.5-1.5 part; 18-1-1.5-30 part.] As added by Acts 1980, P.L.211, SEC.5.

Sec. 2. A unit may establish, aid, maintain, and operate public parks, playgrounds, and recreation facilities and programs. [Pre-Local Government Recodification Citations: 18-1-1.5-14(a); 18-3-1-46 part; 18-4-2-8 part.] As added by Acts 1980, P.L.211, SEC.5.

Sec. 3. A unit may regulate any recreational use of a watercourse. [Pre-Local Government Recodification Citations: 18-1-1.5-9(d) part; 18-3-1-46 part; 18-4-2-8 part.] As added by Acts 1980, P.L.211, SEC.5.

Sec. 4. A unit may establish, aid, maintain, and operate libraries and museums, cultural, historical, and scientific facilities and programs, and community restitution or service facilities and programs. [Pre-Local Government Recodification Citations: 18-1-1.5-7(l); 18-1-1.5-14(d…

Sec. 5. A unit may establish, aid, maintain, and operate neighborhood centers, community centers, civic centers, convention centers, auditoriums, arenas, and stadiums. [Pre-Local Government Recodification Citations: 18-1-1.5-14(e); 18-1-1.5-14(f).] As added by Acts 1980, P.L.211,…

Sec. 6. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), a municipality may exercise powers granted by sections 2, 4, and 5 of this chapter in areas within four (4) miles outside its corporate boundaries. (b) A municipality may exercise the powers granted under sections 2 and 3 of this …

Sec. 1. A district may be established under this article to perform one (1) or more of the following functions related to onsite waste management: (1) Inventory of systems. (2) Inspection of systems. (3) Monitoring the: (A) performance; and (B) maintenance; of systems. (4) Establ…

Sec. 2. A district or local health department may not assess a periodic permit or inspection fee that exceeds the actual cost of the inspection incurred by the district or local health department on an onsite sewage system or an onsite residential sewage discharging disposal syst…

Sec. 1. This chapter applies only to Class 1 public libraries. [Pre-2005 Elementary and Secondary Education Recodification Citation: 20-14-2-1.] As added by P.L.1-2005, SEC.49.

county; appointments Sec. 10. This section applies to the appointment of members to the library board of a public library serving a library district that is located in more than one (1) county and is not entirely located within the boundaries of one (1) municipality. For a public…

Sec. 11. (a) This section applies to the appointment of members to the library board of a public library serving a library district that is located in one (1) county and: (1) has been established by a county or merged into a county public library; (2) results from the merger of a…

Sec. 12. This section applies to the appointment of members to the library board of a public library serving a library district that is entirely located in the unincorporated areas of the township. For a public library under this section, the appointments under section 9(4) and 9…

Sec. 13. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), this section applies to the appointment of members to the library board of a public library serving a library district that is entirely located in one (1) township and includes part or all of only one (1) municipality. For a publ…

Sec. 14. This section applies to the appointment of members to the library board of a public library serving a library district that is entirely located within the boundaries of one (1) municipality. For a public library under this section, the appointments under section 9(4) and…

Sec. 15. (a) This section applies to the library board of a library district: (1) located in a county having a population of more than seventy-nine thousand (79,000) and less than eighty thousand (80,000); and (2) containing all or part of the territory of each school corporation…

Sec. 16. (a) This section applies to the appointment of members to a library board of a public library serving a library district that is: (1) partly or fully within the boundaries of a consolidated city; and (2) fully within the boundaries of one (1) county. (b) Seven (7) member…

Sec. 17. The four (4) additional members of a county contractual library board required by IC 36-12-6-2 shall be appointed as follows: (1) Two (2) members appointed by the executive of the county in which the county contractual library district is located. (2) Two (2) members app…

Sec. 18. (a) Subject to subsection (b), the term of a library board member is four (4) years. A member may continue to serve on a library board after the member's term expires until the member's successor is qualified under section 19 of this chapter. The term of the member's suc…

Sec. 19. (a) An appointing authority under this chapter shall issue to each appointee to a library board a signed certificate of appointment. (b) Not more than ten (10) days after the receipt of the certificate of appointment, the appointee shall take an oath of office, before an…

Sec. 2. (a) A Class 1 public library is a municipal corporation, known as __________ Public Library. (b) In the name of the Class 1 public library under subsection (a), the public library may: (1) contract and be contracted with; and (2) sue and be sued in court. (c) Each public …

Sec. 20. (a) A library board member may be removed at any time by the appointing authority, after public hearing, for any cause: (1) that interferes with the proper discharge of the member's duties as a member of the board; or (2) that jeopardizes public confidence in the member.…

Sec. 21. A member of a library board shall serve without compensation. A board member may not serve as a paid employee of the public library, except the treasurer as provided in section 22 of this chapter. [Pre-2005 Elementary and Secondary Education Recodification Citation: 20-1…

Sec. 22. (a) The library board shall annually elect a treasurer of the public library. The treasurer may be either: (1) a member of the library board; or (2) an employee of the library. However, the library director appointed under section 24 of this chapter may not also be treas…

Sec. 23. (a) Upon the creation of a new public library, the library board shall meet not later than ten (10) days after a majority of the appointees have taken an oath of office. The organizational meeting may be called by any two (2) members. At the meeting, the board shall: (1)…

reimbursement of interviewing and moving expenses; severance pay Sec. 24. (a) The library board shall select a librarian who holds a certificate under IC 36-12-11 to serve as the director of the library. The selection shall be made solely upon the basis of the candidate's trainin…

Sec. 25. (a) The residents or real property taxpayers of the library district taxed for the support of the library may use the facilities and services of the public library without charge for library or related purposes. However, the library board may: (1) fix and collect fees an…

Sec. 26. (a) Dissolution of a library district is initiated when the legislative body of each municipality, township, or county that is a part of the district and library board of the district adopt identical resolutions proposing to dissolve the district by an affirmative vote o…

Sec. 3. (a) The corporate boundaries of the public library must be described in the resolution of establishment, conversion, transfer, or merger filed: (1) in the office of the county recorder in the county where the administrative office of the public library is located; and (2)…

Sec. 4. One (1) public library may transfer a part of the territory of the library to another public library according to the following procedure: (1) The library boards of each public library must pass a resolution of transfer signed by a majority of the entire membership of eac…

Sec. 5. (a) The legislative body of a municipality, township, county, or part of a county, any of which is not already taxed for public library purposes, that has: (1) a population of at least ten thousand (10,000); or (2) an assessed valuation that is at least as high as the med…

Sec. 7. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), an appointee to a library board must: (1) reside in the library district during the time the appointee is on the library board; and (2) have resided in the library district served by the public library for at least the two (2) yea…

computation; exception for certain library districts Sec. 8. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), an appointee to a library board may not serve more than four (4) consecutive terms on the library board. An unexpired term of two (2) years or less that an individual serves in …

Sec. 9. Except as provided in section 15 of this chapter and subject to IC 20-23-12.1-3(c) and section 16 of this chapter, seven (7) members of a library board shall be appointed as follows: (1) One (1) member appointed by the executive of the county in which the library district…

Sec. 1. Except as provided in section 4 of this chapter, the definitions in IC 3-5-2.1 and IC 36-1-2 apply throughout this article. As added by P.L.186-2006, SEC.4. Amended by P.L.186-2025, SEC.253.

Sec. 2. The definitions in this chapter apply throughout this article. As added by P.L.186-2006, SEC.4.

Sec. 3. "Plan of reorganization" refers to a plan of reorganization approved by the legislative body of each reorganizing political subdivision under this article. As added by P.L.186-2006, SEC.4.

Sec. 4. "Political subdivision" has the meaning set forth in IC 36-1-2, except that the term does not include a local hospital authority or corporation. As added by P.L.186-2006, SEC.4.

Sec. 5. "Reorganization" means a change in the structure or administration of a political subdivision described in IC 36-1.5-4-3 and IC 36-1.5-4-4. As added by P.L.186-2006, SEC.4.

Sec. 7. "Reorganized political subdivision" means the political subdivision that is the successor to the reorganizing political subdivisions participating in a reorganization. As added by P.L.186-2006, SEC.4.

Sec. 8. "Reorganizing political subdivision" refers to a political subdivision in which: (1) a resolution has been adopted under IC 36-1.5-4-10; or (2) a petition has been filed under IC 36-1.5-4-11. As added by P.L.186-2006, SEC.4.

Sec. 1. The northwest Indiana regional development authority is established as a separate body corporate and politic to carry out the purposes of this article by: (1) acquiring, constructing, equipping, owning, leasing, and financing projects and facilities for lease to or for th…

Sec. 2. The development authority may carry out its powers and duties under this article in the following: (1) An eligible county. (2) An eligible municipality. As added by P.L.214-2005, SEC.73. Amended by P.L.182-2009(ss), SEC.422.