Title 8, UTILITIES AND TRANSPORTATION

Sec. 12. The forfeiture accruing under this chapter may be collected in any court of competent jurisdiction in any county in this state into which the carrier operates, and in case the plaintiff recovers, the court or jury trying the cause shall allow the plaintiff a reasonable s…

Sec. 14. The Indiana department of transportation may inquire into the management and business of carriers as regulated by this chapter and shall keep informed as to the manner and method in which the management is conducted. The department may obtain from the carriers, and their…

Sec. 15. If a carrier fails to provide the equipment, motive power, and other facilities necessary to properly receive and care for the business on their lines, as required by this chapter, or fails to perform the duties enjoined upon it by this chapter, and because of the failur…

Sec. 16. In case any of the provisions of this chapter shall be held invalid, such fact shall not operate to make invalid any other portion of the chapter, and the portions of this chapter not adjudged to be invalid shall be observed and enforced the same as though the invalid po…

Sec. 2. All carriers subject to the provisions of this chapter are required to provide and to maintain in serviceable condition the number of suitable and substantial freight cars necessary to promptly supply the demands on their respective lines in this state for the prompt and …

Sec. 3. All carriers subject to the provisions of this chapter are required, when any carload freight has been properly loaded and proper shipping instructions have been delivered, to move the same forward to destination, if on its line, or to the point of junction with the conne…

Sec. 4. All carriers subject to the provisions of this chapter shall deliver to a consignee on a private track, a track used by the consignee for loading or unloading, or on their public delivery track, and receive from a connecting carrier, at any terminal point in this state, f…

Sec. 5. Every carrier subject to this chapter shall furnish to all parties who apply therefor, as provided in this chapter, suitable cars for the transportation of all kinds of freight in carload lots. If the car equipment of the carrier is not adequate to supply the whole number…

Sec. 6. Each carrier subject to this chapter shall provide and permanently keep at each billing station on its line in Indiana where it handles carload shipments a substantially bound book, which shall be in the form prescribed by the Indiana department of transportation, suitabl…

Sec. 7. It is a Class C infraction for a person to make any false entry in the record provided for in section 6 of this chapter, or to alter, change, or mutilate any entry made in the record, without notice to and with the consent of the other party interested in the record. It i…

Sec. 8. Every carrier subject to the provisions of this chapter which shall fail and neglect to furnish cars to applicants in accordance with the application therefor, and as provided in section 6 of this chapter, shall forfeit and pay to the applicant the sum of one dollar ($1) …

Sec. 9. At the request of a carrier, coal mine operator, or other interested party, the Indiana department of transportation, after five (5) days notice to the interested carrier and the coal mine operators on the carrier's line and a full hearing, shall adopt rules for the distr…

Sec. 1. Whenever the board of directors of any railroad company (including any union railway corporation) organized on or after March 2, 1933, under the laws of this state or of this state and any other state or states desires to amend its charter, articles of association, articl…

Sec. 2. The special or annual meeting of the stockholders at which the question of the approval of such amendment is to be submitted shall be called by delivering personally, or depositing in the post-office stamped and addressed to each stockholder at such address as appears upo…

Sec. 3. At any such meeting stockholders may vote in person or by proxy, each stockholder being entitled to one (1) vote for each share of stock held by him, and votes representing at least a majority (or such greater proportion as the articles of association or consolidation may…

Sec. 4. If at such special or annual meeting of the stockholders, said amendments, or any of them, be submitted to a vote, and if it shall appear that votes representing a majority (or such greater proportion as said articles may require) of all the outstanding stock of each clas…

Sec. 5. (a) If any shareholder of any such corporation who did not vote in favor of such amendment at the meeting at which the amendment was adopted by the shareholders of such corporation, shall, at any time within thirty (30) days after such adoption of the amendment by such sh…

Sec. 6. Any such company authorized by its articles of association or consolidation to have shares of capital stock without par value, may from time to time, issue and sell or otherwise dispose of any such shares for such consideration as may be provided for in said articles, or …

Sec. 1. (a) Except as otherwise provided by this chapter, the definitions set forth in IC 8-10-1-2 apply throughout this chapter. (b) In addition to the powers conferred upon the ports of Indiana by other provisions of this article, the ports of Indiana, in order to promote the a…

Sec. 2. (a) In addition to the powers conferred upon the ports of Indiana by other provisions of this article, the ports of Indiana, whenever the ports of Indiana finds that the economic welfare of the state would thereby be benefited, by additional employment opportunities, or b…

Sec. 3. Subject to the approval of the governor, the budget agency, and the budget committee, the ports of Indiana may, notwithstanding the provisions of IC 8-10-1-12 or the provisions of any other statute relating to or appropriating money to the Indiana port fund, expend moneys…

Sec. 1. As used in this chapter: (1) Primary highway system special account means the account of the state known as the "primary highway system special account" to which is credited monthly fifty-five percent (55%) of the money deposited in the highway, road, and street fund. (2)…

Sec. 2. It is hereby declared to be the intent of the general assembly that the monies deposited in the primary highway system special account and the local road and street account shall be used exclusively for engineering, land acquisition, construction, resurfacing, restoration…

Sec. 2.1. The state comptroller shall create a special fund to be known as the "Highway, Road and Street Fund" for the deposit of the revenues from: (1) the gasoline and special fuel taxes dedicated to the fund under IC 6-6-1.1-802 and IC 6-6-2.5; and (2) amounts deposited in or …

Sec. 3. (a) The state comptroller shall credit the state highway fund established under IC 8-23-9-54 monthly with sixty-three percent (63%) of the money deposited in the highway, road and street fund. (b) Funds allocated to the department under this chapter must be appropriated. …

Sec. 4. (a) The state comptroller shall establish a special account to be called the "local road and street account" and credit this account monthly with thirty-seven percent (37%) of the money deposited in the highway, road and street fund. (b) The state comptroller shall distri…

Sec. 5. Money from the local road and street account shall be used exclusively by the cities, towns, and counties for: (1) engineering, land acquisition, construction, resurfacing, maintenance, restoration, or rehabilitation of both local and arterial road and street systems; (2)…

Sec. 7. An included town under IC 36-3-1-7 may transfer surplus allocated monies to the town general fund from the local road and street account if those monies have not been allocated or expended within the previous twenty-four (24) months. As added by P.L.67-1984, SEC.3.

Sec. 1. This chapter applies to all municipalities except consolidated cities. As added by Acts 1982, P.L.74, SEC.1.

Sec. 10. (a) Before a municipal legislative body adopts an ordinance declaring that public convenience and necessity require the construction or acquisition of a utility as provided by section 7 of this chapter, each public utility furnishing a similar utility service in the muni…

Sec. 12. (a) Upon the approval by resolution of the municipal legislative body, a municipally owned utility may sell or furnish heat, light, water, or power to the municipality to be used exclusively for the furnishing of utility service to the municipality for its own municipal …

Sec. 13. A contract made by the municipal legislative body for the acquisition, construction, extension, or replacement of the property of a public utility must be authorized by ordinance. The ordinance must provide for the principal and interest of bonds issued for the payment o…

Sec. 14. A municipality that constructs or acquires a utility may, through its municipal legislative body, provide for and secure the payment of the cost of constructing, acquiring, extending, or improving the utility by assigning or otherwise pledging the property acquired, toge…

Sec. 15. (a) This section applies to the following: (1) A municipality that, as of July 1, 2012, had established and operated a water utility. (2) An action brought under: (A) IC 8-1-2-92; (B) IC 8-1-2-93; or (C) this chapter; before March 1, 2013. (b) If the municipality and the…

Sec. 15.5. (a) This section does not apply to the following: (1) A municipality that, as of July 1, 2012, had established a water utility. (2) An action brought under: (A) IC 8-1-2-92; (B) IC 8-1-2-93; or (C) this chapter; before March 1, 2013. (3) The acquisition of electric uti…

Sec. 17. (a) A municipality, by exercising the power of eminent domain in accordance with IC 32-24 or other applicable law, may acquire property rights inside or outside its corporate boundaries as necessary for the business of a municipally owned utility. (b) The municipal legis…

Sec. 18. (a) To provide money to pay for the construction or acquisition of a utility under this chapter, or its extension, improvement, or replacement in whole or in part, or its repair, the municipal legislative body may issue and sell bonds bearing interest at any rate, execut…

Sec. 19. (a) A municipality may not issue bonds, notes, or other obligations under this chapter without the approval of the commission if the bond, notes, or other obligations are payable more than twelve (12) months after their execution, except as authorized by IC 8-1-2.2-11. (…

Sec. 19.5. If a municipality desires to purchase and install equipment for its utility which requires more than three (3) months lead time for the supplier to make such equipment and installation available, the legislative body may, by ordinance, approve a contract therefor even …

Sec. 2. (a) This chapter does not apply to utilities governed by: (1) IC 8-1-13; or (2) IC 8-1-2 except for a municipally owned electric, natural gas, water, wastewater, or combined water and wastewater utility. (b) The law relating to acquisition of electric utility property and…

Sec. 20. Except as provided by section 22 of this chapter, the municipal legislative body may not adopt an ordinance, or enter into or ratify a contract, for the payment, directly or indirectly, of a bond or bonds by revenues derived by the municipality from the levy of taxes, fr…

Sec. 21. A municipality may invest its own money in the bonds issued under section 18 of this chapter. As added by Acts 1982, P.L.74, SEC.1.

Sec. 22. (a) If the municipal legislative body decides that it is impracticable to raise the entire amount necessary to construct or acquire the utility solely by the issuance and sale of revenue bonds, the legislative body may, by ordinance, provide that a part of the amount may…

Sec. 23. If general obligation bonds are issued, they: (1) may be issued in any denomination; (2) are payable at a time not to exceed forty (40) years from issuance; (3) may bear interest at any rate payable semiannually; and (4) shall be sold for not less than par value and accr…

Sec. 24. (a) The board of a municipally owned utility, as defined by IC 8-1.5-3-2, shall, at least semiannually, set aside from the net earnings a sufficient amount to pay the interest and principal, as they become due, on revenue bonds issued in payment for the utility or for it…

Sec. 25. (a) The municipal legislative body, after providing for the: (1) payment of operation and maintenance expenses of the utility; (2) payment of the interest and principal on revenue bonds and creation of reserves for them; (3) payment of the interest and principal on gener…