Title 22, LABOR AND SAFETY

Sec. 15. (a) The operator of a mine shall submit to the director a copy of the Mine Safety Administration Form 7000-2 when the operator files the form with the Mine Safety Administration. (b) The operator of a mine shall notify the director immediately when an: (1) accident occur…

Sec. 6. (a) The director shall devote the director's attention to the duties of the office during working hours and is subject to call at all times. The director and any mine inspector funded by the general assembly are authorized to enter, examine, and inspect all commercial coa…

Sec. 9. (a) The director shall keep a record of the board's official actions concerning certificates issued under this chapter and file the record together with questions and answers pertaining to examinations established by the board, including the grade given for the answer to …

Sec. 1. The board of firefighting personnel standards and education is established. As added by P.L.245-1987, SEC.1.

Sec. 2. (a) The education board consists of thirteen (13) voting members as follows: (1) The state fire marshal or the state fire marshal's designee. (2) The executive director of the department of homeland security appointed under IC 10-19-3-1 or the executive director's designe…

Sec. 3. The governor may remove a member of the education board for inefficiency or neglect of duty. As added by P.L.245-1987, SEC.1.

Sec. 4. If a vacancy occurs on the education board, the governor shall appoint an individual to serve the unexpired term of the vacating member. As added by P.L.245-1987, SEC.1.

Sec. 5. The education board shall annually elect a chairperson, a vice chairperson, and a secretary from among its members. As added by P.L.245-1987, SEC.1.

Sec. 6. (a) The education board shall meet as it determines necessary. (b) Meetings of the education board shall be called upon the request of its chairperson or the written request of seven (7) of its members. (c) Meetings of the education board must be held in Indiana. (d) A qu…

Sec. 7. The department of homeland security shall provide facilities and staff to carry out the responsibilities of the education board. As added by P.L.245-1987, SEC.1. Amended by P.L.1-2006, SEC.351; P.L.187-2021, SEC.68.

Sec. 8. (a) Each member of the education board who is not a state employee is entitled to the minimum salary per diem provided by IC 4-10-11-2.1(b) for attendance at meetings of the education board where at least a quorum of its members are present, unless the member is a state e…

Sec. 9. A variance from a rule adopted by the board of firefighting personnel standards and education that was granted by the board before July 1, 1996, is valid. As added by P.L.220-2011, SEC.375.

Note: This version of section effective until 7-1-2027. See also following version of this section, effective 7-1-2027. Sec. 1. The commission shall adopt fire safety rules that prohibit the following: (1) The storage of regulated explosives (as defined in IC 35-47.5-2-13) in qua…

Note: This version of section effective until 7-1-2027. See also following version of this section, effective 7-1-2027. Sec. 2. (a) This section applies to the following laboratories: (1) Analytical laboratories approved by the department under the alternative criteria establishe…

Note: This version of section effective until 7-1-2027. See also following version of this section, effective 7-1-2027. Sec. 3. The commission shall adopt fire safety rules that prohibit the occupancy or use of Class 1 structures that do not comply with the commission's rules gov…

Sec. 0.1. The amendments made to section 2 of this chapter by P.L.57-2008 apply to amusement and entertainment permits issued after June 30, 2008. As added by P.L.220-2011, SEC.376.

Sec. 1. (a) Except as provided in subsections (c) and (d), this chapter does not apply to a nonpublic school (as defined in IC 20-18-2-12) or a school operated by a school corporation (as defined in IC 20-18-2-16). (b) The department shall carry out an inspection program to inspe…

Sec. 2. (a) The department shall issue an amusement and entertainment permit to an applicant who qualifies under section 3 of this chapter. (b) A permit issued under section 3 of this chapter expires one (1) year after the date of issuance. The permit applies only to the place, m…

Sec. 3. To qualify for an amusement and entertainment permit, an applicant must: (1) submit an application sworn or affirmed under penalties of perjury on forms provided by the department upon request; (2) provide: (A) the applicant's full name and address; (B) the full name and …

Note: This version of section effective until 7-1-2027. See also following version of this section, effective 7-1-2027. Sec. 4. (a) The department may modify an amusement and entertainment permit with a special event endorsement that covers one (1) or more events not specified in…

Sec. 5. (a) This section applies to the following: (1) Each person who has control over the performance of an amusement or entertainment described in IC 22-12-1-23. (2) Each person who has control over a regulated place of entertainment. (b) A person described in subsection (a) c…

Note: This version of section effective until 7-1-2027. See also following version of this section, effective 7-1-2027. Sec. 1. (a) The state building commissioner or a city, town, or county certified under subsection (d) shall issue a design release for the construction of a Cla…

Note: This version of section effective until 7-1-2027. See also following version of this section, effective 7-1-2027. Sec. 2. To qualify for a design release under this section, an applicant must: (1) demonstrate, through the submission of plans and specifications for the const…

Note: This version of section effective until 7-1-2027. See also following version of this section, effective 7-1-2027. Sec. 3. (a) This section applies only to an application for a design release to construct: (1) A Class 1 structure with thirty thousand (30,000) or fewer cubic …

Note: This version of section effective until 7-1-2027. See also following version of this section, effective 7-1-2027. Sec. 4. (a) This section applies to a design release for the fabrication of a model or other series of similar industrialized building systems or mobile structu…

Note: This version of section effective until 7-1-2027. See also following version of this section, effective 7-1-2027. Sec. 5. (a) This section does not authorize a variance from any rule adopted by the commission. (b) The rules adopted by the commission do not prevent the use o…

Sec. 6. (a) Pending the completion of the review of an application, the department may issue: (1) a design release for part of the construction proposed in an application, if that part of the construction qualifies for release under this chapter; or (2) a provisional release for …

Note: This version of section effective until 7-1-2027. See also following version of this section, effective 7-1-2027. Sec. 7. (a) This section does not apply to construction that is exempted from this section in the rules adopted by the commission under IC 22-13-4. (b) This sec…

Sec. 1. (a) The governor shall appoint a commissioner of the department. The commissioner serves at the pleasure of the governor as the chief administrative officer of the department. (b) The governor shall fix the commissioner's salary. As added by P.L.105-1994, SEC.5.

Sec. 2. The commissioner may do the following: (1) Employ staff necessary to perform the duties of the department imposed by this article. (2) Fix the compensation and terms of staff employment, subject to the approval of the budget agency. As added by P.L.105-1994, SEC.5.…

Sec. 3. The commissioner shall adopt rules under IC 4-22-2 necessary to implement this article. As added by P.L.105-1994, SEC.5.

Sec. 4. Funds necessary to support the operating costs of the department of workforce development beyond those approved and appropriated by the United States Congress or approved by federal agencies for the operation of the department and specifically authorized by other provisio…

Sec. 1. It is unlawful discrimination for a public educational institution to take an education action with respect to a person if the education action is based on a personal characteristic of the person. As added by P.L.196-2025, SEC.18.

Sec. 1. (a) Subject to subsection (b), IC 22-9.5-5 does not apply to the following: (1) The sale or rental of a single-family house sold or rented by an owner if: (A) the owner does not: (i) own more than three (3) single-family houses at any one (1) time; or (ii) own any interes…

Sec. 2. This article does not prohibit a religious organization, an association, or a society or a nonprofit institution or an organization operated, supervised, or controlled by or in conjunction with a religious organization, an association, or a society from: (1) limiting the …

Sec. 3. This article does not prohibit a private club not open to the public that, as an incident to the club's primary purpose, provides lodging that the club owns or operates for other than a commercial purpose from limiting the rental or occupancy of that lodging to the member…

Sec. 4. (a) As used in this section, "housing for older persons" means housing that the commission determines is: (1) specifically designed and operated to assist elderly persons under a federal or state program; (2) intended for and solely occupied by persons at least sixty-two …

Sec. 5. This article does not prohibit a person engaged in the business of furnishing appraisals of real property from taking into consideration factors other than race, color, religion, sex, disability, familial status, or national origin. As added by P.L.66-1990, SEC.2. Amended…

Sec. 6. (a) This article does not affect a reasonable local or state restriction on the maximum number of occupants permitted to occupy a dwelling or restriction relating to health or safety standards. (b) This article does not affect a requirement of nondiscrimination in any oth…