Title 14, NATURAL AND CULTURAL RESOURCES

Sec. 8. (a) Except as provided in section 9 of this chapter and subject to subsections (b) and (c), if an applicant for a permit complies with: (1) this article; and (2) the rules adopted under this article; the director shall issue a permit. (b) The division shall: (1) maintain …

Sec. 8.5. (a) For purposes of this section, "waste" means locating, spacing, drilling, equipping, operating, or producing a well for coal bed methane purposes in a manner that unreasonably reduces or tends to unreasonably reduce the quantity of commercially minable coal resources…

Sec. 9. The department may refuse to issue a permit if an applicant or an officer, a partner, or a director of the applicant: (1) is in violation of this article or would be in violation if the permit were issued; or (2) controls or has controlled a well for oil and gas purposes …

Sec. 1. The department may revoke a permit issued under an article to which this article applies if the department finds any of the following: (1) The permit was issued through fraud or misrepresentation. (2) The person to whom the permit was issued has violated an article to whi…

Sec. 2. (a) If a permit is revoked under this chapter, the department may do either or both of the following: (1) Order the person to mitigate the violation. (2) Mitigate the violation. (b) The revocation of a permit under this chapter does not relieve the person to whom the perm…

Sec. 3. (a) If the department has authority to assess a civil penalty for the violation of a statute in an article described in IC 14-25.5-1-1, the department also has authority to assess a civil penalty for the violation of a rule adopted in connection with that statute. (b) Eac…

Sec. 4. (a) A civil penalty assessed for a violation described in section 3 of this chapter is subject to IC 4-21.5-3-6 and becomes effective without a proceeding under IC 4-21.5-3 unless a person requests an administrative adjudication under IC 4-21.5 not later than thirty (30) …

Sec. 5. The division director may request the attorney general to institute an action in an appropriate court for the following: (1) The recovery of civil penalties owed for a violation described in section 3 of this chapter. (2) To restrain a person from commencing to violate or…

Sec. 1. (a) The board of a watershed development commission consists of the following individuals: (1) If the designated watershed includes the Maumee River basin the following: (A) The director of the department or the director's designee. (B) The county surveyor of each county …

Sec. 2. (a) The voting members of the board of a watershed development commission shall elect the following officers: (1) A chair. (2) A vice chair. (3) A secretary-treasurer. (b) When one (1) or more additional counties that are entitled to representation on the board of a water…

Sec. 3. (a) The board of a watershed development commission shall meet: (1) at least four (4) times per calendar year; and (2) on the call of either of the following: (A) The chair. (B) A quorum of the members of the board. (b) A majority of the voting members of a board constitu…

Sec. 4. A member of the board of a watershed development commission is not entitled to receive any compensation for performance of the member's duties except that a member is entitled to a minimum salary per diem from the watershed development commission for the member's particip…

Sec. 5. (a) There is established for each watershed development commission an advisory committee to provide counsel to the board of the commission. (b) Except as provided in subsection (c), a watershed development commission advisory committee established under this section consi…

Sec. 6. (a) The board of a watershed development commission may establish an ad hoc advisory committee other than the advisory committee established under section 5 of this chapter to advise the board on one (1) or more particular subjects. (b) The board may appoint to an ad hoc …

Sec. 7. A member of an advisory committee established under section 5 of this chapter or a member of an ad hoc advisory committee established under section 6 of this chapter is not entitled to compensation for the member's services. As added by P.L.251-2023, SEC.13.