Title 36, LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Sec. 8. The manager, under the direction of the town legislative body, is responsible for the administrative duties of the legislative body. Unless a written order or ordinance of the legislative body provides otherwise, the manager: (1) shall attend the meetings of the legislati…

Sec. 9. The manager may not serve as a member of any body that hears disciplinary charges against: (1) the town marshal; or (2) a member of the town police department. As added by P.L.343-1987, SEC.1.

Sec. 1. (a) Subject to subsection (g), before 2009, a township assessor shall be elected under IC 3-10-2-13 by the voters of each township: (1) having: (A) a population of more than eight thousand (8,000); or (B) an elected township assessor or the authority to elect a township a…

Sec. 3. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), the assessor shall perform the duties prescribed by statute, including assessment duties prescribed by IC 6-1.1. (b) Subsection (a) does not apply if the duties of the township assessor have been transferred to the county assessor…

Sec. 4. (a) Before July 1, 2017, an employee of a township assessor who performs real property assessing duties must have attained the level of certification under IC 6-1.1-35.5 that the township assessor is required to attain under section 1(g) of this chapter. (b) After June 30…

Sec. 5. (a) The county fiscal body may adopt a resolution to transfer the duties of a township assessor to the county assessor if all of the following apply: (1) The office of township assessor has been vacant for at least ninety (90) days. (2) A caucus was held under IC 3-13-11 …

Sec. 1. (a) This chapter applies to the following: (1) All municipalities. (2) A county having a consolidated city that establishes a consolidated law enforcement department under IC 36-3-1-5.1. (b) Section 2 of this chapter applies to any other political subdivision that employs…

Sec. 10. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) or (c), a member on leave under either section 2 or section 3 of this chapter is entitled to be credited with time spent in full-time employment for all purposes, including retirement and pension benefits. (b) A member of the 1925…

Sec. 2. (a) The police chief or fire chief may be granted a leave of absence by the authority who appointed the police chief or fire chief. This appointing authority may also grant a leave of absence to any other full-time, fully paid police officer or firefighter. (b) A leave of…

Sec. 3. (a) An active member of a regularly organized police or fire department who is: (1) taken into military service by induction, enlistment, or commission or assigned by the government for war work during a national emergency declared by the president of the United States or…

Sec. 4. The safety board and the police and fire chiefs may require members of the police and fire departments to work overtime to cover the vacancies created by members on temporary leave of absence under section 3 of this chapter. For overtime work the police officers and firef…

Sec. 5. (a) If, in the judgment of the executive, overtime work by the regular police officers or firefighters under section 4 of this chapter does not meet the requirements for public safety in the municipality, the safety board and the police and fire chiefs may employ persons …

Sec. 6. A municipality shall make a sufficient appropriation in its salary personnel budget appropriations for the police and fire departments for all members on temporary leave of absence under section 3 of this chapter. The personnel budget may not be reduced so as to make it i…

Sec. 7. (a) The monthly assessments against the salary of a member of a 1925, 1937, 1953, or 1977 fund shall be waived while the member is on temporary leave of absence under section 3 of this chapter or on a leave of absence that qualifies for the protections afforded by the Uni…

Sec. 8. (a) A police officer or firefighter desiring to return to service in the police or fire department shall report to the person responsible for regulating and employing members of the department. This action must be taken within sixty (60) days after a discharge under condi…

Sec. 9. Death notices from the department of defense or other satisfactory proof of death are bona fide evidence of a member's death. This evidence constitutes full authority for the local board of a fund to carry out the law regarding deceased police officers and firefighters an…

Sec. 1. This chapter applies to the following boards: (1) The board of directors of a public transportation corporation or regional transportation authority. (2) The works board of a municipality that owns, operates, or leases a public transportation system. (3) Any other board w…

Sec. 2. (a) A board may establish a special schedule of fares applicable to the transportation of persons sixty-five (65) years of age or older. The schedule may provide for fares that approximate in cost not more than one-half (1/2) of the public transportation system's regular …

Sec. 3. A board may also establish programs for classes of persons other than those described in section 2 of this chapter. These programs must be based on the needs of the persons to be served. [Pre-Local Government Recodification Citation: 19-5-7.5-2 part.] As added by Acts 198…

Sec. 4. A board may establish programs designed to increase the use of the public transportation system. [Pre-Local Government Recodification Citation: 19-5-7.5-2 part.] As added by Acts 1981, P.L.309, SEC.78.

Sec. 1. This chapter applies to the municipalities indicated in each section. [Local Government Recodification Citation: New.] As added by Acts 1981, P.L.309, SEC.112.

Sec. 2. (a) This section applies to: (1) third class cities and towns, unless otherwise provided by law; and (2) each second class city that: (A) adopted second class city status by ordinance under IC 36-4-1-1.1, as a result of the 2010 federal decennial census; and (B) has adopt…

Sec. 3. (a) This section applies to all municipalities except consolidated cities. (b) If a municipality decides to acquire, construct, develop, improve, and operate recreational facilities and programs for park purposes, it may issue the bonds of the municipality to pay the cost…

Sec. 4. (a) This section applies to municipalities having a population of less than twenty thousand (20,000). (b) If the legislative body of a municipality decides to sell the parkland, a part of it, the minerals, mineral rights, or royalties for minerals under the parkland, or p…

Sec. 5. (a) This section applies to a municipality that: (1) has a population of more than twenty-five thousand (25,000); and (2) is located in a county having a population of more than three hundred thousand (300,000) and less than three hundred fifty thousand (350,000). (b) A m…

Sec. 1. Upon establishment of the district, the district may exercise all the rights, powers, and duties conferred upon the district by this article. As added by P.L.161-2002, SEC.2 and P.L.172-2002, SEC.7.

Sec. 2. A district may do the following: (1) Make contracts for the services necessary for the operations of the district, including management of the district by any public or private entity. (2) Adopt, amend, and repeal bylaws for the administration of the district's affairs. (…

Sec. 3. A district may make contracts or incur obligations only if the contracts or obligations are payable solely from: (1) revenue the district is permitted to raise under this article; or (2) federal, state, or other grants or contributions. As added by P.L.161-2002, SEC.2 and…

Sec. 4. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), a district may not make expenditures or take any other action for the benefit of a property served by a system if there is an available sanitary sewer within three hundred (300) feet of the property line. (b) A district may make e…

Sec. 1. (a) Sections 2 and 3 of this chapter apply only to Class 1 public libraries that seek to expand into not more than one (1) township of a county. (b) Sections 5, 6, and 12 of this chapter apply to Class 1 public libraries that seek to expand into more than one (1) township…

Sec. 12. (a) If not more than two (2) townships or parts of not more than two (2) townships are added to a library district, at least one (1) of the next appointments made to the library board by the county commissioners or the county council must be from one (1) of the townships…

Sec. 2. (a) The library board of a public library may file an expansion proposal with the township trustee and legislative body of the township. The proposal must state that the public library seeks to expand its service area to include a certain township or any part of a townshi…

Sec. 3. (a) The library board of a public library may file with the township trustee and legislative body an expansion proposal and a notice of intent to file a petition for acceptance of the expansion proposal. The expansion proposal must include the information described in sec…

Sec. 5. (a) The library board of a public library may file an expansion proposal with the legislative body of the county. The proposal must state that the public library seeks to expand its service area to include more than one (1) township or parts of more than one (1) township …

Sec. 6. (a) The library board of a public library may file with the legislative body of a county an expansion proposal and a notice of intent to file a petition for acceptance of the expansion proposal. The proposal must include the information described in section 5 of this chap…

Sec. 1. Notwithstanding any other law, two (2) or more political subdivisions may enter into a cooperative agreement under this chapter by using the same procedures set forth in this article for the initiation and approval of a reorganization under this article. A cooperative agr…

Sec. 2. (a) A cooperative agreement under this chapter must provide at least for the following: (1) Its duration. (2) Its purpose. (3) The manner of financing, staffing, and supplying any joint undertaking and of establishing and maintaining a budget for any joint undertaking tha…

Sec. 3. (a) The cooperative agreement may transfer the functions of an employee or a department of a political subdivision, including an elected office, to another employee or department of any political subdivision that has entered into the cooperative agreement. (b) The functio…

Sec. 4. A political subdivision may enter into a cooperative agreement with an entity to share the services of an employee employed by any party to the agreement. As added by P.L.186-2006, SEC.4.

Sec. 5. A cooperative agreement may provide that a political subdivision: (1) may appropriate and pledge any legally available revenues to the payment of the bonds, leases, or other obligations of another political subdivision that is a party to the cooperative agreement; and (2)…

Sec. 6. (a) A cooperative agreement may not permit an entity or another instrumentality established to administer the cooperative agreement to take any action that at least one (1) of the parties to the cooperative agreement could not carry out on its own. (b) A cooperative agree…

Sec. 7. (a) A cooperative agreement transferring the functions of an elected office becomes effective only at the end of the term of the incumbent that holds the office. (b) Any law, rule, or agreement that requires or permits an action by an employee or elected officer after the…

Sec. 8. The department of local government finance shall adjust as necessary tax rates, tax levies, and budgets of political subdivisions that enter into a cooperative agreement under this chapter in the same manner as tax rates, tax levies, and budgets are adjusted under IC 36-1…

Sec. 1. A development authority shall do the following: (1) Assist in the coordination of local efforts concerning projects that are of regional importance. (2) Assist a county, a municipality, a commuter transportation district, an airport authority, and a regional transportatio…

Sec. 2. (a) A development authority may do any of the following: (1) Finance, improve, construct, reconstruct, renovate, purchase, acquire, and equip land and projects that are of regional importance. (2) Finance and construct additional improvements to projects or other capital …

Sec. 3. A development authority may enter into an agreement with another development authority or any other entity to: (1) jointly equip, own, lease, and finance projects and facilities; or (2) otherwise carry out the purposes of the development authority; in any location. As add…