Title 8, TITLE 8. UTILITIES AND TRANSPORTATION

Sec. 4. The Indiana department of transportation shall file a petition with the United States Surface Transportation Board for public use conditions on a corridor that has been identified for preservation under this chapter. As added by P.L.40-1995, SEC.3. Amended by P.L.158-1999…

Sec. 5. The Indiana department of transportation, in cooperation with any of the following, may file a petition with the United States Surface Transportation Board for public use conditions on any corridor not described in section 4 of this chapter and for which a petition has be…

Sec. 7. (a) The transportation corridor fund is established to provide money for the purposes of this article. The fund shall be administered by the Indiana department of transportation. (b) Expenses of administering the fund shall be paid from money in the fund. The fund consist…

Sec. 1. The authority may contract with the department for construction, ownership, maintenance, and operation of projects and transportation systems. As added by P.L.68-1988, SEC.12.

Sec. 10. The authority may accept gifts, devises, bequests, grants, appropriations, revenue sharing, other financing and assistance, and any other aid from any source and agree to and comply with conditions attached to the aid. As added by P.L.68-1988, SEC.12.

Sec. 11. The authority may accept the transfer of any project or transportation system to the authority. As added by P.L.68-1988, SEC.12.

Sec. 12. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), the authority may, in the manner provided by IC 8-23-7, acquire by appropriation any land, rights-of-way, property, rights, easements, or other legal or equitable interests necessary or convenient for the construction or the effi…

Sec. 13. The authority may do all things necessary or proper to carry out this article. As added by P.L.68-1988, SEC.12.

Sec. 14. The state, acting through the governor, may convey, transfer, lease, or sell, with or without consideration, real property of any nature (including buildings, structures, improvements, land, rights-of-way, easements, and legal or equitable interests) title to which is he…

Sec. 15. All property of the authority is public property devoted to an essential public and governmental function and purpose and is exempt from all taxes and special assessments of the state or any political subdivision of the state. As added by P.L.68-1988, SEC.12.

Sec. 2. The authority may finance projects in accordance with this article. As added by P.L.68-1988, SEC.12.

Sec. 3. The authority may exercise any powers provided under this article in participation or cooperation with any governmental entity, including the department, and enter into any contracts to facilitate that participation or cooperation without compliance with any other statute…

Sec. 4. The authority may pay the cost of construction of a project or of owning or leasing transportation systems from any funds available to the authority under this article or any other law. As added by P.L.68-1988, SEC.12.

Sec. 5. The authority may sell, transfer, lease, or otherwise convey any land, rights-of-way, property, rights, easements, or legal or equitable interest it considers necessary or convenient for carrying out the provisions of this article, including disposal of unused or surplus …

Sec. 6. The authority may acquire by purchase, whenever it considers a purchase expedient, any land, rights-of-way, property, rights, easements, or other legal or equitable interests as it considers necessary or convenient for the construction and operation of any project. A purc…

As added by P.L.68-1988, SEC.12. Repealed by P.L.235-2005, SEC.212.

Sec. 9. The authority may receive and accept from any federal or state agency grants for or in aid of the construction of any project and repay any grant to the authority or to the department from a federal agency if the repayment is necessary to free the authority from restricti…

Sec. 0.3. (a) Actions taken with respect to: (1) the issuance of a request for proposals; (2) the determination of responsible and eligible offerors; and (3) the preliminary selection of an operator by the authority; for a public-private agreement before March 15, 2006, that woul…

Sec. 1. Subject to the other provisions of this article, the authority, a governmental entity, and a private entity may enter into a public-private agreement with respect to a project. Subject to the requirements of this article, a public-private agreement may provide that the pr…

Sec. 1. Subject to IC 8-15.7-1-5, the department may exercise the powers granted by this article to carry out: (1) the development; (2) the financing; (3) the operation; or (4) any combination of the development, financing, and operation; of all or part of one (1) or more project…

Sec. 2. An operator has: (1) all powers allowed by law generally to a private entity having the same form of organization as the operator; and (2) the power to develop, finance, and operate the qualifying project and impose user fees in connection with the use of the qualifying p…

Sec. 3. The operator may own, lease, or acquire any property interest or other right to develop, finance, or operate the qualifying project. As added by P.L.47-2006, SEC.40.

by operator Sec. 4. In operating the qualifying project, the operator may do the following: (1) Make user classifications as permitted in the public-private agreement. (2) As permitted in the public-private agreement or otherwise with the consent of the department, make and enfor…

Indiana businesses Sec. 5. The department shall establish a program to facilitate participation in qualifying projects by: (1) small businesses that qualify for a small business set-aside under IC 4-13.6-2-11; (2) businesses certified under IC 4-13-16.5 as a minority business ent…

Sec. 1. It shall be unlawful for the commission to approve the issue of any stock, certificates of stock, bonds, notes maturing more than twelve (12) months after the date thereof, or other evidence of indebtedness, by any public utility except for cash or other property actually…

Sec. 1. When any person shall have come to his death by violence or casualty caused by a collision with a train, car or other conveyance of any common carrier, it shall be lawful for such train, car or conveyance to proceed on its journey before the arrival of the coroner and the…

Sec. 1. It shall be lawful for the board of directors of any railway company whose road passes through this state into adjoining states, by lot or otherwise, to so classify the members thereof, that one-fourth (1/4) (as near as may be) shall terminate their official terms as dire…

levels; program to increase crossing safety; development of crossing safety program; consultation with railroads, municipalities Sec. 0.3. (a) An ordinance that would be permitted under section 1(e) of this chapter, as added by P.L.101-1993, that was adopted before April 27, 1993…

inoperable bell on locomotive; sign in vicinity of crossing Sec. 1. (a) A railroad company operating in this state shall equip every locomotive engine with a whistle and a bell, maintained in good working order, such as are used by other railroad companies. Except when approachin…

levels; program to increase crossing safety Sec. 1.3. (a) An ordinance that would be permitted under section 1(e) of this chapter, as added by P.L.101-1993, that was adopted before April 27, 1993: (1) is legalized; and (2) may be enforced on May 12, 1993. (b) The Indiana departme…

property damage Sec. 2. (a) Every engineer or other person in charge of or operating an engine, who shall fail or neglect to comply with the provisions of section 1 of this chapter, shall be held personally liable to the state, in a penalty of not less than ten dollars ($10.00) n…

Sec. 3. All actions for the recovery of the penalties prescribed in section 2 of this chapter shall be prosecuted in the name of the state by the prosecuting attorney of any county where the failure or neglect occurs. Formerly: Acts 1879(ss), c.77, s.3. As amended by P.L.62-1984,…

Formerly: Acts 1879(ss), c.77, s.4. Repealed by Acts 1972, P.L.63, SEC.3.

Sec. 5. All fines and penalties collected under the provisions of this chapter shall be appropriated to the benefit of the common school fund of the state, and the clerk of the court wherein such fines and penalties may be assessed and recovered shall, upon receipt thereof, pay t…

Sec. 1. It is a Class C infraction for a person owning or operating locomotive road engines to fail to provide and equip the locomotive road engines with storm-windows in both front windows in the cabs of the engines. The storm-windows shall be so equipped and adjusted as to perm…

Formerly: Acts 1911, c.80, s.2. Repealed by Acts 1978, P.L.2, SEC.867.

Sec. 1. (a) As used in this chapter, "self-liquidating or nonrecourse project" means: (1) a project for which a lease or leases have been executed providing for payment in an amount the ports of Indiana determines to be sufficient to pay: (A) the interest and principal of the bon…

statutes; governor approval required Sec. 2. (a) In addition to the powers conferred upon the ports of Indiana by other provisions of this article, and subject to subsection (b), the ports of Indiana, in connection with any self-liquidating or nonrecourse project, shall have the …

Sec. 3. Any lease of a project may provide that the lessee, as its reasonable portion of the ports of Indiana's administrative expense incurred by the ports of Indiana during the term of the lease which the lessee is required to pay by IC 8-10-1-10, shall pay to the ports of Indi…

Sec. 4. The cost of any project may include, instead of the cost of the acquisition of the land constituting the site of such project, the value of such land as determined by the ports of Indiana. The proceeds of any revenue bonds representing the value of such land shall be depo…

Sec. 5. The ports of Indiana may contract for the use of any license, process or device, whether patented or not, which the ports of Indiana finds is necessary for the operation of any project, and may permit the use thereof by any lessee on such terms and conditions as the ports…

Sec. 6. The following provisions apply to this chapter: (1) IC 8-10-1-4. (2) IC 8-10-1-10. (3) IC 8-10-1-13. (4) IC 8-10-1-14. (5) IC 8-10-1-15. (6) IC 8-10-1-16. (7) IC 8-10-1-19. (8) IC 8-10-1-25. (9) IC 8-10-1-27. (10) IC 8-10-1-30. As added by P.L.224-2003, SEC.231 and P.L.27…

chapter Sec. 0.3. Notwithstanding the amendments made to section 14 of this chapter by P.L.93-1993, in the case of a public utility that is described in IC 8-1-2-103(c), as amended by P.L.93-1993, the effective date for the implementation of the amendments made to section 14 of t…

Sec. 1. This chapter applies to all municipalities that: (1) own or operate waterworks; and (2) adopt the provisions of this chapter by ordinance. As added by Acts 1982, P.L.74, SEC.1.

department before January 1, 1982 Sec. 1.5. (a) A municipality having and operating a waterworks through a department of waterworks before January 1, 1982, under IC 19-3-15 (before its repeal on January 1, 1983) or under IC 19-3-27 (before its repeal on January 1, 1983) shall be …

Sec. 10. (a) The board may authorize and set apart bonds equal to the amount of any secured debt or charge subject to which a waterworks may be purchased or acquired in any proceeding, and shall set aside for interest and sinking fund from the income and revenue of the waterworks…

Sec. 11. (a) The bonds and the interest issued against the special redemption fund: (1) are a valid claim of the holders only against that fund and the fixed proportion or amount of the revenues pledged to that fund; and (2) are exempt from taxation in Indiana as provided by IC 6…

improvement Sec. 12. A board acquiring waterworks and paying for them and for extensions and betterments authorized at the time of acquisition may provide for the extension, addition, or improvement of the waterworks by an additional issue or issues of bonds. A board may issue ne…

Sec. 13. (a) All money received from bonds issued under this chapter shall be applied solely to the acquisition of the waterworks and the cost of the issuance of the bonds. (b) Any holder of the bonds or of any of the coupons attached to them may, by action or other proceeding, c…

Sec. 14. (a) This subsection applies to a municipality that is not subject to IC 8-1-2-103(c) or has not adopted an ordinance to become subject to IC 8-1-2-103(d). The reasonable cost and value of any service rendered to the municipality by the waterworks by furnishing water for …