Title 16, HEALTH

Sec. 1.2. As used in this chapter, "individual with a disability" has the meaning set forth in IC 16-32-2-1(a). As added by P.L.230-2023, SEC.3.

Sec. 1.5. As used in this chapter, "service animal" refers to a dog or miniature horse individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of an individual with a disability. As added by P.L.155-2009, SEC.2. Amended by P.L.230-2023, SEC.4; P.L.9-2024, SEC.374.

Sec. 1.7. (a) A public accommodation shall make reasonable modifications in policies, practices, or procedures to permit the use of a miniature horse by an individual with a disability. (b) In determining whether reasonable modifications in policies, practices, or procedures can …

Sec. 2. (a) As used in this section, "public accommodation" means an establishment that caters or offers services, facilities, or goods to the general public. (b) A person who: (1) refuses access to a public accommodation; or (2) charges a fee for access to a public accommodation…

Sec. 3. (a) A person not totally blind who: (1) approaches a totally or partially blind pedestrian carrying a cane predominantly white or metallic in color, with or without a red tip, or using a service animal; and (2) fails to take all necessary precautions to avoid injury to th…

Sec. 4. Each year the governor shall take suitable public notice of October 15 as "White Cane Safety Day". The governor shall issue a proclamation in which the governor does the following: (1) Comments upon the significance of the white cane. (2) Calls upon the citizens of Indian…

Sec. 5. It is the policy of this state that individuals who are blind, individuals with a visual disability, and other individuals with a physical or mental disability shall be employed in: (1) the state service; (2) the service of the political subdivisions of the state; (3) the…

Sec. 1. As used in this chapter, "center" refers to the Silvercrest children's development center. [1993 Recodification Citation: New.] As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.16.

Sec. 10. Whenever the circuit court, superior court, or probate court having jurisdiction finds, upon application by the county office of the division of family resources, that the parent or guardian of a client placed in the center is unable to meet the costs that the parent or …

Sec. 11. The director, subject to IC 4-24-3, may receive, for the use of the center, gifts, legacies, devises, and conveyances of real and personal property that may be made, given, or granted to or for the center or in the center's name. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-7-1…

Sec. 2. The Silvercrest children's development center is established as a state center. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-7-16-1 part.] As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.16.

Sec. 3. The center shall provide for the educational diagnosis, evaluation, assessment, short term remediation, referral, and care of children who may benefit from such service, but who, because of serious disabling conditions, cannot make satisfactory progress in the programs of…

Sec. 4. The state department shall administer the center. The state health commissioner, subject to IC 20-35-2, has complete administrative control and responsibility for the center. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-7-16-1 part.] As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.16. Amended by P.…

Sec. 5. The center shall provide the following: (1) Educational diagnosis, needs assessment, evaluation, short term remediation, reassessment, referral, and follow-up, in cooperation with other agencies or institutions, necessary to assure continuity of services and proper placem…

Sec. 6. (a) The director of the center is responsible for the immediate supervision of the center. (b) The state health commissioner shall appoint the director of the center. The director of the center must possess the following qualifications: (1) The director must possess the a…

Sec. 7. (a) The director of the center, subject to the approval of the state health commissioner, has complete charge and management of the center and is charged with the direction of the development program for the clients in attendance. (b) The director of the center is the chi…

Sec. 8. Subject to the review and approval of the department of education and the state health commissioner or the commissioner's designee, the director of the center shall receive as clients in the center children with multiple disabilities who meet the following conditions: (1)…

Sec. 8.5. (a) A placement review committee for the center is established. The committee consists of one (1) representative of each of the following: (1) The office of the secretary of family and social services. (2) The state department. (3) The secretary of education. (b) The pl…

Sec. 9. (a) The center shall provide tuition, board, room, laundry, and ordinary medical attention, including emergencies. (b) The parents, guardian, or other persons shall provide medical, optical, and dental care involving special medication or prostheses. (c) When a client is …

Sec. 1. This chapter is effective beginning January 1, 2016. As added by P.L.113-2015, SEC.6.

Sec. 2. (a) A pregnant woman who has an abortion under this article has the right to have the hospital or ambulatory outpatient surgical center dispose of the aborted fetus by interment in compliance with IC 23-14-54, or cremation through a licensee (as defined in IC 25-15-2-19) …

Sec. 3. If the pregnant woman chooses a location for final disposition other than the location of final disposition that is usual and customary for a hospital or ambulatory outpatient surgical center, the pregnant woman is responsible for the costs related to the final dispositio…

Sec. 4. (a) A hospital or ambulatory outpatient surgical center having possession of an aborted fetus shall provide for the final disposition of the aborted fetus. The burial transit permit requirements of IC 16-37-3 apply to the final disposition of an aborted fetus, which must …

Sec. 5. The state department shall make any changes necessary to the informed consent brochure under IC 16-34-2-1.5 that are necessary to comply with IC 16-34-2-1.1 and this chapter. As added by P.L.113-2015, SEC.6.

Sec. 6. The state department shall develop and distribute the forms required by section 2 of this chapter. As added by P.L.113-2015, SEC.6.

Sec. 1. As used in this chapter, "appropriate facility" has the meaning set forth in IC 12-7-2.1-149(3). [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-8-3-1(a).] As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.19. Amended by P.L.145-2026, SEC.106.

Sec. 10. The superintendent shall compile a report of all medically necessary treatments approved under this chapter during each calendar quarter and send the report to the director of the division of mental health and addiction or the director of the division of disability, agin…

Sec. 2. As used in this chapter, "superintendent" has the meaning set forth in IC 12-7-2.1-323(3). [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-8-3-1(b).] As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.19. Amended by P.L.145-2026, SEC.107.

Sec. 3. The methods of consent set forth in this chapter do not exclude other lawful methods of consent or require consent in an emergency. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-8-3-2.] As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.19.

Sec. 4. Consent to medical or surgical treatment of a patient at an appropriate facility may be given by the superintendent under the procedures in this chapter. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-8-3-3(a).] As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.19.

Sec. 5. If the superintendent and the patient's treating physician determine that: (1) the patient is incompetent to give informed consent to medical or surgical treatment, even though the patient has never been so adjudicated by a court; and (2) the treatment is medically necess…

Sec. 6. In obtaining a second opinion as required by section 5 of this chapter, the superintendent shall compile a list of licensed physicians, organized by specialty. The superintendent must use an appropriate specialist from the list whenever possible. The physician chosen to g…

Sec. 7. The superintendent shall attempt to notify by certified mail any known relatives or friends of the patient of the patient's condition, the treatment determined to be necessary by the superintendent and the treating physician, and the result of the independent second opini…

Sec. 8. If the superintendent has followed the procedures in sections 4, 5, 6, and 7 of this chapter and the second opinion obtained under section 5 of this chapter concurs with the original determination of the superintendent and the patient's treating physician, the superintend…

Sec. 9. A superintendent who, without malice, bad faith, or negligence, discloses confidential information in connection with the superintendent's compliance with section 7 of this chapter or consents to medical or surgical treatment of a patient after following the procedures re…

Sec. 1. As used in this chapter, "dead body" means a lifeless human body or parts or bones of the human body from the condition of which it reasonably may be concluded that death recently occurred. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-1-15-2(4).] As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.20.…

Sec. 10. Upon receipt of a properly executed certificate of death or stillbirth or, when authorized by rule of the state department, a provisional certificate of death, a local health officer in the county in which the death occurred shall issue a permit for the disposal of the b…

Sec. 11. The person in charge of interment shall secure a permit for the disposition of the body before any of the following occur: (1) Disposition of the body. (2) Removing the body from the county in which the death occurred. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-1-17-8.] As ad…

Sec. 12. If the body is to be transported by common carrier, the person in charge of interment shall secure a burial transit permit in duplicate from: (1) the local health officer; or (2) in the absence of a local health officer, the county registrar. [Pre-1993 Recodification Cit…

Sec. 13. The person in charge of interment shall attach one (1) copy of the burial transit permit to the shipping box in which the body is transported. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-1-17-10.] As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.20.

Sec. 14. When death occurs outside Indiana and the body is accompanied by a burial transit permit issued where death occurred, the permit authorizes transportation into Indiana. Before burial, cremation, or other disposal of the body the local health officer shall endorse and kee…

Sec. 15. This chapter: (1) supplements other laws concerning autopsies; (2) does not require consent for a local health officer to order or perform an autopsy in the discharge of the health officer's duties; and (3) does not grant authority to a local health officer to hold an in…

Sec. 16. (a) This section does not apply to section 3 of this chapter. (b) Except as provided, a person who recklessly violates or fails to comply with this chapter commits a Class B misdemeanor. (c) Each day a violation continues constitutes a separate offense. [Pre-1993 Recodif…

Sec. 2. As used in this chapter, "person in charge of interment" means a person who places or causes to be placed a stillborn child or dead body or the ashes, after cremation, in a grave, vault, urn, or other receptacle, or otherwise disposes of the body or ashes. [Pre-1993 Recod…

Sec. 3. Except as provided in IC 16-37-1-3.1(f), the physician, the physician assistant, or the advanced practice registered nurse last in attendance upon the deceased, or the person in charge of interment shall use the Indiana death registration system established under IC 16-37…

Sec. 4. The physician, the physician assistant, or the advanced practice registered nurse last in attendance upon the deceased, or the person in charge of interment shall secure the personal data required by the state department by rules adopted under IC 4-22-2 for preparation of…