Title 16, HEALTH

Sec. 11. The board of each full-time city health department shall, immediately after appointment, meet and organize by electing a chairman, vice chairman, and other officers the board considers necessary. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-1-7-21.] As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.…

Sec. 12. (a) The board of each city health department shall hold a meeting in January of each year, at which meeting officers shall be elected for the following calendar year. (b) The board shall hold regular meetings quarterly in January, April, July, and October. (c) The board …

Sec. 13. A board of health that manages a city health department under this chapter has the powers and duties prescribed for all health boards. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-1-7-15(a) part.] As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.3.

Sec. 14. The board of each city health department may adopt procedural rules for the board's own guidance and as are necessary or desirable to protect, promote, or improve public health or to control disease not inconsistent with state statutes and rules of the state department. …

Sec. 15. The board of each city health department shall provide, equip, and maintain suitable offices, facilities, and appliances for the health department. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-1-7-23.] As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.3.

Sec. 16. (a) The board of each city health department shall prescribe the duties of all officers and employees. (b) The board shall fix compensation of all officers and employees. However, in counties having joint city-county full-time health departments, the prescription of duti…

Sec. 17. The board of each city health department shall publish annually in pamphlet form, within ninety (90) days after the second Tuesday in January, for free distribution, an annual report showing the following: (1) As of January 1 of that year, the amount of money received fr…

Sec. 18. (a) The board of each city health department has the responsibility and authority to take any action authorized by state statute or rule of the state department to control communicable diseases. (b) The board of each city health department or a designated representative …

Sec. 19. The board of each city health department shall do the following: (1) Investigate the existence of any contagious or infectious disease. (2) Adopt measures, not inconsistent with the rules of the state department, to arrest the progress of contagious or infectious disease…

Sec. 2. As used in this chapter, "city health department" means a city health department in a second class city. The term includes a full-time local health department under this chapter. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-1-7-1 part.] As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.3.

Sec. 20. (a) The board of each city health department shall appoint a health officer who meets the requirements set forth in IC 16-20-1-9.5. The appointment is subject to the approval of the city legislative body. (b) The health officer is the executive officer for the department…

Sec. 21. A city health officer may appoint and employ the professional, clerical, and other employees that are necessary and reasonable to carry out and perform the duties of the department. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-1-7-28.] As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.3.

Sec. 22. The board of each city health department shall authorize payment of salaries and all other department expenses from the proper fund. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-1-7-30.] As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.3.

Sec. 23. The board of each city health department shall confirm the appointment of professional employees who are appointed by the health officers and who meet the qualification requirements of the local board for the respective professional employee positions. [Pre-1993 Recodifi…

Sec. 24. The board of each city health department shall submit an annual budget to the city fiscal body for approval of the annual budget at the regular time for consideration of annual budgets. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-1-7-32.] As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.3.

Sec. 25. The fiscal body of the city shall annually make the necessary appropriation for expenses of the full-time city health department even though the appropriation may exceed existing limitations. However, the tax may not exceed one (1) mill on each dollar ($1) of assessed va…

Sec. 26. An appropriation may be made, as emergency appropriations are made, to provide for the expenses of the operation of a full-time city health department, until appropriations are made available by the next regular annual budget after the full-time city health department ha…

Sec. 27. (a) This section applies to the following cities: (1) A city having a population of more than forty thousand (40,000) and less than forty-five thousand (45,000). (2) A city having a population of more than seventy thousand (70,000) and less than seventy-five thousand (75…

Sec. 3. (a) After December 31, 2022, a local official, city legislative body, city fiscal body, or county may not establish a city health department. (b) A city health department established before January 1, 2023, may continue to operate in accordance with this chapter. [Pre-199…

Sec. 4. A county or multiple county health board and the board's officers do not have jurisdiction in any city having a full-time city health department. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-1-7-13.] As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.3.

Sec. 4.5. (a) The city fiscal body in which a city health department has been authorized under this chapter shall establish a special fund known as the municipal health fund. (b) Money in the fund may be used only for the purposes of this title and shall be drawn upon by the prop…

Sec. 5.5. A health ordinance adopted by the county executive of Tippecanoe County that: (1) was adopted after December 31, 1993, and before March 11, 1994; and (2) applies to the entire county; is legalized. As added by P.L.220-2011, SEC.313. Amended by P.L.119-2012, SEC.129.…

Sec. 6. The city health departments provided for by this chapter shall be managed by a board of health consisting of seven (7) members appointed by the city executive, not more than four (4) of whom belong to the same political party. At least three (3) of the members must be lic…

Sec. 7. (a) All members of the board shall be appointed for a term of four (4) years except that of the first appointees. The initial terms are as follows: (1) One (1) shall serve for a period of two (2) years. (2) Two (2) shall serve for a period of three (3) years. (3) Four (4)…

Sec. 8. (a) Whenever a vacancy occurs on a board, the city board of health shall provide to the appointing authority a list of five (5) individuals, at least three (3) of whom must have professional experience in one (1) of the following areas: (1) Medicine. (2) Nursing. (3) Heal…

Sec. 9. A member of a city board of health may be removed by the appointing authority if the board member does any of the following: (1) Is absent from three (3) consecutive regular board meetings. (2) Is absent from four (4) regular board meetings in a calendar year. (3) Fails t…

Sec. 1. A licensee or an applicant for a license aggrieved by an action under this article may request review under IC 4-21.5. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-10-1-10.1.] As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.4.

Sec. 1. The county officers may establish a cumulative building fund under IC 6-1.1-41 or a sinking fund in compliance with the procedures for establishing a cumulative fund under IC 6-1.1-41 for the erection of new hospital buildings, the repairing, remodeling, and enlarging of …

Sec. 4. The county officers may, in compliance with IC 6-1.1-41, levy a tax on all taxable property within the county to provide money for a fund established under this chapter. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-12-15-4 part.] As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.5. Amended by P.L.17-…

Sec. 1. This section applies to a third class city that owns or controls a hospital. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-12.2-3-1 part.] As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.6.

Sec. 2. The city fiscal body may levy a special tax for the maintenance of the hospital of not less than sixty-seven hundredths of one cent ($0.0067) and not more than one and sixty-seven hundredths cents ($0.0167) on each one hundred dollars ($100) of taxable property, to be lev…

Sec. 3. The amount collected under section 2 of this chapter constitutes a separate fund for the maintenance of the hospital, known as the hospital fund. The fund is under the management and control of the city fiscal body. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-12.2-3-2.] As adde…

Sec. 1. The state department shall charge an annual hospice fee of one hundred dollars ($100) for each hospice program licensed or approved under IC 16-25-3. As added by P.L.256-1999, SEC.14.

Sec. 2. The fees collected by the state department under section 1 of this chapter shall be used by the state department to pay the administrative costs of the hospice licensing and approval program under this article. As added by P.L.256-1999, SEC.14.

Sec. 1. As used in this chapter, "client" means an individual who has been accepted to receive personal services from a personal services agency. As added by P.L.212-2005, SEC.18.

Sec. 10. The personal services agency's manager or the manager's designee shall prepare a service plan for a client before providing personal services for the client. A permanent change to the service plan requires a written change to the service plan. The service plan must: (1) …

Sec. 11. The personal services agency's manager or the manager's designee shall conduct a client satisfaction review with the client every seventy-six (76) to one hundred four (104) days to discuss the services being provided and to determine if any change in the plan of services…

Sec. 12. The personal services agency shall provide the client or the client's personal representative with the personal services agency's written statement of client rights not more than seven (7) days after providing services to the client. The statement of client rights must i…

Sec. 12.5. (a) A client who receives attendant care services may decline assistance with any component of the attendant care services, including the use of lift equipment. (b) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to require a client to use lift equipment when lift services …

Sec. 13. A personal services agency shall investigate a complaint made by a client, the client's family, or the client's personal representative regarding: (1) service that is or fails to be furnished; and (2) lack of respect for the client's property by anyone furnishing service…

Sec. 14. The personal services agency's manager or the manager's designee shall be available to respond to client telephone calls twenty-four (24) hours a day. As added by P.L.212-2005, SEC.18.

Sec. 15. An employee or agent of a personal services agency who will have direct client contact must complete a tuberculosis test in the same manner as required by the state department for licensed home health agency employees and agents. As added by P.L.212-2005, SEC.18.

Sec. 16. (a) The competency of an employee or agent of a personal services agency who will perform attendant care services at the client's residence must be evaluated by the agency or the agency's designee for each attendant care services task that the personal services agency ch…

Sec. 17. (a) Disclosure of ownership and management information must be made to the state department: (1) at the time of the personal services agency's request for licensure; (2) during each survey of the personal services agency; and (3) when there is a change in the management …

Sec. 18. A personal services agency shall document evidence of compliance with the requirements of this chapter and document services provided to clients. The documentation or copies of the documentation must be maintained or be electronically accessible at a personal services ag…

Sec. 19. (a) The state health commissioner may take one (1) or more of the following actions on any ground listed in subsection (b): (1) Issue a probationary license. (2) Conduct a resurvey. (3) Deny renewal of a license. (4) Revoke a license. (5) Impose a civil penalty in an amo…