Title 16, TITLE 16. HEALTH

Sec. 2. The statewide child fatality review committee consists of the following members appointed by the governor: (1) A coroner or deputy coroner. (2) A representative from the state department who: (A) is a licensed physician; and (B) specializes in injury prevention. (3) A rep…

Sec. 3. All members of the statewide child fatality review committee and any individuals invited to attend a meeting of the statewide child fatality review committee shall sign a confidentiality statement prepared by the state child fatality review coordinator. As added by P.L.11…

Sec. 4. The statewide child fatality review committee shall do the following: (1) Compile and analyze data recorded by local child fatality review teams in reviewing child fatalities. (2) Review child mortality records and examine all other records relevant to child fatalities in…

hospitals, physicians, coroners, law enforcement officers, or mental health professionals; immunity from liability; confidential; not subject to subpoena or discovery or admissible as evidence Sec. 5. (a) Upon request by a local child fatality review team or the department of chi…

Sec. 6. In reviewing the death of a child under this chapter, the statewide child fatality review committee shall: (1) identify the factors that surrounded or contributed to the death of the child; (2) determine whether similar deaths could be prevented in the future; (3) if appl…

Sec. 8. The chairperson of the statewide child fatality review committee shall do the following: (1) Work with the state child fatality review coordinator to prepare the agenda for each meeting of the statewide child fatality review committee. (2) Work with the state child fatali…

Sec. 9. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), meetings of the statewide child fatality review committee are open to the public. (b) A meeting of the statewide child fatality review committee that involves: (1) confidential records; or (2) identifying information regarding the…

Sec. 1. (a) Any individual may file a complaint against a temporary health care services agency in writing with the division. (b) The division is responsible for investigating a complaint against a temporary health care services agency filed under subsection (a) in accordance wit…

Sec. 2. (a) The state department may issue an order of compliance, impose a civil penalty, or refuse to issue a registration to a temporary health care services agency or a person that owns or operates a temporary health care services agency for any of the following reasons: (1) …

Sec. 3. (a) If the registration of a temporary health care services agency has been revoked by the state department, the person that owns or operates the temporary health care services agency may not apply for reinstatement of the registration for at least five (5) years after th…

Sec. 1. The board of trustees shall establish, in Indianapolis, a hospital, to be known as the James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children, for the treatment of children afflicted with any disease, defect, or physical deformity that may be relieved or improved by proper medical an…

Sec. 2. The board of trustees may construct and equip the necessary buildings for the hospital with: (1) accommodations for not less than two hundred (200) patients; and (2) offices, quarters for officers, nurses, and employees, and other necessary appurtenances. The buildings mu…

Sec. 3. The hospital is: (1) a department of Indiana University; and (2) under the direction and control of the board of trustees of Indiana University. [Pre-2007 Higher Education Recodification Citation: 20-12-31-2 part.] As added by P.L.2-2007, SEC.191.

Sec. 4. The board of trustees may: (1) adopt and apply rules and regulations for proper management of the hospital; (2) employ, discharge for sufficient cause, and fix the compensation of a superintendent of the hospital, who is responsible to the board of trustees for the proper…

Sec. 6. The board of trustees may receive, accept, hold, and apply any donations or bequests of funds or property from individual citizens, societies, and organizations that may be tendered in good faith to assist in the construction, extension, equipment, and maintenance of the …

by the James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association Sec. 7. The hospital is under the direction of the board of trustees. In the construction, equipment, and direction of the hospital, the board of trustees shall receive and consider the suggestions and advice that is tendered by th…

department; establishment and maintenance Sec. 8. The board of trustees may establish and maintain, in connection with the hospital: (1) a training school for child nursing; and (2) an outpatient and social service department; to conserve the health of the children of Indiana. [P…

Sec. 9. An Indiana public interest nonprofit corporation to which the board of trustees, with the approval of the governor, delegates authority to manage and operate the hospital is not subject to an audit by the state board of accounts, notwithstanding IC 5-11-1-9. However, Indi…

Sec. 1. Member states shall recognize the privilege to practice of an individual licensed in another member state that is in conformance with this article. As added by P.L.3-2020, SEC.1.

Sec. 2. To exercise the privilege to practice under the terms and provisions of this compact, an individual must: (1) be at least eighteen (18) years of age; (2) possess a current unrestricted license in a member state as an EMT, an AEMT, a paramedic, or at a state recognized and…

Sec. 3. An individual providing patient care in a remote state under the privilege to practice shall function within the scope of practice authorized by the home state unless and until modified by an appropriate authority in the remote state as may be defined in the rules of the …

Sec. 4. Except as provided in section 3 of this chapter, an individual practicing in a remote state will be subject to the remote state's authority and laws. A remote state may, in accordance with due process and that state's laws, restrict, suspend, or revoke an individual's pri…

Sec. 5. If an individual's license in any home state is restricted or suspended, the individual shall not be eligible to practice in a remote state until the privilege to practice under the individual's home state license is restored. As added by P.L.3-2020, SEC.1.

Sec. 6. If an individual's privilege to practice in any remote state is restricted, suspended, or revoked, the individual shall not be eligible to practice in any remote state until that individual's privilege to practice is restored. As added by P.L.3-2020, SEC.1.

Sec. 1. (a) In addition to other fees provided by this title, the state department may establish and collect reasonable fees for specific services described under subsection (b) provided by the state department. The fees may not exceed the cost of services provided. (b) Fees may …

[Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-1-37-8.] As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.2. Repealed by P.L.143-2022, SEC.33.

Sec. 3. (a) All license and permit fees collected by the state department under this title shall be deposited monthly with the treasurer of state and become a part of the state general fund, unless stated otherwise. (b) All expenses of the enforcement of this title shall be paid …

Sec. 4. (a) The weights and measures fund is established for the purpose of providing funds for training and equipment for weights and measures inspectors and the state metrology laboratory. The state department shall administer the fund. (b) The fund consists of fees collected u…

Sec. 1. (a) If a multiple county sewer, water, wastewater, or similar district has been established under IC 13-26 or IC 13-3-2 (before its repeal), the affected counties may by concurrent resolution of each county executive establish an area board of health for the sole purposes…

Sec. 2. (a) An area board of health consists of two (2) members from each participating county board of health, to be selected by the appropriate county executive. In addition, the health officer of each participating county and the county treasurer from the participating county …

Sec. 3. An area board of health shall meet at the call of the chairman, with the first meeting to be held during the first month following the date of establishment of the board. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-1-7.5-3 part.] As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.3.

Sec. 4. At the first meeting and annually thereafter, the area board of health shall elect a chairman and a vice chairman. One (1) of the health officers shall be designated to serve as secretary. The county treasurer member serves as treasurer of the board. [Pre-1993 Recodificat…

Sec. 5. (a) An area board of health and the trustees of the multiple county sewer, water, wastewater, or similar district shall jointly establish boundary lines, which may not exceed the boundaries of the district, for a special uniform inspection and enforcement area. (b) The ar…

Sec. 6. To carry out the purposes of this chapter, the area board of health may do the following: (1) Adopt and enforce ordinances consistent with state law. (2) Employ qualified individuals or utilize existing qualified employees to perform inspection and enforcement duties. (3)…

Sec. 7. (a) An area board of health shall prepare an annual budget and submit the budget to the county fiscal body of each participating county for review and approval. (b) Each county fiscal body shall appropriate that county's proportionate share of the costs to be incurred by …

Sec. 8. Fees and fines collected by the area board of health shall be collected by a person designated by the area board of health. Accurate records shall be kept of all fees and fines collected. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-1-7.5-7.] As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.3.

actions by attorney general Sec. 1. The state department shall investigate a report of an unlicensed institution or agency and report the findings to the attorney general. The attorney general may seek any of the following: (1) An injunction in a court of jurisdiction in the coun…

Sec. 2. An agency, a building, an institution, or a place may not be called a hospital if the agency, building, institution, or place is not a hospital. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-10-1-16.2.] As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.4.

or agency; violation; classification Sec. 3. A person who: (1) operates an institution or agency that is required to be licensed under this chapter that is not licensed under this chapter; or (2) advertises the operation of an institution or agency that is required to be licensed…

Sec. 1. The methods set out in this chapter may be employed to establish, construct, enlarge, remodel, and acquire county hospital buildings. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-12.1-4-1.] As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.5.

Sec. 10. (a) The department of local government finance shall, within a reasonable time, fix a date for a hearing to be held in the county and give notice of the hearing to the following: (1) The executive director of the hospital. (2) The first twenty-five (25) taxpayers whose n…

Sec. 12. If a tax levy is approved by the department of local government finance, the following shall occur: (1) The county auditor shall include the levy in the annual budget and tax levies of the county for the term fixed in the order of the department of local government finan…

Sec. 13. The county fiscal body may, upon request of the board of the hospital, reduce or rescind the tax levy. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-12.1-4-4(i).] As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.5.

Sec. 14. (a) Except when the county fiscal body reduces or rescinds the tax levy upon request of the board of the hospital, if the tax levy is reduced, rescinded, or not levied by the county fiscal body as fixed in the order of the department of local government finance, the boar…

Sec. 15. As the tax is collected, the levies become a part of the hospital funds without further appropriation by the county fiscal body and may be invested in accordance with IC 16-22-3-20. The levies shall be separately accounted for as a hospital cumulative building fund and m…

Sec. 16. After a hospital is established and the governing board appointed, the county executive may issue and sell general obligation bonds of the county to finance the costs of or the enlargement or remodeling of hospital buildings in an amount certified by the board to the cou…

Sec. 17. (a) The governing board may borrow money and may secure the borrowing by a pledge of the following: (1) Amounts from the cumulative building fund. (2) Accounts receivable. (3) A security interest in capital equipment for which the proceeds of the loan is used. (4) Other …

Sec. 18. Funds may be received by appropriation, tax levy, or grant from any of the following: (1) The county in which the hospital is located. (2) An adjoining county or counties if permitted by law. (3) The state. (4) An agency or instrumentality of the United States government…

Sec. 19. The governing board, county executive, or county fiscal body may enter into agreements with the United States or a department, an agency, or an instrumentality of the United States: (1) with respect to loans or loan guarantees in accordance with IC 16-22-3-26; or (2) to …

Sec. 2. Cumulative building funds established under the following statutes are continued in full force and effect, and the county officers authorized and empowered to levy the taxes to provide those funds may continue to do so in accordance with the proposal or plans establishing…