Title 8, UTILITIES AND TRANSPORTATION

Sec. 20. If the department determines that the topography of the land adjoining a highway in the interstate or primary system will not permit adequate screening of a junkyard or scrap metal processing facility, or that the screening of a junkyard or facility would not be economic…

Sec. 21. A political subdivision may enact and enforce requirements for junkyards and scrap metal processing facilities that are in addition to the requirements of this chapter. As added by P.L.18-1990, SEC.229.

Sec. 22. (a) A person who violates section 4, 5, or 6 of this chapter commits a Class C infraction. Whenever the department discovers or is given written notice of a violation by a responsible government agency, the department shall give thirty (30) days notice, by certified mail…

Sec. 23. The department may accept an allotment of funds by the United States, or an agency of the United States, appropriated to carry out 23 U.S.C. 131. The department shall take any necessary action to obtain funds allotted under 23 U.S.C. 131 to receive reimbursement for the …

Sec. 24. The department may not acquire a sign, the real property upon which the sign is situated, a junkyard, or a scrap metal processing facility unless: (1) the acquisition costs are eligible for not less than seventy-five percent (75%) federal participation; (2) there are suf…

Sec. 25. (a) The department shall institute a permit system to regulate the erection and maintenance of outdoor advertising signs along: (1) the interstate and primary system, as defined in 23 U.S.C. 131(t) on June 1, 1991; and (2) any other highways where control of outdoor adve…

Sec. 25.5. (a) The department may adopt rules under IC 4-22-2 that provide for the issuance of a permit for a changeable message sign erected, operated, used, or maintained in areas described in section 25(a) of this chapter. (b) A permit authorized by this section may not otherw…

Sec. 25.6. (a) As used in this section, "market area" means a point within the same county as the prior location of an outdoor advertising sign. (b) This section applies only to an outdoor advertising sign located along the interstate and primary system, as defined in 23 U.S.C. 1…

Sec. 25.7. The department may adopt rules under IC 4-22-2 to implement this chapter. As added by P.L.97-2022, SEC.2. Amended by P.L.93-2024, SEC.89.

Sec. 26. (a) A sign that is in violation of this chapter or rules adopted under this chapter is a public nuisance. (b) If the department determines that a public nuisance exists, the department shall give notice under subsection (c) to: (1) the owner of the property on which the …

Sec. 27. (a) This section applies to a taking of an outdoor advertising sign through: (1) the power of eminent domain under IC 32-24; or (2) a change that prohibits a conforming outdoor advertising sign from being elevated or relocated under section 25.6 of this chapter. (b) As u…

Sec. 3. The attorney general shall institute proceedings under 23 U.S.C. 131 to obtain a judicial determination of the legality of the determination of the United States Secretary of Commerce if the Secretary makes a final determination to: (1) withhold funds from Indiana; (2) fa…

Sec. 4. Signs located in an adjacent area must conform to the standards of size, lighting, and spacing set forth in rules adopted by the department under the provisions of an agreement under section 1 of this chapter. As added by P.L.18-1990, SEC.229.

Sec. 5. Signs located in unzoned commercial or industrial areas and zoned commercial or industrial areas must conform to the standards of size, lighting, and spacing set forth in rules adopted by the department under the provisions of an agreement under section 1 of this chapter.…

Sec. 6. The following signs may not be erected or maintained in an adjacent area: (1) Signs that are illegal under state statutes or rules. (2) Signs not securely affixed to a substantial structure. (3) Signs that attempt or appear to attempt to regulate, warn, or direct the move…

Sec. 7. The following signs may be erected outside of urban areas beyond six hundred and sixty (660) feet of the right-of-way visible from the traveled way of a highway on the interstate or primary system with the intent of a message being read from the traveled way: (1) Directio…

Sec. 8. A person may not erect or maintain in the right-of-way of a highway in the state highway system, or within two hundred (200) feet of the right-of-way, a sign or device directing or indicating on what highway or route a person should travel to reach a designated place or h…

Sec. 9. (a) A sign lawfully erected in an adjacent area that does not conform to this chapter after June 30, 1968, is not required to be removed until the end of the fifth year after the sign becomes nonconforming. (b) A sign located beyond six hundred sixty (660) feet of the rig…

Sec. 1. (a) All actions at law by carriers for recovery of their charges or any part thereof must begin within three (3) years from the time the cause of action accrues and not after. (b) For recovery of overcharges, actions at law must begin, or complaint must be filed with the …

Sec. 1. The interstate rail passenger network compact is ratified, enacted, and entered into by the state of Indiana with all other states joining the compact in the form substantially as this chapter. As added by P.L.58-1992, SEC.1.

Sec. 10. (a) Before January 1, 2026, the governor shall give notice under section 8 of this chapter to each other party state, if any, as required by the compact, that the State of Indiana withdraws from the compact, effective January 1, 2026. (b) Before January 1, 2026, the gove…

Sec. 11. This chapter expires July 1, 2026. As added by P.L.161-2025, SEC.13.

Sec. 2. It is the policy of the states party to this compact to cooperate and share the administrative and financial responsibilities concerning the operation of an interstate rail passenger network system connecting major cities in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia…

Sec. 3. (a) The states of Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, and Florida (referred to in this chapter as "participating states") agree, upon adoption of this compact by the respective states, to jointly conduct and participate in a rail passenger network financial a…

Sec. 4. The participating states agree to do the following: (1) Make available to each other and to a consulting firm representing a participating state or the compact assistance that is available, including personnel, equipment, office space, machinery, computers, engineering, a…

Sec. 5. The interstate rail passenger advisory council (referred to in this compact as the "council") is created. The membership of the council consists of three (3) individuals from each participating state. The governor, president pro tempore of the senate, and speaker of the h…

Sec. 6. The council shall do the following: (1) Meet within thirty (30) days after ratification of this agreement by at least two (2) participating states. (2) Establish rules for the conduct of the council's business, including the payment of the reasonable and necessary travel …

Sec. 7. This compact becomes effective upon the adoption of the compact into law by at least two (2) of the participating states. Thereafter, the compact becomes effective for another participating state upon the enactment of the compact by the state. As added by P.L.58-1992, SEC…

Sec. 8. This compact continues in force with respect to a participating state and remains binding upon the state until six (6) months after the state has given notice to each other participating state of the repeal of this chapter. The withdrawal may not be construed to relieve a…

Sec. 9. (a) This compact shall be liberally construed to effectuate the compact's purposes. (b) The provisions of this compact are severable. If: (1) a phrase, clause, sentence, or provision of this compact is declared to be contrary to the constitution of a participating state o…

Sec. 1. No such sale and purchase or lease shall be perfected until a meeting of the stockholders of each of the companies has been called for that purpose as hereinbefore provided, and the holders of at least two-thirds (2/3) of stock of each company in person or by proxy, at su…

Sec. 2. A stockholder who, at such meeting, votes against such sale and then, within ten (10) days thereafter, signifies, in writing, to the purchasing company that the stockholder desires to dispose of the stockholder's stock in the selling company shall be entitled to receive f…

Sec. 3. If such stockholder refuses for a period of ten (10) days after request therefor to submit the question to arbitration, then, upon the application of a director of either the purchasing or selling company, the proper judge shall appoint the arbitrators, who shall proceed …

Sec. 4. In all cases of arbitration under sections 2 and 3 of this chapter, the party desiring such arbitration shall give the opposite party at least ten (10) days notice of his intention to apply to the judge for the appointment of arbitrators, which notice shall be served in t…

Sec. 5. A purchase or lease made under this chapter is not valid until it is approved by the Indiana department of transportation. Formerly: Acts 1913, c.169, s.6. As amended by P.L.384-1987(ss), SEC.48; P.L.18-1990, SEC.56.

Sec. 1. The board of public works or board of public works and safety, referred to in this chapter as the board, of a city may, by resolution, require the separation or alteration of the grade levels of any public highway in the city and of any railroad crossing the public highwa…

Sec. 10. All persons affected in any manner by the proceedings, including all owners of real or personal property in the city, are considered to be notified of the pendency of the proceedings, and of all subsequent acts, hearings, adjournments, resolutions and orders of the board…

Sec. 11. (a) When the land or any part of it is to be acquired by purchase, the resolution shall also state the maximum proposed cost, and the board may at any time prior to the adoption of the resolution obtain from the owner or owners of the land an option for its purchase, or …

Sec. 12. The title to any lands, rights-of-way or other property acquired under and pursuant to the resolution, whether by purchase or by appropriation, shall not vest in the city until they are paid for out of the special fund created by the sale of bonds and from benefit assess…

Sec. 13. (a) At the time fixed for the hearing, or at any time prior to that, any owner of land, right-of-way or other property to be appropriated under the resolution, and any railroad company or companies, any street railway company, and any person owning real or personal prope…

Sec. 14. Within twenty (20) days after the final action of the board, the remonstrator may file in the office of the clerk of the circuit court a copy of the order of the board, not including, unless he so desires, the maps, plans and specifications, and his remonstrance to them,…

Sec. 15. The city, by its board of public works or board of public works and safety, the Indiana department of transportation, the county in which the city is located, by its board of commissioners, and the railroad company or companies whose track or tracks the improvement autho…

Sec. 16. (a) The total cost of the improvement to be borne by all the parties in interest includes the following: (1) The cost of constructing the grade elimination structure and the cost of raising or lowering the grade, or other alteration of any public highway, the constructio…

Sec. 17. (a) The total cost of the improvement shall be borne by all of the parties in interest, in accordance with a written agreement or written agreements to be entered into by all the parties, fixing the portion of the total cost to be borne by each party subject, however, to…

Sec. 18. Any portion or portions of the work of improvement under the resolution which is allotted to the city shall be done by contract or contracts, and all contracts shall be let under statutes governing the letting of contracts by the city. In event of the execution of a cont…

Sec. 19. Any part of the city's portion of the total cost of the improvement which is necessary for the city to pay prior to the collection of benefit assessments under this chapter and prior to the issue and sale of bonds under this chapter, shall be paid as follows: the board s…