Title 5, STATE AND LOCAL ADMINISTRATION

Sec. 15. (a) A public official who has the custody of any records, excluding personal records, shall at the expiration of the public official's term of office or appointment, deliver to the public official's successor, or to the administration if there is no successor, all materi…

Sec. 16. (a) The administration may enter into agreements with the legislative branch of government for transfer of the permanent records of that body not having current administrative value to the Indiana state archives. (b) The administration may enter into agreements with the …

Sec. 17. (a) A state or local government official may turn over to the administration, in accordance with existing records retention schedules or a written agreement consistent with the rules of the administration for permanent preservation, any official books, records, documents…

Sec. 18. (a) The oversight committee on public records consists ex officio of: (1) the governor or the governor's designee; (2) the secretary of state or the secretary's designee; (3) the state examiner of the state board of accounts or the state examiner's designee; (4) the dire…

Sec. 19. (a) It is the duty of the oversight committee to: (1) function as the policy making body for the administration; and (2) determine what records have no apparent official value but should be preserved for research or other purposes. (b) The oversight committee has final a…

Sec. 2. (a) This chapter applies to records: (1) open to the public and carrying no classification or restriction; (2) required to be kept confidential by federal law, rule, or regulation; (3) declared confidential by the general assembly; or (4) declared confidential by a rule a…

Sec. 20. (a) The oversight committee shall require use of archival materials, processes, and standards for records that the administration determines should be preserved indefinitely. (b) The oversight committee may adopt rules under IC 4-22-2 necessary for the performance of its…

Sec. 3. There is created the Indiana archives and records administration to administer this chapter. The administration shall adopt a seal which shall be the seal of the state of Indiana. The administration shall offer its services to the legislative and judicial branches of stat…

Sec. 4. (a) The governor shall appoint a director as the executive head of the administration. The director must be versed in the principles of information management, archives, and the affairs and organization of state government. It is the intent of the general assembly that th…

Sec. 5. (a) Subject to approval by the oversight committee on public records created by section 18 of this chapter, the administration shall do the following: (1) Establish a forms management program for state forms. (2) Establish and maintain a central cross index filing system …

Sec. 5.3. (a) The state archives preservation and reproduction account (referred to in this section as "the account") is established as an account within the state general fund. The account shall be administered by the administration. The money in the account does not revert to a…

Sec. 6. The administration shall do the following: (1) Establish standards for the: (A) design; (B) redesign; (C) numbering; (D) standardization; (E) consolidation; or (F) when obsolete, elimination; of all forms used by state government. (2) Apply the definition of record to any…

Sec. 6.5. (a) This section does not apply to a printed document that was printed and in stock before July 1, 1995. (b) As used in this section, "multiracial" means having a biological parent who is of a different race from the other biological parent. (c) All forms, questionnaire…

Sec. 7. The administration shall make the archives of the state available for public use under supervised control at reasonable hours. However, the administration shall weigh the need for preservation from deterioration or mutilation of original records in establishing access use…

Sec. 8. The administration shall operate a state imaging and microfilm laboratory. The oversight committee in coordination with the supreme court shall promulgate regulations concerning quality standards for microfilming and imaging documents that shall allow documents meeting th…

Sec. 9. Copies of records transferred from the office of their origin to the custody of the administration, when certified by the director or the director's designee, under seal of the administration, shall have the same force and effect as if certified by the original custodian.…

Sec. 0.1. (a) As used in this section, "plan" refers to the state excise police, gaming agent, gaming control officer, and conservation enforcement officers' retirement plan established by section 2 of this chapter. (b) The following amendments to this chapter apply as follows: (…

Sec. 1. The following definitions apply throughout this chapter, unless the context clearly denotes otherwise: (1) "Americans with Disabilities Act" refers to the Americans with Disabilities Act (42 U.S.C. 12101 et seq.) and any amendments and regulations related to the Act. (2) …

Sec. 10. (a) Benefits provided under this section are subject to section 2.5 of this chapter. (b) Except as provided in section 10.5 of this chapter, the annual retirement allowance of a participant, payable in equal monthly installments beginning on the participant's normal reti…

Sec. 10.5. (a) This section applies to a participant who retires after June 30, 2026. (b) A participant may elect a joint and survivor option for the payment of the participant's retirement allowance instead of the annual retirement allowance provided under section 10 of this cha…

Sec. 11. (a) Any participant who has attained the age of forty-five (45) years and has accrued at least fifteen (15) years of creditable service may retire and become eligible for benefits as provided in section 12(a) of this chapter. (b) If: (1) a participant is at least fifty-f…

Sec. 12. (a) The amount of annual retirement allowance payable in equal monthly installments to a participant who retires under section 11(a) of this chapter (relating to early retirement) shall be determined in accordance with section 10 of this chapter (relating to normal retir…

Sec. 12.7. (a) Upon a petition from a participant, the department, or the commission, the board of trustees of the Indiana public retirement system, or its designee, shall make the determinations required by section 13 of this chapter and shall also determine: (1) the degree of i…

Sec. 13. Any participant who becomes permanently or temporarily disabled from performing all suitable and available work on the force for which he is or may be capable of becoming qualified, considering reasonable accommodation to the extent required by the Americans with Disabil…

Sec. 13.5. (a) This section applies to participants whose disability occurred after June 30, 1987. (b) Benefits provided under this section are subject to section 2.5 of this chapter. (c) As used in this section, a disability is to be considered to have arisen in the line of duty…

Sec. 14. (a) Benefits provided under this section are subject to section 2.5 of this chapter. (b) This subsection applies to participants who were disabled before July 1, 1987. Any participant eligible to receive disability benefits under section 13 of this chapter is entitled to…

Sec. 15. (a) This subsection applies to participants who die before February 1, 2018. Surviving mothers, fathers, surviving spouses or unmarried children under the age of eighteen (18) years, of participants who have accrued at least fifteen (15) years of creditable service and w…

Sec. 16. (a) This section applies to participants who die before February 1, 2018. (b) Benefits provided under this section are subject to section 2.5 of this chapter. (c) A surviving mother or father nominated by the participant to receive survivors' benefits under the provision…

Sec. 16.3. (a) This section applies to: (1) an active participant, regardless of the participant's years of creditable service; and (2) an inactive participant with at least fifteen (15) years of creditable service; who dies other than in the line of duty after January 31, 2018. …

amount Sec. 16.6. (a) This section applies to participants who die in the line of duty after January 31, 2018. (b) Benefits provided under this section are subject to section 2.5 of this chapter. (c) A surviving mother or father nominated by the participant to receive survivors' …

Sec. 17. (a) Any participant whose employment as an officer is terminated before accumulating fifteen (15) years of creditable service and is not receiving a disability benefit under this chapter shall be entitled to a lump-sum refund of all contributions standing to the particip…

Sec. 18. Any participant who terminates his service as an officer before accumulating fifteen (15) years of creditable service may, in the manner and under the conditions provided in the public employees' retirement law, again become a member of the public employees' retirement f…

Sec. 19. The retirement plan created by this chapter shall, in all respects to the extent applicable and except as otherwise specifically enumerated in this chapter, be governed by the law creating the public employees' retirement fund, and for that purpose, the provisions of IC …

Sec. 2. (a) There is hereby created a state excise police, gaming agent, gaming control officer, and conservation enforcement officers' retirement plan to establish a means of providing special retirement, disability and survivor benefits to employees of the department, the India…

Sec. 2.5. (a) As used in this chapter, "Internal Revenue Code": (1) means the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as in effect on September 1, 1974, if permitted with respect to governmental plans; or (2) to the extent not inconsistent with subdivision (1), has the meaning set forth i…

Sec. 20. Participation in the retirement plan created by this chapter shall not affect the participant's rights and liabilities under the provisions of IC 5-10.1, IC 5-10.2, and IC 5-10.3. Formerly: Acts 1972, P.L.1, SEC.1. As amended by P.L.25-1986, SEC.29.

Sec. 21. (a) Except as provided in subsection (d), the monthly benefit payable after June 30, 1987, to a participant, or a survivor or beneficiary of a participant, who retired or was disabled before July 2, 1986, shall be increased by an amount determined by the board. The board…

Sec. 22. (a) As used in this section, "DROP" refers to a deferred retirement option plan established under this section. (b) As used in this section, "DROP entry date" means the date that a participant's election to enter a DROP becomes effective. (c) As used in this section, "DR…

Sec. 23. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a participant, survivor, or beneficiary receiving a monthly benefit under this chapter may, after June 30, 2017, authorize the board to make a deduction from the monthly benefit. (b) An authorization for a deductio…

Sec. 3. (a) The management administration of the retirement plan created by this chapter is hereby vested in the board. (b) Records of individual participants in the retirement plan created by this chapter and participants' information are confidential, except for the name and ye…

Sec. 3.5. The state excise police, gaming agent, gaming control officer, and conservation enforcement officers' retirement plan shall be administered in a manner that is consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act, to the extent required by the Act. As added by P.L.4-1992…

Sec. 4. (a) A participants' savings fund is hereby created. This fund shall be maintained by the board as a trust fund, separate and distinct from all other entities for the purpose of securing payment of benefits to participants and their survivors, as provided in this chapter. …

Sec. 5. (a) Every person who is an officer on September 2, 1971, shall become a participant, unless the officer files a written notice of his election not to participate with the board within twenty (20) days prior to September 2, 1971. (b) Every person who becomes an officer aft…

Sec. 6. (a) Upon election to become a participant by any officer who is a member of the public employees' retirement fund, the board shall transfer all funds standing to the credit of the electing officer in the public employees' retirement fund to the participants' savings fund …

Sec. 7. (a) Upon election to become a participant by any officer who is a member of the public employees' retirement fund, the board shall transfer all creditable service standing to the credit of the electing officer under the public employees' retirement fund to the credit of t…

Sec. 7.5. (a) As used in this section, "board" refers to the board of trustees of the Indiana public retirement system established by IC 5-10.5-3-1. (b) As used in this section, "public retirement fund" refers collectively to: (1) the public employees' retirement fund (IC 5-10.3)…