Title 5, STATE AND LOCAL ADMINISTRATION

Sec. 1. This article applies only to an agreement between the state or a state agency and a federally recognized Indian tribe. As added by P.L.108-2019, SEC.100.

Sec. 1. As used in this article, "active contract" means a contract for which the term of the contract has not expired. As added by P.L.182-2025, SEC.6.

Sec. 2. (a) As used in this article, "contract" means a contract, agreement, or similar arrangement by any other name, and includes any amendments, addendums, or extensions. (b) The term includes contracts entered into for state public works projects by the public works division …

Sec. 3. As used in this article, "contractor" means a person who has entered into a contract with a state agency. As added by P.L.182-2025, SEC.6.

Sec. 4. As used in this article, "department" means the Indiana department of administration created by IC 4-13-1-2. As added by P.L.182-2025, SEC.6.

Sec. 5. As used in this article, "initial contract" means the first agreement between a state agency and a contractor concerning the provision of specified goods or services, which may be later amended. As added by P.L.182-2025, SEC.6.

Sec. 6. As used in this article, "maximum contract amount" means the amount in a contract that total remuneration is not to exceed. As added by P.L.182-2025, SEC.6.

Sec. 7. (a) As used in this article, "state agency" means: (1) a department or office of the executive, including the administrative, branch of state government; and (2) separately elected state officers and any department or office of separately elected state officers. (b) The t…

Effective 1-1-2027. Sec. 1. This chapter applies only to a cash transaction. As added by P.L.128-2026, SEC.1.

Effective 1-1-2027. Sec. 2. As used in this chapter, "local unit" means any: (1) county; (2) township; (3) city; (4) town; (5) school corporation; or (6) special taxing district. As added by P.L.128-2026, SEC.1.

Effective 1-1-2027. Sec. 3. As used in this chapter, "state" means: (1) the state of Indiana; (2) any department of the state of Indiana; (3) any agency of the state of Indiana; (4) any state or local court; (5) the general assembly; (6) any state of Indiana task force, committee…

Effective 1-1-2027. Sec. 4. As used in this chapter, "state or local tax" means a tax, fine, fee, or other amount required to be paid to the state or a local unit. The term includes any interest, penalties, or other additional fees or costs associated with a late payment or nonpa…

Effective 1-1-2027. Sec. 4.5. (a) For a state or local tax, if the state or local tax has one (1), two (2), three (3), four (4), six (6), seven (7), eight (8), or nine (9) in the second decimal place, the state or local unit must round the state or local tax amount downward to th…

Sec. 1. Appropriations of money from the capital projects fund and proceeds of bonds, notes, and other written obligations issued by or in the name of any: (1) county, township, city, incorporated town; (2) school corporation or state educational institution; or (3) other politic…

Note: This version of section effective until 7-1-2027. See also following repeal of this chapter, effective 7-1-2027. Sec. 1. There is hereby created as a public body corporate and politic a Law Enforcement Academy Building Commission. Said commission shall have power to sue and…

Note: This version of section effective until 7-1-2027. See also following repeal of this chapter, effective 7-1-2027. Sec. 10. The title to all real estate donated, given, devised or bequeathed to all real estate purchased or otherwise acquired by the commission shall be good an…

Note: This version of section effective until 7-1-2027. See also following repeal of this chapter, effective 7-1-2027. Sec. 11. A member of the commission, the architect, or any other person employed by the commission who knowingly is interested in, or knowingly derives any profi…

Note: This version of section effective until 7-1-2027. See also following repeal of this chapter, effective 7-1-2027. Sec. 12. The commission shall not enter into any contract for the purchase or sale of any material or supplies or for the performance of any work or labor other …

Note: This version of section effective until 7-1-2027. See also following repeal of this chapter, effective 7-1-2027. Sec. 14. (a) For the purpose of providing funds to carry out the provisions of this chapter with respect to the construction and equipment of a building or build…

Note: This version of section effective until 7-1-2027. See also following repeal of this chapter, effective 7-1-2027. Sec. 15. When any such debentures shall have been issued, the commission shall proceed with the construction and equipment of the building or buildings as prompt…

Note: This version of section effective until 7-1-2027. See also following repeal of this chapter, effective 7-1-2027. Sec. 16. The compensation of all employees and agents of the commission shall be affixed by the Law Enforcement Academy Building Commission and approved by the G…

Note: This version of section effective until 7-1-2027. See also following repeal of this chapter, effective 7-1-2027. Sec. 2. The commission shall consist of six (6) members appointed by the governor. Such appointments shall be made by May 7, 1971, and shall be made on a biparti…

Note: This version of section effective until 7-1-2027. See also following repeal of this chapter, effective 7-1-2027. Sec. 3. The commission shall meet immediately after its appointment in accordance with section 2 of this chapter. It shall elect a chairman, vice chairman, and s…

Note: This version of section effective until 7-1-2027. See also following repeal of this chapter, effective 7-1-2027. Sec. 4. Members of the commission shall be allowed and paid per diem and travel expenses incurred in connection with the affairs of the commission but shall rece…

Note: This version of section effective until 7-1-2027. See also following repeal of this chapter, effective 7-1-2027. Sec. 5. The commission is hereby authorized to acquire or select a site located in the State of Indiana and construct and erect thereon a building or buildings t…

Note: This version of section effective until 7-1-2027. See also following repeal of this chapter, effective 7-1-2027. Sec. 6. The law enforcement academy building commission is hereby endowed with the right and power of eminent domain insofar as such right or power may be necess…

Note: This version of section effective until 7-1-2027. See also following repeal of this chapter, effective 7-1-2027. Sec. 7. The commission shall procure and adopt a design for the erection and construction of such building or buildings. For the purpose of securing designs, the…

Note: This version of section effective until 7-1-2027. See also following repeal of this chapter, effective 7-1-2027. Sec. 8. Upon completion by the architect, or architects, and the approval by the commission of these plans and specifications, the commission shall at one time o…

Note: This version of section effective until 7-1-2027. See also following repeal of this chapter, effective 7-1-2027. Sec. 9. The commission is hereby authorized to receive donations, gifts, devises and bequests and to use the same for the purpose of carrying out the provisions …

Sec. 0.1. (a) This section applies to the publication of notice of an event that meets both of the following requirements: (1) Notice of the event is required by statute to be published two (2) or more times. (2) Notice is published: (A) at least one (1) time before July 1, 2024;…

Note: This version of section effective until 7-1-2027. See also following version of this section, effective 7-1-2027. Sec. 2. (a) In addition to the requirement for all newspapers provided in IC 5-3-1-4, a newspaper in which notices, reports, and other information affecting cou…

Sec. 4. This chapter shall not be deemed to alter, amend, or repeal any other statute of the state of Indiana, but shall be supplemental and in addition to any other law in force on June 14, 1939, requiring all legal notices to be published in a newspaper of general circulation. …

Sec. 1. All persons holding civil offices under the laws of this state, except judges, notaries public, and the officers that the Constitution of the State of Indiana expressly requires personally to perform the duties of their respective offices, who enter the volunteer or milit…

Sec. 2. When under existing laws the duties of any office may be performed by deputy, the person holding such office shall not be deemed to have vacated the same by entering into the service named in the preceding section, but the duties of such office may be performed by deputy …

Sec. 3. Such deputies by this chapter authorized to be appointed shall take the oath required of their principals and be subject to the same rules and penalties and shall each file an official bond in the same manner and in the same penalty required by law of their principals. Fo…

Sec. 1. It shall be unlawful for any officer in this state, under color of his office, to tax, or permit to be taxed in his office, any fee or sum of money that is not legally allowable under the statute or statutes of the state. Formerly: Acts 1883, c.42, s.1.

Sec. 2. No county or township officer in this state shall, under color of the officer's office, charge, tax up, or receive, or permit to be taxed up or received, in relation to any service in or about the officer's office, any fee or sum of money except such fee or sum of money a…

Sec. 3. Whenever IC 33-37 or IC 36-2 specifies a fee or sum of money as compensation for any service, duty, or thing, the same shall be construed to be in full therefor, and it shall be unlawful to charge, tax up, or receive any further or additional sum under color of any claim …

Sec. 4. It shall be unlawful to charge, tax up or receive, or permit to be charged, taxed up or received, under claim or color of office or official right, any fee or sum of money for or on account of services that were not actually executed and rendered. Formerly: Acts 1883, c.4…

Sec. 5. No officer of this state, county, township, or other officer, shall ever tax up, charge, receive or suffer to be taxed up, or received in such office, under color of such office, any fee or sum or money for services contemplated to exist only by legal fiction. Formerly: A…

Sec. 6. It shall be unlawful to tax up, charge, or receive fees or sums of money in county, township, or other public offices in this state, under color of office, as if the sums and fees allowed and fixed by IC 33-37 and IC 36-2 are cumulative and superadditional. Formerly: Acts…

Sec. 7. It shall be unlawful for any board of commissioners to allow any county, township or other public officer, any sum of money out of a county treasury except when the statutes confer the clear and unequivocal authority to do so: Provided, That the clerk of the circuit court…

Sec. 8. If any county, township, or other public officer of the state shall violate or disregard this chapter or any part thereof and shall thereby obtain any fee or sum of money denied him by this chapter or any part of this chapter, the person or persons from whom he received s…

Sec. 1. Any person holding any office under the constitution or laws of this state who shall voluntarily become intoxicated within the business hours of the office, or is in the habit of becoming intoxicated by the use of intoxicating liquors, shall be removed from office under I…

Sec. 1. (a) The definitions in this chapter apply throughout this article and the referenced statutes unless the context of the statute clearly denotes otherwise. (b) To the extent that a definition in a referenced statute is inconsistent with the definition in this chapter, the …

Sec. 10. "Construction", for purposes of financing a state facility under IC 5-1.2-5, means the erection, renovation, refurbishing, or alteration of all or any part of a building, an improvement, or a structure, including installation of fixtures or equipment, landscaping of grou…