Title 36, LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Sec. 13. The safety board may, subject to city ordinances, adopt rules regulating the giving of bond by an appointee or class of appointees in the department for faithful performance of official duty. [Pre-Local Government Recodification Citation: 18-1-11-10.] As added by Acts 19…

Sec. 14. (a) This section does not apply to second class cities. (b) The safety board may draft an ordinance and submit it to the legislative body for the creation, management, and distribution of a police insurance fund or a firefighters' insurance fund, including a provision fo…

Sec. 15. (a) This section also applies to all members of a fire department organized by a town. (b) Members of the police and fire departments are exempt from service in the militia, except in case of war, invasion, or insurrection. [Pre-Local Government Recodification Citations:…

Sec. 16. If a building in the city is on fire, or if a building adjacent to it is liable to take or convey fire to other buildings and cause great destruction of property, the fire chief, or the fire chief's assistant acting as chief with the concurrence of the executive or of th…

Sec. 18. A humane officer shall be appointed in every city from among the members of the police department. The humane officer shall detect and arrest persons violating humane statutes. The humane officer is entitled to the same pay as other police officers of the city and is sub…

Sec. 19. (a) The safety board may appoint a police matron, including assistants that are necessary. The matron shall receive, search, and properly care for, at the jail or station house, all female prisoners who are arrested and detained in custody in the city. The matron is not …

Sec. 2. (a) The safety board of a city shall administer the police and fire departments of the city, except as provided by any statute or ordinance referred to in section 5 of this chapter. (b) The safety board has exclusive control over all matters and property relating to the f…

Sec. 20. (a) This section applies to counties and towns as well as cities. (b) A unit shall provide by ordinance the number of police reserve officers that the department may appoint. (c) Police reserve officers shall be appointed by the same authority that appoints regular membe…

Sec. 21. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), this section applies to all units. (b) This subsection does not apply to the appointment of a fire chief under a waiver under IC 36-8-4-6(c) or the appointment of a police chief under a waiver under IC 36-8-4-6.5(c). An individua…

Sec. 22. (a) This section applies after December 31, 2017, to a police reserve officer who is injured or contracts an illness in the course of or as the result of performing duties as a police reserve officer. (b) A unit shall furnish without charge to a police reserve officer th…

Sec. 23. (a) This section applies after December 31, 2017, to a police reserve officer who is unable to pursue the officer's usual vocation as the result of an injury or illness occurring in the course of or as the result of the performance of duties as a police reserve officer. …

Sec. 3. (a) A majority of the members of the safety board constitutes a quorum. The board shall adopt rules concerning the time of holding regular and special meetings and of giving notice of them. The board shall elect one (1) of its members chair, who holds the position as long…

Sec. 3.5. (a) This section applies to a member of the fire department of a city, town, or township to whom IC 36-8-2.2 applies. (b) A member has at least the rights of representation set forth in IC 36-8-2.2 in any meeting under this chapter at which the chief of the fire departm…

Sec. 3.6. (a) As used in this section, "provider" means: (1) a city, town, or township; or (2) a volunteer fire department; that provides fire protection services under an agreement described in subsection (b). (b) A city or town may enter into an agreement with a provider to pro…

Sec. 4. (a) This section also applies to all: (1) towns and townships that have full-time, paid police or fire departments; (2) fire departments of fire protection districts established under IC 36-8-11 and fire protection territories established under IC 36-8-19 that have full-t…

Sec. 4.1. (a) This section also applies to all: (1) towns and townships that have full-time, paid police or fire departments; (2) fire departments of fire protection districts established under IC 36-8-11 and fire protection territories established under IC 36-8-19 that have full…

Sec. 4.3. (a) This section also applies to a town, township, or fire department of a fire protection territory or fire protection district, that has at least one (1) certified employee of a full-time, paid fire or police department, without regard to whether: (1) the employee is …

Sec. 5. Except as provided in section 4.3 of this chapter, sections 3, 4, and 4.1 of this chapter do not apply to a police or fire department having a board or commission established by statute or ordinance to establish or administer policies based on merit for the appointment, p…

Sec. 6. (a) This section applies to: (1) all municipalities; and (2) a county having a consolidated city. (b) A warrant of search or arrest, issued by any judge, may be executed in the municipality by: (1) any municipal police officer; or (2) a member of the consolidated law enfo…

Sec. 7. (a) The safety board may detail regular police officers or firefighters, or appoint and swear an additional number of special police officers or firefighters, to do special duty within the city. Regular police officers and firefighters serving special duty shall be paid t…

Sec. 8. (a) The safety board may employ civilian technical and clerical personnel to work with the police department as civilian radio operators, radio technicians, chemical technicians, laboratory technicians, and other civilian technical personnel and clerical personnel that ar…

Sec. 9. The safety board, police chief, and fire chief may administer oaths to a person summoned in a proceeding authorized by this chapter and may take depositions under the rules or orders of the board. [Pre-Local Government Recodification Citation: 18-1-11-6.] As added by Acts…

Sec. 1. This chapter applies to all counties and municipalities. [Pre-Local Government Recodification Citation: 19-5-2.5-3 part.] As added by Acts 1981, P.L.309, SEC.76. Amended by P.L.235-1997, SEC.2.

Sec. 10. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), the members of the board are not entitled to a salary but are entitled to an allowance for actual expenses and mileage at the same rate as other county officials. (b) If the authority includes Lake County, a member of the board i…

Sec. 11. The board shall appoint a qualified person to be executive director of the authority. The executive director is the chief executive officer of the authority. [Pre-Local Government Recodification Citation: 19-5-2.5-8.] As added by Acts 1981, P.L.309, SEC.76.

Sec. 12. (a) The board shall appoint a person to act as controller for the authority. (b) The controller shall give bond in the sum and with the conditions prescribed by the board, and with surety to the approval of the board. The bond must be filed and recorded in the office of …

Sec. 13. The board may: (1) exercise the executive and legislative powers of the authority as provided by this chapter; (2) as a municipal corporation, sue and be sued in its name; (3) sell, lease, or otherwise contract for advertising in or on the facilities of the authority; (4…

Sec. 15. (a) The board shall, to the extent it considers feasible, adopt uniform standards for the making of grants and purchase of service agreements. These grant contracts or purchase of service agreements may be for the number of years or duration agreed to by the authority an…

Sec. 16. (a) The authority may provide public transportation service by operating public transportation facilities only if the board finds that no public or private transportation agency or corporation is willing or able to provide public transportation service. (b) The authority…

Sec. 17. At the request of the public transportation system serving the territory of the authority, the authority may: (1) construct or acquire any public transportation facility for use by the authority or any transportation agency; and (2) acquire transportation facilities from…

Sec. 18. The authority may acquire, improve, maintain, lease, and rent facilities, including air rights, that are within one hundred (100) yards of a terminal, station, or other facility of the authority. If these facilities generate revenues in excess of their cost to the author…

Sec. 19. (a) In connection with any construction or acquisition, the authority shall make relocation payments in the manner prescribed by IC 8-23-17. (b) A private company lawfully providing public transportation service within the territory of the authority when the authority is…

Sec. 2. (a) A fiscal body of a county or municipality may, by ordinance, establish a regional transportation authority (referred to as "the authority" in this chapter) for the purpose of acquiring, improving, operating, maintaining, financing, and generally supporting a public tr…

Sec. 21. The authority shall deal with and enter into written contracts with its employees through accredited representatives of those employees or representatives of any labor organization authorized to act for those employees concerning wages, salaries, hours, working condition…

Sec. 22. (a) The rights, benefits, and other employee protective conditions and remedies that: (1) are set forth in Section 13(c) of the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964, as amended (49 U.S.C. section 1609(c)) and Section 405(b) of the Rail Passenger Service Act of 1970, as …

Sec. 23. An employee of the authority is entitled to at least the same worker's compensation, pension, seniority, salary, wages, sick leave, vacation, health and welfare insurance, and other benefits that the employee enjoyed as an employee of the authority or of the public trans…

Sec. 24. (a) Whenever the authority proposes to operate or to enter into a contract to operate a new public transportation facility that may result in the displacement of employees or the rearrangement of the working forces of the authority or of a public transportation agency, t…

Sec. 25. (a) If a labor dispute involving the authority and its employees is not governed by the Federal Labor Management Relations Act, as amended (29 U.S.C. sections 141-197 and 557), or by the Railway Labor Act, as amended (45 U.S.C. sections 151-188), the authority shall offe…

Sec. 26. (a) The authority may: (1) establish and maintain systems of pensions and retirement benefits for the officers and employees of the authority designated or described by resolution of the authority; (2) fix the classifications in those systems; (3) take the steps necessar…

Sec. 27. (a) Whenever the authority acquires the public transportation facilities of a public transportation agency and operates those facilities, all employees engaged in the operation of the facilities shall be transferred to and appointed as employees of the authority, subject…

Sec. 28. The state board of accounts shall: (1) audit the records of the authority; and (2) prescribe or approve all accounting forms and records used by the authority. [Pre-Local Government Recodification Citation: 19-5-2.5-24.] As added by Acts 1981, P.L.309, SEC.76.…

Sec. 29. The board shall prepare an annual budget for the authority's operating and maintenance expenditures and necessary capital expenditures. Each annual budget is subject to review and modification by the: (1) fiscal body of the county or municipality that establishes the aut…

Sec. 3. Except as provided in section 3.5 of this chapter, the authority may be expanded to include one (1) or more additional counties or municipalities within the same planning district if resolutions approving the expansion are adopted by the fiscal bodies of: (1) the counties…

Sec. 3.1. If an existing public transportation corporation operates within the boundaries of an authority established under section 2 or 3 of this chapter, the legislative body that established the public transportation corporation may adopt an ordinance to shift any of the power…

Sec. 3.5. (a) This section applies to LaPorte County and any second class city located in the county. (b) A county or city described in subsection (a) shall become a member of an authority described in section 5(c) of this chapter if the fiscal body of the county or city adopts a…

Sec. 30. (a) The county or municipality that establishes the authority shall pay the expenses incurred in the organization of the authority; however, the amount of expenses paid may not exceed the amount for authority expenses set by the fiscal body of the establishing county or …