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IN Code § 8-1-4-1 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 4. Public Utility Securities|8-1-4-1. Maturity Dates

Sec. 1. It shall be unlawful for the commission to approve the issue of any stock, certificates of stock, bonds, notes maturing more than twelve (12) months after the date thereof, or other evidence of indebtedness, by any public utility except for cash or other property actually received or to be received therefor by such utility, when the total amount of such issue, together with the outstanding stock, bonds, notes maturing more than twelve (12) months from the date thereof, or other evidence of indebtedness of such public utility, is in excess of the fair value of the property of such public utility, including any acquisitions, construction, extensions, additions, and betterments to such property to be financed in whole or in part by such issue or the proceeds thereof, as found by the commission. Provided, however, that any public utility corporation may issue as may any corporation organized for profit under the laws of the state of Indiana, its stock, certificates of stock, bonds, notes maturing more than twelve (12) months from the date thereof, or other evidence of indebtedness, in an amount not in excess of the value of the property of such public utility, including acquisitions, construction, extensions, additions and betterments to such property to be evidenced in whole or in part by such issues or the proceeds thereof, as found by the commission, subject, however, to the approval of such commission as to the character of such issues and the relation in amount to each other of bonds and stock.Formerly: Acts 1923, c.65, s.1. As amended by P.L.23-1988, SEC.36.
IN Code § 8-1-5-1 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 5. Execution and Filing of Mortgages by Utilities|8-1-5-1. Lien of Mortgage

Sec. 1. (a) Notwithstanding any other statute or rule of law of the state, any mortgage executed and recorded by a public utility, as defined in IC 8-1-2-1, or by any corporation or other business entity engaged in the railroad business or the transmission of oil, gas, or petroleum products by pipeline, in the manner provided for the execution and recording of mortgages upon real estate:(1) may include all or any part of the property of the mortgagor, real, personal, or mixed, chattels real and fixtures; and(2) shall, upon its recordation, constitute a valid and perfected lien upon all and every part of the property of the mortgagor described in the mortgage and situated in any county in this state where the mortgage is or shall be recorded in the manner provided for recording real estate mortgages. Neither the mortgage nor any statement respecting the mortgage or any of the property described in the mortgage need be otherwise filed or refiled in order to perfect or continue perfection of the lien created by the mortgage.(b) The term "mortgage", as used in this chapter, includes deeds of trust and any and all documents creating an interest in property to secure the payment of bonds, notes, debentures, and like securities, and any instrument executed to supplement any mortgage.(c) If it is executed and recorded as provided in this section and by its terms covers some or all of the after-acquired property of the mortgagor, the mortgage constitutes a valid and perfected lien upon the interest of the mortgagor in the after-acquired property from the date the mortgagor acquires an interest in the property.(d) Notwithstanding the date of the mortgage's execution or recordation, if collateral covered by IC 26-1-9.1 was or is perfected in compliance with the recordation requirements contained in this section, the recordation was or is equivalent to the highest form of filing or perfection under IC 26-1-9.1.Formerly: Acts 1965, c.9, s.1. As amended by P.L.59-1984, SEC.52; P.L.93-1985, SEC.1; P.L.120-1987, SEC.1; P.L.57-2000, SEC.3.
IN Code § 8-1-5.5-1 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 5.5. Drinking Water Quality Tests|8-1-5.5-1. Transfer of Authority to Supply Piped Drinking Water to Person Other Than City or Town; Time of Test; Rules

Sec. 1. Within thirty (30) days before the date that the authority to supply piped drinking water is transferred from a city or town to a person other than a city or town, the state department of health shall conduct a test to determine the quality of the drinking water supplied by the city or town. The state department of health shall adopt rules under IC 4-22-2 concerning the test that is required under this section.As added by Acts 1981, P.L.105, SEC.1. Amended by P.L.2-1992, SEC.79.
IN Code § 8-1-5.5-2 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 5.5. Drinking Water Quality Tests|8-1-5.5-2. Minimum Quality of Water

Sec. 2. After August 31, 1981, if the authority to supply piped drinking water is transferred from a city or town to a person other than a city or town, the piped drinking water must, at the time of transfer, be at least equal in quality to the water tested under section 1 of this chapter which was supplied by the city or town. A person shall comply with this section within ten (10) days of the date on which it is found by the state department of health that the person supplies drinking water that does not comply with this section.As added by Acts 1981, P.L.105, SEC.1. Amended by P.L.2-1992, SEC.80.
IN Code § 8-1-5.5-3 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 5.5. Drinking Water Quality Tests|8-1-5.5-3. Maintenance of Quality

Sec. 3. A person, other than a city or town, to whom the authority to supply piped drinking water is transferred from a city or town, shall maintain, to the extent practicable and reasonable, the quality of water required at the time of transfer of such authority, under section 2 of this chapter.As added by Acts 1981, P.L.105, SEC.1.
IN Code § 8-1-5.5-4 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 5.5. Drinking Water Quality Tests|8-1-5.5-4. Violations

Sec. 4. A person who supplies drinking water that does not comply with section 2 of this chapter commits a Class B infraction for each day he is in violation.As added by Acts 1981, P.L.105, SEC.1.
IN Code § 8-1-6-1 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 6. Public Utility Fees|8-1-6-1. Public Policy; Computation; Disposition

Sec. 1. (a) It is declared to be the public policy of this state that in order to maintain and foster the effective regulation of the public utilities, in the interests of the people of the state of Indiana and the public utilities as well, the public utilities subject to regulation and which enjoy the privilege of operating as public utilities in this state shall bear the expense of administering the provisions of IC 8-1-1 and IC 8-1-2 by means of a public utility fee on such privilege measured by the annual gross revenue of such public utilities in the manner provided in this chapter. That expense shall be determined by totaling the budgets, approved by the general assembly in its appropriation act for the years to be billed, of the commission and the utility consumer counselor, including expert witness fees. The sum of two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) shall be added to that total for the use of the commission and the utility consumer counselor as a contingency fund, with expenditures from that fund subject to prior approval of the governor and state budget agency. The proceeds from the public utility fee shall be paid to the commission and deposited in the public utility fund which is hereby created in the state treasury. If the reports required to be submitted to the commission under section 5 of this chapter reveal that the amounts to be collected for the fiscal year from the public utilities, when added together, plus the unexpended balance of the public utility fund account at the end of the fiscal year will exceed the total of the expenses plus the contingency fund, the commission shall compute the amount of each public utility's proportionate share of the excess sum. The commission shall, as promptly as possible, notify each public utility of the amount of its proportionate share of such excess and that amount shall be deducted from the subsequent payment of any fees imposed on such utility under section 4 of this chapter.(b) If the sum of the actual expenditures of the commission and the utility consumer counselor are less than the appropriations therefor by the general assembly, the difference between the actual expenditures and the appropriations shall be subject to the credit provision provided in this section and each utility's proportionate share of that difference shall be deducted from the subsequent payment of any fee imposed on that utility under section 4 of this chapter.Formerly: Acts 1969, c.360, s.1; Acts 1974, P.L.28, SEC.1; Acts 1975, P.L.77, SEC.1. As amended by Acts 1977, P.L.101, SEC.1; P.L.23-1988, SEC.37.
IN Code § 8-1-6-2 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 6. Public Utility Fees|8-1-6-2. Public Utility Fund Account; Disposition of Fees

Sec. 2. (a) All fees prescribed by this chapter shall be paid into the treasury of the state of Indiana through the secretary of the commission, a quietus shall be issued, and the fees shall be deposited into an account to be known as the commission public utility fund account. This account shall be used for enforcing the provisions of IC 8-1-1 and IC 8-1-2 and shall be utilized only for the purpose of funding the expenses of the commission and the consumer counselor in amounts not in excess of their respective appropriations by the general assembly, plus the contingency fund. All appropriations under this chapter paid out of the commission public utility fund account shall be subject to the prior approval of the general assembly, the governor, and the state budget agency.(b) Fees collected from municipalities under IC 8-1-2-85 and amounts paid by municipal utilities under IC 8-1-2-70 shall also be deposited in the commission public utility fund account, as if they were fees collected from public utilities under this chapter.Formerly: Acts 1969, c.360, s.2; Acts 1975, P.L.77, SEC.2. As amended by Acts 1977, P.L.101, SEC.2; Acts 1982, P.L.74, SEC.3; P.L.23-1988, SEC.38; P.L.1-2010, SEC.42; P.L.251-2013, SEC.3; P.L.136-2018, SEC.60.
IN Code § 8-1-6-3 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 6. Public Utility Fees|8-1-6-3. "Public Utility" and "Gross Revenue" Defined

Sec. 3. The term "public utility", as used in this chapter, shall mean and embrace every corporation, company, cooperative organization of any kind, individual, association of individuals, their lessees, trustees, or receivers appointed by any court whatsoever that on or after March 15, 1969, may own, operate, manage, or control any plant or equipment within the state for the conveyance of telegraph or telephone messages, or for the production, transmission, delivery, or furnishing of heat, light, water, or power, or for the collection, treatment, purification, and disposal in a sanitary manner of liquid and solid waste, sewage, night soil, and industrial waste, for service directly or indirectly to the public, but said term shall not include a municipality that may after March 14, 1969, acquire, own, or operate any of the foregoing facilities.The term "gross revenue", as used in this chapter, shall include all intrastate operating revenue received by a public utility for the conveyance of telegraph or telephone messages or for the production, transmission, delivery, or furnishing of heat, light, water, or power, or for the collection, treatment, purification, or disposal in any sanitary manner of liquid or solid waste, sewage, night soil, and industrial waste for service directly or indirectly to the public. Provided, however, that such term shall not include revenue derived by a public utility in the sale of public utility services, products, or commodities to another public or municipal utility for resale by the latter.Formerly: Acts 1969, c.360, s.3. As amended by P.L.59-1984, SEC.53.
IN Code § 8-1-6-4 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 6. Public Utility Fees|8-1-6-4. Imposition

Sec. 4. A public utility fee is imposed upon each public utility subject to the provisions of this chapter equal to .0015 of its gross revenue for the preceding calendar year. The commission may not bill or collect a public utility fee that is fifty dollars ($50) or less under this calculation.Formerly: Acts 1969, c.360, s.4. As amended by Acts 1977, P.L.101, SEC.3; P.L.159-1999, SEC.19.
IN Code § 8-1-6-5 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 6. Public Utility Fees|8-1-6-5. Report of Annual Gross Revenue

Sec. 5. On or before May 1 of each year, public utilities subject to the provisions of this chapter shall file with the commission a report of their annual gross revenue for the preceding calendar year and a statement of the amount of public utility fee due on the basis of said report. Forms for said report or returns shall be devised and supplied by the commission.Formerly: Acts 1969, c.360, s.5. As amended by Acts 1979, P.L.84, SEC.5.
IN Code § 8-1-6-6 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 6. Public Utility Fees|8-1-6-6. Audit of Returns

Sec. 6. All returns submitted to the commission by a public utility as provided by this chapter shall be sworn to by an appropriate officer of the public utility. The commission may audit each such return submitted and may take such measures as are necessary to ascertain the correctness of the returns submitted. The commission is hereby vested with the power to direct the filing of any return required by this chapter.Formerly: Acts 1969, c.360, s.6. As amended by P.L.59-1984, SEC.54.
IN Code § 8-1-6-7 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 6. Public Utility Fees|8-1-6-7. Quarterly Payment

Sec. 7. One quarter (1/4) of the annual fee imposed under section 4 of this chapter shall be paid to the commission on or before the first day of July of the year in which the fee is imposed and one quarter (1/4) on the first day of each of the months of October, January, and April following immediately thereafter; or the entire amount of such fee may, at the election of the utility, be paid in full on or before July 1 of such year.Formerly: Acts 1969, c.360, s.7. As amended by P.L.59-1984, SEC.55.
IN Code § 8-1-6-8 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 6. Public Utility Fees|8-1-6-8. Delinquent Fees; Penalty

Sec. 8. Each installment or required payment of the fee imposed by section 4 of this chapter becomes delinquent at midnight of the last day for payment thereof as provided in section 7 of this chapter. If a public utility has failed to pay, or has underpaid, the proper amount of any quarterly installment or payment, it shall pay a penalty to the commission of one percent (1%) of the amount so due on any quarterly installment or payment for each month or fraction thereof that such amount is unpaid. The commission may enforce the collection of any delinquent installment or payment, or portion thereof by legal action or in any other manner by which the collection of debts due the state of Indiana may be enforced under the laws of this state.Formerly: Acts 1969, c.360, s.8. As amended by P.L.59-1984, SEC.56.
IN Code § 8-1-6-9 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 6. Public Utility Fees|8-1-6-9. Deposit With Treasurer of State

Sec. 9. All sums collected by the commission under the provisions of this chapter shall be paid not less than fifteen (15) days after receipt of the same, accompanied by a detailed statement thereof to the treasurer of the state of Indiana and deposited into the public utility fund.Formerly: Acts 1969, c.360, s.9. As amended by P.L.59-1984, SEC.57.
IN Code § 8-1-7-1 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 7. Surrender of Utility Franchise|8-1-7-1. Indeterminate Permit Replacing Franchise

Sec. 1. Any public utility operating under a license, permit, or franchise existing on May 31, 1921, from any county, city, or town within the state of Indiana shall, upon filing, at any time prior to July 1, 1923, with the auditor or clerk of any such county, city, or town which granted such license, permit, or franchise, and with the commission, a written declaration, legally executed, that it surrenders such license, permit, or franchise, receive by operation of the law, in lieu thereof, an indeterminate permit as provided in IC 8-1-2, and such public utility shall hold such permit under all the terms, conditions, and limitations of IC 8-1-2 as fully and completely as if the same had been done prior to July 1, 1915.Formerly: Acts 1921, c.93, s.1. As amended by P.L.59-1984, SEC.58; P.L.23-1988, SEC.39.
IN Code § 8-1-8-1 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 8. Condemnation by Utilities|8-1-8-1. Limitations on Power

Sec. 1. (a) A public utility, except in cities of the third class, engaged in the production, transmission, delivery, or furnishing of heat, light, water, or power or for the collection, treatment, purification, and disposal in a sanitary manner of liquid and solid sewage or furnishing facilities for transmission of intelligence by electricity to towns and cities and to the public in general or for the furnishing of elevator or warehouse service, either directly or indirectly, to or for the public, for the purpose of enabling it to perform its functions, may appropriate and condemn lands of individuals and private corporations, or any easement in any lands, necessary to the carrying out of its objects, whether the same be for its building, structures, dams, line of poles, wires, mains, conduits, and pipelines, or right-of-way to accommodate railway siding or switch tracks connecting its plant or plants with the tracks of any common carrier, overflowage by backwater from its dams, waste, or sluiceways.(b) However, within the limits of any incorporated town or city, the authority to appropriate does not:(1) extend to lands situated in any city block in which more than fifty percent (50%) of the frontage is devoted to residence purposes;(2) extend to common carriers engaged in the transportation of freight or passengers; or(3) give to any public utility any right or authority to:(A) appropriate any land or easement within the corporate limits of any city for overflowage by backwater from any dam;(B) appropriate or acquire any dam, race, or sluiceway existing on May 31, 1921, or any interest in either, except to use water for condensation purposes;(C) appropriate or acquire any pipeline laid or contained within the limits of private property; or(D) authorize any corporation developing hydroelectric power to unreasonably interfere with or disturb the natural flow of the stream from which power may be derived. Lands or easements in lands acquired by appropriation and condemnation shall be held and enjoyed by the company for those purposes as though the land or easement had been acquired by purchase.(c) If a not-for-profit sewer utility (as described in IC 8-1-2-125(a)) appropriates or condemns land to acquire an easement or right-of-way necessary to carry out the not-for-profit sewer utility's objectives, the easement or right-of-way may not exceed fifty (50) feet in width.(d) The appropriation and condemnation of lands and easements in lands authorized by this section must be done under the terms and conditions and in the manner prescribed by IC 32-24-1.Formerly: Acts 1921, c.98, s.1; Acts 1961, c.195, s.1. As amended by P.L.59-1984, SEC.59; P.L.2-2002, SEC.36; P.L.97-2012, SEC.2.
IN Code § 8-1-8-3 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 8. Condemnation by Utilities|8-1-8-3. Construction of Chapter

Sec. 3. This chapter shall be construed as supplemental legislation and not as repealing any statutes in force on May 31, 1921.Formerly: Acts 1921, c.98, s.3. As amended by P.L.59-1984, SEC.61.
IN Code § 8-1-8.1-1 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 8.1. Electric and Magnetic Fields|8-1-8.1-1. "Commission" Defined

Sec. 1. As used in this chapter, "commission" refers to the Indiana utility regulatory commission established by IC 8-1-1-2.As added by P.L.94-1993, SEC.1.
IN Code § 8-1-8.1-2 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 8.1. Electric and Magnetic Fields|8-1-8.1-2. Determination of Necessity for Rules

Sec. 2. The commission shall determine, based on the preponderance of evidence in the scientific literature, whether rules are necessary to protect the public health from electric and magnetic fields.As added by P.L.94-1993, SEC.1.
IN Code § 8-1-8.1-3 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 8.1. Electric and Magnetic Fields|8-1-8.1-3. Promulgation of Protective Rules

Sec. 3. If the commission determines under section 2 of this chapter that rules are necessary, the commission shall by rule adopted under IC 4-22-2 establish requirements that reasonably protect the public health from electric and magnetic fields.As added by P.L.94-1993, SEC.1.
IN Code § 8-1-8.3-1 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 8.3. Public Utility Employees; Utility Service Interruption Emergencies|8-1-8.3-1. "Commercial Driver's License"

Sec. 1. As used in this chapter, "commercial driver's license" has the meaning set forth in 49 CFR 383.5 as in effect July 1, 2010.As added by P.L.42-2004, SEC.1. Amended by P.L.198-2016, SEC.59.
IN Code § 8-1-8.3-2 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 8.3. Public Utility Employees; Utility Service Interruption Emergencies|8-1-8.3-2. "Commercial Motor Vehicle"

Sec. 2. As used in this chapter, "commercial motor vehicle" has the meaning set forth in IC 9-13-2-31.As added by P.L.42-2004, SEC.1.
IN Code § 8-1-8.3-3 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 8.3. Public Utility Employees; Utility Service Interruption Emergencies|8-1-8.3-3. "Public Utility"

Sec. 3. As used in this chapter, "public utility" has the meaning set forth in IC 8-1-2-1(a).As added by P.L.42-2004, SEC.1.
IN Code § 8-1-8.3-4 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 8.3. Public Utility Employees; Utility Service Interruption Emergencies|8-1-8.3-4. "Utility Service Interruption Emergency"

Sec. 4. As used in this chapter, "utility service interruption emergency" means an outage or interruption of utility service in Indiana, including a near term threat or occurrence of a meteorological or other condition reasonably likely to result in outages or service interruption. A utility service interruption emergency:(1) is declared to exist within the meaning of 49 CFR 390.23 when a public utility receives:(A) notice of or a request to respond to an outage or a service interruption; or(B) notice of the existence of conditions reasonably likely to result in an outage or a service interruption; and(2) continues until:(A) the necessary maintenance or repair work is completed; and(B) personnel used to perform necessary maintenance or repair work have returned to their respective normal work routines.As added by P.L.42-2004, SEC.1.