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IN Code § 8-23-7-20 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 23. Indiana Department of Transportation|Chapter 7. Real Property Transactions|8-23-7-20. Exchange of Lands, Rights, and Easements; Attaching Construction Contracts, Bonds, or Plans to Exchange Agreements

Sec. 20. The construction contract, bond, plans, and specifications required under section 19 of this chapter shall be attached to the exchange agreement for the parcels of property and incorporated by reference into the exchange agreement.As added by P.L.18-1990, SEC.216.
IN Code § 8-23-7-21 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 23. Indiana Department of Transportation|Chapter 7. Real Property Transactions|8-23-7-21. Exchange of Lands, Rights, and Easements; Improvement Completion Requirement

Sec. 21. An exchange agreement under section 19 of this chapter is not completed until the improvements specified in the agreement have been constructed in accordance with the plans and specifications approved by the department. The department may not pay or receive any difference in value between the real properties exchanged until the improvements are completed and approved.As added by P.L.18-1990, SEC.216.
IN Code § 8-23-7-22 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 23. Indiana Department of Transportation|Chapter 7. Real Property Transactions|8-23-7-22. Change of State Highway to Tollway

Sec. 22. (a) Subject to subsection (b), the department may, after issuing an order and receiving the governor's approval, determine that a state highway should become a tollway. After the order becomes effective, the department shall maintain and operate the tollway and levy and collect tolls as provided in IC 8-15-3 or enter into a public-private agreement with an operator with respect to the tollway under IC 8-15.7. Before issuing an order under this section, the department shall submit to the governor a plan to bring the tollway to the current design standards of the department for new state highways within a specified period. The specified period may not exceed five (5) years.(b) Before the governor, the department, or an operator may carry out any of the following activities under this section, the general assembly must enact a statute authorizing that activity:(1) Determine that a highway that is in existence or under construction on July 1, 2011, should become a tollway.(2) Impose tolls on motor vehicles for use of Interstate Highway 69.(c) Notwithstanding subsection (b), during the period beginning July 1, 2011, and ending June 30, 2023, the general assembly is not required to enact a statute authorizing the governor, the department, or an operator to determine that all or part of the following projects should become a tollway:(1) A project on which construction begins after June 30, 2011, not including any part of Interstate Highway 69 other than a part described in subdivision (4).(2) The addition of toll lanes, including high occupancy toll lanes, to a highway, roadway, or other facility in existence on July 1, 2011, if the number of nontolled lanes on the highway, roadway, or facility as of July 1, 2011, does not decrease due to the addition of the toll lanes.(3) The Illiana Expressway, a limited access facility connecting Interstate Highway 65 in northwestern Indiana with an interstate highway in Illinois.(4) A project that is located within a metropolitan planning area (as defined by 23 U.S.C. 134) and that connects the state of Indiana with the commonwealth of Kentucky.As added by P.L.18-1990, SEC.216. Amended by P.L.47-2006, SEC.41; P.L.85-2010, SEC.24; P.L.163-2011, SEC.17; P.L.13-2013, SEC.30; P.L.94-2015, SEC.5; P.L.165-2021, SEC.133.
IN Code § 8-23-7-23 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 23. Indiana Department of Transportation|Chapter 7. Real Property Transactions|8-23-7-23. Change of State Highway to Toll Road

Sec. 23. (a) Subject to subsection (c), the department may, after issuing an order and receiving the governor's approval, determine that a state highway should become a toll road. An order under this section does not become effective unless the authority adopts a resolution to accept the designated state highway, or part of the highway, as a toll road project under the conditions contained in the order. An order issued by the department under this section must set forth the conditions upon which the transfer of the state highway, or part of the highway, to the authority must occur, including the following:(1) The consideration, if any, to be paid by the authority to the department.(2) A requirement that the authority:(A) enter into a contract or lease with the department with respect to the toll road project under IC 8-9.5-8-7 or IC 8-9.5-8-8; or(B) enter into a public-private agreement with an operator with respect to the toll road under IC 8-15.5.(b) To complete a transfer under this section, the department must, with the governor's approval, execute a certificate describing the real and personal property constituting or to be transferred with the state highway that is to become a toll road project. Upon delivery of the certificate to the authority, the real and personal property described in the certificate is under the jurisdiction and control of the authority.(c) Before the authority or an operator may carry out any of the following activities under this section, the general assembly must enact a statute authorizing that activity:(1) Imposing tolls on motor vehicles for use of Interstate Highway 69.(2) Imposing tolls on motor vehicles for use of a nontolled highway, roadway, or other facility in existence or under construction on July 1, 2011, including nontolled interstate highways, U.S. routes, and state routes.As added by P.L.18-1990, SEC.216. Amended by P.L.47-2006, SEC.42; P.L.163-2011, SEC.18; P.L.13-2013, SEC.31; P.L.94-2015, SEC.6.
IN Code § 8-23-7-24 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 23. Indiana Department of Transportation|Chapter 7. Real Property Transactions|8-23-7-24. Designated Parts of State Highway Allowed to Be Either Tollway or Toll Road

Sec. 24. A designated part of a state highway may become a tollway under the jurisdiction of the department under section 22 of this chapter and another designated part of the same state highway may become a toll road project under the jurisdiction of the authority under section 23 of this chapter. If a tollway and a toll road are contiguous parts of the same state highway, the contract or lease entered into under section 23 of this chapter may provide for coordination in the operation and maintenance of the tollway and the toll road project, including joint toll collection facilities and agreement on an equitable division of tolls.As added by P.L.18-1990, SEC.216.
IN Code § 8-23-7-25 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 23. Indiana Department of Transportation|Chapter 7. Real Property Transactions|8-23-7-25. Change of State Highways to Tollways and Toll Roads; Effectiveness of Orders

Sec. 25. An order issued under section 22 or 23 of this chapter does not become effective until:(1) all conditions in the order are satisfied; and(2) all conditions in an agreement relating to a state highway that is the subject of an order under section 22 or 23 of this chapter entered into by the Secretary, acting by and through the federal highway administrator, and the state, acting by and through the department or the authority, are satisfied or waived.As added by P.L.18-1990, SEC.216.
IN Code § 8-23-7-26 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 23. Indiana Department of Transportation|Chapter 7. Real Property Transactions|8-23-7-26. Surveys and Investigations; Right of Entry

Sec. 26. An authorized employee or representative of the department engaged in a survey or investigation authorized by the commissioner or the commissioner's designee, including a survey or investigation for purposes of IC 8-23-5-9, may enter upon, over, or under any land or property within Indiana to conduct the survey or investigation by manual or mechanical means, which include the following:(1) Inspecting.(2) Measuring.(3) Leveling.(4) Boring.(5) Trenching.(6) Sample-taking.(7) Archeological digging.(8) Investigating soil and foundation.(9) Transporting equipment.(10) Any other work necessary to carry out the survey or investigation.As added by P.L.18-1990, SEC.216. Amended by P.L.99-2008, SEC.2.
IN Code § 8-23-7-27 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 23. Indiana Department of Transportation|Chapter 7. Real Property Transactions|8-23-7-27. Surveys and Investigations; Notification of Occupants

Sec. 27. (a) Before an authorized employee or representative of the department enters upon, over, or under any land or water under section 26 of this chapter, the occupant of the land or water shall be notified in writing by first class United States mail of the entry not later than five (5) days before the date of entry. The employee or representative of the department shall present written identification or authorization to the occupant of the land or water before entering the land or water.(b) At the same time and in the same manner as the notice required under subsection (a), the department shall notify the occupant and the record owner of the land or property of the following:(1) With respect to damage that occurs to the land or property as a result of entry upon, over, or under the land or property as set forth in section 26 of this chapter:(A) a description of the aggrieved party's right to compensation for the damage from the department; and(B) the procedure that the aggrieved party must follow to obtain the compensation.(2) The name, mailing address, and telephone number of an individual or office within the department to which an aggrieved party may direct questions concerning the rights and procedures described in subdivision (1).As added by P.L.18-1990, SEC.216. Amended by P.L.99-2008, SEC.3.
IN Code § 8-23-7-28 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 23. Indiana Department of Transportation|Chapter 7. Real Property Transactions|8-23-7-28. Surveys and Investigations; Compensation for Damages

Sec. 28. If during an entry under section 26 of this chapter damage occurs to the land or water as a result of the entry or work performed during the entry, the department shall compensate the aggrieved party. If the aggrieved party is not satisfied with the compensation determined by the department, the amount of damages shall be assessed by the county agricultural extension educator of the county in which the land or water is located and two (2) disinterested residents of the county, one (1) appointed by the aggrieved party and one (1) appointed by the department. A written report of the assessment of damages shall be mailed to the aggrieved party and the department by first class United States mail. If either the department or the aggrieved party is not satisfied with the assessment of damages, either or both may file a petition, not later than fifteen (15) days after receiving the report, in the circuit or superior court of the county in which the land or water is located. The department shall pay any compensation awarded to an aggrieved party under this section:(1) not more than sixty (60) days after the date on which the parties agree to the amount of the compensation; or(2) as ordered by the circuit or superior court.As added by P.L.18-1990, SEC.216. Amended by P.L.40-1993, SEC.3; P.L.99-2008, SEC.4.
IN Code § 8-23-7-29 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 23. Indiana Department of Transportation|Chapter 7. Real Property Transactions|8-23-7-29. Priority of Actions

Sec. 29. Court proceedings to acquire real property, rights, or easements under this chapter take precedence over all cases not involving the public interest in all courts.As added by P.L.18-1990, SEC.216.
IN Code § 8-23-7-30 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 23. Indiana Department of Transportation|Chapter 7. Real Property Transactions|8-23-7-30. Municipal Acquisition of Rights-of-Way

Sec. 30. The authority given the department under this chapter to acquire lands by purchase or by the exercise of the right of eminent domain may not be construed to prohibit a municipality from:(1) acquiring at its own expense, either by grant, purchase, or condemnation, the necessary right-of-way required by the department for the maintenance, construction, or improvement of a street of the municipality as a part of a highway under the control of the department; or(2) entering into an agreement to pay all or any part of the costs of the necessary right-of-way.As added by P.L.18-1990, SEC.216.
IN Code § 8-23-7-31 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 23. Indiana Department of Transportation|Chapter 7. Real Property Transactions|8-23-7-31. Acquisition of Property, Rights, and Easements; Legal Description; Taxation

Sec. 31. (a) Whenever the department acquires real property, rights, or easements for the construction, repair, and maintenance of a state highway, a legal description of all rights-of-way and easements, including the area of the land acquired, shall be filed by the department in the office of the recorder in the county in which the real property is located. The description shall be recorded in the deed records of the county. No fee may be charged for filing and recording the description. The department shall also file the description with the county auditor.(b) Real property and interests in real property acquired for permanent highway purposes are exempt from taxation from the date of acquisition, provided that all taxes, interest, and penalties recorded on the property tax duplicates have been paid. Where real property or interests in real property are acquired after the assessment date of any year but before December 31, the taxes on the property in the ensuing year are not a lien on the property and shall be removed from the tax duplicates by the county auditor. A property owner who on or after March 1, 1965, conveyed real property or rights in real property to the department and who after July 8, 1965, is assessed taxes upon the property or rights conveyed and who pays the taxes by reason of the failure of the department to properly record the interest in the real property conveyed with the county auditor and recorder for tax purposes may recover the amount of the taxes from the department.As added by P.L.18-1990, SEC.216.
IN Code § 8-23-7-32 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 23. Indiana Department of Transportation|Chapter 7. Real Property Transactions|8-23-7-32. Preservation of Abstracts of Title, Title Insurance Policies, and Other Title Papers

Sec. 32. All abstracts of title, policies of title insurance, and other title papers shall be kept and preserved permanently by the department.As added by P.L.18-1990, SEC.216.
IN Code § 8-23-8-1 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 23. Indiana Department of Transportation|Chapter 8. Limited Access Facilities|8-23-8-1. Planning, Construction, Maintenance, and Regulation

Sec. 1. The department and the highway authorities of the counties and municipalities, acting alone or in cooperation with each other or any federal agency, or state or local agency of another state having authority to participate in the construction and maintenance of highways, may plan, designate, establish, regulate, vacate, alter, improve, maintain, and provide limited access facilities for public use on all or any part of a highway whenever the department or authority that has jurisdiction over the highway determines that traffic conditions, present or future, will justify the facilities. The department or a highway authority that has jurisdiction over a highway may regulate, restrict, or prohibit the use of limited access facilities on that highway by various classes of vehicles or traffic.As added by P.L.18-1990, SEC.217. Amended by P.L.87-1991, SEC.2.
IN Code § 8-23-8-1.3 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 23. Indiana Department of Transportation|Chapter 8. Limited Access Facilities|8-23-8-1.3. Commerce Corridors

Sec. 1.3. (a) The department shall do the following:(1) Determine commerce corridors within Indiana.(2) Determine the level of service of each commerce corridor.(3) Establish procedures for maintaining the level of service in a commerce corridor.(4) Adopt an improvement plan for each commerce corridor that does not meet its prescribed level of service.(b) The department may determine the feasibility of using recycled materials in the improvement of commerce corridors.(c) Determinations under this section shall be in conformance with any similar highway designation made by the federal highway administration.As added by P.L.87-1991, SEC.3.
IN Code § 8-23-8-2 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 23. Indiana Department of Transportation|Chapter 8. Limited Access Facilities|8-23-8-2. Division Into Separate Roadways

Sec. 2. The department and the highway authorities may divide a limited access facility into separate roadways by the construction of raised curbings, central dividing sections, or other physical separations, or by designating the separate roadways by signs, markers, stripes, and other devices and indicate the proper lane for traffic by appropriate signs, markers, stripes, and other devices.As added by P.L.18-1990, SEC.217.
IN Code § 8-23-8-3 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 23. Indiana Department of Transportation|Chapter 8. Limited Access Facilities|8-23-8-3. Acquisition of Property and Property Rights

Sec. 3. (a) The department or a highway authority may acquire private or public property and property rights for limited access facilities and service roads, including rights of access, air, view, and light, by gift, devise, purchase, or condemnation for the laying out, widening, or improvement of highways and streets within their respective jurisdictions.(b) In the acquisition of property or property rights for a limited access facility or a service road connected with a facility, the state, county, or municipality may acquire an entire lot, block, or tract of land, if the interests of the public will be best served, even though the entire lot, block, or tract is not immediately needed for the right-of-way.(c) Court proceedings necessary to acquire property or property rights under this section take precedence over all other causes not involving the public interest in all courts.As added by P.L.18-1990, SEC.217.
IN Code § 8-23-8-4 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 23. Indiana Department of Transportation|Chapter 8. Limited Access Facilities|8-23-8-4. Designation; Elimination of Intersections

Sec. 4. (a) The department or the highway authority of a county or municipality may designate and establish limited access facilities as new and additional facilities or may designate and establish an existing street or highway as included within a limited access facility.(b) The department, county, or municipality may provide for the elimination of intersections at grade of limited access facilities with existing state and county roads and municipal streets by:(1) grade separation or service road; or(2) closing off the roads and streets at the right-of-way boundary line of the limited access facility.(c) After the establishment of a limited access facility, a highway or street that is not part of the facility may not intersect the facility at grade.(d) A municipal street, a county or state highway, or other public way may not be opened into or connected with a limited access facility without the prior consent of the authority having jurisdiction over the facility. Consent under this subsection may be given only if the public interest is served.As added by P.L.18-1990, SEC.217.
IN Code § 8-23-8-5 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 23. Indiana Department of Transportation|Chapter 8. Limited Access Facilities|8-23-8-5. Bypass Highways

Sec. 5. Whenever the department constructs a bypass highway around a municipality, the department shall designate the bypass highway as a limited access facility.As added by P.L.18-1990, SEC.217.
IN Code § 8-23-8-6 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 23. Indiana Department of Transportation|Chapter 8. Limited Access Facilities|8-23-8-6. Joint Agreements; Counties, Municipalities, and Federal Government

Sec. 6. (a) The department may enter into agreements with a county, municipality, or the federal government concerning limited access facilities or other public ways under their jurisdiction under this chapter or any other state or federal law authorizing cooperation to carry out this chapter.(b) A county or municipality may enter into agreements with the federal government concerning limited access facilities or other public ways under its jurisdiction under this chapter or any other state or federal law authorizing cooperation to carry out this chapter.As added by P.L.18-1990, SEC.217.
IN Code § 8-23-8-7 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 23. Indiana Department of Transportation|Chapter 8. Limited Access Facilities|8-23-8-7. Local Service Roads; Access Roads to Service Facilities

Sec. 7. (a) The department, a county, or a municipality may plan, designate, establish, use, regulate, alter, improve, maintain, and vacate local service roads and streets, or designate as local service roads and streets existing roads or streets, and exercise jurisdiction over service roads under this chapter if the department, county, or municipality determines the service roads or streets are necessary or desirable. The local service roads or streets must be:(1) of appropriate design; and(2) separated from the limited access facility by all devices designated necessary or desirable by the proper authority.(b) The department, to permit the establishment of adequate fuel or other service facilities by private owners or lessees for the users of a limited access facility, shall provide for access roads within the state's right-of-way of a limited access facility at points that will best serve the public interest.As added by P.L.18-1990, SEC.217.
IN Code § 8-23-8-8 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 23. Indiana Department of Transportation|Chapter 8. Limited Access Facilities|8-23-8-8. Ingress and Egress to and From Abutting Lands

Sec. 8. A person is not entitled to ingress or egress to, from, or across limited access facilities to or from abutting lands, except at designated access points, as specified by rule.As added by P.L.18-1990, SEC.217.
IN Code § 8-23-8-9 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 23. Indiana Department of Transportation|Chapter 8. Limited Access Facilities|8-23-8-9. Offenses

Sec. 9. (a) A person may not do any of the following upon a limited access facility:(1) Drive a vehicle over, upon, or across a curb, central dividing section, or other separation or dividing line.(2) Make a left turn or a semicircular or U-turn except through an opening provided for the purpose in the dividing curb, separation, section, or line.(3) Drive a vehicle except in the proper lane provided for that purpose, in the proper direction, and to the right of the central dividing curb, separation, section, or line.(4) Drive a vehicle into the facility from a local service road except through an opening provided for that purpose in the dividing curb, section, separation, or line that separates the local service road from the facility.(b) A person who violates this section commits a Class C infraction.As added by P.L.18-1990, SEC.217.