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IN Code § 8-1-9-1 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 9. Relocation of Utilities in Highway Rights-of-Way|8-1-9-1. Public Policy

Sec. 1. Recognizing that (a) part of the national system of interstate and defense highways located in Indiana are used by persons residing throughout Indiana and the United States for intrastate and interstate travel; (b) the cost of relocation of utility facilities necessitated by construction, reconstruction, change or modification of said highways is presently subject to being borne by utility rate payers only; and (c) existing federal legislation makes available a substantial portion of the funds with which said highways will be constructed, reconstructed, changed or modified, it is hereby declared that it is inequitable for rate payers of utilities to bear the cost of relocation of utility facilities necessitated by said highway construction, reconstruction, change or modification and that such cost of relocation of utility facilities should constitute a cost of construction of all of said highway projects in Indiana.Formerly: Acts 1961, c.112, s.1.
IN Code § 8-1-9-2 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 9. Relocation of Utilities in Highway Rights-of-Way|8-1-9-2. Definitions

Sec. 2. When used in this chapter, the term:(a) "Utility" shall include all privately, municipally, publicly, or cooperatively owned systems for supplying communications, power, light, heat, electricity, gas, water, pipeline, sewer, sewage disposal, drain, or like service, directly or indirectly, to the public.(b) "Cost of relocation" shall include the entire amount paid by a utility properly attributable to such relocation, after deducting therefrom any increase in the value of the new facility and any salvage value derived from the old facility.(c) "Highway" when used in this chapter shall mean only those routes which are included within the national system of interstate and defense highways.Formerly: Acts 1961, c.112, s.2. As amended by P.L.59-1984, SEC.62.
IN Code § 8-1-9-3 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 9. Relocation of Utilities in Highway Rights-of-Way|8-1-9-3. Audits

Sec. 3. The cost of relocation of a utility facility is a cost of highway construction and shall be paid by the state in the same manner other costs of construction of the highway are paid. All relevant books, records, and accounts of any public utility to which a payment for a relocation has been made by the state shall be audited by the Indiana department of transportation auditor and the utility, following the audit, shall refund any portion of the payment the state determines was not properly compensable.Formerly: Acts 1961, c.112, s.3; Acts 1965, c.321, s.1. As amended by Acts 1980, P.L.74, SEC.34; P.L.18-1990, SEC.25.
IN Code § 8-1-9-4 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 9. Relocation of Utilities in Highway Rights-of-Way|8-1-9-4. New Location; Right to Operate

Sec. 4. In the case of any such relocation of facilities, the utility owning or operating the same, its successors, or assigns, may maintain and operate such facilities, with the necessary appurtenances in the new location or new locations, for as long a period, and upon the same terms and conditions, as it had the right to maintain and operate such facilities in their former location or locations.Formerly: Acts 1961, c.112, s.4.
IN Code § 8-1-9-5 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 9. Relocation of Utilities in Highway Rights-of-Way|8-1-9-5. Certain Projects; Payment of Initial Cost

Sec. 5. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, the Indiana department of transportation may pay the initial cost of relocating a utility facility if all of the following conditions have been met:(1) The utility facility is owned by a political subdivision of this state.(2) The removal of the utility facility is incurred as the result of a federally funded highway or railroad-highway improvement project.(3) The relocation qualifies for initial cost of construction with state funds as a part of the federal-aid project cost.(4) A federal-aid project agreement is entered into with the Federal Highway Administration.(5) The department has been assured reimbursement for all costs by the Federal Highway Administration, the political subdivision, or both.As added by Acts 1982, P.L.73, SEC.1. Amended by P.L.18-1990, SEC.26.
IN Code § 8-1-10-1 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 10. Public Utility Accounting Practices|8-1-10-1. Payments Unlawful

Sec. 1. Whenever an order has been lawfully made upon any public utility by the commission under the provisions of IC 8-1-2 or by the state department of health under the provisions of IC 16-41-24, it shall be unlawful for such public utility, or any officer thereof, to pay any funds from its treasury to any other public utility for the purpose of concealing its income or assets or otherwise diverting the funds from their proper uses.Formerly: Acts 1915, c.57, s.1. As amended by P.L.59-1984, SEC.63; P.L.23-1988, SEC.41; P.L.2-1992, SEC.81; P.L.2-1993, SEC.62.
IN Code § 8-1-10-2 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 10. Public Utility Accounting Practices|8-1-10-2. Fines and Penalties

Sec. 2. Any person, firm, limited liability company, or corporation violating any provision of section 1 of this chapter shall become liable to a penalty of not less than five hundred dollars ($500) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) for each offense, to be recovered in an action in the proper circuit or superior court, by the state of Indiana on the relation of the attorney general or any prosecuting attorney, and such penalty, when recovered, shall be paid into the state treasury, for the use of the state.Formerly: Acts 1915, c.57, s.2. As amended by P.L.59-1984, SEC.64; P.L.8-1993, SEC.121.
IN Code § 8-1-11.1-2 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 11.1. Department of Public Utilities of Consolidated City|8-1-11.1-2. Board of Directors; Appointment of Officers; Compensation; Meetings; Employee Bonds

Sec. 2. (a) The members of such board of directors for utilities shall hold a meeting on the second Monday of January of each year for the purpose of organization and to elect officers for the ensuing year. They shall choose one (1) of their members president, another vice-president, another secretary, and another treasurer, who shall perform the duties usually pertaining to those offices. Such officers so chosen shall serve from the date of their election until their successors are duly elected and qualified.(b) The members of such board of directors for utilities shall each be paid a salary for their services as such directors at the rate of six hundred dollars ($600) per annum during the period of service. A majority of the members of said board of directors shall constitute a quorum, and the concurrence of a majority of such membership shall be necessary to any action of such board. Such board of directors shall hold an annual meeting on the second Monday of January of each year, at the general offices of such board, and such other regular meetings at such times as it may determine, and upon such notice as it may fix, by rule or regulation. It shall be authorized to make such by-laws and regulations as it may deem necessary for the safe, economical and efficient management and protection of the properties entrusted to its care. Such board of directors shall require any officer or employee having custody of funds to give bond in such reasonable amount as the board may prescribe, the expense of which bonds shall be paid by the department of public utilities of such city.[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citation: 19-3-24-2.]As added by Acts 1981, P.L.11, SEC.43.
IN Code § 8-1-11.1-3.1 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 11.1. Department of Public Utilities of Consolidated City|8-1-11.1-3.1. Board of Directors; Certain Powers and Duties Pertaining to Municipally Owned Utilities

Sec. 3.1. In addition to the other powers specified by this chapter and notwithstanding IC 8-1.5-3-1, the board of directors for utilities has all rights and powers conferred on a municipally owned utility by IC 8-1.5-3-4(b), IC 8-1.5-3-6, and IC 8-1.5-3-7. Furthermore, the board of directors for utilities shall operate as both the board and the municipal legislative body for the purposes of IC 8-1.5-3-8.As added by Acts 1982, P.L.74, SEC.4.
IN Code § 8-1-11.1-3.5 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 11.1. Department of Public Utilities of Consolidated City|8-1-11.1-3.5. Retirement, Survivor, or Other Benefits; Increase

Sec. 3.5. (a) Every person who is receiving retirement benefits, survivor benefits or other benefits from any fund or funds established by, or under the authority of, the board of directors for utilities of the department of public utilities may have such retirement benefits, survivor benefits or any other benefits increased by an amount not to exceed two dollars ($2) per month for each year of active service prior to retirement. Such increase may be made if the board of directors for utilities of the department of public utilities shall by resolution so provide which said board of directors is hereby given power to do.(b) Any person who is receiving a retirement, survivor or other benefit which commenced prior to January 1, 1976, shall receive such increased retirement benefits, survivor benefits or other benefits as long as he or she shall live.[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citation: 19-3-24-3.5.]As added by Acts 1981, P.L.11, SEC.43.
IN Code § 8-1-11.1-4 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 11.1. Department of Public Utilities of Consolidated City|8-1-11.1-4. Directors or Trustees; Adverse Interest in Contracts

Sec. 4. No contract shall be made for the purchase or sale of any materials or supplies on behalf of said board of directors for utilities with any trustee or director, and no trustee nor director shall have any pecuniary interest in any such contract.[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citation: 19-3-24-4.]As added by Acts 1981, P.L.11, SEC.43.
IN Code § 8-1-11.1-5 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 11.1. Department of Public Utilities of Consolidated City|8-1-11.1-5. Actions to Protect Rights of Cities

Sec. 5. The board of directors for utilities in every such city may, in the name of the city, bring any such action which it deems proper in order to protect the property rights of said city with reference to any such utility property so under the control of such board, or to secure the more effective carrying out of the purposes of this chapter with reference to the erection, maintenance and operation of any such utility property or properties.[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citation: 19-3-24-5.]As added by Acts 1981, P.L.11, SEC.43.
IN Code § 8-1-11.1-6 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 11.1. Department of Public Utilities of Consolidated City|8-1-11.1-6. Utility Districts; Creation

Sec. 6. All of the territory included within the corporate limits of any said city shall become and constitute a utility district for the purpose of providing for the furnishing of utility service in such lines of utility operation as may be taken over or owned by said city, and thereafter said utility district shall be deemed duly created and established under and pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citation: 19-3-24-6.]As added by Acts 1981, P.L.11, SEC.43.
IN Code § 8-1-11.1-7 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 11.1. Department of Public Utilities of Consolidated City|8-1-11.1-7. Expenses; Procedure for Payment

Sec. 7. All preliminary expenses actually incurred by such board of directors in providing necessary records, the employment of clerks, engineers, attorneys and other employees, the making of surveys, and all other expenses of whatsoever nature necessary to be paid prior to the actual taking over and operation of any utility plant and the collection of revenues therefrom, shall be met and paid in the following manner: Said board of directors for utilities shall from time to time certify such items of expense to the controller of such city, directing the controller to pay the several amounts of the items of expense, and thereupon said controller shall at once draw a warrant or warrants upon the county treasurer, which warrant or warrants shall be paid out of the general funds of such city not theretofore appropriated, without a special appropriation being made for the payment of the warrant or warrants by the city-county council; or in case there are no such general funds of said city not otherwise appropriated, the city controller shall recommend to the city-county council the temporary transfer of other funds of such city as is necessary to meet such items of expense, or the making of a temporary loan for such purpose, and such council shall, thereupon at once make such transfer of funds or authorize such temporary loan in the same manner that other temporary loans are made by such city. However, the fund or funds of such city from which such payments are made shall be fully reimbursed and repaid with six percent (6%) interest by such board of directors for utilities out of the first receipts from the operation of any such utility by said board which are not needed to defray current operating expenses and the expenses of imperative betterments.[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citation: 19-3-24-7.]As added by Acts 1981, P.L.11, SEC.43. Amended by P.L.136-2018, SEC.62.
IN Code § 8-1-11.1-9 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 11.1. Department of Public Utilities of Consolidated City|8-1-11.1-9. Disposition of Bond Revenues

Sec. 9. All proceeds from the sale of bonds described under section 8 of this chapter shall be kept as a separate and specific fund to pay the cost of the acquisition of any utility property which the city shall have the right to and shall determine to acquire or the payment of obligations of any utility subject to which its property is purchased, or the cost of making necessary betterments, improvements, extensions, or additions to any utility property owned by the city, and no part of the proceeds shall be used for any other purpose. Proceeds shall be deposited at interest with the depository or depositories of other public funds of the city, and all interest collected belongs to the fund. Any surplus of funds remaining out of the proceeds of a bond after all costs and expenses are fully paid shall be paid into and become a part of the utility district bond fund.[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citation: 19-3-24-9.]As added by Acts 1981, P.L.11, SEC.43. Amended by P.L.136-2018, SEC.63.
IN Code § 8-1-11.1-10 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 11.1. Department of Public Utilities of Consolidated City|8-1-11.1-10. Tax Levy to Pay for Bonds; Utility District Bond Fund

Sec. 10. For the purpose of raising money to pay all bonds issued as provided in section 8 of this chapter, and the interest thereon, to the extent that moneys are not available therefor in the judgment of the board of directors for utilities from the operations of said utility plant or plants so owned by said city, the board of directors for utilities, as an official board of said utility district, is hereby empowered to levy, and shall levy each year, a special tax upon all the property of said utility district in such manner as to meet and pay the principal of said bonds as they severally mature, together with all accruing interest thereon. Said board of directors shall cause said tax so levied each year to be certified to the city controller of said city and the auditor of the county in which said utility district is located, on or before the first day of October of each year. Such tax so levied and certified shall be estimated and entered upon the tax duplicate by the auditor, and shall be collected and enforced by the county treasurer in the same manner as state and county taxes are estimated, entered, collected and enforced; and as such tax is so collected by the county treasurer, it shall be accumulated and kept in a separate fund to be known as the "Utility District Bond Fund," and shall be applied to the payment of the aforesaid utility district bonds and interest as they severally mature, and for no other purpose whatsoever: Provided, That all accumulations of said fund prior to their use for the payment of such bonds and interest shall be deposited, at interest, with the depository or depositories of other public funds in such city, and all interest collected thereon shall belong to such fund.[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citation: 19-3-24-10.]As added by Acts 1981, P.L.11, SEC.43.
IN Code § 8-1-11.1-11 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 11.1. Department of Public Utilities of Consolidated City|8-1-11.1-11. Surplus Earnings; Disposition

Sec. 11. Within sixty (60) days after the end of each calendar year, if there be at any time any bonds outstanding issued on account of said utility district, payable in whole or in part through a tax levy against the property in said utility district, said board of directors for utilities shall cause any surplus earnings arising from the operation of any such utility property, which are not pledged to secure the payment of any obligation of, or on account of said utility district, and which are not, in the opinion of such board of directors, necessary to provide against possible unfavorable results from operation, or to provide for contemplated betterments, extensions, improvements, or additions, to be paid over to the county treasurer and to be added to and become a part of said utility district bond fund, and to be used for the same purposes and in the same manner as funds derived from levy of taxes, as in this chapter hereinbefore provided. In event there are no such utility district bonds at the time outstanding, any such surplus operating revenues not needed for the purposes aforesaid shall be paid over to and become a part of the general funds of such city.[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citation: 19-3-24-11.]As added by Acts 1981, P.L.11, SEC.43.
IN Code § 8-1-11.1-12 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 11.1. Department of Public Utilities of Consolidated City|8-1-11.1-12. Expenditures of Current Income; Vouchers

Sec. 12. The current receipts and all other moneys derived from the operation of any such utility property shall be expended by said board of directors upon vouchers in a form to be determined by them, and any such funds shall be deposited in such bank or banks as may be determined by said board to the credit of said board of directors for utilities, and any interest earned on any such deposits shall be added to the principal thereof. No appropriation in any form shall be necessary for the expenditure of any of such current income or for the expenditure of the proceeds of any sale of bonds, or of any other obligations, as authorized under this chapter, but all funds arising under this chapter shall be deemed appropriated for the respective purposes set forth in this chapter and shall be under the control of the board of directors for utilities as provided in this chapter, and said board of directors shall have full, complete and exclusive authority to expend such funds for the purposes set forth in this chapter.[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citation: 19-3-24-12.]As added by Acts 1981, P.L.11, SEC.43. Amended by P.L.136-2018, SEC.64.
IN Code § 8-1-11.1-13 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 11.1. Department of Public Utilities of Consolidated City|8-1-11.1-13. Separate Books of Account for Separate Utilities

Sec. 13. In event more than one (1) utility property is operated by said board of directors, separate books of account and records shall be kept for each utility, and the funds of each shall be kept segregated.[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citation: 19-3-24-13.]As added by Acts 1981, P.L.11, SEC.43.
IN Code § 8-1-11.1-14 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 11.1. Department of Public Utilities of Consolidated City|8-1-11.1-14. Quarterly Accounting and Report to City Controller

Sec. 14. The board of directors for utilities shall make quarterly accounting and reports to the city controller of such city, of all funds received and expended by it, and not less than sixty (60) days after the end of each calendar year the city controller shall make publication in not less than two (2) newspapers of general circulation printed and published within said city of the material facts as set forth in the report of said board of directors for the preceding calendar year.[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citation: 19-3-24-14.]As added by Acts 1981, P.L.11, SEC.43.
IN Code § 8-1-11.1-15 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 11.1. Department of Public Utilities of Consolidated City|8-1-11.1-15. Board of Directors Free From Control of Department of Local Government Finance

Sec. 15. This chapter being necessary for and intended to secure efficient and economical management and operation of utility properties in any consolidated city taking advantage of the provisions hereof, the said board of directors shall have full power to transact all the business pertaining to said management and operation of each and all such utilities, including the issuance of bonds, mortgages, and other forms of indebtedness, free from all control and supervision of the department of local government finance of Indiana. This chapter shall be liberally construed to effectuate the purpose hereof, and if any one (1) or more sections, clauses, phrases, or parts thereof, of this chapter shall be held invalid, the remaining sections, clauses, phrases, or parts thereof, shall not be affected thereby, and the legislature declares that it would have enacted all other parts of said chapter even if any or all of the aforesaid portions thereof had not been included therein.[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citation: 19-3-24-15.]As added by Acts 1981, P.L.11, SEC.43. Amended by P.L.90-2002, SEC.311.
IN Code § 8-1-11.1-16 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 11.1. Department of Public Utilities of Consolidated City|8-1-11.1-16. Budgets; Nonapplication of Chapters; Fixing and Review of Budgets, Tax Rates, and Levies; Limitations on Property Tax Rates or Appropriations

Sec. 16. The provisions of IC 6-1.1-17 and IC 6-1.1-18 shall not apply to the board of directors created by this chapter, but such board of directors shall annually, on or before the thirty-first day of December, furnish to the city controller an estimate of the moneys to be expended by them for the succeeding calendar year.[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citation: 19-3-24-16.]As added by Acts 1981, P.L.11, SEC.43.