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IN Code § 8-23-17-18 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 23. Indiana Department of Transportation|Chapter 17. Relocation Assistance|8-23-17-18. Relocation Advisory Assistance Program

Sec. 18. Whenever acquisition of, or code enforcement upon, real property by an agency will result in the displacement of a person, the agency shall provide a relocation assistance advisory program for displaced persons which shall offer the services described in section 20 of this chapter. If the agency determines that a person occupying property immediately adjacent to the real property acquired is caused substantial economic injury because of the acquisition, it may offer that person relocation advisory services under the program.As added by P.L.18-1990, SEC.226.
IN Code § 8-23-17-19 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 23. Indiana Department of Transportation|Chapter 17. Relocation Assistance|8-23-17-19. Cooperation With Other Agencies

Sec. 19. An agency causing displacement of a person shall cooperate to the maximum feasible extent with federal, state, or local agencies administering programs that may be of assistance to displaced persons, in order to assure that displaced persons receive the maximum assistance available to them.As added by P.L.18-1990, SEC.226.
IN Code § 8-23-17-20 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 23. Indiana Department of Transportation|Chapter 17. Relocation Assistance|8-23-17-20. Relocation Assistance Advisory Programs; Measures, Facilities, and Services

Sec. 20. Each relocation assistance advisory program required by section 18 of this chapter shall include measures, facilities, or services as may be necessary or appropriate in order to:(1) determine the need, if any, of displaced persons for relocation assistance;(2) provide current and continuing information on the availability, prices, and rentals, of comparable decent, safe, and sanitary sales and rental housing, and of comparable commercial properties and locations for displaced businesses;(3) assure that, within a reasonable period of time prior to displacement, there will be available in areas not generally less desirable in regard to public utilities and public and commercial facilities and at rents or prices within the means of the families and individuals displaced, decent, safe, and sanitary dwellings, as defined by the agency head, equal in number to the number of and available to the displaced persons who require dwellings and reasonably accessible to their places of employment, except that the governor may establish by executive order situations when the assurances may be waived;(4) assist a displaced person displaced from a business or farm operation in obtaining and becoming established in a suitable replacement location;(5) supply information concerning federal or state housing programs, disaster loan programs, and other federal or state programs offering assistance to displaced persons; and(6) provide other advisory services to displaced persons in order to minimize hardships to the persons in adjusting to relocation.As added by P.L.18-1990, SEC.226.
IN Code § 8-23-17-21 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 23. Indiana Department of Transportation|Chapter 17. Relocation Assistance|8-23-17-21. Coordination With Government Community Actions

Sec. 21. Agencies shall coordinate relocation activities with project work and with other planned or proposed governmental actions in the community or nearby areas that may affect the carrying out of relocation assistance programs.As added by P.L.18-1990, SEC.226.
IN Code § 8-23-17-22 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 23. Indiana Department of Transportation|Chapter 17. Relocation Assistance|8-23-17-22. Service Contracts; Use of Other Agencies

Sec. 22. (a) To prevent unnecessary expense and duplication of functions, and to promote uniform and effective administration of relocation assistance programs for displaced persons under this chapter, an agency required by this chapter to make relocation payments to displaced persons or to establish relocation assistance advisory programs may enter into contract with an individual, firm, limited liability company, or corporation for services in connection with the programs, or may carry out its functions under this chapter through any federal, state, or local governmental agency or instrumentality having an established organization for conducting relocation assistance programs. The contract may delegate authority to make a determination required to be made by the agency head with respect to eligibility for an amount of relocation assistance payments, availability of adequate replacement dwellings, or other matters required to be determined under this chapter, subject to review of determinations by the agency head and as provided in section 33 of this chapter.(b) An agency acquiring property or displacing persons within a city or county that has established a governmental agency to provide relocation assistance to persons displaced from dwellings or businesses, whether or not the acquiring or enforcing agency is engaged in a program using federal financial assistance, may use the services and facilities of the county or city relocation agency in performing its obligations and in making the determinations required under this chapter to the maximum feasible extent permitted by applicable federal law or regulations.As added by P.L.18-1990, SEC.226. Amended by P.L.8-1993, SEC.164.
IN Code § 8-23-17-23 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 23. Indiana Department of Transportation|Chapter 17. Relocation Assistance|8-23-17-23. Rules and Procedures; Establishment

Sec. 23. Each agency head is authorized to establish rules and procedures as necessary to assure the following:(1) The payments and assistance authorized by this chapter shall be administered in a manner that is fair and reasonable, as uniformly as practicable.(2) A displaced person who makes application for a payment authorized for such person under this chapter shall be paid promptly after a move or, in hardship cases, be paid in advance.(3) A person aggrieved by a determination as to eligibility for a payment authorized by this chapter or the amount of a payment, may have the application reviewed by the agency head.As added by P.L.18-1990, SEC.226.
IN Code § 8-23-17-24 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 23. Indiana Department of Transportation|Chapter 17. Relocation Assistance|8-23-17-24. Rules and Provisions; Adoption by Agency Heads and Governor

Sec. 24. Each agency head may adopt rules and procedures, consistent with this chapter, as necessary or appropriate to carry out its purposes. The governor may, with the approval of the attorney general, adopt uniform rules and procedures, including uniform schedules of payments under section 14 of this chapter and standards for the determination of payments under sections 16 and 17 of this chapter. The rules must be uniform and applicable to all agencies subject to this chapter. In adopting rules the governor, or the agency head if the governor has not adopted rules, shall consult with federal agencies administering relocation assistance programs under the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970 (42 U.S.C. 4601-4655) to promote uniform and effective administration of relocation assistance and land acquisition by all governmental agencies acquiring property in Indiana.As added by P.L.18-1990, SEC.226.
IN Code § 8-23-17-26 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 23. Indiana Department of Transportation|Chapter 17. Relocation Assistance|8-23-17-26. Reimbursement of Conveyance Expenses, Penalties, and Real Property Taxes

Sec. 26. The acquiring agency, as soon as practicable after the date of payment of the purchase price or the date of deposit in court of funds to satisfy the award of compensation in eminent domain proceedings to acquire real property, whichever is the earlier, shall reimburse the owner, to the extent the agency head deems fair and reasonable, for expenses the owner necessarily incurred for:(1) recording fees, transfer taxes, and similar expenses incidental to conveying the real property to the agency;(2) penalty costs for prepayment of any preexisting recorded mortgage entered into in good faith encumbering the real property; and(3) the pro rata portion of real property taxes paid that are allocable to a period subsequent to the date of vesting title in the agency or the effective date of possession of the real property by the agency, whichever is the earlier.As added by P.L.18-1990, SEC.226.
IN Code § 8-23-17-27 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 23. Indiana Department of Transportation|Chapter 17. Relocation Assistance|8-23-17-27. Awards for Condemnation Proceeding Expenses

Sec. 27. (a) The court having jurisdiction of a proceeding instituted by an agency to acquire real property by eminent domain shall award the owner of a right, or title to, or interest in, the real property the sum that will in the opinion of the court reimburse the owner for reasonable costs, disbursements, and expenses, including reasonable attorney, appraisal, and engineering fees, actually incurred because of the condemnation proceedings, if:(1) the final judgment is that the agency cannot acquire the real property by eminent domain; or(2) the proceeding is abandoned by the agency.(b) An award made under subsection (a) shall be paid by the agency for whose benefit the eminent domain proceedings were instituted.(c) The court rendering a judgment for the plaintiff in a proceeding brought under IC 32-24-1-16 or any other Indiana law providing for the institution of proceedings by the owner seeking just compensation for property taken for public use in awarding compensation for the taking of property by an agency, or the agency effecting a settlement of a proceeding, shall determine and award or allow to the plaintiff, as a part of the judgment or settlement a sum that will in the opinion of the court or the agency reimburse the plaintiff for reasonable costs, disbursements, and expenses, including reasonable attorney, appraisal, and engineering fees, actually incurred because of the proceeding.As added by P.L.18-1990, SEC.226. Amended by P.L.2-2002, SEC.49.
IN Code § 8-23-17-28 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 23. Indiana Department of Transportation|Chapter 17. Relocation Assistance|8-23-17-28. Adequate Replacement Dwelling Requirement

Sec. 28. A person is not required to move from the person's dwelling by an agency acquiring the dwelling or engaged in a code enforcement program unless the agency head has determined that an adequate replacement dwelling is available to the person.As added by P.L.18-1990, SEC.226.
IN Code § 8-23-17-29 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 23. Indiana Department of Transportation|Chapter 17. Relocation Assistance|8-23-17-29. Effect of Chapter

Sec. 29. (a) Section 25 of this chapter does not create a legal right or liability and does not affect the validity of property acquisitions by purchase or condemnation.(b) This chapter does not create an element of value or damages not in existence before April 16, 1971, in any proceedings brought under the power of eminent domain.As added by P.L.18-1990, SEC.226.
IN Code § 8-23-17-30 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 23. Indiana Department of Transportation|Chapter 17. Relocation Assistance|8-23-17-30. Federal Assistance; Compliance With Federal Law

Sec. 30. An agency acquiring real property or engaging in code enforcement activities under a program under which federal financial assistance is or will be available to pay the cost of the program is authorized to enter into an agreement with the appropriate federal agency under which the agency agrees to provide relocation assistance services and payments as required or authorized under the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Land Acquisition Policies Act of 1970 (42 U.S.C. 4601-4655) and to use available federal funds. The agency using federal financial assistance may make contracts and expenditures, and act, make rules, orders, and findings as necessary to comply with the federal law and the related rules, regulations, and interpretations promulgated by the appropriate federal agencies.As added by P.L.18-1990, SEC.226.
IN Code § 8-23-17-31 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 23. Indiana Department of Transportation|Chapter 17. Relocation Assistance|8-23-17-31. Federal Assistance; Noncompliance With Chapter

Sec. 31. An agency acquiring real property or engaging in code enforcement activities with federal financial assistance or acquiring real property reasonably anticipating that federal funds might be used to reimburse the cost of construction or other activity for which the real property is acquired and that is subject to the requirements of the Federal Uniform Relocations Assistance and Real Property Acquisitions Policies Act of 1970 (42 U.S.C. 4601-4655) is not required to make relocation payments or provide relocation assistance programs under this chapter, or to comply with any procedures or rules under this chapter that are inconsistent with applicable federal law or regulations if the agency complies with all applicable federal law and regulations relating to relocation payments and assistance for persons displaced by the project.As added by P.L.18-1990, SEC.226.
IN Code § 8-23-17-32 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 23. Indiana Department of Transportation|Chapter 17. Relocation Assistance|8-23-17-32. Tax Exemptions; Effect of Payments on Public Assistance Eligibility

Sec. 32. (a) All amounts paid to displaced persons under this chapter are exempt from taxation under IC 6-3.(b) A payment received under this chapter is not considered as income for the purpose of determining the eligibility or extent of eligibility of any person for public assistance under the following:TANF assistance.TANF burials.TANF IMPACT/J.O.B.S.Temporary Assistance to Other Needy Families (TAONF) assistance.ARCH.Blind relief.Child care.Child welfare adoption assistance.Child welfare adoption opportunities.Child welfare assistance.Child welfare child care improvement.Child welfare child abuse.Child welfare child abuse and neglect prevention.Child welfare children's victim advocacy program.Child welfare foster care assistance.Child welfare independent living.Child welfare medical assistance to wards.Child welfare program review action group (PRAG).Child welfare special needs adoption.Food Stamp administration.Health care for indigent (HIC).ICES.IMPACT (food stamps).Title IV-D (ICETS).Title IV-D child support administration.Title IV-D child support enforcement (parent locator).Medicaid assistance.Medical services for inmates and patients (590).Room and board assistance (RBA).Refugee social service.Refugee resettlement.Repatriated citizens.SSI burials and disabled examinations.Title XIX certification.Any other Indiana law administered by the division of family resources or the department of child services.As added by P.L.18-1990, SEC.226. Amended by P.L.2-1992, SEC.83; P.L.192-2002(ss), SEC.151; P.L.145-2006, SEC.22; P.L.161-2007, SEC.3.
IN Code § 8-23-17-33 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 23. Indiana Department of Transportation|Chapter 17. Relocation Assistance|8-23-17-33. Review of Determination

Sec. 33. A person aggrieved by a determination made by an agency head under this chapter may have the determination reviewed by the governing body or principal executive officer of the agency. A final determination of the agency is subject to judicial review under IC 4-21.5-5.As added by P.L.18-1990, SEC.226.
IN Code § 8-23-17-34 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 23. Indiana Department of Transportation|Chapter 17. Relocation Assistance|8-23-17-34. Waiver of Eminent Domain Power; Notice to Property Owner

Sec. 34. This chapter is not applicable to the purchase of a parcel of real property by an agency if the agency head gives notice in writing to the owner of the property not later than the date of its first offer to purchase the property that the agency will not exercise a right it may have to acquire the property through exercise of the power of eminent domain. Proceedings in eminent domain may not thereafter be instituted by the agency with respect to the real property unless the notice is expressly revoked in writing. If the notice is revoked, the provisions of this chapter are applicable as if the agency had not given notice under this section.As added by P.L.18-1990, SEC.226.
IN Code § 8-23-17-35 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 23. Indiana Department of Transportation|Chapter 17. Relocation Assistance|8-23-17-35. Financing of Payments

Sec. 35. Funds appropriated or otherwise available to an agency for the acquisition of real property or an interest in real property or for the conduct of code enforcement programs shall also be available to carry out this chapter.As added by P.L.18-1990, SEC.226.
IN Code § 8-23-18-1 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 23. Indiana Department of Transportation|Chapter 18. Acquisition of Public Property for Highways|8-23-18-1. Authority for Acquisition

Sec. 1. The authority given to the department to acquire the fee simple title to public or private real property, rights, or easements needed or reasonably necessary for a state highway includes the right to acquire real property or a right in, to, or over real property owned, held, or claimed by a city, town, township, county, school corporation or other municipal corporation, or political subdivision of the state, public corporation, instrumentality, or agency supported in whole or in part by taxation.As added by P.L.18-1990, SEC.227.
IN Code § 8-23-18-2 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 23. Indiana Department of Transportation|Chapter 18. Acquisition of Public Property for Highways|8-23-18-2. Use of Eminent Domain

Sec. 2. Whenever the department is unable to agree with an owner of real property or a right described in section 1 of this chapter upon the damages sustained by the owner or upon the purchase price of the real property in fee or the right, interest, or easement sought to be acquired, the department may proceed in the name of the state in the exercise of the right of eminent domain to condemn and acquire the real property or right.As added by P.L.18-1990, SEC.227.
IN Code § 8-23-18-3 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 23. Indiana Department of Transportation|Chapter 18. Acquisition of Public Property for Highways|8-23-18-3. Voluntary Conveyances and Grants by Political Entities

Sec. 3. Each city, town, township, county, school corporation and other political subdivision of the state, public corporation, instrumentality, or agency supported in whole or part by taxation may convey and grant to the state for the use and benefit of the department, by voluntary conveyance or grant, with or without consideration, any real property or rights in or to real property needed or reasonably necessary for a state highway.As added by P.L.18-1990, SEC.227.
IN Code § 8-23-18-4 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 23. Indiana Department of Transportation|Chapter 18. Acquisition of Public Property for Highways|8-23-18-4. Tax Delinquent Lands; Acquisition

Sec. 4. Whenever the real property or right in real property sought to be acquired by the department is real property, or a right or interest in real property that was acquired by the county, municipality, or political subdivision after the real property or right had been unsuccessfully offered for sale for delinquent taxes, and had been acquired by or for the county for the delinquent taxes under the law the purchase price or condemnation award paid by the department to the county, municipality, or political subdivision may not exceed the amount of the delinquent and general taxes due at the time it was acquired by the county, municipality, or political subdivision, excluding penalties and not including any current taxes becoming due and payable in the year in which acquired by the state for highway use. A county shall convey and transfer real property, a right or interest in real property to the state for the use of the department for consideration whenever requested to do so by the department. The consideration paid by the department shall be distributed among the several subdivisions of government in the manner provided by IC 6-1.1, as other collections of delinquent taxes are distributed.As added by P.L.18-1990, SEC.227.
IN Code § 8-23-18-5 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 23. Indiana Department of Transportation|Chapter 18. Acquisition of Public Property for Highways|8-23-18-5. Tax Delinquent Lands; Acquisition After Assertion of Right of Redemption

Sec. 5. If a right of redemption exists in the owner of a interest in real property described in section 4 of this chapter that is asserted in the time and manner allowed and permitted by law, it shall be treated as any other private interest in real property acquired for public use by the department. However, if the county or municipality has placed any improvements upon the real property after acquiring the real property, the department shall pay the reasonable value of the improvements. If the reasonable value of the improvements cannot be determined by agreement, the department may proceed in the name of the state in the exercise of the right of eminent domain to condemn and acquire the real property.As added by P.L.18-1990, SEC.227.
IN Code § 8-23-18-6 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 23. Indiana Department of Transportation|Chapter 18. Acquisition of Public Property for Highways|8-23-18-6. Validation Grants and Conveyances by Political Entities

Sec. 6. All grants and conveyances made before March 11, 1959, by a municipality or subdivision of government, public corporation, instrumentality, or agency supported in whole or in part by taxation are hereby declared to be valid and of full force and effect.As added by P.L.18-1990, SEC.227.
IN Code § 8-23-19-1 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 23. Indiana Department of Transportation|Chapter 19. Advance Land Acquisition Revolving Fund|8-23-19-1. Creation of Fund

Sec. 1. There is created a revolving fund to be known as the highway rights-of-way and construction revolving fund. This revolving fund is created to comply with 23 U.S.C. 124.As added by P.L.18-1990, SEC.228.
IN Code § 8-23-19-2 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 23. Indiana Department of Transportation|Chapter 19. Advance Land Acquisition Revolving Fund|8-23-19-2. Deposit of Federal Advances

Sec. 2. Advances made by the federal highway administration to this state to enable the department to make payments for acquisitions of rights-of-way and for construction as it progresses shall be deposited in the revolving fund by the state official authorized by Indiana law to receive federal-aid highway funds.As added by P.L.18-1990, SEC.228.
IN Code § 8-23-19-3 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 23. Indiana Department of Transportation|Chapter 19. Advance Land Acquisition Revolving Fund|8-23-19-3. Disbursements

Sec. 3. Disbursements shall be made from this fund solely upon vouchers approved by the department for rights-of-way that have been or are being acquired and for construction that has been actually performed and approved by the Federal Highway Administration.As added by P.L.18-1990, SEC.228.