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IN Code § 8-4-13-1 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 4. Organization and Operation of Railroads|Chapter 13. Voluntary Dissolution of Railroad Companies|8-4-13-1. Authority for Dissolution

Sec. 1. Any corporation organized before or after May 22, 1933, under Indiana statutes for the purpose of construction, owning, maintaining, and/or operating a railroad, other than a street railroad or an interurban railroad, may voluntarily dissolve under and pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.Formerly: Acts 1933, c.107, s.1. As amended by P.L.62-1984, SEC.65.
IN Code § 8-4-13-2 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 4. Organization and Operation of Railroads|Chapter 13. Voluntary Dissolution of Railroad Companies|8-4-13-2. Consent of Shareholders; Certificate of Dissolution

Sec. 2. If the holders of record of all the outstanding shares of the capital stock of a corporation organized under the laws of this state for the purpose of constructing, owning, maintaining and/or operating a railroad other than a street railroad or an interurban railroad, consent, or have heretofore consented, in writing to its dissolution or if at a special meeting of which notice has been given to, or waived by, all the shareholders of every class, whether or not entitled to vote, a resolution is adopted, or has heretofore been adopted, by the votes cast in person or proxy by the holders of record of shares entitling them to exercise two-thirds (2/3) of the voting power, or such other proportion as the articles of incorporation or by-laws may require, declaring that it is desirable to wind-up and dissolve such corporation, the president or a vice-president and the secretary or an assistant secretary shall file in the office of the secretary of state a certificate verified by their oath, stating:1. The name of the corporation.2. The place where its principal office is located.3. The names and post-office addresses of its directors and officers, and, if any post-office address be in a city, the street and number or any other particular description thereof, if known.4. That it elects to wind-up and dissolve.5. That (if) they have been authorized to execute and file such certificate by a resolution adopted as above provided or that they have been so authorized by the written consent of the holders of record of all the outstanding shares of the corporation.Formerly: Acts 1933, c.107, s.2.
IN Code § 8-4-13-3 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 4. Organization and Operation of Railroads|Chapter 13. Voluntary Dissolution of Railroad Companies|8-4-13-3. Filing Certificate; Entry by Secretary of State

Sec. 3. Upon the filing of any such certificate together with an affidavit of one (1) of the principal officers of said corporation containing a statement that said corporation has lawfully disposed of all of its property and that all debts, obligations and liabilities of the corporation have been paid, or discharged, or that adequate provision has been made therefor, including all taxes accrued up to the date of such filing, the corporation shall be dissolved, and the secretary of state shall make an appropriate entry or record accordingly.Formerly: Acts 1933, c.107, s.3; Acts 1945, c.121, s.1.
IN Code § 8-4-13-4 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 4. Organization and Operation of Railroads|Chapter 13. Voluntary Dissolution of Railroad Companies|8-4-13-4. Notice; Publication

Sec. 4. The directors of such dissolved corporation shall forthwith cause a notice of such dissolution to be published once a week on the same day of each week for two (2) successive weeks in a newspaper published in and of general circulation in the county in which the principal office of the corporation is located.Formerly: Acts 1933, c.107, s.4.
IN Code § 8-4-14-1 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 4. Organization and Operation of Railroads|Chapter 14. Reorganization of Railroads After Sale|8-4-14-1. Authority for Reorganization

Sec. 1. (a) In case of the sale of any railroad and its property, under or by the authority of any competent court or courts (part of which railroad may be situate within the state of Indiana and part situate in an adjoining state, and embraced in the mortgage or mortgages or deed or deeds of trust), it may be sold at one (1) time and place, as an entirety, at such point on the line of said railroad, either within or without the state, and upon such notice, as the court or courts ordering such sale may direct.(b) In case of the reorganization of any railroad and its property under or by the authority of any competent court or courts of the United States in a proceeding for the reorganization of a railroad pursuant to Regional Rail Reorganization Act (11 U.S.C. 101(33), 1163, and 1166 et seq.), the corporation to which all or any part of said railroad and its property may be transferred by or pursuant to an appropriate order or decree of said court or courts may be a corporation organized under this chapter and having all of the powers, rights, privileges, immunities, and franchises provided in this chapter.(c) This chapter is hereby declared to apply to and embrace any and all sales or purchases of railroads, their franchises, rights, and privileges, under judicial degrees, or judgments of any of the courts of the state of Indiana, or of the United States, at any time, whether said sale under such decrees or judgments, may have occurred before or after March 6, 1945.Formerly: Acts 1945, c.202, s.1. As amended by P.L.62-1984, SEC.66.
IN Code § 8-4-14-2 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 4. Organization and Operation of Railroads|Chapter 14. Reorganization of Railroads After Sale|8-4-14-2. Certificate of Reorganization

Sec. 2. In case of the sale of any railroad and its property (situated wholly or partly within this state, or situated partly in this state and partly in an adjoining state) by virtue of any mortgage or mortgages or deed or deeds of trust, either by foreclosure or other judicial proceedings, or pursuant to any power contained in such mortgage or mortgages or deed or deeds of trust, or by the joint exercise of said powers and authorities, the purchaser or purchasers thereof, their survivor or survivors, or he or his or they or their associates or assigns, may form a corporation by filing in the office of the secretary of state a certificate specifying the name and style of the corporation, the number of directors, the names of the first directors and the period of their service (not exceeding one (1) year), the amount of original capital, and the number of shares into which said capital is to be divided; and in case of the reorganization of any railroad and its property (situated wholly or partly within this state and whether owned prior to the reorganization proceedings by a corporation of this state or by a corporation of another state) in a proceeding under section 77 of the Act of July 1, 1898, entitled "An act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States," as amended, any three (3) or more persons, being either directors or officers of the railroad, may form a corporation by filing in the office of the secretary of state a certificate specifying the name and style of the corporation, the number of directors, the names of the first directors and the period of their service (not exceeding one (1) year), the amount of original capital, and the number of shares into which said capital is to be divided; and the persons signing said certificate, and their successors, shall be a body corporate and politic, by the name in said certificate specified, with power to sue and be sued, contract and be contracted with, and maintain and operate the railroad in said certificate named, and transact all business connected with same; and a copy of such certificate, attested by the signature of the secretary of state or his deputy, shall, in all courts and places, be evidence of the due organization and existence of the said corporation and of the matters in said certificate stated.Formerly: Acts 1945, c.202, s.2.
IN Code § 8-4-14-3 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 4. Organization and Operation of Railroads|Chapter 14. Reorganization of Railroads After Sale|8-4-14-3. Powers, Rights, Privileges, Immunities, and Franchises

Sec. 3. Such corporation shall possess all the powers, rights, privileges, immunities, and franchises in respect to said railroad, or the part thereof purchased or received pursuant to reorganization as aforesaid, and of all the real and personal property appertaining to the same, which were possessed or enjoyed by the corporation that owned or held the said railroad previous to such sale or reorganization proceeding by virtue of its charter and amendments thereto and other laws of this state or any state in which any part of said railroad is situate not inconsistent with the laws of this state. And it shall have power, at any time after the formation of the corporation as aforesaid, to assume any debts and liabilities of the former corporation or of the trustee in the reorganization proceeding, and to make such adjustment and settlement with any stockholder or stockholders or creditor or creditors of such former corporation as may be deemed expedient, and, for such purpose, to use such portions of the bonds and stock of said corporation as may be deemed advisable and in such manner as said corporation may deem proper; provided, that all subscribers to the original stock of said railroad company, their heirs, executors, and administrators shall (by the acceptance or adoption of this chapter by any purchaser or purchasers of any such railroad, as above provided) be released and discharged from all their unpaid subscriptions which shall not have been previously settled or arranged by agreement or compromise; and, provided, further, that such corporation, when so formed and organized, shall, in suing and being sued, and in operating such railroad, be subject to the general laws of this state not inconsistent with the original charter of said road and the amendments thereto.Formerly: Acts 1945, c.202, s.3. As amended by P.L.62-1984, SEC.67.
IN Code § 8-4-14-4 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 4. Organization and Operation of Railroads|Chapter 14. Reorganization of Railroads After Sale|8-4-14-4. Bonds, Mortgages, or Trust Deeds as Security

Sec. 4. (a) Said corporation shall have power to make and issue bonds, bearing any rate of interest, whether fixed or contingent, cumulative or noncumulative, payable at such times and places, and in such amount or amounts, and with such provisions with respect to redemption, sinking fund, maturity, issuance of said bonds in series, and conversion of said bonds into stock of said corporation at any time up to the maturity of said bonds, as it may deem expedient, and to sell and dispose of said bonds at such prices and in such manner as it may deem proper, to secure the payment of any bonds which it may make, issue or assume to pay by mortgage or mortgages or deed or deeds of trust of its railroad, or any part thereof, and of its real and personal property and franchises, and to act as a corporation.(b) All property of said corporation included in such mortgage or mortgages or deed or deeds of trust, whether then held or thereafter acquired, shall be subject to the operation and lien of such mortgage or mortgages or deed or deeds of trust, and in case of sale under the same, it shall pass to and become vested in the purchaser or purchasers thereof so as to enable them to form a corporation in the manner prescribed in this chapter, and to vest in such corporation all the faculties, powers, authorities, immunities, and franchises conferred by this chapter.Formerly: Acts 1945, c.202, s.4. As amended by Acts 1981, P.L.11, SEC.48; P.L.136-2018, SEC.93.
IN Code § 8-4-14-6 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 4. Organization and Operation of Railroads|Chapter 14. Reorganization of Railroads After Sale|8-4-14-6. Vesting of Railroad in Foreign Railroad Corporation

Sec. 6. In case a portion of any railroad situated within this state (a part of which is situated in another state) shall become vested in a corporation of another state, the said corporation may exercise and enjoy within this state, and also in such other state, for the purposes of such railroad and its business, all the rights, powers, faculties, franchises, and privileges in this chapter contained; and its mortgages and trust deeds shall operate and be binding as specified within the mortgages and trust deeds, and all sales under the same shall be valid and effectual. Where the railroad of a railroad corporation organized under the laws of this state has or shall become vested in a railroad corporation of another state, pursuant to an order or decree of any court or courts of the United States, in a proceeding for the reorganization of such railroad corporation of another state, pursuant to Regional Rail Reorganization Act (11 U.S.C. 101(44), 11 U.S.C. 1163, and 11 U.S.C. 1166 et seq.), such reorganized railroad corporation may exercise and enjoy within this state for the purpose of such reorganized railroad and its business, all rights, powers, privileges, franchises, and immunities that were possessed and enjoyed by said railroad corporation organized under the laws of this state; and such reorganized railroad corporation, when necessary or proper, may exercise the power of eminent domain in acquiring additional lands or property necessary or convenient for betterments, maintenance, extension, or operation of such railroad, and for the construction, use, and maintenance of spurs, switches, sidetracks, depots, stations, terminals, and other facilities to be used in connection with such railroad, in the manner and to the extent and subject to the limitations applying to Indiana railroad corporations.Formerly: Acts 1945, c.202, s.6. As amended by P.L.62-1984, SEC.68; P.L.7-2015, SEC.22; P.L.136-2018, SEC.94.
IN Code § 8-4-14-8 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 4. Organization and Operation of Railroads|Chapter 14. Reorganization of Railroads After Sale|8-4-14-8. Savings Provisions

Sec. 8. No rights, privileges, or immunities vested or accrued by or under Acts 1865, c.20, as amended, which was repealed by Acts 1945, c.202, s.8, shall be impaired or eliminated by reason of such repeal, nor shall such repeal affect any suits pending, rights of action conferred, or duties, restrictions, liabilities, or penalties imposed or required by or under Acts 1865, c.20, as amended, upon or of any corporation created or subject to Acts 1865, c.20, as amended, before March 6, 1945, it being understood that with respect to any corporation formed before March 6, 1945, the rights, powers, or duties given or imposed by Acts 1865, c.20, as amended, which was repealed by Acts 1945, c.202, s.8, may be exercised or enforced after March 6, 1945, as though such repeal had not been enacted, whether or not such right, power, or duty has before March 6, 1945, been exercised or imposed upon such corporation.Formerly: Acts 1945, c.202, s.9. As amended by P.L.62-1984, SEC.70.
IN Code § 8-4-16-1 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 4. Organization and Operation of Railroads|Chapter 16. Consolidation of Certain Railroads|8-4-16-1. Authority for Operation

Sec. 1. Any railroad or other company organized under the laws of this state, or of this state and any other state or states, and owning or operating, or authorized by its charter to construct or acquire, a railroad, bridge or tunnel, either wholly within or partly within and partly without this state, may consolidate its capital stock, franchises and property with the capital stock, franchises and property of any other railroad, tunnel or bridge company or companies organized under the laws of this state, or of this state and any other state or states, or of any other state or states, or may merge or be merged into any such other company, whenever the two (2) or more railroads of the companies so to be consolidated or merged, their tunnels, bridges or branches or any part thereof, or the lines or routes of their roads if not constructed, shall or may connect either directly or over the intervening line or lines of any one (1) or more railroad companies, and any such consolidated or surviving company may thereafter construct or finish the construction of such line of railroad if not previously constructed, and may operate the same, subject to all the provisions of law applicable to such railroad company.Formerly: Acts 1937, c.59, s.1; Acts 1955, c.342, s.1.
IN Code § 8-4-16-3 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 4. Organization and Operation of Railroads|Chapter 16. Consolidation of Certain Railroads|8-4-16-3. Vesting of Rights, Privileges, and Franchises in New or Surviving Company; Bond

Sec. 3. Upon the consummation of such consolidation or merger, all the rights, privileges, exemptions, and franchises of each of the companies, parties to the same, and all the property, real, personal, and mixed, and all the debts due on whatever account to any of them, as well as all stock subscriptions and other things in action belonging to any of them, shall be taken and deemed to be transferred to and vested in, or to remain vested in, such new or surviving company, without further act or deed; and all claims, demands, property, rights of way, and every other interest shall be as effectually the property of the new or surviving company as they were formerly of the companies parties to such consolidation or merger; and the title to all real estate, acquired by deed or otherwise, under the laws of this state, vested in any of such companies, parties to such consolidation or merger, shall not be deemed to revert or be in any way impaired by reason of this chapter or anything done by virtue thereof, but shall be or remain vested in the new or surviving company by virtue of such consolidation or merger. And it shall be lawful for any railroad company formed on or after June 7, 1937, by the consolidation of one (1) or more railroad companies organized under the laws of this state, or under the laws of this state and any other state or states, with one (1) or more railroad companies or corporations organized under the laws of any other state, or the laws of this state and any other state or states, or in the case of a merger of any such companies for the surviving company, to issue its bonds for the purpose of paying or retiring any bonds theretofore issued by any of said companies parties to such consolidation or merger, or for any purpose and to the amount authorized by the laws of the state or states under which any of said companies was organized, and to secure the same by mortgage upon its real or personal property, or both, franchises, rights, and privileges, whether within or without this state, and subject to the remedies for the enforcement of the same under the laws of any of said states. Any such consolidated or surviving company shall have the same right as any other railroad company organized under the laws of this state to confer on the holders of any bonds issued by it the right to convert the same into capital stock of the company. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to compel any bondholder to accept payment in whole or in part for any bond or bonds held by him or to surrender the same before they shall become due.Formerly: Acts 1937, c.59, s.3. As amended by P.L.62-1984, SEC.72.
IN Code § 8-4-16-4 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 4. Organization and Operation of Railroads|Chapter 16. Consolidation of Certain Railroads|8-4-16-4. Survival of Actions; Creditors' Rights; Liens; Survival

Sec. 4. The rights of all creditors of, and all liens upon the property of, any of such companies, parties to such consolidation or merger, shall be preserved unimpaired, and the respective companies shall be deemed to continue in existence to preserve the same, and all debts and liabilities incurred by any of such companies shall thenceforth attach to such new or surviving company, and be enforceable against it and its property to the same extent as if incurred or contracted by it. No actions or proceedings in which any of said such companies is a party shall abate or be discontinued by reason of such consolidation or merger, but may be conducted to final judgment in the name of such company, or such new or surviving company may be, by order of the court, on motion substituted as a party.Formerly: Acts 1937, c.59, s.4.
IN Code § 8-4-17-1 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 4. Organization and Operation of Railroads|Chapter 17. Service of Process on Railroads|8-4-17-1. Authority for Appointment

Sec. 1. Every railroad corporation incorporated under IC 8-4-1 and every railroad corporation owning any railroad or the franchises thereof created under any law of this state, and the vendee, lessee, or other party owning, running, controlling, or operating any railroad into or through this state, shall file, on July 1 of each year, the name and address of a resident agent with the Indiana department of transportation. Service of process on the resident agent shall be deemed notice to the railroad company.Formerly: Acts 1877(ss), c.31, s.1; Acts 1975, P.L.81, SEC.1. As amended by P.L.384-1987(ss), SEC.47; P.L.18-1990, SEC.55.
IN Code § 8-4-20-1 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 4. Organization and Operation of Railroads|Chapter 20. Contracts Between Connecting Railroads|8-4-20-1. Transportation of Freight and Passengers

Sec. 1. All railroad companies now organized or that may be hereafter organized under the laws of this state, having connecting roads, may enter into contracts by their respective boards of directors by which the locomotives and trains of one (1) railroad company, for the transportation of freight and passengers, may be run and operated over and upon the track and road of another railroad company, upon such terms as the said companies may agree upon.Formerly: Acts 1873, c.77, s.1.
IN Code § 8-4-20-2 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 4. Organization and Operation of Railroads|Chapter 20. Contracts Between Connecting Railroads|8-4-20-2. Ratification

Sec. 2. All contracts heretofore made in good faith between railroad companies organized under the laws of this state, acting by their respective boards of directors, by which the locomotives and trains of one (1) railroad company, for the transportation of freight and passengers, are to be run and operated over the track and road of another railroad company, are hereby ratified and made legal.Formerly: Acts 1873, c.77, s.2.
IN Code § 8-4-20-3 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 4. Organization and Operation of Railroads|Chapter 20. Contracts Between Connecting Railroads|8-4-20-3. Operation Upon Tracks of Another Company; Tort Liability

Sec. 3. Every railroad company that shall run and operate its locomotives and trains upon the track and road of another railroad company shall be liable to third persons for all damages occasioned by such locomotives and trains, in the same manner and to the same extent as though the track and road upon which such locomotives and trains were run and operated belonged to the company owning and operating the same.Formerly: Acts 1873, c.77, s.3.
IN Code § 8-4-21-1 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 4. Organization and Operation of Railroads|Chapter 21. Stockholder's Rights in Sale or Lease|8-4-21-1. Consent of Stockholders

Sec. 1. No such sale and purchase or lease shall be perfected until a meeting of the stockholders of each of the companies has been called for that purpose as hereinbefore provided, and the holders of at least two-thirds (2/3) of stock of each company in person or by proxy, at such meeting, assent thereto.Formerly: Acts 1913, c.169, s.2.