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IN Code § 8-1-15-2 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 15. Water Utilities─vacation or Relocation of Roads|8-1-15-2. Hearing on Petition

Sec. 2. Upon the filing of the petition described in section 1 of this chapter, the court shall set a time for hearing not less than fourteen (14) days nor more than twenty-one (21) days thereafter and notice shall be given of the filing of said petition and the time set for hearing thereof by publication for two (2) full weeks in some newspaper, daily or daily except Sunday, of general circulation in each county wherein any portion of said highway is located. The notice shall be directed to the inhabitants of said county or counties and shall set forth a description of the highway or portion thereof which petitioner seeks to be vacated or relocated and in case of relocation, a distinct description of the proposed new route shall be given. A copy of the notice shall be personally served on the board of commissioners of each county in which said highway or any portion thereof is located in the same manner as a summons is served in civil cases. In case of vacation, the clerk of the court shall also send a copy of the published notice by registered mail to each of the owners of the abutting land affected by the vacation proceedings as set out in the petition, provided that the attorney of record who files said vacation proceedings shall deliver to said clerk sufficient postage and copies of the published notice to cover the mailing to such abutting owners.Formerly: Acts 1959, c.196, s.2. As amended by P.L.59-1984, SEC.72.
IN Code § 8-1-15-3 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 15. Water Utilities─vacation or Relocation of Roads|8-1-15-3. Aggrieved Persons; Filing Written Remonstrance

Sec. 3. Any person feeling himself aggrieved by the proposed vacation or relocation may file a written remonstrance with the court at any time prior to the time set forth for hearing upon any one or more of the following grounds and no other to wit:(a) That the highway or portion thereof proposed to be vacated or relocated is necessary to the growth of the county or counties in which it is located.(b) That the proposed vacation or relocation will leave the real estate of the remonstrant without means of ingress or egress by a public highway.(c) That such vacation or relocation will deny the public access to some public building, church or school or public grounds.(d) That the material allegations of the petition or any of them are not true.Formerly: Acts 1959, c.196, s.3.
IN Code § 8-1-15-4 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 15. Water Utilities─vacation or Relocation of Roads|8-1-15-4. Order Granting or Denying Petition

Sec. 4. If no such remonstrance shall be filed in writing with the court before the time set for hearing, the court shall grant the prayer of the petition. If remonstrance thereto be made, the court shall set the time for hearing and trial by the court and if the facts alleged in said petition are found true and the facts in said remonstrance are found not true the court shall overrule the remonstrance and grant the prayer of the petition. In either case, all costs of the proceedings shall be paid by the petitioner.Formerly: Acts 1959, c.196, s.4.
IN Code § 8-1-17-1 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 17. Telephones─rural Telephone Cooperative Act|8-1-17-1. Short Title

Sec. 1. This chapter may be known and referred to as the "Rural Communications Cooperative Act".Formerly: Acts 1951, c.193, s.1. As amended by P.L.59-1984, SEC.73; P.L.81-2020, SEC.3.
IN Code § 8-1-17-2 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 17. Telephones─rural Telephone Cooperative Act|8-1-17-2. Formation of Corporation

Sec. 2. Any number of natural persons not less than eleven (11) may, by executing, filing, and recording articles of incorporation as provided in this chapter, form a cooperative corporation, not organized for pecuniary profit, for the purpose of:(1) if the corporation is local in its scope, promoting and encouraging the fullest possible use of communications service in Indiana by making communications service and educational services incident to communications service available to inhabitants of rural areas of Indiana at the lowest cost consistent with sound economy and prudent management of the business of the cooperative corporation; or(2) if the corporation is general in its scope, furnishing engineering, financial, accounting, and/or educational services, incident to communications service.Formerly: Acts 1951, c.193, s.2. As amended by P.L.136-2018, SEC.73; P.L.81-2020, SEC.4.
IN Code § 8-1-17-2.1 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 17. Telephones─rural Telephone Cooperative Act|8-1-17-2.1. Not-for-Profit Corporations Formed Under Acts 1935, C. 157; Amended Articles of Incorporation

Sec. 2.1. (a) If the requirements of subsection (b) are met, a local cooperative telephone corporation formed under Acts 1935, c.157 is considered to be a communications cooperative corporation formed under this chapter and is subject to its requirements and not the requirements of IC 23-7-1.1 (before its repeal August 1, 1991) or IC 23-17.(b) A local cooperative telephone corporation described in subsection (a) shall amend its articles of incorporation in accordance with IC 23-7-1.1 (before its repeal August 1, 1991) or IC 23-17 to conform to the requirements of this chapter and shall submit a copy of its amended articles to the commission for approval. After examining the articles, the commission shall approve the amended articles if they conform to the requirements of this chapter. The commission may approve the amended articles without conducting a hearing. The secretary of state may not issue a certificate of amendment before the commission approves the amended articles under this subsection.(c) The certificate of public convenience and necessity or certificate of territorial authority previously issued to a local cooperative telephone corporation described in subsection (a) shall serve as the certificate required under section 6 of this chapter (before its repeal July 1, 2009).(d) Subsection (a) applies to a local telephone cooperative corporation as of the date the secretary of state issues a certificate of amendment under IC 23-7-1.1-26 (before its repeal August 1, 1991) or IC 23-17-17.(e) The local cooperative telephone corporation shall record the amended articles of incorporation in the county where the local cooperative telephone corporation has its principal office.As added by P.L.122-1987, SEC.1. Amended by P.L.179-1991, SEC.13; P.L.96-1993, SEC.1; P.L.27-2006, SEC.40; P.L.81-2020, SEC.5.
IN Code § 8-1-17-2.2 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 17. Telephones─rural Telephone Cooperative Act|8-1-17-2.2. Telephone Cooperative Corporations Formed Before July 1, 2020

Sec. 2.2. (a) A telephone cooperative corporation formed under this chapter before July 1, 2020, is, after June 30, 2020:(1) considered to be a communications cooperative corporation; and(2) subject to this chapter;as if the telephone cooperative corporation were formed under this chapter after June 30, 2020.(b) After June 30, 2020, a reference in a statute, rule, or other document to a telephone cooperative corporation formed under this chapter is considered a reference to a communications cooperative corporation formed under this chapter.As added by P.L.81-2020, SEC.6.
IN Code § 8-1-17-3 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 17. Telephones─rural Telephone Cooperative Act|8-1-17-3. Definitions

Sec. 3. As used in this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context:(1) "Acquire" means to obtain by construction, purchase, lease, devise, gift, eminent domain, or by any other lawful means.(2) "Board" means the board of directors of a cooperative corporation.(3) "Communications facilities" includes all buildings, plants, works, structures, improvements, fixtures, apparatus, materials, supplies, machinery, tools, implements, poles, posts, crossarms, conduits, ducts, underground or overhead lines, wires, cables, fibers, exchanges, switches, desks, testboards, frames, racks, motors, generators, batteries, and other items of central office equipment, paystations, protectors, instruments, connections, and appliances, office furniture and equipment, work equipment, and all other property used in connection with the provision of communications services.(4) "Communications service":(A) has the meaning set forth in IC 8-1-32.5-3; and(B) includes all facilities or systems used in the rendition of the service.(5) "Cooperative corporation" means a corporation formed under this chapter.(6) "Facilities based local exchange carrier" has the meaning set forth in IC 8-1-32.4-5.(7) "General cooperative corporation" means a cooperative corporation formed to render services to local cooperative corporations.(8) "Improve" includes construct, reconstruct, extend, enlarge, alter, better, or repair.(9) "Local cooperative corporation" means a cooperative corporation formed to render communications services within Indiana.(10) "Local exchange service" has the meaning set forth in IC 8-1-32.4-8.(11) "Member" includes each individual signing the articles of incorporation of a cooperative corporation and each person admitted to membership of the cooperative corporation under law and the corporation's bylaws.(12) "Obligations" includes negotiable bonds, notes, debentures, interim certificates or receipts, and other evidences of indebtedness, either issued or the payment of which is assumed by a cooperative corporation.(13) "Person" or "inhabitant" includes an individual, a firm, an association, a corporation, a limited liability company, a business trust, and a partnership.(14) "Service" or "services", when not accompanied by the word "communications", means construction, engineering, financial, accounting, or educational services incidental to communications service.(15) "System" includes any plant, works, system, facilities, or properties, together with all parts of and appurtenances to the plant, works, system, facilities, or properties, used or useful in communications service.Formerly: Acts 1951, c.193, s.3. As amended by P.L.59-1984, SEC.74; P.L.23-1988, SEC.56; P.L.97-1993, SEC.1; P.L.8-1993, SEC.127; P.L.27-2006, SEC.41; P.L.7-2015, SEC.11; P.L.49-2018, SEC.3; P.L.81-2020, SEC.7.
IN Code § 8-1-17-4 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 17. Telephones─rural Telephone Cooperative Act|8-1-17-4. Articles of Incorporation

Sec. 4. The articles of incorporation shall be entitled and endorsed "Articles of Incorporation of ____________ (the blank space to be filled in with the name of the corporation) and shall state:(1) The name of the cooperative corporation, which shall be such as to distinguish it from any other corporation, and a statement whether it is to be a general or a local cooperative corporation.(2) A statement of the county or counties within which its operations are to be conducted. If it is a local cooperative corporation, the rural area or areas in which its operations are to be conducted shall be further described and limited from time to time by certificate issued by the commission.(3) Location of its principal office and post office address.(4) The maximum number of directors, not less than three (3).(5) The names and post office addresses of the directors who are to manage the affairs of the cooperative corporation for the first year of its existence or until their successors are chosen.(6) The period, if any, limited for the duration of the cooperative corporation or a statement that the duration of the cooperative corporation is to be perpetual.(7) The terms and conditions upon which members of the corporation shall be admitted.(8) The articles of incorporation of a cooperative corporation may contain also any provision not contrary to law which the incorporators may desire for the regulation of its business and the conduct of its affairs; and any provisions creating, defining, limiting or regulating the powers of the cooperative corporation, its directors and members.Formerly: Acts 1951, c.193, s.4. As amended by P.L.119-1987, SEC.2.
IN Code § 8-1-17-7 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 17. Telephones─rural Telephone Cooperative Act|8-1-17-7. Board of Directors

Sec. 7. (a) Each cooperative corporation formed under this chapter shall have a board of directors, which board shall constitute the governing body of the cooperative corporation. The directors of a local cooperative corporation must be members, or if the cooperative corporation's bylaws so provide, a member's officers, directors, or partners, or the owner of a member that is a sole proprietorship may be directors of the cooperative corporation. Directors other than those named in the cooperative corporation's articles of incorporation shall be elected by the cooperative corporation's members.(b) Unless the bylaws of the cooperative corporation provide otherwise, such directors shall be elected annually. The bylaws may provide that the directors may hold office for any stated period not exceeding three (3) years, and be so elected that the terms of only part of such directors shall expire at any one (1) time and that only enough directors to succeed those whose terms are about to expire need be elected in any year.(c) The bylaws may provide that the area in which the members of the cooperative corporation reside shall be apportioned into districts and prescribe the procedure by which the members residing in any one (1) district may nominate a director.(d) The bylaws may specify a fair remuneration for the time actually spent by its officers, directors, and members of its executive committee in the performance of their duties as such and provide that the same be paid them respectively. The officers, directors, and members of the executive committee shall be entitled to reimbursement for expenses incurred by them in the performance of their duties whether or not the bylaws provide that they be remunerated for their time spent in such performance.(e) The board shall annually designate and elect those officers it considers necessary.Formerly: Acts 1951, c.193, s.7. As amended by P.L.97-1993, SEC.4; P.L.145-1999, SEC.2; P.L.198-1999, SEC.4; P.L.14-2000, SEC.25.
IN Code § 8-1-17-8 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 17. Telephones─rural Telephone Cooperative Act|8-1-17-8. Board of Directors; Powers and Duties

Sec. 8. The board shall have power to do all things necessary or convenient in conducting the business of the cooperative corporation, including but not limited to:(a) The power to make, alter, amend or repeal by-laws for the regulation and management of the affairs of the cooperative corporation not inconsistent with law or with the articles of incorporation.(b) To appoint agents and employees and to fix their compensation and the compensation of the officers of the cooperative corporation.(c) To execute instruments.(d) To delegate to one or more of the directors or to the agents and employees of the cooperative corporation such powers and duties as it may deem proper.(e) To make its own rules and regulations as to its procedure.Formerly: Acts 1951, c.193, s.8.
IN Code § 8-1-17-10 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 17. Telephones─rural Telephone Cooperative Act|8-1-17-10. Corporate Purpose; Local Cooperative Corporation

Sec. 10. (a) The corporate purpose of each local cooperative corporation shall be to render communications service to its members and to such other persons in the specific instances as expressly provided in this chapter, and no person shall become or remain a member unless such person shall use communications service supplied by such cooperative corporation and shall have complied with the terms and conditions in respect to membership contained in the bylaws of such cooperative corporation.(b) A local cooperative corporation is one formed under this chapter for the purpose of furnishing communications service to its patrons.Formerly: Acts 1951, c.193, s.10. As amended by P.L.59-1984, SEC.76; P.L.81-2020, SEC.9.
IN Code § 8-1-17-11 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 17. Telephones─rural Telephone Cooperative Act|8-1-17-11. General Cooperative Corporation and Local Cooperative Corporation Distinguished

Sec. 11. Any cooperative corporation to be formed under this chapter shall be either a general cooperative corporation or a local cooperative corporation.(a) A general cooperative corporation is one formed under this chapter for the purpose of furnishing engineering, financial accounting, or educational services to its members or to persons expecting to form a local cooperative corporation, and having for its members only its incorporators or local cooperative corporations. It shall not render communications service and the commission shall not allocate to it any territory for such purpose.(b) A general cooperative corporation may be formed to have as members, and serve, local cooperative corporations in all, or certain named, counties of this state, not including any county previously named as part of the territory to be served by another general cooperative corporation then organized and existing, unless such other general cooperative corporation duly consents in writing, filed with the commission, to such inclusion.(c) A general cooperative corporation, before obtaining the approval of its articles of incorporation, must prove to the commission that it has written consent to its incorporation signed by or on behalf of:(1) the local cooperative corporations then existing and contemplated to be members of the general cooperative corporation; and(2) the incorporated agricultural association or associations, including in its or their members at least one-third (1/3) of the members residing in the territory in which the general cooperative proposes to operate and reasonably anticipated to become members of local cooperative corporations which will become members of such general cooperative corporation.Such signatures of said local cooperative corporations and of such agricultural associations shall be made by their respective presidents or vice presidents, and secretaries or assistant secretaries, and shall be supported by certified copies of resolutions authorizing the same and duly adopted by their boards of directors, respectively.Formerly: Acts 1951, c.193, s.11. As amended by P.L.59-1984, SEC.77; P.L.97-1993, SEC.6; P.L.136-2018, SEC.74; P.L.81-2020, SEC.10.
IN Code § 8-1-17-12 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 17. Telephones─rural Telephone Cooperative Act|8-1-17-12. General Grant of Powers to Corporation

Sec. 12. Each cooperative corporation is vested with all powers necessary or requisite for the accomplishment of its corporate purpose and capable of being delegated by the general assembly of the state of Indiana; and no enumeration of particular powers granted by this chapter shall be construed to impair any general grant of power contained in this chapter, nor to limit any such grant to a power or powers of the same class or classes as those so enumerated.Formerly: Acts 1951, c.193, s.12. As amended by P.L.49-2018, SEC.5; P.L.136-2018, SEC.75.
IN Code § 8-1-17-14 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 17. Telephones─rural Telephone Cooperative Act|8-1-17-14. Sale, Encumbrance, or Other Disposition of Property

Sec. 14. A local cooperative corporation may not sell, lease, exchange, mortgage, pledge, or otherwise sell all, or substantially all, of its property unless the transaction is authorized by a resolution duly adopted at a meeting of the corporation's members duly called and held as provided in section 9 of this chapter. The resolution must receive the affirmative vote of at least three-fourths (3/4) of the total number of the corporation's members who either:(1) are present in person and voting at the meeting; or(2) as authorized under section 9(g) of this chapter, cast a vote before the date of the meeting;and the affirmative vote of at least three-fourths (3/4) of the corporation's directors who are present at a meeting of the board of directors duly called and held as provided in the corporation's bylaws.Formerly: Acts 1951, c.193, s.14. As amended by P.L.59-1984, SEC.78; P.L.27-2006, SEC.44; P.L.49-2018, SEC.6.
IN Code § 8-1-17-15 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 17. Telephones─rural Telephone Cooperative Act|8-1-17-15. Obligations; Authority for Issuance

Sec. 15. (a) A cooperative corporation shall have power and is hereby authorized, from time to time, to issue its obligations for any corporate purpose. The obligations may be authorized by resolution or resolutions of the board, and may bear such date or dates, mature at such time or times, not exceeding forty (40) years from their respective dates, bear interest at any rate, payable semi-annually, be in such denominations, be in such form, either coupon or registered, carry such registration privileges, be executed in such manner, be payable in such medium of payment, at such place or places, and be subject to such terms of redemption, not exceeding the principal amount of the obligations plus accrued interest, as the board's resolution or resolutions may provide.(b) The obligations may be sold in such manner and upon such terms as the board may determine at not less than the principal amount of the obligations plus accrued interest.(c) Any provision of law to the contrary notwithstanding, any obligations and related interest coupons, if any, issued pursuant to this act shall possess all the qualities of negotiable instruments. The commission's approval shall not be required for the issuance by a cooperative corporation of its bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness.Formerly: Acts 1951, c.193, s.15. As amended by Acts 1981, P.L.11, SEC.46; P.L.27-2006, SEC.45.
IN Code § 8-1-17-16 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 17. Telephones─rural Telephone Cooperative Act|8-1-17-16. Obligations; Covenants and Agreements to Secure

Sec. 16. In connection with the issuance of any obligations, a cooperative corporation may make such covenants or agreements and do any and all such acts and things as may be necessary, convenient or desirable in order to secure its obligations or which, in the absolute discretion of the board, tend to make the obligations more marketable, notwithstanding that such covenants, agreements, acts and things may constitute a limitation on the exercise of the powers granted under this chapter.Formerly: Acts 1951, c.193, s.16. As amended by P.L.136-2018, SEC.76.
IN Code § 8-1-17-17 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 17. Telephones─rural Telephone Cooperative Act|8-1-17-17. Purchase of Own Obligations

Sec. 17. A cooperative corporation shall have power out of any funds available therefor to purchase any obligations issued by it at a price not exceeding the principal amount thereof and accrued interest thereon. All obligations so purchased shall be canceled.Formerly: Acts 1951, c.193, s.17.