Court Opinion

ID: 9745083
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 22:33:16.888202+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:24:55.674209
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*170Concurring Opinion
Emmert, C. J.
I concur in the majority opinion except as to the ineligibility of the members of the General Assembly to be members of the Commission. Once we hold, as I believe we must, that the State Office Building Commission is a corporate entity separate from the State in its sovereign corporate capacity, it logically follows that the Commission is not a Department of the State of Indiana. Therefore, §60-2102, Burns’ 1951 Replacement (Supp.), does not violate Art. 3, §1, Art. 4, §1, or Art. 5, §1 of the Constitution providing for the separation of the powers of government. The members of the Commission are not exercising any functions of the Executive Department, for that is a Department of the State in its separate sovereign capacity. The fact that the Commission is an instrumentality of the State does not make it the State any more than the Indiana State Toll-Bridge Commission or the Indiana Toll Road Commission are Departments of the State. Under the issues presented and considered, I believe the Act is legal and constitutional in its entirety.
Note.—Reported in 149 N. E. 2d 273.