Indiana Code 8-15-3-1. “Cost”
(1) The cost of construction, including bridges over or under other public roads and railroads.
Terms Used In Indiana Code 8-15-3-1
- department: refers to the Indiana department of transportation. See Indiana Code 8-15-3-2
- Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
- Property: includes personal and real property. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
- real property: include lands, tenements, and hereditaments. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
- Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
- state highway: means a public road for which the department is responsible under Indiana Code 8-15-3-6
- tollway: includes :
Indiana Code 8-15-3-7
(3) The cost of demolishing or removing any building or structure on acquired real property, including the cost of acquiring any real property to which buildings or structures may be moved.
(4) The cost of diverting highways, interchanges of highways, and access roads to private property, including the cost of real property or easements.
(5) The cost of all machinery and equipment.
(6) The cost of traffic estimates and of engineering and legal expenses, plans, specifications, surveys, and estimates of costs and revenues.
(7) Other expenses that are necessary or incidental to the construction, reconstruction, or conversion of the tollway and the placing of the tollway in operation.
(8) Administrative expenses.
(9) Any obligation or expense incurred by the department for surveys, borings, preparation of plans and specifications, and other engineering services in connection with the construction of a tollway under this chapter.
(10) The repayment of a grant from a federal agency that the department itself is authorized to repay under section 19 of this chapter in connection with a tollway.
(11) The cost of conversion of a state highway to a tollway under IC 8-23-7-22.
As added by P.L.386-1987(ss), SEC.13. Amended by P.L.18-1990, SEC.135.