Chapter 1 Definitions
Chapter 2 Department Established
Chapter 2.1 Powers and Duties of Department
Chapter 2.2 Stop the Bleed Donation Pool
Chapter 3 Executive Director
Chapter 7 Division of Fire and Building Safety
Chapter 8.1 Governor’s Security Council
Chapter 9 Public Safety Training
Chapter 9.1 Regional Public Safety Training Fund
Chapter 11 Radiation and Radioactive Material Control
Chapter 12 Nuclear Regulatory Agreement
Chapter 13 PFAS Biomonitoring Pilot Program
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Terms Used In Indiana Code > Title 10 > Article 19 - Department of Homeland Security

  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Byproduct material: means :

    Indiana Code 10-19-12-4

  • Civil penalty: means any monetary penalty levied on a licensee or registrant because of violations of statutes, regulations, licenses, or registration certificates, but does not include criminal penalties. See Indiana Code 10-19-12-4
  • Clerk: means the clerk of the court or a person authorized to perform the clerk's duties. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Decommissioning: means final operational activities at a facility to dismantle site structures, to decontaminate site surfaces and remaining structures, to stabilize and contain residual radioactive material, and to carry out any other activities to prepare the site for postoperational care. See Indiana Code 10-19-12-4
  • Department: means the Indiana department of homeland security established by IC 10-19-2-1. See Indiana Code 10-19-12-4
  • Disposal of low-level radioactive waste: means the isolation of such waste from the biosphere by emplacement in a land burial facility. See Indiana Code 10-19-12-4
  • donation pool: refers to the stop the bleed donation pool established by section 4 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 10-19-2.2-2
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • fund: means the PFAS biomonitoring pilot fund established by section 13 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 10-19-13-1
  • fusion center: means the Indiana intelligence fusion center established by IC 10-11-9-2. See Indiana Code 10-19-8.1-1
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • High-level radioactive waste: means :

    Indiana Code 10-19-12-4

  • in writing: include printing, lithographing, or other mode of representing words and letters. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • Ionizing radiation: means gamma rays and x-rays, alpha and beta particles, high-speed electrons, neutrons, protons, and other nuclear particles; but not sound or radio waves, or visible, infrared, or ultraviolet light. See Indiana Code 10-19-12-4
  • Judgment: means all final orders, decrees, and determinations in an action and all orders upon which executions may issue. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Low-level radioactive waste: means radioactive waste not classified as high-level radioactive waste, transuranic waste, spent nuclear fuel, or byproduct material. See Indiana Code 10-19-12-4
  • minor: means a person less than eighteen (18) years of age. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
  • Minority leader: See Floor Leaders
  • Nonionizing radiation: means the following:

    Indiana Code 10-19-12-4

  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • Person: means any individual, corporation, partnership, firm, association, trust, estate, public or private institution, group, state agency other than the department, political subdivision of this state, any other state or political subdivision or agency thereof, and any legal successor, representative, agent, or agency of the foregoing, but not including federal government agencies. See Indiana Code 10-19-12-4
  • pilot program: means the PFAS biomonitoring pilot program established under section 5 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 10-19-13-3
  • President pro tempore: A constitutionally recognized officer of the Senate who presides over the chamber in the absence of the Vice President. The President Pro Tempore (or, "president for a time") is elected by the Senate and is, by custom, the Senator of the majority party with the longest record of continuous service.
  • Property: includes personal and real property. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
  • provider: means an officer or employee of the state, an officer or employee of a governmental unit, or a volunteer who is engaged in at least one (1) of the following activities:

    Indiana Code 10-19-9-2

  • Radiation: means ionizing radiation and nonionizing radiation. See Indiana Code 10-19-12-4
  • Radiation generating equipment: means any manufactured product or device, or component part of such a product or device, or any machine or system that during operation can generate or emit radiation except those that emit radiation only from radioactive material. See Indiana Code 10-19-12-4
  • Radioactive material: means material (solid, liquid, or gas) that emits ionizing radiation spontaneously. See Indiana Code 10-19-12-4
  • Recess: A temporary interruption of the legislative business.
  • Registration: means registration with the department in accordance with rules and regulations adopted pursuant to this chapter. See Indiana Code 10-19-12-4
  • serum PFAS levels: means the level of PFAS chemicals in an individual's blood. See Indiana Code 10-19-13-4
  • site closure: means all activities performed at a waste disposal site, such as stabilization and contouring, to assure that the site is in a stable condition so that only minor custodial care, surveillance, and monitoring are necessary at the site following termination of a licensed operation. See Indiana Code 10-19-12-4
  • Source material: means uranium or thorium, or any combination thereof, in any physical or chemical form, or ores which contain by weight one-twentieth of one percent (0. See Indiana Code 10-19-12-4
  • Source material mill tailings: means the tailings or wastes produced by the extraction or concentration of uranium or thorium from any ore processed primarily for its source material content, including discrete surface wastes resulting from underground solution extraction processes, but not including underground ore bodies depleted by such solution extraction processes. See Indiana Code 10-19-12-4
  • Sources of radiation: means collectively, radioactive material and radiation generating equipment. See Indiana Code 10-19-12-4
  • Special nuclear material: means plutonium, uranium 233, and uranium enriched in the isotope 233 or in the isotope 235, but does not include source material; or any material artificially enriched by any of the foregoing, but does not include source material. See Indiana Code 10-19-12-4
  • Specific license: means a license, issued to a named person upon application filed under the regulations promulgated under this chapter, to use, manufacture, produce, transfer, receive, acquire, or possess quantities of, or devices or equipment utilizing, radioactive material. See Indiana Code 10-19-12-4
  • Spent nuclear fuel: means irradiated nuclear fuel that has undergone at least one (1) year's decay since being used as a source of energy in a power reactor. See Indiana Code 10-19-12-4
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
  • Transuranic waste: means radioactive waste containing alpha emitting transuranic elements, with radioactive half-lives greater than five (5) years, in excess of ten (10) nanocuries per gram. See Indiana Code 10-19-12-4
  • United States: includes the District of Columbia and the commonwealths, possessions, states in free association with the United States, and the territories. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
  • Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5