Terms Used In Indiana Code 36-8-3-16

  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Property: includes personal and real property. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
   Sec. 16. If a building in the city is on fire, or if a building adjacent to it is liable to take or convey fire to other buildings and cause great destruction of property, the fire chief, or the fire chief’s assistant acting as chief with the concurrence of the executive or of the safety board, may take down, blow up, or destroy the building or buildings. An action may not be maintained against a person for this action, but the owner of such a building may, in a civil action, recover damages from the city for its destruction.

[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citation: 18-1-11-14.]

As added by Acts 1981, P.L.309, SEC.52. Amended by P.L.127-2017, SEC.224.