Sec. 17. (a) Subject to IC 4-2-7-5, a state officer, an employee, or a special state appointee may not use state materials, funds, property, personnel, facilities, or equipment for purposes other than official state business unless the use is expressly permitted by a general written agency, departmental, or institutional policy or regulation that has been approved by the commission. The commission may withhold approval of a policy or rule that violates the intent of Indiana law or the code of ethics, even if Indiana law or the code of ethics does not explicitly prohibit that policy or rule.

     (b) An individual who violates this section is subject to action under section 12 of this chapter.

As added by P.L.123-2015, SEC.26.

Terms Used In Indiana Code 4-2-6-17

  • Agency: means an authority, a board, a branch, a bureau, a commission, a committee, a council, a department, a division, an office, a service, or other instrumentality of the executive, including the administrative, department of state government. See Indiana Code 4-2-6-1
  • Commission: refers to the state ethics commission created under section 2 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 4-2-6-1
  • Employee: means an individual, other than a state officer, who is employed by an agency on a full-time, a part-time, a temporary, an intermittent, or an hourly basis. See Indiana Code 4-2-6-1
  • Property: has the meaning set forth in Indiana Code 4-2-6-1
  • Special state appointee: means a person who is:

    Indiana Code 4-2-6-1

  • State officer: means any of the following:

    Indiana Code 4-2-6-1