Sec. 2.5. (a) The commission has jurisdiction over the following persons:

(1) A current or former state officer.

Terms Used In Indiana Code 4-2-6-2.5

  • 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
  • Business relationship: includes the following:

    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
  • 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.
  • Person: means any individual, proprietorship, partnership, unincorporated association, trust, business trust, group, limited liability company, or corporation, whether or not operated for profit, or a governmental agency or political subdivision. See 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

(2) A current or former employee.

(3) A person who has or had a business relationship with an agency.

(4) A current or former special state appointee.

     (b) If the office of a state officer is abolished, the following apply:

(1) The commission continues to have jurisdiction over a person who held the office before the office was abolished to the same extent that the commission would have had jurisdiction over the person if the office had not been abolished.

(2) The following continue to apply to a person who held the office before the office was abolished to the same extent that the following would have applied to the person if the office had not been abolished:

(A) This chapter.

(B) IC 4-2-7.

(C) IC 4-2-8.

As added by P.L.9-1990, SEC.3. Amended by P.L.15-1992, SEC.2; P.L.222-2005, SEC.3; P.L.43-2021, SEC.9.