Terms Used In Indiana Code 5-1-4-12

  • Authority: means a hospital authority created by IC 5-1-4-4 or any board, body, commission, department, or officer succeeding to the principal functions thereof or to whom the powers conferred upon such authority by this chapter shall be given by law. See Indiana Code 5-1-4-3
  • Devise: To gift property by will.
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Participating hospital: means a:

    Indiana Code 5-1-4-3

  • Project: means a structure or addition to an existing structure which is suitable for use as a hospital, clinic, laboratory, laundry, nurses' or interns' residence, administration building, research facility, or maintenance, storage, or utility facility, and other structures or facilities related thereto or required or useful for the operation of the project, including the site thereof; parking and other facilities or structures essential or convenient for the orderly operation of such project, or equipment, machinery, and other similar items necessary or convenient for the operation of the project in the manner for which its use is intended, but not such items as fuel, supplies, or other items which customarily result in a current operating charge. See Indiana Code 5-1-4-3
  • Property: includes personal and real property. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
   Sec. 12. Acquisition of Property by Authority. Any authority is authorized and empowered, directly or by and through a participating hospital, as its agent, to acquire by purchase or by gift or devise such lands, structures, property, real or personal, rights, rights-of-way, franchises, easements and other interests in lands, including lands lying under water and riparian rights, and including existing facilities of a participating hospital as it may deem necessary or convenient for the construction, acquisition or operation of a project, upon such terms and at such prices as may be considered by it to be reasonable and can be agreed upon between it and the owner thereof, and to take title thereto in the name of such Authority or in the name of a participating hospital as its agent.

Formerly: Acts 1971, P.L.41, SEC.1; Acts 1972, P.L.10, SEC.1; Acts 1975, P.L.35, SEC.5.