Indiana Code 5-11-5.5-1. Definitions
(1) “Claim” means a request or demand for money or property that is made to a contractor, grantee, or other recipient if the state:
Terms Used In Indiana Code 5-11-5.5-1
- 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.
- Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
- Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
- 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.
- Property: includes personal and real property. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
- state: means any board, commission, department, division, bureau, committee, agency, governmental subdivision, military body, authority, or other instrumentality of the state, but does not include a municipality. See Indiana Code 5-11-1-16
(B) will reimburse the contractor, grantee, or other recipient for any part of the money or property that is requested or demanded.
(2) “Documentary material” means:
(A) the original or a copy of a book, record, report, memorandum, paper, communication, tabulation, chart, or other document;
(B) a data compilation stored in or accessible through computer or other information retrieval systems, together with instructions and all other materials necessary to use or interpret the data compilations; and
(C) a product of discovery.
(3) “Investigation” means an inquiry conducted by an investigator to ascertain whether a person is or has been engaged in a violation of this chapter.
(4) “Knowing”, “knowingly”, or “known” means that a person, regarding information:
(A) has actual knowledge of the information;
(B) acts in deliberate ignorance of the truth or falsity of the information; or
(C) acts in reckless disregard of the truth or falsity of the information.
(5) “Person” includes a natural person, a corporation, a firm, an association, an organization, a partnership, a limited liability company, a business, or a trust.
(6) “Product of discovery” means the original or duplicate of:
(A) a deposition;
(B) an interrogatory;
(C) a document;
(D) a thing;
(E) a result of the inspection of land or other property; or
(F) an examination or admission;
that is obtained by any method of discovery in a judicial or an administrative proceeding of an adversarial nature. The term includes a digest, an analysis, a selection, a compilation, a derivation, an index, or another method of accessing an item listed in this subdivision.
(7) “State” means Indiana or any agency of state government. The term does not include a political subdivision.
As added by P.L.222-2005, SEC.23. Amended by P.L.79-2007, SEC.1.