Chapter 1 The Governor
Chapter 3 Pensions for Former Governors and Surviving Spouses
Chapter 4 Reports of State Agencies to Governor-Elect
Chapter 5 State Services and Space Made Available to Governor-Elect
Chapter 6 Governor Authorized to Present Reorganization Plans for State Agencies to the General Assembly
Chapter 9 Transfer of Land to United States Government for Location of Federal Projects in Indiana
Chapter 17 Hoosier Alliance Against Drugs
Chapter 21.5 Indiana Defense Task Force
Chapter 22 Office of Management and Budget
Chapter 23 Indiana Office of Energy Development
Chapter 23.1 Commercial Solar and Wind Energy Ready Communities
Chapter 24 Federal Assistance to State Agencies
Chapter 25 Indiana Commission to Combat Substance Use Disorder
Chapter 26 Indiana Management Performance Hub
Chapter 27 Governor’s Workforce Cabinet

Terms Used In Indiana Code > Title 4 > Article 3 - Governor

  • account: refers to an individual development account. See Indiana Code 4-4-28-1
  • Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
  • Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
  • Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
  • Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
  • after care: means assistance provided by a lay caregiver to a patient in the patient's residence under an at home care plan following the patient's discharge from a hospital. See Indiana Code 16-21-12-1
  • agency: refers to the legislative services agency established by Ind. See Indiana Code 2-2.2-4-1
  • Agency: means any executive or administrative department, commission, council, board, bureau, division, service, office, officer, administration, or other establishment in the executive or administrative branch of the state government not provided for by the constitution. See Indiana Code 4-3-6-2
  • Agency of the state: means any officer, agency, department, board, bureau, commission, division or institution of the state of Indiana, the trustees or board of directors of any corporation of the state or body politic of the state supported in whole or in part by appropriations from the state, and the trustees of any state-supported university. See Indiana Code 4-3-9-1
  • Allegation: something that someone says happened.
  • alternative fuel: means liquefied petroleum gas, a compressed natural gas product, or a combination of liquefied petroleum gas and a compressed natural gas product, not including a biodiesel fuel or biodiesel blend, used in an internal combustion engine or a motor to propel a motor vehicle. See Indiana Code 4-4-32.2-1
  • alternative fuel: means liquefied petroleum gas, a compressed natural gas product, or a combination of liquefied petroleum gas and a compressed natural gas product, not including a biodiesel fuel or biodiesel blend, used in an internal combustion engine or a motor to propel a motor vehicle. See Indiana Code 4-4-32.3-1
  • alternative fuel vehicle: means any motor vehicle that is designed to operate:

    Indiana Code 4-4-32.3-3

  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • animal care facility: refers to an animal care facility (as defined in IC 6-9-39-1) that has companion animals that are available for adoption. See Indiana Code 15-20-4-1
  • Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
  • Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
  • applicable federal program: refers to the federal human resource programs for which the cabinet has authority to make recommendations as listed in section 4 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 4-3-27-1
  • applicant: means a person that applies for a construction permit under this chapter. See Indiana Code 16-19-3.5-1
  • applicant: means a nonprofit organization that:

    Indiana Code 16-26-2-1

  • application: means an application for a construction permit and any supporting plans and specifications. See Indiana Code 16-19-3.5-2
  • Appraisal: A determination of property value.
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • at home care plan: means any plan that serves to describe the after care needs of a patient upon discharge from a hospital to the patient's residence, if the at home care plan:

    Indiana Code 16-21-12-2

  • authority: refers to the Indiana housing and community development authority established under IC 5-20-1. See Indiana Code 4-4-28-1.5
  • authority: means the hospital association created by section 5 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 16-22-7-1
  • Babcock test: means the official Babcock test for milk and for cream. See Indiana Code 15-18-2-1
  • Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
  • Bequest: Property gifted by will.
  • board: refers to the creamery examining board established by section 9 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 15-18-2-2
  • board: refers to the Indiana dairy industry development board established by section 9 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 15-18-5-1
  • board: refers to the Indiana standardbred advisory board established by section 2 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 15-19-2-1
  • board: refers to the board of a municipal corporation created under this chapter. See Indiana Code 16-22-8-2.1
  • board: refers to the board of directors of the corporation. See Indiana Code 4-3-17-1
  • bond bank: means the local public improvement bond bank established pursuant to Indiana Code 16-22-8-2.3
  • budget agency: means the budget agency created by IC 4-12-1-3. See Indiana Code 4-3-24-1
  • building authority: means the building authority established pursuant to IC 36-9-13 by the county in which the corporation is established. See Indiana Code 16-22-8-2.5
  • cabinet: refers to the governor's workforce cabinet established by section 3 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 4-3-27-2
  • center: refers to the state health data center established by this chapter. See Indiana Code 16-19-10-1
  • center: refers to the commercial solar and wind energy ready communities development center that may be established under section 12 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 4-3-23.1-1
  • cervidae livestock operation: means an operation that:

    Indiana Code 15-17-14.5-1

  • cervidae products: means products, coproducts, or byproducts of cervidae. See Indiana Code 15-17-14.5-2
  • Chambers: A judge's office.
  • Charity: An agency, institution, or organization in existence and operating for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons and conducted for educational, religious, scientific, medical, or other beneficent purposes.
  • checklist: refers to a food service establishment inspection report checklist form prepared by the state department. See Indiana Code 16-20-8-1
  • city health department: means a city health department in a second class city. See Indiana Code 16-20-4-2
  • Clerk: means the clerk of the court or a person authorized to perform the clerk's duties. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
  • client: means an individual who has been accepted to receive personal services from a personal services agency. See Indiana Code 16-27-4-1
  • commercial solar project: means a project involving the construction, installation, siting, modification, operation, or decommissioning of one (1) or more commercial solar energy systems (as defined in IC 8-1-42-2) in a unit. See Indiana Code 4-3-23.1-2
  • commercial solar regulation: has the meaning set forth in IC 8-1-42-3. See Indiana Code 4-3-23.1-3
  • commercial use: means sale for:

    Indiana Code 15-18-5-2

  • commission: refers to the Indiana commission to combat substance use disorder established by section 3 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 4-3-25-1
  • committee: refers to the hospital assessment fee committee established by section 7 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 16-21-10-1
  • Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
  • community based palliative care: means patient centered and family focused palliative care that is provided in a location that the patient considers to be the patient's home. See Indiana Code 16-25-4.7-1
  • community benefits: means the unreimbursed cost to a hospital of providing charity care, government sponsored indigent health care, donations, education, government sponsored program services, research, and subsidized health services. See Indiana Code 16-21-9-1
  • community development corporation: means a private, nonprofit corporation:

    Indiana Code 4-4-28-2

  • companion animal: means a dog or a cat. See Indiana Code 15-20-4-2
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • comprehensive care bed: means a bed that:

    Indiana Code 16-28-2.5-2

  • comprehensive care health facility: means a health facility that provides:

    Indiana Code 16-28-2.5-3

  • Concurrent resolution: A legislative measure, designated "S. Con. Res." and numbered consecutively upon introduction, generally employed to address the sentiments of both chambers, to deal with issues or matters affecting both houses, such as a concurrent budget resolution, or to create a temporary joint committee. Concurrent resolutions are not submitted to the President/Governor and thus do not have the force of law.
  • Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
  • continuous process improvement: means a management methodology that combines tools to improve process speed and reduce waste with data driven project analysis to provide products and services with improved quality at lower cost. See Indiana Code 4-3-26-1
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • contracting county: means a county that contracts with a county having a hospital for the care of patients. See Indiana Code 16-24-2-2
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • 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.
  • corporation: refers to the Hoosier alliance against drugs established under this chapter. See Indiana Code 4-3-17-2
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • department: refers to the department of homeland security established under IC 10-19-2-1. See Indiana Code 16-19-3.5-2.5
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • 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.
  • Devise: To gift property by will.
  • director: refers to the director of the Indiana state department of agriculture or the director's designee. See Indiana Code 15-18-5-3
  • director: refers to the director of the office. See Indiana Code 16-19-14-1
  • director: means the director of the office of management and budget established by this chapter. See Indiana Code 4-3-22-2
  • director: means the director of the office. See Indiana Code 4-3-23-1
  • director: refers to the director of the office of community and rural affairs appointed under section 5 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 4-4-9.7-1
  • discharge: means a patient's exit or release from a hospital following an inpatient hospitalization. See Indiana Code 16-21-12-3
  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • division: means an administrative subdivision created by this chapter or by the board. See Indiana Code 16-22-8-3
  • Donor: The person who makes a gift.
  • education related costs: means the unreimbursed cost to a hospital of providing, funding, or otherwise financially supporting educational benefits, services, and programs, including:

    Indiana Code 16-21-6-0.2

  • engaged in the production of milk: includes every person engaged in producing milk in Indiana or to be shipped into Indiana as a:

    Indiana Code 15-18-3-1

  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
  • executive director: refers to the executive director of the agency employed under Ind. See Indiana Code 2-2.2-4-2
  • executive state agency: refers to any agency, authority, board, bureau, commission, department, division, office, or other unit of state government in the executive, including the administrative, department of state government established by any of the following:

    Indiana Code 4-3-26-2

  • Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
  • expanded criminal history check: has the meaning set forth in Indiana Code 16-27-2-0.5
  • facility: includes the following:

    Indiana Code 16-28-6.5-1

  • Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
  • family: means the individual's spouse, child, parent, parent-in-law, grandparent, grandchild, brother, brother-in-law, sister, sister-in-law, aunt, aunt-in-law, uncle, uncle-in-law, niece, and nephew. See Indiana Code 16-27-4-5
  • fee: refers to the hospital assessment fee authorized by this chapter. See Indiana Code 16-21-10-2
  • fee period: means the period during which a fee is collected under this chapter. See Indiana Code 16-21-10-3
  • Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • financial institution: means a bank, savings association, credit union, or any other institution regulated under IC 28 or federal law. See Indiana Code 4-4-28-3
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • fueling station: refers to tangible property (other than a building and its structural components) that:

    Indiana Code 4-4-32.2-3

  • fund: refers to an individual development account fund established by a community development corporation under section 13 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 4-4-28-4
  • fund: refers to the maternity assistance development fund. See Indiana Code 16-26-2-2
  • fund: refers to the commercial solar and wind energy ready communities incentive fund described in section 16 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 4-3-23.1-4
  • general hospital: means an inpatient facility open to the general public that admits any combination of maternity, acute, or long term medical or surgical patients and provides personal care, x-rays, laboratory, surgery, and other recognized hospital specialized diagnostic or treatment facilities and services for the purpose of furnishing inpatient medical or surgical care. See Indiana Code 16-22-9-2
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • governing body: means the county executive of a county or the legislative and fiscal body of a city. See Indiana Code 16-22-7-2
  • government information: refers to any information created, received, maintained, or stored by or otherwise in the control of a governmental entity, regardless of the form or the media on which the information is recorded. See Indiana Code 4-3-26-7
  • government sponsored indigent health care: means the unreimbursed cost to a hospital of Medicare, providing health care services to recipients of Medicaid, and other federal, state, or local indigent health care programs, eligibility for which is based on financial need. See Indiana Code 16-21-9-2
  • Grace period: The number of days you'll have to pay your bill for purchases in full without triggering a finance charge. Source: Federal Reserve
  • Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
  • gross patient revenue: means inpatient and outpatient revenue from services to patients, including payments received from or on behalf of individual patients. See Indiana Code 16-21-6-1
  • Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
  • health care facility: means any of the following:

    Indiana Code 16-21-11-1

  • health care professional: means any of the following:

    Indiana Code 16-27-1-1

  • health care professional: means any of the following:

    Indiana Code 16-27-2-1

  • health care representative: means an individual:

    Indiana Code 16-21-12-4

  • health data: means information on the following:

    Indiana Code 16-19-10-2

  • Highway: includes county bridges and state and county roads, unless otherwise expressly provided. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
  • home health agency: means a person that provides or offers to provide:

    Indiana Code 16-27-1-2

  • home health agency: means a home health agency licensed under IC 16-27-1. See Indiana Code 16-27-2-2
  • home health aide services: means only home health services that may be performed by a home health aide. See Indiana Code 16-27-1-4
  • home health services: means services that:

    Indiana Code 16-27-1-5

  • horse: includes a stallion, mare, filly, gelding, colt, donkey, or mule. See Indiana Code 15-19-3-2
  • hospital: includes a health system. See Indiana Code 16-18-4-1.5
  • hospital: means either of the following:

    Indiana Code 16-21-10-4

  • hunting preserve: means an area of land where permitted animals are hunted. See Indiana Code 15-17-14.7-1
  • Impeachment: (1) The process of calling something into question, as in "impeaching the testimony of a witness." (2) The constitutional process whereby the House of Representatives may "impeach" (accuse of misconduct) high officers of the federal government for trial in the Senate.
  • in writing: include printing, lithographing, or other mode of representing words and letters. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
  • individual development account: means an account in a financial institution administered by a community development corporation that allows a qualifying individual to deposit money:

    Indiana Code 4-4-28-5

  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • interest in land: means both legal and equitable title and interest in land. See Indiana Code 4-3-9-1
  • Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. Source: OCC
  • item or service: means any item or service, including service packages, that could be provided by an ambulatory outpatient surgical center to a patient for which the ambulatory outpatient surgical center has established a standard charge. See Indiana Code 16-21-17-0.3
  • Joint resolution: A legislative measure which requires the approval of both chambers.
  • Judgment: means all final orders, decrees, and determinations in an action and all orders upon which executions may issue. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
  • 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.
  • Land: means both unimproved and improved land. See Indiana Code 4-3-9-1
  • lay caregiver: means an individual who:

    Indiana Code 16-21-12-5

  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • legislative council: refers to the legislative council established by Ind. See Indiana Code 2-2.2-4-3
  • lethal fetal anomaly: means a fetal condition diagnosed before birth that, if the pregnancy results in a live birth, will with reasonable certainty result in the death of the child not more than three (3) months after the child's birth. See Indiana Code 16-25-4.5-2
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • licensed owner: means an owner of a hunting preserve who holds a license issued under this chapter. See Indiana Code 15-17-14.7-2
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • location: refers to one (1) or more parcels of land that:

    Indiana Code 4-4-32.2-4

  • medical record: means written or printed information possessed by a provider (as defined in Ind. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
  • merger: means any change of ownership, including:

    Indiana Code 16-21-15-1.5

  • merger agreement: means an agreement between two (2) or more hospitals for the consolidation by merger or other acquisition or transfer of assets by which ownership or control over substantially all of the stock, assets, or activities of one (1) or more previously licensed and operating hospitals is placed under the control of another licensed hospital or other entity that controls hospitals. See Indiana Code 16-21-15-1.5
  • military bases: refers to the following:

    Indiana Code 4-3-21.5-1

  • milk: means the lacteal secretion obtained by the milking of one (1) or more cows or other dairy animals, including goats, whether in the original or in any processed form, including cream, buttermilk, and skimmed milk intended for human consumption. See Indiana Code 15-18-3-2
  • milk: means any class of milk produced by dairy cows in Indiana. See Indiana Code 15-18-5-4
  • milk distributor: means any person or person's agent that purchases market milk or market cream from a bargaining agent or another plant for resale. See Indiana Code 15-18-2-3
  • minor: means a person less than eighteen (18) years of age. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
  • minority: means an individual identified as any of the following:

    Indiana Code 16-19-14-2

  • miscarried fetus: means an unborn child, irrespective of gestational age, who has died from a spontaneous or accidental death before expulsion or extraction from the unborn child's mother, irrespective of the duration of the pregnancy. See Indiana Code 16-21-11-2
  • mobile camp: has the meaning set forth in IC 8-9-10-1(a). See Indiana Code 16-19-3-0.5
  • Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • motor fuel: has the meaning set forth in Indiana Code 4-4-32.2-5
  • motor vehicle: has the meaning set forth in IC 9-13-2-105(a). See Indiana Code 4-4-28-5.5
  • motor vehicle: means any vehicle that:

    Indiana Code 4-4-32.2-6

  • motor vehicle: means any vehicle that:

    Indiana Code 4-4-32.3-3.8

  • MPH: refers to the management performance hub established by section 8 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 4-3-26-3
  • narrative report: refers to a food service establishment inspection report narrative form prepared by the state department. See Indiana Code 16-20-8-2
  • National Bank: A bank that is subject to the supervision of the Comptroller of the Currency. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is a bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department. A national bank can be recognized because it must have "national" or "national association" in its name. Source: OCC
  • national criminal history background check: means the determination provided by the state police department under IC 10-13-3-39(i). See Indiana Code 16-27-2-2.1
  • net patient revenue: means gross patient revenue less deductions for contractual adjustments, bad debts, and charity. See Indiana Code 16-21-6-2
  • nonprofit hospital: means a hospital that is organized as a nonprofit corporation or a charitable trust under Indiana law or the laws of any other state or country and that is:

    Indiana Code 16-21-9-3

  • nonresidential onsite sewage system: means all equipment and devices necessary for proper conduction, collection, storage, treatment, and onsite disposal of sewage from a building other than a single family or two-family dwelling. See Indiana Code 16-19-3.5-3.5
  • Oath: includes "affirmation" and "to swear" includes to "affirm". See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
  • Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • office: refers to the office of community and rural affairs established by section 4 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 4-4-9.7-2
  • office: refers to the Indiana office of energy development established by IC 4-3-23-3. See Indiana Code 4-4-32.2-7
  • office: refers to the Indiana office of energy development established by IC 4-3-23-3. See Indiana Code 4-4-32.3-4
  • office: refers to the office of legislative ethics established by section 5 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 2-2.2-4-4
  • office: refers to the office of women's health established by this chapter. See Indiana Code 16-19-13-1
  • office: refers to the office of minority health established by this chapter. See Indiana Code 16-19-14-3
  • office: refers to the office of Medicaid policy and planning established by Indiana Code 16-21-10-5
  • office: refers to the Indiana office of energy development established by section 3 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 4-3-23-2
  • office: refers to the Indiana office of energy development established by IC 4-3-23-3. See Indiana Code 4-3-23.1-5
  • office: refers to the office of the secretary of family and social services established by Indiana Code 16-27-5-2
  • OMB: refers to the office of management and budget established by IC 4-3-22-3. See Indiana Code 4-3-26-4
  • other processing plant: means any place, premises, or establishment:

    Indiana Code 15-18-2-4

  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • owner: means the owner of a dog. See Indiana Code 15-20-1-2
  • palliative care: means patient centered and family focused medical care that optimizes quality of life by anticipating, preventing, and treating suffering caused by a medical illness or a physical injury or condition that substantially affects a patient's quality of life. See Indiana Code 16-25-4.7-2
  • parent personal services agency: means the personal services agency that develops and maintains administrative and fiscal control over a branch office. See Indiana Code 16-27-4-2
  • 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.
  • patient: means an individual who has been accepted for care by a home health agency. See Indiana Code 16-27-1-6
  • perinatal hospice: means the provision of comprehensive, supportive care to a pregnant woman and her family beginning with the diagnosis of a lethal fetal anomaly and continuing through the live birth and death of the woman's child as a result of the lethal fetal anomaly. See Indiana Code 16-25-4.5-3
  • permitted animal: means a legally owned captive bred wild animal classified as follows:

    Indiana Code 15-17-14.7-3

  • person: includes an individual, a partnership, a limited liability company, a corporation, and an association. See Indiana Code 15-18-2-5
  • person: means an individual, a firm, a limited liability company, a corporation, or an association. See Indiana Code 15-18-3-3
  • person: means an individual, a partnership, a limited liability company, a public or private corporation, a political subdivision (as defined in IC 36-1-2-13), a cooperative, a society, an association, or a fiduciary. See Indiana Code 15-18-5-5
  • person: means an individual or entity that is not described in section 2(a) of this chapter. See Indiana Code 4-3-26-5
  • person in charge of interment: means a person who places or causes to be placed the body of a miscarried fetus who has a gestational age of less than twenty (20) weeks of age or the ashes, after cremation, in a grave, vault, urn, or other receptacle, or who otherwise disposes of the body or ashes. See Indiana Code 16-21-11-3
  • Personal property: includes goods, chattels, evidences of debt, and things in action. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • personal representative: means a person who has legal authority to act on behalf of the client with regard to the action to be taken. See Indiana Code 16-27-4-3
  • personal services: means :

    Indiana Code 16-27-4-4

  • personal services agency: means a person that provides or offers to provide a personal service for compensation, whether through the agency's own employees or by arrangement with another person. See Indiana Code 16-27-4-5
  • phase out period: refers to the following periods:

    Indiana Code 16-21-10-5.3

  • Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
  • plan review: means a review of plans for construction, modification, or installation of a project to determine if the plans comply with the state department's rules. See Indiana Code 16-19-3.5-4
  • Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
  • political subdivision: has the meaning set forth in IC 36-1-2-13. See Indiana Code 4-3-26-6
  • Population: has the meaning set forth in Ind. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
  • Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. Source: OCC
  • Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
  • prior health and hospital law: refers to the statutes that are repealed or amended in senate enrolled act 24 of the 1993 regular session of the general assembly as the statutes existed before the effective date of the applicable or corresponding provision of senate enrolled act 24 of the 1993 regular session of the general assembly. See Indiana Code 16-18-3-1
  • Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
  • Probate: Proving a will
  • producer: means a person who produces milk in Indiana or to be shipped into Indiana. See Indiana Code 15-18-3-4
  • producer: means a person engaged in the production of milk in Indiana for commercial use, including a producer-processor. See Indiana Code 15-18-5-6
  • producer-cooperative: includes :

    Indiana Code 15-18-3-5

  • producer-distributor: includes a person that:

    Indiana Code 15-18-3-6

  • producer-processor: means a producer who processes and markets the producer's own milk. See Indiana Code 15-18-5-7
  • project: means a project:

    Indiana Code 16-19-3.5-5

  • project: refers to :

    Indiana Code 4-3-23.1-7

  • project owner: has the meaning set forth in:

    Indiana Code 4-3-23.1-8

  • Property: includes personal and real property. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
  • Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
  • Public defender: Represent defendants who can't afford an attorney in criminal matters.
  • qualified expenses: means expenses incurred by a county hospital to provide emergency medical services (as defined in IC 16-18-2-110). See Indiana Code 16-22-14-1
  • qualified investment: refers to an ordinary and usual expense that is incurred after June 30, 2009, to purchase any part of an alternative fuel compatible fueling station for the purpose of:

    Indiana Code 4-4-32.2-8

  • qualified program: means a state or regional dairy product promotion, research, or nutrition education program that:

    Indiana Code 15-18-5-8

  • qualifying individual: means an individual or a member of an individual's household who may establish an individual development account because the individual:

    Indiana Code 4-4-28-6

  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
  • race: means :

    Indiana Code 15-19-3-3

  • real property: include lands, tenements, and hereditaments. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • receiving station: means any place other than a dairy processing plant where milk or cream is received, weighed, sampled, or tested for shipment to any other processing plant. See Indiana Code 15-18-2-6
  • recording officer: when used in reference to a county means the county auditor and when used in reference to a city means the city clerk or clerk-treasurer. See Indiana Code 16-22-7-4
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
  • Reorganization: means :

    Indiana Code 4-3-6-2

  • replacement facility: means a new comprehensive care health facility licensed under or subject to this article after July 1, 2015, that:

    Indiana Code 16-28-2.5-4

  • Rescission: The cancellation of budget authority previously provided by Congress. The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 specifies that the President may propose to Congress that funds be rescinded. If both Houses have not approved a rescission proposal (by passing legislation) within 45 days of continuous session, any funds being withheld must be made available for obligation.
  • residence: means a dwelling considered by a patient to be the patient's temporary or permanent home. See Indiana Code 16-21-12-6
  • secretary: refers to the lieutenant governor as secretary of agriculture and rural development, as provided in Indiana Code 4-4-9.7-3
  • secretary: refers to the secretary of family and social services appointed under Indiana Code 16-27-5-3
  • Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
  • services: includes :

    Indiana Code 16-27-2-2.2

  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • Sheriff: means the sheriff of the county or another person authorized to perform sheriff's duties. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
  • standard Babcock testing glassware: means glassware and weights that comply with specifications for official apparatus for the Babcock method as defined in the latest edition of Official Methods of Analysis of AOAC International. See Indiana Code 15-18-2-7
  • standard charge: means the regular rate established by the ambulatory outpatient surgical center for an item or service provided to a specific group of paying patients. See Indiana Code 16-21-17-0.3
  • state agency: has the meaning set forth in IC 4-13-1-1. See Indiana Code 4-3-24-2
  • state agency: means an administration, agency, authority, board, bureau, commission, committee, council, department, division, institution, office, officer, service, or other similar body of state government created or established under law. See Indiana Code 4-3-25-2
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Statute of limitations: A law that sets the time within which parties must take action to enforce their rights.
  • task force: refers to the Indiana defense task force established by section 3 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 4-3-21.5-2
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
  • Transfer: means a gift, grant, conveying, exchange, lease, or sale. See Indiana Code 4-3-9-1
  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • under development: refers to a health facility license application:

    Indiana Code 16-28-2.5-5

  • unit: means a county, city, town, township, or school corporation. See Indiana Code 4-4-32.2-9
  • unit: means a county or a municipality, as specified in:

    Indiana Code 4-3-23.1-9

  • United States: includes the District of Columbia and the commonwealths, possessions, states in free association with the United States, and the territories. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
  • United States of America: shall include the United States government and any agency or entity thereof. See Indiana Code 4-3-9-1
  • urgent care facility: means a freestanding health care facility that offers episodic, walk-in care for the treatment of acute, but not life-threatening, health conditions. See Indiana Code 16-24.5-1-1
  • Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
  • Verified: when applied to pleadings, means supported by oath or affirmation in writing. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
  • veteran: includes "Hoosier veteran" and applies to the construction of all Indiana statutes, unless the construction is expressly excluded by the terms of the statute, is plainly repugnant to the intent of the general assembly or of the context of the statute, or is inconsistent with federal law. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
  • Veto: The procedure established under the Constitution by which the President/Governor refuses to approve a bill or joint resolution and thus prevents its enactment into law. A regular veto occurs when the President/Governor returns the legislation to the house in which it originated. The President/Governor usually returns a vetoed bill with a message indicating his reasons for rejecting the measure. In Congress, the veto can be overridden only by a two-thirds vote in both the Senate and the House.
  • wind power project: means a project involving the construction, installation, siting, modification, operation, or decommissioning of one (1) or more wind power devices (as defined in IC 8-1-41-7) in a unit. See Indiana Code 4-3-23.1-10
  • wind power regulation: has the meaning set forth in IC 8-1-41-8. See Indiana Code 4-3-23.1-11
  • Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5