Indiana Code
Ind. Code § 16-21-2-2 (2026)
Licensure and regulation of entities
✓ current as of May 2026
Sec. 2. The state department shall license and regulate:
(1) hospitals;
(2) ambulatory outpatient surgical centers;
(3) birthing centers; and
(4) rural emergency hospitals.
[Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-10-1-1.]
As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.4. Amended by P.L.96-2005, SEC.6; P.L.179-2022(ss), SEC.9; P.L.147-2023, SEC.7.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 10
cases (2 in the last 5 years), 2004–2023 · leading case: Roberts v. Sankey, 813 N.E.2d 1195 (Ind. Ct. App. 2004).
Roberts v. Sankey, 813 N.E.2d 1195 (Ind. Ct. App. 2004). “For example, Indiana Code § 16-21-2-2 provides that the State shall license and regulate hospitals.”
Whole Woman's Health All. v. Curtis T. Hill, Jr., 937 F.3d 864 (7th Cir. 2019). “The district court’s original injunction reads as follows: Defendants are ENJOINED from enforcing the pro- visions of Indiana Code § 16-21-2-2(4) (requiring De- partment to license); Indiana Code § 16-21-2-2.”
Planned Parenthood of Indiana & Kentucky, Inc. v. Comm'r, Indiana State Dep't of Health, 984 F. Supp. 2d 912 (S.D. Ind. 2013). “On July 1, 2013, an amended statute went into effect and provides that beginning January 1, 2014, a freestanding entity that “provides an abortion inducing drug for the purpose of inducing an abortion” will also be considered an abortion clinic.”
Sisters of St. Francis Health Servs., Inc. v. Morgan Cnty., 397 F. Supp. 2d 1032 (S.D. Ind. 2005). “Ind.Code § 16-21-2-2(1). No person, county, or other enumerated entity may establish, maintain, or operate a hospital without first obtaining a license to do so from the state health commissioner.”
Planned Parenthood of Indiana & Kentucky, Inc. v. Comm'r, Indiana Dep't of Health, 64 F. Supp. 3d 1235 (S.D. Ind. 2014). “Ind.Code § 16-21-2-2. Before July 1, 2013, an “abortion clinic” was defined as “a freestanding entity that .”
Whole Woman's Health All. v. Hill, 388 F. Supp. 3d 1010 (2019). “Ind. Code § 16-21-2-2 .5(b). See id. § 35-50-3-2 (Class A misdemeanants liable to maximum one year's imprisonment and $ 5,000 fine).”
Whole Woman's Health All. v. Rokita (S.D. Ind. 2021). “173, § 2 (2017) (codified in relevant part at Ind. Code § 16-21-2-2 .5(c)(2), (c)(3)(B)).”
The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Rokita (S.D. Ind. 2023). “Ind. Code § 16-21-2-2 .5 (2013) ("Adoption of rules concerning birthing centers and abortion clinics; violations as to unlicensed facilities").”
Fort Wayne Women's Health v. Bd. of Commissioners, 735 F. Supp. 2d 1045 (N.D. Ind. 2010). “Klopfer argues three things: (1) to the extent the ordinance affects an abortion clinic, the area it regulates is already extensively regulated by the Department of Health, see Ind. Code §§ 16-21-2-2 .5; 410 Ind. Admin.”
Whole Woman's Health All. v. Curtis T. Hill, Jr. (7th Cir. 2019). “The district court’s original injunction reads as follows: Defendants are ENJOINED from enforcing the pro- visions of Indiana Code § 16-21-2-2(4) (requiring De- partment to license); Indiana Code § 16-21-2-2.”
— Ind. Code § 16-21-2-2(1) — 1 case
Sisters of St. Francis Health Servs., Inc. v. Morgan Cnty., 397 F. Supp. 2d 1032 (S.D. Ind. 2005). “Ind.Code § 16-21-2-2(1). No person, county, or other enumerated entity may establish, maintain, or operate a hospital without first obtaining a license to do so from the state health commissioner.”
— Ind. Code § 16-21-2-2(4) — 3 cases
Whole Woman's Health All. v. Curtis T. Hill, Jr., 937 F.3d 864 (7th Cir. 2019). “The district court’s original injunction reads as follows: Defendants are ENJOINED from enforcing the pro- visions of Indiana Code § 16-21-2-2(4) (requiring De- partment to license); Indiana Code § 16-21-2-2.”
Whole Woman's Health All. v. Curtis T. Hill, Jr. (7th Cir. 2019). “The district court’s original injunction reads as follows: Defendants are ENJOINED from enforcing the pro- visions of Indiana Code § 16-21-2-2(4) (requiring De- partment to license); Indiana Code § 16-21-2-2.”
Whole Woman's Health All. v. Hill, 388 F. Supp. 3d 1010 (2019). “Ind. Code § 16-21-2-2 .5(b). See id. § 35-50-3-2 (Class A misdemeanants liable to maximum one year's imprisonment and $ 5,000 fine).”
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