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Ind. Code § 36-9-1-10 (2025)

"Watercourse"

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     Sec. 10. (a) "Watercourse" includes lakes, rivers, streams, and any other body of water.

     (b) The term does not include an underground aquifer or water in an underground aquifer.

As added by Acts 1982, P.L.77, SEC.26. Amended by P.L.87-2012, SEC.2.

 

IC 36-9-2Chapter 2. General Powers Concerning Transportation and Public Works

 

           36-9-2-1Application of chapter
           36-9-2-2Transportation systems; establishment, aid, and operation
           36-9-2-3Transportation facilities; establishment, aid, and operation
           36-9-2-4Vehicles for public hire; regulation of services; exemptions
           36-9-2-5Public ways; establishment
           36-9-2-6Public ways; rights-of-way through, under, or over
           36-9-2-7Public ways; regulation of use; school corporation grounds
           36-9-2-8Watercourses; establishment and control
           36-9-2-9Watercourses; channel alterations
           36-9-2-10Watercourses; taking or permitting escape of water
           36-9-2-11Watercourses; altering temperature or affecting flow of water
           36-9-2-12Watercourses; introduction of any substance
           36-9-2-13Watercourses; purification
           36-9-2-14Waterworks
           36-9-2-15Utility service to public
           36-9-2-16Disposal of waste substances and domestic or sanitary sewage; regulation of services and charges
           36-9-2-17Disposal of waste substances and domestic or sanitary sewage; systems
           36-9-2-18Extraterritorial powers; four mile limit
           36-9-2-19Repealed
           36-9-2-20Repeal of extraterritorial authority; ordinances and resolutions adopted before July 1, 2019

 

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2 cases, 2010–2011 · leading case: Town of Avon v. West Cent. Conservancy Dist., 957 N.E.2d 598 (Ind. 2011).
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Town of Avon v. West Cent. Conservancy Dist., 957 N.E.2d 598 (Ind. 2011). · cites it 6× “” Ind.Code § 36-9-1-10 (2007). The parties disagree as to whether an aquifer may be properly categorized as “any other body of water” under this definition.”
Town of Avon v. West Cent. Conservancy Dist., 937 N.E.2d 366 (Ind. Ct. App. 2010). · cites it 6× “" Ind.Code § 36-9-1-10. [[Image here]] 25. Even if the Watercourse Statute somehow gives Avon control over "bodies of water" within the Township's jurisdiction, the Watercourse Statute cannot be read as giving Avon regulatory authority over aquifers, wells or ground water.”
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