Terms Used In Indiana Code > Title 14 > Article 29 - Rivers, Streams, and Waterways

• adjacent land: means the area of land paralleling, but not necessarily contiguous to, a river needed to preserve, protect, and manage the natural, scenic, or recreational character of the river. See Indiana Code 14-29-6-1
• channel: means :

  Indiana Code 14-29-4-1

• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Highway: includes county bridges and state and county roads, unless otherwise expressly provided. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• recreational river: means a river that does not have the characteristics necessary to qualify as a natural or scenic river, but that still maintains scenic or recreational characteristics of unusual and significant value. See Indiana Code 14-29-6-2
• river: means any flowing body of water and adjacent land or part of the body of water and adjacent land. See Indiana Code 14-29-6-3
• river: means that part of a body of flowing water and adjacent land that is the subject of a river commission established under this chapter. See Indiana Code 14-29-7-2
• scenic river: means a river that:

  Indiana Code 14-29-6-4

• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• stream: means a natural or an altered river, creek, slough, or artificial channel that has:

  Indiana Code 14-29-8-1

• system: means the Indiana natural, scenic, and recreational river system. See Indiana Code 14-29-6-5
• Verified: when applied to pleadings, means supported by oath or affirmation in writing. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5