Indiana Code 14-27-6-6. Ordinance establishing levee authority
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Sec. 6. The:
(2) city fiscal body and the county fiscal body;
(1) city fiscal body; or
Terms Used In Indiana Code 14-27-6-6
- board: refers to the board of the levee authority. See Indiana Code 14-27-6-2
- 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.
- 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
- levee: means any wall built along a stream to keep the stream from overflowing the banks. See Indiana Code 14-27-6-4
- 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
may adopt an ordinance to establish a levee authority for the purpose of acquiring land, rights-of-way, and easements on which the board or the United States Army Corps of Engineers can construct, improve, equip, maintain, control, lease, and regulate levees to hold back flood waters either within or without the district. The authority has jurisdiction over a district coterminous with the jurisdictional boundaries of the fiscal body adopting the ordinance.
[Pre-1995 Recodification Citation: 13-2-31-2 part.]
As added by P.L.1-1995, SEC.20.