Sec. 2. “Improvement” includes the construction, equipment, remodeling, extension, repair, and betterment of structures, including:

(1) sanitary sewers and sanitary sewer tap-ins;

(2) sidewalks;

(3) curbs;

(4) streets;

(5) alleys;

(6) pedestrian-ways or malls set aside entirely or partly, or during restricted hours, for pedestrian rather than vehicular traffic;

(7) other paved public places;

(8) parking facilities;

(9) lighting;

(10) electric signals;

(11) landscaping, including trees, shrubbery, flowers, grass, fountains, benches, statues, floodlighting, gaslighting, and structures of a decorative, educational, or historical nature;

(12) for units that own and operate a water utility, water main extensions from the water utility; and

(13) for units that establish and operate a department of public sanitation under IC 36-9-25, sewage works that are:

(A) overhead plumbing or backflow prevention devices;

(B) installed in private dwellings; and

(C) financed in whole or in part through assistance provided under IC 36-9-25-42.

[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citations: 17-2-89-1 part; 18-7-13.1-2 part; 19-5-11-3 part; 19-5-13-4 part; 19-8-16-3 part.]

As added by Acts 1981, P.L.309, SEC.68. Amended by P.L.152-1992, SEC.1; P.L.168-2009, SEC.8.