Indiana Code 4-3-6-2. Definitions
(1) “Agency” means any executive or administrative department, commission, council, board, bureau, division, service, office, officer, administration, or other establishment in the executive or administrative branch of the state government not provided for by the constitution. The term “agency” does not include the secretary of state, the state comptroller, the treasurer of state, the lieutenant governor, and the attorney general, nor the departments of which they are, by the statutes first adopted setting out their duties, the administrative heads.
Terms Used In Indiana Code 4-3-6-2
- Agency: means any executive or administrative department, commission, council, board, bureau, division, service, office, officer, administration, or other establishment in the executive or administrative branch of the state government not provided for by the constitution. See Indiana Code 4-3-6-2
- Attorney: includes a counselor or other person authorized to appear and represent a party in an action or special proceeding. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
- 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.
- Reorganization: means :
Indiana Code 4-3-6-2
(A) the transfer of the whole or any part of any agency, or of the whole or any part of the functions of an agency, to the jurisdiction and control of any other agency;
(B) the abolition of all or any part of the functions of any agency;
(C) the consolidation or coordination of the whole or any part of any agency, or of the whole or any part of the functions of an agency, with the whole or any part of any other agency or the functions of an agency;
(D) the consolidation or coordination of any part of any agency or the functions of an agency, with any other part of the same agency or the functions of the agency;
(E) the authorization of any officer to delegate any of the officer’s functions; or
(F) the abolition of the whole or any part of any agency which agency or part does not have, or upon the taking effect of a reorganization plan will not have, any functions.
Formerly: Acts 1967, c.9, s.2. As amended by P.L.5-1984, SEC.10; P.L.215-2016, SEC.16; P.L.219-2017, SEC.10; P.L.8-2019, SEC.9; P.L.43-2021, SEC.11; P.L.9-2024, SEC.36.