Terms Used In Indiana Code > Title 14 > Article 25 - Water Rights and Resources

• 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
• Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.
• Basin: refers to the Great Lakes Basin. See Indiana Code 14-25-13-1
• beneficial use: means the use of water for any useful and productive purpose. See Indiana Code 14-25-7-2
• Commission: refers to the Great Lakes Commission. See Indiana Code 14-25-13-2
• Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
• Concurrent resolution: A legislative measure, designated "S. Con. Res." and numbered consecutively upon introduction, generally employed to address the sentiments of both chambers, to deal with issues or matters affecting both houses, such as a concurrent budget resolution, or to create a temporary joint committee. Concurrent resolutions are not submitted to the President/Governor and thus do not have the force of law.
• construction: means the process of building a building, highway, utility, or another structure. See Indiana Code 14-25-4-1
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• dewatering well: means a temporary water well that:

  Indiana Code 14-25-4-2

• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
• financial responsibility bond: means a surety bond, a certificate of deposit, a cashier's check, or a letter of credit. See Indiana Code 14-25-5-2
• freshwater lake: means a body of standing surface water that:

  Indiana Code 14-25-5-3

• fund: refers to the sand nourishment fund established by this chapter. See Indiana Code 14-25-12-1
• fund: refers to the land and water resources fund established by this chapter. See Indiana Code 14-25-10-1
• ground water: means all water occurring beneath the surface of the ground regardless of location and form. See Indiana Code 14-25-7-3
• lake owner: means a person in possession of property that includes:

  Indiana Code 14-25-5-4

• nonsignificant ground water withdrawal facility: means the ground water withdrawal facility of a person that, in the aggregate, has a withdrawal capability of less than one hundred thousand (100,000) gallons of ground water in one (1) day. See Indiana Code 14-25-4-3
• owner: includes the following:

  Indiana Code 14-25-4-4

• person: means an individual, a firm, a limited liability company, a corporation, an association, or a governmental agency. See Indiana Code 14-25-3-1
• person: means an individual, an incorporated or unincorporated organization or association, a trustee or legal representative, the state, a political subdivision of the state, the United States of America, an agency of the state, a political subdivision of the state or of the United States of America, or a group of such persons acting in concert. See Indiana Code 14-25-7-5
• Personal property: includes goods, chattels, evidences of debt, and things in action. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• potable water: means water that at the point of use is acceptable for human consumption under drinking water quality standards adopted by the environmental rules board under IC 13-18-4-1. See Indiana Code 14-25-4-5
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• significant ground water withdrawal facility: means the ground water withdrawal facility of a person that, in the aggregate from all sources and by all methods, has the capability of withdrawing at least one hundred thousand (100,000) gallons of ground water in one (1) day. See Indiana Code 14-25-4-6
• significant water withdrawal facility: means a water pumping installation or other equipment of a person that, in the aggregate from all sources and by all methods, has the capability of withdrawing at least one hundred thousand (100,000) gallons of water in one (1) day. See Indiana Code 14-25-5-5
• state: includes a province of Canada. See Indiana Code 14-25-13-3
• stream: means a natural or an altered river, creek, slough, watercourse, or artificial channel that has:

  Indiana Code 14-25-7-7

• wasted: means any of the following:

  Indiana Code 14-25-3-2

• water resource: means all water:

  Indiana Code 14-25-7-8

• water utility: means :

  Indiana Code 14-25-2-2.5

• water well: means an excavation, however constructed, that is used for the purpose of withdrawing ground water for reasonable beneficial uses. See Indiana Code 14-25-4-7