Terms Used In Indiana Code > Title 22 > Article 9 - Civil Rights

• active duty: means full-time service in the:

  Indiana Code 22-9-9-1

• Affirmative action: means those acts that the commission determines necessary to assure compliance with the Indiana civil rights law. See Indiana Code 22-9-1-3
• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• armed forces of the United States: means the active or reserve components of the:

  Indiana Code 22-9-9-2

• 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
• Autism: means a neurological condition as described in the most recent edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders of the American Psychiatric Association. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
• commerce: has the meaning set forth in Section 701 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Indiana Code 22-9-5-2
• commission: refers to the civil rights commission. See Indiana Code 22-9-5-3
• Commission: means the civil rights commission created under section 4 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 22-9-1-3
• commission: means the civil rights commission created by IC 22-9-1-4. See Indiana Code 22-9-10-1
• competitive integrated employment: has the meaning set forth in Indiana Code 22-9-11-1
• Complainant: means :

  Indiana Code 22-9-1-3

• Complaint: means any written grievance that is:

  Indiana Code 22-9-1-3

• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Consent agreement: means a formal agreement entered into in lieu of adjudication. See Indiana Code 22-9-1-3
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• covered entity: means an employer, an employment agency, a labor organization, or a joint labor-management committee. See Indiana Code 22-9-5-4
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• department: means the Indiana department of veterans' affairs established by IC 10-17-1-2. See Indiana Code 22-9-10-4
• Deputy director: means the deputy director of the civil rights commission. See Indiana Code 22-9-1-3
• direct threat: means a significant risk to the health or safety of others that cannot be eliminated by reasonable accommodation. See Indiana Code 22-9-5-5
• Director: means the director of the civil rights commission. See Indiana Code 22-9-1-3
• disability: means the physical or mental condition of a person that constitutes a substantial disability. See Indiana Code 22-9-1-3
• disability: means with respect to an individual:

  Indiana Code 22-9-5-6

• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• discriminate: includes the following:

  Indiana Code 22-9-5-7

• Discriminatory practice: means :

  Indiana Code 22-9-1-3

• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• drug: means a controlled substance (as defined in schedules I through V of Section 202 of the Controlled Substances Act Indiana Code 22-9-5-8
• dwelling: means :

  Indiana Code 22-9-7-2

• emotional support animal: means a companion animal that a health service provider has determined provides a benefit for an individual with a disability, which may include improving at least one (1) symptom of the disability. See Indiana Code 22-9-7-6
• employ: means to suffer or permit to work. See Indiana Code 22-9-10-5
• Employee: means any person employed by another for wages or salary. See Indiana Code 22-9-1-3
• employee: has the meaning set forth in IC 22-9-1-3(i). See Indiana Code 22-9-10-6
• employee: means an individual employed by an employer. See Indiana Code 22-9-5-9
• Employer: means the state or any political or civil subdivision thereof and any person employing six (6) or more persons within the state, except that the term "employer" does not include:

  Indiana Code 22-9-1-3

• employer: means a person engaged in an industry affecting commerce that has at least twenty-five (25) employees for each working day in each of at least twenty (20) calendar weeks in the current or preceding year and an agent of the person. See Indiana Code 22-9-5-10
• employer: has the meaning set forth in IC 22-9-1-3(h). See Indiana Code 22-9-10-7
• employment agency: has the meaning set forth in Section 701 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Indiana Code 22-9-5-11
• Employment agency: means any person undertaking with or without compensation to procure, recruit, refer, or place employees. See Indiana Code 22-9-1-3
• 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}
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• health service provider: refers to :

  Indiana Code 22-9-7-4

• housing accommodations: means :

  Indiana Code 22-9-6-2

• illegal use of drugs: means the use of drugs the possession or distribution of which is unlawful under the Controlled Substances Act. See Indiana Code 22-9-5-6
• in writing: include printing, lithographing, or other mode of representing words and letters. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• individual with a disability: means an individual:

  Indiana Code 22-9-7-5

• individuals with disabilities: has the meaning set forth in Indiana Code 22-9-11-2
• industry affecting commerce: has the meaning set forth in Section 701 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Indiana Code 22-9-5-13
• informed choice: means the process by which an individual chooses from all available options following the receipt of appropriate information, experience, and knowledge that may be obtained through the following activities:

  Indiana Code 22-9-11-3

• inspection: means :

  Indiana Code 4-21.5-2.5-4

• Judgment: means all final orders, decrees, and determinations in an action and all orders upon which executions may issue. 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.
• Labor organization: means any organization that exists for the purpose in whole or in part of collective bargaining or of dealing with employers concerning grievances, terms, or conditions of employment or for other mutual aid or protection in relation to employment. See Indiana Code 22-9-1-3
• labor organization: has the meaning set forth in Section 701 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Indiana Code 22-9-5-14
• 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}
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• medical record: means written or printed information possessed by a provider (as defined in IC 16-18-2-295) concerning any diagnosis, treatment, or prognosis of the patient, unless otherwise defined. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• National Guard: means the:

  Indiana Code 22-9-9-3

• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• person: has the meaning set forth in Section 701 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Indiana Code 22-9-5-15
• Person: means one (1) or more individuals, partnerships, associations, organizations, limited liability companies, corporations, labor organizations, cooperatives, legal representatives, trustees, trustees in bankruptcy, receivers, and other organized groups of persons. See Indiana Code 22-9-1-3
• person with a disability: means an individual who, by reason of physical or mental defect or infirmity, whether congenital or acquired by accident, injury, or disease, is or may subsequently be totally or partially prevented from achieving the fullest attainable physical, social, economic, mental, and vocational participation in the normal process of living. See Indiana Code 22-9-6-1
• Persons with disabilities: includes persons who are blind, persons who have a visual disability, and other persons with a physical disability. See Indiana Code 22-9-6-1
• Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
• Population: has the meaning set forth in Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• Preliminary hearing: A hearing where the judge decides whether there is enough evidence to make the defendant have a trial.
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• Property: includes personal and real property. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• qualified individual with a disability: means an individual with a disability who, with or without reasonable accommodation, can perform the essential functions of the employment position that the individual holds or desires. See Indiana Code 22-9-5-16
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• reasonable accommodation: includes the following:

  Indiana Code 22-9-5-17

• self-employment: means a business, profession, or trade owned by an individual and through which the individual earns income directly through the individual's own efforts and not as an employee of a business, profession, or trade owned by another person. See Indiana Code 22-9-11-4
• service animal: refers to an animal trained as:

  Indiana Code 22-9-5-9.5

• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Sufficiently complete: refers to a complaint that includes:

  Indiana Code 22-9-1-3

• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• to rent: has the meaning set forth in Indiana Code 22-9-7-7
• Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
• transition services: has the meaning set forth in Indiana Code 22-9-11-6
• undue hardship: means an action requiring significant difficulty or expense when considered in light of the factors set forth in subsection (b). See Indiana Code 22-9-5-18
• 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
• Verified: when applied to pleadings, means supported by oath or affirmation in writing. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• veteran: means :

  Indiana Code 22-9-10-8

• Veteran: means :

  Indiana Code 22-9-1-3

• violation: refers to a violation of a state rule adopted by an agency or a state statute, except for a violation exempt under section 2 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 4-21.5-2.5-5