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Indiana Code Title 14. Natural and Cultural Resources § 14-29-5-1

Current as of January 02, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

Sec. 1. (a) The governing bodies or agencies of the state charged with the duties of the construction, maintenance, and repair of public highways may, to the extent money is available and subject to subsection (b), do the following:

(1) Change the course of a stream, watercourse, or drainage ditch.

(2) Restore to the original or former channel a stream, watercourse, or drainage ditch if the stream, watercourse, or drainage ditch has meandered from the original or former course.

(3) The construction work that is necessary to protect the banks or slopes of a stream, watercourse, or ditch to prevent wash, caving, slides, or erosion if the water of the stream, watercourse, or ditch is causing or threatening injury to, damage to, or destruction of a public highway or bridge by erosion, wash, slides, change of course, or overflow.

(4) Construct walls or levees for the purposes of subdivision (3) if it is determined by an engineering survey that this method would be more practicable or less expensive.

(5) Exercise the authority granted in this section to protect public highways against injury, damage, or destruction caused or threatened by landslides.

(b) If a navigable stream is under the jurisdiction of a federal authority or an agency and the proposed work of the highway officials under this section conflicts or interferes with the jurisdiction of the federal agency, the consent or waiver of the federal agency must be procured by the highway officials before the beginning of the proposed work.

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