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Indiana Code Title 16. Health § 16-19-3-4.4

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

Sec. 4.4. (a) The executive board shall adopt reasonable rules under IC 4-22-2 necessary to protect the health, safety, and welfare of persons living in mobile camps, including provisions relating to sanitary conditions, light, air, safety protection from fire hazards, equipment, maintenance, and operation of the camp, sewage disposal through septic tank absorption fields, and other matters appropriate for the security of the life and health of occupants.

(b) The rules adopted under subsection (a) shall be enforced by local health officers under IC 16-20-1-19 and IC 16-22-8-34(a)(23).

(c) The rules must include the following:

(1) A requirement for an inspection fee necessary to cover all the expenses incurred in the process of conducting inspections of a mobile camp, to be paid by the railroad company operating the mobile camp.

(2) A provision that the inspection fee shall be paid to the:

(A) local health department under IC 16-20-1-2;  or

(B) municipal corporation created under IC 16-22-8-6;

before initiation of the inspection.  The fee shall be deposited in the general fund of the local health department or the municipal corporation.

(3) A requirement that the railroad company, after the departure of the mobile camp, restore the property upon which the mobile camp existed to its condition before the arrival of the mobile camp.

(4) A provision that the officials of the local health department or the municipal corporation referenced in subdivision (2) may conduct either:

(A) independent inspections of the mobile camp without the presence of the railroad company or a union representative;  or

(B) joint inspections of the mobile camp with the presence of the railroad company and a union representative of each craft of employees working for the railroad company.

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