Indiana Code Title 8. Utilities and Transportation § 8-1-11.1-15

Sec. 15.  This chapter being necessary for and intended to secure efficient and economical management and operation of utility properties in any consolidated city taking advantage of the provisions hereof, the said board of directors shall have full power to transact all the business pertaining to said management and operation of each and all such utilities, including the issuance of bonds, mortgages, and other forms of indebtedness, free from all control and supervision of the department of local government finance of Indiana.  This chapter shall be liberally construed to effectuate the purpose hereof, and if any one (1) or more sections, clauses, phrases, or parts thereof, of this chapter shall be held invalid, the remaining sections, clauses, phrases, or parts thereof, shall not be affected thereby, and the legislature declares that it would have enacted all other parts of said chapter even if any or all of the aforesaid portions thereof had not been included therein.