Indiana Code Title 8. Utilities and Transportation § 8-23-18-1

Sec. 1. The authority given to the department to acquire the fee simple title to public or private real property, rights, or easements needed or reasonably necessary for a state highway includes the right to acquire real property or a right in, to, or over real property owned, held, or claimed by a city, town, township, county, school corporation or other municipal corporation, or political subdivision of the state, public corporation, instrumentality, or agency supported in whole or in part by taxation.