STATUTORY REFERENCES FOR INDIANA CITIES AND TOWNS
The statutory references listed below refer the code user to state statutes applicable to Indiana cities and towns. They are current through June 2023.
General Provisions
Annexation, deannexation.
IC 36-4-3
City ordinances and resolutions.
IC 36-4-6-11 et seq.
Classification of municipalities.
IC 36-4-1
Codification of ordinances.
IC 36-1-5
Dissolution or change of name of towns.
IC 36-5-1-12 et seq.
Enforcement of ordinances.
IC 36-1-6
Extraterritorial powers (repealed sections).
IC 36-8-2-13 et seq.
General municipal powers.
Home rule.
IC 36-1-3
Incorporation of towns.
IC 36-5-1
Merger of municipalities.
IC 36-4-2
Ordinance Violations Bureaus.
IC 33-36-1 et seq.
Publication of notices.
IC 5-3
Punishment for ordinance violations.
IC 36-1-3-8
Suffrage and elections.
Indiana Const. Art. 2 and IC 3
Town ordinances and resolutions.
IC 36-5-2-9.2 et seq.
Administration and Personnel
City clerk and fiscal officer.
IC 36-4-10
City departments, boards and appointed officers.
IC 36-4-9
City deputies and employees.
IC 36-4-11
City executive.
IC 36-4-5
City legislative body.
IC 36-4-6
City manager for third class cities.
IC 36-4-12
City works boards.
IC 36-9-6
Civil rights enforcement; local ordinances.
IC 22-9-1 et seq., 22-9-1-12.1
Division of city powers.
IC 36-4-4
Elections.
IC 3
Interlocal cooperation.
IC 36-1-7
Officers’ bonds and oaths.
IC 5-4
Parks departments.
IC 36-10-4
Personnel system.
IC 36-1-4-14
Police and fire merit systems.
IC 36-8-3.5
Regional planning commissions.
IC 36-7-7
Safety boards.
IC 36-8-3
Sanitation departments.
IC 36-9-25
Town clerk-treasurer.
IC 36-5-6
Town legislative body and executive.
IC 36-5-2
Town manager.
IC 36-5-5
Town marshal.
IC 36-5-7
Revenue and Finance
City budgets.
IC 36-4-7
City fiscal procedures.
IC 36-4-8
Compromise of claims against cities and towns.
IC 36-1-4-17
Debt limitation.
IC 36-1-15
Emergency telephone system fee.
IC 36-8-16.7
Financing public works projects.
IC 36-9-41
Fiscal officer.
IC 36-4-10
Funds.
Improvements financing.
Purchasing.
IC 5-22
Sale, transfer or lease of public property.
IC 36-1-11
Town budgets.
IC 36-5-3
Town fiscal procedures.
IC 36-5-4
Business Licenses, Taxes and Regulations
Alcohol and tobacco.
IC Title 7.1
Charitable solicitations.
IC 36-8-2-11
City and town cemeteries.
IC 23-14-65-1 et seq.
Exemption from vending and peddling license fees.
IC 25-25-2-1
Home-based vendors (ordinance prohibition).
IC 16-42-5.3-12
License revocation, cities.
IC 36-4-5-5
License revocation, towns.
IC 36-5-4-11
Municipal powers.
Public gatherings.
IC 36-8-2-9
Vehicles for hire.
IC 36-9-2-4
Animals
Animal control.
IC 15-20-1-1 et seq.
Animal shelters.
IC 36-8-2-6
Health and Safety
Air and sound pollution.
IC 36-8-2-8
City health departments.
IC 16-20
Fire prevention.
IC 36-8-2-3
Fireworks.
IC 22-11-14
Municipal powers.
IC 36-1-3, 36-1-4, 36-8-2-1 et seq.
Sanitation departments.
IC 36-9-25
Solid waste disposal.
IC 36-9-30
Weeds.
IC 36-7-10.1
Public Peace, Morals and Welfare
Discrimination.
IC 22-9
General municipal powers.
State criminal code.
IC 35
Vehicles and Traffic
City department of traffic engineering.
IC 36-9-7
Local regulation of tractor-mobile home rigs.
IC 9-20-15-2
Local traffic regulations.
IC 9-21-1-2 et seq.
Municipal parking facilities.
IC 36-9-11
Parking meters.
IC 36-9-12
State traffic code.
IC 9
Streets, Sidewalks and Public Property
City works board.
IC 36-9-6
General powers re: public streets and ways.
IC 36-9
Improvements financing.
Municipal street lights.
IC 36-9-9
Parks.
IC 36-10-3
Thoroughfare projects.
IC 36-9-6.1
Public Services
City works board.
IC 36-9-6
Municipal sewage works.
IC 36-9-23
Municipal utilities.
IC 8-1.5
Sanitation department.
IC 36-9-25
Sewer and watercourse improvements.
IC 36-9-28
Solid waste disposal.
IC 36-9-30
Transportation systems authority.
Waterworks.
IC 36-9-2-14
Buildings and Construction
Building code.
IC 22-12 et seq.
Historic preservation.
IC 36-7-11
Municipal powers in building and construction regulation.
IC 36-7-2-3 et seq.
Unsafe buildings.
IC 36-7-9
Subdivisions
Subdivision regulations.
IC 36-7-4-700 et seq.
Zoning
Flood control districts.
IC 36-9-29
General powers re: planning and development.
IC 36-7-2
Local planning and zoning.
IC 36-7
Environment
Economic development and pollution control.
IC 36-7-12