Sec. 1. (a) Under Article 6, Sections 7 and 8 of the Constitution of the State of Indiana, all state officers other than justices of the supreme court or judges of the court of appeals of Indiana or the Indiana tax court, all other judges, prosecuting attorneys, and all county, city, town, and township officers […]
Sec. 10. The defendant can not be convicted on impeachment without the concurrence of two-thirds of the members elected, voting by ayes and noes, and if two-thirds of the members elected do not concur in a conviction, he must be acquitted. Formerly: Acts 1897, c.182, s.10.
Sec. 11. After conviction, the senate must, at such time as it may appoint, pronounce judgment, in the form of resolution entered upon the journals of the senate. Formerly: Acts 1897, c.182, s.11.
Sec. 12. On the adoption of the resolution by a majority of the members present who voted on the question of acquittal or conviction, it becomes the judgment of the senate. Formerly: Acts 1897, c.182, s.12.
Sec. 13. The judgment may be that the defendant be suspended or that he be removed from office and disqualified to hold any office of honor, trust or profit, under the state. Formerly: Acts 1897, c.182, s.13.
Sec. 14. If judgment of suspension is given, the defendant, during the continuance thereof, is disqualified from receiving the salary, fees or emoluments of the office. Formerly: Acts 1897, c.182, s.14.
Sec. 15. Whenever articles of impeachment against any officer subject to impeachment are presented to the senate, such officer is temporarily suspended from office and cannot act in the officer’s official capacity until the officer is acquitted. Upon such suspension of any officer other than the governor, the office must, at once, be temporarily filled […]
Sec. 16. If the governor or lieutenant-governor is impeached, the chief justice of the Supreme Court of the state shall preside over the senate during the impeachment trial, but he shall not have the right to vote. Formerly: Acts 1897, c.182, s.16.
Sec. 17. If the offense for which the defendant is convicted on impeachment is also the subject of an indictment or information, the indictment or information is not barred hereby. Formerly: Acts 1897, c.182, s.17.
Sec. 18. In case impeachment proceedings be pending in the senate at the time of the expiration of any session of the general assembly, the senate shall be continued in session for the sole and only purpose of sitting as a court of impeachment until such impeachment proceedings be concluded, and may, pending the conclusion […]
Sec. 19. (a) Under Article 7, Section 13 of the Constitution of the State of Indiana, whenever a circuit, superior, or probate court judge or prosecuting attorney has been convicted of corruption or any other high crime, the attorney general shall bring proceedings in the supreme court, on information, in the name of the state, […]
Sec. 2. All impeachments must be by resolution, adopted, originated in and conducted by managers elected by the house of representatives, who must prepare articles of impeachment, present them at the bar of the senate and prosecute the same, and the trial must be had before the senate sitting as a court of impeachment. Formerly: […]
Formerly: Acts 1897, c.182, s.20. Repealed by P.L.3-1993, SEC.282.
Sec. 21. An accusation in writing against any district officer, county officer, township officer, municipal officer, or prosecuting attorney may be presented by the grand jury of the county in which the officer accused is elected or appointed. Formerly: Acts 1897, c.182, s.21. As amended by P.L.1-1990, SEC.56.
Sec. 22. The accusation must state the offense charged in ordinary and concise language, and without repetition. Formerly: Acts 1897, c.182, s.22.
Sec. 23. The accusation must be delivered by the foreman of the grand jury to the prosecuting attorney of the county, except when the prosecuting attorney of the county is the officer accused, who must cause a copy thereof to be served upon the defendant, and require, by notice in writing of not less than […]
Sec. 24. The defendant must appear at the time appointed in the notice and answer the accusation, unless, for some sufficient cause, the court assign another day for that purpose. If he does not appear, the court may proceed to hear and determine the accusation in his absence. Formerly: Acts 1897, c.182, s.24.
Sec. 25. The defendant may answer the accusation either by objecting to the sufficiency of the accusation or of any article of the accusation or by denying the truth of the same. Formerly: Acts 1897, c.182, s.25. As amended by P.L.136-2018, SEC.31.
Sec. 26. If the defendant objects to the legal sufficiency of the accusation, the objection must be in writing, but need not be in any specific form, it being sufficient if it presents intelligibly the grounds of the objection. Formerly: Acts 1897, c.182, s.26.
Sec. 27. If he denies the truth of the accusation, the denial may be oral and without oath, and must be entered upon the minutes. Formerly: Acts 1897, c.182, s.27.
