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Home » US Law » 2022 Indiana Code » Title 4. State Offices and Administration » Article 3. Governor » Chapter 6. Governor Authorized to Present Reorganization Plans for State Agencies to the General Assembly

4-3-6-1. Title of Act

Sec. 1. This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Reorganization Act of 1967”. Formerly: Acts 1967, c.9, s.1. As amended by P.L.5-1984, SEC.9.

4-3-6-2. Definitions

Sec. 2. As used in this chapter: (1) “Agency” means any executive or administrative department, commission, council, board, bureau, division, service, office, officer, administration, or other establishment in the executive or administrative branch of the state government not provided for by the constitution. The term “agency” does not include the secretary of state, the auditor […]

4-3-6-3. Purposes of Reorganization

Sec. 3. (a) The governor shall examine, and from time to time reexamine, the organization of all agencies of the state government, and shall determine what changes in the agencies are necessary to accomplish the following purposes: (1) To promote the better execution of the laws, the more effective management of the executive and administrative […]

4-3-6-4. Governor; Preparation of Plan; Message to General Assembly

Sec. 4. Whenever the governor, after investigation, finds that: (1) the transfer of the whole or any part of any agency, or of the whole or any part of the functions thereof, to the jurisdiction and control of any other agency; (2) the abolition of all or any part of the functions of any agency; […]

4-3-6-6. Effect of Plans

Sec. 6. No reorganization plan shall provide for, and no reorganization under this chapter shall have the effect of: (a) abolishing or transferring a constitutional office or the attorney general or the functions thereof, or consolidating any two (2) such offices or the functions provided such offices in the first statute prescribing the functions and […]

4-3-6-7. Presenting Plan to General Assembly in Form of Bill; Enactment

Sec. 7. (a) Each reorganization plan shall be presented by the governor to the general assembly in the form of a bill. (b) Each reorganization plan so submitted by the governor shall take effect if and when it is enacted as a law by the general assembly in accordance with the constitution of the state […]

4-3-6-8. Effect of Reorganization; Regulations and Other Actions; Vested Functions

Sec. 8. (a) An act and any regulation or other action made, prescribed, issued, granted, or performed in respect of or by any agency or function affected by a reorganization under this chapter, before the effective date of the reorganization, shall, except to the extent rescinded, modified, superseded, or made inapplicable by or under authority […]

4-3-6-9. Survival of Actions; Time for Motion to Allow

Sec. 9. No legal action, or other proceeding lawfully commenced by or against the head of any agency or other officer of the state, in the head’s or other officer’s official capacity or in relation to the discharge of the head’s or other officer’s official duties, shall abate by reason of the taking effect of […]