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IN HB1202
Bill
Status
1/10/2017
Primary Sponsor
Lloyd Arnold
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AI Summary
HB 1202 Summary
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Transfers ownership of Ohio River banks to private landowners who hold fee simple title to adjoining Indiana land, extending their ownership to the state's southern border as defined by the 1792 low water mark when Kentucky became a state.
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Indiana relinquishes its state ownership interest in Ohio River banks up to the ordinary high water mark to the extent necessary to implement this transfer.
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Defines "navigable waterway" as rivers and creeks available for navigation when Indiana achieved statehood in 1816, determined by federal court standards, including the Ohio River regardless of current navigability.
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Establishes "ordinary high water mark" as the waterline indicated by physical characteristics such as cleared banks, soil changes, destroyed vegetation, and presence of debris or litter.
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Becomes effective July 1, 2017.
Legislative Description
Ownership of banks of the Ohio River. Provides that in all places where the southern border of the state of Indiana, as determined according to the low water mark of the Ohio River as it was when Kentucky became a state in 1792, is coterminous with the banks of the Ohio River on the Indiana side of the Ohio River, the person or persons who hold title in fee simple to the land in Indiana adjoining the Ohio River are owners of the land all the way to the border of the state of Indiana. Provides that the state of
Last Action
First reading: referred to Committee on Statutory Committee on Interstate and International Cooperation
1/10/2017