Indiana § 5-26-2-5 - Powers of department
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§ 5-26-2-5. Powers of department
Sec. 5. The department's powers include the following:
(1) Planning for voluntary coordination of resources by public safety agencies.
(2) Developing coordinated, integrated responses to significant public safety events by those public safety agencies that choose to take part.
(3) Developing means of sharing information operationally and technologically to improve public safety.
(4) Contracting with consultants to assist in the planning and development under this article.
(5) Contracting with others to provide services under this article.
(6) Accepting gifts, devises, bequests, grants, loans, appropriations, revenue sharing, other financing and assistance, and any other aid from any source and agreeing to and complying with conditions attached thereto as necessary or appropriate to the purposes of the department.
(7) Acquiring real property, or any interest in real property, by lease, conveyance (including purchase) instead of foreclosure, or foreclosure as necessary or appropriate to the purposes of the department.
(8) Owning, managing, operating, holding, clearing, improving, and constructing facilities on real property as necessary or appropriate to the purposes of the department.
(9) Selling, assigning, exchanging, transferring, conveying, leasing, mortgaging, or otherwise disposing of or encumbering real property, or interests in real property or facilities on real property as necessary or appropriate to the purposes of the department.
(10) Acquiring personal property by lease or conveyance as necessary or appropriate to the purposes of the department.
(11) Selling, assigning, exchanging, transferring, conveying, leasing, mortgaging, or otherwise disposing of or encumbering personal property, or interests in personal property as necessary or appropriate to the purposes of the department.
(12) The powers enumerated in IC 5-26-3-6.
(13) Any other power necessary, proper, or convenient to carry out this article.
As added by P.L.117-1999, SEC.1. Amended by P.L.123-2002, SEC.10; P.L.136-2018, SEC.39; P.L.152-2026, SEC.52.
Source: official Indiana text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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