Indiana § 14-23-1-1 Duties of department

Indiana Statutes

§ 14-23-1-1 — Duties of department

Indiana·Art. 23 FORESTRY·Ch. 1 Duties of Department

The department shall do the following:

(1)Have the care, custody, and control of the forest land owned by the state, exclusive of state parks.

(2)Adopt necessary rules to properly enforce this chapter.

(3)Establish, operate, and maintain nurseries for the production of trees to be used in reforestation. The trees may be:

(A)used to reforest land owned by the state;

(B)supplied to owners of private land at a price not exceeding cost of production; or

(C)used for planting on public roads or land under the terms that are considered by the department to be for the public benefit.

(4)Prepare, print, post, or distribute printed matter relating to forestry.

(5)Make investigations or experiments with regard to forestry questions.

(6)Subject to the approval of the governor, purchase land a

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The department shall do the following:
(1) Have the care, custody, and control of the forest land owned
by the state, exclusive of state parks.
(2) Adopt necessary rules to properly enforce this chapter.
(3) Establish, operate, and maintain nurseries for the production
of trees to be used in reforestation. The trees may be:
(A) used to reforest land owned by the state;
(B) supplied to owners of private land at a price not exceeding
cost of production; or
(C) used for planting on public roads or land under the terms
that are considered by the department to be for the public
benefit.
(4) Prepare, print, post, or distribute printed matter relating to
forestry.
(5) Make investigations or experiments with regard to forestry
questions.
(6) Subject to the approval of the governor, purchase land and
forests. For the purpose of acquiring land and forests, the
commission may exercise the right of eminent domain in the
manner provided in IC 14-17-3.
(7) Receive and accept, in the name of the people of Indiana, by
gift or devise, the fee or other estate in land or forests.
(8) Examine the forest land owned by the state or by a state
institution for the purpose of advising and cooperating in securing
proper forest management of the land.
(9) Employ, with approval of the authorities having control of the
state penal institutions, convicts committed to a penal institution
for the purpose of producing or planting trees, building roads, or
doing other work in the forests and in clearing, draining, or
developing land purchased or acquired by the state for forestry
purposes.
(10) Propagate trees and shrubs for state institutions or for
planting along highways. A common carrier may transport trees
or shrubs grown by the state at a rate less than the established
tariff to and from points within Indiana.
(11) Have the custody of all abstracts of title, papers, contracts, or
related memoranda, except original deeds to the state, for land
purchased or received under this section.
(12) Examine private forest land:
(A) upon request of; and
(B) at the expense of;
the owner for the purpose of advising the owner on the proper
methods of forest management.
[Pre-1995 Recodification Citation: 14-3-1-13.]