§ 14-27-1-1 — General duties of department

The department shall do the following:
(1) Investigate, compile, and disseminate information and make
recommendations relative to the drainage and reclamation of land.
(2) Make surveys and reconnaissance and prepare the maps,
charts, statistical tables, and other documents and appurtenances
that are considered necessary to enable landowners, public
officials, or other persons interested in or charged by law with the
duty of promoting and securing the drainage and reclamation of
land to proceed more intelligently with their work.
(3) Recommend and secure the enforcement of laws for the
drainage and reclamation of the swamp, overflowed, and
nonarable land of Indiana.
(4) Ascertain, determine, designate, and define natural drainage
and reclamation areas. When requested, place at the disposal of
the public officials charged by law with the establishment and
execution of the work the information that will enable the public
officials, when providing for the drainage or reclamation of a
component part of the natural drainage or reclamation areas, to
proceed with the work so that the component systems, when
established and completed, form a scientifically integrated system
whereby the entire natural drainage or reclamation area is most
economically and scientifically drained or reclaimed.
(5) Prepare computations of the probable maximum quantity of
water likely to be collected from a drainage or reclamation area
or district and discharged by a ditch or system of ditches or
drains, together with the probable maximum capacity of the outlet
by which the water is to make its escape.
(6) Prepare computations of the probable maximum quantity of
water likely to be restrained or impounded by a levee or dike or
a system of levees or dikes, together with the location and the
probable maximum height and strength of the proposed dikes or
levees by which the water is to be restrained and impounded.
(7) Make the computations prepared under subdivisions (5) and
(6) available, on request, to and placed at the disposal of a public
official or other person authorized by law to locate, establish, or
construct ditches, drains, levees, or dikes for the purpose of
enabling the person to locate, establish, and construct the ditches,
drains, levees, or dikes so that land other than land assessed for
benefits and wherever located is not subjected to inundation,
overflow, or unnecessary or unnatural hazard or inconvenience.
[Pre-1995 Recodification Citation: 14-3-1-15(a).]

Legislative History

As added by P.L.1-1995, SEC.20.