§ 8-23-20-1 — Agreements with United States Secretary of Commerce

(a) The department and the United States
Secretary of Commerce shall enter into agreements under 23 U.S.C.
concerning the regulation of billboards, signs, junkyards, and scrap
metal processing areas in areas adjacent to the interstate and primary
highway systems. The agreements must conform to the provisions of
23 U.S.C. to ensure that federal funds to Indiana are continued.
(b) An agreement between the state and the United States Secretary
of Commerce entered into under 23 U.S.C. 131 must contain the
definition of "unzoned commercial or industrial area" found in IC 8-23-1-43. If the state has received from the Secretary a formal notice
of a proposed determination to withhold funds from the state because
of an asserted unacceptability of the definition, the governor shall
modify the definition. The modification may be made during a hearing
on the notice held by the Secretary under 23 U.S.C. 131, or, if as a
matter of law the Secretary decides to withhold funds prior to a
hearing, the governor:
(1) may modify the definition before a hearing; and
(2) shall request a hearing under 23 U.S.C. 131.

Legislative History

As added by P.L.18-1990, SEC.229.