2014 Indiana Code TITLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS ARTICLE 3. STATE BOUNDARIES CHAPTER 1. INDIANA-KENTUCKY BOUNDARY COMPACT
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IC 1-3
ARTICLE 3. STATE BOUNDARIES
IC 1-3-1
Chapter 1. Indiana-Kentucky Boundary Compact
IC 1-3-1-1
Boundary
Sec. 1. Upon the approval and consent of the Congress of the
United States to the compact hereby effected, the boundary line
between the State of Indiana and the Commonwealth of Kentucky is
as follows:
Commencing at a point on the line between Sections 15 and 14,
Township 7 South, Range 10 West, and 67.25 chains south of the
northeast corner of Section 15, the same being the beginning point in
the description of the part of the boundary line as fixed by the
Supreme Court of the United States in Indiana v. Kentucky, decided
May 18, 1896, and reported in 163 U.S. Reports 520, thence south 0
degrees 53 minutes 15 seconds west to the low water mark on the
right side of the Ohio River and thence upstream at low water mark
on the right side of the Ohio River. Also beginning at the same
beginning point to-wit: The beginning point in the description of the
part of the boundary line between the State of Indiana and the
Commonwealth of Kentucky as fixed by the Supreme Court in 163
U.S. 520 and following that line to the end of so much of the
boundary line as was fixed by the decree; thence due west to the low
water mark on the right side of the Ohio River and thence
downstream with the low water mark on the right side of the river.
As added by P.L.1-1995, SEC.32.
IC 1-3-1-2
Filing of compact
Sec. 2. Upon the approval and consent of the Congress of the
United States to the compact hereby effected:
(1) evidence of the compact, together with the survey and report
of the commissioners by whom the boundary line was agreed
upon, shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state; and
(2) a copy of the compact, survey, and report shall be filed in
the office of the recorder of Vanderburgh County, Indiana.
As added by P.L.1-1995, SEC.32.
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