2017 Indiana Code
TITLE 36. Local Government
ARTICLE 7. PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
CHAPTER 4. Local Planning and Zoning
36-7-4-1103. Miscellaneous provisions; use and alienation of mineral resources and forests outside urban areas
Sec. 1103. (a) This section does not apply to a plan commission exercising jurisdiction in a county having a population of more than twenty thousand nine hundred (20,900) but less than twenty-one thousand (21,000).
(b) ADVISORY—AREA. For purposes of this section, urban areas include all lands and lots within the corporate boundaries of a municipality, any other lands or lots used for residential purposes where there are at least eight (8) residences within any quarter mile square area, and other lands or lots that have been or are planned for residential areas contiguous to the municipality.
(c) ADVISORY—AREA. This chapter does not authorize an ordinance or action of a plan commission that would prevent, outside of urban areas, the complete use and alienation of any mineral resources or forests by the owner or alienee of them.
[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citations: 18-7-4-1103; 18-7-5-61.]
As added by Acts 1981, P.L.309, SEC.23. Amended by P.L.117-1986, SEC.3; P.L.346-1987, SEC.1; P.L.305-1989, SEC.1; P.L.12-1992, SEC.166; P.L.216-1999, SEC.5; P.L.170-2002, SEC.153; P.L.119-2012, SEC.195.
