IC 8-10-3-1: Authority for acquisition and operation of port facilities

Sec. 1. (a) Except as otherwise provided by this chapter, the definitions set forth in IC 8-10-1-2 apply throughout this chapter.

(b) In addition to the powers conferred upon the ports of Indiana by other provisions of this article, the ports of Indiana shall have the power whenever the ports of Indiana finds it either desirable or necessary in order to increase the water borne traffic into or out of the port to acquire, lease, construct, maintain, repair, and police facilities, adjuncts, and appurtenances for use in the business of in transit processing, finishing, reduction, conversion, completion, packaging, bottling, transshipment, or handling of commodities. In exercising the powers granted in this section, the ports of Indiana shall have all the powers granted to the ports of Indiana by this article in connection with a port project, and the term "port project", as used in this article, shall be deemed and construed to include facilities, adjuncts, and appurtenances of the character referred to in this section.