Indiana legal term
Agency in Indiana Criminal Law
Current through 2026 Indiana legislative session
In Indiana criminal law, “Agency” is a term defined by statute rather than by its everyday meaning. Its statutory definition — quoted verbatim below — controls how the term is applied throughout the Indiana criminal code.
What does “Agency” mean in Indiana criminal law?
"Agency" means any authority, board, bureau, commission, committee, department, division, hospital, military body, or other instrumentality of: (1) the state, a county, a township, a city, a town, a separate municipal corporation, a special taxing district, or a public corporation; or (2) a state assisted college or state assisted university. (Ind. Code § 35-31.5-2-11)
Statutes defining or using this term
Charges using this term
- Duties of driver of motor vehicle involved in accident; sentencing
- Fraud
- Shipments of alcoholic beverages to residents without valid wholesaler permits; violations
- Torture or mutilation of a vertebrate animal; killing a domestic animal
- Unlawful use of a signal jammer
- Adoption deception
- Armor-piercing ammunition; offense; exceptions
- Dealing in smokable hemp; exception for transit through state
- Notice of suspension of driving privileges for delinquent child support; reinstatement
- Profiteering from public service
- Profiting from adoption
- "Qualified egg bank"; unlawful transfer of human organisms; exceptions; penalties
Related terms in the same statutes
This reference is informational and is not legal advice.