Ind. Code ch. 10-10.7-2

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Ind. Code § 10-10.7-2-1 Destruction, damaging, vandalizing, or desecration of monuments, memorials, statues, commemorative property, religious property; department to prioritize investigation and prosecution; discretionary funding

Sec. 1. (a) The department shall prioritize within the department the investigation and prosecution of the following: (1) Any person that destroys, damages, vandalizes, or desecrates: (A) a private or government monument, memorial, statue, or other commemorative property; or (B) the state capitol or Indiana government center campus. (2) Any person that participates in efforts to incite violence, rioting, or other illegal activity in connection with acts described in subdivision (1). (3) Any person that damages, defaces, or destroys religious property. (b) The department shall take all appropriate enforcement actions against persons found to have violated Indiana law through the investigations described in subsection (a). (c) Discretionary funding for: (1) political subdivisions; or (2) public spaces of political subdivisions; may be withheld from political subdivisions that fail to protect public monuments, memorials, and statues from destruction or vandalism. As added by P.L.94-2021, SEC.1.

Ind. Code § 10-10.7-2-2 Department to work with political subdivisions for protection of monuments, memorials, statues, commemorative property and religious property

Sec. 2. Notwithstanding any other Indiana statute but subject to applicable federal law, the department shall, as appropriate, work with political subdivisions to ensure that the state government appropriately provides information and assistance to those political subdivisions in connection with their investigations or prosecution of activities described in section 1 of this chapter, regardless of whether the property is located on property owned by the state. As added by P.L.94-2021, SEC.1.

Ind. Code § 10-10.7-2-3 Department shall provide appropriate personnel to assist with protection of monuments, memorials, statues, commemorative property and religious property

Sec. 3. Notwithstanding any other Indiana statute but subject to applicable federal law, upon request, the department shall provide, as appropriate, personnel to assist with the protection of monuments, memorials, statues, or property owned by the state or a political subdivision. As added by P.L.94-2021, SEC.1.

Ind. Code § 10-10.7-2-4 Evaluation of political subdivision efforts to protect monuments, memorials, statues, commemorative property and religious property; factors

Sec. 4. In determining whether a political subdivision failed to take all appropriate enforcement actions against a person found to have violated Indiana law through the investigations described in this chapter, the department, as part of the department's investigation, shall consider whether the political subdivision had: (1) good reason to believe that an act described in section 1 of this chapter was imminent and likely to occur; (2) sufficient notice to prevent the act described in subdivision (1) from occurring; (3) a reasonable ability to prevent the act described in subdivision (1) from occurring by using the political subdivision's local law enforcement agency; and (4) as applicable, reasonably prioritized each threat described in subdivision (1) as it occurred. As added by P.L.94-2021, SEC.1.

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