Indiana Code
Chapter 4. General Administrative Provisions
20-25-4-12. Board of School Commissioners; Powers; Prohibited Land Acquisitions

Sec. 12. (a) The board may:
(1) except as provided in subsection (b), acquire by purchase, devise, gift, lease, or condemnation grounds needed by the school city;
(2) construct or lease buildings for school, school administration, or school office purposes;
(3) employ and pay all employees needed in any branch of the work committed to the board;
(4) disburse, according to law, all money of the school city for lawful school city purposes;
(5) have and exercise in the school city full and exclusive:
(A) authority concerning the conduct and management of all common schools, including elementary schools and high schools; and
(B) power to establish and enforce all regulations for the:
(i) grading of; and
(ii) courses of;
instruction in all schools and for the government and discipline of the schools;
(6) divide the city into districts for school attendance purposes;
(7) maintain special day or night schools to which the board may admit adults and children at least fifteen (15) years of age; and
(8) maintain playgrounds and vacation schools.
(b) The board may not acquire the following real property:
Lots 693-719, inclusive, and 7 1/2 feet west of and adjacent to such lots, in Norcliffe Addition, an addition to the city of Indianapolis, as per plat thereof, recorded in plat book 18 at pages 165 and 166, in the office of the recorder of Marion County, Indiana.
[Pre-2005 Elementary and Secondary Education Recodification Citation: 20-3-11-24.]
As added by P.L.1-2005, SEC.9.

Structure Indiana Code

Indiana Code

Title 20. Education

Article 25. Indianapolis Public Schools

Chapter 4. General Administrative Provisions

20-25-4-1. Contracts or Obligations; Appropriations

20-25-4-2. Contracts Involving More Than $75,000; Bidding for Supplies and Materials

20-25-4-3. School Building Improvements; Bidding Procedure

20-25-4-4. Designation of Bid Committee; Opening and Tabulating of Bids

20-25-4-5. Repealed

20-25-4-6. Repealed

20-25-4-7. Repealed

20-25-4-8. Repealed

20-25-4-9. Repealed

20-25-4-10. Limitations on Debt; Eminent Domain Power of Board of School Commissioners

20-25-4-11. Board of School Commissioners; Powers and Duties Conferred by Law

20-25-4-12. Board of School Commissioners; Powers; Prohibited Land Acquisitions

20-25-4-13. Operating Expenses for Special Schools and Vacation Schools; Imposition of Fees

20-25-4-14. School Cities; Power to Sell Real Estate and Transfer Personal Property

20-25-4-15. Absence of Board Commissioners or Employees; Reimbursement for Expenses

20-25-4-16. Industrial or Manual Training and Education System; Establishment

20-25-4-17. Industrial or Trade School Properties Acquired by Gift; Maintenance and Operation of Trade School; Transfer Tuition Charges; Nonresidents

20-25-4-18. Authority of School Cities to Accept Property in Trust

20-25-4-19. School Lunches; Expenses

20-25-4-20. Applicability of General School Laws

20-25-4-21. School Reorganization Plans; Applicability

20-25-4-22. Authority to Establish Police Department