Indiana Code
Chapter 3. Adjudicative Proceedings
4-21.5-3-27.5. Attorney's Fees

Sec. 27.5. In a proceeding under this chapter concerning an agency action, the administrative law judge shall order the agency to pay the reasonable attorney's fees incurred in the proceeding by the party challenging the agency action if the party challenging the agency action proves, by a preponderance of the evidence, that:
(1) the agency's action was frivolous or groundless; or
(2) the agency pursued the action in bad faith.
As added by P.L.199-2021, SEC.1.

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Indiana Code

Title 4. State Offices and Administration

Article 21.5. Administrative Orders and Procedures

Chapter 3. Adjudicative Proceedings

4-21.5-3-1. Service of Process; Notice by Publication

4-21.5-3-2. Time Computation

4-21.5-3-3. Notice of Orders; Additional Proceedings; Effectiveness; Stays

4-21.5-3-4. Notice Required; Licenses and Personnel Decisions; Persons Who Must Be Notified; Contents

4-21.5-3-5. Notice Required; Certain Licensing and Other Decisions; Persons Who Must Be Notified; Contents; Effectiveness of Order; Stays

4-21.5-3-6. Notice Required; Persons Who Must Receive Notice; Contents; Effective Date; Stay, Preliminary Hearing, and Resulting Order

4-21.5-3-7. Review; Petition; Denial of Petition; Preliminary Hearing

4-21.5-3-8. Sanctions; Temporary Orders

4-21.5-3-8.5. Sharing Administrative Law Judges Among Agencies; Information Concerning Administrative Law Judges

4-21.5-3-9. Ultimate Authority of Agency; Acting as or Designating an Administrative Judge; Disqualification; Procedures

4-21.5-3-10. Disqualification of Administrative Law Judge

4-21.5-3-11. Ex Parte Communications; Violations

4-21.5-3-12. Administrative Law Judge; Prohibited Acts; Disqualification

4-21.5-3-13. Disqualification; Involvement in Preadjudicative Stage

4-21.5-3-14. Record; Hearing on Motion; Burden of Proof; Standard of Review

4-21.5-3-15. Participation in Proceeding

4-21.5-3-16. Interpreters

4-21.5-3-17. Opportunity to File Documents; Copies

4-21.5-3-18. Prehearing Conference; Notice

4-21.5-3-19. Prehearing Conference; Electronic Means; Matters Considered; Prehearing Order on Pleadings

4-21.5-3-20. Hearing; Time and Place; Notice

4-21.5-3-21. Petition for Intervention

4-21.5-3-22. Administrative Orders; Enforcement

4-21.5-3-23. Summary Judgment

4-21.5-3-24. Default or Dismissal

4-21.5-3-25. Conduct of Hearing; Procedure

4-21.5-3-26. Conduct of Hearing; Evidence

4-21.5-3-27. Final Orders; Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law

4-21.5-3-27.5. Attorney's Fees

4-21.5-3-28. Final Order; Authority to Issue; Proceedings

4-21.5-3-29. Orders From Other Than Ultimate Authority; Review by Ultimate Authority; Objections

4-21.5-3-30. Review by Another Agency

4-21.5-3-31. Modification of Final Order

4-21.5-3-32. Final Orders; Public Inspection; Indexing; Deletions; Precedent

4-21.5-3-33. Records

4-21.5-3-34. Informal Procedures; Rules; Final Orders

4-21.5-3-35. Additional Procedural Rights; Rules

4-21.5-3-36. Persons Presiding in Proceedings; Violations

4-21.5-3-37. Aiding in Violation