CHAPTER 7. EMPLOYMENT OF RELATIVES BY PUBLIC OFFICIALS PROHIBITED
IC 4-15-7
Chapter 7. Employment of Relatives by Public Officials
Prohibited
IC 4-15-7-1
Nepotism
Sec. 1. (a) No person being related to any member of any state
board or commission, or to the head of any state office or department
or institution, as father, mother, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, a husband
or wife, son or daughter, son-in-law or daughter-in-law, niece or
nephew, shall be eligible to any position in any such state board,
commission, office, or department or institution, as the case may be,
nor shall any such relative be entitled to receive any compensation
for his or her services out of any appropriation provided by law.
(b) This section shall not apply if such person has been employed
in the same position in such office or department or institution for at
least twelve (12) consecutive months immediately preceding the
appointment of his relative as a board member or head of such office,
department, or institution.
(c) This section does not apply to the authority of the board of
trustees of a state educational institution to employ any person the
board considers necessary under IC 21-38-3-1.
(d) No persons related as father, mother, brother, sister, uncle,
aunt, husband, wife, son, daughter, son-in-law, daughter-in-law,
niece, or nephew may be placed in a direct supervisory-subordinate
relationship.
(Formerly: Acts 1941, c.16, s.1; Acts 1961, c.8, s.1.) As amended by
Acts 1982, P.L.23, SEC.35; P.L.36-1995, SEC.1; P.L.2-2007,
SEC.44; P.L.3-2008, SEC.8.