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Indiana Code › Title 16 › Article 41 › Chapter 20 › Section 16-41-20-7

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Sec. 7. The state department, local board of health, or county health officer may order purified, cleansed, disinfected, renewed, altered, repaired, decontaminated, or improved a dwelling, excavation, building, structure, sewer, plumbing, pipe, passage, premises, ground, or thing in or about a dwelling that is found to be unfit for human habitation or the dwelling's lot.

[Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-1-25-9.]

As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.24. Amended by P.L.111-2018, SEC.12.

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