Education costs exemption for survivors of hazardous duty employee who dies in line of duty
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Schepers v. Commissioner, Indiana Department of Correction (2012)
Most recently applied in Nathan Healey v. Robert Carter, Commissioner of the Indiana Department of Corrections (August 2018)
As added by P.L.8-2006, SEC.2
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Sec. 12. Each child and surviving spouse of a hazardous duty employee of the department who:
(1) works within a prison or juvenile facility; or
(2) performs parole or emergency response operations and functions;
and dies in the line of duty is eligible for an educational costs exemption as provided under IC 21-14-4.
Official source: Indiana General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Indiana statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.