Sec. 2. Any person interested under a deed, will, written contract, or other writings constituting a contract, or whose rights, status, or other legal relations are affected by a statute, municipal ordinance, contract, or franchise, may have determined any question of construction or validity arising under the instrument, statute, ordinance, contract, or franchise and obtain a declaration of rights, status, or other legal relations thereunder.
Ind. Code § 34-14-1-2
Persons who may obtain declaratory judgment
Known as the Uniform Declaratory Judgments Act
The act spans §§ 34–34 (16 sections).
Applied in 32 court decisions — leading case City of New Haven v. Reichhart (2001)
Most recently applied in Nancy A. Daw, Stephen L. Hoback, Co-Trustees of Sagacious Sentinel Sycamore Trust v. Hancock County Assessor, and The Town of McCordsville (March 2019)
As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.9.
How often courts cite this section
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.
Official source: Indiana General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Indiana statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.