CHAPTER 2. SPECIFIC STATUTES OF LIMITATION
IC 34-11-2
Chapter 2. Specific Statutes of Limitation
IC 34-11-2-1
Employment related actions
Sec. 1. An action relating to the terms, conditions, and privilegesof employment except actions based upon a written contract(including, but not limited to, hiring or the failure to hire, suspension,discharge, discipline, promotion, demotion, retirement, wages, orsalary) must be brought within two (2) years of the date of the act oromission complained of.
As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.6.
IC 34-11-2-2
Employment related action against the state of Indiana
Sec. 2. An action against the state of Indiana relating to the terms,conditions, and privileges of employment (including, but not limitedto, hiring, suspension, discharge, discipline, promotion, demotion,retirement, wages, or salary) must be brought within two (2) years ofthe date of the act or omission complained of. This section does not:
(1) expand the time for initiating any action, including anyavailable administrative remedies; or
(2) excuse the exhaustion of administrative remedies whererequired by the administrative orders and procedures law (IC4-21.5).
As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.6.
IC 34-11-2-3
Professional services related actions
Sec. 3. An action of any kind for damages, whether brought incontract or tort, based upon professional services rendered or whichshould have been rendered, may not be brought, commenced, ormaintained, in any of the courts of Indiana against physicians,dentists, surgeons, hospitals, sanitariums, or others, unless the actionis filed within two (2) years from the date of the act, omission, orneglect complained of.
As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.6.
IC 34-11-2-4
Injury or forfeiture of penalty actions
Sec. 4. An action for:
(1) injury to person or character;
(2) injury to personal property; or
(3) a forfeiture of penalty given by statute;
must be commenced within two (2) years after the cause of actionaccrues.
As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.6.
IC 34-11-2-5
Real property recovery actions Sec. 5. An action for the recovery of real property sold byexecutors, administrators, guardians, or commissioners of a court,upon a judgment, specifically directing the sale of property sought tobe recovered, brought by a party to the judgment, the party's heirs, orany person claiming a title under a party, acquired after the date ofthe judgment, must be commenced within five (5) years after the saleis confirmed.
As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.6.
IC 34-11-2-6
Sheriffs or public officers; actions growing out of liability incurredduring official acts or omissions of duty
Sec. 6. An action against:
(A) a sheriff;
(B) another public officer; or
(C) the officer and the officer's sureties on a public bond;
growing out of a liability incurred by doing an act in an officialcapacity, or by the omission of an official duty, must be commencedwithin five (5) years after the cause of action accrues. However, anaction may be commenced against the officer or the officer's legalrepresentatives, for money collected in an official capacity and notpaid over, at any time within six (6) years after the cause of actionaccrues.
As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.6.
IC 34-11-2-7
Six year limitation
Sec. 7. The following actions must be commenced within six (6)years after the cause of action accrues:
(1) Actions on accounts and contracts not in writing.
(2) Actions for use, rents, and profits of real property.
(3) Actions for injuries to property other than personal property,damages for detention of personal property and for recoveringpossession of personal property.
(4) Actions for relief against frauds.
As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.6.
IC 34-11-2-8
Real property execution actions
Sec. 8. An action for the recovery of real property sold onexecution, brought by the execution debtor, the execution debtor'sheirs, or any person claiming under the execution debtor by titleacquired after the date of the judgment, must be commenced withinsix (6) years after the sale. However, an action described in thissection must be commenced within ten (10) years after the sale, if thesale occurred before September 1, 1982.
As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.6.
IC 34-11-2-9
Promissory notes, bills of exchange, or written contracts for
payment of money
Sec. 9. An action upon promissory notes, bills of exchange, orother written contracts for the payment of money executed afterAugust 31, 1982, must be commenced within six (6) years after thecause of action accrues. An action upon promissory notes, bills ofexchange, and other written contracts for the payment of moneyexecuted on or after September 19, 1881, and before September 1,1982, must be commenced within ten (10) years after the cause ofaction accrues. However, all contracts described in this section thathave been executed before September 19, 1881, may be enforcedwithin the time only as they have to run, before being barred underthe law in effect at the time of their executions limiting thecommencement of actions, and not afterward.
As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.6.
IC 34-11-2-10
Enforcement of child support obligations
Sec. 10. An action to enforce a child support obligation must becommenced not later than ten (10) years after:
(1) the eighteenth birthday of the child; or
(2) the emancipation of the child;
whichever occurs first.
As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.6.
IC 34-11-2-10.5
Employment related action by volunteer firefighter or member ofvolunteer emergency medical services association
Sec. 10.5. An action brought by a volunteer:
(1) firefighter; or
(2) member of a volunteer emergency medical servicesassociation connected with a unit of government as set forth inIC 16-31-5-1(6);
against the volunteer's political subdivision employer for beingdisciplined for being absent from employment while responding toan emergency must be commenced within one (1) year after the dateof the disciplinary action, as provided in IC 36-8-12-10.5(e).
As added by P.L.43-2005, SEC.1.
IC 34-11-2-11
Written contract actions
Sec. 11. An action upon contracts in writing other than those forthe payment of money, and including all mortgages other than chattelmortgages, deeds of trust, judgments of courts of record, and for therecovery of the possession of real estate, must be commenced withinten (10) years after the cause of action accrues. However, an actionupon contracts in writing other than those for the payment of moneyentered into before September 1, 1982, not including chattelmortgages, deeds of trust, judgments of courts of record, or for therecovery of the possession of real estate, must be commenced withintwenty (20) years after the cause of action accrues.As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.6. Amended by P.L.14-2000, SEC.69.
IC 34-11-2-12
Satisfaction of judgment after expiration of 20 years
Sec. 12. Every judgment and decree of any court of record of theUnited States, of Indiana, or of any other state shall be consideredsatisfied after the expiration of twenty (20) years.
As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.6.