IC 4-15-7
    Chapter 7. Employment of Relatives by Public OfficialsProhibited

IC 4-15-7-1
Nepotism
    Sec. 1. (a) No person being related to any member of any stateboard or commission, or to the head of any state office or departmentor institution, as father, mother, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, a husbandor wife, son or daughter, son-in-law or daughter-in-law, niece ornephew, 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 compensationfor his or her services out of any appropriation provided by law.
    (b) This section shall not apply if such person has been employedin the same position in such office or department or institution for atleast twelve (12) consecutive months immediately preceding theappointment 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 oftrustees of a state educational institution to employ any person theboard 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-subordinaterelationship.
(Formerly: Acts 1941, c.16, s.1; Acts 1961, c.8, s.1.) As amended byActs 1982, P.L.23, SEC.35; P.L.36-1995, SEC.1; P.L.2-2007,SEC.44; P.L.3-2008, SEC.8.