Time for Commencement of Legal Actions

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Sec. 1.5. (a) This section applies if this title requires that a legal action be taken at the office of:

(1) the secretary of state or the election division; or

(2) a circuit court clerk or a political subdivision.

(b) Notwithstanding IC 4-1-2-2, if the final day or time for performing the action falls on a day or time when the office is not open to conduct public business or on a day observed as a holiday under IC 1-1-9, the legal action may be performed:

(1) on the next day that the office is open for public business; or

(2) through noon of the next day that the office is open for public business if the action to be performed is the receipt of a filing.

As added by P.L.3-1993, SEC.5. Amended by P.L.3-1995, SEC.8; P.L.169-2015, SEC.3; P.L.74-2017, SEC.5.


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