republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2023/sb-166.md

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Bill	Adverse possession statute of limitations.	Amends the statute concerning the statute of limitations for actions for the recovery of the possession of real estate to provide that such an action that: (1) involves a line located and established by a professional surveyor; and (2) accrues before the lines are located and established by the surveyor; must be commenced before the expiration of the appeal period set forth in the statute governing county surveyors. Amends the provision concerning the establishment of property lines by means of a legal survey to specify that the lines established are binding on all affected landowners, including a landowner who claims title under a claim of adverse possession. Provides that certain information must be contained in a notice of survey sent to adjoining landowners, and that a legible copy of the plat of the legal survey must be enclosed with the notice. Specifies that both an in county and out of county resident that owns a property subject to a survey has 180 days to appeal the survey to the circuit, superior, or probate court.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2023	SB 166	Indiana SB 166 (2023)	bill	CIVIL ACTIONS Statute of Limitations ENGINEERS AND LAND SURVEYORS LAND AND LANDOWNERS PROPERTY	enacted	Blake Doriot Eric Koch Jerry Torr Mark Messmer	4	25	1	2023-01-09	2023-05-01	openstates	ocd-bill/37466173-d955-4c84-8cb3-236b2cd329d3	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/senate/166	9fd2dae34358d370b4566e71f011503b69894710bbc47b9ab527434d73509e24	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 166 (2023) — Adverse possession statute of limitations.

Amends the statute concerning the statute of limitations for actions for the recovery of the possession of real estate to provide that such an action that: (1) involves a line located and established by a professional surveyor; and (2) accrues before the lines are located and established by the surveyor; must be commenced before the expiration of the appeal period set forth in the statute governing county surveyors. Amends the provision concerning the establishment of property lines by means of a legal survey to specify that the lines established are binding on all affected landowners, including a landowner who claims title under a claim of adverse possession. Provides that certain information must be contained in a notice of survey sent to adjoining landowners, and that a legible copy of the plat of the legal survey must be enclosed with the notice. Specifies that both an in county and out of county resident that owns a property subject to a survey has 180 days to appeal the survey to the circuit, superior, or probate court.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Enrolled Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
2. Introduced Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
3. Senate Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
4. Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SB 166 - Torr - 3rd Reading — 94–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Blake Doriot — primary (person)
• Eric Koch — primary (person)
• Jerry Torr — primary (person)
• Mark Messmer — primary (person)
• Aaron Freeman — coauthor (person)
• David Niezgodski — coauthor (person)
• Doug Miller — cosponsor (person)
• Ron Alting — coauthor (person)
• Steve Bartels — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2023-01-09 Authored by Senator Doriot
• 2023-01-09 First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary reading-1, referral-committee
• 2023-02-09 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2023-02-09 Senator Koch added as second author
• 2023-02-09 Senator Niezgodski added as coauthor
• 2023-02-13 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2023-02-13 Senator Freeman added as coauthor
• 2023-02-14 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 111: yeas 49, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2023-02-14 House sponsor: Representative Torr
• 2023-02-14 Cosponsors: Representatives Miller D and Bartels
• 2023-02-14 Senator Messmer added as third author
• 2023-02-14 Senator Alting added as coauthor
• 2023-02-15 Referred to the House referral
• 2023-02-28 First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary reading-1, referral-committee
• 2023-04-06 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2023-04-10 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2023-04-11 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 383: yeas 94, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2023-04-12 Returned to the Senate with amendments receipt
• 2023-04-12 Motion to concur filed filing
• 2023-04-13 Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 389: yeas 47, nays 0
• 2023-04-17 Signed by the President Pro Tempore passage
• 2023-04-21 Signed by the Speaker passage
• 2023-04-26 Signed by the President of the Senate passage
• 2023-05-01 Public Law 99 became-law
• 2023-05-01 Signed by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/37466173-d955-4c84-8cb3-236b2cd329d3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).