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[CITE: 28USC94]

 
               TITLE 28--JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
 
                     PART I--ORGANIZATION OF COURTS
 
                       CHAPTER 5--DISTRICT COURTS
 
Sec. 94. Indiana

    Indiana is divided into two judicial districts to be known as the 
Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana.

                            Northern District

    (a) The Northern District comprises three divisions.

          (1) The Fort Wayne Division comprises the counties of Adams, 
                   Allen, Blackford, De Kalb, Grant, Huntington, Jay, 
                      Lagrange, Noble, Steuben, Wells, and Whitley.

         Court for the Fort Wayne Division shall be held at Fort Wayne.

          (2) The South Bend Division comprises the counties of Cass, 
                 Elkhart, Fulton, Kosciusko, La Porte, Marshall, Miami, 
                        Pulaski, St. Joseph, Starke, and Wabash.

         Court for the South Bend Division shall be held at South Bend.

           (3) The Hammond Division comprises the counties of Benton, 
                   Carroll, Jasper, Lake, Newton, Porter, Tippecanoe, 
                                   Warren, and White.

          Court for the Hammond Division shall be held at Hammond and 
                                       Lafayette.

                            Southern District

    (b) The Southern District comprises four divisions.

            (1) The Indianapolis Division comprises the counties of 
                 Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Clinton, Decatur, Delaware, 
                    Fayette, Fountain, Franklin, Hamilton, Hancock, 
                  Hendricks, Henry, Howard, Johnson, Madison, Marion, 
                  Monroe, Montgomery, Morgan, Randolph, Rush, Shelby, 
                                Tipton, Union, and Wayne.

              Court for the Indianapolis Division shall be held at 
                               Indianapolis and Richmond.

          (2) The Terre Haute Division comprises the counties of Clay, 
                Greene, Knox, Owen, Parke, Putnam, Sullivan, Vermilion, 
                                        and Vigo.

        Court for the Terre Haute Division shall be held at Terre Haute.

         (3) The Evansville Division comprises the counties of Davies, 
                  Dubois, Gibson, Martin, Perry, Pike, Posey, Spencer, 
                                Vanderburgh, and Warrick.

         Court for the Evansville Division shall be held at Evansville.

          (4) The New Albany Division comprises the counties of Clark, 
                Crawford, Dearborn, Floyd, Harrison, Jackson, Jefferson, 
                    Jennings, Lawrence, Ohio, Orange, Ripley, Scott, 
                              Switzerland, and Washington.

         Court for the New Albany Division shall be held at New Albany.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 878; Feb. 10, 1954, ch. 6, 
Sec. 2(b)(7), 68 Stat. 11; Pub. L. 91-272, Sec. 9, June 2, 1970, 84 
Stat. 298.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

    Based on title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 153 (Mar. 3, 1911, ch. 
231, Sec. 80, 36 Stat. 1110; Apr. 21, 1928, ch. 393, 45 Stat. 437).
    Words ``when the time fixed as above for the sitting of a court 
shall fall on a legal holiday the terms shall begin on the next day 
following,'' were omitted as within the discretion of the court and 
coverable by rule of court.
    A provision that terms should not be limited to any particular 
number of days, and that a term about to commence in another division 
might be adjourned until the business of the court in session was 
concluded, was omitted as covered by section 140 of this title.
    A provision authorizing indictments for offenses committed in 
divisions other than that wherein a grand jury is sitting was omitted as 
covered by Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, Rules 6, 7.
    Provisions as to maintenance of clerks' offices were omitted as 
covered by sections 452 and 751 of this title.
    The following provisions were omitted as either executed or covered 
by section 501 [now 541] et seq. and section 541 [now 561] et seq. of 
this title, containing similar provisions as to United States attorneys 
and marshals:
    ``A. The senior district judge for the district of Indiana in office 
immediately prior to April 21, 1928, shall be the district judge for the 
southern district as constituted by this section; the junior district 
judge for the district of Indiana immediately prior to April 21, 1928, 
shall be the district judge for the northern district as constituted by 
this section; and the district attorney and marshal for the district of 
Indiana in office immediately prior to April 21, 1928, shall be during 
the remainder of their present terms of office the district attorney and 
marshal for the southern district as constituted by this section.
    ``B. The President is authorized and directed to appoint, by and 
with the advice and consent of the Senate, a district attorney and a 
marshal for the United States District Court for the Northern District 
of Indiana.''
    Changes in arrangement and phraseology were made.


                               Amendments

    1970--Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 91-272 provided for holding court at 
Richmond.
    1954--Subsec. (a)(3). Act Feb. 10, 1954, provided for holding court 
at Lafayette.
