PUBLIC NOTICES
Local Legal Filings, Business Transitions, and Judicial Notices.
PUBLIC NOTICE GLOSSARY
- Administration: (Probate): Notice of administration is issued from the Marion County Clerk’s office to inform those who had dealings with the deceased to file their claims.
- Adoption: Pertaining to control or custody of a minor where a parent or guardian cannot be located.
- Annual Reports: A yearly financial report, including expenditure comparisons, for taxpayers, shareholders, or other interested parties.
- Bidders: Government agencies, hospitals, schools and many private businesses advertise for bids on projects, supplies etc.
- Bond Sale: Bonds issued by municipalities, school corporations, libraries, to fund construction projects.
- Bond Redemption: Notice to redeem bond upon impending maturity.
- Budget Estimate: A proposed budget of government entities, including townships, schools, and cities. Public notice of proposed budget may include public hearing notice.
- Car Sales (Mechanic’s Liens): Automobile put up for auction to fulfill debt of repairs or storage.
- Car Sales (Repossessions): Automobile put up for auction to fulfill loan obligation.
- Child in Need of Services: Filed by Department of Child Services on behalf of children in need of care outside parental, guardian or custodial supervision as defined by Indiana code.
- Determine Heirship: Notice seeking additional heirs during administration of estate.
- Dissolution of Corporation: A publicly formed corporation has dissolved.
- Final Account: Notice to creditors or others who may want to file objections to the personal representative’s petition for final distribution before a decedent’s estate is closed.
- Foundation Reports: A yearly financial report of an organization or fund established for charitable, educational, religious, research, or other benevolent purpose.
- Guardianship: Filed on behalf of child or adult not able to care for themselves by Probate.
- Interested Persons: Notice of a variety of matters, including public hearings, notice of executive sessions, authorization of grant applications, preliminary determination to issue public bonds, liens, and other general notices to taxpayers.
- Intermediate Account: Filed by Probate; required under the auspices of a supervised estate.
- Marshal’s Order for Publication: An order to publish a notice that may require a response from involved or interested parties.
- Name Change: Personal name changes requiring interested parties be notified.
- Ordinance Passed: Public notification of a change in city ordinance.
- Paternity Case: Public notification in an effort to establish identity of biological father.
- Public Hearing: Notification of public hearings as determined by state statutes, municipal codes.
- Receivership: Notice to creditors of the appointment of a receiver for an insolvent partnership, corporation or individual.
- Sale: State surplus property sale, Internal Revenue Service or unclaimed goods.
- Service by Publication: The service of process, which may include a summons, on an absent or nonresident defendant by publishing a notice of suit.
- Sheriff’s Sale: The following sales are being conducted through a private auction company and dates of sales may not correspond with the county’s sale.
- Sheriff’s Sale: Notice to all parties, known and unknown, that a foreclosure action is pending. Useful for real estate investors, private citizens or lenders seeking to help the owner keep the property … a potential source of a bargain on real estate!
- Tax Additional Appropriations: A governmental body’s notice of intent for an extra expenditure for a public purpose.