If:

1. (1) a landowner in Indiana has had a pond or lake built on the landowner's real estate by the federal Works Progress Administration; and

2. (2) as a requisite to the building of the pond or lake, the landowner has given a lease in writing to the state relative to the building, upkeep, and use of the pond or lake;

   the department of natural resources may, upon application in writing to the department of natural resources, release any easement the state may have to the real estate.

   [Pre-2002 Recodification Citation: 32-5-6-1(a).]

As added by P.L.2-2002, SEC.8. Amended by P.L.86-2018, SEC.224.