INDIANAPOLIS | The region's five Lake Michigan casinos would go dark, state parks would close and most state services would be halted if legislators don't pass a budget by Tuesday night.

Judges will have to decide whether to work without pay or shut down the courts system if state lawmakers don't meet the deadline , according to Porter County Superior Court Judge Roger Bradford.

"We've not had any discussions about it because the only portion of the local courts that are funded by the state are the judges and magistrates salaries. The rest of the court funding is through the county," said Bradford, a Republican and the county's longest tenured judge.

"I would leave it up to each (judge) individually. I haven't decided what I'm going to do under that circumstance. I hope that the speaker of the (Indiana) House decides to become reasonable for the first time in several years and get something done."

Bradford said he expects to receive an advisory from Indiana Chief Justice Randall Shepard as to how to proceed if legislators do not approve a new state budget before the current one expires at midnight Tuesday.

Earlier Friday, Gov. Mitch Daniels said he doesn't expect the deadline to pass without a budget.

"I want to assure the public that if -- amazingly -- (lawmakers) choose not to act by Tuesday night, vital services, the most vital services, will continue," the Republican governor told reporters. "By that I mean the state police will continue to patrol the roads of Indiana. Prisons will remain open and no one will be either released or unsupervised. Public assistance checks, we believe, can continue to go, including unemployment insurance, to those already qualified.

"We believe we have the legal authority to do this and the financial means."

The current budget expires at midnight Tuesday. And Indiana has not seen a state shutdown in more than a century.

Up until now Daniels had declined to detail what would happen if the budget stalemate isn't resolved by Tuesday night. He said he was moved to lay out the possibilities after seeing an interview Democratic House Speaker Pat Bauer gave Thursday to Indianapolis television station WTHR.

"It's July (20) when this session is over and then maybe we will have to do another one," Bauer said, suggesting he would rather force a shutdown that accept a Senate Republican budget he believes is unfair to public schools. "So we will struggle a few weeks or whatever it takes. It will be the same struggling people are doing right now."