Sec. 2.5. (a) The sheriff, the executive, and the fiscal body may enter into a salary contract for the sheriff.

(b) A sheriff's salary contract must contain the following provisions:

(1) A fixed amount of compensation for the sheriff in place of fee compensation.

(2) Payment of the full amount of the sheriff's compensation from the county general fund in the manner that salaries of other county officials are paid.

(3) Deposit by the sheriff of the sheriff's tax warrant collection fees (as described in IC 6-8.1-8-3) in the county general fund for use for any general fund purpose.

(4) A procedure for financing prisoners' meals that uses one (1) of the following methods:

(A) The county fiscal body shall make an appropriation in the usual manner from the county general fund to the sheriff for feeding prisoners. The sheriff or the sheriff's officers, deputies, or employees may not make a profit from the appropriation. The sheriff shall deposit all meal allowances received under IC 36-8-10-7 in the county general fund for use for any general fund purpose.

(B) The sheriff shall pay for feeding prisoners from meal allowances received under IC 36-8-10-7. The sheriff or the sheriff's officers, deputies, or employees may not make a profit from the meal allowances. After the expenses of feeding prisoners are paid, the sheriff shall deposit any unspent meal allowance money in the county general fund for use for any general fund purpose.

(5) A requirement that the sheriff shall file an accounting of expenditures for feeding prisoners with the county auditor on the first Monday of January and the first Monday of July of each year.

(6) An expiration date that is not later than the date that the term of the sheriff expires.

(7) Other provisions concerning the sheriff's compensation to which the sheriff, the county executive, and the fiscal body agree.

A contract entered before January 1, 1993, by a county sheriff and a county executive or county fiscal body that substantially complies with this subsection is legalized.

(c) A salary contract is entered under this section when a written document containing the provisions of the contract is:

(1) approved by resolution of both the executive and the fiscal body; and

(2) signed by the sheriff.

(d) A salary contract entered into under this section before November 1, 2010, with a sheriff who is reelected to office in 2010 is subject to section 17 of this chapter.

As added by P.L.83-1993, SEC.2. Amended by P.L.40-2008, SEC.2; P.L.220-2011, SEC.644.