Sec. 7. Before the Thursday after the first Monday in August of each year, the county executive shall prepare an itemized estimate of all money to be drawn by the members of the executive and all expenditures to be made by the executive or under its orders during the next calendar year. Each executive's budget estimate must include:

(1) the expense of construction, repairs, supplies, employees, and agents, and other expenses at each building or institution maintained in whole or in part by money paid out of the county treasury;

(2) the expense of constructing and repairing bridges, itemized by the location of and amount for each bridge;

(3) the compensation of the attorney representing the county;

(4) the compensation of attorneys for indigents;

(5) the expenses of the county board of health;

(6) the expense of repairing county roads, itemized by the location of and amount for each repair project;

(7) the estimated number of precincts in the county and the amount required for election expenses, including compensation of election commissioners, inspectors, judges, clerks, and sheriffs, rent, meals, hauling and repair of voting booths and machines, advertising, printing, stationery, furniture, and supplies;

(8) the amount of principal and interest due on bonds and loans, itemized for each loan and bond issue;

(9) the amount required to pay judgments, settlements, and court costs;

(10) the expense of supporting inmates of benevolent or penal institutions;

(11) the expense of publishing delinquent tax lists;

(12) the amount of compensation of county employees that is payable out of the county treasury;

(13) the expenses of a multiple county property tax assessment board of appeals under IC 6-1.1-28-0.1 or of the county property tax assessment board of appeals under IC 6-1.1-28-1 (as applicable); and

(14) other expenditures to be made by the executive or under its orders, specifically itemized.

[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citations: 17-1-24-15 part; 17-1-24-18 part.]

As added by Acts 1980, P.L.212, SEC.1. Amended by P.L.137-1989, SEC.14; P.L.6-1997, SEC.204; P.L.207-2016, SEC.24.