Indiana Code
Chapter 10. Sheriff's Department; Merit Board; Pensions
36-8-10-2. Definitions

Sec. 2. As used in this chapter:
"Board" refers to the sheriff's merit board established under this chapter.
"Department" refers to the sheriff's department of a county.
"Eligible employee" means the sheriff of a county or a county police officer.
"Employee beneficiary" means an eligible employee who has completed an application to become an employee beneficiary and who has had the proper deductions made from the eligible employee's wages as required in the pension trust agreement.
"Net amount paid into the trust fund from wages of an employee beneficiary" means the amount of money actually paid in from the wages of the employee beneficiary, plus interest at the rate of three percent (3%) compounded annually and less a sum including interest at the same rate, paid from the trust fund to the employee beneficiary or to a governmental fund for the credit or benefit of the employee beneficiary.
"Pension engineers" means technical consultants qualified to supervise and assist in the establishment, maintenance, and operation of a pension trust on an actuarially sound basis.
"Trust fund" means the assets of the pension trust and consists of voluntary contributions from the department, money paid from the wages of employee beneficiaries, and other payments or contributions made to the pension trust, including the income and proceeds derived from the investment of them.
"Trustee" refers to the trustee of the pension trust, who may be one (1) or more corporate trustees or the treasurer of the county serving under bond.
[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citation: 17-3-14-10 part.]
As added by Acts 1981, P.L.309, SEC.61. Amended by P.L.127-2017, SEC.262.

Structure Indiana Code

Indiana Code

Title 36. Local Government

Article 8. Public Safety

Chapter 10. Sheriff's Department; Merit Board; Pensions

36-8-10-0.1. Application of Certain Amendments to Chapter

36-8-10-0.3. Legalization of Certain County Fiscal Body Actions Taken Before July 1, 1994

36-8-10-1. Application of Chapter

36-8-10-2. Definitions

36-8-10-3. Sheriff's Merit Board

36-8-10-4. County Police Force; Creation; Membership; Budget and Salaries

36-8-10-4.5. Body Armor

36-8-10-5. Prison Matron; Appointment; Powers and Duties

36-8-10-5.5. Chief Deputy

36-8-10-6. Emergencies; Appointment of Additional Deputies and Assistants

36-8-10-7. Prisoner Meal Allowances

36-8-10-8. Reinstatement of Sheriff Following Expiration of Term of Office

36-8-10-9. Powers and Duties of Members of Department; Refusal to Be Photographed or Fingerprinted, Withholding Information, Providing False Information; Misdemeanor

36-8-10-10. Police Officers; Classification of Ranks, Grades, and Positions; Appointments

36-8-10-10.4. County Police Force; Preference for Employment

36-8-10-10.5. Repealed

36-8-10-10.6. Special Deputies With Powers of Law Enforcement Officer; Appointment; Qualifications; Duties

36-8-10-11. Police Officers; Discipline and Removal; Hearings; Notice; Appeal; Specific Findings; Final Judgment; Venue

36-8-10-11.1. Reinstatement Following Layoffs

36-8-10-11.5. "Care" Defined; Payments for Care

36-8-10-12. Pension Trust

36-8-10-12.1. Maximum Monthly Pension

36-8-10-12.2. Deferred Retirement Option Plan (Drop)

36-8-10-12.5. Purchase of Service Credit Earned in Certain Indiana Public Retirement Funds

36-8-10-12.6. Credit for Service Earned Before Establishment of Department Retirement Plan

36-8-10-13. Pension Trust; Participation by Sheriff

36-8-10-14. Death Benefit Program

36-8-10-15. Disability Benefit Program

36-8-10-16. Dependent's Pension Benefit; Establishment and Operation; Maximum Monthly Pension Payable; Eligibility

36-8-10-16.3. Treatment of Certain Payments as Proper; Reinstatement of Monthly Pension of Certain Surviving Spouses

36-8-10-16.5. Health Insurance for Surviving Spouse and Children

36-8-10-17. Police Benefit Fund

36-8-10-18. Repealed

36-8-10-19. Restrictions on Alienation of Benefits; Fund Expenses; Payment of Insurance Premiums

36-8-10-20. Repealed

36-8-10-20.1. County Sheriffs' Standard Vehicle Marking and Uniform Commission; Establishment; Adoption of Rules; Limitation of Authority

36-8-10-21. Application to Certain Counties; Jail Commissary Fund; Disposition of Money From Commissary Sales; Record of Receipts and Disbursements

36-8-10-22. County Operating Jail; Inmate Money to Be Held in Trust; Disbursements From Trust; Payment Upon Discharge or Release of Inmate; Payment for Inmate Destruction or Loss of Property; Records

36-8-10-23. Cost of Living Payments; Ordinances and Collective Bargaining