Sec. 17. (a) The sheriff shall attend the Allen superior court. The clerk and the sheriff shall discharge all the duties pertaining to their respective offices as they are required to do by law in the circuit court.

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Terms Used In Indiana Code 33-33-2-17

  • Clerk: means the clerk of the court or a person authorized to perform the clerk's duties. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Sheriff: means the sheriff of the county or another person authorized to perform sheriff's duties. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
     (b) All laws prescribing the duties and liabilities of clerk and sheriff and the mode of proceeding against them, or either of them, for neglect of official duty, allowing fees, and providing for the collection fees in the circuit court, apply to the Allen superior court.

     (c) In a case in the Allen superior court based upon a violation of a city ordinance where fines or forfeitures are adjudged against a party:

(1) the fines or forfeitures shall be paid to and collected by the clerk and regularly remitted to the city clerk of the city that issued the ordinance; and

(2) the city clerk shall disburse the fines or forfeitures as required by law.

Payment of fines for admitted parking violations shall be made to the city clerk of the city that issued the ordinances concerning parking violations.

[Pre-2004 Recodification Citation: 33-5-5.1-12.]

As added by P.L.98-2004, SEC.12. Amended by P.L.78-2014, SEC.11.

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