§ 10-11-2-5 — State police board established

(a) The state police board is established. The
board shall administer, manage, and control the department.
(b) The board consists of six (6) members appointed by the
governor, not more than three (3) of whom may belong to the same
political party. A member of the board appointed by the governor shall
serve for a term of four (4) years except when appointed to fill a
vacancy for an unexpired term. In making appointments to the board,
the governor shall select one (1) member from each of six (6)
geographical regions in Indiana as described in subsection (d). Each
member must be a permanent resident of the region from which the
member is appointed.
(c) As vacancies occur, the governor shall select new members by
region, beginning with the lowest numbered region that is not
represented and continuing in that manner until each region is
represented.
(d) For purposes of appointments to the state police board, the
geographical regions described in subsections (b) and (c) are as
follows:
(1) Region I is comprised of Lake, Porter, LaPorte, Newton,
Jasper, Starke, Pulaski, Benton, White, Warren, and Fountain
counties.
(2) Region II is comprised of St. Joseph, Elkhart, LaGrange,
Steuben, Marshall, Kosciusko, Noble, DeKalb, Whitley, and
Allen counties.
(3) Region III is comprised of Fulton, Cass, Miami, Wabash,
Huntington, Wells, Adams, Carroll, Howard, Grant, Blackford,
Tippecanoe, Clinton, Tipton, Madison, Montgomery, Boone,
Hamilton, and Jay counties.
(4) Region IV is comprised of Hendricks, Marion, and Hancock
counties.
(5) Region V is comprised of Vermillion, Parke, Putnam, Morgan,
Vigo, Clay, Owen, Monroe, Brown, Sullivan, Greene, Knox,
Daviess, Martin, Lawrence, Gibson, Pike, Dubois, Orange,
Crawford, Posey, Vanderburgh, Warrick, Spencer, and Perry
counties.
(6) Region VI is comprised of Delaware, Randolph, Henry,
Wayne, Johnson, Shelby, Rush, Fayette, Union, Bartholomew,
Decatur, Franklin, Jackson, Jennings, Ripley, Dearborn, Ohio,
Washington, Scott, Jefferson, Switzerland, Clark, Harrison, and
Floyd counties.
(e) Members appointed to the board shall serve during their
respective terms and until their respective successors have been
appointed and qualified. A member of the board may be removed by
the governor for inefficiency, incompetency, or neglect of duty after the
member has been accorded a hearing by the governor upon reasonable
notice of the charge being made against the member.
(f) As compensation for service on the board, each member of the
board is entitled to receive the following:
(1) Twenty-five dollars ($25) per day for each day or part of a day
during which the member is engaged in transacting the business
of the board.
(2) The member's actual traveling and other expenses necessarily
incurred in discharging the duties of the member's office.
(g) The members of the board shall organize by the election of a
president and a secretary from among their own membership, each of
whom shall serve a term of one (1) year.
(h) Four (4) members of the board constitute a quorum for the
transaction of business. The board shall hold regular monthly meetings
and special meetings throughout the year as necessary to transact the
business of the department.
[Pre-2003 Recodification Citations: 10-1-1-1 part;
10-1-1-1.1 part.]

Legislative History

As added by P.L.2-2003, SEC.2.