§ 16-20-3-10 — Annual levy for maintenance of department; county health fund; appropriations

Indiana § 16-20-3-10

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Title 16: HEALTH
• Art. 20: LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENTS
• Ch. 3: Multiple County Health Departments

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(a) The fiscal body of each county that has
become a part of a multiple county health department by ordinance of
the county executive shall assess a levy annually on the assessed
valuation of taxable property for maintenance of the multiple county
health department.
(b) The taxes shall be paid into the county treasury and placed in a
special fund to be known as the county health fund. The fund may be
used only for the purpose of this title and may be drawn upon by the
proper officers of the county upon the properly authenticated vouchers
of the multiple county health department.
(c) Each county fiscal body shall appropriate from the county health
fund money necessary to pay the fiscal body's apportioned share to
maintain a multiple county health department in the proportion that the
population of the county bears to the total population of all counties in
the multiple county health department.
(d) Money in the fund at the end of a fiscal year does not revert to
the county's general fund.
[Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-1-3.9-7.]

Legislative History

As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.3. Amended by P.L.164-2023, SEC.31.