§ 36-2-13-5 — Duties

(a) The sheriff shall:
(1) arrest without process persons who commit an offense within
the sheriff's view, take them before a court of the county having
jurisdiction, and detain them in custody until the cause of the
arrest has been investigated;
(2) suppress breaches of the peace, calling the power of the
county to the sheriff's aid if necessary;
(3) pursue and jail felons;
(4) execute all process directed to the sheriff by legal authority;
(5) serve all process directed to the sheriff from a court or the
county executive;
(6) attend and preserve order in all courts of the county;
(7) take care of the county jail and the prisoners there;
(8) take photographs, fingerprints, and other identification data as
the sheriff shall prescribe of persons taken into custody for
felonies or misdemeanors;
(9) take DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) samples for felonies; and
(10) on or before January 31 and June 30 of each year, provide to
the department of correction the average daily cost of
incarcerating a prisoner in the county jail as determined under the
methodology developed by the department of correction under IC 11-10-13.
(b) A person who:
(1) refuses to be photographed, as prescribed in subsection (a)(8);
(2) refuses to be fingerprinted, as prescribed in subsection (a)(8);
(3) withholds identification data, as prescribed in subsection
(a)(8);
(4) gives false information, as prescribed in subsection (a)(8); or
(5) refuses to provide a DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) sample, as
prescribed in subsection (a)(9);
commits a Class C misdemeanor.
(c) The sheriff may supervise and inspect all pawnbrokers, vendors,
junkshop keepers, cartmen, expressmen, dealers in secondhand
merchandise, intelligence offices, and auctions. The sheriff may
authorize any deputy in writing to exercise the same powers.
[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citations: 17-3-5-2;
17-3-5-3.]
As added by Acts 1980, P.L.212, SEC.1. Amended by
P.L.344-1983, SEC.1; P.L.85-2004, SEC.12; P.L.63-2008, SEC.5;
P.L.44-2025, SEC.1.