§ 4-6-6-4 — Compensation; payment from recoveries or disbursing officers

The compensation of any special deputy attorney
general shall be payable from the amount recovered for the benefit of
any city, town, township, county, or other governmental unit or public
entity of the state as a result of the successful prosecution of any civil
proceedings in which any special deputy attorney general has been
appointed and employed, and the attorney general of Indiana is
authorized to pay compensation to any special deputy attorney general
from the amount and to remit the balance to the governmental unit or
public entity on behalf of which the amount has been recovered. In the
event any civil proceedings are unsuccessful and, upon prosecution to
final conclusion, do not result in the recovery of any funds,
compensation shall be payable from the funds of the governmental unit
or public entity on behalf of which any civil proceedings may have
been brought, and the disbursing officers of any and all governmental
units or public entities of the state are authorized and directed to make
payment in full of any compensation to any special duty attorney
general, without an appropriation being made upon certification of the
attorney general and the judge of the court in which the action was
brought to any disbursing officer of the amount due any special deputy
attorney general for the special deputy attorney general's services in
connection with the conduct and prosecution of any civil proceedings.
Formerly: Acts 1955, c.284, s.4. As amended by P.L.215-2016,
SEC.42.