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IN Code § 36-8-3-7 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 36. Local Government|Article 8. Public Safety|Chapter 3. Safety Boards; Disciplinary Procedures|36-8-3-7. Police Officers and Firefighters; Special Duty; School Security Police

Sec. 7. (a) The safety board may detail regular police officers or firefighters, or appoint and swear an additional number of special police officers or firefighters, to do special duty within the city. Regular police officers and firefighters serving special duty shall be paid the same rate per diem for this service as is paid to members of the department in their regular employment. The board may determine the compensation of persons serving special duty in all other cases.(b) Unless the safety board designates otherwise, the special police officers are subject to the police chief and the special firefighters are subject to the fire chief. If they are employees of departments other than the police or fire department, they shall obey the rules of their respective departments and conform to its discipline and orders to the extent these do not conflict with the orders of the safety board. A person other than a regular police officer or firefighter may not wear a uniform the design of which is not easily distinguishable from or which conforms with respect to the color or design of the state police or a sheriff's patrol of the county in which the city is located or the police or fire department of the city. Special police officers and firefighters, during the term of their appointment, have those powers, privileges, and duties assigned to them by the safety board. They have these powers, privileges, and duties only while fulfilling the specific responsibilities for which the appointment is made. Persons other than regular police officers and firefighters appointed under this section may be removed by the safety board at any time without notice and without assigning any cause.(c) The powers and duties of officers appointed to serve as security police for school corporations include:(1) the protection of school personnel while on school business, including school children, employees, and members of the governing body of the school corporation; and(2) the protection of all school corporation property.(d) Auxiliary firefighters directly connected with and created to augment the regular fire departments may wear a uniform the design of which is established by the safety board. Persons so appointed may be removed at any time by the board, without notice and without assigning any cause.(e) In time of emergency the safety board may also detail members from the police or fire department for the use of any other department of the city government.[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citation: 18-1-11-5 part.]As added by Acts 1981, P.L.309, SEC.52. Amended by P.L.360-1983, SEC.1.
IN Code § 36-8-3-8 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 36. Local Government|Article 8. Public Safety|Chapter 3. Safety Boards; Disciplinary Procedures|36-8-3-8. Police Department; Civilian Personnel; Merit System

Sec. 8. (a) The safety board may employ civilian technical and clerical personnel to work with the police department as civilian radio operators, radio technicians, chemical technicians, laboratory technicians, and other civilian technical personnel and clerical personnel that are required. The safety board shall fix the salary to be paid to the civilian technical and clerical personnel subject to the budgetary procedures applicable to the department of public safety. The civilian technical and clerical personnel are not eligible to be members of any police pension fund.(b) The safety board may establish a merit system for civilian personnel appointed under subsection (a). However, in establishing a system the safety board shall consult with the state personnel board concerning the form and content of the merit system.[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citations: subsection (a) formerly 18-1-11-5.5; subsection (b) formerly 18-1-11-5.7.]As added by Acts 1981, P.L.309, SEC.52.
IN Code § 36-8-3-9 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 36. Local Government|Article 8. Public Safety|Chapter 3. Safety Boards; Disciplinary Procedures|36-8-3-9. Oaths; Depositions

Sec. 9. The safety board, police chief, and fire chief may administer oaths to a person summoned in a proceeding authorized by this chapter and may take depositions under the rules or orders of the board.[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citation: 18-1-11-6.]As added by Acts 1981, P.L.309, SEC.52.
IN Code § 36-8-3-10 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 36. Local Government|Article 8. Public Safety|Chapter 3. Safety Boards; Disciplinary Procedures|36-8-3-10. Police Departments, Chiefs, and Captains; Powers and Duties

Sec. 10. (a) The police department shall, within the city:(1) preserve peace;(2) prevent offenses;(3) detect and arrest criminals;(4) suppress riots, mobs, and insurrections;(5) disperse unlawful and dangerous assemblages and assemblages that obstruct the free passage of public streets, sidewalks, parks, and places;(6) protect the rights of persons and property;(7) guard the public health;(8) preserve order at elections and public meetings;(9) direct the movement of vehicles in public ways or public places;(10) remove all nuisances in public parks or public ways;(11) provide proper police assistance at fires;(12) assist, advise, and protect strangers and travelers in public ways or at transportation facilities;(13) carefully observe and inspect all places of business under license, or required to have them; and(14) enforce and prevent the violation of all laws in force in the city.(b) The police chief and each captain, in the captain's precinct or district, may supervise and inspect all pawnbrokers, vendors, junkshop keepers, cartmen, expressmen, dealers in secondhand merchandise, intelligence offices, architectural salvage material dealers (as defined in IC 24-4-16-3), and auctions. Any member of the department may be authorized by the chief in writing to exercise the same powers.[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citation: 18-1-11-7 part.]As added by Acts 1981, P.L.309, SEC.52. Amended by P.L.63-2008, SEC.6.
IN Code § 36-8-3-12 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 36. Local Government|Article 8. Public Safety|Chapter 3. Safety Boards; Disciplinary Procedures|36-8-3-12. Board Members, Police Officers, and Firefighters; Elective and Appointive Office

Sec. 12. Subject to IC 3-5-9, members of the safety board and members of any township, town, or city (including a consolidated city) police department, fire department, or volunteer fire department (as defined by IC 36-8-12-2) may:(1) be candidates for elective office and serve in that office if elected;(2) be appointed to any office and serve in that office if appointed; and(3) as long as they are not in uniform and not on duty, solicit votes and campaign funds and challenge voters for the office for which they are candidates.[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citation: 18-1-11-9.]As added by Acts 1981, P.L.309, SEC.52. Amended by P.L.376-1985, SEC.1; P.L.347-1987, SEC.1; P.L.1-1999, SEC.83; P.L.135-2012, SEC.10.
IN Code § 36-8-3-13 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 36. Local Government|Article 8. Public Safety|Chapter 3. Safety Boards; Disciplinary Procedures|36-8-3-13. Adoption of Rules Regulating Performance Bonds

Sec. 13. The safety board may, subject to city ordinances, adopt rules regulating the giving of bond by an appointee or class of appointees in the department for faithful performance of official duty.[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citation: 18-1-11-10.]As added by Acts 1981, P.L.309, SEC.52.
IN Code § 36-8-3-14 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 36. Local Government|Article 8. Public Safety|Chapter 3. Safety Boards; Disciplinary Procedures|36-8-3-14. Police and Firefighters' Insurance Funds; Creation, Management, and Distribution

Sec. 14. (a) This section does not apply to second class cities.(b) The safety board may draft an ordinance and submit it to the legislative body for the creation, management, and distribution of a police insurance fund or a firefighters' insurance fund, including a provision for retaining a certain percentage of each appointee's salary for the creation of the fund. The ordinance must prescribe the conditions of investment and who is entitled to the benefits.[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citation: 18-1-11-11.]As added by Acts 1981, P.L.309, SEC.52.
IN Code § 36-8-3-15 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 36. Local Government|Article 8. Public Safety|Chapter 3. Safety Boards; Disciplinary Procedures|36-8-3-15. Police Officers and Firefighters; Exemption From Militia Service

Sec. 15. (a) This section also applies to all members of a fire department organized by a town.(b) Members of the police and fire departments are exempt from service in the militia, except in case of war, invasion, or insurrection.[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citations: 18-1-11-13; 19-1-39-1.]As added by Acts 1981, P.L.309, SEC.52. Amended by P.L.4-1998, SEC.14.
IN Code § 36-8-3-16 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 36. Local Government|Article 8. Public Safety|Chapter 3. Safety Boards; Disciplinary Procedures|36-8-3-16. Destruction of Burning Buildings; Recovery of Damages

Sec. 16. If a building in the city is on fire, or if a building adjacent to it is liable to take or convey fire to other buildings and cause great destruction of property, the fire chief, or the fire chief's assistant acting as chief with the concurrence of the executive or of the safety board, may take down, blow up, or destroy the building or buildings. An action may not be maintained against a person for this action, but the owner of such a building may, in a civil action, recover damages from the city for its destruction.[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citation: 18-1-11-14.]As added by Acts 1981, P.L.309, SEC.52. Amended by P.L.127-2017, SEC.224.
IN Code § 36-8-3-18 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 36. Local Government|Article 8. Public Safety|Chapter 3. Safety Boards; Disciplinary Procedures|36-8-3-18. Humane Officers; Appointment; Powers and Duties

Sec. 18. A humane officer shall be appointed in every city from among the members of the police department. The humane officer shall detect and arrest persons violating humane statutes. The humane officer is entitled to the same pay as other police officers of the city and is subject to the control and discipline of the police department. If there is an incorporated humane society in the city, the humane officer shall attend the stated and special meetings of the society and shall report to it, at least once a month, on all matters relating to the humane officer's duties under law for the previous month. If a humane statute or ordinance has, to the humane officer's knowledge, been violated, the humane officer shall, if directed by the president of the humane society, file the humane officer's affidavits before a court charging the person violating the law with the violation.[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citation: 18-1-11-16.]As added by Acts 1981, P.L.309, SEC.52. Amended by P.L.127-2017, SEC.225.
IN Code § 36-8-3-19 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 36. Local Government|Article 8. Public Safety|Chapter 3. Safety Boards; Disciplinary Procedures|36-8-3-19. Police Matrons; Appointment; Powers and Duties; Accommodations; Compensation; Qualifications

Sec. 19. (a) The safety board may appoint a police matron, including assistants that are necessary. The matron shall receive, search, and properly care for, at the jail or station house, all female prisoners who are arrested and detained in custody in the city. The matron is not a member of the police department of the city, but has all the authority delegated to a police officer. The matron is subject to rules that are prescribed for the matron by the safety board or by ordinance and may be removed by the board for good cause shown.(b) The matron shall be given proper accommodations for the matron and for all prisoners under the matron's control. The matron is the jailer in charge of the women's department of the station house or jail and may summon a police officer or other person to the matron's aid when aid is required. The matron and the matron's assistant or assistants shall be paid the compensation or salaries that are set for other employees of the police department. The matron, or the matron's assistant, shall attend all courts when female prisoners are to be tried and shall take charge of all female prisoners while they are awaiting trial or transfer to or from a place of detention.(c) The matron must be at least twenty-one (21) years of age, fully qualified, and of good moral character.[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citation: 18-1-11-17.]As added by Acts 1981, P.L.309, SEC.52. Amended by Acts 1981, P.L.315, SEC.3; P.L.127-2017, SEC.226.
IN Code § 36-8-3-21 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 36. Local Government|Article 8. Public Safety|Chapter 3. Safety Boards; Disciplinary Procedures|36-8-3-21. Police or Fire Department Members; Membership in 1977 Fund Required

Sec. 21. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), this section applies to all units.(b) This subsection does not apply to the appointment of a fire chief under a waiver under IC 36-8-4-6(c) or the appointment of a police chief under a waiver under IC 36-8-4-6.5(c). An individual may not be employed by a unit after May 31, 1985, as a member of the unit's fire department or as a member of the unit's police department unless the individual meets the conditions for membership in the 1977 fund.(c) Notwithstanding IC 36-8-1-9, the executive of the unit may request that the 1977 fund accept the following individuals in the 1977 fund under IC 36-8-8-7(h):(1) A fire chief appointed under a waiver under IC 36-8-4-6(c).(2) A police chief appointed under a waiver under IC 36-8-4-6.5(c).As added by P.L.342-1985, SEC.1. Amended by P.L.148-1992, SEC.2; P.L.213-1995, SEC.3.
IN Code § 36-8-3-22 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 36. Local Government|Article 8. Public Safety|Chapter 3. Safety Boards; Disciplinary Procedures|36-8-3-22. Police Reserve Officers; Medical Care for Line of Duty Injury or Illness; Third Party Reimbursement

Sec. 22. (a) This section applies after December 31, 2017, to a police reserve officer who is injured or contracts an illness in the course of or as the result of performing duties as a police reserve officer.(b) A unit shall furnish without charge to a police reserve officer the physician, surgical, hospital, and nursing services and supplies the physician or surgeon in charge determines are necessary, including:(1) medical and surgical care;(2) medicines and laboratory, curative, and palliative agents and means;(3) x-ray, diagnostic, and therapeutic service, including during a recovery period; and(4) hospital and special nursing care, if the physician or surgeon in charge considers it necessary for proper recovery.(c) A unit that has paid for the care of a police reserve officer under subsection (b) has a cause of action for reimbursement of the amount paid under subsection (b) against any third party against whom the police reserve officer has a cause of action for an injury sustained because of, or an illness caused by, the third party. The unit's cause of action is in addition to, and not in lieu of, a cause of action of the police reserve officer against the third party.(d) A unit's obligation under this section supersedes any obligations that another medical insurance carrier has to pay the police reserve officer's expenses.(e) In addition to purchasing policies of group insurance or establishing a plan of self-insurance under section 20(m) of this chapter, a unit may meet its obligation under this section by covering police reserve officers under the medical treatment and burial expense provisions of the worker's compensation law (IC 22-3-2 through IC 22-3-6) and the worker's occupational diseases law (IC 22-3-7). If compensability of the injury is an issue, the administrative procedures of IC 22-3-2 through IC 22-3-6 and IC 22-3-7 shall be used to determine the issue.As added by P.L.180-2017, SEC.5.
IN Code § 36-8-3-23 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 36. Local Government|Article 8. Public Safety|Chapter 3. Safety Boards; Disciplinary Procedures|36-8-3-23. Police Reserve Officers; Payments for Loss of Income for Line of Duty Injury or Illness

Sec. 23. (a) This section applies after December 31, 2017, to a police reserve officer who is unable to pursue the officer's usual vocation as the result of an injury or illness occurring in the course of or as the result of the performance of duties as a police reserve officer.(b) A unit shall pay a police reserve officer a weekly amount that may not be less than the Indiana minimum wage established under IC 22-2-2 and computed on the basis of a forty (40) hour work week.(c) A unit shall pay the police reserve officer the weekly amount described in subsection (b) for the lesser of:(1) the period the police reserve officer is unable to pursue the officer's usual vocation; or(2) two hundred sixty (260) weeks.As added by P.L.180-2017, SEC.6.
IN Code § 36-8-3.2-1 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 36. Local Government|Article 8. Public Safety|Chapter 3.2. Employment Standards for Public Safety Officers|36-8-3.2-1. Application of Chapter

Sec. 1. This chapter applies to the following:(1) Full-time, fully paid firefighters hired or rehired after July 1, 1989.(2) Full-time police officers hired or rehired after January 25, 1992.As added by P.L.394-1987(ss), SEC.1. Amended by P.L.4-1992, SEC.22.
IN Code § 36-8-3.2-1.5 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 36. Local Government|Article 8. Public Safety|Chapter 3.2. Employment Standards for Public Safety Officers|36-8-3.2-1.5. Administration of Chapter

Sec. 1.5. This chapter shall be administered in a manner that is consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act, to the extent required by the Act.As added by P.L.4-1992, SEC.23.
IN Code § 36-8-3.2-2 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 36. Local Government|Article 8. Public Safety|Chapter 3.2. Employment Standards for Public Safety Officers|36-8-3.2-2. Certification of Applicants

Sec. 2. A person who is an applicant to become a firefighter or police officer must, before being hired, be certified by the local board to the board of trustees of the Indiana public retirement system as having passed the minimum agility and aptitude tests outlined in this chapter.As added by P.L.394-1987(ss), SEC.1. Amended by P.L.4-1992, SEC.24; P.L.35-2012, SEC.108.
IN Code § 36-8-3.2-3 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 36. Local Government|Article 8. Public Safety|Chapter 3.2. Employment Standards for Public Safety Officers|36-8-3.2-3. Physical Agility and Aptitude Tests; Adoption of Standards; Review

Sec. 3. (a) The appointing authority shall adopt standards for firefighters establishing a physical agility test that:(1) does not discriminate on the basis of sex;(2) reflects the essential functions of the job; and(3) at a minimum includes testing the following:(A) Fear of heights (acrophobia).(B) Fear of confinement (claustrophobia).(C) Muscular strength.(D) Muscular endurance.(E) Cardiovascular endurance.(F) Musculoskeletal flexibility.(b) The appointing authority shall also adopt standards for firefighters establishing a general aptitude test.(c) The standards required by this section must be presented to the board of firefighting personnel standards and education established by IC 22-12-3-1 for review.As added by P.L.394-1987(ss), SEC.1. Amended by P.L.4-1992, SEC.25.
IN Code § 36-8-3.2-3.5 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 36. Local Government|Article 8. Public Safety|Chapter 3.2. Employment Standards for Public Safety Officers|36-8-3.2-3.5. Physical Agility Test; Standards; General Aptitude Test; Review

Sec. 3.5. (a) The appointing authority shall adopt standards for police officers establishing a physical agility test that:(1) does not discriminate on the basis of sex;(2) reflects the essential functions of the job; and(3) at a minimum includes testing the following:(A) Muscular strength.(B) Muscular endurance.(C) Cardiovascular endurance.(D) Musculoskeletal flexibility.(b) The appointing authority may also adopt standards for police officers establishing a general aptitude test.(c) The standards required by this section must be presented to the law enforcement training board established under IC 5-2-1-3 for review.As added by P.L.4-1992, SEC.26.
IN Code § 36-8-3.2-4 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 36. Local Government|Article 8. Public Safety|Chapter 3.2. Employment Standards for Public Safety Officers|36-8-3.2-4. Administration of Tests

Sec. 4. The appointing authority or its designee shall administer the agility and aptitude tests to applicants and shall certify the results to the local board before extending an offer of employment.As added by P.L.394-1987(ss), SEC.1. Amended by P.L.4-1992, SEC.27.
IN Code § 36-8-3.2-5 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 36. Local Government|Article 8. Public Safety|Chapter 3.2. Employment Standards for Public Safety Officers|36-8-3.2-5. Physical Agility Test; Additional Requirement

Sec. 5. The physical agility test established under section 3 or 3.5 of this chapter is in addition to the physical examination required under IC 36-8-3.5-12, IC 36-8-4-7, or IC 36-8-8-19.As added by P.L.394-1987(ss), SEC.1. Amended by P.L.4-1992, SEC.28.
IN Code § 36-8-3.2-6 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 36. Local Government|Article 8. Public Safety|Chapter 3.2. Employment Standards for Public Safety Officers|36-8-3.2-6. Additional Standards

Sec. 6. An appointing authority may establish additional standards as a condition of employment. Any standards established under this section are in addition to the standards required by IC 36-8-8-19 and the standards identified in section 3 or 3.5 of this chapter.As added by P.L.4-1992, SEC.29.
IN Code § 36-8-3.5-2 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 36. Local Government|Article 8. Public Safety|Chapter 3.5. Police and Fire Merit Systems|36-8-3.5-2. Definitions

Sec. 2. As used in this chapter:"Commission" refers to the merit commission for a merit system established under this chapter."Department" refers to the police or fire department of a unit.[Local Government Recodification Citation: New.]As added by Acts 1981, P.L.316, SEC.1.
IN Code § 36-8-3.5-3 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 36. Local Government|Article 8. Public Safety|Chapter 3.5. Police and Fire Merit Systems|36-8-3.5-3. Establishment; Separate Systems

Sec. 3. (a) The legislative body of a unit (other than a township) may, by ordinance, establish a merit system under this chapter for the police or fire department of the unit. The legislative body of a township may, by resolution, establish a merit system under this chapter for the township's fire department. Before the merit system takes effect, however, the system must be approved by a majority of the active members of the department in a referendum.(b) The legislative body shall specify in the adopting ordinance or resolution which of the provisions of this chapter that are left to its discretion are being adopted.(c) If a merit system is established under this chapter for each department of a unit, each department has a separate merit system.[Local Government Recodification Citation: New.]As added by Acts 1981, P.L.316, SEC.1. Amended by P.L.180-2002, SEC.2.