- (a) A county public defender board shall submit a written request for reimbursement to the county auditor. The request must set forth the total of the county's expenditures for indigent defense services to the county auditor and may be limited in a county described in section 1(3) of this chapter to expenditures for indigent defense services provided by a particular division of a court. The county auditor shall review the request and certify the total of the county's expenditures for indigent defense services to the Indiana public defender commission.
- (b) Upon certification by the Indiana public defender commission that the county's indigent defense services meet the commission's standards, the auditor of state shall issue a warrant to the treasurer of state for disbursement to the county of a sum equal to forty percent (40%) of the county's certified expenditures for indigent defense services provided in noncapital cases except misdemeanors.
(c) If a county's indigent defense services fail to meet the standards adopted by the Indiana public defender commission, the public defender commission shall notify the county public defender board and the county fiscal body of the failure to comply with the Indiana public defender commission's standards. Unless the county public defender board corrects the deficiencies to comply with the standards not more than ninety (90) days after the date of the notice, the county's eligibility for reimbursement from the public defense fund terminates at the close of that fiscal year.
[Pre-2004 Recodification Citation: 33-9-15-10.5.]
As added by P.L.98-2004, SEC.19.