IC 36-3-6
    Chapter 6. Budget Procedures and Compensation of Officers andEmployees

IC 36-3-6-1
Application of chapter
    Sec. 1. This chapter applies to each consolidated city and itscounty.
As added by Acts 1980, P.L.212, SEC.2.

IC 36-3-6-2
Compensation of elected officers
    Sec. 2. The city-county legislative body shall, by ordinance, fixthe annual compensation of all elected consolidated city and countyofficers. Their compensation may not be changed in the year forwhich it is fixed, nor may it be reduced below the amount fixed forthe year 1980.
As added by Acts 1980, P.L.212, SEC.2. Amended by Acts 1981,P.L.17, SEC.20.

IC 36-3-6-3
Compensation of appointed officers, deputies, and employees;exceptions and limitations on appropriations
    Sec. 3. (a) A legislative body shall, by ordinance or resolution, fixthe annual compensation of all appointed officers, deputies, andemployees under its jurisdiction. This may be done by adoptingschedules of compensation. The schedules of compensation mayinclude a provision for salaried employees whose salaries are paid onan annual basis. Salaried employees shall work a regularly scheduledwork week, in accordance with the schedule of compensation.
    (b) The city-county legislative body has jurisdiction over allappointed officers, deputies, and employees:
        (1) of the consolidated city, except those of special servicedistricts; or
        (2) whose compensation is payable from the county generalfund or any other fund from which the county auditor issueswarrants for compensation.
A special service district legislative body has jurisdiction over allappointed officers, deputies, and employees of the special servicedistrict.
    (c) This chapter does not affect the salaries of judges, officers ofcourts, prosecuting attorneys, and deputy prosecuting attorneyswhose minimum salaries are fixed by statute, but the city-countylegislative body may make appropriations to pay them more than theminimums fixed by statute. Beginning July 1, 1995, an appropriationmade under this subsection may not exceed five thousand dollars($5,000) for each judge or full-time prosecuting attorney in anycalendar year.
As added by Acts 1980, P.L.212, SEC.2. Amended by P.L.44-1986,SEC.2; P.L.16-1986, SEC.78; P.L.279-1995, SEC.22; P.L.280-1995,

SEC.24; P.L.2-1996, SEC.291.

IC 36-3-6-4
Budget estimates; preparation; verified certificate; courts;submission
    Sec. 4. (a) Before the Wednesday after the first Monday in Julyeach year, the consolidated city and county shall prepare budgetestimates for the ensuing budget year under this section.
    (b) The following officers shall prepare for their respectivedepartments, offices, agencies, or courts an estimate of the amountof money required for the ensuing budget year, stating in detail eachcategory and item of expenditure they anticipate:
        (1) The director of each department of the consolidated city.
        (2) Each township assessor (if any), elected county officer, orhead of a county agency.
        (3) The county clerk, for each court the clerk serves.
    (c) In addition to the estimates required by subsection (b), thecounty clerk shall prepare an estimate of the amount of money thatis, under law, taxable against the county for the expenses of casestried in other counties on changes of venue.
    (d) Each officer listed in subsection (b)(2) or (b)(3) shall appenda certificate to each estimate the officer prepares stating that in theofficer's opinion the amount fixed in each item will be required forthe purpose indicated. The certificate must be verified by the oath ofthe officer.
    (e) An estimate for a court or division of a court is subject tomodification and approval by the judge of the court or division.
    (f) All of the estimates prepared by city officers and countyofficers shall be submitted to the controller.
    (g) The controller shall also prepare an itemized estimate of cityand county expenditures for other purposes above the moneyproposed to be used by the city departments and county officers andagencies.
As added by Acts 1980, P.L.212, SEC.2. Amended by P.L.196-1984,SEC.2; P.L.227-2005, SEC.31; P.L.146-2008, SEC.704.

IC 36-3-6-5
Review and revision of estimates; report and recommendations;determination of amounts
    Sec. 5. (a) The controller shall review and revise the estimates ofexpenditures submitted under section 4 of this chapter. Then thecontroller shall prepare for the executive a report of the estimatedbudgets, miscellaneous expenses, and revenues necessary oravailable to finance the estimates, along with the controller'srecommendations.
    (b) The executive shall determine the amounts to be included inthe proposed appropriations ordinance by the controller and advisethe controller of those amounts.
As added by Acts 1980, P.L.212, SEC.2. Amended by P.L.227-2005,SEC.32.
IC 36-3-6-6
Proposed ordinances; appropriations; rate of taxation; submittal
    Sec. 6. (a) The controller shall, with the assistance of thecorporation counsel, prepare:
        (1) proposed appropriations ordinances for the city and countyand each special service district; and
        (2) proposed ordinances fixing the rate of taxation for the taxesto be levied for all city and county departments, offices, andagencies.
The proposed appropriations ordinances must contain all the amountsnecessary for the operation of consolidated government, listed inmajor classifications.
    (b) The controller shall submit the proposed ordinances preparedunder subsection (a) along with appropriation detail accounts foreach city and county department, office, and agency, to the city clerknot later than the first meeting of the city-county legislative body inAugust.
As added by Acts 1980, P.L.212, SEC.2. Amended by Acts 1981,P.L.52, SEC.6; P.L.227-2005, SEC.33.

IC 36-3-6-7
Proposed ordinances; fixing and reviewing budgets, tax rates, andlevies
    Sec. 7. (a) The city-county legislative body and the special servicedistrict legislative bodies shall act on ordinances proposed under thischapter in the manner prescribed by IC 6-1.1-17.
    (b) A tax levied by the consolidated city for a department ordivision having territorial jurisdiction over the whole county shall belevied on property in the whole county, and the money received fromthat tax shall be paid into a fund to be known as the consolidatedcounty fund. A tax levied by the consolidated city for a departmentor division having territorial jurisdiction only inside the corporateboundaries of the consolidated city shall be levied only on propertyin the consolidated city. A tax levied for support of a special servicedistrict shall be levied only on property in the special service district.A tax or special tax to finance the operations, improvements, or debtservice of a special taxing district shall be levied only on property inthe special taxing district. A tax to be levied by the county orconsolidated city for any other function shall be levied only onproperty in the territorial jurisdiction affected.
As added by Acts 1980, P.L.212, SEC.2. Amended by P.L.82-1985,SEC.2.

IC 36-3-6-8
Additional appropriations
    Sec. 8. After the passage of an appropriations ordinance, alegislative body may, on the recommendation of the controller, as toall city and county matters, make further or additional appropriations,unless their result is to increase a tax levy set by ordinance.
As added by Acts 1980, P.L.212, SEC.2. Amended by Acts 1981,

P.L.11, SEC.160; P.L.227-2005, SEC.34.

IC 36-3-6-9
Operating and maintenance budgets and tax levies of certainentities; review and modification; adoption; submittal
    Sec. 9. (a) Except as provided in subsection (d), the city-countylegislative body shall review the proposed operating and maintenancebudgets and tax levies and adopt final operating and maintenancebudgets and tax levies for each of the following entities in thecounty:
        (1) An airport authority operating under IC 8-22-3.
        (2) A public library operating under IC 36-12.
        (3) A capital improvement board of managers operating underIC 36-10.
        (4) A public transportation corporation operating underIC 36-9-4.
        (5) A health and hospital corporation established underIC 16-22-8.
        (6) Any other taxing unit (as defined in IC 6-1.1-1-21) that islocated in the county and has a governing body that is notcomprised of a majority of officials who are elected to serve onthe governing body.
Except as provided in subsection (c), the city-county legislative bodymay reduce or modify but not increase a proposed operating andmaintenance budget or tax levy under this section.
    (b) The board of each entity listed in subsection (a) shall, afteradoption of its proposed budget and tax levies, submit them, alongwith detailed accounts, to the city clerk before the first day ofSeptember of each year.
    (c) The city-county legislative body or, when subsection (d)applies, the fiscal body of an excluded city or town shall review theissuance of bonds of an entity listed in subsection (a). Approval ofthe city-county legislative body or, when subsection (d) applies, thefiscal body of an excluded city or town is required for the issuanceof bonds. The city-county legislative body or the fiscal body of anexcluded city or town may not reduce or modify a budget or tax levyof an entity listed in subsection (a) in a manner that would:
        (1) limit or restrict the rights vested in the entity to fulfill theterms of any agreement made with the holders of the entity'sbonds; or
        (2) in any way impair the rights or remedies of the holders ofthe entity's bonds.
    (d) If the assessed valuation of a taxing unit is entirely containedwithin an excluded city or town (as described in IC 36-3-1-7) that islocated in a county having a consolidated city, the governing body ofthe taxing unit shall submit its proposed operating and maintenancebudget and tax levies to the city or town fiscal body for approval andnot the city-county legislative body. Except as provided in subsection(c), the fiscal body of the excluded city or town may reduce ormodify but not increase a proposed operating and maintenance

budget or tax levy under this section.
As added by Acts 1980, P.L.212, SEC.2. Amended by Acts 1981,P.L.52, SEC.7; P.L.347-1983, SEC.1; P.L.2-1993, SEC.201;P.L.1-2005, SEC.237; P.L.227-2005, SEC.35; P.L.1-2006, SEC.561;P.L.146-2008, SEC.705; P.L.182-2009(ss), SEC.401.