(A) The Sheriff’s Sale Program is approved and established to provide the procedure for the Sheriff to contract for those administrative, technical, clerical, and related services that are reasonable and appropriate for the Sheriff to effectively prepare for, manage, and implement foreclosure sales.
(B) The Commissioners and Council hereby establish a fund to be titled the Sheriff Sale Fund into which all collections of foreclosure costs fees, as hereafter defined, shall be deposited and from which the appropriate expenses of the Sheriff’s Sale Program shall be appropriated and paid. The Sheriff Sale Fund shall be a non-reverting fund to be used only for the purposes set forth herein and shall not revert to the County General Fund at year’s end.
(C) The Sheriff is authorized to negotiate and execute a contract with a provider to obtain such administrative, technical, clerical, and related services (the “Sheriff Sale Services”) in order for the Sheriff to conduct the Sheriff’s Sale Program.
(D) (1) The Sheriff Sale Services contract shall provide for the delivery of such services by a contractor (the “contractor”) in compliance with all applicable statutory provisions for the conduct of foreclosure sale proceedings and the Sheriff’s Sale Program.
(2) The Sheriff Sale Services contract shall also provide for the payment of a fee, for each cause number scheduled in the Sheriff’s Sale Program, to the contractor for such services.
(E) The Sheriff is hereby authorized to charge a fee of $300 per cause number of property in the Sheriff’s Sale Program (the “foreclosure costs fees”) and to deposit such foreclosure costs fees collected by or on behalf of the Sheriff in the Sheriff Sale Fund.
(F) The Foreclosure Costs Fee shall by payable at the time of filing the praecipe under I.C. 32-29-7-3(h), which shall be a charge for the Sheriff’s Sale in addition to other statutory costs and fees.
(G) The Sheriff’s Sale Program contract shall provide for a complete and accurate accounting of all Sheriff’s Sale Program proceeds and compliance with any reporting or record requirements as set forth by the State Board of Accounts.
(Ord. 2022-06, passed 7-5-2022)