(A) (1) The County Auditor is authorized to transact the business of the county with any financial institution through the use of electronic funds transfers in the following types of transactions: ordering, instructing or authorizing any financial institution to debit or credit any account established and maintained by the County Auditor for the deposit or investment of any of the county’s monies in any type of transaction, including, but not limited to, deposits or transfers of any money or funds into any account or investment, paying or transferring wages or other compensation to any county employee or contractor, paying or transferring garnishment payments, wage assignment payments, income withholding order payments and any other payments to any person or entity.
(2) The County Treasurer is authorized to transact the business of the county with any financial institution through the use of electronic funds transfers in the following types of transactions: ordering, instructing or authorizing any financial institution to debit or credit any account established and maintained by the County Treasurer for the deposit or investment of any of the county’s monies in any type of transaction, including, but not limited to, tax sales and related transactions; deposits or transfers of any money or funds into any account or investment, purchases of and payments for any types of investments, collections of any taxes or receiving of payments of any taxes or other indebtedness.
(3) The County Clerk is authorized to transact the business of the county with any financial institution through the use of electronics funds transfers in the following types of transactions: ordering, instructing or authorizing any financial institution to debit or credit any account established and maintained by the County Treasurer for the deposit or investment of any of the county’s monies in any type of transaction, including, but not limited to, accepting child support or other payments, disbursing payments of child support or other types of payments, accepting garnishment payments, wage assignment payments, income withholding order payments and any other payments from any person or entity.
(4) The County Auditor, County Treasurer and the County Clerk shall maintain adequate documentation of other transactions so that they may be audited as provided by law.
(Prior Code, § 2-357)
(B) The county elects to receive distributions from the state by means of electronic transfer of funds pursuant to I.C. 4-8.1-2-7, and as the same may be amended.
(C) (1) The County Treasurer is authorized to make all debits and credits to accounts and investments of funds belonging to the county with financial institutions holding the funds through the use of electronic funds transfer.
(2) As used in this section, ELECTRONIC FUNDS TRANSFER shall mean any transfer of funds, other than a transaction originated by check, draft or similar paper instrument, that is initiated through an electronic terminal, telephone or computer or magnetic tape for purpose of ordering, instructing or authorizing a financial institution to debit or credit an account.
(Prior Code, § 2-256)
(Ord. 1983-7, passed 7-18-1983; Council Res. 1996-03, passed 4-9-1996; Council Res. 98-15, passed 11-10-1998)