(A) The County Board of Commissioners does hereby authorize the County Auditor to create and maintain a fund to be known as the County Prosecutor Law Enforcement Fund (P.L.E.F. hereinafter).
(B) The purpose of the P.L.E.F. shall be to provide monies for the use of all law enforcement agencies in the county to aid and assist in the furtherance of criminal investigations, including, but not limited to, drug investigations, and including the obtaining of equipment and/or training and manpower, in the discretion of the prosecutor.
(C) The County Auditor is hereby authorized to accept funds, whether by way of voluntary contributions, court order, restitution or the assessments of fines and costs, forfeitures and/or R.I.C.O. asset forfeiture orders, specifically designated for use as P.L.E.F. monies; the Auditor shall accept the monies, and the monies shall be made available for use by the prosecuting attorney, subject to the prosecuting attorney making a claim for the monies to the County Commissioners, by setting forth on the claim that the purpose thereof is to obtain P.L.E.F. monies.
(D) The Prosecuting Attorney shall deposit warrants paid by the County Commissioners into the checking account to be known as the Prosecutor’s Law Enforcement Fund Checking Account, which this section authorizes the prosecutor to establish, and shall be disbursed therefrom in accordance with the procedures, guidelines, rules and regulations adopted by the office of the prosecuting attorney; but that by this section the prosecuting attorney shall not maintain a balance in the checking account in excess of $5,000 at any one time.
(E) The prosecuting attorney is hereby authorized to invest those funds held in the Prosecutor’s Law Enforcement Fund Checking Account, in a NOW Account, or similar account which shall bear interest; the prosecuting attorney shall account to the County Auditor for all interest earned on the account; the interest earned on the account need not be turned over to county by the prosecuting attorney, but may be kept and retained in the Prosecutor’s Law Enforcement Fund Checking Account and used for the purposes and in the manner as are other funds deposited to the Prosecutor’s Law Enforcement Fund Checking Account.
(Ord. 91-1, passed 1-28-1991)