(A) Except as provided in division (B) below, the following forms of payment shall be the only forms of payment that are acceptable to the County Clerk’s offices for payment of filing fees, judgments, support payments, annual support fees, restitution, bonds, marriage license certificates, copy and fax fees and any other miscellaneous fees:
(1) Cash;
(2) Cashier checks made payable to the Clerk’s office;
(3) Traveler’s checks made payable to the Clerk’s office; and
(4) Money orders made payable to the Clerk’s office.
(B) The County Clerk’s offices may accept the following forms of payment for the following specified items:
(1) Business checks from attorneys for filing fees;
(2) Business checks from companies for garnishments or wage assignments to pay judgments and/or support payments for employees or other third parties. (Business checks are not acceptable for paying filing fees or judgments for or on behalf of the company itself);
(3) Personal checks for annual support fees; and
(4) Sheriff checks for bond and special death benefit fees.
(C) The County Clerk’s offices may reject any form of payment which in the determination and discretion of the County Clerk and his or her deputies appears to have been forged, altered, fraudulent, counterfeit, illegible, ambiguous, mutilated or otherwise of questionable or doubtful validity.
(D) This section shall take effect immediately.
(Prior Code, § 36-1-8-11) (Ord. 98-661, passed 11-16-1998, 98 COM REC 661–663)