(A) Residency. Each Board member must be a resident of the town for one year prior to their appointment.
(B) Resume. Each applicant, before consideration for appointment, shall complete an application, submit a resume containing their employment and educational history and execute an authorization and waiver for a criminal background check.
(C) Oath. Before performing any function of a Board member, each individual shall take and subscribe an oath or affirmation of office before the Lake County Circuit Court Clerk and that, in each appointment or removal made by the Board to or from the town Police Department under this chapter, the Board member will not appoint or remove a member of the town Police Department because of the political affiliation of the person or for another cause or reason other than that of the fitness of the person.
(D) Bond. Each Board member shall give bond, approved by the Town Council, in the penal sum of $5,000, payable to the state and conditioned upon the faithful and honest discharge of the member’s duties.
(E) Police Officers. The Town Council may not appoint a police officer employed by the town to serve on the Board as required by IC 36-8-9-3.1(a)(7).
(F) Town Council. Members of the Town Council may be appointed as members of the Board, subject to the following:
(1) No more than two council members may be appointed or serve on the Board;
(2) A council member vacates their position on the Board when the member is no longer a member of the Town Council; and
(3) A council member appointed to the Board is not required to give the bond required by Police Commission members but shall take and file the oath required by law with circuit court clerk.
(G) Removal. The Town Council may remove a Board member for any cause it considers sufficient pursuant to IC 36-8-9- 3.1(a)(6). An appointed member who misses three consecutive regular meetings of the Police Commission shall be deemed to have resigned their appointment unless the Town Council reaffirms the member’s appointment for the remainder of their original term.
('80 Code, § 2.20.030) (Ord. 9-1971, passed - -71; Am. Ord. 2004-07, passed 2-9-04)