(A) There is hereby authorized, created and established a cash change fund for use in the office of the Clerk-Treasurer to be known as the Clerk- Treasurer Cash Change Fund, pursuant to the provisions of I.C. 36-1-8 et seq.
(B) The Clerk-Treasurer and such employees as the Clerk-Treasurer may designate are permitted to collect cash revenues at the office of the Clerk- Treasurer, in order to support the duties outlined in and to carry out the purposes of the various relevant laws of the state and ordinances of the town that pertain to the cash change and collection duties of the Clerk-Treasurer and the office of the Clerk-Treasurer, including, but not limited to, the cash change transactions related to building and inspections and the utilities collections:
(1) The Clerk-Treasurer is permitted to establish a Cash Change Fund in support of this section; and
(2) Such a fund must be established by a warrant drawn upon the appropriate fund in favor of the Clerk-Treasurer, who is the custodian of the Fund.
(C) The Fund shall be established by a warrant drawn from the proper appropriated or nonappropriated balance of the General Fund or such other proper fund, as the Town Council and/or board of jurisdiction may direct, in the amount of $200, in support of the establishment of such a Cash Change Fund:
(1) The establishing warrant, and such successive warrants as shall be necessary to resupply the Fund, shall be drawn in favor of the Clerk- Treasurer who shall convert the warrant to cash;
(2) The Clerk-Treasurer, and such employees as he or she may designate, shall use it to make change in the course of performing the duties outlined in and to carry out the purposes of the various relevant laws of the state and ordinances of the town that pertain to the cash change and collection duties of the Clerk-Treasurer and the office of the Clerk-Treasurer, including, but not limited to, the cash change transactions related to building and inspections and the utilities collections; and
(3) The Clerk-Treasurer shall account for it in the same manner as is required of other funds of the town.
(D) The entire Cash Change Fund authorized and established pursuant to this section shall be returned to the General Fund or such other proper fund of origin whenever there is a change in the custodian of the fund.
(E) The entire Cash Change Fund authorized and established pursuant to this section shall be returned to the General Fund or such other proper fund of the town whenever the purposes of the Fund have substantially changed or the fund is no longer needed.