(A) All persons who reside in the city who desire to carry a handgun as defined by I.C. 35-47-1-6, shall file an application with the Chief of Police on an application form prescribed by the Superintendent of the Indiana State Police.
(B) The Chief of Police shall collect a $10 application fee with each such application. If the application is denied, and such license is not issued, $5 of the application fee shall be refunded to the applicant.
(C) For each application so submitted, the Chief of Police shall conduct an investigation compliant with I.C. 35-47-2-3(c) and shall ascertain and verify all of the information contained therein, and shall forward such information along with his recommendation of approval or disapproval and one set of classifiable fingerprints of the applicant to the Superintendent of the Indiana State Police.
(D) The Chief of Police shall establish and maintain a file of all copies of handgun licenses issued by the Superintendent of the Indiana State Police, witch file shall constitute official records of the city.
(E) The Chief of Police shall deliver all license application fees collected hereunder to the Clerk-Treasurer who is hereby directed to deposit such license fees into the Police Department Continuing Education Fund established pursuant to I.C. 5-2-8-2. All license fees deposited in such fund shall be used by the Police Department for the purposes of:
(1) Training law enforcement officers in the proper use of firearms or other law enforcement duties; and/or
(2) Purchasing for the law enforcement officers employed by the Police Department firearms, or firearms related equipment.
(F) Accounting and expenditure of all funds collected under this section shall be in compliance with the rules and regulations of the Indiana State Board of Accounts.
(Ord. G-04-1144, passed 1-19-04)