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Ind. Code § 4-24-6-2

Funds held in trust for inmates

Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Hendrix v. Evans (1989)

Most recently applied in Abdul-Wadood v. Bayh H (April 1996)

Formerly: Acts 1957, c.242, s.2; Acts 1959, c.253, s.1

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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.

Sec. 2. (a) Subject to a designation of the specific purpose for the use of donated funds by a donor, the superintendent or warden of an institution shall hold in trust funds deposited with the institution for the use and benefit of, or belonging to, any inmate or patient.

(b) The superintendent or warden shall keep an accurate accounting of the receipts and disbursements of funds received under subsection (a) on books and records in accordance with the accounting procedure as prescribed by the state board of accounts.

(c) Trust funds created under this section are subject to periodic audits the state board of accounts considers necessary.

(d) Trust funds created under this section shall be:

(1) deposited in depositories whose deposits are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; or

(2) invested in government securities of the United States.

Official source: Indiana General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Indiana statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.