Section 33-24-5-1 - Appointment; bond; term of office; vacancies(a) On the second Monday of January in each odd-numbered year, the supreme court shall appoint a sheriff.(b) The sheriff of the supreme court must give bond in the sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000), with sureties to be approved by the court.(c) The term of the sheriff's office is two (2) years.(d) When a vacancy in the sheriff's office occurs in vacation, any two (2) of the justices of the court may appoint a sheriff to serve until the next term of the court, when the vacancy shall be filled by a vote of a majority of the court's justices.Pre-2004 Recodification Citation: 33-15-7-1.
As added by P.L. 98-2004, SEC.3.