Introduced Version
HOUSE BILL No. 1249
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DIGEST OF INTRODUCED BILL
Citations Affected: IC 36-2-13-5.
Synopsis: Mugshot requirements. Requires a mugshot to include a
photograph of the subject's teeth or gums.
Effective: July 1, 2025.
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January 9, 2025, read first time and referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code.
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First Regular Session of the 124th General Assembly (2025)
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HOUSE BILL No. 1249
A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning
criminal law and procedure.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana:
1 SECTION 1. IC 36-2-13-5, AS AMENDED BY P.L.63-2008,
2 SECTION 5, IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE
3 JULY 1, 2025]: Sec. 5. (a) The sheriff shall:
4 (1) arrest without process persons who commit an offense within
5 the sheriff's view, take them before a court of the county having
6 jurisdiction, and detain them in custody until the cause of the
7 arrest has been investigated;
8 (2) suppress breaches of the peace, calling the power of the
9 county to the sheriff's aid if necessary;
10 (3) pursue and jail felons;
11 (4) execute all process directed to the sheriff by legal authority;
12 (5) serve all process directed to the sheriff from a court or the
13 county executive;
14 (6) attend and preserve order in all courts of the county;
15 (7) take care of the county jail and the prisoners there;
16 (8) take photographs, fingerprints, and other identification data as
17 the sheriff shall prescribe of persons taken into custody for
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1 felonies or misdemeanors; and
2 (9) on or before January 31 and June 30 of each year, provide to
3 the department of correction the average daily cost of
4 incarcerating a prisoner in the county jail as determined under the
5 methodology developed by the department of correction under
6 IC 11-10-13.
7 At least one (1) of the photographs taken under subdivision (8)
8 must include a frontal photograph of the person's teeth or gums.
9 (b) A person who:
10 (1) refuses to be photographed;
11 (2) refuses to be fingerprinted;
12 (3) withholds information; or
13 (4) gives false information;
14 as prescribed in subsection (a)(8), commits a Class C misdemeanor.
15 (c) The sheriff may supervise and inspect all pawnbrokers, vendors,
16 junkshop keepers, cartmen, expressmen, dealers in secondhand
17 merchandise, intelligence offices, and auctions. The sheriff may
18 authorize any deputy in writing to exercise the same powers.
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