Sec. 5. The state central collection unit is not liable and the clerk is not personally liable or liable in the clerk's official capacity on the clerk's official bond for funds received if the state central collection unit or the clerk:
(1) through error or in accordance with the best information available to the state central collection unit or the clerk, disbursed the funds to a person the state central collection unit or the clerk reasonably believed to be entitled to receive the funds and to comply with a:
(A) child support order; or
(B) garnishment order;
(2) inappropriately disbursed or misapplied child support funds, arising without the knowledge or approval of the state central collection unit or the clerk, that resulted from:
(A) an action by an employee of, or a consultant to, the department of child services or the Title IV-D agency;
(B) an ISETS or the successor statewide automated support enforcement system technological error; or
(C) information generated by ISETS or the successor statewide automated support enforcement system;
(3) disbursed funds that the state central collection unit or the clerk reasonably believed were available for disbursement but that were not actually available for disbursement;
(4) disbursed child support funds paid to the central collection unit by a personal check that was later dishonored by a financial institution; and
(5) did not commit a criminal offense as a part of the disbursement.
[Pre-2004 Recodification Citation: 33-17-1-4.]
As added by P.L.98-2004, SEC.11. Amended by P.L.145-2006, SEC.366; P.L.148-2006, SEC.31; P.L.128-2012, SEC.179.
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