§ 20-26-7-26 — Duties and liabilities of school corporations with respect to municipal assessments for public improvements

(a) A common school corporation:
(1) has the same powers; and
(2) is subject to the same duties and liabilities;
concerning municipal assessments for the cost of public improvements
affecting the common school corporation's real estate that private
owners of real estate possess or to which private owners of real estate
are subject.
(b) The real estate of a common school corporation is subject to
liens for municipal assessments for public improvements if the real
estate:
(1) had been owned by a private owner; and
(2) would have been subject to a lien at the time the lien was
attached.
(c) A penalty or an attorney's fee concerning a municipal assessment
may not be collected from a school corporation.
[Pre-2005 Elementary and Secondary Education
Recodification Citation: 20-5-33-1.]

Legislative History

As added by P.L.1-2005, SEC.10.