This text of Indiana § 6-1.1-4-31 (Department of local government finance check of local assessment
activities; state conducted activities; payment of bills for services;
determinations by county commissioners or city-county council) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Indiana primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
(a)The department of local government
finance shall periodically check the conduct of:
(1)a reassessment of a group of parcels under a county's
reassessment plan prepared under section 4.2 of this chapter;
(2)work required to be performed by local officials under 50 IAC
21; and
(3)other property assessment activities in the county, as
determined by the department.
The department of local government finance may inform township
assessors (if any), county assessors, and the presidents of county
councils in writing if its check reveals that the reassessment of a group
of parcels under a county's reassessment plan prepared under section
4.2 of this chapter, or other property assessment activities are not being
properly conducted, work required to be performed by local officials
under 50 IAC
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(a) The department of local government
finance shall periodically check the conduct of:
(1) a reassessment of a group of parcels under a county's
reassessment plan prepared under section 4.2 of this chapter;
(2) work required to be performed by local officials under 50 IAC
21; and
(3) other property assessment activities in the county, as
determined by the department.
The department of local government finance may inform township
assessors (if any), county assessors, and the presidents of county
councils in writing if its check reveals that the reassessment of a group
of parcels under a county's reassessment plan prepared under section
4.2 of this chapter, or other property assessment activities are not being
properly conducted, work required to be performed by local officials
under 50 IAC 21 is not being properly conducted, or property
assessments are not being properly made.
(b) The failure of the department of local government finance to
inform local officials under subsection (a) shall not be construed as an
indication by the department that:
(1) a reassessment of a group of parcels under a county's
reassessment plan prepared under section 4.2 of this chapter or
other property assessment activities are being properly conducted;
(2) work required to be performed by local officials under 50 IAC
21 is being properly conducted; or
(3) property assessments are being properly made.
(c) If the department of local government finance:
(1) determines under subsection (a) that a reassessment of a group
of parcels under a county's reassessment plan prepared under
section 4.2 of this chapter or other assessment activities are not
being properly conducted; and
(2) informs:
(A) the township assessor (if any) of each affected township;
(B) the county assessor; and
(C) the president of the county council;
in writing under subsection (a);
the department may order a state conducted assessment or reassessment
under section 31.5 of this chapter to begin not less than sixty (60) days
after the date of the notice under subdivision (2).
(d) If the department of local government finance:
(1) determines under subsection (a) that work required to be
performed by local officials under 50 IAC 21 is not being
properly conducted; and
(2) informs:
(A) the township assessor of each affected township (if any);
(B) the county assessor; and
(C) the president of the county council;
in writing under subsection (a);
the department may conduct the work or contract to have the work
conducted to begin not less than sixty (60) days after the date of the
notice under subdivision (2). If the department determines during the
period between the date of the notice under subdivision (2) and the
proposed date for beginning the work or having the work conducted
that work required to be performed by local officials under 50 IAC 21
is being properly conducted, the department may rescind the order.
(e) If the department of local government finance contracts to have
work conducted under subsection (d), the department shall forward the
bill for the services to the county and the county shall pay the bill under
the same procedures that apply to county payments of bills for
assessment or reassessment services under section 31.5 of this chapter.
(f) A county council president who is informed by the department
of local government finance under subsection (a) shall provide the
information to the board of county commissioners. A board of county
commissioners that receives information under this subsection may
adopt an ordinance to do either or both of the following:
(1) Determine that:
(A) the information indicates that the county assessor has failed
to perform adequately the duties of county assessor; and
(B) by that failure the county assessor forfeits the office of
county assessor and is subject to removal from office by an
information filed under IC 34-17-2-1(b).
(2) Determine that:
(A) the information indicates that one (1) or more township
assessors in the county have failed to perform adequately the
duties of township assessor; and
(B) by that failure the township assessor or township assessors
forfeit the office of township assessor and are subject to
removal from office by an information filed under IC 34-17-2-1(b).
(g) A city-county council that is informed by the department of local
government finance under subsection (a) may adopt an ordinance
making the determination or determinations referred to in subsection
(f).