CHAPTER 3. EMPLOYEES
IC 6-1.5-3
Chapter 3. Employees
IC 6-1.5-3-1
Hiring employees; compensation
Sec. 1. (a) To properly and efficiently perform its duties, the
Indiana board may, subject to the limitations in subsection (c), hire
employees under this section.
(b) Each member and each employee of the Indiana board shall
receive:
(1) an annual salary to be fixed in the manner prescribed in
IC 4-12-1-13; and
(2) the same mileage and travel allowances that other state
employees receive.
As added by P.L.198-2001, SEC.95.
IC 6-1.5-3-2
Delegation of powers
Sec. 2. The Indiana board may delegate to an employee the
board's powers with respect to any duty of the board.
As added by P.L.198-2001, SEC.95.
IC 6-1.5-3-3
Administrative law judges
Sec. 3. (a) The Indiana board may, by written order, appoint
administrative law judges.
(b) An administrative law judge may conduct any hearing that the
Indiana board is required by law to hold. In the written order by
which the Indiana board appoints an administrative law judge, the
board shall prescribe the duties of the position. The Indiana board
may have different administrative law judges simultaneously conduct
numerous hearings.
As added by P.L.198-2001, SEC.95.
IC 6-1.5-3-4
Voluntary dispute resolution
Sec. 4. (a) As used in this section, "county board" means a county
property tax assessment board of appeals.
(b) Upon request by a county assessor, an employee of the Indiana
board may assist taxpayers and local officials in their attempts to
voluntarily resolve disputes in which:
(1) a taxpayer has filed written notice to obtain a county board's
review of an action by a township or county official; and
(2) the county board has not given written notice of its decision
on the issues under review.
(c) If an Indiana board employee assists in attempts to voluntarily
resolve a dispute as authorized in subsection (b), the employee may
not:
(1) act as an administrative law judge on; or
(2) participate in a decision relating to;
a petition for review of the county board's action on that same
dispute.
(d) Notwithstanding any other law, including IC 5-14-1.5, a
conference attended by an Indiana board employee acting in the
capacity described in subsection (b) is not required to be open to the
public. Such a conference may be open to the public only if both the
taxpayer and the township or county official from whose action the
taxpayer sought review agree to open the conference to the public.
(e) Notwithstanding any other law, a conference attended by an
Indiana board employee acting in the capacity described in
subsection (b) is not a proceeding of the Indiana board, and the
Indiana board is not required to keep a record of the conference.
As added by P.L.113-2010, SEC.41.