Sec. 10.7. (a) The county fiscal body may adopt an ordinance to provide that the county assessor be reimbursed for certain costs incurred by the county assessor in defending an appeal under this chapter that is uncommon and infrequent in the normal course of defending appeals under this chapter. Costs include appraisal and expert witness fees incurred in defending an appeal.
(b) The ordinance must specify:
(1) the appeal or appeals and why they are uncommon and infrequent;
(2) a detailed list of expenses incurred by fund and by parcel number; and
(3) that the county auditor will deduct the expenses listed in the ordinance from property tax receipts collected in the taxing district in which the parcel is located before apportioning receipts to taxing units for the next semiannual settlement under IC 6-1.1-27.
(c) Property tax receipts that are collected under this section must be deposited in the county fund that incurred the initial expense.
(d) Expenses for an appeal that are deducted from a civil taxing unit's property tax revenue under this section are not considered to be part of a payment of a refund resulting from an appeal for purposes of a maximum permissible property tax levy appeal under IC 6-1.1-18.5-16.
As added by P.L.180-2016, SEC.9.
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