Sec. 18.5. (a) A county assessor may not use the services of a professional appraiser for assessment or reassessment purposes without a written contract. The contract used must be either a standard contract developed by the department of local government finance or a contract that has been specifically approved by the department. The department shall ensure that the contract:
(1) includes all of the provisions required under section 19.5(b) of this chapter; and
(2) adequately provides for the creation and transmission of real property assessment data in the form required by the legislative services agency and the division of data analysis of the department.
(b) No contract shall be made with any professional appraiser to act as technical advisor in the assessment of property, before the giving of notice and the receiving of bids from anyone desiring to furnish this service. Notice of the time and place for receiving bids for the contract shall be given by publication by one (1) insertion in two (2) newspapers of general circulation published in the county and representing each of the two (2) leading political parties in the county. If only one (1) newspaper is there published, notice in that one (1) newspaper is sufficient to comply with the requirements of this subsection. The contract shall be awarded to the lowest and best bidder who meets all requirements under law for entering a contract to serve as technical advisor in the assessment of property. However, any and all bids may be rejected, and new bids may be asked.
(c) The county council of each county shall appropriate the funds needed to meet the obligations created by a professional appraisal services contract which is entered into under this chapter.
(d) A county assessor who enters into a contract with a professional appraiser shall submit a contract to the department through the Indiana transparency Internet web site in the manner prescribed by the department. The county shall upload the contract not later than thirty (30) days after execution of the contract.
(e) The department may review any contracts uploaded under subsection (d) to ensure compliance with section 19.5 of this chapter.
As added by P.L.198-2001, SEC.13. Amended by P.L.146-2008, SEC.72; P.L.257-2019, SEC.15.
Structure Indiana Code
Chapter 4. Procedures for Real Property Assessment
6-1.1-4-1. Place of Assessment; Person Liable
6-1.1-4-2. Assessment of Property Held by Fiduciary
6-1.1-4-3. Heirs or Devisees; Assessment
6-1.1-4-4.2. County Reassessment Plan; Approval by Department of Local Government Finance
6-1.1-4-4.7. Training of Assessors and County Auditors in Sales Disclosure Form Verification
6-1.1-4-4.8. Reassessment of Covered Projects
6-1.1-4-5.5. Petition for Reassessment Under County Reassessment Plan
6-1.1-4-10. Notice of Reassessments; Publication
6-1.1-4-11. Destroyed Property; Order of Reassessment by County Assessor
6-1.1-4-12. Circumstances Under Which Undeveloped Land May Be Reassessed
6-1.1-4-12.4. "Oil or Gas Interest"; Assessment
6-1.1-4-12.6. Assessed Value of Oil or Gas Interests; Schedule; Penalty
6-1.1-4-13. Agricultural Land; Assessment; Soil Productivity Factors
6-1.1-4-13.6. Determination and Review of Land Values
6-1.1-4-14. Adjacent Property Holders; Assessment or Exemption of Various Rights-of-Way
6-1.1-4-15. Appraisal; Examination of Buildings
6-1.1-4-16. Assessors' Assistants; Appropriation
6-1.1-4-17. Employment of Professional Appraisers as Technical Advisors
6-1.1-4-18.5. Professional Appraisal; Contract for Services; Bids Required
6-1.1-4-19.5. Professional Appraising Services; Standard Contract or Contract Provisions
6-1.1-4-20. Professional Appraisal; Contract Deadline
6-1.1-4-21.4. Appraisal Completion Date and Reporting Requirements Under County Reassessment Plan
6-1.1-4-22. Amounts of Assessment or Reassessment; Notice
6-1.1-4-24. Notice to County Auditor of Assessed Value
6-1.1-4-25. Record Keeping; Electronic Data Files
6-1.1-4-26. Adoption or Promulgation of Documents by the Department of Local Government Finance
6-1.1-4-27.5. Property Reassessment Fund; Tax Levies; Petition to Increase Levy; Appeal
6-1.1-4-28.5. Property Reassessment Funds; Use of Money; Soil Maps
6-1.1-4-29. Expenses of Reassessment
6-1.1-4-30. Interim Assessments or Reassessments; Rules and Regulations
6-1.1-4-39. Assessment of Rental Property and Mobile Homes; Low Income Rental Housing Exclusion
6-1.1-4-39.5. Assessment of Qualified Real Property
6-1.1-4-41. Assessment of Low Income Rental Housing
6-1.1-4-45. Assessment of Land on Which an Outdoor Sign Is Located