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, theIndiana board may, subject to the limitations in subsection (c), hireemployees under this section.
    (b) Each member and each employee of the Indiana board shallreceive:
        (1) an annual salary to be fixed in the manner prescribed inIC 4-12-1-13; and
        (2) the same mileage and travel allowances that other stateemployees 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 theboard'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, appointadministrative law judges.
    (b) An administrative law judge may conduct any hearing that theIndiana board is required by law to hold. In the written order bywhich the Indiana board appoints an administrative law judge, theboard shall prescribe the duties of the position. The Indiana boardmay have different administrative law judges simultaneously conductnumerous 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 countyproperty tax assessment board of appeals.
    (b) Upon request by a county assessor, an employee of the Indianaboard may assist taxpayers and local officials in their attempts tovoluntarily resolve disputes in which:
        (1) a taxpayer has filed written notice to obtain a county board'sreview of an action by a township or county official; and
        (2) the county board has not given written notice of its decisionon the issues under review.
    (c) If an Indiana board employee assists in attempts to voluntarilyresolve a dispute as authorized in subsection (b), the employee maynot:
        (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 samedispute.
    (d) Notwithstanding any other law, including IC 5-14-1.5, aconference attended by an Indiana board employee acting in thecapacity described in subsection (b) is not required to be open to thepublic. Such a conference may be open to the public only if both thetaxpayer and the township or county official from whose action thetaxpayer sought review agree to open the conference to the public.
    (e) Notwithstanding any other law, a conference attended by anIndiana board employee acting in the capacity described insubsection (b) is not a proceeding of the Indiana board, and theIndiana board is not required to keep a record of the conference.
As added by P.L.113-2010, SEC.41.