Indiana Code 36-7-32-15. Designation as allocation area; remonstrance
(b) After adoption of the resolution under subsection (a), the redevelopment commission shall:
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- Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
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- Property: includes personal and real property. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
(2) file the following information with each taxing unit that has authority to levy property taxes in the geographic area where the certified technology park is located:
(A) A copy of the notice required by subdivision (1).
(B) A statement disclosing the impact of the certified technology park, including the following:
(i) The estimated economic benefits and costs incurred by the certified technology park, as measured by increased employment and anticipated growth of real property assessed values.
(ii) The anticipated impact on tax revenues of each taxing unit.
The notice must state the general boundaries of the certified technology park and must state that written remonstrances may be filed with the redevelopment commission until the time designated for the hearing. The notice must also name the place, date, and time when the redevelopment commission will receive and hear remonstrances and objections from persons interested in or affected by the proceedings pertaining to the proposed allocation area and will determine the public utility and benefit of the proposed allocation area. The commission shall file the information required by subdivision (2) with the officers of the taxing unit who are authorized to fix budgets, tax rates, and tax levies under IC 6-1.1-17-5 at least ten (10) days before the date of the public hearing. All persons affected in any manner by the hearing, including all taxpayers within the taxing district of the redevelopment commission, shall be considered notified of the pendency of the hearing and of subsequent acts, hearings, adjournments, and orders of the redevelopment commission affecting the allocation area if the redevelopment commission gives the notice required by this section.
(c) At the hearing, which may be recessed and reconvened periodically, the redevelopment commission shall hear all persons interested in the proceedings and shall consider all written remonstrances and objections that have been filed. After considering the evidence presented, the redevelopment commission shall take final action determining the public utility and benefit of the proposed allocation area confirming, modifying and confirming, or rescinding the resolution. The final action taken by the redevelopment commission shall be recorded and is final and conclusive, except that an appeal may be taken in the manner prescribed by section 16 of this chapter.
(d) If the redevelopment commission confirms, or modifies and confirms, the resolution, the redevelopment commission shall file a copy of the resolution with both the auditor of the county in which the certified technology park is located and the department of local government finance, together with any supporting documents that are relevant to the computation of assessed values in the allocation area, within thirty (30) days after the date on which the redevelopment commission takes final action on the resolution.
As added by P.L.192-2002(ss), SEC.187. Amended by P.L.214-2019, SEC.54; P.L.257-2019, SEC.144.