Ind. Code § 6-1.1-18.5-13 – Types of relief available to civil taxing unit in appeal for relief from levy limits

With respect to an appeal filed under section 12 of this chapter, the department may find that a civil taxing unit should receive the following relief:

(1) Permission to the civil taxing unit to increase its levy in excess of the limitations established under section 3 or 25 of this chapter, as applicable, if in the judgment of the department the increase is reasonably necessary due to increased costs of the civil taxing unit resulting from annexation. If those increased costs are incurred by the civil taxing unit in that calendar year and more than one (1) immediately succeeding calendar year, the unit may appeal under section 12 of this chapter for permission to increase its levy under this subdivision based on those increased costs in any of the following:
1. (A) The first calendar year in which those costs are incurred.
2. (B) One (1) or more of the immediately succeeding four (4) calendar years.
(2) Permission to a civil taxing unit to increase its levy in excess of the limitations established under section 3 or 25 of this chapter, as applicable, if the department determines that the civil taxing unit cannot carry out its governmental functions for an ensuing calendar year under the levy limitations imposed by section 3 or 25 of this chapter, as applicable, due to a natural disaster, an accident, or another unanticipated emergency.

As added by P.L.73-1983, SEC.1. Amended by P.L.74-1983, SEC.1; P.L.44-1984, SEC.4; P.L.24-1986, SEC.17; P.L.83-1987, SEC.1; P.L.84-1987, SEC.1; P.L.54-1988, SEC.3; P.L.35-1990, SEC.10; P.L.2-1992, SEC.62; P.L.12-1992, SEC.20; P.L.1-1993, SEC.29; P.L.67-1993, SEC.1; P.L.66-1993, SEC.1; P.L.25-1995, SEC.31; P.L.87-1995, SEC.1; P.L.6-1997, SEC.85; P.L.181-2001, SEC.1; P.L.198-2001, SEC.55; P.L.1-2002, SEC.22; P.L.89-2002, SEC.1; P.L.192-2002(ss), SEC.37; P.L.256-2003, SEC.18; P.L.245-2003, SEC.16; P.L.224-2003, SEC.246; P.L.1-2004, SEC.22 and P.L.23-2004, SEC.24; P.L.73-2005, SEC.4; P.L.80-2006, SEC.1; P.L.154-2006, SEC.47; P.L.196-2007, SEC.2; P.L.224-2007, SEC.25; P.L.3-2008, SEC.46; P.L.146-2008, SEC.180; P.L.182-2009(ss), SEC.131; P.L.172-2011, SEC.39; P.L.119-2012, SEC.33; P.L.112-2012, SEC.38; P.L.218-2013, SEC.7; P.L.245-2015, SEC.14; P.L.203-2016, SEC.10; P.L.197-2016, SEC.15; P.L.85-2017, SEC.16; P.L.86-2018, SEC.51; P.L.159-2020, SEC.36; P.L.174-2022, SEC.37; P.L.68-2025, SEC.62.