Indiana Administrative Code
Title 50 - DEPARTMENT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCE
Article 26 - COMPUTER STANDARDS FOR A UNIFORM AND COMMON PROPERTY TAX MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Rule 12 - Internal Control and Accounting Standards for Property Tax Management Systems
Section 12-1 - Data integrity
Universal Citation: 50 IN Admin Code 12-1
Current through September 18, 2024
Authority: IC 6-1.1-31-1; IC 6-1.1-31.5-3.5
Affected: IC 6-1.1-31.5
1. The property tax management system must have features to ensure data integrity, including the following:
(1) Field or record locking to prevent
simultaneous updates while permitting read-only access.
(2) On transaction records, the following:
(A) The date of the transaction.
(B) The user identification of the operator
who entered the transaction.
(3) Not allowing a duplicate of a key that
uniquely identifies a record in a file.
(4) Validity checks for data, such as not
allowing an alphabetic character to be stored in an all-numeric field,
immediately following entry of the data into the system.
(5) Checks for:
(A) data that are out-of-range or
unreasonable, such as a:
(i) transaction date
of August 13, 2997; or
(ii)
negative net assessed value;
(B) logically impossible combinations of
values across fields;
(C) data that
fall outside of a range, or above a threshold, specified by the local computer
system administrator;
(D) null or
empty data fields that will result in noncompliance with the property tax file
format requirements found in 50 IAC 26-20; and
(E) data that is inconsistent with data entry
fields specified by code lists published in the Property Tax Management System
Code List Manual;
immediately following entry of the data into the system.
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