Indiana Administrative Code
Title 50 - DEPARTMENT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCE
Article 26 - COMPUTER STANDARDS FOR A UNIFORM AND COMMON PROPERTY TAX MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Rule 19 - Contract Provisions
Section 19-2 - Assessment software and tax and billing software vendors
Universal Citation: 50 IN Admin Code 19-2
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
Sec. 2.
(a) This section applies to all assessment software vendors and all tax and billing software vendors.
(b) A contract between an assessment software vendor and a county or a tax and billing software vendor and a county must include the following provisions:
(1) An agreement that the vendor will provide
a software maintenance agreement that meets the standards prescribed in this
article.
(2) An agreement that the
vendor will provide assistance to the county as may be required to modify the
property tax management system to comply with changes in state law, department
rules, department policy statements, or this article within the time period
prescribed by the law, rule, or department.
(3) Should for any reason a county change the
assessment or tax and billing software or any other part of the computer system
at:
(A) the end of a contractual
period;
(B) contract
termination;
(C) decertification;
or
(D) failure of recertification;
the vendor of the software shall in no way impede or delay the smooth, orderly, and timely transfer of the county's data from the current database to a new database.
(4) An agreement that the vendor will
reimburse the county for all costs incurred as a result of the vendor's failure
to continue to support the assessment software or tax and billing software
during the life of the maintenance agreement.
(5) An agreement that the contract and the
escrow agreement both provide for the vendor's documentation and source code to
be released by the escrow agent to the county when the department, an
arbitrator, or a court rules that the vendor:
(A) has ceased to provide continued support;
and
(B) is incapable of resuming
support.
(6) An
agreement that, unless the total system installation is:
(A) confirmed by an independent entity;
and
(B) locally certified by the
department; the contract is void.
(7) An agreement that, unless the property
tax management system is recertified and the total system installation is:
(A) confirmed by an independent entity;
and
(B) locally recertified by the
department; the contract is void.
(8) An agreement that the contract is void if
the property tax management system certification is:
(A) denied;
(B) decertified; or
(C) revoked.
(9) An agreement that the contract is void if
the local certification of the county installation is:
(A) denied;
(B) decertified; or
(C) revoked.
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