Sec. 4. (a) In hearing an appeal, the board of commissioners and a hearing officer shall:

(1) review and consider any report or investigative documents the trustee prepared before making the appealed decision; and

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Terms Used In Indiana Code 12-20-15-4

  • 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.
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Remand: When an appellate court sends a case back to a lower court for further proceedings.
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
(2) be governed by the township’s township assistance standards for determining eligibility to the extent that the standards comply with existing law for the granting of township assistance. If no legally sufficient standards have been established, the board of commissioners and the hearing officer shall be guided by the circumstances in each case.

     (b) The board of commissioners shall remand a case to a trustee for further proceedings if:

(1) new evidence was presented by the applicant to the board of commissioners; and

(2) the board of commissioners determines that the new evidence presented would have made the individual eligible for assistance.

     (c) If a case is remanded to a trustee, the trustee shall issue a new determination of eligibility not later than seventy-two (72) hours after receiving the written decision remanding the case, excluding weekends and legal holidays listed in IC 1-1-9.

[Pre-1992 Revision Citation: 12-2-1-18(c) part.]

As added by P.L.2-1992, SEC.14. Amended by P.L.51-1996, SEC.48; P.L.262-2003, SEC.3; P.L.73-2005, SEC.65.