County auditor notice to county assessor of previously exempt property; notice to property owner of requirement to file exemption application

Sec. 5. (a) On or before: (1) May 15 of each even-numbered year, if the year ends before January 1, 2016; and (2) April 1 of each even-numbered year, if the year begins after December 31, 2015; the county auditor shall provide to the county assessor a list by taxing district of property for which a tax exemption was in effect for the immediately preceding year. Before July 1 of each even-numbered year that ends before January 1, 2016, and on or before June 1 of each even-numbered year that begins after December 31, 2015, the county assessor shall return the list to the county auditor with a notation of any action of the county property tax assessment board of appeals on that year's exemption of each listed property. (b) The assessor of the county in which property is located shall, in each even-numbered year, mail a notice to the owner of the property if: (1) the owner has not applied for a tax exemption for that year; (2) a tax exemption for the property was in effect for the immediately preceding year; and (3) the owner is required to file an application for the exemption for that year under section 3.5 of this chapter. (c) The notice required by subsection (b) must: (1) identify the property by key number, if any, and a street address, if any, or other common description of the property other than a legal description; and (2) state that the property will be placed on the county tax duplicate unless the owner applies for an exemption within fifteen (15) days after the date the notice is mailed. The county assessor shall, in a year that ends before January 1, 2016, mail any notice required by subsection (b) before June 16 of the year in which the exemption application should have been filed and, in a year that begins after December 31, 2015, mail any notice required by subsection (b) on or before April 25 of the year in which the exemption application should have been filed. (d) A county assessor's failure to give the notice required by subsection (b): (1) for an assessment date in a year that ends before January 1, 2016, does not continue an exemption unless an exemption application is filed by the owner and approved by the county property tax assessment board of appeals on or before the first Monday in November of the year following the year in which the application should have been filed; and (2) for an assessment date in a year that begins after December 31, 2015, does not continue an exemption. (e) This subsection applies to an exemption for an assessment date in a year that begins after December 31, 2015. An otherwise sufficient exemption application that is filed after the applicable date specified in section 3 of this chapter shall be treated as an exemption application for the immediately following assessment date.