Sec. 5. (a) If the court finds that the action or decision of the board or council appealed from should in all things be affirmed, its judgment must state that, naming the board or council and the proceedings in which the appeal is taken. Judgment for costs shall then be rendered against the party appealing.

(b) If the court finds that the action or decision of the board or council appealed from should not be affirmed in all things, then the court shall make a general finding, setting out, however, sufficient facts to show the nature of the proceeding and the court's decision on it. The court shall then render judgment on all matters properly involved in the appeal, adjudging specifically the amount of the award of damages or the amount of the assessment of benefits found by the court to be due to each lot, parcel, or description or property involved in the appeal and adjudging that the award or assessment is payable as provided by statute.

(c) The court shall render judgment on other matters involved where the particular appeal allowed by a statute does not relate to the award of damages or the assessment of benefits.

(d) The court shall also render judgment on the costs of the appeal as the facts and law require.

(e) If the appeal involves the amount of an award of damages or the amount of an assessment of benefits, or both, the court shall include an order, if appropriate, for the issuance of a certificate of damages, bearing legal interest from the date of issuance, to the person entitled to it upon all the terms and conditions that are provided by the applicable statute. If the appeal involves benefits, the court shall permit the assessment of benefits to be paid in full, or a written waiver may be executed and filed for paying it in ten (10) annual installments, with legal interest payable, and upon all other terms and conditions that are provided by the applicable statute. All of this must be done within thirty (30) days after the date on which the clerk of the court certifies the order and judgment for transmission to the board or council. If an assessment of benefits is not paid or a waiver executed and filed as provided before the expiration of the thirty (30) day period, the assessment becomes delinquent and is subject to all penalties and to collection as is provided by the applicable statute.

[Pre-1998 Recodification Citation: 34-4-17.5-5.]

As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.8.