52 IAC 5-9-1 Purpose, applicability, and incorporation of standards

Sec. 1. (a) This rule establishes a code of judicial conduct to ensure that the board's administrative law judges participate in establishing, maintaining, and enforcing high standards of conduct and shall act at all times in a way that promotes public confidence in the independence, integrity, fairness, and impartiality of the board. (b) This rule applies to any individual designated as an administrative law judge in a matter before the board. (c) The following provisions are incorporated into the board's administrative law judge code of conduct: (1) The Indiana ethics code set forth in IC 4-2-6 and 42 IAC 1-5. (2) The Indiana Rules of Professional Conduct, available at https://www.in.gov/courts/rules/prof_conduct/, to an administrative law judge who is a lawyer. If appropriate, the board may apply provisions of the Indiana Rules of Professional Conduct to nonlawyer administrative law judges. (d) To the extent that they do not conflict with the statutes governing property tax appeals or this title, the board may consult: (1) the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary Model Code of Judicial Conduct for State Administrative Law Judges, as amended, and the body of case law developed around them; and (2) the American Bar Association: A Model Code of Judicial Conduct for State Administrative Law Judges, as amended, and the body of case law developed around them.