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• <br /> • <br /> Sec.19.97 <br /> or not previously allowed or disallowed by the director and to increase <br /> or lower any assessment. <br /> (c) The board shall base its decision on the evidence before it, <br /> and, as provided in section 19.19, the assessment made by the director <br /> shall be deemed prima facie correct.Assessments for the same year upon <br /> other similar property situated in the County shall be received in evidence <br /> upon the hearing.In increasing or lowering any real property assessment, <br /> the buatd shall be governed by this chapter, The board shall file with <br /> the director its decision in writing on each appeal decided by it, and.a <br /> certilied copy thereof shall be furnished by the director forthwith to the <br /> taxpayer concerned by delivery thereof to him,or by mailing the copy <br /> addressed to his last known place of residence or business. <br /> (d) Upon completion of its review of the property tax appeals <br /> for the cunrcnt year,the board shall compile and submit to the mayor and <br /> the council, and shall file with the director for the use of the public,a <br /> copy of a report covering such features of its work as,in the opinion of <br /> the board, will be useful in attaining the objectives set forth in this <br /> chapter.In this report the board shall additionally note instances in which, <br /> in the opinion of the board,the director,in the application of the methods <br /> selected by him,erred as to a particular property or particular properties <br /> not brought before the board by any appeal,whether the error is deemed <br /> to have been by way of underassessment or overassessment. Before <br /> commencing this phase of its work the board shall publish,during the first <br /> week of September a notice specifying a period of at least ten days within <br /> which complaints may be filed by any taxpayer.Earls complaint shall be <br /> in writing, shall identify the particular property involved,shall state the <br /> valuation claimed by the taxpayer and the grounds of objection to the <br /> assessment,and shall be filed with the director who shall transmit the same <br /> to the board. Not earlier than one week after the close of the period <br /> • ;I allowed for filing complaints, the board shall hear the same, after first <br /> giving reasonable notice of the hearing to all interested taxpayers and the <br /> direcwr. Like notice and hearing shall be given in order for the board to <br /> include in its report any other property not brought before it by an <br /> appeal, The board may proceed by districts designated by their tax map <br /> designation,and may from time to time publish the notice above provided , <br /> for as work proceeds by districts. • <br /> (c) The director,in the making of assessments for the succeeding <br /> year,shall give due consideration to the report of the board made pursuant <br /> to subsection(d). <br /> 525 <br /> • <br /> • • <br /> 919 <br />