Ordinance No. 14I
ORDINANCE NO. 14!
AN ORDINANCE APPOINTING A BOARD OF EQUALIZATION
TO SERVE FOR THE YEAR 1918; FIXING THE TIME OF THE
FIRST MEETING OF SAID BOARD AND AUTHORIZING SAID
BOARD TO EXERCISE THE POTTERS AND FULFILL THE DUTIES
CONFERRED UPON IT BY THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF
BAYTOWN.
-WHEREAS, in Article VIII, Section 83 of the Charter of the
City of Baytown, it is provided that the City Council shall each year
prior to the lst day of June appoint three residents of said city who
shall be qualified voters and real property owners, as the Board of
Equalization, said charter also providing that the council shall fix
the time of the first meeting of said Board of Equalization; NOW
THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN:
Section 1. That the following named resident citizens of
the City of Baytoym, each of whom is a qualified voter and a real
property owner, are hereby appointed as and shall constitute the Board
of Equalization for the current year, to --wit:
E. W. Bueloiv
Steele MacDonald
C. H. Miller
Said board shall serve from and after the 1st day of June, 1948, and
• as long thereafter as may be necessary to hear, review and determine
the value and assessment of all property both real and personal within
the City of Baytown as said assessments appear on the tax roll for the
year 1918.
Section 2. It shall be the duty of said board to hear and
determine the complaint of any persons that assessments of property as
made and returned by the City Assessor- Collector are in excess of the
true value of said properties and to review, examine and, if necessary,
revise the assessments as returned by the City Assessor - Collector to
the end that all property within the city shall be assessed as fairly
• and as uniformly as possible. Said Board of Equalization shall have
the authority and shall exercise all of the powers and fulfill all of
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the duties granted and conferred upon it by the express provisions of
® the Charter of the City of Baytown.
Section 3. The Board of Equalization shall hold its first
meeting on the 1st day of Jane, 1918, and thereafter shall reconvene
and adjourn from time to time as long as may be necessary in the
premises.
INTRODUCED, READ and PASSED by the affirmative vote of the
majority of the members of the City Council of the City of Baytown
this r .�'1� day of May, 1948.
E. D. Cleve and, Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk
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