Ordinance No. 118y ORDINANCE NO* _ 118
AN ORDINANCE APPOINTING A BOARD OF EQUALIZATION TO
SERVE FOR THE YEAR 1951;: FIXING THE TIME OF THE FIRST'
• MEETING OF SAID BOARD AND AUTHORIZING SAID BOARD TO
EXERCISE THE POWER AND FULFILL THE DUTIES CONFERRED
UFON IT BY THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF BAYTO4Y ,
VVHFREPiS, . 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 Tune
,appoint three residents of said City who shall be qualified voters and real��ro -
_ perty 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 Equali.zatio;
NOWT, THEREFOR;, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOW14:_
SECTION 1: That•the.following named resident citizens of the City of Baytown.,
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.,
Steele McDonald
H. E. Brunson
H. G. Corneil
Said board shall serve from and after the 1st day of June, 1951,9 and as long there-
after 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 assess-
ments appear on the tax roll for the year 1951.
SECTION 2s It shall be the duty of said board to hear and determine the com-
plaint 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 allof the duties granted and
conferred upon it by the express provisions of the Charter of the City of Baytown.
SECTION 3s The Board of Equalization shall hold its first meeting on the 1st
day of June, 1951, and thereafter shall reconvene and adjourn from time to time as
long as may be necessary in the premises.
INTRODUCED, READ AIM PASSED by the affirmative vote of the majority of the
members of the City Council of the City of Baytown this 244th day of May, 1951
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