Ordinance No. 229ORDINANCE NO. 229
AN ORDINANCE APPOINTING A BOARD OF EQUALIZATION TO SERVE FOR
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THE YEAR 1954; FIXING THE- TIME OF THE FIRST' MEETING OF SAID
BOARD AND AUTHORIZING SAID BOARD TO EXERCISE THE POWER 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 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:
1. C. H. Miller
2. Carl Mann
3. H. G. Corneil
Said board shall serve from and after the lst day of June, 1954, 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 assessments
appear on the tax roll for the year 1954.
SECTION 2: It shall be the duty of said Board to hear and determine the coqiaint
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 Tax Assessor-
41 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 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 June, 1954, 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 on this 20th day of May, 1954.
• ATTESTT R. H. Pruett , yor
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Edna Oliver, CIty C erk