Ordinance No. 273• 0
ORDINANCE NO- 273
AN ORDINANCE APPOINTING A BOARD OF EQUALIZATION TO SERVE
FOR TIC YEAR 155; FIXING THE TIME OF THE FIRST MEETING
OF SAID BOARD AND AUTHORIZING SAID BOARD TO EXERCISE THE
POWER AND FULFIL THE DUTIES CONFERRED UEON 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 shalleach year prior to the 1st day of June
appoint three residents of said City who shall be qualified voters and real pro-
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 Equalization;
NOW, THEREME,
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 real property owner, are hereby appointed
as and shall constitute the Boyd of Equalization for the current year, to -wit:
1. C. H. Miller
2. Robert Beverly
3. H. G. Corneil
Said Board shall serve from and after the 1st day of June, 1955, and as long
thereafter as may be necessary to hear, review and determine the value and assess-
ment of all property both real and personal within the City of Baytown as said
assessments appear on the tax roll for the year 1955.
SECTION 2: It shall be the duty of said Board to hear and determine the
complaint of any person or persons that assessments of property as made and
returned by the City Assessor - Collector are in excess of the true and value of
• said properties and to review, examine and, if necessary, revise the assessments
as returned by the City Tax 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
fulfil 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, 1955, 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 theCity Council of the City of Baytown, on this 12th day of May, 1955.
R. H. Pruett, Mayor
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