Ordinance No. 650ORDINANCE NO.650
AN ORDINANCE APPOINTING A BOARD OF EQUALIZATION
TO SERVE FOR THE YEAR 1 %2; 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 BAY -
TOWN.
WHO, 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 1st day of June,
appoint three (3) 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,
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:
Said Board shall serve from and after the 1st day of June, 1962, 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 1962.
Section 2: It shall be the duty of said Board to hear and determine the com-
plaint of any person that assessments of property as made and returned by the City
Assessor- Coilecter, are in excess of the true value of said properties and to re-
view, examine and, if necessary, revise the assessments as returned by the City Tax
Assessor- Collecter, 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 Bay-
town.
Section 3: The Board of Equalization shell hold its first meeting on the 1st
day of June, 1962, and thereafter shall convene and adjourn from time to time as
long as may be necessary in the premises.
INTRODUCED, READ and PASSED by the affirmative vote of a majority of the mem-
bers of the City Council of the City of Baytown, on this the 10th day of May, 1962.
Al Claytcoh, Mayor
ATTEST:
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Edna Oliver, City Clerk