40-3-25
Section 40-3-25 Appeals - Procedure. All appeals from the rulings of the board of equalization fixing value of property shall be taken within 30 days after the final decision of said board fixing the assessed valuation as provided in this chapter. The taxpayer shall file notice of said appeal with the secretary of the board of equalization and with the clerk of the circuit court and shall file bond to be filed with and approved by the clerk of the circuit court, conditioned to pay all costs, and the taxpayer or the state shall have the right to demand a trial by jury by filing a written demand therefor within 10 days after the appeal is taken. When an appeal is taken, the taxpayer shall pay the taxes due as fixed for assessment for the preceding tax year before the same becomes delinquent; and, upon failure to do so, the court upon motion ex mero motu must dismiss the appeal, unless at the time of taking the appeal the taxpayer has executed a supersedeas bond with sufficient sureties...
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45-37-241.20
Section 45-37-241.20 Appeals from decisions of the Board of Equalization. (a) For the purpose of convenience and brevity this act shall be known and referred to as the Expeditious and Economical Tax Appeals Act. (b) This section shall apply only in Jefferson County. This section is alternative to and cumulative to Section 40-3-25; but when a taxpayer elects to take an appeal under this section from a decision or ruling of the board of equalization fixing the market value of the real property, Section 40-3-25 shall not be applicable to such appeal but in the event the taxpayer pays his or her taxes before a final decree in the case and is entitled to a refund then that portion of the section providing for a refund to the taxpayer shall be applicable or in the event of an increase the increase shall be payable as provided in the sections. (c) An appeal may be taken under this section from a decision of the board of equalization fixing the market value of real property, to the circuit...
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40-11-1
Section 40-11-1 Enumeration of subjects of taxation. (a) As used in this section the following terms shall have the meanings ascribed herein: (1) CONSTRUCTION PURPOSES. The normal and ordinary meaning of the words, except that mining activities or the transportation of materials used in or produced by mining or forestry activities shall not be construed to be included; (2) HEAVY DUTY EQUIPMENT. Any motor vehicle used primarily off the open road for construction purposes, including all road construction equipment whose gross weight exceeds 16,000 pounds, but not including inventory on hand for sale by duly licensed equipment dealers. (b) The subjects of ad valorem taxation, except as exempted by law, shall be as follows: (1) Every piece, parcel, tract, or lot of land in this state, including therein all things pertaining to such land, and all structures and other things so annexed or attached thereto as to pass to a vendee by conveyance of such land; and every separate or special...
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45-13-120
Section 45-13-120 Compensation; election; oath and bond; office space, equipment; chief clerk; powers and duties; issuance of licenses; disposition of funds. (a)(1) Effective October 1, 1991, there is hereby created the office of commissioner of licenses. The salary of the commissioner of licenses shall be in the amount of thirty-six thousand dollars ($36,000) annually. The annual salary shall be payable in equal biweekly installments from the general funds of the county, as all other county employees are paid. (2) The office of commissioner of licenses shall be established upon the occurrence of a vacancy before October 1, 1991, in either the office of tax assessor or tax collector, then, in that event, the officer remaining after the office of revenue commissioner is established, shall be the license commissioner for the remainder of the unexpired term for which he or she was elected as either tax assessor or as tax collector, as the case may be, and the license commissioner shall be...
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40-3-7
Section 40-3-7 Term of service and schedule of compensation of members. The annual term of service and compensation of members of the several county boards of equalization shall be on a basis of total assessed value of all taxable property, using the year 1955 as the basis, to be determined as follows: (1) In those counties in which the total assessed value of all taxable property exceeds $600,000,000 according to the tax assessor's abstract of assessments for the year, except in a county subject to subdivision (2), the members of the county boards of equalization shall serve on a full-time basis, and each associate member shall be paid at the rate of $19,425 per annum, and the chair shall be paid at the rate of $21,090 per annum, payable in monthly installments. (2)a. This subdivision shall apply to any county of this state which has a population of 600,000 or more according to the last or any subsequent federal census and in which the total assessed value of all taxable property...
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40-2-18
Section 40-2-18 Procedure after revaluation and equalization. Whenever the work of revaluing and equalizing any class or classes of property has been completed by order of the Department of Revenue, as provided herein, and the revised valuation has been entered on the tax return list, the county board of equalization shall certify over their signatures to the correctness thereof and shall deliver the tax return list showing the assessment and revaluation to the assessing official of the county as their report, and the assessing official shall hold them in his or her office subject to public inspection. The assessing official shall then give notice by publication once a week for three consecutive weeks in a newspaper published in the county, if any are published in the county and, if no newspaper is published in the county, by posting notices in at least three public places in the county that the county board of equalization has returned its report and that the same is open to public...
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40-3-15
Section 40-3-15 Chairman of board; rules and regulations. It shall be the duty of the members of each board of equalization at the first meeting held after January first in each year to select one of its members to act as chairman of the board of equalization for the ensuing year and to make such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter as to the assessment and valuation of property for taxation. The board of equalization shall have authority at any time to make such rules and regulations as it may deem necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter not in conflict with the provisions hereof. (Acts 1939, No. 143, p. 178; Code 1940, T. 51, ยง102.)...
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40-3-1
Section 40-3-1 Creation; composition; qualifications of members. There shall be in each county in the State of Alabama a county board of equalization, to consist of three members, each of whom shall have been a resident of the county in which he is to serve for at least five years. The members of the several county boards of equalization, as now constituted, shall hold office until their successors are appointed and qualified under the provisions of Section 40-3-2 and shall have the powers and perform the duties provided for in this article. In counties in which the assessed valuation of all taxable property using the year of 1955 as the basis exceeds $600,000,000 according to the tax assessor's abstracts of assessments for said year, the board in such counties shall be known as the board of equalization and adjustments; provided, that where any duties or powers are conferred upon any board of equalization, it shall mean and include any board of equalization and adjustments. (Acts...
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40-7-25
Section 40-7-25 Estimation of fair market value; assessment list; notice; objections. Except as otherwise provided by law, the assessing official shall, from information entered on the tax return list and from all other information known to him or her, or which he or she may procure, proceed to ascertain what, in his or her best judgment, is a fair and reasonable market value of each item of property returned by or listed to any taxpayer; provided, that the assessed value of any real estate or improvements as fixed for taxation for the year next preceding the then current tax year shall be prima facie the basis of the value of the property for assessment for the current tax year, and the property shall not be assessed for taxation at a less valuation unless, upon evidence submitted to the county board of equalization, as provided for herein, it is found that the assessed valuation of the property reviewed should be reduced. The assessing official shall in separate columns enter on the...
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40-7-25.2
Section 40-7-25.2 Current use value of Class III property - Qualification procedure; appeal from denial of application; new owner required to reapply upon sale of property. (a) Any owner of eligible taxable property described in Section 40-7-25.1 may apply to have such property assessed for purposes of ad valorem taxation at the appropriate ratio of assessed value to the current use value of such property by filing a written application, in form as prescribed by the Department of Revenue, with the tax assessor of the county in which such property is located, on and after October 1 but not later than January 1 in any taxable year; provided, however, that with respect to assessments of eligible taxable property respecting the taxable year that began on October 1, 1981, such applications may be filed with the tax assessor not later than June 30, 1982. (b) The application form for qualification of real property as agricultural property shall set forth a description of the real property, a...
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