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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40-21-20
Section 40-21-20 What considered in arriving at taxable value of property. In arriving at the value of such taxable property, whenever used in this chapter or whenever required, the Department of Revenue, the tax assessors, deputy tax assessors, board of equalization, or other assessing authorities and the courts shall be authorized to consider and may consider original costs, reproduction cost new less depreciation, recent sales of contiguous or similar property, the nature of the property, its location, whether in town, city or county, whether it is vacant or occupied, its proximity to local advantages, its use, its fitness for the use to which employed, or its fitness for other uses, the quality of soil, its growth of timber, its mines, minerals, coal beds, oil or gas deposits, the amount and character of improvements thereon, the amount of insurance carried on each item of property, the gross and net income received therefrom during the year or years preceding the date of...
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40-7-43
Section 40-7-43 Duties of assessor when he has reason to believe property may be removed or otherwise escape taxation. When the tax assessor has reason to believe that any person whose property has been or is due to be assessed for taxation, either for the current tax year or any preceding year, has removed or is about to remove from the county, or that such person is closing out or going out of business by selling or disposing of substantially all of his personal property on which taxes would be due on the next following October 1, or where insolvency is impending, or where goods, wares, or merchandise are advertised for sale at auction, bankrupt, insolvent, assignment, or fire sale, or where goods, wares, or merchandise are to be sold or advertised to be sold for the satisfying of creditors, he shall at once notify the tax collector in writing, if the property has been assessed; and, if the property has not been assessed, the assessor shall at once make an assessment against the same...
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40-7-31
Section 40-7-31 Assessment to "owners unknown." Whenever the tax assessor knows or learns of any property, real or personal, subject to taxation in his county, the owner of which he does not know and which is not embraced in any tax return made to him on or before the third Monday in January by any taxpayer, he shall list and make upon the proper blank a return describing said property according to the best information he can obtain and assess the same "owner unknown" at the amount specified by law on a fair and reasonable market value, and in any notice or advertisement or motion for judgment of sale it shall be described as so returned; and he shall also note the failure of the owner to make such return and shall also note the accrual of the penalty of 10 percent of the taxes to be assessed thereon. No lands shall be returned to "owner unknown" until the assessor shall have made a demand upon the person, if resident in the county, or by certified or registered mail, if nonresident,...
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40-7-32
Section 40-7-32 Fees of assessor for returns on escaped property. The assessor shall be entitled to a fee for making returns of property which has escaped taxation of $5 for each assessment provided if the escape is for more than one year, all back years shall be made on one assessment blank, and the current year's escape on a separate assessment for which he shall be entitled to an additional fee of $5, such fee to be added to and collected with taxes due. In case of lands lying in one body, other than lands platted and subdivided into lots, the return shall be made on said lands as a whole, unless the assessor has reason to believe that they belong to different owners, in which case when lands lying in one body and supposed to belong to the same owner, must be included in one return, and no fee shall be allowed the assessor for any return made in disregard of this provision, but the assessment of any such property thereafter made shall not for that reason be invalid. (Acts 1935, No....
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11-51-46
Section 11-51-46 Preparation, etc., of assessment forms, etc., for use by tax assessor. It shall be the duty of the Department of Revenue in preparing the form of assessment required by law to make the provisions for the assessor to indicate in the assessment list what property assessed, if any, is situated in such municipalities; and, in the abstract of duties placed on such form, the Department of Revenue may place instructions to the assessor such as will advise him of his duty in making assessments of property subject to municipal taxation. (Acts 1931, No. 300, p. 337; Acts 1939, No. 57, p. 67; Code 1940, T. 37, §704.)...
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40-3-24
Section 40-3-24 Appeals - Right. In cases where objection has been made by any taxpayer, his agent or attorney, as provided herein, to the taxable value fixed by the board of equalization on any property assessed against such taxpayer, and such objections have been overruled by said board, such taxpayer, his agent or attorney may take an appeal from the action of said board in overruling his objection to such valuation to the circuit court of the county in which the taxpayer's property is located. (Acts 1939, No. 143, p. 178; Code 1940, T. 51, §109.)...
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40-4-5
Section 40-4-5 Schedule of fees. For making the demand on the taxpayer for his list of property to be returned and for each return of property to "owner unknown," to be charged to the taxpayer or property assessed and collected with the taxes, the assessor shall be entitled to $5, to be entered upon the return and assessment. But the assessor shall be entitled to only one demand fee against each taxpayer. For serving each subpoena for state witnesses or notice issued by order of the Department of Revenue or board of equalization, the assessor shall be entitled to receive $5, to be taxed against the taxpayer and collected with the taxes, if the case made against such taxpayer is sustained; otherwise, he shall receive no fees for the serving of such subpoena. (Acts 1935, No. 194, p. 256; Code 1940, T. 51, §33; Acts 1980, No. 80-630, p. 1087, §1; Acts 1990, No. 90-535, p. 837, §1.)...
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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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16-13-231
Section 16-13-231 Purposes and plan of apportionment. (a) In addition to all other appropriations and apportionments of public school money now provided by law and made available for public schools there shall be apportioned and paid to local boards of education from the Foundation Program Fund, the amounts to be determined as hereinafter provided and in accordance with regulations of the State Board of Education. This Foundation Program Fund shall be used principally: (1) To aid in providing at least a 180 full instructional day minimum school term, or the hourly equivalent thereof, except as otherwise provided in paragraph c. of subdivision (1) of subsection (b); and, (2) To assist in the promotion of educational opportunity for all children in the public schools. (b) The following requirements and procedures, supplemented when necessary by regulations of the State Board of Education, shall govern the apportionment of the fund: (1) REQUIREMENTS FOR PARTICIPATING IN FUND. In order for...
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