Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1886-06-25
ORDINANCE NO. 9.
An Act Entitled an Act Relating to
the City Assessor and His Duties.

the City Assessor and His Duties.
Be it ordained by the Board Of
Aldermen of the City of Kirksyille
as follows:
Sec. l. the Mayor shall, on or be-
fore the first day of June of each
year, by and with the consent of
the Board Of Alderman, appoint
some suitable person assessor, to
be styled city assessor, who shall
before entering upon the duties of
his Office take and subscribe
the oath prescribed for city off
GERS.
Sec. II. The assessor shall be-
tween the LIST day of June and the
1st day of July Of each year pro-
ceed to assess all the property
both personal and real, made tax
able by lein for state purposes
within the corporate limits Of the
city of Kirksville, he shall careful
ly list the names of all the tax pay
ers within the corporate limits ar
ranging the names in alphabetical
order and shall extend opposite
each name a list of all the proper
ty owned by said party which is by
lein made taxable together with
the assessed value of the same,
Sec. III. 1t shall be the duty of
the assessor to call at the resi-
dence or place of business of each
and every tax payer within the
corporate limits of the city and
shall require such person to make
a correct list of all taxable proper
ty owned by such person, or under
the care, charge or management of
such person, except merchandise
which may be required to pay a
license tax; and the person listing
said property shall enter a true
and correct statement of such pro-
perty IN a printed or written blank
prepared for that purpose, which
statement after being filed out
shall be signed and sworn to by
the party listing the same, to the
extent required by lein of persons
listing property for taxation for
state and county purposes.
Sec. ". Ii any person required
by chapter or this ordinance to
list property shall be sick or ab-
sent when the assessor calls for a
list of his or her property, the
assessor shall leave at the Office or
at the usual place of business of
such person, a written or printed
notice, requiring such person to
make out and leave at place
named by said assessor, not less
than ten nor more than twenty
days from the date of said notice a
sworn statement of the property
he or she is required to list and he
shall leave with said notice writ
ten or printed blank for the state
mentrequired by such person.
Sec. V. The date of leaving the
notice required in the previous
section, and the name of the per-
son required to list the property
shall be carefully noted by the
assessor; aud if any such person
shall neglect or refuse to deliver
the statement properly made out
signed and sworn to as required by
law, the assessor shall make the
assessment as required by this or
dinance; provided the assessor
may omit assessing the penalty in
case of neglect where he is satisf-
ed the same is unavoidable and
not willful.
Sec. VI. If any psrson being
notified as aforesaid, shall fail to
deliver the required list to the
assessor, the property which
ought to have been listed, shall be
assessed at double its value; and if
the assessor shall neglect or
refuse SO to do, he shall be
liable in each case, to a penalty of
fifty dollars, to be recovered at
suit of the City of Kirksville to be
paid to the city treasurer.
Sec. VII. Whenever there shall
be any taxable property within
the corporate limits of the city of
Kirksville and from any cause no
list thereof shall be given to the
assessor, in proper time and man.
ner the assessor shall himself
make out the list, on his own view
or on the best information he can
obtain; and for that purpose he
shall have lawful right to enter
into any lands and make any ex-
animation and search which may
be necessary and may examine any
person upon oath touching the
same.
Sec. VIII. The assessor, and all
officers who are by law authorized
and empowered by law to admin
lister oaths, are empowered and
authorized to administer any
oath relating to the assessment of
property required by this ordi-
nance.
Sec. TX. When the assessment
is completed the assessor shall
proceed to extend the lists taken
by him on the tax book SO proyid-
ed in section nnmhar 9 Of fhir