Arizona republican., 1895-06-13
Ordinance No. 195.

Concerning the Levy Assessment and Collec- tion of the City Taxes for the Fiscal Year 1895 and 1896.
 The Common Council of the City of Phoenix SECTION l. The fiscal year for the City of Phoenix shall commence on the first day of July of each year and end on the 3Oth day of June of each year thereafter.
 SECTION 2 A city tax of seventy C7O) cents upon every one hundred collars ($l00.00) of the assessed valuation of property IS hereby levied and imposed upon all property, real and per sonal (except such ss may be by laW exempt from taxation), in the City of Phoenix, for the general current expenses of said city, for the fiscal year, commencing on the 1st day Of July, 1855, and ending on the 3Oth day Of June, 1896.
 SECTION B. An additional tax of nineteen O9) cents upon every one hundred dollars ($100.0O of the assessed valuation Of property, Is hereby levied and imposed upon all property, real and personal (except such as may be by law exempt from taxation). in the City Of Ph9n1x for the payment of the accrulng interest upon she bonds of said city. viz: The fire apparatus Bonds the City Hall bonds, the City Hall, fire engine and plaza bonds, for the fiscal year commencing on the 1st day of July, 1895, and ending on the 30th day of June. 1896.
 SECTION 1. The tax hereby levied ''shan have she force and effect of judgment against the persons and property assessed and taxed, and shall be and constitute a lien upon all the property, real and personal, assessed and taxed
 
 which lien shall constitute and remain a lien until all such taxes, toge her with the per cent, penalty, costs and charges for delinquency shereol, if any there be, shall be fully pad or the property has absolutely vested in pur- chaser under sale for such taxes, the percent age penalties and costs, and shall have all the Gorc5 and effect given by virtue of Article 13, Section III of the Act of the Thirteenth Legis- lative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona, entitled, An Act to Amend an Act entitled sAn Act to Incorporate the City of Phoenix, Approved February 25th, 1881, Approved March Il, 1885, and an Act of the Seventeenth Legis- lative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona en- titled, "An Act Granting to Incorporated Cities certain powers and privileges in addition to those already vested in them by Charter or general laws of the Territory, approved April i2th, 1893."
 Real estate belonging to any pc son liable to pay personal property tax shall be subject to seizure and sale for such personal property tax, should the same become delinquent, to- gether with the percentage, penalties and costs of such delinquency, and such personal prop erty tax shall be lien upon real estate, from and after the levy hereby made.
 SECTION 5. The City Assessor shall make the assessment of all property subjectto taxation in said City of Phoenix, and shall prepare, com plete and file the assessment roll thereof with the City Recorder of said city by the 1st day of September, 1895.
 The manner and form of making the assess ment of taxes shall conform nearly as prac Mcable to the laws of the Territory, regarding the assessment of taxes for County and Terri sorial purposes; and all property shall be as sessed aI it's full cash value.
 The Common Council shall sit as Board of Equalization upon the second Monday in Sep tember, 895, and shall continue its session from day to day until the business thereof is disposed of. Provided, however, that said Board shall not sit after the 24th day of Sep tember, 1895, except as in this Section provided. Such Board of Equalization shall have power, upon complaint being filed, to hear and deter mine whether the assessed value of any prop erty is too small or too great, and may change and correct any valuation, either increasing o1 diminishing such valuation, upon good grounds shown therefor, whether such valuation was fixed by the owner or the Assessor, but before the Board of Equalization shall increase or add 90 the assessed valuation of any property In the assessment roll they shall direct the City Re sor1er to give notice to the person interested of the day when they shall act in the matter allowing 8 reasonable time for the appearance 9I the pc son interested; such notice shall be II writing, and may be delivered 70 the person in Gerested personally, or deposited in the post office and addressed to him at his place of resi- denee, postage prepaid.
 On the hearing of any matter before sucE Soard, they may issue process requiring the at send nee of any person to testify under oath concerning the value of the property Tn ques sion. Any person whose assessed value O property was increased by the Board of EQuali aation, and not appearing before the Board a It's sessicn in September, may appear before