Arizona republican., 1912-09-24

I send to the head of their respective division, a careful estimate in writ ing of the amounts, specifying in detail the objects thereof, required for the business and conduct of the
 affairs of their respective depart
 ments and offices, during the next
 ensuing fiscal year.
 Section 4. On or before the first Monday in December in each year, or on such date in each year as shall be fixed by the commission, each divi- sion head shall submit to the com mission the said several estimates and reports of the chief officers of his division, and his own personal report and recommendation and esti- mat as to the probable expenditures of his division for the next ensuing fiscal year, stating the amount in de- 1 tail required to meet all expenditures necessary for his division, including interest and sinking funds for out standing indebtedness, if any therein, also an estimate of the amount of the income expected from all sources in
 his division and the probable amount required to be raised by taxation to cover such expenditures, interest and sinking funds.
 Section ,: The commission shall meet annually prior to fixing the tax
 levy and make a budget of the es- timated amounts required to pay the expenses of conducting the business of the city government for the en-
 suing fiscal year. The budget shall
 be prepared in such detail as to the aggregate sum and the items thereof allowed to each department. office
 and subdivision of the city govern
 ment, as the commission shall deem
 advisable
 Section 6. The commission shall meet at their usual place of holding
 meetings on the second Monday in
 May of each year at ten o'clock in the
 forenoon of said day, and sit as a
 board of equalization and shall con
 tinue in session from day to day for
 twenty days. They shall have full
 power to hear complaints and to cor
 rect. modify, strike out or to raise
 any assessment, provided that notice !. shall be given the party whose as- sessment is to be raised.
 Section :. The commission must
 finally adopt, not later than the first Tuesday in July an ordinance levy ing upon the assessed valuation of the property in the city, subject to the provisions of this charter, a rate of taxation upon each one hundred
 dollars of valuation sufficient to raise the amounts estimated to be re- , quired in the annual budget. less the
 amounts estim9ted to be received 5 from fines, license and other sources
 of revenue They shall then deliver
 the assessment roll to the city tax , collector who shall compute and car ry out the amount of the tax so lev jed upon each parcel of property contained in said assessment roll The corrected list of each tax shall f be the assessment roll of said tax for said year, and it shall be certi- ) fled, by the city tax collector as being the assessment roll of said city, and thereupon the tax collector . shall deliver said tax roll so certi- fled to the commission and when the same is adopted by the commission
 the mayor shall attach his warrant
 thereon authorizing the tax collector
 to collect the taxes therein, and said
 warrant shall be the authority fol the tax collector to proceed and col 2 feet said taxes as provided by or dinance.
 s Section S. The tax levy authorized ] by the commission to meet the muni- e cipal expenses for each fiscal veal
 shall not exceed, except as herein a provided, the rate of s10O on eacf a one hundred dollars of the assessed f value of all real and personal proper n ty within the city.
 Section g. All taxes shall be uni e form upon the same class of property Q within the corporate limits, and shal o be levied and collected for public c purposes only; and all property shal o be assessed at it's full cash value = The term cash value" as used here
 in shall mean the amount at which y the property would be taken in pay = ment of a just debt due from a sol. Q vent debtor
 e There shall be exempt from taxa = tion all federal, state, county anC = municipal property; property of edu- e cational, charitable and religious as = sociations or institutions not use( x or held for profit shall be exempted t, from taxation.
 - Public debts as evidenced by tho - bonds of Arizona, it's counties, muni a cipalities or other subdivision, shal = also be exempt from taxation; there e shall further be exempt from taxa c tion the property of widows anC t minors, residents of this city, not ex t, ceedng the sum of one thousand dol l. lars, where the total assessment O e such widow or minor does not eX = ceed two thousand dollars; all prop e erty in the city not exempt under tn, = laws of the United States; the laws O - the State of Arizona and the charte e and ordinances of this city shall b.
 subject to taxation to be ascertainet 7, as provided by ordinance; provided - however, that the commission may re = duce the assessment of improvement 1t on real estate below their cash valu
 or exempt the value of all improve h ments on real estate.
 e Section To- The commission shal l. have the power to levy and coilec II taxes in addition to the taxes herein
 authorized to be levied and collected
 sufficient to pay the interest an'
 maintain the sinking fund of tn
 bonded indebtedness of the city an' Ie to provide for the establishment an' st support of free public libraries an'
 reading rooms.