Arizona republican., 1912-10-02

| send to the head of their respective division, a careful estimate in writ 1 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 l his division, and his own personal report and recommendation and esti- mat as to the probable expenditures 1 of his division for the next ensuing 1 fiscal year, stating the amount in de- tail required to meet all expenditures necessary for his division, including | interest and sinking funds for out 1 standing indebtedness, if any therein 1 also an estimate of the amount of the 1 income expected from all sources in | his division and the probable amount required to be raised by taxation to cover such expenditures, interest and l sinking funds.
 1 Section 5: The commission shall meet annually prior to fixing the tax 1 levy and make a budget of the es- | timated amounts required to pay the l expenses of conducting the business | of the city government for the en- suing fiscal year. The budget shall 1 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
 l 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 l forenoon of said day, and sit as a | board of equalization and shall con- 1 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 l amounts estimated to be received from fines, license and other sources ! nf Sho1
 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
 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 foi
 the tax collector to proceed and col feet said taxes as provided by or
 dinance
 Section S. The tax levy authorized by the commission to meet the muni- , cipal expenses for each fiscal veal
 shall not exceed, except as heEeir provided the rate of $100 on eacf l one hundred dollars of the assessed value of all real and personal proper l ty within the city.
 Section g. All taxes shall be uni 3 form upon the same class of property ? within the corporate limits. and shal ] be levied and collected for public , purposes only; and all property shal , be assessed at it's full cash value The term leash value" as used here
 in shall mean the amount at whicl 7 the property would be taken in pay
 ment of a just debt due from a sol 9 vent debtor
 2 There shall be exempt from taxa tion all federal, state, county anC : municipal property; property of edu 9 catiOnal charitable and religious as sociations or institutions not useC X or held for profit shall be exempted
 from taxation.
 Public debts as evidenced by tn . bonds of Arizona, its counties, muni I cipalities or other subdivision, shal also be exempt from taxation; ther 9 shall further be exempt from taxa 2 tion the property of widows ant t minors, residents of this city, not eX
 ceeding the sum of one thousand dol lars, where the total assessment O ? such widow or minor does not ex Ceed two thousand dollars; all prop ? erty in the city not exempt under tn laws of the United States, the laws o : the State of Arizona and the charte ? and ordinances of this city shall b.
 subject to taxation to be ascertainet
 as provided by ordinance; provided however, that the commission may re : duce the assessment of improvement t on real estate below their cash valu
 or exempt the value of all improve l ments on real estate.
 ? Section 10. The commission shal have the power to levy and collec 1 taxes in addition to the taxes hereil
 authorized tt be levied and collected
 sufficient to pay the interest an'
 maintain the sinking fund of tn