Arizona republican., 1912-09-27

uSldl IHe ODJeClS lIeTeOI, for the business and conduct of the 1 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 1 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, 1 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 estimated to be received
 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 or nf aarry
 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- l 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 saiC
 warrant shall be the authority fol the tax collector to proceed and col 2 lect said taxes as provided by or = dinance.
 s Section 8. The tax levy authorized l 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 $1.00 on eacf B 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 propert! e within the corporate limits, and shal o be levied and collected for public c purposes only; and all property shal 0 be assessed at it's full cash value = The term "cash value" as used here
 in shall mean the amount at whicl V 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 = ton all federal, state, county ant = municipal property; property of edu e catiOnal, charitable and religious as - sociations or institutions not use' x or held for profit shall be eXempte' t, from taxation.
 = Public debts as evidenced by tn - bonds of Arizona, it's counties, muni a cipalities or other subdivision, shal = also be exempt from taxation; ther e shall further be exempt from taxa c tion the property of widows an t minors, residents of this city, not eX {, ceeding the sum of one thousand dol - 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 l. the State of Arizona and the charte Q and ordinances of this city shall b
 subject to taxation to be ascertaine y, as provided by ordinance; provide - 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 mants on real estate. e Section 10. The commission sha l. have the power to levy and collec Il taxes in addition to the taxes herel
 authorized to be levied and collected
 sufficient to pay the interest an
 maintain the sinking fund of tn
 bonded indebtedness of the city an e to provide for the establishment an st support of free public libraries an
 reading rooms.
 " Section II. The commission sha