The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-07-28
Board Is To Organize First
Monday In August
And Its Period Of Work viii
Then Be Determined

Rules of procedure for county
board of complaints have been pre-
pared by the state tax commission
and forwarded to the recently ap-
pointed members of these county
boards.
The Knox county board of COM
plants which is composed Of Messrs.
John II Bone, Ira d. Hunt and
Charles Boone, is to meet and organize
on the first Monday in August by
electing one of it's members chair
man, the county auditor being ex-
efficio secretary. Offices for the
boards work must be furnished by
the commissioners of each county,
and the district assessor is required
to furnish maps, stationery books,
| ETC., but the board shall use the equip
ment of the district assessor as far
as possible.
Neither a member of the board nor
any of its employees shall hold any Of
flee of profit during his term of office,
| except in the state militia or as a
notary public.
The Office of the board is required
to be kept open during the time fixed
for its session during business hours
on each business day, and the mem
bers of the board and all it's employees
shall devote their entire time to their
duties during their periods of en-
ployment, unless by special arrange
ment with the state tax commission
one or more clerks and employees be
appointed with specific understanding
that only part of their time be de.
voted to the work.
Salaries of the members of the
boards, together with the length OF
time they shall be employed at their
work, will be determined by the state
tax commission just before the mem
bers begin their work. They will also
| fix the number of clerks to be en-
ployed, and the compensation of each
The board is without authority to
employ help of any kind except with
the consent of the tax commission
and all employees are to be selected
from eligible lists furnished by the
state civil service commission, OIL
their temporary provisional appoint
ments must be authorized by the state
civil service commission.
The records and files of the board
| are open to public inspection. 1t is
necessary that majority concur In
every decision before the same can be
deemed the action of the board, al
though an individual member may
make an investigation or hold hear
ing.
The board is without authority tC
act in any case unless written com
plant is filed as required by law
The jurisdiction of the board is limit
ed to complaints against valuation
upon the tax list of 1914 (and sub
sequent years., except that as to ad
i ditions and corrections made during
the tax year, 1915, to tax lists of thai
year and previous years the board
has jurisdiction to hear and dispose
of complaints. If omitted property Is
discovered the district assessor oi
the proper county shall be notified
The board shall not reduce the value
of any property without notice to the
district assessor and affording him al
opportunity to be heard thereon ant
shall not increase the value of any
property without reasonable notice tt
the person in whose name the same l;
listed and affording him an opportun
ity to be heard
A full record of the proceedings o.
the board shall be kept which SHOULD
include concise minutes of the eyi
dence presented.
The board has no power to issue