FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 553

91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES BARNETT, HOSMER, RICHARDSON, MAYER (Co-sponsors),

LUETKENHAUS, REINHART, KING, ROBIRDS, MYERS, HUNTER, MOORE,

NORDWALD AND BLACK.

Read 1st time January 25, 2001, and 1000 copies ordered printed.

TED WEDEL, Chief Clerk

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AN ACT

To repeal sections 138.010 and 138.020, RSMo 2000, relating to county boards of equalization, and to enact in lieu thereof two new sections relating to the same subject.



Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

Section A. Sections 138.010 and 138.020, RSMo 2000, are repealed and two new sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 138.010 and 138.020, to read as follows:

138.010. 1. Except as otherwise provided by law, in every county in this state there shall be a county board of equalization consisting of the commissioners of the county commission, the county assessor, the county surveyor, [and] the county clerk who shall be secretary of the board without a vote. The county commissioners shall also have the option to appoint two additional members to the board who shall be citizens of the county, but not officers of the county.

2. Except as provided in subsection 3 of this section, this board shall meet at the office of the county clerk on the second Monday of July of each year.

3. Upon a finding by the board that it is necessary in order to fairly hear all cases arising from a general reassessment, the board may begin meeting after May thirty-first in any applicable year to timely consider any appeal or complaint resulting from an evaluation made during a general reassessment of all taxable real property and possessory interests in the county.

138.020. The commissioners of the county commission, the county assessor, the county clerk, and those sitting as members as may otherwise be provided, who are now or may hereafter be compensated by salary shall not be entitled to additional compensation for the performance of their duties as members of the county board of equalization. The county surveyor shall be present and sit as a member of the county board of equalization and shall receive as compensation a fee as agreed upon by the county commission. Citizens who are not officers of the county, but who sit as members of the county board of equalization may receive compensation if agreed upon by the county commission.


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