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ORDINANCE NO. 124. 'l'o provide for the assessment, levy in*; ami collection of taxes. The City of Juneau does ordaiu as follows: Section 1. All property withiu the City oi Juneau not exempt under the laws of the United States is subject to taxation for municipal purposes. Sec. 2. The city taxes must be as sessed. levied and collected as provid ed by this ordinance. Sec. J. The assessor must between the 15th day of April and the fourth Tuesday in .May of each year ascertain the names of all taxable inhabitants and all property in the City of Juneau subject to taxation for municipal pur poses and must assess such property to the person by whom it was owned, or claimed, or in whose possession or control it was at twelve o'clock m., on the 15th of April, in the same yvar, if known. If unknowu, he shall assess such property to "unknown owners", but no mistake in the name of the owner, or sup posed owner of property, shall ren der the assessment thereof invalid: Provided, that there shall be exempt from such assessment to each house holder or head of a family household goods of w hich such person is the bona fide owner, not exceeding $200.00 in viiiue; and. provided further, that all property belonging to the municipality and all property used exclusively for religious, educational and charitable purposes, shall be exempt from taxa tion. Sec. The Common council musti furnish the assessor with the neces- J sary blank forms of statements tor as sessing. and all necessary maps, charts' and books. Sec. 5. On or before the fourth; Tuesday in May iu each year. the| assessor must complete his assess- j ment books, and must take and sub- i scribe thereto an affidavit, that his assessment is a full, true and correct assessment of taxable property in the' City of Juneau, to the best of his know ledge and belief, and must deliver' said assessment books to the Common' Council, together with all books, state ments. maps and charts relating there to. That prior to delivering said books to the city clerk, the assessor shall notify by post card each and every' property holder or his or their agent or representative, the amount of as sessed valuation placed upon his or their real or personal property and! which post card shall therein desig nate thu dates, time and place of meet ing of the Common Council sitting as a board of equalization. Sec. t>. Upon the receipt of the as sessment book from the assessor, the Common Council must immediately give notice of the time when the Com mon Council will meet to equalize the assessments, by publication for at least three days in a newspaper printed and published in the City of Juneau, and during such time the assessment book must be kept open for inspec tion. Sec. 7. The Common Council shall meet as a board of equalization on the first Tuesday in June of each year at the hour of two p. m., and continue in session until the hour of four p. m. of said day and shall continue in ses sion until the Monday next following between the hours of two and four p. m. of each day. They shall have full power and it shall be the duty of the board to raise or lower the assessed valuation of such property real or per sonal which may by them be deemed unequally or unfairly assessed. The city clerk shall be ex-olficio clerk of the board of equalization and shall keep a record of the proceedings of the board and note all changes made in the assessed valuations by the board. Before any increase shall have been made in the assessed valuation of any property personal or real the owner thereof or his agent or representative shall be notified in writing by the clerk of the board of such contem plated raise which notice shall be served by the clerk or city marshal. The person or persons so notified shall be permitttnl to appear before the board and show cause under oath why such assessed valuation should not be increased. Sec. S. The board may. after giv ing three days' notice, either by pub lishing the same in a daily newspaper, published in the City of Juneau, or by a written notice personally served upon the parties interested by the city mar shal. increase or lower any assessment contained in the assessment roll, so as to equalize the assessment of prop erty contained in said roll, and make the assessment conform to the true, value of such property in money. sec. 9. Any person desiring a re-; duction on the assessment of his prop erty shall make and file with the hoard of equalization a written appli cation therefor, verified by his oath. \ showing the facts upon which it is i claimed such reduction should be \ made. j Sec. 10. Before the board of equal ization grants the application or makes any reduction applied for, the person or agent making the application may be examined on oath touching the val ue of the property of such person, i No reduction shall be made unless; such person or his agent making the; application attends and answers all questions pertinent to the inquiry. And for the purpose of the examina tion. the members of the board of equalization are empowered and au thorized to administer oaths. Sec. 11. Any person or persons dis satisfied with the final decision of the, board of equalization on applicationj for reduction of assessment on prop erty assessed within this city, may appeal from said decision to the Unit ed States District Court for the Terri tory of Alaska, in Division No. 1. with in thirty days from the time of the rendition of such decision. Said ap peal shall be taken by serving upon the city attorney or mayor, a notice of appeal, together with a copy of a verified statement, showing the facts upon which it is claimed such reduc tion should be made. The original verified statement showing the facts upon which it is claimed the reduc tion should be made shall be filed with the said District Court. Sec. 12. During the session of the board, it may direct the assessor to assess any taxable property that has escaped assessment or add to the amount, number or quantity of prop el ty. when a false or incomplete list has been rendered, and to make and enter new assessments, (at the same time cancelling previous entries) when any assessment made by him is deemed by the board so incomplete as to render doubtful the collection of the tax: Provided that three days' no tice, either by publishing the same in a daily newspaper published in tho City of Juneau for one day, or by a written notice personally served upon the parties interested by the city mar shal. shall be given to said interested parties of the day and hour fixed when the matter will be investigated. Sec. 13. The clerk of the board of equalization must record in his minute book all changes, corrections and or ders made by the board aud during its session, or as soon us possible af ter its adjournment, must enter up on the assessment book all changes and corrections made by the board, and on the first .Monday after the first Tuesday iu June, must complete the corrections iu the assessment book, and must affix thereto, subscribed by him. an affidavit as follows: ., do swear that as clerk of the Common Council of the City of juneau, 1 have kept correct minutes of all the acts of the Common Council, while sittiug as a board of equaliza tion. touching alterations in the as sessment book. That all alterations agreed to or ordered to be made, have been made and eutered iu the book, and that no change or alterations have been made therein, except those authorized." Sec. 14. The Common Council must meet on the evening of the sec ond Tuesday in the mouth of June of each year, and fix the rate of tax levy for that year, designating the number of mills on each dollar of taxable prop erty real aud personal within the corporate limits of the City of Ju neau available for municipal taxes as equalized by the board of equalization just adjourned. Sec. 15. Every tax assessed and levied in accordance with the provis ions of this ordinai.ce shall be a pre ferred lien upon the property so taxed which lien shall be foreclosed and the property sold as provided by Sec. 3, of Chapter G9, of the Session Laws of the Territory of Alaska for 1913. Sec. lt>. Every tax due upon real property or possesorv rights therein, is a lien against the property assess ed; and every tax due upon improve ments upon real estate assessed to others than the owners of the real estate is a lieu upon the land and Im provements which several liens at tach immediately upon fixing the tax rate in each year; which said liens shall be foreclosed in the manner pro vided herein. Sec. it. upon tne uay auer uxmg the rate of levy as hereinbefore pro vided. the city clerk shall publish a notice specifying: First. That taxes will be delinquent on the fourth Friday of July next there after. at 5 o'clock p. m.. and that un less paid prior thereto, five per cent, will be added to the amount there of. . Second. The time and place at which payment of taxes may be made. The notice must be published for one week in a newspaper printed and published in the City of Juneau. Sec IS. That on the last Friday in July of each year, at the hour of 6 o'clock, all unpaid taxes shall become delinquent and the city clerk must collect thereon for the use of the city, an additional five per cent. Sec. 19. On or before the second Friday in August of each and every year the city clerk must publish the delinquent list of assessments against personal property, which must contain the names of the persons and a description of the property delin quent. and the amount of taxes and costs due set opposite each name and description. To said list must be ap pended and with it published a notice that unless the taxes delinquent, to gether with the penalty for such de linquency. are paid, the property upon which such taxes are a lien will be sold at public auction, designating in said notice the time and place of such sale, which must take place in or in front of the council chambers, and not less than ten days from the date of the last publication. Sec. 20. Said list must be published ouee a week for four consecutive weeks in some newspaper published in the City of Juneau, and when such publication is completed, and before commencing the sale, the city clerk must prepare and . file in his office a copy of the pub lished notice, with his affidavit there to attached that it is a true copy of the same, that the publication was made in a newspaper, stating the name and place of publication and the dates up on which said notice was published therein: such affidavit shall be prima facie evidence of all facts therein stat ed. Sec. 21. Upon the filing of the affidavit referred to in the preceding section, it shall be the duty of the city clerk to issue warrants for the distraint of the property described in such delinquent tax list directed to the city marshal, commanding him to sell on a day certain the property described therein to satisfy the lien of the tax levied against such property. Sec. 22. On the day fixed for the sale, or on some subsequent day to which he may have postponed it, of which he must give notice, the city marshal, between the hours of ten o'clock a. m., and four o'clock p. m.t must commence the sale of the prop erty advertised. Sec. 23. He may postpone the day of sale from day to day, but the sale must be completed within two weeks from the day first fixed. Sec. 24. The owner or person in possession of any personal property offered for sale for taxes due there on. may designate in writing to the city marshal, prior to the sale, what portion of the property he wishes sold, if less than the whole, but If the own er or the possessor does not, then the city marshal may designate it, and the person who will take the smallest parcel or the least valuable articles of such property, or. In case an undivided interest is assessed, then the smallest portion of such interest, and pay the taxes and costs due, in cluding fifty cents to the city marshal for the duplicate certificate of sale, is the purchaser. Sec. 25. After receiving the amount of the taxes and costs the city marshal must make out, in duplicate, a certifi cate dated on the day of sale, stating (when known) the name of the per son assessed, a description of the property sold, the amount paid there for, that it was sold for taxes, giving the amount and year of the assess ment, and specifying the time when the purchaser will be entitled to a bill of sale therefor. Sec. 26. The certificate must be signed by the city marshal and one copy delivered to the purchaser and the other filed in the office of the United States commissioner and ex officio recorder. Sec. 27. On filing the certificate with tho recordor, the lien of the city vests iu the purchaser, and is divest ed only by the puymeut to him, or to the city clerk for his use, of the purchase money and fifty per cent, thereon. Sec. 28. A redemption of the prop erty sold may be mudo by the owner or any party in intores; within twelve months from the date of tho purchase. Sec. 29. If the property is not re I deemed within the time allowed by ! the law for its redemption, the city i clerk must make to tho purchas er or assignee, a bill of sale of the property, reciting in tho bill of sale substantially the matters contained iu the certificate, and that no person has redeemed the property duriug the time allowed for its redemption. The city clerk shall be entitled to receive from the purchaser three dollars for makiug such bill of sale. Sec. 30. On or before tho fourth Friday in August of each year, the city assessor shall make up a roll in duplicate of all real property assessed and on which the tax has not been paid uud is delinquent. Such roll shall show therein the property as sessed, the amount of the tax due, pen alty and interest, separately stated, on each tract assessed, to whom each tract is assessed,?if assessed as un known, so stating. And thereon shall be endorsed under the hand of the clerk of the town and corporate seal, a certificate to the effect that said roll is a true and correct roll of the delinquent taxes of the town for the year (specifying it), and showing the date when said taxes became delin quent, and the total amount of delin quent taxes, penalty and interest sep arately stated, and tho aggregate of the whole thereof, if the taxes for more than one year be delinquent, such taxes separately shown may be included iu said roll. Said roll so made up shall be known as the de linquent tax roll of the town for the year in which the same is made up, the original of which shall be filed with the city clerk and remain open to inspection of the public. On or be fore the fourth Friday in August after the completion of the delinquent roll, the assessor shall, under the direction of the Common Council, cause to be published in the official newspupcr of the corporation, or in a newspaper of general circulation in the town, to be designated by the Common Coun cil, each week for a period of four !.. O imdno miliar tha successive ?eei\o? u. UVuw hand of the city clerk, setting forth that the delinquent tax roll of real property for the year, (naming it), has been completed and is open for public inspection at the office of the city clerk, and on a certaiu day, not less than thirty days after the completion of the publication, or post ing, as the case may be, of such no tice, the said roll would be presented to the district court of the division J for adjustment and order of sale. Said notice shall describe each tract on the J roll on which the tax has not beeni paid, the amount of tax, penalty and I interest thereon, and to whom assess-! | ed. During the time of the publica-! ! tion of notice and up to the time of I the order of sale hereinafter provid ed for, any person may appear and make payment on any piece or tract set forth therein, together with the | penalty and interest, and the cityj clerk shall make proper notation j of such payment on both the original and duplicate delinquent tax roll. Sec. 31. On the date specified in j said notice, or as soon thereafter as a hearing can be had before the court, the clerk, or other officer, shall pre sent the delinquent tax roll, so com pleted as aforesaid, together with proof of publication of notice of ap plication for order of sale, to the court of this division for an order of sale of all the real property therein listed on which taxes have not been paid and are delinquent, and upon the issu ance of such order of sale, a certified copy thereof shall be attached to the duplicate delinquent roll and such roll I filed with the clerk of the court and become a part of the records there of, open to the inspection of the pub lic. Sec. 32. The city clerk shall im mediately after the order of sale correct the original delinquent tax roll to correspond in all respects with the delinquent roll as passed upon and allowed by the court, insert ing therein the costs allowed by the court, and within thirty days thereaf ter shall sell the property described in the order of sale. Thnt ctif?h salfl shall be at public auction made by the city clerk, after notice given by him by publication in the official newspa per of the corporation, or in a news paper of general circulation in the town to be designated by the Com mon Council, once each week for four successive weeks; such notice shall re fer to the order authorizing the sale, giving the date thereof, contain a de scription of each tract to be sold, to whom the same is assessed, the amount of taxes due on each tract, in cluding penalty and interest up to the date of sale and costs, the time when and place where such sale will take place, and shall be signed by the city clerk as such. The sale shall be made at a designated public place in the town, and at the day and hour fixed in the notice of sale, between the hours of ten o'clock in the fore noon and four o'clock in the afternoon, commencing at the hour set in such notice and if not concluded on the day set, shall continue from day to day thereafter, over Sundays and holidays, until the property described in said notice of sale Is disposed of. Each tract shall be sold separately, and be offered for the amount of the tax, penalty and interest, and costs due thereon, and if sufficient is not bid to discharge the amount due on the same, the same shall be bid in by the city clerk for and on behalf of the municipality, for the amount of the tax. penalty, interest and costs and notation thereof made on the de linquent tax roll. Sec. 34. All real property sold at such sale shall be sold to the high est bidder, subject to redemption within the period of two years from the date of sale and the municipality may become the purchaser at such sale. All sales shall be for cash ex cept where the municipal corporation is the purchaser, such cash to be paid to and receipted for by the city clerk. If the property be sold for an amount in excess of all delin quent taxes, penalty. Interest and costs due on the property sold, nuch excess shall be returned by the city clerk to the owner of the property, less auy amount of personal, poll or license taxes then due from him to the corporation. The purchaser of any tract at such sale, other than the municipality, shall receive from the city clerk a certificate of sale, which certificate shall bo executed by the city clerk under the seal of the corporation, and describo the property sold, the amount paid, the aggregate amount of taxes, penalty, interest uud costs for which the prop erty was sold, the years for which the delinquent tuxes for which the proper ty was sold was levied, the date of the order of sale, and the court issu ing the same, the date of sale aud that said sale was made subject .to redemp- ( tiou within two years by the owner. , Each certificate of sale shall bear in- 1 terest at the rate of twelve per cent. per annum from the date of sale upon i the totul amount of taxes, penalty, in- 1 terest and costs due at the date of sale | uud the same shall be assignable and ? in 110 instuueo shall more than one ' tract separately assessed be included in one certificate. .Each certificate of : sale issued by the clerk shall be num bered and a record thereof kept by him, in a book specially reserved for such purpose, showing the property sold, to whom and when sold, the amount due for taxes on such property aud the amount of the purchase price. Should the municipal corporation be come the purchaser as hereinabove provided, a notation thereof shull be made by the clerk on the original de-' liuqueut tax roll in lieu of a certifi-; cute of purchase, and at any time i thereafter the city clerk may is-1 sue a certificate of purchase to auy j person paying to the municipal cor-1 poration the amount of taxes, penalty! and interest due at the date of sulo j and costs, together with interest on j such amount from the date of sale at J the rate of twelve per cent, per an- . uum; that from the date of sale and ' issuance of certificate of purchase ! and until redeemed, the holder of such < certificate shall be entitled to the pos- | session of the tract sold, together with the rents, issues and profits thereof, and any person who, after ten days' ' notice and demand of possession there of by the holder of such certificate of purchase, withholds the possession of such tract, shall be deemed guilty of unlawful detainer. Sec. 35. The owner or any person having any interest, whether legal or equitable, in any tract sold at such sale, may redeem the same from any purchaser or the holder of the certif icate of sale by paying the amount of the taxes, penalty and interest and costs due at the date of sale, together with interest thereon at the rate of twelvo per cent, per annum from such date, and all accruing taxes there after paid by such purchaser, such payment to be made to the purchaser or to the city clerk and when so made the tract shall be considered redeemed, provided, that if any pay ment be made to the purchaser the certificate of sale shall be by him sur rendered to the redemption, who shall present the same to the city clerk and cause the fact of redemp tion to be noted 011 the deliquent tax roll and record of certificate of sale hereinabove provided. If payment be made to the clerk of the town the clerk will issue to the redemptioner a certificate of redemption, under his hand and the seal of the corporation, showing the date of the redemption, the amount paid 011 redemption, which certificate shall be prima facie evi dence of redemption and the sum so paid on redemption shall by the clerk be immediately paid to the holder of the certificate of sale and the certificate surrendered for cancel lation. A record of such redemp tion shall be kept by the city clerk for public inspection. After the expiration of two years from the date of sale the holder of the certificate of sale shall be entitled to a deed to the tract described therein and sold on such sale and not redeemed. Such deed shall be issued by the city clerk, upon presentation of the certificate of sale, 011 demand, by the holder and owner of the certificate, and shall re fer to this ordinance, by number and title, the year of the levy, when the tax became delinquent, the amount of the taxes, penalty, interest and costs for which the property was sold, the amount paid by the purchaser, the name of the purchaser or his assignee, the date of sale, the date of the order of sale and the court issuing the same, and shall be signed by the mayor and attested by the clerk under the seal of the corporation, and be acknowl edged, and shall convey the tract therein described to the grantee there in named free and clear from any en cumbrance or lien laid on sucn prop-i erty prior or subsequent to the sale| thereof by the delinquent owner or, any person in privity with him, pro- j vided, however, that no deed shall be < issued by the clerk if there be any taxes due on said property levied sub sequent to the sale, until the same be paid. Any tracts purchased or as- 1 signed to the municipal corporation at the sale hereinbefore mentioned and not redeemed, for which certifi cates of purchase may not have been issued after such sale, shall after the expiration of two years from such sale be deemed the property of the muni cipal corporation, and a deed therefor may be issed by the mayor or clerk thereof, to such corporation, which deed shall be of the same force and effect as the deed to a certificate holder. Sec. 36. The term "real property" and "lands" when used in this ordinance shall be held to include not only the land itself, whether laid out in lots or otherwise, but also all buildings, struc- 1 tures, improvements, fixtures of what soever kind thereon, and all possess ory rights and privileges belonging to or in anywise appertaining thereto, and the word "tract" herein shall in clude all lands, pieces or parcels of land which may be separately assessed together with the fixtures and im provements thereon. The term "personal property" or "personalty" shall be considered to include all household goods, effects, furniture, chattels, goods, wares, mer chandise, gold dust, money on deposit, either within or without the corpora tion, boats or vessels owned or regis tered in the corporation, capital in vested therein, all debts due or to be come due from solvent debtors, wheth er on account, contract, note, mort gage, or otherwise, all public stocks, or stocks or shares in incorporated companies-, and all property of every nature and kind not Included in the term "real property." Sec. 37. That all ordinances and provisions thereof in conflict here with, and particularly ordinances Nos. 24 and 106 are hereby repealed. Sec. 38. This ordinance shall be published on the 22nd and 23rd and | 24th days of May, A. 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