35.56.080 Hearing on assessment roll—Notice

35.56.080 Hearing on assessment roll—Notice—Council's authority.

WA Rev Code § 35.56.080 (2019) (N/A)

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RCW 35.56.080 Hearing on assessment roll—Notice—Council's authority.

When such assessment roll has been prepared it shall be filed in the office of the city clerk and thereupon the city clerk shall give notice by publication in at least three issues of the official paper that such roll is on file in his or her office and on a date mentioned in said notice, which shall be at least twenty days after the date of the first publication thereof, the city council or commission will sit as a board of equalization to equalize said roll and to hear, consider and determine protests and objections against the same.

At the time specified in the notice, the city council or commission shall sit as a board of equalization to equalize the roll and they may adjourn the sitting from time to time until the equalization of such roll is completed. The city council or commission as such board of equalization may hear, consider and determine objections and protests against any assessment and make such alterations and modifications in the assessment roll as justice and equity may require.

[ 2009 c 549 § 2095; 1965 c 7 § 35.56.080. Prior: 1913 c 16 § 6; RRS § 9454.]

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