Fiscal Note
No City appropriation required.
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Repealing Section 33.08(5)(b) and amending Section 33.08(5)(f)1. of the Madison General Ordinances to comply with recent Wisconsin State Statute amendments.
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DRAFTER'S ANALYSIS: This amendment repeals Sec. 33.08(5)(b) which refused a property owner a hearing before the board of review if the owner did not allow the assessor to view the interior of the property. 2017 WI Act 68 created Wis. Stat. § 70.05(4m) which provides that a property owner’s refusal to allow the assessor to enter the residence does not preclude the owner from appearing from the Board of Review. This amendment also adds language to Sec. 33.08(5)(f)(1) to require a property owner provide income and expense information to the assessor no later than 7 days before the first meeting of the board of review. This amendment is also to comply with 2017 WI Act 68 which amended Wis. Stat. § 70.47 (7)(af) which requires income and expense information to be supplied to the assessor 7 days prior to the first meeting of the board of review.
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The Common Council of the City of Madison do hereby ordain as follows:
1. Subdivision (b) of Subsection (5) entitled “Objections to Valuations” of Section 33.08 entitled “Board of Review” of the Madison General Ordinances is hereby repealed.
2. Paragraph 1. of Subdivision (f) of Subsection (5) entitled “Objections to Valuations” of Section 33.08 entitled “Board of Review” of the Madison General Ordinances is amended to read as follows:
“1. No person may appear before the Board of Review, testify to the Board by telephone or object to a valuation, if that valuation was made by the assessor or the objector using the income method,; unless no later than seven (7) days before the first meeting of the Board of Review, the person supplies to the assessor all of the information about income and expenses, as specified in the manual under Wis. Stat. § 73.03(2a), that the assessor requests.”
EDITOR’S NOTE:
Sec. 33.08(5)(b) currently reads as follows:
“(b) No person shall be allowed to appear before the Board of Review, to testify to the Board by telephone or to contest the amount of any assessment of real or personal property if the person has refused a reasonable written request by certified mail of the assessor to view such property.”