Ordinance 1761ORDINANCE 1761
Amending the alameda municipal code by adding article 6 to chapter 3 title3 thereof relating to reassessment of property damaged of misfortune or calamity
ARTICLE 6, REASSESSMENT
Sec, 3-361. Disoster Relief.
Whenver any property in this city is
damaged or destroyed by misfor-
tune or calamity the following
provisions shall apply:
(a) Any Person who at 12.01
a.m. on the immediately Preced-
ing March I was the owner of or
had in his Possession, or under his
control, any taxable property, or
who has acquired such property
after such date and is liable for
the taxes thereon for the fiscal
Year commencing the immedia-
tely following July 1, which
Property was thereafter damaged
or destroyed, without his fault, by
a misfortune or calamity may file
an application for the reassess-
ment of the property.
(b) The application must be
executed under penalty of per-
jury, or if executed outside the
State of California, verified by
affidavit, and filed with the As-
sessor within thirty (30) days of
the effective dote of this article,
or within sixty (60) days of the
occurrence of the misfortune or
calamity.
The application shall include:
(1) Description or identifica-
flon of the property damaged or
destroyed;
(2) A showing that the
damage is in excess of one
thousand dollars ($1,000.00),
(3) Facts and circumstances
surrounding the damage or des-
truction of the property; and
(4) Description of the condi-
tion and value, if any, of the
6Foi5erty immediately after the
damage,
(c) Upon receipt of the
Application for Reassessment,
the Assessor shall effect such
reassessment and give notice of
proposed reassessment as
Provided for in Section 155.13 of
the California Rvenue and Taxa-
tion Code.
(d) If no such application is
made and the Assessor deter-
mines that the full cash value of
such Property for the assessment
year is reduced from the full cash
value of such property for the im-
mediately preceding assessment
year by more than one thousand
dollars ($1,000.00) due to the
damage or destruction caused by
the misfortune or calamity, the
Assessor shall notify the property
owner that the property will be
reassessed. The Assessor shall
assess the property, or reassess it
if it has already been assessed, as
provided for in Section 155.13,
Revenue and Taxation Code. .
(e) Reassessments made pur-
suant to this article and Section
155,13 of the Revenue and Taxa-
tion Code shall be subject to
equalization in the some manner
as assessments made outside the
regular assessment period.
Section 2. This ordinance shall be in
full force and effect from and after the
expiration of thirty (30) days from the
date of its final passage.
C.J. CORICA
Presiding Officer
of the Council
Attest*
ETHEL M. PITT
City Clerk
1, the undersigned, hereby certify
that the foregoing Ordinance was duly
and regularly adopted and passed by
the Council of the City of Alameda in
regular meeting assembled on the 27th
day of May, 1975, by the following vote,
to wit:
AYES: Councilmen Beckam,
Diament, Horwitz, Sherratt and
President Corica, (5)
NOES: None,
ABSENT: None.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have
hereunto set my hand and affixed the
official seat of said City this 28th day of
May, 1975.
(SEAL)
ETULLM. PITT
City Clerk of the
City of Alameda
LegalNo.203. Publish o May 30, 1975,