Bill Text: GA SB118 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Appraisers; prohibit persons who are serving/have served a member of county board of tax assessors from serving as employee of the board

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-04-20 - House Committee Favorably Reported [SB118 Detail]

Download: Georgia-2009-SB118-Engrossed.html

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09 LC 14 9980

Senate Bill 118

By: Senators Brown of the 26th and Chance of the 16th

AS PASSED SENATE

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT

To amend Code Section 48-5-263 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to qualifications, duties, and compensation of appraisers, so as to prohibit persons who are serving or have served in the past year as a member of a county board of tax assessors from serving as an employee of the board; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:

SECTION 1.

Code Section 48-5-263 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to qualifications, duties, and compensation of appraisers, is amended by revising subsection (a) as follows:

"(a) Qualifications.

(1) The commissioner shall establish, and the state merit system may review, the qualifications and rate of compensation for each appraiser grade.

(2) Each appraiser shall, before his or her employment, obtain a satisfactory grade, as determined by the commissioner, on an examination prepared by the commissioner and an institution of higher education in this state.

(3) No person who is serving on a county board of tax assessors or who has served on a county board of tax assessors within the preceding 12 month period shall be eligible to serve as an employee of that board until the expiration of the 12 month period following such person's service as a member of the board."

SECTION 2.

All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.