Okla. Admin. Code § 710:10-1-2

Current through Vol. 42, No. 6, December 2, 2024

Section 710:10-1-2 - Assessment percentage guidelines

(a)Guidelines for the assessment percentage. Beginning on January 1, 1997, for ad valorem year 1997, Oklahoma's Constitution provides for the capping of the assessment percentage used in Oklahoma's Ad Valorem system, as of December 31, 1996.

(b)Percentages used for real property and for personal property may differ. The assessment percentage used for real and personal property may be different, but all real property must be assessed at the same percentage and all personal property must be assessed at the same percentage.

(c)Assessment percentages in effect for January 1, 1996 control. Each county assessor shall continue to use, for both real and personal property, the assessment percentages in effect for January 1, 1996, unless those percentages are increased in the future by a vote of the people as provided for by Section 8, Article 10 of the Oklahoma Constitution, or decreased by the County Assessor. Before a county assessor may decrease an assessment percentage the notice and meeting requirements outlined below must be met:

(1) The county assessor must provide written notice of intent to decrease an assessment ratio at least 90 days prior to the decrease taking effect.

(A) The written notice must be made by certified mail with return receipt requested to the county treasurer, county clerk, county sheriff, to each of the county commissioners, and to the governing board of any local government jurisdiction that levies ad valorem taxes upon any property located within the county.

(B) The notice must be mailed not later than 60 days prior to the expiration of the 90 day period and must clearly state the assessment ratio in effect prior to the decrease, the category of property to be affected by the proposed decrease, and the date that such decrease is proposed to take effect.

(C) The assessor must publish notice of intent at least one time for three (3) consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the county.

(D) The beginning of the notice must have the following wording: "NOTICE OF INTENT TO DECREASE ASSESSMENT RATIO WITH RESPECT TO REAL OR PERSONAL PROPERTY OR BOTH IN (insert applicable county name) FOR THE (insert applicable year) ASSESSMENT YEAR.

(2) The assessor must conduct at least three (3) public meetings in the county prior to the date the assessment ratio decrease is to take effect. The last of the three (3) meetings must be held at least 30 days prior to the date any assessment percentage decrease is implemented.

(A) Notice of the meetings must be posted in the offices of the county assessor, county treasurer, county commissioners, county clerk and other public places within the county.

(B) The assessor must attend all public meetings to answer questions about the proposed decrease in assessment ratio and any possible effects on budgets of any ad valorem taxing jurisdiction

(d) All other property which is assessed by the State Board of Equalization shall be assessed at the percentage of its fair cash value at which it was assessed on January 1, 1996, as provided for in Article X, Section 8(A)(3) of the Oklahoma Constitution.

Okla. Admin. Code § 710:10-1-2

Added at 14 Ok Reg 2670, eff 6-26-97; Amended at 15 Ok Reg 3451, eff 7-11-98

Amended by Oklahome Register, Volume 33, Issue 23, August 15, 2016, eff. 8/25/2016