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AMENDMENTS Adopted by resolution and order of the City Council on January 19, 1981, pursuant to an election held on the 17th day of January A. D. 1981, submitting propositions to adopt amendments to the Charter of the City of Dallas, to incorporate all the changes proposed by the City Council of the City of Dallas and the Charter, as amended, to read as set forth in Ordinance Number 16800 passed by the City Council on the 17th day of December A. D. 1980:

PROPOSITION NO. 3

THOROUGHFARE PLAN REQUIREMENTS

Approved

Shall Chapter XV of the Charter of the City of Dallas be amended to require adoption of a thoroughfare plan; to require written notice of amendments to landowners within 200 feet of an area of change; and to require a public hearing before the plan may be amended? -0SECTION 8. THOROUGHFARE PLAN.

The City Council shall by ordinance adopt a thoroughfare plan. A thoroughfareplan now in existence or hereafter adopted by the City Council shall not be changed except by an ordinance duly adopted after a public hearing as herein provided. Prior to any change in a thoroughfare plan, the City Council shall hold a public hearing. Written notice of all public hearings before the City Council on proposed changes in the thoroughfare plan shall be sent to owners of real property lying within two hundred (200) feet of the area of the proposed change, such notice to be given, not less than ten (10) days before the date set for hearing, to all such owners who have rendered their said property for city taxes as the ownership appears on the last approved city tax roll. Such notice may be served by depositing the same, properly addressed and postage paid, in the United States mail.

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AMENDMENTS Adopted by resolution and order of the City Council on January 19, 1981, pursuant to an election held on the 17th day of January A. D. 1981, submitting propositions to adopt amendments to the Charter of the City of Dallas, to incorporate all the changes proposed by the City Council of the City of Dallas and the Charter, as amended, to read as set forth in Ordinance Number 16800 passed by the City Council on the 17th day of December A. D. 1980:

PROPOSITION NO. 4

BOARD OF EQUALIZATION EXPANSION

Approved

Shall Chapter XIX, of the Charter of the City of Dallas be amended to increase the membership of the board of equalization to nine; to provide for division of the board into panels; and to lengthen the term of service of the board. -O SECTION 10. BOARD OF EQUALIZATION.

The city council shall each year prior to the first day of June appoint a board of equalization, to be composed of nine (9) members who may or may not be members of the city council, and who are taxpaying citizens, and who shall be well acquainted with property values in the city, one of whom shall be designated as chairman of the board. The board may convene and hear cases as a whole with motions being adopted by affirmative vote of a majority of those present, or may convene in panels of three (3) each, with motions being adopted by an affirmative vote of two (2) panel members. A decision of a panel constitutes a decision of the board, and a panel shall have all powers of the board. The board shall convene as soon as the assessment rolls are referred to it and continue its labors for thirty (30) days unless extended to not more than sixty (60) days by resolution of the city council, but not to continue longer than the 31st day of July following. It shall be the duty of the city council, as soon as the assessment rolls are completed, to refer the same to the board of equalization, whose duty it shall be to equalize the taxes assessed on said rolls and to make all necessary correction and adjustment to that end; and, in addition, it shall perform the same duties as the county commissioners courts of this state in regard to the assessment of property for taxation and the equalization thereof, and shall be governed in its procedure and acts in this respect as now provided by the laws of this state relating to the equalization of state and county taxes by said commissioners court. In addition to the foregoing, the said board shall have the power, when sitting, to compel the production of all books, documents, stocks, bonds and other papers pertinent to the investigation to be produced before it in the investigation of the taxable values of any person or persons, firm or corporation having or owning property within the corporate limits of the city subject to taxation. Said board shall have full power to correct any mistake or injustice or inequality in the assessment of property, the rendition of same, or in the payment of taxes, and make redress therefor; and the said board may add to the rolls any property omitted therefrom either for the current year or for previous years, and lawfully taxable within said city. A majority of the board shall constitute 2 a quorum for the transaction of business by the board as a whole, and two (2) members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business by a panel. The city secretary or his assistant shall he ex-officio the clerk of said board. Members of the board, while serving, shall receive such compensation as may be provided for them by the city council. Imediately upon completion of its work the board shall certify its approval of the assessment rolls, which shall be returned to the city council, which shall thereupon either approve the rolls as returned to them or make such corrections and changes therein as it may deem advisable, and levy taxes for the current year.

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The city council may, at the same time, appoint as many alternate members as the council deems necessary with the same qualifications as the members, to serve in the absence or disability of a regular member. SECTION 12. NOTICE OF INCREASED ASSESSMENT.

If the director of revenue and taxation or the board of equalization proposes to increase any assessment over the amount assessed in the preceding year, notice shall be issued to such property owner stating the fact that the assessment of the owners property is about to be increased, without specifically designating the particular property or the amount to be increased, and be addressed to the owner, agent or representative thereof and mailed at the post office in the City of Dallas, and further notice shall be given by publication for one day in the official newspaper, which notice shall state the name or names of the owner or owners whose property assessments are to be increased; provided that when the owner of the property is unknown it shall be sufficient to give a general description of the property, and the newspaper notice shall be the only notice required. The city secretary shall be ex-officio secretary of the board of equalization and he shall give notice by publication in the official newspaper for three consecutive days advising all taxpayers that the board of equalization will convene on a certain day for the transaction of business and that all parties interested in the work of said board shall repair to the office of the director of revenue and taxation without delay and inform themselves of the determinations of said board and, if dissatisfied therewith, to bring the matter to the attention of the board before its final adjournment. Substantial compliance with the provisions of this section with reference to notice shall be sufficient, and no assessment shall be invalidated by reason of failure to comply with this section of the charter.

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Correctly Enrolled January 19, 1981

.EE 1 N E. lULl ty 4 Cs Attorney

Mayor of the City of Dallas, Texas

ROBERT S. SLOAN City Secretary

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THE STATE OF TEXAS SECRETARY OF STATE

I, GEORGE W. STARKE, JR., Secretary of State of the State of Texas DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the City of Dallas, Texas, filed in this office on February 9, 1981 a certified copy of amendments to the Charter of the City of Dallas, Texas; and I FURTHER CERTIFY that said amendments to the Charter of the City of Dallas, Texas, were duly recorded in the Book of City Charters and Amendments, Book 32, Pages 62 through 70, and that the fee for recording such instruments has been paid to this office.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto signed my name officially and caused to be impressed hereon the Seal of State at my office in the City of Austin, this 9th day of February, A. D. 1981

Is! 0. W. Strake. Jr.

Secretary of State (SEAL)

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