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CABARRUS COUNTY 2012 APPRAISAL MANUAL <br />(5) Upon the request of the owner, the board of equalization and review, or the board of county <br />commissioners, any particular lot, parcel, tract, building, structure or improvement be actually <br />visited and observed to verify the accuracy of property characteristics on record for that <br />property. <br />(6) Each lot, parcel, tract, building, structure and improvement be separately appraised by a <br />competent appraiser, either one appointed under the provisions of G.S. 105 -296 or one <br />employed under the provisions of G.S. 105 -299. <br />(7) Notice is given in writing to the owner that he is entitled to have an actual visitation and <br />observation of his property to verify the accuracy of property characteristics on record for that <br />property. <br />(c) The values, standards, and rules required by subdivision (b)(1) shall be reviewed and approved by the <br />board of county commissioners before January 1 of the year they are applied. The board of county commissioners <br />may approve the schedules of values, standards, and rules to be used in appraising real property at its true value and <br />at its present -use value either separately or simultaneously. Notice of the receipt and adoption by the board of <br />county commissioners of either or both the true value and present -use value schedules, standards, and rules, and <br />notice of a property owner's right to comment on and contest the schedules, standards, and rules shall be given as <br />follows: <br />(1) The assessor shall submit the proposed schedules, standards, and rules to the board of county <br />commissioners not less than 21 days before the meeting at which they will be considered by the <br />board. On the same day that they are submitted to the board for its consideration, the assessor <br />shall file a copy of the proposed schedules, standards, and rules in his office where they shall <br />remain available for public inspection. <br />(2) Upon receipt of the proposed schedules, standards, and rules, the board of commissioners shall <br />publish a statement in a newspaper having general circulation in the county stating: <br />a. That the proposed schedules, standards, and rules to be used in appraising real property <br />in the county have been submitted to the board of county commissioners and are <br />available for public inspection in the assessor's office; and <br />b. The time and place of a public hearing on the proposed schedules, standards, and rules <br />that shall be held by the board of county commissioners at least seven days before <br />adopting the final schedules, standards, and rules. <br />(3) When the board of county commissioners approves the final schedules, standards, and rules, it <br />shall issue an order adopting them. Notice of this order shall be published once a week for four <br />successive weeks in a newspaper having general circulation in the county, with the last <br />publication being not less than seven days before the last day for challenging the validity of the <br />schedules, standards, and rules by appeal to the Property Tax Commission. The notice shall <br />state: <br />a. That the schedules, standards, and rules to be used in the next scheduled reappraisal of <br />real property in the county have been adopted and are open to examination in the office <br />of the assessor; and <br />b. That a property owner who asserts that the schedules, standards, and rules are invalid <br />may except to the order and appeal therefrom to the Property Tax Commission within <br />30 days of the date when the notice of the order adopting the schedules, standards, and <br />rules was first published. <br />(d) Before the board of county commissioners adopts the schedules of values, standards, and rules, the <br />assessor may collect data needed to apply the schedules, standards, and rules to each parcel in the county. (1939, c. <br />310, s. 501; 1959, c. 704, s. 4; 1967, c. 944; 1971, c. 806, s. 1; 1973, c. 476, s. 193; c. 695, s. 5; 1981, c. 224; c. <br />678, s. 1; 1985, c. 216, s. 2; c. 628, s. 4; 1987, c. 45, s. 1; c. 295, s. 1; 1997 -226, s. 5.) <br />Cabarrus County — 2012 Revaluation INTRODUCTION 1-6 <br />8/9/11 <br />Attachment number 3 <br />G -3 Page 280 <br />