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O.C.G.A. § 48-5-341 — Definitions | Georgia Code
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TITLE 48 REVENUE AND TAXATION

Section 5. Ad Valorem Taxation of Property, 48-5-1 through 48-5-607.

ARTICLE 5A EXAMINATION OF COUNTY TAX DIGESTS

48-5-341. Definitions.

As used in this article, the term:

  1. "Assessment bias" means any tendency or trend of assessment ratios, when analyzed by an appropriate statistical method, which reveals assessment progressivity or assessment regressivity.
  2. "Assessment progressivity" means any systematic pattern of assessment in which higher value properties are generally assessed at a larger percentage of fair market value than properties of lower value.
  3. "Assessment ratio" means the fractional relationship the assessed value of property bears to the fair market value of the property as determined in paragraph (8) of subsection (b) of Code Section 48-5-274.
  4. "Assessment regressivity" means any systematic pattern of assessment in which lower value properties are generally assessed at a larger percentage of fair market value than properties of higher value.
  5. "Assessment variance" means the absolute value of the difference between the assessment ratio for each parcel of property within each class of property and the average assessment ratio for that class and expressed as a percentage of the average assessment ratio.
  6. "Class of property" means any reasonable divisions of homogeneous groups of property that the commissioner determines are necessary to examine digests for uniformity and equalization.
  7. "Digest evaluation cycle" means a recurring period of three years beginning initially on January 1 of the first year, as so designated by the commissioner for each county, and ending on December 31 of the third year thereafter.
  8. "Digest review year" means the first year of each evaluation cycle for each county.

(Code 1981, §48-5-341, enacted by Ga. L. 1988, p. 1763, § 1; Ga. L. 1991, p. 728, § 1; Ga. L. 1992, p. 2494, § 1; Ga. L. 2000, p. 1683, § 2.)

Editor's notes.

- Ga. L. 1992, p. 2494, § 10, not codified by the General Assembly, provided, in part: "County tax digests that were conditionally approved or disapproved by the commissioner for tax year 1991 in accordance with Article 5A of Chapter 5 of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated as it existed on January 1, 1992, shall be considered conditionally approved for each succeeding year beginning January 1, 1992, until such time as the first digest review year occurs for the county under the provisions of this Act."

Ga. L. 2000, p. 1683, § 11(c), not codified by the General Assembly, provides that Sections 2 through 10 of the Act shall be applicable to the 2000 tax digests and any subsequent tax digests.

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

"Class of property."

- Tax assessors have the authority to place property in homogeneous groups for the purpose of determining the property's value in relation to other and like property, and different valuation methods may be utilized. Harrington v. Baldwin County Bd. of Tax Assessors, 214 Ga. App. 178, 447 S.E.2d 300 (1994).

Cited in Ga. Power Co. v. Monroe County, 284 Ga. App. 707, 644 S.E.2d 882 (2007).

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