§ 68-2874. Correction of clerical errors on tax rolls.

Whether upon discovery by the county treasurer or county assessor or any of their deputies, or upon complaint of the taxpayer, the agent or attorney or any person acting on behalf of the taxpayer, upon certificate of clerical error issued by the county assessor to the county treasurer, with a copy to the county clerk and a copy retained, the county treasurer shall be authorized to make correction upon the tax rolls of either of the following specifically enumerated errors of strictly clerical import not involving valuations assessed and equalized and not involving any exemption allowed whether of homestead, service in the armed forces, charitable, educational, religious, or other authorized exemptions, and which clerical error certificates shall issue only under the conditions stated as to each, as follows:

1.  Error in the name of the person assessed, upon affidavit verifying the name of the true owner as of October 1 of the taxable year involved;

2.  Error in the address of the person, firm or corporation assessed, when furnished by such person or a representative of the firm or corporation;

3.  Error in the legal description of real property, when verified by the county clerk, certifying to the description on his land records as of January 1 of the taxable year involved;

4.  Error in land-list entry, such as section or part thereof, township, range or of lot or block or of designation of urban addition, when verified by the county clerk to the land records or plats on file, as of January 1 of the taxable year involved;

5.  Error in the school district designation as of the date when school district tax levies attached themselves to such property, when verified by the county assessor certifying to the date, if after January 1 of such taxable year, when the school district designation or location changed, or the school district designation prior to January 1 of such taxable year where no change of the boundaries of such district was thereafter ordered during such taxable year.  If a school district boundary change occurs after April 15 of such taxable year, the opinion of the district attorney as to the applicable school district designation to such property for purpose of levy of such taxable year shall be attached to the certification;

6.  If the error of school district designation caused the application of levies not applicable thereto, then also the “extension of tax”, when verified by the county clerk with proof of computation attached;

7.  Error commonly called duplicate assessment, but only in instances where the two entries as delivered to the county treasurer are verified by the county treasurer or deputy to be completely identical in every specific detail; and

8.  Error in transcribing to the tax rolls from assessment rolls or assessment lists, conditioned on complete absence of all indication of erasures or other alteration of original entry when confirmed by endorsement to the certificate by the county clerk certifying to personal visual inspection and verifying absence of all indication of erasure or change in original entry.

Added by Laws 1988, c. 162, § 74, eff. Jan. 1, 1992.  Amended by Laws 1993, c. 239, § 19, eff. July 1, 1993; Laws 2013, c. 158, § 4, eff. Nov. 1, 2013.