Proceedings before board of tax appeals.
Section 61
SEC. 61. Proceedings before board of tax appeals.—The board of tax appeals shall meet on the second Monday in January of each year, shall hear all appeals duly transmitted to it, shall decide the same forthwith, and shall complete its work and adjourn on or before the thirty-first day of March of each year unless its sessions for any given year are extended to a later date by direction of the Department Head. It shall have authority to cause to be amended the listing and valuation of the property in respect to which any appeal has bean perfected by order signed by the board or a majority thereof, and transmit it to the city assessor who shall have the tax 1st in conformity with said order. It shall also have power to revise and correct, with the approval of the Department Head first had, any and all erroneous or unjust assessments and valuations for taxation, and make a correct and just assessment, and state the true valuation, in each case where it decides that the assessment previously made is erroneous or unjust. The list when so corrected shall be as lawful and valid for all purposes as though the assessments had been made within the time herein prescribed. Such reassessments and revaluation shall be made in due notice to the individual concerned and he shall be entitled to be heard by the board of tax appeals before any reassessment or revaluation is made. The decision of the board of tax appeals shall be final unless the head of the Department of the Interior forthwith declares the decision reopened for a review by him in which case he ,au make such revision or revaluation as in his opinion the circumstances justify. Such decision, approved by the President, shall be final.