Section 52
SEC. 52. When assessment may be increased or reduced.-The City Assessor shall, during- the first fifteen days of December of each year, add to his list of taxable real estate in the city the value of the improvements placed upon each property during the preceding year, and any property which is taxable and which has theretofore escaped taxation. He may during the same period revise and correct the assessed value of any or all parcels of real estate in the city which are not assessed at their true money value, by reducing or increasing the existing assessment, as the case may be.