(a) The tax assessor or other assessing official in each of the several counties shall have the right and authority to assess all real estate, together with improvements thereon, and all personal property to the party last assessing the same, or to the owner of record, except such real estate and personal property which is now or may hereafter be assessed by the Department of Revenue. The failure of the tax assessor or other assessing official to assess said property to the true owner shall not invalidate the assessment. The tax assessor or other assessing official shall have the right and authority to prescribe the proper bookkeeping method to carry out the provisions of this article, subject to the approval of the Chief Examiner of Public Accounts. Should the owner of any real estate make improvements on such property, or should any improvements be removed or destroyed or partially removed or destroyed during any taxable year, it shall be the duty of such owner to make a tax return between October 1 and prior to January 1 covering all such changes made subsequent to October 1 of the preceding tax year. Improvements partially completed on October 1 shall be reported to the tax assessor or other assessing official by the owner thereof and shall be assessed as incomplete for that tax year. It shall be the duty of any person who purchases real estate prior to October 1 of any taxable year and who owns said real estate on that date to report such purchase to and assess that property with the tax assessor or other assessing official between October 1 and prior to January 1 following such purchase. No penalty shall be charged such taxpayer for failure to report the purchase or sale of any real estate.
(b) Every person, firm, or corporation who owns, maintains, or keeps a manufactured home shall receive a decal upon the payment of the ad valorem tax on said manufactured home. Said decals shall be designed by the state Department of Revenue and displayed on the manufactured home for which the ad valorem taxes were paid, as set out in subsection (a) of Section 40-12-255.
This decal shall take the place of all other decals of any county or municipality, and there will be no other decals required. Said decal shall be proof of payment of said ad valorem taxes.
Structure Code of Alabama
Title 40 - Revenue and Taxation.
Chapter 7 - Assessment of Taxes Generally.
Article 1 - General Provisions.
Section 40-7-1 - Authority of Tax Assessor; Duties of Taxpayer.
Section 40-7-2 - Commencement and Completion of Assessment; Supplemental Assessment.
Section 40-7-2.1 - Timing of Property Assessments, etc., Homestead Exemption.
Section 40-7-5 - Oath to Be Administered Before Return Made.
Section 40-7-7 - When Taxpayer May Mail List or Send by Another Person.
Section 40-7-8 - Oath to Be Used on Bottom of Assessment Sheet.
Section 40-7-9 - Assessor Authorized to Correct Error in Computing Taxes Due.
Section 40-7-10 - Allowance of Statutory Exemptions; Property No Longer Exempt.
Section 40-7-11 - Failure to Report Improvements.
Section 40-7-12 - Fraudulent Failure to Report Change in Condition of Property, Etc.
Section 40-7-14 - Taxpayer to Give Estimated Values; Preceding Year's Valuation Entered by Assessor.
Section 40-7-15 - Property to Be Appraised at Fair Market Value.
Section 40-7-16 - How Real Estate May Be Described.
Section 40-7-17 - By Whom Property Should Be Listed.
Section 40-7-19 - Demand Against Persons Failing to Make Returns.
Section 40-7-20 - Separate Returns to Be Filed in Individual and Fiduciary Capacity.
Section 40-7-22 - Procedure by Assessor Upon Failure to Procure List.
Section 40-7-23 - Assessment of Escaped Taxes; Avoidance of Penalty; Notice and Collection.
Section 40-7-24 - Failure to Make Return of Gross or Net Receipts or Commissions From Business.
Section 40-7-25 - Estimation of Fair Market Value; Assessment List; Notice; Objections.
Section 40-7-28 - Correction of Improvement Assessment When Improvements Nonexistent.
Section 40-7-29 - By Whom and When Penalties Remitted.
Section 40-7-30 - Assessor Notified of Appointment of Fiduciaries.
Section 40-7-31 - Assessment to "Owners unknown."
Section 40-7-32 - Fees of Assessor for Returns on Escaped Property.
Section 40-7-33 - Book of Assessments - Required; Form; Use of Assessment Lists in Lieu of Book.
Section 40-7-34 - Book of Assessments - to Be Certified by Department.
Section 40-7-35 - Same Abstracts of Property Contained in Book.
Section 40-7-36 - Book Showing Amount of Taxes Delivered to Collector.
Section 40-7-37 - Plat Books - Blocks and Lots Platted and Recorded.
Section 40-7-38 - Plat Books - All Real Estate.
Section 40-7-39 - Plat Books - Annual Revision.
Section 40-7-40 - Plat Books - Failure to Comply With Sections 40-7-37 Through 40-7-39.
Section 40-7-41 - Plat Books - Where Kept.
Section 40-7-42 - Levy of Taxes From Book of Assessments.
Section 40-7-44 - Assessment Against Auctioneers.
Section 40-7-45 - Appeals - Right; Time.
Section 40-7-46 - Appeals - Notice.
Section 40-7-47 - Appeals - Trial.
Section 40-7-48 - Appeals - Judgment of Revaluation.
Section 40-7-49 - Rules and Regulations.
Section 40-7-50 - Voluntary Check-Off Designation for Alabama Association of Rescue Squads, Inc.