Section 27-35-141 - Board may have new assessment roll made when same destroyed

In case of the destruction or mutilation of an assessment roll, or reproduction thereof, the board of supervisors may have duplicate copies made from copies on file in the office of the state tax commission, or in the office of the chancery clerk; and when certified to be correct by the clerk, the copy shall be treated and recognized as the legal roll. All orders of the board of supervisors adopted before the destruction or mutilation of such roll, either increasing or decreasing the assessment of any property, shall apply to the copy of such roll made as herein provided. In case an assessment roll, or rolls, be lost, destroyed, or stolen before the copies have been made and filed as provided by law, the board of supervisors shall order a new assessment made and a new roll, or rolls, prepared in the manner required by law when made at the regular time, and the board of supervisors and all other officers, either county or state, shall perform all duties in reference to said roll, or rolls, as if made at the regular time. The tax assessor, board of supervisors, and chancery clerk, shall receive compensation for making a new roll as herein provided in the same amount as required to

olls, as if made at the regular time. The tax assessor, board of supervisors, and chancery clerk, shall receive compensation for making a new roll as herein provided in the same amount as required to be paid if made at the regular time. The state tax commission shall furnish blank rolls when requested by a board of supervisors.Codes, Hemingway's 1921 Supp § 7769n1; 1930, § 3190; 1942, § 9814; Laws, 1920, ch. 323; Laws, 1926, ch. 214; Laws, 1984, ch. 422, § 5, eff. 7/1/1984.