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PUBLIC LAW 93-407-SEPT. 3, 1974
[88 STAT.
PART 2—^AUTHORITY AND PROCEDURE TO ESTABLISH READ PROPERTY TAX RATES SUBPART A D.C. Code 47 631.
REAL PROPERTY TxVX RATE
SEC. 411. Notwithstanding the provisions of the Act of June 2, 1922 (D.C. Code, sec. 47-501), there is hereby levied for each fiscal year a tax on the real property in the District of Columbia at a rate determined according to the provisions of this title. Unless otherwise provided by law, all revenues received from such tax shall be deposited, from time to time, in the Treasury of the United States, to the credit p. of the District of Columbia. Dx.'code^ 47?' SEC. 412. The Council, after public hearing, shall establish each year, ' 2. within thirty days after receipt of the Commissioner's recommendation under section 413, a rate of taxation which, except as provided in section 431, shall be applied, during the tax year, to the assessed value of all real property subject to taxation. The Council may by resolution extend the time for any year for setting such rate of taxation, except that if the Council does make such an extension, it must establish such a rate for that tax year. If the Council fails to establish such a rate within such thirty days, and fails to extend the time for establishing such a rate, the rate calculated by the Commissioner, pursuant to section 413, shall be the rate for that tax year. D.C. Code 47SEC. 413. (a)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), by July 15 633. of each year, the Commissioner shall calculate and submit to the Council a proposed real property tax rate for the tax year, and inform the Council of his certification of the assessment roll pursuant to section 426(g). The Commissioner may extend the period for submitting such recommendation. (2) With respect to the real property tax rate for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, the Commissioner shall submit his recommendation to the Council within 30 days after the date of enactment of this title. (b) At the time the Commissioner submits to the Council the proposed real property tax rate under subsection (a), he shall also submit the following: (1) The total aggregate assessed value of taxable real property for the year preceding the tax year by major class or type of property. (2) The estimated total aggregate assessed value of taxable real property for the tax year for which the property tax rate recommendation is being made, by major class or type of property, indicating separately for each class or type the estimated value attributable to new construction, (3) The real property tax rate (rounded to the nearest penny) calculated to yield in the tax year the same amount of revenue (exclusive of the revenue attributable to new construction) as was raised by that tax at the rate applicable during the year preceding the tax year. (c) The real property tax rate submitted by the Commissioner pursuant to subsection (a) shall become the real property tax rate applicable during the tax year for which it is submitted unless the Council acts to set a different such rate pursuant to section 412. (d) On or before February 1 of each year the Commissioner shall estimate as closely as possible the rate to be calculated in subsection (a) and shall so inform the Council. (e) The real property tax rate applicable in the District for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, calculated according to the provisions of sections 411,412,413, and 461, shall be applied to the assessment roll
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