Section 619 Of Article 6. Assessment Roll From California Revenue And Taxation Code >> Division 1. >> Part 2. >> Chapter 3. >> Article 6.
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. (a) Except as provided in subdivision (f), the assessor shall,
upon or prior to completion of the local roll, do either of the
following:
(1) Inform each assessee of real property on the local secured
roll whose property's full value has increased over its full value
for the prior year of the assessed value of that property as it shall
appear on the completed local roll.
(2) Inform each assessee of real property on the local secured
roll, or each assessee on the local secured roll and each assessee on
the unsecured roll, of the assessed value of his or her real
property or of both his or her real and his or her personal property
as it shall appear on the completed local roll.
(b) The information given by the assessor to the assessee pursuant
to paragraph (1) or (2) of subdivision (a) shall include a
notification of hearings by the county board of equalization, which
shall include the period during which assessment protests will be
accepted and the place where they may be filed. The information shall
also include an explanation of the stipulation procedure set forth
in Section 1607 and the manner in which the assessee may request use
of this procedure.
(c) In the case of an increase in a property's full value that is
determined pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) over the
property's full value determined for the prior year in accordance
with paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 51, the information
shall also include the base year value of the property, compounded
annually from the base year to the current year by the appropriate
inflation factors.
(d) The information shall be furnished by the assessor to the
assessee by regular United States mail directed to him or her at his
or her latest address known to the assessor. The assessor may choose
to accept a written request from the assessee to provide the
information by electronic mail in lieu of by regular United States
mail.
(e) Neither the failure of the assessee to receive the information
nor the failure of the assessor to so inform the assessee shall in
any way affect the validity of any assessment or the validity of any
taxes levied pursuant thereto.
(f) This section shall not apply to annual increases in the
valuation of property which reflect the inflation rate, not to exceed
2 percent, pursuant to the authority of subdivision (b) of Section 2
of Article XIII A of the California Constitution, for purposes of
property tax limitation determinations.
(g) This section does not apply to increases in assessed value
caused solely by changes in the assessment ratio provided for in
Section 401.
(h) This section shall become operative on January 1, 1999.