(A) Research, duplication and copying efforts. This section shall apply to situations wherein a taxpayer of the county requests that the public offices research, duplicate, copy and provide to the taxpayer, a replacement property tax billing statement for a lost or misplaced property tax billing statement properly addressed and sent to such citizen or taxpayer, according to applicable state law and the addressing and transmission criteria of such. The duplication fee hereinafter defined shall not apply to the original provision of a property tax billing statement to a taxpayer, or to the provision of a duplicate or copied property tax billing statement to a taxpayer if such taxpayer can confirm to the applicable public office that the initial required billing statement was not properly mailed to the address for such property taxpayer shown on the applicable records of county government.
(B) Duplication fee. The duplication fee for the a property tax billing statement duplicate copy researched and provided by the public offices shall be as follows.
(1) For the time frame of January 1, 2012, through December 31, 2012, the duplication fee for a property tax billing statement duplicate copy shall be $2 payable at time of receipt of the copy by the property taxpayer.
(2) For all times from and after January 1, 2013, the duplication fee for a property tax billing statement duplicate copy shall be $5 payable at time of receipt of the copy by the property taxpayer.
(C) Deposit of payments received. All amounts paid pursuant to this section to the public offices shall be deposited in the General Fund of the county.
(Ord. 2011-422, passed 12-19-2011)