(a) Board of Review Established. A Board of Review, consisting of the Finance Director or a person or employee in the Finance Department designated by him, the Director of Law, or an Assistant Director of Law designated by him, and a member of Council to be elected by that body, is hereby created. The Board shall select, each year for a one-year term, one of its members to serve as Chairman and one to serve as Secretary. A majority of the members of the Board shall constitute a quorum. The Board shall adopt its own procedural rules and shall kept a record of its transactions. Any hearing by the Board may be conducted privately and the provisions of Section 181.12(i) hereof with references to the confidential character of information required to be disclosed by this chapter shall apply to such matters as may be heard before the Board on appeal.
(b) Duty to Approve Regulations and to Hear Appeals. All rules and regulations and amendments or changes thereto, which are adopted by the Administrator under the authority conferred by this chapter, must be approved by the Board of Review before the same become effective. The Board shall hear and pass on appeals from any ruling or decision of the Administrator, and at the request of the taxpayer or Administrator, is empowered to substitute alternate methods of allocation.
(c) Right of Appeal. Any person dissatisfied with any ruling or decision of the Administrator which is made under the authority conferred by this chapter may appeal therefrom to the Board of Review within thirty days from the announcement of such ruling or decision by the Administrator, and the Board shall, on hearing, have jurisdiction to affirm, reverse or modify any such ruling or decision, or any part thereof.
(Ord. 1970-12-20. Passed 10-14-70.)