(a) There is hereby created the position of county tax assessor who shall serve as head of the department of property appraisal and assessments and who shall have the responsibility of managing and supervising the performance and functions of the department, in addition to those responsibilities imposed upon the tax assessor by the general law of this state. The tax assessor shall be appointed in the same manner as are other department heads under the administrative and management jurisdiction of the county administrator.
(b) The tax assessor for the county shall have such duties, functions and responsibilities as are set forth in Act 208 of the 1975 Acts and Joint Resolutions of the General Assembly, as heretofore amended by Act 618 of the 1976 Acts and Joint Resolutions and implemented by state tax commission regulations; and the tax assessor for the county may not serve as a member of the county board of tax appeals or the board of assessment appeals created by § 7-51 of this Code.
(1976 Code, § 7-23) (Ord. 535, § 3; Ord. 648, § 2)