Comparison of Tax Rolls and Assessment.
Milwaukee City Charter § 19-09
in effect19-09. Comparison of Tax Rolls and Assessment.
Such tax roll, before being delivered to the treasurer, shall be compared by the commissioner of assessments with the assessment rolls on file in his or her office, as corrected; and the commissioner shall cause the valuations of real property, and of taxes and assessments thereon, in said roll, to be footed up and a summary of the totals for the several districts and for the whole city to be set down showing separately the totals of valuations and of taxes and assessments upon real estate for the whole city and for each district thereof, and the commissioner may direct that the assessments of personal property or of one or more of the classes of real property referred to in s. 70.32(2), Wis. Stats., may be made and administered without regard to the boundaries of the districts, and to said tax roll shall append a certificate that the same has been so compared and that the said assessment rolls and the whole thereof have been copied into such tax roll; and the said tax roll, when so certified, shall be prima facie evidence in any court that the lands and persons therein named were subject to taxation, and that the assessment was just and equal.
(HISTORY: Section 19-09 am. File #921113, Oct. 30, 1992; eff. Jan. 18, 1993.)
Source: City of Milwaukee Legislative Reference Bureau, Milwaukee City Charter and Code of Ordinances (city.milwaukee.gov master PDFs)URL: https://city.milwaukee.gov/ImageLibrary/Groups/ccClerk/Ordinances/City-Charter/CH19.pdf#page=2Fetched: 10/26/2026