Act No. 2653

Section 1. Subsection (d) of section seven of the same Act, as amended by Act Numbered Twenty-five hundred and sixteen, is hereby amended to read as follows:

"(d) To assess and value all permanent utilizable improvements made upon the property during the preceding year; but the owner may make use of the right of appeal mentioned in section six of this Act: Provided, That for the purposes of the assessment and valuation, the following shall not be considered as improvements: Fruit trees, unless the land is planted principally to the same, and cana espina and cana bojo."

Section 2. Section twelve of Act Numbered Twenty-two hundred and thirty-eight is hereby amended to read as follows:

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Section 12. ℒαwρhi৷ Real property declared for the first time shall have taxes assessed against it from and including the year in which, under the provisions of then existing law, the same would have been subject to taxation; but such taxes shall not be collected for more than the four years preceding the one in which the assessment was made. Real oroperty part of the area or improvements of which have been declared for the first time shall not be taxed as to the area or improvements newly declared until the year next following the one in which the assessment was made.

This Act shall take effect on its passage

Section 3. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted February 24, 1916.