Assessment record
230 Assessment record
The council must maintain an assessment record.
The assessment record must contain:
(a) a brief description of each allotment within the area and a statement of its assessed value; and
(b) if a charge is imposed on non-rateable land in the area – a brief description of the land; and
the name and address of the owner of the land; and
(d) if the owner is not the principal ratepayer for the land – the name and address of the principal ratepayer; and
(e) if the land is subject to a different rate on the basis of its use – the land use; and
(f) other information the council directs to be included in the record.
The assessment record must be kept in an electronic form.
(4) A person with sufficient interest in the assessment record may inspect or copy the assessment record, at a fee fixed by the council, at the council's public office.
(5) A council may, by resolution, adopt a policy to provide for what constitutes a sufficient interest in the assessment record.
(6) However, the following may inspect or copy the assessment record free of charge:
(a) in relation to the part of the record for particular land – an owner, occupier or lessee of the land or the adjoining land or an agent of the owner, occupier or lessee of the land or the adjoining land;
the CEO of an Agency.
(7) The CEO must, at the request of a person to whom an entry in the assessment record relates, suppress the person's contact details from the publicly accessible copy of the record.
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