Kansas Statutes 75-5105a. Director of property valuation; powers and duties
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 75-5105a
- Devise: To gift property by will.
- Director: means the director of taxation. See Kansas Statutes 75-5173
- Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
- Property: includes personal and real property. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
The director of property valuation shall:
(a) Devise and prescribe uniform assessment forms and records, property-identification maps, land-classification maps, land-value maps, permanent record cards, and other essential assessment tools, and to assist each county with the installation and maintenance of the same.
(b) Devise or prescribe guides, or both, for the valuation of personal property. The director of property valuation may furnish to each county one copy of each guide so prescribed and a copy or copies of each guide so devised. In the preparation of such guides, the director of property valuation shall confer with representatives of the county appraisers and district appraisers, and shall seek counsel from official representatives of organized groups interested in and familiar with the value of classes of property with which they are concerned.
(c) Render all assistance possible toward uniform assessments within the counties and throughout the state.
(d) Assist county appraisers and district appraisers to determine the fair market value in money of nonstate assessed properties, the valuation of which requires specialized technical knowledge.
(e) Compile sales ratio data as provided by Kan. Stat. Ann. §§ 79-1486 through 79-1493, and amendments thereto, and to analyze such assessment data.
(f) Perform such other duties as may be prescribed by law.