§ 7. Increase of Assessment.

If it shall seem to the Council that any valuation on the assessment roll should be increased, or that any other correction of the said roll should be made, except by reduction of valuation or in accordance with a petition presented as aforesaid, the Council shall give the owner of the property affected, if known, notice of the proposed increase or correction at least ten days previous to a regular or special meeting at which he may be heard. Such notice shall be by publication at least once in some newspaper published in the City, and shall contain the name of the owner, if known, a brief description of the property and the proposed action of Council as to increase of valuation or* correction, and shall name the time when a hearing can be had before the Council. If the owner is unknown the owner shall be given in the notice as "unknown owner," or simply as "unknown." The Council may direct either by resolution or by ordinance that notice be also sent through the mail or delivered personally to the owner or his agent or attorney, but is shall rest in the discretion of the Council so to direct. All the provisions of section six** relating to the continuance and the adjournments of the meeting and the regulations of the hearing shall apply to the meeting and the regulation of the hearing shall apply to the meeting and the hearing provided for in this section. Final action on the proposed increases of valuations and corrections shall be taken at such meeting or some adjournment thereof, and as soon as practicable all changes made by the Council shall be entered by the Assessor on the assessment roll.

(Laws of Fla. ch. 15394(1931), § 7)

*The word "or" read "of" in the original Act.

**The preceding section.