ADOPTED

The adopted resolution calls on Philadelphia’s property assessment agencies to allow property owners appealing an assessment to request an in-person inspection of the property’s exterior and interior. It also calls for owners who refuse an interior inspection to be barred from appealing that assessment, while allowing certain owners with increased 2009 notices for 2010 to start or reopen an appeal if they permit an inspection.

Calling on the Board of Revision of Taxes and the agencies that will replace the BRT if the voters of Philadelphia abolish it, to adopt regulations authorizing a property owner who is appealing an assessment to request an in-person inspection of the outside and inside of his or her property as part of the appeal process; and providing that a property owner who refuses to permit inspection of the inside of his or her property by an assessor shall be precluded from appealing the pending assessment of that property.