A. There is hereby re-created a Court of Tax Review. For each case brought before the Court of Tax Review, the Chief Justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court shall assign the case to a judicial administrative district. The presiding judge of the judicial administrative district to which the case is assigned shall appoint a panel of three judges of the district court, who shall determine in what county the case will be heard. A majority of the three-judge panel shall be required to render a decision in each case. The Oklahoma Supreme Court shall establish court rules for the Court of Tax Review and the Clerk of the Oklahoma Supreme Court shall serve as Clerk of the Court of Tax Review.
B. The Court of Tax Review is hereby vested with jurisdiction over and shall hear:
1. Complaints regarding valuation of public service corporation property by the State Board of Equalization as authorized by Section 2881 of this title, for which a scheduling conference shall be required within twenty (20) days of the answer filed by the State Board of Equalization;
2. Complaints regarding actions of the State Board of Equalization regarding either intracounty or intercounty property value equalization as authorized by Section 2882 of this title; and
3. Appeals as authorized by Section 2830 of this title concerning Category 2 or Category 3 noncompliance as determined by the Oklahoma Tax Commission. The Court of Tax Review shall determine if a county deemed to be in Category 3 noncompliance is required to reimburse the Oklahoma Tax Commission from the county assessor's budget for all costs incurred as a result of the assumption of the valuation function by the Commission.
C. The Court of Tax Review shall prescribe procedures for the purpose of hearing properly filed protests against alleged illegal levies, as shown on the annual budgets filed with the State Auditor and Inspector. The Court shall reconvene as often as deemed necessary by the Court until final determination has been made as to all protested levies. The judges shall be paid their traveling and living expenses while acting as members of the Court, out of the funds now provided by law for payment of district judges' expenses when holding court outside the counties of their residence. Decisions of the Court of Tax Review concerning alleged illegal levies shall be subject to the provisions of Sections 3025, 3026, 3027, 3028 and 3029 of this title.
D. The Court of Tax Review as it existed prior to July 1, 1997, shall cease to exist and all duties and responsibilities of such court, except as provided in this section, shall be transferred to the Court of Tax Review as re-created in this section.
E. All cases which have not been submitted for determination in the Court of Tax Review as it existed prior to July 1, 1997, shall be transferred to the Court of Tax Review as it exists after July 1, 1997, for disposition. All cases which have been submitted by the parties for determination in the Court of Tax Review prior to July 1, 1997, shall remain with the panel to which they have been assigned for final determination.
Added by Laws 1965, c. 501, § 2. Amended by Laws 1979, c. 30, § 43, emerg. eff. April 6, 1979; Laws 1980, c. 361, § 3, eff. Oct. 1, 1980; Laws 1988, c. 162, § 154, eff. Jan. 1, 1992; Laws 1989, c. 321, § 24, operative Jan. 1, 1992. Renumbered from § 24104 by Laws 1988, c. 162, § 163, eff. Jan. 1, 1992, as amended by Laws 1991, c. 249, § 3, eff. Jan. 1, 1992. Amended by Laws 1992, c. 360, § 5, eff. July 1, 1992; Laws 1996, c. 97, § 20, eff. Nov. 1, 1996; Laws 1997, c. 337, § 3, eff. July 1, 1997.