Section 6-680 - List of residents for per capita tax purposes(a) In order that the board of school directors of each school district of the second, third, or fourth class may assess, levy, and collect a per capita tax of not less than one dollar nor more than five dollars on each resident or inhabitant over eighteen years of age in the district, it shall be the duty of the proper assessors in each such school district to prepare a list of residents or inhabitants in such school district over eighteen years of age, and return the same with the other taxable property in the district, as provided by law. In each school district all such lists of residents or inhabitants shall be included and certified in the list of taxable property to be certified to the board of school directors in each such school district, as herein provided. Assessors whose assessment district includes the whole or parts of more than one school district shall return separate lists of residents and inhabitants of each such school district.(b) Every resident or inhabitant in any school district, upon attaining eighteen years of age, and every person eighteen years of age or over becoming a resident or inhabitant in any school district, shall, within twelve months after the happening thereof, notify the proper assessors of his becoming of age or becoming a resident or inhabitant. Any person failing, within said period, to notify the assessors of the school district within which he resides, shall, in addition to the tax levied by such school district, be liable to such school district in a penal sum equal to such tax. The board of school directors shall, at the same time as they give public notice of a proposed budget, include a notice of the requirements of this subsection, together with the name and address of the assessor to be notified.
1949, March 10, P.L. 30, art. VI, § 680. Amended 1951, June 30, P.L. 962, No. 193, § 1; 1972, June 16, P.L. 449, No. 138, § 5.