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PA Bulletin, Doc. No. 02-1241

NOTICES

STATE TAX
EQUALIZATION BOARD

Common Level Ratios

[32 Pa.B. 3457]

   The State Tax Equalization Board (Board) has established a Common Level Ratio for each county in this Commonwealth for the calendar year 2001. The ratios were mandated by Act 267-1982.

   The law requires the Board to use statistically acceptable techniques, to make the methodology for computing ratios public and to certify, prior to July 1, the ratio to the Chief Assessor of each county each year.

   The statistical technique which the Board used for the 2001 Common Level Ratio is to determine the arithmetic mean of the individual sales ratios for every valid sale received from the county for the calendar year 2001.

   The methodology used is to include every valid sale with a ratio from 1% to 100% and compute a mean. Using this mean as a base, the Board has defined high and low limits by multiplying and dividing this computed mean by four. Using these computed limits, the Board has utilized the valid sales, rejecting those sales which exceed the limits. The resulting arithmetic mean ratio is the ratio which the Board is certifying as the Common Level Ratio for each county for 2001.

   There is one exception to this procedure. The original mean ratio for those counties which have a predetermined assessment ratio for 2001 of 100% will utilize valid sales from 1% to 200%.

DANIEL G. GUYDISH,   
Chairperson

2001 COMMON LEVEL RATIOS

County Ratio
ADAMS 37.7
*ALLEGHENY 94.0
ARMSTRONG 42.0
BEAVER 34.6
*BEDFORD 21.5
*BERKS 93.5
BLAIR 9.4
BRADFORD 46.1
BUCKS 3.8
BUTLER 11.1
CAMBRIA 16.1
CAMERON 40.7
CARBON 48.7
CENTRE 41.1
*CHESTER 80.5
CLARION 21.7
CLEARFIELD 20.2
CLINTON 29.1
COLUMBIA 35.7
CRAWFORD 35.3
*CUMBERLAND 98.6
*DAUPHIN 53.0
*DELAWARE 92.6
ELK 19.1
ERIE 7.9
*FAYETTE 26.0
FOREST 21.8
*FRANKLIN 16.9
FULTON 13.7
GREENE 26.3
HUNTINGDON 18.3
INDIANA 15.1
JEFFERSON 17.9
JUNIATA 13.3
*LACKAWANNA 21.1
*LANCASTER 91.0
LAWRENCE 15.8
LEBANON 8.7
LEHIGH 46.2
LUZERNE 7.9
LYCOMING 67.3
MCKEAN 24.0
MERCER 9.0
MIFFLIN 52.4
MONROE 21.3
*MONTGOMERY 84.6
MONTOUR 9.3
NORTHAMPTON 46.0
NORTHUMBERLAND 13.6
*PERRY 95.7
PHILADELPHIA 31.4
PIKE 27.8
POTTER 10.8
SCHUYLKILL 46.6
SNYDER 17.7
SOMERSET 43.2
SULLIVAN 23.2
SUSQUEHANNA 45.7
TIOGA 30.2
UNION 17.5
*VENANGO 96.9
WARREN 36.5
WASHINGTON 16.5
WAYNE 9.0
*WESTMORELAND 22.7
WYOMING 29.3
*YORK 90.9

*Counties with a predetermined assessment ratio of 100%

[Pa.B. Doc. No. 02-1241. Filed for public inspection July 12, 2002, 9:00 a.m.]



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