Vermont Statutes and Real Estate Training with Jim Knapp, Day 2

Part 2 of 2: Attorney Jim Knapp explores the sources of the law that regulate the process of establishing value and assessing property taxes. We look at the major sources of laws, the Constitution, statutes, cases, and regulations. The sessions provide the tools to find statutes, cases, and regulations from various online resources and in the published materials. The lesson focuses on the laws applicable to the tasks performed by municipal assessing officials. The discussions include:

The sources of law
How laws are created and changed
How to find the law in the books and how to use online resources
How the judicial system operates and how cases are tried
Reading court decisions and how judges apply the law to factual situations
Scenarios involving exempt properties

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