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ATTY/CHARTER AMENDMENTS/2018/2018 FINAL CHARTER AMENDMENTS REV: 07-18-18 VR Page 32 of 45 to the system provided by the general laws of the State; provided, that all sales for delinquent taxes shall be made to the City of Redwood City. Should the Council fail to fix the tax rate within the time prescribed, then the tax rate of the previous year shall constitute the rate of the current year. Section 53.5. TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS: Notwithstanding any provisions of this Charter to the contrary, the Council may, by ordinance, provide for the transfer of those municipal functions and those duties of cCity officers which relate to the assessment of property, including special assessments thereon, the equalization and correction of assessments, the collection, payment and enforcement of current and delinquent taxes, and the redemption of property, to the County of San Mateo or to such County officers as the Council determines appropriate. The provisions of this section shall supersede and control all other provisions of this Charter in conflict herewith. (As amended November 6, 1962, ratified by Legislature January 14, 1963.) Section 54. BOARD OF EQUALIZATION: The City Council shall serve as the Board of Equalization and shall meet on either the first, second or fourth Monday of July of each year at 7:00 p.m. and continue in session by adjournment from day to day until all returns of the aAssessor have been rectified and assessments equalized. The Board of Equalization shall have power to hear complaints, to take testimony under oath, and to correct, modify, strike out, or raise any assessment, provided that notice shall first be given to anyone whose assessment is proposed to be raised, excepting in case of a uniform increase in the assessed valuation of the property of the entire cCity. (As amended April 8, 1958, ratified by Legislature April 18, 1958, as amended November; as amended November 8, 2005 certified by Secretary of State January 24, 2006.) Section 55. ANNUAL TAX LEVY: The Council must finally adopt, not later than its first regular meeting in September, an ordinance levying upon the assessed valuation of all property in the cCity, a rate of taxation sufficient to raise the amounts estimated to be required in the annual budgets and as herein provided, less the amounts estimated to be received from fines, licenses, and other sources of revenue. The Council shall then deliver the assessment roll to the aAuditor, who shall thereupon compute and carry out the amount of the tax so levied on each parcel of property contained in the assessment roll. The corrected list for each tax shall be the assessment roll of said tax for said year, and it shall be certified by the aAuditor as being the assessment roll of said tax. Section 56. LIMIT OF TAX LEVY: The tax levy authorized by the Council to meet the municipal expenses for each fiscal year shall not exceed the rate of two dollars on each one hundred dollars of the assessed valuation of the real and personal property within the cCity, except as in this Charter otherwise provided, when