The assessor shall take charge of the assessor’s office and perform the following duties provided under Book II of the Local Government Code:

• Ensures that laws and policies governing the appraisal and assessment of real properties for taxation purposes are properly executed;

• Initiates, review and recommends changes in policies and objectives, plans and programs, techniques, procedure and practices in the valuation and assessment of real properties for taxation purposes;

• Establishes a systematic method of real property assessment;

• Installs and maintains a real property identification and accounting system;

• Prepares, installs and maintains a system of tax mapping, showing graphically all properties subject to assessment and gather all data concerning the same;

• Conducts frequent physical surveys to verify and determine whether all real properties within the province are properly listed in the assessment rolls;

• Exercise the functions of appraisal and assessment primarily for taxation purposes of all real properties in the local government unit concerned;

• Prepares a schedule of the fair market value for the different classes of real properties, in accordance with Title Two, Book II of the Local Government Code;

• Issues, upon request of any interested party, certified copies of assessment records of real property and all other records relative to its assessment, upon payment of a service charge or fee to treasurer;

• Submits every semester a report of all assessments, as well as cancellations and modification of assessments, to the local chief executive and the sanggunian concerned;

• In the case of the assessor of a competent city or municipality attend, personally or through an authorized representative, all sessions of the Local Board of Assessment Appeals whenever his assessment is the subject of the appeal and present or submit any information or record in his possession as may be required by the Board;

• In the case of the provincial assessor, exercise technical supervision and visitorial functions over all component city and municipal assessors, coordinates with the component city or municipal assessors in the conduct tax mapping operation;

• Authorized to administer oaths on all declarations of real property for purposes of assessment.