Why must the Measure and List program be completed?

The Department of Revenue mandates that all property in any municipality be  inspected on an ongoing rotation basis to insure the accuracy of information that is used for the basis of our assessments. If a property has less features than what is noted by the assessment record card, the result could be an assessment that is too high. If a property has features that are more than what the assessor has, the result could be an assessment that is too low. The result of that scenario is that other taxpayers pay an inequitable amount of taxes.