| (a) In order to expeditiously determine the appeals using available resources, the chief judge may limit the number of appeals to SOAH under this chapter during the four-year period from January 1, 2010, through December 31, 2013, to a total of 3,000 appeals. The number of appeals for any calendar year during the period from January 1, 2011 through December 31, 2013, may be limited to 980. (b) If the chief judge determines that available resources require that appeals be limited, the appeals that may be filed from Bexar, Cameron, El Paso, Harris, Tarrant, Travis, Collin, Denton, Fort Bend, Montgomery, and Nueces Counties will be determined based on the total number of lawsuits filed concerning appraisal review board orders during 2008 in each respective county as a percentage of the total number of lawsuits filed in all of those counties during 2008. (c) If appeals are limited during any of the years designated in subsection (a) of this section, the percentage of appeals from each county, as determined from the formula in subsection (b) of this section, is as follows for the period from January 1, 2010 through December 31, 2011: Bexar, 12%; Cameron, 1.0%; El Paso, 2.0%; Harris, 63%; Tarrant, 14%; and Travis, 8.0%. (d) The appeals will be accepted by SOAH in the order that they are received. (e) If appeals are to be limited for any year, the chief judge will notify the chief appraiser of each appraisal district of the number of allowable appeals from the respective counties. A chief appraiser may not accept any additional appeals by property owners of board orders after a county has received its allowable number of appeals for the applicable year. |
