Pike County Tax Commissioner (Donna Chapman): the Board of Assessors’ monthly S5 and SD veteran approvals, the January 13, 2026 State exemption amount, and the county’s homestead opt-out papers

The exemptions are Georgia's: O.C.G.A. 48-5-48 for the qualifying disabled veteran and 48-5-52.1 for the unremarried surviving spouse of a service member killed in a war or armed conflict - the State entries carry the statutes, the qualification list and the yearly indexed amount. What Pike's offices add is the route and the board's own record. Where and who. Tax Commissioner Donna Chapman, 79 Jackson Street, Zebulon, GA 30295; phone (770) 567-2001, fax (770) 567-2019; "Monday - 8:00am-5:00pm" through Friday, per the county's Tax Commissioner page; the office's payment site is pikecountypay.com. The county's Tax Commissioner page: "According to State Law, the Tax Commissioner is responsible for the administration of the Governor's Tax credit on real property taxes, the billing and collection of current and delinquent ad valorem taxes due to the State, the Board of Education, the Transit Authority, and the County." The assessors' own record. The Board of Assessors' 2026 letterhead seats "Parrish Swift, Chairman; Lyn Smith, Vice Chairman; Christopher Tea, Member; Brent Davis, Member; Brent Taylor, Member", with "Christy Cook, Chief Appraiser IV" and "Heather Burke, Deputy Chief Appraiser III" of Morton, Morton & Associates, LLC at 73 Jackson Street (770-567-2002); the January 2026 documents seat "Lyn Smith, Chairperson; M Gary Hammock; Tim Ingram; Christoper Tea; Parrish Swift" with Chief Appraiser Greg Hobbs - the board and the chief appraiser changed hands inside 2026. The board's posted 2026 agendas and minutes approve the veteran homesteads monthly: "Approval/Denial Homestead exemption 2 S5 (Disable Veteran under 65)-staff recommends approval ... Homestead exemption 2 SD (Disable Veteran over 65)-staff recommends approval", with the motions passing 4-0 and 5-0 across the year's files; the January 13, 2026 agenda carries "Approval of State exemption amount for disabled Veteran". The qPublic record-search site (qpublic.net/ga/pike) answers a Cloudflare-style block to plain fetch and was not read (the gap goes to docs/COUNTY-REVISIT.md). The county's homestead opt-out papers. The county's own home page posts "Press Release: Possibility of Opting Out of Homestead Exemption" and "Intent to Opt-Out of Homestead Exemption"; the documents (read through the Internet Archive's captures of the county's uploads) read: "The Pike County Board of Commissioners, in collaboration with the municipalities within Pike County, intends to opt out of the statewide adjusted base year ad valorem homestead exemption for Pike County", with the joint public hearings at the Courthouse Main Courtroom on Tuesday, January 28, 2025 at 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 9:00 a.m. and Tuesday, February 25, 2025 at 6:30 p.m., and the press release's note that "the local government must advertise its intent to opt out ... and conduct three (3) public hearings prior to considering a resolution to opt out ... documentation regarding any decision ... must be delivered to the State by March 1, 2025." The opt-out concerns the statewide floating homestead exemption; the disabled-veteran exemptions above are separate and unaffected. The route. A veteran files with the Board of Assessors before the April 1 deadline and reads the amounts on the State entries.