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County adopts tax freeze for senior citizens Disabled also to get break on property levy BY JOHN REYNOLDS AVALANCHE-JOURNAL Elderly and disabled homeowners will soon be eligible for a break in their county taxes following the Lubbock County commissioners' decision Monday to freeze the groups' property taxes. The vote, which passed unanimously, follows voters' passage last fall of state Proposition 13, which authorized local governments to freeze taxes paid by the two groups. Until then, a tax freeze for homeowners 65 or over ap plied only to school taxes. The average household savings should amount to about $41 per year,...