Show CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT A JOINT RESOLUTION PROPOSING PROPOSING PRO PRO- POSING JOSING TO AMEND END ARTICLE ARTICLE ARTICLE ARTI ARTI- CLE XIII SECTION 2 OF THE CONSTITUTION 0 OF F T THE H E ESTATE STATE OF UTAH RELATING TO TANGIBLE PROPERTIES EXEMPT FROM TAXATION Be it resolved by the Legislature Legislature Legis Legis- lature of the State of Utah two-thirds two of all members elected elected elected elect elect- ed to each of the two houses voting yoting in favor or thereof Section 1 It is proposed to amend Article XIII Section 2 of the constitution of or the State of Utah to read as follows All tangible property in the i. i state not exempt under the I laws of at the United States Slates the State of Utah or under this constitution shall be taxed in proportion to its value to be ascertained as provided by br law The TIle property of the state counties counties counties coun coun- ties cities towns tp school districts dis dis- dis tHeta municipal corporations and md public libraries lots with the buildings thereon con used exclusively exclusively ex ex- elusively for either religious worship or charitable purposes and places of or burial not held or used for pr private Tate or corporate benefit shall be 00 exempt from taxation Water Vater rights ditches canals reservoirs power plants pumping plants transmission lines pipes pines and flumes owned and used by individuals or corporations corporations corporations cor cor- for irrigating lands within the state owned by such Individuals or corporations or orthe orthe the individual indi members thereof shall not be te separately taxed as long as they shall be owned and used exclusively cly for or such pur pur- poses Power plants power transmission lines and other property used for generating delivering electrical power a portion of or which is used for furnishing pow power r for pumping water for irrigation purposes on lands in the State SUite of or Utah may maybe maybe maybe be exempted from taxation to the extent that such property properly is used for such purposes These exemptions shall accrue to the benefit of the users of water BO 80 o pumped under such regulations regulations regula regula- as the legislature may prescribe The taxes cs of the tho indigent indi gent poof may be remitted or abated at such tithes times and in such manner as may be provided by by- law The rhe legislature may provi provide pro pro- vi vide e for the exemption from taxation of homes homesteads 9 and personal person property not to exceed 20 in value for homes and homesteads and all household furnishings furn furniture turc and equipment used exclusively ely by the owner thereof at lot his place of abode in maintaining a 1 home for himself and family Property not to exceed in value owned b by disabled persons who served in any war warIn warin in the military service ser of the United States or of the State of Utah and b by the unmarried widows and minor orphans of such disabled persons or of l persons persons per per- er sons who while serving in the military service of the United States or the State of Utah were killed in action or died as asa asa a 1 result of such service mn may be bo exempted as the legislature may provide pro The legislature shall provide by law for an annual tax sufficient with other sources of revenue to de defray ra the estimated ordinary expenses of the State for each fiscal yeas year For Fur the J purpose of payin paying the state debt if an any 9 there be th the th legislature legislature legislature legis legis- lature shall provide for Je levying ing inga a tax annually suf sufficient to pay the annual interest and to pay the principal of such debt wIthin within within with wIth- in twenty years from the final passage o of the law creating the debt Section 2 The secretary of state is directed to submit this proposed amendment to the elect electors elec elec- t tors rs of the State of Utah in the next general election in tho the manner provided by law Section 3 If adopted by the electors of this state this amendment shall take effect the first cia day of January 1961 I LAMONT F F. F TORONTO Secretary of or of the State o of Utah DO HEREBY CERTIFY CERTIFY CERTIFY that the foregoing is a full tru true and correct copy COP of the constitutional amendment proposed proposed proposed pro pro- posed by the regular session of oC the Thirty Thiril Legislature 1959 as appears of record in my office IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Great Seal of the State o of Utah at nt Salt Lake City this 2nd day of August 1960 LAMONT F. F TORONTO Secretary of State Stat SEAL A 6 |