Show CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT AD A JOINT RESOLUTION PROPOSING PROPOSING PRO PRO- POSING OSING TO 10 A AMEND ARTICLE ARTICLE ARTI AnTI CLE XIII SECTION 2 OF THE CONSTITUTION O 0 OF F T THE H E ESTATE STATE OF UTAH RELATING TO TANGIBLE PROPERTIES EXEMPT FROM TAXATION Be it resolved by the L Legislature Legislature Legis Legis- gis- gis lature of the tho State of or Utah two-thirds two of or all members elected elected elect elect- ed d to each of the two houses voting oUng in favor avor thereof Section 1 It Is proposed to amend Article XIII Section 2 I of or the constitution of or the State of or Utah to read as follows I in the All AU tangible property state date not exempt un under er the I laws la of the United States the State of or Utah or under this constitution shall be ta taxed cd in proportion to its value alue to be ascertained as provided b by law The property of or the thc state counties counties counties coun coun- ties cities dUes towns school districts districts districts dis dis- dis- dis municipal corporations and public libraries lots with the buildings thereon used exclusively exclusively ex ex- for either r religious worship or charitable purposes and places of or burial not held or used for private or corporate benefit shall be exempt from taxation Water Vater ri rights ditches canals reservoirs power plants pumping plants transmission lines pipes and flumes owned and used by bl individuals or corporations corporations corporations cor cor- for or irrigating ns- ns lands within the state owned by y such Ind Individuals or corporations or orthe orthe the individual members thereof shall hall not be separately taxed as aslon lon long as they shall be owned andu and u used d c- c exclusively for or such pur pur- poses Power plants power transmission lines and other property used for or generating Slivering eI erin electrical power a n portion of or which is used for for or furnishing power for or pumping water for or irrigation purposes on lands in the State of Utah may maybe maybe be 00 exempted empte from ta taxation alion to the extent that such property properly ia is d Uc l for such purposes These exem exemptions shall accrue to the benefit of oC the users of water co so pumped under such regulations regulations regulations regula regula- as the legislature may prescribe The taxes of or the indi- indi indigent gent cent poor may be remitted or abated at such times and in in such manner as may be pro provided ded by law The legislature may pro pro- Je Ie for or th the exemption from of or homes homesteads ds and personal property not to exceed O in value for homes and homesteads and md all household furnishings fun furniture itule and equipment used exclusively b by the owner thereof at his place of or abode in maintaining a home for or 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 of the United S States or of the State of or Utah and by the unmarried widows and md minor orphans of such disabled persons s s or of persons persons per per- sons who while a serving in ill the military service of or the United States or the thc State of or Utah were killed in action or died as asa asa asa a result of such service ma may be exempted as ns the thc le legislature ma may provide The legislature shall shan provide by bv law for an annual tax sufficient sufficient with wilh other sources of revenue to defray the estimated ordinary expenses of the State for or each fiscal year car Fur For the purpose of or paying aging the state debt if ir an any there be the leJ legislature legis is lature shall shat provide for or levying a tax annually su sufficient to Faythe pay Fay the annual interest and to ray pay the principal of such debt within within with with- in twenty years from irom the final pD passage of or the law creating the debt Section 2 The secretary of or state is directed to submit this proposed amendment to the electors eke elec tors of oC the State of or Utah in the next general election in the manner provided by In law Section 3 If IC adopted by the electors elector of oC this thin state this amendment nt shall shan take effect the first da day clay of or January Y 1961 I LAMONT F. F TORONTO Secretary of State of or the State of Utah DO HEREBY HEREDY CERTIFY CERTIFY CElt CElt- that the foregoing is a full rull true truo and correct copy of the constitutional amendment proposed proposed pro pro- posed by b- the tho regular session of or orthe the tho Thirty-Third Thirty Legislature 1959 as ns appears of record in my office IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set m my hand and affixed the Great Seal of oC the State of oC Utah at Salt Lake City tl thus this s da day of oC August 1960 LAMONT F. F TORONTO Secreta Secretary of or State SEAL |