Show CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT No A JOINT RESOLUTION PROPOSING PROPOSING PROPOSING PRO PRO- POSING TO AMEND Al ARTICLE ARTICLE ARTICLE ARTI ARTI- CLE XIII SECTION 2 OF THE CONSTITUTION 0 OF F T THE II E ESTATE STATE OF UTAH RELATING TO 10 TANGIBLE PROPERTIES EXEMPT FROM TAXATION Be it resolved by the Lc Legislature Legislature Legisla Legisla- isla- isla ture of the State of Utah two two thirds thirds of all members elected to each of the Houses voting in favor thereof Section 1 It is proposed to amend Article XIII Section 2 of ot the Constitution of the State of Utah to read as follows Section 2 All tangible property property property prop prop- erty in the state not exempt under the laws of the United States or under this tion shall shaH be taxed 1 in proportion proportion proportion tion to its value to be ascertained ascertained ascer ascer- tamed as provided b by b law The fhe property of the state counties cities towns school districts municipal corporations and public public pub pub- lic lie libraries es lots with the buildings buildings buildings build build- ings thereon used exclusively for either religious worship or charitable purposes and places of burial not held or used for private or corporate bene benefit it shall shaH be he exempt from taxation Water Vater rights ditches canals reservoirs power plants pumping pumping pump pump- ing hg plants transmission lines pipes and flumes owned o and andus us ug used d by individuals or corporations corporations corporations corpora corpora- for irrigating lands within the state owned by such individuals individuals or corporations or the in individual individual individual in- in members thereof shall shaH not be separately taxed as lon lonas long longas as they shall be owned and used exclusively for such purposes Power plants power transmission transmission transmission sion lines and other property used for generating and delivering delivering ering electrical power a n portion of which is used for furnishing power pumping um ing water for irrigation irrigation gation purposes on lands in the State of Utah may mav be he exempted from taxation to the extent that such property is used for such purposes These exemptions shall accrue to the benefit of or orthe the users of water so pumped under such regulations as the legislature may prescribe The taxes of the indigent poor POOl may mav maybe maybe be remitted or abated at such times and in such manner as may be provided by law Jaw The legislature mn may provide for the exemption emption from irom taxation of or homes homesteads and person person- al property not to 2000 in value for homes am ane homesteads and all furnishings s furniture a and n d equipment used c. c exclusively by the owner thereof at his place of abode in maintaining a home for himself and family Property Proper Proper- ty not to e exceed in value alue owned b by disabled persons who served in any my war in the military mill mili tary service CC of the Uni United States Stales or of the S State te of Utah and by the unmarried widows widow And minor orphans of oC such disabled disabled disabled dis dis- dis- dis persons or of persons sons who while wItHe serving in the military service ice of the United States or orthe orthe orthe the State of or Utah were killed in action or died as a result o of such service ser may be exempted as the Ute legislature may provide The legislature shall pro provide b by law for an m annual tax sufficient sufficient dent with other sources of or revenue revenue revenue rev rev- to defray the estimated ordinary expenses of or the state slate for each fiscal year year For the purpose of or paying paying the state debt jf any there be the le legislature legislature legis legis- is- is lature lalure shall provide for levying yin a tax annually sufficient to pay the annual interest and to pa pay the principal of such debt within with mth in twenty years yeal from the final passage of or the law creating the debt debtS Section 2 The secretary of ot state is directed to submit this thus proposed amendment to the electors of the State of Utah iRali in the next general election in inthe inthe inthe the manner provided by law Section 3 If adopted by the electors of this state this amendment shall take effect the first day of January 1963 J I LA LAMONT F. F TORONTO Secretary of State of the State of Utah DO HEREBY Y CERTIFY CERTIFY that the foregoing is a n full true and correct copy oPY of the constitutional amendment proposed b by the regular session n of the Thirty-Fourth Thirty L Legislature Legislature Legisla Legisla- is a- a ture 1961 as appears of ot record in my office IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have llave hereunto set my ray hand and affixed the Great S al of the State of Utah at it S Salt lt Lake City this day a ay August of-August 1962 5 JA LAMONT F. F TORONTO Secretary Slate ot-Slate J SEAL |