Show CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT A JOINT RESOLUTION PROc PROPOSING PRO PRO- PROPOSING c POSING TO AMEND ARTICLE ARTICLE ARTICLE ARTI ARTI- 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 Legislature Legislature Legislature Legis Legis- lature of the State of Utah two-thirds two of all members elected elected elected elect elect- ed ed to each of the two houses voting in favor thereof Section 1 It is proposed to amend Article XIII Section 2 of the constitution of the State of Utah to read as follows t All tangible property in the state not exempt under the laws of the United States the State of Utah or under this constitution shall be taxed in proportion to its value to beI be I ascertained as provided by law The property of the state counties counties coun coup ties cities towns school districts districts districts dis dis- dis- dis municipal corporations and public libraries lots with the buildings thereon used exclusively exclusively ex ex- ex- ex elusively for either religious worship or charitable purposes and places of burial not held or used for private or corporate benefit shall be exempt from taxation Water rights ditches canals reservoirs power plants pumping plants transmission lines Jines pipes and flumes owned and use used by individuals or corporations corporations corporations cor cor- for irrigating lands within the state owned by y such individuals or corporations or orline orthe the line individual members thereof shall not be separately taxed as fon long dong as they shall be owned and use used exclusively for such pur pur- poses Power plants power transmission lines and other property used for generating I delivering electrical power a I portion of which is used for or orf f furnishing power for pumping g water for for irrigation purposes on t lands In in the State of Utah may be exempted from taxation t to o v the he extent that such property is 18 used for such purposes Thesy Thes e y exemptions shall accrue to th the e benefit of the users of water wate er r so pumped under such regulations regulations regula regula- regulations as the legislature ma may prescribe The taxes of the indigent indigent indigent indi indi- gent poor poor may be remitted o or r abated abate at nt such times and i in n such manner as ns may be provided provide by bf law The legislature may provide provide pro pro- vide for the exemption from Iron taxation of homes homesteads t ids L. L and personal property not to exceed 2000 in value for homes and homesteads and all household furnishings furniture and equipment use used exclusively b by the owner thereof at his place of abode in maintaining a home for himself and family Property not to exceed in value owned by disabled persons who served in any warin war warin warIn in the military service of the United States or of the State of Utah and by the unmarried widows and minor orphans of such disabled persons or of persons persons per per- sons who while serving in the military service of the United States or or the State of Utah were killed in action or died asa asa as a result of such service may be exempted as 33 the legislature may provide The legislature shall provide by law for an annual tax sufficient sufficient sufficient with other sources of revenue to defray the estimated ordinary expenses of the State for each fiscal year For the purpose of paying the state debt if any there be the legislature legislature legis legis- lature shall provide for levying a tax annually sufficient to pay the annual interest and to pay ay the principal of such debt wIthin within with wIth- in in twenty years from the final passage of th the law creating the debt Section 2 2 The secretary of state is directed to submit this proposed amendment to the electors electors elec elec- tors of the State of Utah in the next general election in the manner manner provided b by law Section 3 3 If adopted by the electors of this state this amendment shall take effect the first firs day of January 1961 I LAMONT F. F TORONTO Secretary of State of the State of Utah DO HEREBY CERTIFY CERTIFY that the foregoing is a aull full ull true and correct copy of the constitutional amendment proposed proposed proposed pro pro- posed by the regular session of the Thirty-Third Thirty Legislature 1959 as ns appears of record in my office IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Great Seal of the State of Utah at Salt Lake City this day of August 1960 LAMONT F. F TORONTO Secretary of State SEAL |