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Show Constitutional Amendments Constitutional Amendment No. 1 RESOLUTION RELATING TO FILLING VACANCIES IN LEGISLATURE A joint resolution proposing an amendment amend-ment to Section 13 of Article VI of the constitution of the State of Utah, relating re-lating to vacancies in the legislature. Be it resolved by the Legislature of the State of Utah, two-thirds of all members mem-bers elected to each house concurring therein : SECTION 1 Sections to be amended. That it is proposed to amend Section 13 of Article VI of the constitution of the State of Utah so that the same shall read as follows : SECTION 13. Vacancies to be filled. Vacancies that may occur in either house of the legislature . shall be filled in such manner as may be provided by law. SECTION 2 Secretary of State to publish pub-lish The secretary of State is directed to cause this proposed amendment to t:e published as required by the constitution iind to be submitted to the electors of ihe State at the next genera! election In the manner provided by law. SECTION 3. In effect when. If np-proved np-proved by the electors of the State, this proposed amendment shall take effect on the 1st da of January,. 1931. Filed with the Secretary of State February Feb-ruary 21. 1930. Constitutional Amendment No. 2 RESOLUTION RELATING TO REVENUE AND TAXATION A Joint resolution proposing an amendment amend-ment to Sections 2 and 3 of Article 13 of the constitution of the State of Utah, relating to revenue and taxation. Be it resolved by the Legislature of the State of Utah. two - thirds of all members elected to each Ho uue concurring concur-ring therein : SECTION 1. Sections proposed to amend. That it is proposed to amend Sections 2 and 3 of Article XIII of the constitution of the State of Utah so th:it the same will read as follows: SECTION 2. Tangible property to he taxed how value ascertained properties exempt legislature to provide annual tax for State. All tangible property in the State, not exempt under the laws of the United States, or under this constitution, shall be taxed in proportion to its value, to be ascertained as provided hv law. The property of the United States, of the State, counties, cities, towns, school districts, municipal corporations and public libraries, libra-ries, lots with the buildings thereon used exclusively for either religious worship ct charitable purposes, and places of burial not held or used for private or corporate benefit, shall be exempt from tnxatron. Water rights, ditches, canals, reservoirs, power plants, pumping plant, transmission transmis-sion HneB, pipes and flumes owned and used by individuals or corporations for irrigating ir-rigating lands within the state owned by such individuals or corporations, or the individual members thereof, shall not be separately taxed as long as they shall be owned and used exclusively for such purposes. pur-poses. Power plants, power transmission lines and other property, used for generating gen-erating and delivering electrical power, a portion of which is used for furnishing power for pumping water for irrigation purposes on lands in the State of Utah, may be exempted from taxation to the extent that such property is used for such purposes. These exemptions shall accn-e to the benefit of the users of water so pumped under such regulations as the legislature leg-islature may prescribe. The taxes of the indigent poor may be remitted or abated at such times and in such manner as may be provided by law. The legislature may provide for the exemption from taxation of homes, homesteads, and persona property, prop-erty, not to exceed two hundred fifty dollars dol-lars In value for homes and homesteads, and one hundred dollars for personal property. prop-erty. Property not to exceed $3,000 in value, owned by disabled persons who served in any war in the military service of the United States or of the State or Utah and by the unmarried widows and minor orphans of such peisons may be exempted as the legislature may provide. The legislature shall provide by law for n annual tax sufficient, with other sources sour-ces of revenue, to defray the estimated ordinary or-dinary expenses of the State for each fiscal fis-cal year. For the purpose of paying the State debt, if any there be, the legislature legisla-ture shall provide for levying a tax annually, an-nually, sufficient to pay the annual interest inter-est and to pay the principal of such debt, within twenty years from the final passage of the law creating the debt. SECTION S. Assessment and taxation of tangible property regulation rate-deductions rate-deductions exemptions personal income in-come tax rates dispositions of revenues. The legislature shall provide by law a uniform uni-form and equal rate of assessment and taxation on all tangible property in the State, according to its value in money, and shall prescribe by law such regulations as shall secure a just valuation for taxation of such property, so that every person and corporation Bhall pay a tax in proportion propor-tion to the value of his, her, or Its tangible tan-gible property, provided that the legislature legisla-ture may determine the manner and extent of taxing transient live stock and live stock being fed for slaughter to be used for human consumption. Intangible property prop-erty may be exempted from taxation at property or It may be taxed in such manner man-ner and to such extent as the legislature may provide. Provided that if intangible property .be taxed as property the rate thereof shall not exceed five mills cn each dollar of valuation. When exemrtc-d from taxation as property, the taxable income therefrom shall be taxed under any tax based on incomes, but when taxed by the State of Utah as property, the income therefrom shall not also be taxed. The legislature may provide for deductions, exemptions, ex-emptions, andor offsets on any tax based upon income. The persona I income tax rates shall be graduated but J.e oiaxi- mum rate shall not exceed six ptr cent of net income. No excise tax rate based I upon income shall exceed four par cent of net income. The rate limitations herein contained for taxes based on income end for taxes on intangible property shall be effective until January 1, 197. and thereafter there-after until changed by law by a vote of the majority of the members elected to each house of th? legislature. All revenue rev-enue received f nni taxe3 on income or from taxes on in'.aniMe property shall be allocated as follows: 75 ncr cent thereof to the state district s;houl fund and 25 per cent thereof to the State general gen-eral fi.nr1 and tl;e State levies for such purposes shall oe reduced annually in proportion to the revenues so allocated; provided that any surplus -ibove .he revenue rev-enue required for the Slate district school fund as provided in Section 7 of this Article Ar-ticle shall be paid into the State general fund. SECTION 2. Secretary ot State to publish. The secretary of State is directed to cause this proposed amendment to bs published as required by the constitution nd to be submitted to the electors of the State ut the next general -lection u the manner provided by law. SECTION 3. To take effect when. If approved by the electors of the State this proposed amendment Bhall take effect on the 1st day of January, 1931. i Filed with the Secretary of State February Feb-ruary 25, 1930. Constitutional Amendment No. 3 RELATING TO STATE SCHOOL FUND AND MANNER OF DISTRinUTING INTEREST IN-TEREST OF SUCH FUND. A joint resolution providing for amendments amend-ments to house joint resolutions numbers num-bers three and eight passed by the teg-1 islature In 1929, proposing to amend I Section 3, Article X, and Section 7, Article Ar-ticle XIII of the constitution of the State of Utah relating to the State school fund and the manner of distributing the interest in-terest of such fund and other revenues of the several school districts of the I State. ! Be it resolved by the Legislature of the Stats of Utah, two-thirds of all the mem-bera mem-bera elected to each House concurring therein : SECTION 1. Resolution proposed to amend. That it is proposed to amend house joint resolution number 3 passed by the legislature in 1929, proposing to amend Section 3 of Article 10 of the constitution of the State of Utah so that the same will read as follows : SECTION 3. Proceeds of lands and other property per cent of proceeds per pctual fund. The proceeds of all lands that have been or may be granted by the United Unit-ed States to this Stale, for the support of the common schools: the proceeds of all property that may accrue to the State hy escheat or forfeiture : all unclaimed shares and dividends of any corporation incorporated under the laws of this State: the proceeds of the sale of timber, mineral or other property from school and State lands, other than those granted for specific purposes; and five per centum of the net proceeds of the sale of public lands lying within the State, which shall be sold by the United States subsequent tn the admission ad-mission of this State into the Onion, Bhall be and remain a perpetual fund, to bo called the State school fund, the merest of which only, shall be distributed among the several school districts according to the last preceding school census. SECTION 2. Resolution proposed to amend. That it is proposed to amend house joint resolution number 8 passed by the legislature in 1929, proposing to amend Section 7, of Article XIII of the constitution constitu-tion of the State of Uta1 so that the same will read as follows : SECTION 7. Rate of taxation not to exceed purpose distribution. The rate of taxation on tangible property Bhall not exceed on each dollar of valuation, two and four-tenths mills for general State purposes, two-tenths of one mill for high school purposes, which shall constitute the high school fund : Baid fund shall be apportioned ap-portioned in the manner the legislature shall provide, to the school districts maintaining main-taining high schools, and such levy for district school purposes which together with the interest on the permanent Bchool fund and such other funds as may be available for district school purposes, will raise annually an amount which equals $25.00 for each person of school age in the state as shown by the last preceding school census ; the same to be distributed among the school districts according to the last preceding school census: and in addition an equalization fund which when added to other revenues provided for this purpose pur-pose by the legislature shall be S5.00 for each person of school age as shown by the last preceding school census ; said equalization equali-zation fund shall be apportioned to the school districts in such manner as the legislature leg-islature shall provide. Said rates shall not be increased un less a proposition to increase the same specifying the rate or rates proposed and the time during which the same shall be levied, be first submitted submit-ted to a vote of such of the qualified electors elec-tors of the State, as in the year next preceding pre-ceding such election, shall have paid a property tax assessed to them within the State, and the majority of those voting thereon shall vote in favor thereof, in sucb manner as may be provided by law. SECTION 3. Secretary of State to publish. pub-lish. The secretary of State is directed to cause this proposed amendment to be published pub-lished as required by the constitution and to be submitted to the electors of the State at the next general election in the manner provided by law, as one proposition in lieu of H. J. R. numbers 3 and 8, passed at the regular session of the 18th legislature. SECTION 4. To take effect when. If approved by the electors of the State the proposed amendment Bhall take effect on the first day of January, 1931. Filed with the Secretary of State February Feb-ruary 25, 1930. Constitutional Amendment No. 4 RESOLUTION RELATING TO THE TAXATION OF MINES AND MINING PROPERTY A Joint resolution providing for an amendment amend-ment to Section A, Article 13, of the constitution of the Stote of Utah relating relat-ing to the taxation of mines and mining property. Be it resolved by the Legislature of the State of Utah, two-thirds of all the members mem-bers elected to each house concurring therein : SECTION 1. Sections proposed to amend. That it is proposed to amend Section Sec-tion 4, Article XIII, of the constitution of the State of Utah so that the same will read as follows : SECTION 4. Mines and claims to be assessed as-sessed basis and multiple what to be assessed as tangible property. All metalliferous me-talliferous mines or mining claims, both placer and rock in place, shall be assessed as the legislature shall provide; provided, the basis and multiple now used in determining de-termining the value of metalliferous mines for taxation purposes .nd the additional assessed value of $5.00 per acre thereof shall not be changed before January 1, 1935, nor thereafter until otherwise provided pro-vided by law. All other mines or mining claims and other valuable mineral deposits, including lands containing coal or hydrocarbons hydro-carbons and all machinery used in minimi and all property or surface improvements upon or nppurtenant to mines or mining claims, and the value of any surface use made of mining claims, or mining prop- et-ty for other than mining purposes, shall ( be assessed as other tangible property. -AW SECTION 2. Secretary of State to pub-lish. pub-lish. The secretary of State is directed tc cause this pi jposed amendment to be published pub-lished as required by the constitution and to be submitted to the electors of the State at the next general election in th- manner provided by law. SECTION 3. In effect when. If 3p proved by the electors of the State, this proposed amendment shall take effect on the 1st day of January, 1931. 1 Filed with the Secretary of State February Feb-ruary 25, 1930. Constitutional Amendment No. 5 A RESOLUTION CREATING A STATE Jk . TAX COMMISSION fj j A Joint resolution proposing an amend -ment to Section 11 of Article 13 of the constitution of the State of Utah, relating re-lating to revenue and taxation. Re it resolved by the Legislature of the State of Utah, two-thirds of all members mem-bers elected to each house concurring therein: SECTION 1 Sections proposed to amend. "That it is proposed to amend Section 11 of Article XIII of the constitution of the State of Utah so that the 6ame will read as follows : SECTION 11. Creation of State tax com mission membership governor lo ap point terms duties county boaitin duties. There shall be a State tax commission com-mission consisting of four members, riot more than two of whom shall belong to the same political party. The members of the commission shall be appointed h.v the governor, by and with the consent o( the senate, for such terms of office as may be provided by law. The State tax commission commis-sion shall administer and supervise the tax laws of the State. It shall nssess mines and public utilities and adjust and equalize the valuation and assessment of property among the several counties. It shall have such other powers of original assessment as the legislature may provide. pro-vide. Under such regulations in 6Uh i cases and within such limitations as the I legislature may prescribe, it shall estab j lish systems of public accounting, review ' proposed bond issues, revise the tax levies and budgets of local governmental units, and equalize the assessment and valuation of property within the counties. The du- J ties imposed upon the State board of j equalization by the constitution and laws of this fitate shall be performed by the State tax commission. In each county of this State there Bhal) be a county board of equalization consisting con-sisting of the board of county commission- 1 ers of said county. The county boards oi ? equalization shall adjust and equalize trie j valuation and assessment of the real and personal property within their respective J counties, subject to such regulation and "A x control by the State tax commission as V may be prescribed by law. The State tax ' commission and the county boards of i ' equalization shall each have such other powers as may be prescribed by the leg- islature. - i SECTION 2. Secretary of State to pub ! lish. The secretary of State is directed to cause this proposed amendment to be pub- j lished as required by the constitution and j to be submitted to the electors of the State at the next general election in tht 1 manner provided by law. ' SECTION 3. To take effect when If approved by the electors of the Stale, this proposed amendment shall take effeel on the 1st day of January, 1931. Filed with the Secretary of State February Feb-ruary 25, 1930. : Constitutional Amendment No. 6 RELATING TO THE LOCATION OF THE STATE PRISON AND STATE INSTITUTIONS A joint resolution proposing an amendment amend-ment to Section 3, of Article XIX of the constitution of the State of Utah, relating re-lating to the location of the State Prison. Be it resolved by the Legislature of the State of Utah, two-thirds of the members elected to each house concurring therein there-in : SECTION 1. Section proposed to amend That it is proposed to amend Section 8 of Article XIX of the constitution of the State of Utah so that the same will read as follows: SECTION S Location of public institn-tions institn-tions and disposition of lands. The public institutions of the State are hereby per-manently per-manently located at the places hereinaf-. ter named, each to have the lands epeci-fically epeci-fically granted to it by the United States, in the Act of Congress, approved July ICth. 1894, to be disposed of and used in such j manner as the legislature may provide: I First: The seat of government and the Stat fair at Salt Lake City. Second: The institutions for the deaf and dumb, and the blind, ind the State reforn II school at Ogden City, tn the county of Weber. Third: The Utah State hospital at Pro-vo Pro-vo City, in the county of Utah. SECTION 2. Secretary of State to pub- j lish. The secretary of State is directed to : ! cause this proposed amendment to be published pub-lished as required by the constitution anH to be submitted to the electors of the J State at the next general election in thr 4 manner provided by law. SECTION S. To take effect when. If approved by the electors of the S'ute, this proposed amendment shall take effect . on the 1st day of January, 1931. Filed with the Secretary of State Feb ruary 25, 1930 I. M. H. Welling, Secretary of State nt the State of Utah, do hereby certify th.it ' the foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of Constitutional Amendments No? ! 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 6 as proposed by the special session of the legislature of 1930 as the same appear of record in my of- ! fice. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Great Seal of j the State of Utah, this 1st day of September. Septem-ber. 1930. ; (SEAL) SmivUit of StaU. (j |