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Show CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT and personal property, not to exceed $2,000 in value for homes and homesteads, and all household furnishings, furniture, and equipment used exclusively by the owner thereof at his place of abode in maintaining a home for himself and family. Property, not to exceed $".000 in value, owned by disabled . persons who served in any war in the military service of the United States or of the State of Utah and by the unmarried widows and minor orphans oi such disabled persons or of persons per-sons who while serving in the military service of the United States or the State of Utah were killed in action or died as a result of such service may be exempted as the legislature may provide. The legislature shall provide by law for an annual tax sufficient, suffi-cient, with other sources oi revenue, to defray the estimated ordinarv exnsn-.es of th- .c"-,t(p A JOINT RESOLUTION PROPOSING PRO-POSING TO AMEND ARTICLE ARTI-CLE XIII, SECTION 2 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF UTAH, RELATING TO TANGIBLE PROPERTIES EXEMPT FROM TAXATION. Be it resolved by the Legislature Legis-lature of the State of Utah, two-thirds of all members elected elect-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: All tangible property in the state, not Exempt under the laws of the United States, the State of Utah, or under tiiis constitution, shall be taxed in proportion to its value, to be ascertained as provided by law. The property of the state, counties, coun-ties, cities, towns, school districts, dis-tricts, municipal corporations and public libraries, lots with the buildings thereon used cx-' for each fiscal year. For the purpose of paying the state debt, if any there be, the legislature legis-lature shall provide for levying a tax annually, sufficient to pay '.he r.":r,'.al interest and to ray '.s rck-.cipr.'. of zu.S.i debt, within with-in twenty years from the final 'asnage of the law creating the debt. Section 2. The secretary of state is directed to submit this nronosed r.m?ndmont to th elcc-to:v. elcc-to:v. of tits C-.ate of Utah in t ic noxt gensral election in the rjr::r.:i- provided by lew. Section 3. If adopted by the electors oi this stai.e, this amendment shall take effect the first day of January, 19G1. I, LAMONT F. TORONTO, Secretary of Slate of the State of Utah, DO HEREBY CERTIFY CER-TIFY that the foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of the constitutional amendment proposed pro-posed by the regular session of the Thirty-Third 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 of Utah, at Salt Lake City, this 22nd day of August, 1960. LAMONT F. TORONTO Secretary of State. (SEAL) clusively tor either religious worship or charitable purposes, and places o.' burial not held or used for private or corporate benefit, shall be exempt from taxation. Water ri.-'.-.ts, ditches. er.naU, recervoire, power plants, pumping plants, transmission lines, pipes and flumes owned and used by individuals or corporations cor-porations for irrigating lands within the -state owned by such individuals or corporations, or tee individual nieii.bere, thj.voi. shell not be separately taxed as ior. ; as they shall be cvn:d and used exclusively for such purposes. pur-poses. Power i:-'vc: transmission lines and other property used for generating delivering electrical power, a -ortion of which is usd for burnishing power for pumping water for in'.gatiun purposes mi lands in the State of Utah, may be exempted from taxation to the e::tcnt that such property is used for such purposes. These exemptions shall accrue to the : benefit of the users of water so pumped under such regula- ; tions as the legislature may prescribe. The taxes of the indigent indi-gent poor may be remitted or abated at such times and in such manner as may be provided by law. The legislature may pro- ; vide for the exemption from taxation of homes, homesteads, |