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Show CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT 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 this 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 exclusively ex-clusively 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, pipes and flumes owned ' and used by individuals or cor-t cor-t porations for irrigating 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 pur-i pur-i poses. Power plants, power , transmission lines and other . property used for generating 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 accrue to the ! benefit of the users of water ; so pumped under such regula-i regula-i 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 1 by law. The legislature may pro- vide for the exemption from taxation of homes, homesteads, 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 $0,000 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 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 legis-lature shall provide for levying a tax annually, sufficient to pay the annual interest and to pay the principal of such debt, within with-in twenty years from the final passage of the law creating the debt. Section 2. The secretary of state is directed to submit this proposed amendment to the electors elec-tors of the State of Utah in the next general election in 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, 1961. I, LAMONT F. TORONTO, Secretary of State 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) |