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Show Constitutional Amendments such purposes shall bo reduced annually in proportion to the revenues fo allocated : provided that any surplus above the revenue rev-enue required for the Slate district school fund as provided in Section 7 of this Article Ar-ticle shall be raid into the State general fund. SUCTION 2. Secretary of State to publish. The secretary of State is directed to caur.e tni3 proposed amendment to be published 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. SECTION 3. To take, effect when. If approved by the electors of the State thi3 proposed amendment shall take effect un the 1st day of January, 1931. Filed with the Secretary of State February Feb-ruary 25, 1930. claims and other valuable mineral deposits, including lands eontnining coal or- hydrocarbons hydro-carbons and all machinery used in mining nnd all property or surface improvements upon or appurtenant to mines or mining claims, and the value of any surface use made of mining claims, or mining properly prop-erly for other than mining purposes, shall be assessed as other tangible property. SECTION 2. Secretary of Slate 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. SECTION 3. In effect when. If up. proved by the electors of the State, this proposed amendment 6hall take effect on the 1st day of January, 1931. Filed with the Secretary of State February Feb-ruary 25, 1930. Constitutional Amendment No. 1 RESOLUTION RELATING TO FILLING VACANCIES IN LEGISLATURE A Joint resolution proposing on amend, ment to Section IS 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 nf all members mem-bers elected to each house concurring therein : SECTION 1 Sections to he 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 be published 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. SECTION 3. In effect when. If approved ap-proved by the electors of the State, this proposed amendment shall take effect on the 1st day of January, 1931. Filed with the Secretary of State February Feb-ruary 21, 1930. Constitutional Amendment No. 5 A RESOLUTION CHEATING A STATE TAX COMMISSION A joint resolution proposing an amendment amend-ment to Section 11 of Article 13 of the constitution of tho State of Utah, relating, re-lating, to revenue and taxation. Be it resolved by the Legislature of the State of Utah, two-thirds- of all members mem-bers elected to each house concurring Iherefn: . 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 same will read as follows : SECTION II. Creation of State tax commission com-mission membership governor to appoint ap-point terms duties county boards duties. There shall be a State tax commission com-mission consisting of four members, not more than two of whom shall belong to the same political party. The members of the commission shall be appointed by the governor, by and with the consent of the senate, for BUch 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 assess mines and public utilities and adjust and equalize the valuation and assessment of property among tho several counties. It shall have such other powers of original assessment as the legislature may provide. pro-vide. Under such regulations in such cases and within such limitations as the s legislature may prescribe, it shall establish estab-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 duties du-ties imposed upon the State board of equalization by the constitution and laws of this State shall be performed by the State tax commission. In each county of this State there shall be a county board of equalization consisting con-sisting of the board of county commissioners commission-ers of said county. The county boards of equalization shall adjust and equalize the valuation and assessment of the real and personal property within their respective counties, subject to Bueh regulation and control by the State tax commission as may be prescribed by law. The State tax commission and the county boards of . equalization shall each have such other powers as may be prescribed by the leg-islature. leg-islature. SECTION 2. Secretary of State to pub-Iish. pub-Iish. 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. SECTION 3. To take effect when. If approved by the electors of the State, this proposed amendment 6hall take effect on the 1st day of January, 1931. Filed with the Secretary of State Feb-ruary Feb-ruary 25, 1930. y Constitutional Amendment No. 3 RELATING TO STATE SCHOOL FUND AND MANNER OF DISTRIBUTING 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 legislature leg-islature in 1929, proposing to amend 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 State. Be it resolved by the Legislature of the Slate of Utah, two-thirds of all the members mem-bers 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 r per cent of proceeds perpetual per-petual fund. The proceeds of all lands that have been or may be granted by the United Unit-ed States to this State, for the support of the common schools : the proceeds of all property that may accrue to the State by 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 6hall be sold by the United States subsequent to the admission ad-mission of this State into the Union, Bhall be and remain a perpetual fund, to bo called the State Bchool fund, the interest of which only, shall be distributed among the several school districts according to the last preceding school census. SECTION 2. Resolution propered to amend. That it is proposed to amenO 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 Utah so that the same will read as follows l SECTION 7. Rate of taxation not to exceed purpose distribution. The rate of taxation on tangible property shall 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 ; Eaid 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 school 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 Bchool age in the state as shown by the last preceding school census; the Bame 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 $5.00 for each person of 6chool 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 unless 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 pa'd a property tax assessed to them within the State, and the majority of those voting thereon shall vote in favor thereof, In such 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 ss required by the constitution and to be submitted to the electors of the State at the next general eleetion in the manner provided by law, as one proposition in lieu of H. J. H. numbers 8 and 8, passed at thlSu'r,8esin of the 18th legislature. SECTION 4. To take effect when. If approved by the electors of the State the proposed amendment shall take effect on the first day of January, 1931. Filed with the Secretary of State February Feb-ruary 26, 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 House concurring concur-ring therein : SECTION 1. Sections propcecd to amend. That it is proposed to amend Sections 2 and 8 of Article XIII of the constitution of the State of Utah so that the same will read as follows : SECTION 2. Tangible property to be taxed how value ascertained properties esemot 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 by 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 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 transmis-sion lineB, 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, Bhall not be separately taxed as long as they shall be owned and used exclusively for such purposes. pur-poses. Power plants, power transmission llneB and other property, used for generating gen-erating and delivering electrical power, a portion of which iB 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 bo pumped under such regulations as the legislature leg-islature may prescribe. The taxes of the indigent poor may be remitted or abated at BUch times and In such manner as may be provided by law. The legislature may provide for the exemption from taxation of homes, homesteads, and personal 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 ths United States or of the State of Utah and by the unmarried widows and minor orphans of such persons may be exempted as the legislature may provide. The legislature shall provide by law for an 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 6hall 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 3. Assessment and taxstion of tangible property regulation 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 monoy, and shall prescribe by law Btich 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 mfly be exempted from taxation os property or it may be taxed in such manner man-ner and to such extent as the legislature may provide. Provided that if inlansible property be taxed as property the rate thereof shall not exceed five mills on each dollar of valuation. When exempted from taxation as property, the taxable income therefrom shall be taxed under any tax based on incomes, but when taxed by tho State of Utah as property, the income therefrom shall not also be taxed. The legislature may provide for deductions, exemptions, ex-emptions, andor offsets cm any tax bned upon income. The personal income tux rates shall be graduated but the maximum maxi-mum rale shall not exceed six per cent of net income. No exri.-e tax rate based upon income Fhall exceed four per cnt of net income. The rale limitations herein contained for taxes based on income and for taxes on intangible property shall be effective until January 1, 1937, ad thereafter there-after until changed by law by a vote of the majority of the members elected to each house of the legislature. All revenue rev-enue received from taxes on Income or from taxes on intangible property shall be allocated as follows: 75 per cent thereof to the state district school fund and 25 per cent thereof to the State general gen-eral fund and the State levies for Constitutional Amendment No. 6 RELATING TO THE LOCATION OP THE STATE PRISON AND STATE INSTITUTIONS A Joint resolution proposing an amend- ment to Section 3, of Article XIX of the constitution of the State of Utah, 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 permanently per-manently located at the places hereinafter hereinaf-ter named, each to have the lands specifically speci-fically granted to it by the United States, in the Act of Congress, approved July 16th, 1894, to be disposed of and used in such manner as the legislature may provide: First: The seat of government and the Stnte fair at Salt Lake City. Second : The Institutions for the deaf and dumb, and the blind, and the State reform school at Ogden City, in the county of Weber. Third : The Utah State hospital at Pro-vo Pro-vo City, in tho county of Utahi SECTION 2. Secretary of State to pub-lish. 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 tho State at the next general election in the manner provided by law. SECTION 3. To take effect when. If approved by the electors of the State, this proposed amendment shall taka effect on the 1st day of January, 1931. Filed with, the Secretary of State February Feb-ruary 25, 1930. . 3 I, M. H. Welling, Secretary of State of the State of Utah, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true, and correct copy of Constitutional Amendments Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 6 as proposed by the special session of the legislature of 1!S0 n the same appear of record in my of- f 'CO. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my band and affixed the Great Seal of the State of Utah, this 1st day of September, Septem-ber, 1030. (SEAL) Secretary of State. CI V ' - 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 4, Article 13, of the constitution of the State of Utah relat-Ing 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 : 8ECTION 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 Eame will read aa follows : SECTION 4. Mines and claims to he assessed as-sessed basis and multiple wht to be assessed as tangible property. All metalliferous me-talliferous mines or mining claims, bo'h placer and rock in place, shall be assessed as the legislature shall provide: provided, I he basis and multiple now used In determining de-termining the value of metalliferous mines for taxation purposes and the additional assessed value of $5.00 per acre thereof shall not bs changed before January 1, 1935, nor thereafter until otherwise provided pro-vided by law. All ether mines or mining |