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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 be published as required by the constitution and to be submitted to the electors of the State at the next genera election in the manner nrovided by law. SECTION 3. In effect when. If hd-proved hd-proved by the electors of the State, this proposed amendment shall take effect on the 1st daj 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 House concurring concur-ring therein : SECTION 1. Sections proposed to amend. Th'at it is proposed to amend Sections 2 and 3 of Article XIII of the constitution of the State of Utah so thnt the same will read as follows: SECTION 2. Tangible property to be 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, ihall 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 taxat'.on. Water rights, ditches, canals, reservoirs, power plants, pumping plant, transmission transmis-sion lines, 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 eparately taxed as long as they shall he owned and used exclusively for Buch 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 Buch property is used for such purposes. These exemptions shall accrue 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 personal prop-. 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 of Utah and by the unmarried widows and minor orphans of such peisons may be exempted as the legislature may provide. Tho legislature shall provide by law for an annual tax sufficient, with other sources sour-ces of revenue, to defray the estimated ordinary or-dinary xpenses 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 annua inter-tat inter-tat 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 hall prescribe by law such regulations as shall secure a just valuation for taxation of such property, so that every person and corporation shall 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 as 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 exempted 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 personal income tax rates shall be graduated but il.e maximum maxi-mum rate shall not exceed six per cent of net In coma. No excise tax rate based I upon income shall exceed four p?r cent of I net income. The rate limitations herein I contained for taxes based on income and for taxes on intangible property shall be I effective until January 1, 19.17, and Ciere- after until changed by law by a vnte of the majority of the members elected to each house of the legislature. All revenue rev-enue received from 1 axes on income or from taxes on int.inUile property alinl! be allocated as follows: 7ii p-r cent thereof to the state district school fund and 28 per c-.-iif therrf If ilie State general gen-eral fum' anil ! lie Slate levies for such purposes shall uo reduced annually in proportion to the revenues so allocated; provided that any surplus above the revenue rev-enue required for the State district Bchool fund as provided in Section 7 of this Article Ar-ticle shall be paid into the State general fund. SECTION 2. Secretary of State to publish. The secretary of State is direct ad to cause this proposed amendment to bs published as required by the constitution md to be submitted to the electors of the State lit the next general -lection in the manner provided by laVf. SECTION 3. To take effort when. If approved 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 25. 193.0. Constitutional Amendment No. 3 RELATING TO STATE SCHOOL FUND AND MANNER OF DISTRIBUTING 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 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 State 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 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 Bchools ; 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 shall be sold by the United States subsequent the admission ad-mission of this State into the Unbii, shall be and remain a perpetual fund to be called the State school fund, the 'interest of which only, shall be distributed among the sevesal school districts according to the last preceding school census. SECTION 2. . Resolution propesed 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 Uta 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 shall not exceed on each dollar of valuation, two and four-tenths mill3 for general State purposes, two-tenths of one mill for high school purposes, which shall constitute the high school fund: said fund shall be apportioned ap-portioned in the manner the legislature shall provide, to the Bchool 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 school ape 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 bu $5.00 for i each person of school age as shown by the ; last preceding school census'; said equali- 1 zation fund Bhall be apportioned to the school districts in such manner as the ieg- : isiature shall provide. Said rates shall I not be increased unless a proposition to I increase the same specifying the rate or rates proposed and the time during which I the same shall be levied, be first submit- ; ted to a vote of such of the qualified elec- tors of the State, at 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 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 as required by the constitution and to ba submitted to the electors of the State at the next genera election in the manner provided by law, as one proposition in lieu of H. J. R. numbers 8 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 shall 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 4, Article 13, of the constitution of the State 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 eacli 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 plnce, 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 ffi.OO per acre thereof j shall not be changed before January 1, ! 1935, nor thereafter until otherwise pro-1 pro-1 vided by law. All other mines or mining claims and other valuable mineral deposits, including lands containing coal or hydro-carbons hydro-carbons and all machinery used in mining and 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 property prop-erty for other than mining purposes, shall 4 be assessed as other tangible property. SECTION 2. Secretary of State to publish. pub-lish. The secretary of State is directed tc cause this puposed amendment to be published pub-lished as required by the constitution and to be submitted to the electors of the Slate at the next general election in th- 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 25, 1930. Constitutional Amendment No. 5 A RESOLUTION CREATING A STATE ,. TAX COMMISSION A joint resolution proposing an amendment amend-ment to Section 11 of Article 13 of the constitution of the 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 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 same will read as follows: SECTION 11. 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 Benate, 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 assess 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 such cases and within such limitations as the legislature may prescribe, ft 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 commission-era commission-era of said county. The county boards of equalization shall adjust and equalize toe valuation and assessment of the real and personal property within their respective counties, subject to such 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- j isiature. SECTION 2. Secretory 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 tbe manner provided by law. SECTION 3. To take effect whin. If approved 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 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 Prlsun. Be it resolved by the Legislature of the State of Utah, two-thirds of the members elected to each thouse concurring therein there-in : SECTION 1. Section proposed to amend That it Is pronosed to amend Section 8 of ; Article XIX of the constitution of the State of Utah so that the same will read as follows : SECTION 8 Location of public institutions institu-tions and disposition of lands. The public institutions of the State are hereby per- manently located at the places herein.if- ter named, each to have the lands speci- , fically granted to it by the United Stales, in the Act of Congress, approved July IGth, ! 1894, to be disposed of and used in such manner as the legislature may provide: j First: The seat of government and the I State fair nt 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. 1 Third: The Utah State hospital at Pro- j 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 and ! ' to be submitted to the electors of the ! i r-State r-State nt the next general election In the I TT manner provided by law. I SECTION 3. To take effect when. If approved "by the electors of the State, j this proposed amendment shall take effect j on the 1st day of Jnnuary, 1D31. j Filed with the Secretary of State Feb I ruary 25, 1930. I, M. H. Welling, Secretary of State ol 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, 5, and 6 as proposed by the special session of the legislature of 1930 as the same appear of record in my of- i fice. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed tho Great Snl of the Slate of Utah, this 1st doy of Septem- j r 9 hex, 1930. ' (SEAL) Secretary of StnU. ( f |