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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, le-laiing le-laiing 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 Ib proposed to amend Section 18 of Article VI of the constitution of the State of Utah so that the same shall read is 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. I SECTION 2 Secretary of State to publish- The secretary of State is directed to cause this proposed amendment to he published as required by the constitution and to be submitted to the electors of Uie State at the next general election in the manner provided by law. SECTION 3. In effect when. If .ID-proved .ID-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. 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 ofUtah, 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. That it is proposed to amend Sections 2 and 3 of Article XIII of the constitution of the State of Utah ao that 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 hy 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 tnxat-on. Water rights, ditches, canals, reservoirs, power plants, pumping plants, transmission transmis-sion lines, pipes and flumes owned and need 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 gen-I gen-I 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 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 Buch times and in such manner as may be provided hy 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 the United States or of the State of Utah and by the unmarried widows and minor orphans of such pei sons 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 fis-j fis-j cal year. For the purpose of paying the j State debt, if any there be, the 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 3. Assessment and taxation of tangible properly 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 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 shall pay a tax in proportion propor-tion to the value of his, her, or its tan- gible property, provided that the legislature legisla-ture may determine the manner and extent of taxing transient live Btock 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 ench 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 tiix rates shall be graduated but ihe maximum maxi-mum rate shall not exceed six per cent of net Income. No excise tax rate based upon income shall exceed four p?r cent of net income. The rate limitations herein contained for taxes fcased on income and for taxes on intangible property shall be effective until January 1, 1937, and thereafter there-after until chanced by law bv a vote of the majority of the members elected to each house of the legislature. All revenue rev-enue received f taxes on income or from taxes on intangihle property shall be allocated as follows: 75 per cent thereof to the state district Ech-jol fund and 25 per cent thert-of to the State general gen-eral fnnr nn the State lcvie for such purposes shall ue reduced annually In proportion to the revenues so allocated; provided that any surplus ribove .he revenue rev-enue required for the State district school 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 Stnte is directed to cause this proposed am en dm en t to bs published as required by the constitution and to be submitted to the electors of tho State at the next general -lection iu the manner provided by law. SECTION 3. To take effect when. If approved by the electors of the State this proposed amendment shall take effect, un the 1st day of January, 1931. 1 Filed with the Secretary of State February Feb-ruary 25, 1930. 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 hy 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 Buch 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 mcm-bero mcm-bero 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 bo that the same will read as follows : j SECTION 3. Proceeds of lands and other , property per cent of proceeds per- ! petual fund. The proceeds of all lands that ! have been or may be granted by the Unit- , ed States to this State, 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 to the admission ad-mission of this State into the Onion, shall be and remain a perpetual' fund, to be called the State school fund, the interest 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 Uto1 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 mills 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 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 Buch other funds as may be available for district school purposes, will raise annually an amount which equals 526.00 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 bu $5.00 for each person of school age as shown by the last preceding school census; said 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, na 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 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 shall take effect on the first day of January, 1931. Filed with the Secretary of State February Feb-ruary 25. 1930. Con3tilutional 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 SUte 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 aa follows: SECTION 4. Mines and claims to bt 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 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, 1836, 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 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, Bhal) be assessed as other tangible property. SECTION 2. Secretary of State to pub lish. The secretary of State iB directed tc cnuse this pi j posed amendment to be published pub-lished as required by the constitution nnd 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 i A RESOLUTION CREATING A STATE TAX COMMISSION 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. Be it resolved by the Legislature of the State of Utah, two-thirds of all members mem-bers elected to each house concurriiij therein : ! SECTION 1 Sections proposed to amend. ! That it is proposed to amend Section 11 at j Article XIII of the constitution of the State of Utah so that the same will read as follows : SECTION II. 'Creation of State tax com mission membership governor to appoint ap-point terms duties county boatd? duties. There shall be a State tax commission com-mission consisting of four members, riot more than two of whom shall belong tc the same political party. The members i of the commission shall be appointed bv the governor, by and with the consent of j the senate, for such terms of office as may be provided by law. The State tax commission commis-sion Bhall 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 i shall have such other powers of original assessment as the legislature may provide. pro-vide. Under such regulations in Bu?h cases and within such limitations as the legislature may prescribe, it Bhall establish estab-lish systems of public accounting, review proposed bond issues, revise the tax levies and budgets of local governmental units, j and equalize the assessment and valuation I of property within the counties. The du- J ties imposed upon the State board oJ equalization by the constitution and law j of this State shall be performed by the ! State tax commission. j In each county of this State there Bhall i be a county board of equalization con- I sisting of the board of county commission- j era of said county. The county boards oi j equalization shall adjust and equalize toe 1 valuation and assessment of the real and personal property within their respective ! counties, subject to such regulation and j control by the State tax commission as I may be prescribed by law. The State tax 1 commission and the county boards of equalization shall each have such other powers as may be prescribed by the legislature. leg-islature. SECTION 2. Secretary of State to pub lish. The secretary of State ia 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 whin If approved by the electors of the Stale, this proposed amendment shall taka effeel on the 1st day of January, 1931. Filed with the Secretary of State February Feb-ruary 26, 1930. v Constitutional Amendment jCi No. 6 V5 RELATING TO THE LOCATION OP 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, re-tating re-tating to the location of the State Prison. Be It resolved by the Legislature of the j State of Utah, two-thirds of the members j 3 elected to each house concurring there- 1 In: 4 SECTION 1. Section proposed to amend I 1 That it is proposed to amend Section 3 cf j Article XIX of the constitution of the J State of Utah bo that the same will read 1 as follows : j SECTION 8 Location of public insritn- tions and disposition of lands. The pubiic institutions of the State are hereby per- manently located at the places hereinaf- ' 1 ter named, each to have the lands specv " j fically granted to it by the United St I ! in the Act of Congress, approved July . 1 1894, to be disposed of and used in such manner as the legislature may provide: First: The seat of government and th State fair at Salt Lake City. Second: The institutions for the deaf and i dumb, and the blind, and the State rcfWrn I school at Ogden City, in the county ct Weber. Third: The Utah State hospital at Pro- i vo Oity, in the county of Utnh. SECTION 2. Secretary of State to publish. pub-lish. The secretary of State is dircclc.l to cause this proposed amendment to be published pub-lished as required by the constitution nml to be submitted to the electors of the 1 f State at the next general election in thi sjs manner provided by law I ?K SECTION 3. To take effect - wl, ,n. I If approved by the electors of the S'a'c. j this proposed amendment shall take effect on the 1st day of January. 1931. Hied with the Secretory of State Feb ruary 25, 1930 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 Ncs. 1. 2, 8, 4, 6, and 6 as proposed by the ! special session of the legislature of IMt as the same appear of record in, my of- I 1 fice. ! In witness whereof, I have hereunto set j i my hand and affixed the Great Seal of j the State of Utah, this 1st day of Septem- i ber, 1930. j (SEAL) Secretary of StU. ( |