Show CONSTITUTIONAL CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT I t a r 1 A JOINT RESOLUTION PROPOSING PROPOSING PRO- PRO t 2 ARTI- ARTI ARTICLE POSING TO AMEND ARTICLE ARTICLE ARTI- ARTI CLE XIII SECTION 2 OF THE i 4 CONSTITUTION O 0 OF F T THE H E STATE OF UTAH RELATING J 0 TO TANGIBLE PROPERTIES EXEMPT FROM TAXATION Be it resolved by the Legislature Legislature Legislature Legis- Legis lature of the State of Utah T two thirds of all members elected elected elect- elect y 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 counties coun coun- ties cities towns school districts districts districts dis dis- dis- dis municipal corporations and public libraries lots with the buildings thereon used exclusively exclusively exclusively ex ex- ex- ex for either religious worship or charitable purposes and places of burial not held or used for private or corporate I benefit shall be exempt from taxation Water rights ditches canals reservoirs power plants pumping plants transmission fines pi T es and flumes r owned and ru use used Jb b by individuals dividu r- r o or cor corporations lor for or irrigating lands within the state owned by y such individuals or corporations or orthe orthe orthe the individual members thereof shall not be separately taxed as long as they shall be owned and used exclusively for such pur pur- poses pores 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 80 pumped under such regulations regulations regulations regula regula- as the legislature may prescribe The taxes of the indigent indigent indigent indi indi- gent poor poor may be remitted o or r abated abate at such times and in in such manner as may be provided provide d by br law The legislature may provide provide pro pro- vide for the exemption from taxation of homes and personal property not to exceed 2000 in value for homes lomes and homesteads and all household furnishings furniture and equipment use used exclusively b by v the owner thereof at his place lace of abode in maintaining a home for himself and family Property not to exceed 3 OO in n value owned by disabled persons who served in any warin war warn in n the military service of the United States or of the State of Utah and by the unmarried widows and minor orphans of such disabled persons or of persons persons persons per per- sons who while serving in the military service of the United States or th the State of Utah were killed in action or died as asa asa asi a i result of such service may be e exempted as the legislature may provide The legislature shall provide by y law for an annual tax sufficient sufficient sufficient with other sources of revenue to defray the estimated ordinary expenses of the State for or each fiscal year ear For the purpose of paying the state debt if any there be the legislature legislature legis- legis lature shall provide for levying a tax annually sufficient to pay the he annual interest and to p pay ay the principal of such debt within with wIth- in twenty years from the final passage of the law Jaw creating the debt Section 2 The secretary of state is directed to submit this proposed amendment to the elec tors of the State of Utah in the next general election in the manner provided b 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 F. TORONTO Secretary of State of the State of Utah DO HEREBY CERTIFY CERTIFY that the foregoing is a full true and correct copy of the constitutional amendment proposed proposed proposed pro 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 my hand and affixed the Great Seal of the State of Utah at Salt Lake City this day of August 1960 LAMONT LAMANT F F. F TORONTO Secretary of State St SEAL |