Show CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT 1 A JOINT RESOLUTION PROPOSING TO AMEND ARTICLE SECTION 11 OP THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF RELATING TO TANGIBLE PROPERTIES EXEMPT FROM Be it resolved by the Legislature of the State of two thirds of all members elected to each of the Houses in favor Section It is proposed to amend Article Section 2 of the Constitution of the State of Utah to read as Section All tangible property in the not exempt under the laws of the United or under this constitution shall be taxed in proportion to its value to be ascertained as provided by The property of the school municipal corporations and public lots with the buildings thereon used exclusively for either religious worship or charitable and places of burial not held or used for private or corporate shall be exempt from Water power ing transmission pipes and flumes owned and used by individuals or corporations for irrigating lands within the state owned by such individuals or or the individual members shall not be separately taxed as long as they shall be owned and used exclusively for such Power power transmission lines and other property used for generating and delivering electrical a portion of which is used for furnishing power pumping water for irrigation purposes on lands in the State of may be exempted from taxation to the extent that such property is used for such These exemptions shall accrue to the benefit of the users of water so pumped under such regulations as the legislature may The taxes of the indigent poor may be remitted or abated at such times and in such manner as may be provided by The legislature may provide for the exemption from taxation of and person al not to exceed in value for homes and and all household and equipment used exclusively by the owner thereof at his place of abode in maintaining a home for himself and Property not to exceed in owned by disabled persons who served in any war in the military service of the United States or of the State of Utah and the unmarried widows and minor orphans of such disabled persons or of persons 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 The legislature shall provide by law for a annual tax with other sources of to defray the estimated ordinary expenses of the state for each fiscal For the purpose of paying the state if any there the legislature shall provide for levying a tax sufficient to pay the annual interest and to pay the principal of such within vears from the final passage of the law creating the Section The secretary of state is directed to submit this proposed amendment to the electors of the State of Utah in the next general election in the manner provided by Section If adopted by the electors of this this amendment shall take effect the first day of LAMONT F. Secretary of State of the State of DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the constitutional amendment proposed by the regular session of the Thirty-Fourth as appears of record in my IN WITNESS I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Great Seal of the State of at Salt Lake this day of LAMONT F. TORONTO Secretary of Slate |