1st Sub. H.B. 74
         PROPERTY TAX MODIFICATIONS

House Floor Amendments

Amendment 1 February 8, 2013 7:54 AM



Representative Earl D. Tanner proposes the following amendments:


1.    Page 11, Line 313 through Page 12, Line 345 :    

             313      all rights and privileges appertaining to these; and
             314          (c) improvements.
  (31) "Relationship with an owner of the property's land surface rights" means a relationship described in Subsection 267(b), Internal Revenue Code:

(a) except that notwithstanding Subsection 267(b), Internal Revenue Code, the term 1% shall be substituted for the term 50% in Subsection 267(b), Internal Revenue Code; and
(b) using the ownership rules of Subsection 267(c), Internal Revenue Code, for determining the ownership of stock.  

             315          
{   (31)   }        (32)       "Residential property," for the purposes of the reductions and adjustments under

             316      this chapter, means any property used for residential purposes as a primary residence. It does
             317      not include property used for transient residential use or condominiums used in rental pools.
             318          
{   (32)   }        (33)       "Split estate mineral rights owner" means a person who:

             319          (a) has a legal right to extract a mineral from property;
             320          (b) does not hold more than a 1% interest in:
             321          (i) the property's land surface rights; or
             322          (ii) an entity with an ownership interest in the property's land surface rights;
             323          (c) is not an entity in which the owner of the property's land surface rights holds more
             324      than a 1% interest; and
             325          (d) does not have a relationship with an owner of the property's land surface rights
{   that

             326      is a relationship described in Subsection 267(b), Internal Revenue Code, except that the term
             327      1% shall be substituted for the term 50% in Subsection 267(b), Internal Revenue Code  
}
.
             328          [(32)]
{   (33)   }        (34)       (a) "State-assessed commercial vehicle" means:

             329          (i) any commercial vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer which operates interstate or intrastate
             330      to transport passengers, freight, merchandise, or other property for hire; or
             331          (ii) any commercial vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer which operates interstate and
             332      transports the vehicle owner's goods or property in furtherance of the owner's commercial
             333      enterprise.
             334          (b) "State-assessed commercial vehicle" does not include vehicles used for hire which
             335      are specified in Subsection (8)(c) as county-assessed commercial vehicles.
             336          [(33)]
{   (34)   }        (35)       "Taxable value" means fair market value less any applicable reduction


             337
     allowed for residential property under Section 59-2-103 .
             338          [(34)]
{   (35)   }        (36)       "Tax area" means a geographic area created by the overlapping boundaries

             339      of one or more taxing entities.
             340          [(35)]
{   (36)   }        (37)       "Taxing entity" means any county, city, town, school district, special taxing

             341      district, local district under Title 17B, Limited Purpose Local Government Entities - Local
             342      Districts, or other political subdivision of the state with the authority to levy a tax on property.
             343          [(36)]
{   (37)   }        (38)       "Tax roll" means a permanent record of the taxes charged on property, as

             344      extended on the assessment roll and may be maintained on the same record or records as the
             345      assessment roll or may be maintained on a separate record properly indexed to the assessment


2.    Page 16, Line 489 through Page 17, Line 502 :    

             489          (10) Land that becomes ineligible for assessment under this part only as a result of a
             490      split estate mineral rights owner exercising the right to extract a mineral is not subject to the
             491      rollback tax:
             492          (a) (i) for the portion of the land required by a split estate mineral rights owner to
             493      extract a mineral if, after the split estate mineral rights owner exercises the right to extract a
             494      mineral, the
  portion of the       property        that remains in agricultural production       still meets the acreage requirements of Section 59-2-503 for assessment

             495      under this part; or
             496          (ii) for the entire acreage that would otherwise qualify for assessment under this part if,
             497      after the split estate mineral rights owner exercises the right to extract a mineral, the
{   property   }        entire acreage that would otherwise qualify for assessment under this part      

             498      no longer meets the acreage requirements of Section 59-2-503 for assessment under this part
             499      only due to the extraction of the mineral by the split estate mineral rights owner; and
             500          (b) for the period of time that the property described in Subsection (10)(a) is ineligible
             501      for assessment under this part due to the extraction of a mineral by the split estate mineral
             502      rights owner.


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