HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 109
(By Delegate Webster (By Request))
[Introduced February 23, 2004; referred to the
Committee on Constitutional Revision then the Judiciary.]
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of West
Virginia, amending article X by adding thereto a new section,
designated section 1d, relating to exempting real property
from ad valorem property taxation; numbering and designating
such proposed amendment; and providing a summarized statement
of the purpose of such proposed amendment.
Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia, two thirds of
the members elected to each house agreeing thereto:
That the question of ratification or rejection of an amendment
to the Constitution of the State of West Virginia be submitted to
the voters of the State at the next general election to be held in
the year two thousand four, which proposed amendment is that
article X be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated
section 1d, to read as follows:
ARTICLE X. TAXATION AND FINANCE.
§1d. Exempting real property from ad valorem property taxation.
Notwithstanding any provision of this article to the contrary,
real property is exempted from ad valorem property taxation.
Resolved further, That in accordance with the provisions of
article eleven, chapter three of the code of West Virginia, 1931,
as amended, such proposed amendment is hereby numbered "Amendment
No. 1" and designated as the "Exempting Real Property from Ad
Valorem Property Taxation Amendment" and the purpose of the
proposed amendment is summarized as follows: "To exempt real
property from ad valorem property taxation."
NOTE: The purpose of this proposed constitutional amendment
is to exempt real property from ad valorem property taxation.
This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and
underscoring have been omitted.
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