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ARTICLE

CHAPTER XXIV

OF THE GENERAL LAWS.

[CHAP. 908 OF 1896.]

THE TAX LAW.

I. Taxable property and place of taxation (§§ 1-14).

II. Mode of assessment (§§ 20-47).

III. Equalization of assessment and levy of tax (§§ 50-59)

IV. Collection of taxes (§§ 70-95).

V. Collection of nonresident taxes (§§ 100–109).

VI. Sales by comptroller for unpaid taxes and redemption of lands (§§ 120–143).

VII. Sales by county treasurers for unpaid taxes and redemption of lands (§§ 150-158).

VIII. State board of tax commissioners, state board of equalization

(S$ 170-177).

IX Corporation tax (§§ 180-203).

X. Taxable transfers (§§ 220-243).

XI. Procedure (§§ 250-264).

XII. Laws repealed; when to take effect (§§ 280–281).

XIII. Time (§ 282).

ARTICLE I.

TAXABLE PROPERTY AND PLACE OF TAXATION.

SECTION 1. Short title.

2. Definitions.

3. Property liable to taxation.

4. Exemption from taxation.

5. Taxation of lands leased or sold by the state.

6. No deduction allowed for indebtedness fraudulently contracted.

7. When property of nonresidents is taxable.

8. Place of taxation of property of residents.

9. Place of taxation of real property.

10. Taxation of real property divided by line of tax district.

11. Place of taxation of property of corporations.

12. Taxation of corporate stock.

13. Stockholders of bank taxable on shares.

14. Place of taxation of individual bank capital.

SECTION 1. Short title.-This chapter shall be known as the tax law.

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§ 2. Definitions.-1. "Tax district "as used in this chapter, means a political subdivision of the state having a board of assessors authorized to assess property therein for state and county taxes.

2. "County treasurer" includes any officer performing the duties developing upon such office under whatever name.

3. The terms "land," "real estate" and "real property," as used in this chapter, include the land itself above and under water, all buildings and other articles and structures, substructures and superstructures, erected upon, under or above, or affixed to the same; all wharves and piers, including the value of the right to collect wharfage, cranage or dockage thereon; all bridges, all telegraph lines, wires, poles and appurtenances; all supports and inclosures for electrical conductors and other appurtenances upon, above and under ground; all surface, underground or elevated railroads, including the value of all franchises, rights or permission to construct, maintain or operate the same in, under, above, on or through, streets, highways or public places; all railroad structures, substructures and superstructures, tracks and iron thereon; branches, switches and other fixtures permitted or authorized to be made, laid or placed in, upon, above or under any public or private road, street or ground; all mains, pipes and tanks laid or placed in, upon, above or under any public or private street or place for conducting steam, heat, water, oil, electricity, or any property, substance or product capable of transportation or conveyance therein or that is protected thereby, including the value of all franchises, rights, authority or permission to construct, maintain or operate, in, under, above, upon, or through any streets, highways, or public places, any mains, pipes, tanks, conduits, or wires, with their appurtenances, for conducting water, steam, heat, light, power, gas, oil, or other substance, or electricity for telegraphic, telephonic, or other purposes; all trees and underwood growing upon land, and all mines, minerals, quarries and fossils in and under the same, except mines belonging to the state. A franchise, right, authority or permission specified in this subdivision shall for the purpose of taxation be known as a "special franchise." A special franchise shall be deemed to include the value of the tangible property of a person; copartnership, association or corporation situated in, upon, under or above any street, highway, public place or public waters in connection with the special franchise.

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The tangible property so included shall be taxed as a part of the special franchise. No property of a municipal corporation shall Subd. 14. be subject to a special franchise tax.

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5. The terms "personal estate" and "personal property,” as used in this chapter, include chattels, money, things in action, debts due from solvent debtors, whether on account, contract, note, bond or mortgage; debts and obligations for the payment of money due or owing to persons residing within this state, however secured or wherever such securities shall be held; debts due by inhabitants of this state to persons not residing within the United States for the purchase of any real estate; public stocks, stocks in moneyed corporations, and such portion of the capital of incorporated companies, liable to taxation on their capital, as shall not be invested in real estate. (As amended by chap. 712 of 1899.)

3. Property liable to taxation.-All real property within this state, and all personal property situated or owned within this state, is taxable unless exempt from taxation by law.

§ 4. Exempt from taxation.-The following property shall be exempt from taxation:

1. Property of the United States.

2. Property of this state other than its wild or forest lands in the forest preserve.

3. Property of a municipal corporation of the state held for a public use, except the portion of such property not within the corporation.

4. The lands in any Indian reservation owned by the Indian nation, tribe or band occupying them.

5. All property exempt by law from execution, other than an exempt homestead. But real property purchased with the proceeds of a pension granted by the United States for military or naval services, and owned and occupied by the pensioner, or by his wife or widow, is subject to taxation as herein provided. Such property shall be assessed in the same manner as other real property in the tax districts. At the meeting of the assessors to hear the complaints concerning assessments, a verified application for the exemption of such real property from taxation may be presented to them by or on behalf of the owner thereof, which application must show the facts on which the exemption is claimed, including the amount of pension money used in or toward the purchase of such property. If the assessors are

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satisfied that the applicant is entitled to the exemption, and that the amount of pension money used in the purchase of such property equals or exceeds the assessed valuation thereof, they shall enter the word "exempt " upon the assessment-roll opposite the description of such property. If the amount of such pension. money used in the purchase of the property is less than the assessed valuation, they shall enter upon the assessment-roll the words "exempt to the extent of . . . . dollars" (naming the amount), and thereupon such real property, to the extent of the exemption entered by the assessors, shall be exempt from state, county and general municipal taxation, but shall be taxable for local school purposes, and for the construction and maintenance of streets and highways. If no application for exemption be granted, the property shall be subject to taxation for all purposes. The entries above required shall be made and continued in each assessment of the property so long as it is exempt from taxation for any purpose. The provisions herein, relating to the assessment and exemption of property purchased with a pension apply and shall be enforced in each municipal corporation authorized to levy taxes.

6. Bonds of this state to be hereafter issued by the comptroller to carry out the provisions of chapter seventy-nine of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and bonds of a municipal corporation heretofore issued for the purpose of paying up or retiring the bonded indebtedness of such corporation.

7. The real property of a corporation or association organized exclusively for the moral or mental improvement of men or women, or for religious, bible, tract, charitable, benevolent, missionary, hospital, infirmary, educational, scientific, literary, library, patriotic, historical or cemetery purposes, or for the enforcement of laws relating to children or animals, or for two or more such purposes, and used exclusively for carrying out thereupon one or more of such purposes; and the personal property of any such corporation shall be exempt from taxation. But no such corporation or association shall be entitled to any such exemption if any officer, member or employe thereof shall receive or may be lawfully entitled to receive any pecuniary profit from the operations thereof except reasonable compensation for services in effecting one or more of such purposes, or as proper beneficiaries of its strictly charitable purposes; or if the organization thereof, for any such avowed purposes be a

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guise or pretense for directly or indirectly making any other pecuniary profit for such corporation or association, or for any of its members or employes, or if it be not in good faith organized or conducted exclusively for one or more of such purposes. The real property of any such corporation or association entitled to such exemption held by it exclusively for one or more of such purposes and from which no rents, profits or income are derived, shall be so exempt, though not in actual use therefor by reason of the absence of suitable buildings or improvements thereon, if the construction of such buildings or improvements is in progress, or is in good faith contemplated by such corporation or association. The real property of any such corporation not so used exclusively for carrying out thereupon one or more of such purposes, but leased or otherwise used for other purposes, shall not be exempt, but if a portion only of any lot or building of any such corporation or association is used exclusively for carrying out thereupon one or more such purposes of any such corporation or association, then such lot or building shall be so exempt only to the extent of the value of the portion so used, and the remaining or other portion to the extent of the value of such re. maining or other portion shall be subject to taxation; provided, however, that a lot or building owned, and actually used for hospital purposes, by a free public hospital, depending for maintenance and support upon voluntary charity shall not be taxed as to a portion thereof leased or otherwise used for the purposes of income, when such income is necessary for, and is actually applied to, the maintenance and support of such hospital. Property held by any officer of a religious denomination shall be entitled to the same exemptions, subject to the same conditions and exceptions, as property held by a religious corporation.

8. Real property of an incorporated association of present or former volunteer firemen actually and exclusively used and occupied by such corporation and not exceeding in value fifteen thousand dollars.

9. All dwelling-houses and lots of religious corporations while actually used by the officiating clergymen thereof, but the total amount of such exemption to any one religious corporation shall not exceed two thousand dollars. Such exemption shall be in addition to that provided by subdivision seven of this section.

10. The real property of an agricultural society permanently used by it for exhibition grounds.

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