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  • 42-17001 - Definitions
    In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Commission" means the property tax oversight commission established by section 42-17002. 2. "Fire district" means a...
  • 42-17002 - Property tax oversight commission
    A. The property tax oversight commission is established to: 1. Further the public confidence in property tax limitations. 2. Provide a uniform methodology for determining...
  • 42-17003 - Duties
    A. The commission shall: 1. Establish procedures for deriving the information required by sections 15-905.01, 15-1461.01 and 42-17107 and article 2 of this chapter. 2....
  • 42-17004 - Hearing and appeals of commission findings
    A. If the commission notifies a political subdivision of a violation of section 15-905.01, 15-1461.01 or 42-17107 or article 2 of this chapter, or notifies...
  • 42-17005 - Adjustments to levy
    A. If a governing body of a political subdivision or a fire district receives written notice of a violation of its allowable levy limit or...
  • 42-17051 - Limit on county, municipal and community college primary property tax levy
    A. In addition to any other limitation that may be imposed, a county, charter county, city, charter city, town or community college district shall not...
  • 42-17052 - Values furnished by county assessor and fire districts
    A. On or before February 10 of the tax year, the county assessor shall transmit and certify to the property tax oversight commission and to...
  • 42-17053 - Estimate of personal property tax roll
    A. When a tax rate is to be determined and taxes are levied, the county assessor shall make an estimate of the personal property to...
  • 42-17054 - Levy limit worksheet
    A. When the county assessor transmits valuations under section 42-17052, the assessor shall prepare and transmit a final levy limit worksheet to each city, town...
  • 42-17055 - Public inspection of values used in computing levy limitation
    A. On or before February 15 of the tax year, the governing body of each county, city, town, community college district and fire district shall...
  • 42-17056 - Initial base levy limit if no primary property taxes were levied in the preceding tax year
    A. If a county, city, town or community college district did not levy primary property taxes in the preceding tax year, the governing body shall...
  • 42-17057 - Computing new levy limits in the case of county division or consolidation; election on revised levy limit
    A. In the event of a division of a county into two or more new counties or the consolidation of counties, the property tax oversight...
  • 42-17058 - Values for computing levy limit in the case of a merger of a community college district with a contiguous county
    If an existing community college district merges with a contiguous county that is not a part of a community college district, the values used in...
  • 42-17101 - Annual county and municipal financial statement and estimate of expenses
    On or before the third Monday in July each year the governing body of each county and incorporated city or town shall prepare: 1. A...
  • 42-17102 - Contents of estimate of expenses
    A. The annual estimate of expenses of each county, city and town shall include: 1. An estimate of the amount of money required for each...
  • 42-17103 - Public access to estimates of revenues and expenses; notice of public hearing; access to adopted budget
    A. The governing body of each county, city or town shall publish the estimates of revenues and expenses, or a summary of the estimates of...
  • 42-17104 - Public hearing on expenditures and tax levy
    A. The governing body of each county, city or town shall hold a public hearing on or before the fourteenth day before the day on...
  • 42-17105 - Adoption of budget
    A. After the hearing on estimates under section 42-17104 is concluded, the governing body shall convene in a special meeting and finally determine and adopt...
  • 42-17106 - Expenditures limited to budgeted purposes; transfer of monies
    A. Except as provided in subsection B, a county, city or town shall not: 1. Spend money for a purpose that is not included in...
  • 42-17107 - Truth in taxation notice and hearing; roll call vote on tax increase; definition
    A. On or before February 10 of the tax year, the county assessor shall transmit and certify to the property tax oversight commission and to...
  • 42-17108 - Encumbering municipal monies to pay obligations after close of fiscal year
    A. A city or town may encumber monies at the end of a fiscal year for any liabilities incurred during that fiscal year and still...
  • 42-17109 - Alternative and additional method of leasing municipal facilities
    A. This section provides an alternative and additional method for leasing municipal facilities. This section does not apply to leases entered into before or after...
  • 42-17110 - Budget of a newly incorporated city or town
    A. Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, a city or town that is incorporated after the third Monday in July or before June 30...
  • 42-17151 - County, municipal, community college and school tax levy
    A. On or before the third Monday in August each year, the governing body of each county, city, town, community college district and school district...
  • 42-17152 - Extending tax roll; limitation on residential property tax; effect of informalities
    A. As soon as the county board of supervisors finally determines the estimated amounts provided for in article 2 of this chapter, it shall assess...
  • 42-17153 - Lien for taxes; time lien attaches; priority
    A. Except as provided in subsection B of this section, a tax that is levied on real or personal property is a lien on the...
  • 42-17154 - Attachment of lien to real and personal property, improvements and severed mineral rights
    A. Personal property is liable for taxes levied on real property, and real property is liable for taxes levied on personal property. A judgment against...
  • 42-17201 - County levy limit override
    A. The board of supervisors of a county may conduct an election to authorize a property tax levy that is not within the limitations on...
  • 42-17202 - Community college district levy limit override
    A. If the governing board of a community college district determines that the amounts permitted to be levied as primary property taxes in any year...
  • 42-17203 - County levy for community college; election
    A. A county that is not in an organized community college district may conduct an election to authorize a property tax levy for community college...
  • 42-17251 - Extension of assessment roll to all taxing jurisdictions in the county; equalization
    A. Each county assessor shall compile the assessment roll, showing: 1. The total valuations of all property subject to taxation. 2. The valuation assessed to...
  • 42-17252 - Municipal assessment and tax roll
    A. The board of supervisors shall compute and carry out separate entries for each city and town in the county. This constitutes the assessment and...
  • 42-17253 - Computing municipal tax rate; levy
    A. Within five days after the assessment roll has been finally made, revised and equalized, the clerk of the board of supervisors shall: 1. Compute...
  • 42-17254 - Assessment and collection of municipal taxes
    A. On or before the third Monday in August each year the county board of supervisors shall: 1. Assess the amount of taxes that is...
  • 42-17255 - Remitting tax collections to municipality
    A. On or before the fifteenth day of each month the county treasurer shall pay to each city and town treasurer in the county all...
  • 42-17256 - Application of tax law to municipal taxes; special taxes and assessments
    A. General city and town taxes that are levied and assessed under this article are due and become delinquent and attach to and become a...
  • 42-17257 - Notice of establishment or change in city, town or taxing district boundaries
    A. On or before November 1 of the year preceding the year in which assessments or taxes are to be levied, the governing body of...
  • 42-17301 - Definitions
    In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Property taxes" means all ad valorem taxes that are levied by all taxing jurisdictions and that...
  • 42-17302 - Election to defer residential property taxes; qualifications
    A. An individual who meets the qualifications prescribed by this section, or the individual's legal representative, may elect to defer property taxes on the individual's...
  • 42-17303 - Property entitled to tax deferral
    To qualify for deferral of property taxes the residence shall meet all of the following requirements: 1. It must be the taxpayer's primary residence. 2....
  • 42-17304 - Deferral claim
    A. The claim for deferral shall be on a form that is prescribed by the state treasurer and that provides an explanation of the requirements...
  • 42-17305 - Filing the claim for deferral; appealing denied claim
    A. A taxpayer shall file the claim form with the assessor of the county in which the residence is located. The tax that is due...
  • 42-17306 - Certificate of deferral; record
    A. The county treasurer shall issue a certificate of deferral for each residence whose property taxes are deferred under this article that names the individual,...
  • 42-17307 - Refund of deferred taxes deposited in escrow
    If a tax deferred residence is subject to any mortgage, deed of trust or other real property security interest and the secured party maintains an...
  • 42-17308 - Lien of deferred taxes and accrued interest
    Deferred taxes and accrued interest under this article are a lien against the property. The lien: 1. Attaches on the date the certificate of deferral...
  • 42-17309 - Sale of deferred tax liens to state; interest on lien
    A. On or before January 15 of each year, the county treasurer shall sell to the state treasurer or to the county, or both, all...
  • 42-17310 - Notices
    A. On or before January 31, the county assessor shall mail a notice to each taxpayer who claimed a deferral of taxes for the preceding...
  • 42-17311 - Events requiring payment of deferred tax
    A. The total amount of deferred property taxes, plus interest and costs, that has accrued with respect to a tax deferred residence is due and...
  • 42-17312 - Payment of deferred taxes; due dates and delinquency; enforcement of lien
    A. If payment is required pursuant to section 42-17311, all deferred taxes, interest and costs are due and payable one hundred twenty days after an...
  • 42-17313 - Report
    Not later than September 1 of each year, the state treasurer shall compile a report containing the following information: 1. The number of deferral claims...
  • 42-17401 - Elderly assistance fund; primary school district tax reduction; definition
    A. An elderly assistance fund shall be established by the board of supervisors in a county with a population of more than two million persons...
  • Last modified: February 20, 2012