REFERENCE TITLE: general hospitals; property tax classification

 

 

 

 

State of Arizona

Senate

Forty-ninth Legislature

Second Regular Session

2010

 

 

SB 1066

 

Introduced by

Senators Nelson, Waring

 

 

AN ACT

 

Amending section 42-12004, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to property tax classes.

 

 

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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1.  Section 42-12004, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE42-12004.  Class four property

A.  For purposes of taxation, class four is established consisting of:

1.  Real and personal property and improvements to the property that are used solely as leased or rented property for residential purposes, that are not included in class one, two, three, six, seven or eight and that are valued at full cash value.

2.  Child care facilities that are licensed under title 36, chapter 7.1 and that are valued at full cash value.

3.  Real and personal property and improvements to property that are used to operate nonprofit residential housing facilities that are structured to house or care for persons who are handicapped or sixty‑two years of age or older and that are valued at full cash value.

4.  Real and personal property and improvements that are used to operate licensed residential care institutions or licensed nursing care institutions that provide medical services, nursing services or health related services and that are structured to house or care for persons who are handicapped or sixty‑two years of age or older and that are valued at full cash value.

5.  Real and personal property consisting of no more than six rooms of owner‑occupied residential property that are leased or rented to transient lodgers at no more than a fifty per cent average annual occupancy rate, together with furnishing no more than a breakfast meal, by the owner of the property and that is valued at full cash value.

6.  Real and personal property consisting of residential dwellings that are maintained for occupancy by agricultural employees as a condition of employment or as a convenience to the employer, that is not included in class three and that is valued at full cash value.  The land associated with these dwellings shall be valued as agricultural land pursuant to chapter 13, article 3 of this title.

7.  Real property and improvements to property constituting common areas that are valued pursuant to chapter 13, article 9 of this title.

8.  Real and personal property that is defined as timeshare property by section 32‑2197 and valued pursuant to chapter 13, article 10 of this title, except for any property used for commercial, industrial or transient occupancy purposes and included in class one to the extent of that use.

9.  Real and personal property and improvements that are part of a licensed general hospital subject to the emergency medical treatment and active labor act (P.L. 99-272; 100 Stat. 164; 42 United States Code section 1395dd) and any satellite facilities that are subject to the emergency medical treatment and active labor act and included in the general hospital's single group license pursuant to title 36, chapter 4, article 2.

B.  Subsection A, paragraphs 3, and 4 and 9 of this section shall not be construed to limit eligibility for exemption from taxation under chapter 11, article 3 of this title. END_STATUTE