REFERENCE TITLE: short-term rental properties; classification

 

 

 

 

State of Arizona

Senate

Fifty-fourth Legislature

Second Regular Session

2020

 

 

 

SB 1490

 

Introduced by

Senator Mesnard

 

 

AN ACT

 

amending sections 42‑12001 and 42‑12004, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to property classification.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 


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

Section 1.  Section 42-12001, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE42-12001.  Class one property

For the purposes of taxation, class one is established consisting of the following subclasses:

1.  Producing mines and mining claims, personal property used on mines and mining claims, improvements to mines and mining claims and mills and smelters operated in conjunction with mines and mining claims that are valued at full cash value pursuant to section 42‑14053.

2.  Standing timber that is valued at full cash value.

3.  Real and personal property of gas distribution companies, electric transmission companies, electric distribution companies, combination gas and electric transmission and distribution companies, and companies engaged in the generation of generating electricity that are valued at full cash value pursuant to section 42‑14151.

4.  Real and personal property of airport fuel delivery companies that are valued pursuant to section 42‑14503.

5.  Real and personal property that is used by producing oil, gas and geothermal resource interests that are valued at full cash value pursuant to section 42‑14102.

6.  Real and personal property of water, sewer and wastewater utility companies that are valued at full cash value pursuant to section 42‑14151.

7.  Real and personal property of pipeline companies that are valued at full cash value pursuant to section 42‑14201.

8.  Real and personal property of shopping centers that are valued at full cash value or pursuant to chapter 13, article 5 of this title, as applicable, other than property that is included in class nine.

9.  Real and personal property of golf courses that are valued at full cash value or pursuant to chapter 13, article 4 of this title.

10.  All property, both real and personal, of manufacturers, assemblers or fabricators, other than property that is specifically included in another class described in this article, that is valued under this title.

11.  Real and personal property that is used in communications transmission facilities and that provides public telephone or telecommunications exchange or interexchange access for compensation to effect two‑way communication to, from, through or within this state.

12.  Real property and improvements that are devoted to any other commercial or industrial use, other than property that is specifically included in another class described in this article, and that are valued at full cash value.

13.  Personal property that is devoted to any other commercial or industrial use, other than property that is specifically included in another class described in this article, and that is valued at full cash value.

14.  Real and personal property of electric cooperatives that are valued at full cash value pursuant to section 42‑14159.

15.  Real and personal property and improvements that are used for residential purposes, that are solely leased or rented to lodgers for periods of less than thirty days and that are valued at full cash value, except for:

(a)  property that is occupied by the owner of the property as the owner's primary residence and is included in class three.

(b)  Property for residential purposes that is leased or rented and included in class four. END_STATUTE

Sec. 2.  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 for residential purposes, including residential property that is owned in foreclosure by a financial institution, that is not otherwise included in another classification and that is valued at full cash value.  The homesite that is included in class four may include:

(a)  Up to ten acres on a single parcel of real property on which the residential improvement is located.

(b)  More than ten, but not more than forty, acres on a single parcel of real property on which the residential improvement is located if it is zoned exclusively for residential purposes or contains legal restrictions or physical conditions that prevent the division of the parcel.  For the purposes of this subdivision, "physical conditions" means topography, mountains, washes, rivers, roads or any other configuration that limits the residential usable land area.

2.  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.

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

4.  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 with disabilities or who are sixty‑two years of age or older and that are valued at full cash value.

5.  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 with disabilities or who are sixty‑two years of age or older and that are valued at full cash value.

6.  Real and personal property consisting of no more than eight rooms of residential property that are leased or rented to transient lodgers, together with furnishing no more than a breakfast meal, by the owner who resides on the property and that is valued at full cash value.

7.  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.

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

9.  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.

10.  Real and personal property and improvements that are used for residential purposes and that are solely leased or rented to lodgers for periods of thirty days or more, except for:

(a)  Property occupied by the owner of the property as the owner's primary residence and included in class three.

(b)  Property used for commercial purposes and included in class one.

B.  Subsection A, paragraphs 4 and 5 of this section shall do not be construed to limit eligibility for exemption from taxation under chapter 11, article 3 of this title. END_STATUTE