HB1439 (2010) Detail

Relative to tax exemptions for water and air pollution control installations.


HB 1439-LOCAL – AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE

03Mar2010… 0138h

2010 SESSION

10-2518

08/03

HOUSE BILL 1439-LOCAL

AN ACT relative to tax exemptions for water and air pollution control installations.

SPONSORS: Rep. Webb, Merr 2; Rep. A. Peterson, Hills 3

COMMITTEE: Local and Regulated Revenues

AMENDED ANALYSIS

This bill makes the property tax exemption for water control facilities inapplicable to certain sewage disposal systems.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

03Mar2010… 0138h

10-2518

08/03

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Ten

AN ACT relative to tax exemptions for water and air pollution control installations.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1 Water and Air Pollution Control Installations. Amend RSA 72:12-a, I to read as follows:

I. Any person, firm, or corporation which builds, constructs, installs, or places in use in this state any treatment facility, device, appliance, or installation wholly or partly for the purpose of reducing, controlling, or eliminating any source of air or water pollution shall be entitled to have the value of said facility and any real estate necessary therefor, or a percentage thereof determined in accordance with this section, exempted from the taxes levied under this chapter for the period of years in which the facility, device, appliance, or installation is used in accordance with the provisions of this section. This paragraph shall not apply to privately-owned landfills or ancillary facilities located at such landfills or to sewage disposal systems installed pursuant to RSA 485-A:29 through RSA 485-A:44 and rules adopted pursuant thereto, except that any exemption for a sewage disposal system granted prior to January 1, 2010 shall remain in effect.

2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010.