Key: (1) language to be deleted (2) new language
Laws of Minnesota 1989 CHAPTER 239-S.F.No. 46 An act relating to taxation; exempting leased hangars at airports in small cities from property taxation; amending Minnesota Statutes 1988, sections 272.01, subdivision 2; and 273.19, subdivision 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 1988, section 272.01, subdivision 2, is amended to read: Subd. 2. (a) When any real or personal property whichforany reasonis exempt from ad valorem taxes, and taxes in lieu thereof, is leased, loaned, or otherwise made available and used by a private individual, association, or corporation in connection with a business conducted for profit, there shall be imposed a tax, for the privilege of so using or possessing such real or personal property, in the same amount and to the same extent as though the lessee or user was the owner of such property. (b) The tax imposed by this subdivision shall not apply to: (1) property leased or usedby way ofas a concession in or relative to the use in whole or part of a public park, market, fairgrounds, port authority, economic development authority established under chapter 458C, municipal auditorium,airportowned by a city, town, county, or group thereof but not theairports owned or operated by the metropolitan airportscommission or a city of over 50,000 population or an airportauthority therein,municipal museum, or municipal stadiumor; (2) property of an airport owned by a city, town, county, or group thereof which is: (i) leased to or used by any person or entity including a fixed base operator; and (ii) used as a hangar for the storage or repair of aircraft or to provide aviation goods, services, or facilities to the airport or general public; the exception from taxation provided in this clause does not apply to: (i) property located at an airport owned or operated by the metropolitan airports commission or by a city of over 50,000 population according to the most recent federal census or such a city's airport authority; or (ii) hangars leased by a private individual, association, or corporation in connection with a business conducted for profit other than an aviation-related business; (3) property constituting or used as a public pedestrian ramp or concourse in connection with a public airport; or(3)(4) property constituting or used as a passenger check-in area or ticket sale counter, boarding area, or luggage claim area in connection with a public airport but not the airports owned or operated by the metropolitan airports commission or cities of over 50,000 population or an airport authority therein. Real estate owned by a municipality in connection with the operation of a public airport and leased or used for agricultural purposesshallis notbeexempt. (c) Taxes imposed by this subdivisionshall be due andare payable as in the case of personal property taxes andsuch taxesshall be assessed tosuchthe lessees or users of real or personal property in the same manner as taxes assessed to owners of real or personal property, except that such taxes shall not become a lien against the property. When due, the taxes shall constitute a debt due from the lessee or user to the state, township, city, county and school district for which the taxes were assessed and shall be collected in the same manner as personal property taxes. If property subject to the tax imposed by this subdivision is leased or used jointly by two or more persons, each lessee or user shall be jointly and severally liable for payment of the tax. Sec. 2. Minnesota Statutes 1988, section 273.19, subdivision 1, is amended to read: Subdivision 1. Except as provided in subdivision 3 or 4, tax-exempt property held under a lease for a term of at least one year, and not taxable under section 272.01, subdivision 2, or under a contract for the purchase thereof,when the propertybelongs to the United States, to the state, or to any religious,scientific, or benevolent society or institution, incorporatedor unincorporated, or to any railroad company or othercorporation whose property is not taxed in the same manner asother property, or when the property is school or other statelands,shall be considered, for all purposes of taxation, as the property of the personsoholdingthe sameit. In this subdivision, "tax-exempt property" means property owned by the United States, the state, a school, or any religious, scientific, or benevolent society or institution, incorporated or unincorporated, or any corporation whose property is not taxed in the same manner as other property. This subdivision does not apply to property exempt from taxation under section 272.01, subdivision 2,clauseparagraph (b), clauses (2), (3), and (4). Sec. 3. [EFFECTIVE DATE.] Sections 1 and 2 are effective for taxes levied in 1989, payable in 1990, and thereafter. Presented to the governor May 22, 1989 Signed by the governor May 25, 1989, 5:22 p.m.
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