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273.134 TACONITE AND IRON ORE AREAS; TAX RELIEF AREA; DEFINITIONS.
(a) For purposes of this section and sections 273.135 and 273.1391, "municipality" means
any city, however organized, or town, which meets the following qualifications:
(1) it is a municipality in which the assessed valuation of unmined iron ore on May 1, 1941,
was not less than 40 percent of the assessed valuation of all real property; or
(2) it is a municipality in which, on January 1, 1977, or the applicable assessment date, there
is a taconite concentrating plant or where taconite is mined or quarried or where there is located
an electric generating plant which qualifies as a taconite facility.
"The applicable assessment date" is the date as of which property is listed and assessed for
the tax in question.
(b) For the purposes of section 273.135, "tax relief area" means the geographic area
contained within the boundaries of a school district which meets the following qualifications:
(1) it is a school district in which the assessed valuation of unmined iron ore on May 1, 1941,
was not less than 40 percent of the assessed valuation of all real property and whose boundaries
are within 20 miles of a taconite mine or plant; or
(2) it is a school district in which, on January 1, 1977, or the applicable assessment date,
there is a taconite concentrating plant or where taconite is mined or quarried or where there is
located an electric generating plant which qualifies as a taconite facility.
History: 1969 c 1156 s 4; Ex1971 c 31 art 30 s 8; 1973 c 123 art 5 s 7; 1973 c 650 art 2 s 1;
1977 c 423 art 10 s 2; 1994 c 416 art 1 s 20; 1Sp2001 c 5 art 6 s 4; 2003 c 127 art 11 s 1

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