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2013 Session

Budget Amendments - HB1500 (Member Request)

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Chief Patron: Ingram
Eliminate ASMFC Real and Personal Property Taxes (language only)

Item 374 #1h

Item 374 #1h

Natural Resources
Marine Resources Commission

Language
Page 331, after line 45, insert:
"H.  Because (i) the Commonwealth has an indivisible and indirect ownership of property of the interstate fisheries commissions that are located in the Commonwealth and identified in paragraphs A. and B. of this item, (ii) the commissions have been established in accordance with federal law, and (iii) the commissions perform an essential government function of the Commonwealth, the property owned by these commissions in the Commonwealth shall not be subject to any local, real or personal property taxes."


Explanation
(This amendment provides language eliminating the ability of Arlington County to impose any taxes on the real or personal property owned by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, an organization that sets fisheries policy over a 15 state region from Maine to Florida. In 2011, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission had a budget of $6.5 million, including $576,683 in state member dues and the remainder coming from state and federal grants. By contrast, Westmoreland County does not impose any taxes on the real and personal property owned by the Potomac River Fisheries Commission.)