130th Ohio General Assembly
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As Reported by the Senate Ways and Means Committee

123rd General Assembly
Regular Session
1999-2000
Am. H. B. No. 194

REPRESENTATIVES JONES-THOMAS-WOMERBENJAMIN-HOOD-JERSE- BEATTY-METELSKY-BENDER-OGG-STAPLETON-HARTLEY-TAYLOR-SUTTON- O'BRIEN-SCHULER-SYKES-OPFER-FORD-HEALY-CALLENDER-PADGETT- HARTNETT-D.MILLER-JOLIVETTE-OLMAN-ALLEN-VESPER-JAMES- WILLAMOWSKI-SMITH-PRINGLE-DePIERO-HOLLISTER-MOTTLEY- AMSTUTZ-FLANNERY-CORBIN-BRITTON-AUSTRIA-HAINES- DISTEL-BARNES-GRENDELL-PERRY-PETERSON-TERWILLEGER- CAREY-SALERNO-PATTON-VERICH-MAIER-KRUPINSKI-FERDERBER- WILSON-LOGAN-BRADING-TRAKAS-CATES-MYERS-EVANS-CALVERT- MEAD-BUEHRER-SULZER-ROBERTS-R.MILLER-SCHURING-BUCHY- NETZLEY-HARRIS-PERZ-METZGER-CLANCY-BARRETT-BOYD-
SENATOR SBLESSING-JOHNSON-DRAKE-HERINGTON-McLIN


A BILL
To amend section 5709.12 of the Revised Code to exempt from taxation residential real property constructed or rehabilitated and held by a nonprofit charitable organization for the purpose of transferring the property to qualified low-income families.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:


Section 1. That section 5709.12 of the Revised Code be amended to read as follows:

Sec. 5709.12. (A) As used in this section, "independent living facilities" means any residential housing facilities and related property that are not a nursing home, residential care facility, or adult care facility as defined in division (A) of section 5701.13 of the Revised Code.

(B) Lands, houses, and other buildings belonging to a county, township, or municipal corporation and used exclusively for the accommodation or support of the poor, or leased to the state or any political subdivision for public purposes shall be exempt from taxation. Real and tangible personal property belonging to institutions that is used exclusively for charitable purposes shall be exempt from taxation. All property owned and used by a nonprofit organization exclusively for a home for the aged, as defined in section 5701.13 of the Revised Code, also shall be exempt from taxation.

(C) If a home for the aged is operated in conjunction with or at the same site as independent living facilities, the exemption granted in division (B) of this section shall include kitchen, dining room, clinic, entry ways, maintenance and storage areas, and land necessary for access commonly used by both residents of the home for the aged and residents of the independent living facilities. Other facilities commonly used by both residents of the home for the aged and residents of independent living units shall be exempt from taxation only if the other facilities are used primarily by the residents of the home for the aged. Vacant land currently unused by the home, and independent living facilities and the lands connected with them are not exempt from taxation. Except as provided in division (A) of section 5709.121 of the Revised Code, property of a home leased for nonresidential purposes is not exempt from taxation.

(D) A private corporation established under federal law, defined in 36 U.S.C. 1101, Pub. L. NO. 102-199, 105 Stat. 1629, as amended, the objects of which include encouraging the advancement of science generally, or of a particular branch of science, the promotion of scientific research, the improvement of the qualifications and usefulness of scientists, or the increase and diffusion of scientific knowledge is conclusively presumed to be a charitable or educational institution. A private corporation established as a nonprofit corporation under the laws of a state, that is exempt from federal income taxation under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, 100 Stat. 2085, 26 U.S.C.A. 1, as amended, and has as its principal purpose one or more of the foregoing objects, also is conclusively presumed to be a charitable or educational institution.

The fact that an organization described in this division operates in a manner that results in an excess of revenues over expenses shall not be used to deny the exemption granted by this section, provided such excess is used, or is held for use, for exempt purposes or to establish a reserve against future contingencies; and, provided further, that such excess may not be distributed to individual persons or to entities that would not be entitled to the tax exemptions provided by this chapter. Nor shall the fact that any scientific information diffused by the organization is of particular interest or benefit to any of its individual members be used to deny the exemption granted by this section, provided that such scientific information is available to the public for purchase or otherwise.

When a private corporation as described in this division sells all or any portion of a tract, lot, or parcel of real estate that has been exempt from taxation under this section and section 5709.121 of the Revised Code, the portion sold shall be restored to the tax list for the year following the year of the sale and a charge shall be levied against the sold property in an amount equal to the tax savings on such property during the four tax years preceding the year the property is placed on the tax list. The tax savings equals the amount of the additional taxes that would have been levied if such property had not been exempt from taxation.

The charge constitutes a lien of the state upon such property as of the first day of January of the tax year in which the charge is levied and continues until discharged as provided by law. The charge may also be remitted for all or any portion of such property that the tax commissioner determines is entitled to exemption from real property taxation for the year such property is restored to the tax list under any provision of the Revised Code, other than sections 725.02, 1728.10, 3735.67, 5709.40, 5709.41, 5709.62, 5709.63, 5709.71, 5709.73, 5709.78, and 5709.84, upon an application for exemption covering the year such property is restored to the tax list filed under section 5715.27 of the Revised Code.

(E) REAL PROPERTY HELD BY AN ORGANIZATION ORGANIZED AND OPERATED EXCLUSIVELY FOR CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS DESCRIBED UNDER SECTION 501(c)(3) OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE AND EXEMPT FROM FEDERAL TAXATION UNDER SECTION 501(a) OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE, 26 U.S.C.A. 501(a) AND (c)(3), AS AMENDED, FOR THE PURPOSE OF CONSTRUCTING OR REHABILITATING RESIDENCES FOR EVENTUAL TRANSFER TO QUALIFIED LOW-INCOME FAMILIES THROUGH SALE, LEASE, OR LAND INSTALLMENT CONTRACT, SHALL BE EXEMPT FROM TAXATION.

THE EXEMPTION SHALL COMMENCE ON THE DAY TITLE TO THE PROPERTY IS TRANSFERRED TO THE ORGANIZATION AND SHALL CONTINUE TO THE END OF THE TAX YEAR IN WHICH THE ORGANIZATION TRANSFERS TITLE TO THE PROPERTY TO A QUALIFIED LOW-INCOME FAMILY. IN NO CASE SHALL THE EXEMPTION EXTEND BEYOND THE SECOND SUCCEEDING TAX YEAR FOLLOWING THE YEAR IN WHICH THE TITLE WAS TRANSFERRED TO THE ORGANIZATION. IF THE TITLE IS TRANSFERRED TO THE ORGANIZATION AND FROM THE ORGANIZATION TO A QUALIFIED LOW-INCOME FAMILY IN THE SAME TAX YEAR, THE EXEMPTION SHALL CONTINUE TO THE END OF THAT TAX YEAR. THE PROPORTIONATE AMOUNT OF TAXES THAT ARE A LIEN BUT NOT YET DETERMINED, ASSESSED, AND LEVIED FOR THE TAX YEAR IN WHICH TITLE IS TRANSFERRED TO THE ORGANIZATION SHALL BE REMITTED BY THE COUNTY AUDITOR FOR EACH DAY OF THE YEAR THAT TITLE IS HELD BY THE ORGANIZATION.

UPON TRANSFERRING THE TITLE TO ANOTHER PERSON, THE ORGANIZATION SHALL FILE WITH THE COUNTY AUDITOR AN AFFIDAVIT AFFIRMING THAT THE TITLE WAS TRANSFERRED TO A QUALIFIED LOW-INCOME FAMILY OR THAT THE TITLE WAS NOT TRANSFERRED TO A QUALIFIED LOW-INCOME FAMILY, AS THE CASE MAY BE; IF THE TITLE WAS TRANSFERRED TO A QUALIFIED LOW-INCOME FAMILY, THE AFFIDAVIT SHALL IDENTIFY THE TRANSFEREE BY NAME. IF THE ORGANIZATION TRANSFERS TITLE TO THE PROPERTY TO ANYONE OTHER THAN A QUALIFIED LOW-INCOME FAMILY, THE EXEMPTION, IF IT HAS NOT PREVIOUSLY EXPIRED, SHALL TERMINATE, AND THE PROPERTY SHALL BE RESTORED TO THE TAX LIST FOR THE YEAR FOLLOWING THE YEAR OF THE TRANSFER AND A CHARGE SHALL BE LEVIED AGAINST THE PROPERTY IN AN AMOUNT EQUAL TO THE AMOUNT OF ADDITIONAL TAXES THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN LEVIED IF SUCH PROPERTY HAD NOT BEEN EXEMPT FROM TAXATION. THE CHARGE CONSTITUTES A LIEN OF THE STATE UPON SUCH PROPERTY AS OF THE FIRST DAY OF JANUARY OF THE TAX YEAR IN WHICH THE CHARGE IS LEVIED AND CONTINUES UNTIL DISCHARGED AS PROVIDED BY LAW.

THE APPLICATION FOR EXEMPTION SHALL BE FILED AS OTHERWISE REQUIRED UNDER SECTION 5715.27 OF THE REVISED CODE, EXCEPT THAT THE ORGANIZATION HOLDING THE PROPERTY SHALL FILE WITH ITS APPLICATION DOCUMENTATION SUBSTANTIATING ITS STATUS AS AN ORGANIZATION ORGANIZED AND OPERATED EXCLUSIVELY FOR CHARITABLE PURPOSES UNDER SECTION 501(c)(3) OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE AND ITS QUALIFICATION FOR EXEMPTION FROM FEDERAL TAXATION UNDER SECTION 501(a) OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE, AND AFFIRMING ITS INTENTION TO CONSTRUCT OR REHABILITATE THE PROPERTY FOR THE EVENTUAL TRANSFER TO QUALIFIED LOW-INCOME FAMILIES.

AS USED IN THIS DIVISION, "QUALIFIED LOW-INCOME FAMILY" MEANS A FAMILY WHOSE INCOME DOES NOT EXCEED TWO HUNDRED PER CENT OF THE OFFICIAL FEDERAL POVERTY GUIDELINES AS REVISED ANNUALLY IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 673(2) OF THE "OMNIBUS BUDGET RECONCILIATION ACT OF 1981," 95 STAT. 511, 42 U.S.C.A. 9902, AS AMENDED, FOR A FAMILY SIZE EQUAL TO THE SIZE OF THE FAMILY WHOSE INCOME IS BEING DETERMINED.


Section 2. That existing section 5709.12 of the Revised Code is hereby repealed.
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