LD 1395
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LR 824
Item 1

 
(1) Any corporation claiming exemption under
paragraph A must be organized and conducted
exclusively for benevolent and charitable purposes;

 
(2) A director, trustee, officer or employee of an
organization claiming exemption is not entitled to
receive directly or indirectly any pecuniary profit
from the operation of that organization, excepting
reasonable compensation for services in effecting its
purposes or as a proper beneficiary of its strictly
benevolent or charitable purposes;

 
(3) All profits derived from the operation of an
organization claiming exemption and the proceeds from
the sale of its property are devoted exclusively to
the purposes for which it is organized;

 
(4) The institution, organization or corporation
claiming exemption under this subsection shall file
with the tax assessors upon their request a report
for its preceding fiscal year in such detail as the
tax assessors may reasonably require;

 
(5) An exemption is not allowed under this
subsection in favor of an agricultural fair
association holding pari-mutuel racing meets unless
it has qualified the next preceding year as a
recipient of the "Stipend Fund" provided in Title 7,
section 62;

 
(6) An exemption allowed under paragraph A or B for
real or personal property owned and occupied or used
to provide federally subsidized residential rental
housing is limited as follows: Federally subsidized
residential rental housing placed in service prior to
September 1, 1993 by other than a nonprofit housing
corporation that is acquired on or after September 1,
1993 by a nonprofit housing corporation and the
operation of which is not an unrelated trade or
business to that nonprofit housing corporation is
eligible for an exemption limited to 50% of the
municipal assessed value of that property.

 
An exemption granted under this subparagraph must be
revoked for any year in which the owner of the
property is no longer a nonprofit housing corporation
or the operation of the residential rental housing is
an unrelated trade or business to that nonprofit
housing corporation.


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