KENTUCKY CONSTITUTION
ARTICLE XIII
REVENUE AND TAXATION
§169 | FISCAL YEAR
§170 | PROPERTY EXEMPT FROM TAXATION – CITIES MAY EXEMPT FACTORIES FOR FIVE YEARS
§171 | STATE TAX TO BE LEVIED – TAXES TO BE LEVIED AND COLLECTED FOR PUBLIC PURPOSES ONLY AND BY GENERAL LAWS, AND TO BE UNIFORM WITHIN CLASSES – CLASSIFICATION OF PROPERTY FOR TAXATION – BONDS EXEMPT – REFERENDUM ON ACT CLASSIFYING PROPERTY
The General Assembly shall have power to divide property into classes and to determine what class or classes of property shall be subject to local taxation. Bonds of the state and of counties, municipalities, taxing and school districts shall not be subject to taxation.
Any law passed or enacted by the General Assembly pursuant to the provisions of or under this amendment, or amended section of the Constitution, classifying property and providing a lower rate of taxation on personal property, tangible or intangible, than upon real estate shall be subject to the referendum power of the people, which is hereby declared to exist to apply only to this section, or amended section. The referendum may be demanded by the people against one or more items, sections, or parts of any act enacted pursuant to or under the power granted by this amendment, or amended section. The referendum petition shall be filed with the Secretary of State not more than four months after the final adjournment of the Legislative Assembly which passed the bill on which the referendum is demanded. The veto power of the Governor shall not extend to measures referred to the people under this section. All elections on measures referred to the people under this act shall be at the regular general election, except when the Legislative Assembly shall order a special election. Any measure referred to the people shall take effect and become a law when approved by the majority of the votes cast thereon, and not otherwise. The whole number of votes cast for the candidates for Governor at the regular election, last preceding the filing of any petition, shall be the basis upon which the legal voters necessary to sign such petition shall be counted. The power of the referendum shall be ordered by the Legislative Assembly at any time any acts or bills are enacted, pursuant to the power granted under this section or amended section, prior to the year of one thousand nine hundred and seventeen. After that time the power of the referendum may be ordered either by the petition signed by five percent of the legal voters or by the Legislative Assembly at the time said acts or bills are enacted. The General Assembly enacting the bill shall provide a way by which the act shall be submitted to the people. The filing of a referendum petition against one or more items, sections or parts of an act, shall not delay the remainder of that act from becoming operative.
§172 | PROPERTY TO BE ASSESSED AT FAIR CASH VALUE – PUNISHMENT OF ASSESSOR FOR WILLFUL ERROR
§172a | ASSESSMENT FOR AD VALOREM TAX PURPOSES OF AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL LAND
The General Assembly may provide for reasonable differences in the rate of ad valorem taxation within different areas of the same taxing districts on that class of property which includes the surface of the land. Those differences shall relate directly to differences between nonrevenue-producing governmental services and benefits giving land urban character which are furnished in one or several areas in contrast to other areas of the taxing district.
§172b | PROPERTY ASSESSMENT OR REASSESSMENT MORATORIUMS
§173 | OFFICER RECEIVING PROFIT ON PUBLIC FUNDS GUILTY OF FELONY
§174 | PROPERTY TO BE TAXED ARevenue and TaxationORDING TO VALUE, WHETHER CORPORATE OR INDIVIDUAL – INCOME, LICENSE, AND FRANCHISE TAXES
Nothing in this Constitution shall be construed to prevent the General Assembly from providing for taxation based on income, licenses or franchises.
§175 | POWER TO TAX PROPERTY NOT TO BE SURRENDERED
§176 | COMMONWEALTH NOT TO ASSUME DEBT OF COUNTY OR CITY – EXCEPTION
§177 | COMMONWEALTH NOT TO LEND CREDIT, NOR BECOME STOCKHOLDER IN CORPORATION, NOR BUILD RAILROAD OR HIGHWAY
§178 | LAW FOR BORROWING MONEY TO SPECIFY PURPOSE, FOR WHICH ALONE MONEY MAY BE USED
§179 | POLITICAL SUBDIVISION NOT TO BECOME STOCKHOLDER IN CORPORATION, OR APPROPRIATE MONEY OR LEND CREDIT TO ANY PERSON, EXCEPT FOR ROADS OR STATE CAPITOL
Provided, If any municipal corporation shall offer to the Commonwealth any property or money for locating or building a Capitol, and the Commonwealth accepts such offer, the corporation may comply with the offer.
§180 | ACT OR ORDINANCE LEVYING ANY TAX MUST SPECIFY PURPOSE, FOR WHICH ALONE MONEY MAY BE USED
§181 | GENERAL ASSEMBLY MAY NOT LEVY TAX FOR POLITICAL SUBDIVISION, BUT MAY CONFER POWER – LICENSE AND EXCISE TAXES – CITY TAXES IN LIEU OF AD VALOREM TAXES
Provided, Cities of the first class shall not be authorized to omit the imposition of an ad valorem tax on such property of any steam railroad, street railway, ferry, bridge, gas, water, heating, telephone, telegraph, electric light or electric power company.
§182 | RAILROAD TAXES – HOW ASSESSED AND COLLECTED
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