Sec. 12-120a. Annual report from Office of Policy and Management to General Assembly committee on finance, revenue and bonding concerning real and personal property tax data for towns in the state. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 12-120a. Annual report from Office of Policy and Management to General Assembly committee on finance, revenue and bonding concerning real and personal property tax data for towns in the state. The Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management shall, annually, not later than the fifteenth day of March, submit to the chairpersons and ranking members of the joint standing committee of the General Assembly on finance, revenue and bonding, with copies for such other committee members and staff personnel as said chairpersons may designate, a report concerning certain data applicable with respect to real and personal property in each town in the state and such totals of data pertaining to all towns as may be deemed appropriate by said secretary. The submission of such report in 1997, and annually thereafter, shall include a summary of data as described in each of the subsections in this section. Each such report shall include categories of such data for purposes of property subject to taxation and separate categories for property exempt from taxation. Such report shall include state-wide trends covering a five-year period. Such report shall be organized, to the extent possible, in a manner consistent with the outline of information as described in each of the following subdivisions.

      (1) Residential, apartment, commercial and public utility real property. For purposes of taxable residential, apartment, commercial, industrial and public utility real property, such report shall include the total number of properties and the total assessed value of such properties.

      (2) Vacant land assessed according to use classification. For purposes of taxable vacant land, such report shall include the total number of acres and the total assessed value of such acres. For purposes of taxable land subject to assessment related to certain use value classifications, such report shall include the total number of such acres and the total assessed value of such acres for each of the following classifications related to use: (A) Farm, (B) forest, (C) open space, and (D) maritime heritage.

      (3) Land bearing timber. For purposes of taxable land bearing timber and subject to tax at a rate not exceeding ten mills, such report shall include the total number of acres and the assessed value of the land.

      (4) Motor vehicles, mobile homes and other taxable personal property. (A) For purposes of taxable registered motor vehicles, such report shall include the total number of motor vehicles and the total assessed value of such motor vehicles for each of the following classifications related to use: (i) Passenger, (ii) commercial, (iii) combination, (iv) farm, and (v) any other classification; (B) for purposes of taxable vehicles which are not registered and mobile manufactured homes, such report shall include the total number of such vehicles and mobile manufactured homes and the total assessed value for each such category; (C) for purposes of all other taxable personal property, such report shall include the total value of each category of such property as contained in the tax list required pursuant to sections 12-42 and 12-43.

      (5) Tax-exempt property with no state reimbursement for tax loss to towns. For purposes of exemptions from property tax with respect to which there is no state reimbursement, such report shall include the total number of such exempt properties by the exemption categories and property types deemed appropriate by the secretary, and the total assessed value of such exempt property.

      (6) Tax-exempt property with state reimbursement for tax loss. For purposes of exemptions from property tax with respect to which annual reimbursement is provided by the state, such report shall include the total assessed value of such exempt property, by the exemption categories and property types deemed appropriate by the secretary.

      (7) Exemption from property tax subject to state reimbursement. For purposes of exemptions from or reductions in property tax for certain individuals, with respect to which state reimbursement is applicable, such report shall include (A) the total number of individuals and the total amounts of each such exemption or reduction in the case of such benefits not subject to income requirements, and (B) in the case of such benefits subject to income requirements, such total number of individuals and total amounts of exemption or reduction the total assessed value of such exempt property, by the exemption categories and property types deemed appropriate by the secretary.

      (8) Exemption from property tax for certain individuals with no state reimbursement. For purposes of exemption from property tax for certain individuals, with respect to which there is no state reimbursement, such report shall include the total number of individuals and the total value of each of the following exemptions: (A) Exemptions related to veterans under subdivisions (19) to (26), inclusive, of section 12-81, and (B) exemption for blind persons under subdivision (17) of said section.

      (June Sp. Sess. P.A. 83-3, S. 1; P.A. 86-261, S. 1, 2; P.A. 90-94, S. 1, 2; P.A. 93-6, S. 1, 2; P.A. 96-217, S. 1, 5; P.A. 97-244, S. 11, 13; P.A. 07-127, S. 5.)

      History: The reference to "mobile homes" in Subsec. (e) was changed to "mobile manufactured homes" in accordance with June Sp. Sess. P.A. 83-3; P.A. 90-94 changed the date for submission of the report from January fifteenth to March fifteenth annually and added the requirement concerning a state-wide summary of trends over a five-year period and amended each subsec. by eliminating requirements that the report information be prepared separately with respect to each town; P.A. 93-6 amended Subsec. (e) by deleting specific property tax categories and replacing them with a general reference to personal property, effective March 31, 1993, and applicable to the report of personal property filed on or after March 1, 1991; P.A. 96-217 required 1997 and subsequent reports to include summary of data described in this section instead of all such data, amended Subsec. (a) by adding apartment and public utility real property and changing data to be reported, amended Subsec. (b) by substituting "vacant land" for "real property belonging to a public utility" and changing the data to be reported, amended Subsec. (c) by requiring report to include "the assessed value of the land", repealed Subsec. (d) re reporting of penalty for failure to report taxable land, relettered former Subsecs. (e) to (i), inclusive, as (d) to (h), inclusive, respectively, and amended relettered Subsec. (d) by substituting "total assessed value" for "total value" and deleting reporting requirement for aircraft, effective June 4, 1996; P.A. 97-244 amended Subsec. (a) to require report to include number of properties rather than buildings, units or parcels, amended Subsec. (b) to substitute reference to parcels for reference to acres, amended Subsecs. (e), (f) and (j) to require report to refer to exempt properties by exemption category and property types and made technical changes throughout the section, effective July 1, 1997; P.A. 07-127 redesignated Subsecs. (a) to (h) as Subdivs. (1) to (8), made technical changes and added "maritime heritage" in Subdiv. (2)(D), effective July 1, 2007.