15-6-220. Agricultural processing facilities exemption -- canola -- malting barley -- industrial dairy -- ethanol. - Montana Statutes

     15-6-220. Agricultural processing facilities exemption -- canola -- malting barley -- industrial dairy -- ethanol. (1) The following property is exempt from property taxation:
     (a) machinery and equipment used in a canola seed oil processing facility;
     (b) machinery and equipment used in a malting barley facility;
     (c) personal property used by an industrial dairy or an industrial milk processor and dairy livestock used by an industrial dairy; and
     (d) all manufacturing machinery, fixtures, equipment, and tools used for the production of ethanol from grain during the course of the construction of an ethanol manufacturing facility and for 10 years after completion of construction of the manufacturing facility.
     (2) "Canola seed oil processing facility" means a facility that:
     (a) extracts oil from canola seeds, refines the crude oil to produce edible oil, formulates and packages the edible oil into food products, or engages in any one or more of those processes; and
     (b) employs at least 15 employees in a full-time capacity.
     (3) "Industrial dairy" means a large-scale dairy operation with 1,000 or more milking cows and includes the dairy livestock and integral machinery and equipment that the dairy uses to produce milk and milk products solely for export from the state, either directly by the dairy or after the milk or milk product has been further processed by an industrial milk processor. After export, any unprocessed milk must be further processed into other dairy products.
     (4) "Industrial milk processor" means a facility and integral machinery used solely to process milk into milk products for export from the state.
     (5) "Malting barley facility" means a facility and integral machinery and equipment used principally to malt malting barley and includes machinery and equipment to mix, blend, transport, transfer, or process the barley and malt at the facility.

     History: En. Sec. 2, Ch. 285, L. 1999; amd. Sec. 11, Ch. 532, L. 2005.