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AB-440 State government: Department of Finance: report.(2017-2018)

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Date Published: 03/24/2017 04:00 AM
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Amended  IN  Assembly  March 23, 2017

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill
No. 440

Introduced by Assembly Member Gipson

February 13, 2017

An act to amend add Section 107 of the Revenue and Taxation 13085 to the Government Code, relating to taxation. state government.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


AB 440, as amended, Gipson. Property tax. State government: Department of Finance: report.
Existing law grants the Department of Finance general powers of supervision over all matters concerning the financial and business policies of the state.
This bill would require the department to convene a working group to create a report on the anticipated financial impact to cities if federal funding is reduced or eliminated for those cities because of being identified as a sanctuary city. The bill would require the report to be published on the department’s Internet Web site.

Existing property tax law defines a possessory interest for purposes of taxation.

This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to this provision.

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NOYES   Local Program: NO  

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:


SECTION 1.

 The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following:
(a) Immigration has made America a great nation with diversity a key component in strengthening our social fabric.
(b) Cities that are protecting undocumented immigrants are protecting people who are essential to California’s social, economic, and political life.
(c) Hard-working and committed Californians deserve to be treated with dignity and respect.
(d) Any plan to defund sanctuary cities is an attack on every Californian, and will deny and delay vital funding and services to some of the largest economic centers in the United States.

SEC. 2.

 Section 13085 is added to the Government Code, to read:

13085.
 The department shall convene a working group to create a report on the anticipated financial impact to cities if federal funding is reduced or eliminated for those cities because of being identified as a sanctuary city. The department shall publish the report on its Internet Web site.

SECTION 1.Section 107 of the Revenue and Taxation Code is amended to read:
107.

“Possessory interests” means the following:

(a)Possession of, claim to, or right to the possession of land or improvements that is independent, durable, and exclusive of rights held by others in the property, except when coupled with ownership of the land or improvements in the same person. For the purposes of this subdivision:

(1)“Independent” means the ability to exercise authority and exert control over the management or operation of the property or improvements, separate and apart from the policies, statutes, ordinances, rules, and regulations of the public owner of the property or improvements. A possession or use is independent if the possession or operation of the property is sufficiently autonomous to constitute more than a mere agency.

(2)“Durable” means for a determinable period with a reasonable certainty that the use, possession, or claim with respect to the property or improvements will continue for that period.

(3)“Exclusive” means the enjoyment of a beneficial use of land or improvements, together with the ability to exclude from occupancy by means of legal process others who may interfere with that enjoyment. For purposes of this paragraph, “exclusive use” includes the following types of use in property:

(A)Sole occupancy or use of property or improvements.

(B)Use as a cotenant.

(C)Concurrent use by a person who has a primary or prevailing right to use property or improvements at any time.

(D)Concurrent uses by persons making qualitatively different uses of property or improvements.

(E)Concurrent use by persons engaged in similar uses that diminish the quantity or quality of the property or improvements.

(F)Concurrent use that does not diminish the quantity or quality of the property or improvements, if the number of those concurrent use grants is restricted.

A use of property or improvements that does not contain one of the elements in subparagraphs (A) to (F), inclusive, shall be rebuttably presumed to be a nonexclusive use.

(b)Taxable improvements on tax-exempt land.

Any possessory interest may, in the discretion of the county board of supervisors, be considered as sufficient security for the payment of any taxes levied thereon and may be placed on the secured roll.

Leasehold estates for the production of gas, petroleum and other hydrocarbon substances from beneath the surface of the earth, and other rights relating to these substances which constitute incorporeal hereditaments or profits a prendre, are sufficient security for the payment of taxes levied thereon. These estates and rights shall not be classified as possessory interests, but shall be placed on the secured roll.

If the tax on any possessory interest or leasehold estate for the production of gas, petroleum and other hydrocarbon substances is unpaid when any installment of secured taxes become delinquent, the tax collector may use those collection procedures that are available for the collection of assessments on the unsecured roll.

If the tax on any possessory interest or leasehold estate for the production of gas, petroleum and other hydrocarbon substances remains unpaid at the time set for the declaration of default for taxes carried on the secured roll, the possessory interest tax together with any penalty and costs which may be accrued thereon while on the secured roll shall be transferred to the unsecured roll.