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COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE

FOR

Senate Bill No. 344

(By Senators Prezioso, D. Facemire, Unger, Foster, Jenkins, McCabe, Stollings, Plymale and Klempa)

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[Originating in the Committee on Finance;

reported February 18, 2011.]

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A BILL to amend and reenact §11-6F-2 and §11-6F-3 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, all relating to reducing the required original cost of manufacturing facilities and reducing the required cost of the capital addition when determining eligibility for the special method for appraising such property; and excluding unimproved real property from the measure of the certified capital addition property.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

    That §11-6F-2 and §11-6F-3 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted, all to read as follows:

ARTICLE 6F. SPECIAL METHOD FOR APPRAISING QUALIFIED CAPITAL ADDITIONS TO MANUFACTURING FACILITIES.

§11-6F-2. Definitions.

    As used in this article, the term:

    (a) "Certified capital addition property" means all real property and personal property included within or to be included within a qualified capital addition to a manufacturing facility that has been certified by the State Tax Commissioner in accordance with section four of this article: Provided, That airplanes and motor vehicles licensed by the Division of Motor Vehicles shall in no event constitute certified capital addition property.

    (b) "Manufacturing" means any business activity classified as having a sector identifier, consisting of the first two digits of the six-digit North American Industry Classification System code number of thirty-one, thirty-two or thirty-three or the six digit code number 211112.

    (b) (c) "Manufacturing facility" means any factory, mill, chemical plant, refinery, warehouse, building or complex of buildings, including land on which it is located, and all machinery, equipment, improvements and other real property and personal property located at or within the facility used in connection with the operation of the facility in a manufacturing business.

    (c) (d) "Personal property" means all property specified in subdivision (q), section ten, article two, chapter two of this code and includes, but is not limited to, furniture, fixtures, machinery and equipment, pollution control equipment, computers and related data processing equipment, spare parts and supplies.

    (d) (e) "Qualified capital addition to a manufacturing facility" means all real property and personal property, the combined original cost of all of the property which exceeds $50 million to be constructed, located or installed at or within two miles of a manufacturing facility owned or operated by the person making the capital addition that has a total original cost before the capital addition of at least $100 million. Provided, That If the capital addition is made in a steel, chemical or polymer alliance zone as designated from time-to-time by executive order of the Governor, then the person making the capital addition may for purposes of satisfying the requirements of this subsection join in a multiparty project with a person owning or operating a manufacturing facility that has a total original cost before the capital addition of at least $100 million if the capital addition creates additional production capacity of existing or related products or feedstock or derivative products respecting the manufacturing facility, consists of a facility used to store, handle, process or produce raw materials for the manufacturing facility, consists of a facility used to store, handle or process natural gas to produce fuel for the generation of steam or electricity for the manufacturing facility or consists of a facility that generates steam or electricity for the manufacturing facility. Beginning July 1, 2011, wherever the number “100” is used in this subsection, the number “20” shall be substituted and where the number “50” is used, the number “10” shall be substituted.

    (e) (f) "Real property" means all property specified in subdivision (p), section ten, article two, chapter two of this code and includes, but is not limited to, lands, buildings and improvements on the land such as sewers, fences, roads, paving and leasehold improvements.

§11-6F-3. Tax treatment of certified capital addition property.

    Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the value of certified capital addition property, for purposes of ad valorem property taxation under this chapter, shall be is its salvage value, which for purposes of this article is five percent of the certified capital addition property's original cost. For capital additions certified on or after July 1, 2011, the value of the land before any improvements shall be subtracted from the value of the capital addition and the unimproved land value shall not be given salvage value treatment.

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