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Committee favors bill requiring host-county permission, payment rules for cross-county land purchases
Summary
The committee gave HB 4 45 a favorable recommendation (7–2). The bill would require a county to obtain the express permission of the legislative body in the county where property lies before acquiring real property there and would remove tax-exempt treatment for such land, effectively creating a PILT-like obligation and mandating inter-county consultation.
Representative Strong and Morgan County Commissioner Mike Newton framed HB 4 45 as a response to Summit County’s purchase of the 910 Ranch and other parcels that include land inside Morgan County. The bill requires an acquiring county to obtain the express permission of the legislative body of the county in which the property is located before acquiring real property there by purchase, exchange or lease; it also specifies tax treatment so such property would not be tax-exempt in the host county and proposes a payment-in-lieu approach tied to the property’s value at purchase.
Newton described three scenarios to illustrate…
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