Durham Adopts Horse, Pony Personal Property Exemption Ordinance

Residents of the Town of Durham, CT shared the following legal notice via Facebook.

9/9/2014 - Legal Notice: An Ordinance Regarding Personal Property Exemption for Horses and Ponies

Notice is hereby given that at a duly warned Special Town Meeting held on Monday, September 8, 2014, amendments to the Durham Code of Ordinances were adopted as follows:

1. An Ordinance Regarding Personal Property Exemption for Horses and Ponies

Per the Town of Durham Charter, Chapter 3, Section 3.5.2 said ordinance shall be effective at date of approval but not before a notice of the ordinance has been published.

Copies of the amendments to the ordinance are available from the Town Clerk’s office, 30 Townhouse Road, Durham, CT at no charge to any person making a request. A copy is also available on the Town of Durham website.

Dated in Durham, CT this 9th day of September 2014.
Kim Garvis, MCTC, CMC
Town Clerk

Personal Property Exemption for Horses and Ponies

Be It Resolved, that to promote agricultural use of land and other resources and in particular the stabling, training, instructing and riding of horses and ponies, effective October 1, 2014, and applicable to assessment years commencing on or after said date, and notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision (68) of section 12-81 of the general statutes and section 12-91 of the general statutes, as amended by said Public Act No. 14-33, the Board of Selectmen are hereby authorized acting as the statutorily designated legislative body at a regular or special board of selectmen meeting properly called for the purpose of determining taxation of horses and ponies stabled in Durham, to exempt from property valuation horses and ponies of any value by a vote of two members present and voting in the affirmative;

Be It Further Resolved, that this Ordinance shall become effective on the date on which a notice of the ordinance has been published in a newspaper having general circulation in the Town of Durham.

Adopted at Town Meeting, September 8, 2014.

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