Current Status Bill Number:4873 Type of Legislation:General Bill GB Introducing Body:House Introduced Date:19980324 Primary Sponsor:Cobb-Hunter All Sponsors:Cobb-Hunter, Inabinett, Lloyd, Whatley, Breeland, Gourdine, Cave, Canty, Neal, Rhoad, Lee, Jennings, J. Hines, Clyburn, M. Hines, Phillips and Littlejohn Drafted Document Number:BBM\9792MM.98 Residing Body:House Current Committee:Ways and Means Committee 30 HWM Subject:Property tax exemptions, mobile home owned and occupied by aging person; Taxation
Body Date Action Description Com Leg Involved ______ ________ _______________________________________ _______ ____________ House 19980324 Introduced, read first time, 30 HWM referred to CommitteeView additional legislative information at the LPITS web site.
TO AMEND SECTION 12-37-220, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO EXEMPTIONS FROM AD VALOREM TAXATION, SO AS TO EXEMPT A MOBILE HOME WHICH IS OCCUPIED AS A LEGAL RESIDENCE BY AN OWNER SIXTY-TWO YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 12-37-220(B) of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 149 of 1997, is further amended by adding an appropriately-numbered item at the end to read:
"( ) The mobile home occupied by him as his legal residence by an owner of the mobile home who is sixty-two years of age or older."
SECTION 2. This act is effective upon approval by the Governor for property tax years beginning after 1998.