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91.260 Ad valorem taxes -- Taxes based on income, licenses and franchises -- Exemption of manufacturing establishments.

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91.260 Ad valorem taxes -- Taxes based on income, licenses and franchises -- Exemption of manufacturing establishments. (1) Each city of the first class shall raise a revenue from ad valorem taxes and from taxes based on income, licenses and franchises. The board of aldermen may each <br>year, by ordinance, levy an ad valorem tax on all real and personal property subject <br>to taxation for city purposes, at a rate within the limits prescribed in the <br>Constitution, and may provide for taxation, for city purposes, on personal property <br>based on income, licenses or franchises in lieu of an ad valorem tax thereon, but <br>may not omit the imposition of an ad valorem tax on the taxable personal property <br>of any steam, railroad, street railway, ferry, bridge, gas, water, heating, telephone, <br>telegraph, electric light or electric power company, and may not levy or collect an <br>income tax. (2) The board of aldermen shall provide for the collection of all taxes imposed under this section. (3) The board of aldermen may by ordinance exempt manufacturing establishments from city taxation for a period not exceeding five (5) years, as an inducement to <br>their location within the city limits. Effective: October 1, 1942 <br>History: Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. secs. 2980, 2980a.