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2016 SESSION

16101108D
HOUSE BILL NO. 1034
Offered January 13, 2016
Prefiled January 13, 2016
A BILL to amend and reenact § 58.1-3901 of the Code of Virginia, relating to personal property tax; transmittal of certain information to commissioner of the revenue.
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Patron-- Sickles
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Referred to Committee on Finance
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 58.1-3901 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 58.1-3901. Apartment house, office building, shopping center, trailer camp, trailer court, self-service storage facility, marina, airport, and other owners or operators to file lists of tenants.

A. Every person owning or operating any apartment house or any office building or shopping center or any trailer camp or trailer court or marina or privately owned or operated airport in the Commonwealth shall, on or before February 1 of each year, upon request of the commissioner of the revenue of the county or city in which any such apartment house, office building, shopping center, trailer camp, trailer court, marina, or airport is located, file with such commissioner of the revenue a list giving (i) the name and address of every tenant of such apartment house, office building, shopping center, trailer camp, or trailer court, and the license plate number of such tenants' motor vehicles if such information is kept on file, and (ii) the name and address of every person renting space in a marina for waterborne craft and at a privately owned or operated airport for airborne craft as of January 1 preceding. The governing body of any county adjoining a county having a population of more than 1,000 per square mile may require like the information described in clause (i) from any such person leasing houses for rent, and violation of any such ordinance requiring the same may be punished as hereinafter provided.

B. Every property owners' association established pursuant to the Property Owners' Association Act (§ 55-508 et seq.), condominium unit owners' association established pursuant to the Condominium Act (§ 55-79.39 et seq.), and proprietary lessees' association established pursuant to the Virginia Real Estate Cooperative Act (§ 55-424 et seq.) shall, upon the written request of the commissioner of the revenue, provide (i) a list of the owners of the properties administered by such association, to the extent that the association maintains such a list, and (ii) a list of the license plate numbers of such owners' motor vehicles, to the extent that the association maintains such a list, to the commissioner for use in administering local property taxes.

C. Every person owning or operating any self-service storage facility, as defined in § 55-417, that makes the outdoor common area of such facility available for storage of tangible personal property (including without limitation motor vehicles, trailers, and watercraft) on a rental or leased basis in the Commonwealth shall, on or before February 1 of each year, upon the written request of the commissioner of the revenue of the county or city in which such self-service storage facility is located, file with such commissioner of the revenue a list giving the name and address of every person renting or leasing space within the outdoor common area of such self-service storage facility, and the license plate numbers of such persons' motor vehicles for which spaces are leased within the outdoor common area of such facility, as of January 1 preceding.

D. Any person failing to comply with this section shall be guilty of a Class 4 misdemeanor.