1. Amount of tax. Except as provided in subsections 2 and 3, a school district shall cause to be levied each year, for the school general fund, a foundation property tax equal to five dollars and forty cents per thousand dollars of assessed valuation on all taxable property in the district. The county auditor shall spread the foundation levy over all taxable property in the district.
The amount paid to each school district for the tax replacement claim for industrial machinery, equipment and computers under section 427B.19A shall be regarded as property tax. The portion of the payment which is foundation property tax shall be determined by applying the foundation property tax rate to the amount computed under section 427B.19, subsection 3, paragraph "a", as adjusted by paragraph "d", if any adjustment was made.
Replacement taxes under chapter 437A shall be regarded as property taxes for purposes of this chapter.
2. Tax for reorganized and dissolved districts. Notwithstanding subsection 1, a reorganized school district shall cause a foundation property tax of four dollars and forty cents per thousand dollars of assessed valuation to be levied on all taxable property which, in the year preceding a reorganization, was within a school district affected by the reorganization as defined in section 275.1, or in the year preceding a dissolution was a part of a school district that dissolved if the dissolution proposal has been approved by the director of the department of education pursuant to section 275.55. In the year preceding the reorganization or dissolution, the school district affected by the reorganization or the school district that dissolved must have had a certified enrollment of fewer than six hundred in order for the four-dollar-and-forty-cent levy to apply. In succeeding school years, the foundation property tax levy on that portion shall be increased twenty cents per year until it reaches the rate of five dollars and forty cents per thousand dollars of assessed valuation.
For purposes of this section, a reorganized school district is one which absorbed at least thirty percent of the enrollment of the school district affected by a reorganization or dissolved during a dissolution and in which action to bring about a reorganization or dissolution was initiated by a vote of the board of directors or jointly by the affected boards of directors prior to November 30, 1990, and the reorganization or dissolution takes effect on or after July 1, 1991, and on or before July 1, 1993. Each district which initiated, by a vote of the board of directors or jointly by the affected boards, action to bring about a reorganization or dissolution by November 30, 1990, shall certify the date and the nature of the action taken to the department of education by September 1, 1991.
A reorganized school district which meets the requirements of this section for reduced property tax rates, but failed to vote on reorganization or dissolution prior to November 30, 1990, and failed to certify such action to the department of education by September 1, 1991, shall cause to be levied a foundation property tax of four dollars and sixty cents per thousand dollars of assessed valuation on all eligible taxable property pursuant to this section. In succeeding school years, the foundation property tax levy on that portion shall be increased twenty cents per year until it reaches the rate of five dollars and forty cents per thousand dollars of assessed valuation.
The reduced property tax rates of reorganized school districts that met the requirements of section 442.2, Code 1991, prior to July 1, 1991, shall continue to increase as provided in that section until they reach five dollars and forty cents.
3. Subsequent reorganization. If a reorganized school district, whose foundation property tax is reduced under subsection 2, reorganizes within five school years from the time of its original reorganization to which subsection 2 applies, the resulting reorganized school district shall cause to be levied a foundation property tax on the taxable property in that portion of the new reorganized district which, in the year preceding the latest reorganization, was within the original reorganized school district to which subsection 2 applies equal to one dollar per thousand dollars of assessed value less than the rate the original reorganized district would have levied under subsection 2 for the same school year if there had been no new reorganization. In succeeding school years, the foundation property tax on that portion of the new reorganized school district shall be increased by forty cents for the first succeeding year and by twenty cents per year thereafter until it reaches the rate of five dollars and forty cents per thousand dollars of assessed valuation.
4. Railway corporations. For purposes of section 257.1, the "amount per pupil of foundation property tax" does not include the tax levied under subsection 1, 2, or 3 on the property of a railway corporation, or on its trustee if the corporation has been declared bankrupt or is in bankruptcy proceedings.
89 Acts, ch 135, § 3; 91 Acts, ch 178, §1; 93 Acts, ch 180, § 92-95; 95 Acts, ch 206, §34; 98 Acts, ch 1194, § 27, 40
Referred to in § 275.55
Subsection 1, unnumbered paragraph 3 is effective January 1, 1999, and applies to property tax assessment years and replacement tax years beginning on or after that date; 98 Acts, ch 1194, § 40
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