4141432 Resolution 19-760, “United House of Prayer for All People Real Property Tax Exemption Technical Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2012”

A RESOLUTION

                                                        

19-760 

 

IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

 

December 18, 2012

 

 

To declare the existence of an emergency with respect to the need to restore the applicability provision of the real-property-tax exemption granted to the United House of Prayer for All People.

 

 

            RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this resolution may be cited as the “United House of Prayer for All People Real Property Tax Exemption Technical Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2012”.

 

            Sec. 2.  (a)  Section 3 of the United House of Prayer for All People Real Property Tax Exemption Act of 2011 (“D.C. Law 19-51”) provides that the act shall apply as of March 1, 2011 upon inclusion of the act’s fiscal effect in an approved budget and financial plan.

            (b)  Funding for D.C. Law 19-51 was included in the fiscal year 2013 budget.  However, in repealing the subject-to-appropriation language in the Fiscal Year 2013 Budget Support Act of 2012, effective September 20, 2012 (D.C. Law 19-168; 59 DCR 8025), the entire applicability provision was inadvertently repealed.  Emergency legislation is necessary to restore the March 1, 2011, applicability date of the exemption for the United House of Prayer for All People and to resolve pending tax bills.

           

            Sec. 3.  The Council of the District of Columbia determines that the circumstances enumerated in section 2 constitute emergency circumstances making it necessary that the United House of Prayer for All People Real Property Tax Exemption Technical Emergency Act of 2012 be adopted after a single reading.           

 

            Sec. 4.  This resolution shall take effect immediately.