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AN ACT relating to the property tax homestead exemption. 1
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 2
ď˘Section 1. KRS 132.810 is amended to read as follows: 3
(1) To qualify under the homestead exemption provision of the Constitution, each 4
person claiming the exemption shall file an application with the property valuation 5
administrator of the county in which the applicant resides, on forms prescribed by 6
the department. The assessed value of property on which homestead exemption is 7
claimed shall not be increased because of valuation expressed on the application 8
form filed with the property valuation administrator, and whenever it becomes 9
known that the valuation of property subject to the homestead tax exemption has 10
been increased because of valuation expressed on the application form, adjustment 11
shall be made the following year so that the total tax paid by the taxpayer is the 12
same as if the increase had not been made. 13
(2) (a) Every person filing an application for exemption under the homestead 14
exemption provision must be sixty-five (65) years of age or older during the 15
year for which application is made or must have been classified as totally 16
disabled under a program authorized or administered by an agency of the 17
United States government or by any retirement system either within or 18
without the Commonwealth of Kentucky on January 1 of the year in which 19
application is made. 20
(b) Every person filing an application for exemption under the homestead 21
exemption provision must own and maintain the property for which the 22
exemption is sought as his or her personal residence. 23
(c) Every person filing an application for exemption under the disability 24
provision of the homestead exemption must have received disability payments 25
pursuant to the disability and must maintain the disability classification for the 26
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(d) 1. Every person filing for the homestead exemption who is totally disabled 1
and is less than sixty-five (65) years of age must apply for the 2
homestead exemption on an annual basis, except as provided by 3
subparagraph 2. of this paragraph. 4
2. a. A service-connected totally disabled veteran of the United States 5
Armed Forces; or 6
b. A totally and permanently disabled individual found disabled 7
under: 8
i. The applicable rules of the Social Security Administration; 9
ii. The applicable rules of the Kentucky Retirement Systems; or 10
iii. Any other provision of the Kentucky Revised Statutes; 11
shall document the disability at the time of application for the 12
homestead exemption and shall not be required to apply for the 13
homestead exemption on an annual basis. 14
(e) 1. Only one (1) exemption per residential unit shall be allowed even 15
though the resident may be sixty-five (65) years of age and also totally 16
disabled, and regardless of the number of residents sixty-five (65) years 17
of age or older occupying the unit. 18
2. The sixty-five hundred dollars ($6,500) exemption provided in Section 19
170 of the Constitution of Kentucky shall be construed to mean sixty-20
five hundred dollars ($6,500) in terms of the purchasing power of the 21
dollar in 1972. 22
3. a. Every two (2) years thereafter through the year 2025, if the cost 23
of living index of the United States Department of Labor has 24
changed as much as one percent (1%), the maximum exemption 25
shall be adjusted accordingly. 26
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of living index of the United States Department of Labor has 1
changed as much as one percent (1%), the maximum exemption 2
shall be adjusted accordingly. 3
(f) The real property may be held by legal or equitable title, by the entireties, 4
jointly, in common, as a condominium, or indirectly by the stock ownership 5
or membership representing the owner's or member's proprietary interest in a 6
corporation owning a fee or a leasehold initially in excess of ninety-eight (98) 7
years. The exemption shall apply only to the value of the real property 8
assessable to the owner or, in case of ownership through stock or membership 9
in a corporation, the value of the proportion which his or her interest in the 10
corporation bears to the assessed value of the property. 11
(g) A mobile home, recreational vehicle, when classified as real property as 12
provided for in KRS 132.751, or a manufactured house shall qualify as a 13
residential unit for purposes of the homestead exemption provision. 14
(h) When title to property which is exempted, either in whole or in part, under the 15
homestead exemption is transferred, the owner, administrator, executor, 16
trustee, guardian, conservator, curator, or agent shall report the[such] transfer 17
to the property valuation administrator. 18
(3) Notwithstanding any statutory provisions to the contrary, the provisions of this 19
section shall apply to the assessment and taxation of property under the homestead 20
exemption provision for state, county, city, or special district purposes. 21
(4) (a) The homestead exemption for disabled persons shall terminate whenever 22
those persons no longer meet the total disability classification at the end of the 23
taxation period for which the homestead exemption has been granted. In no 24
case shall the exemption be prorated for persons who maintained the total 25
disability classification at the end of the taxation period. 26
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disability provision shall report any change in disability classification to the 1
property valuation administrator in the county in which the homestead 2
exemption is authorized. 3
(c) Any person making application and qualifying for the homestead exemption 4
before payment of his or her property tax bills for the year in question shall 5
be entitled to a full or partial exoneration, as the case may be, of the property 6
tax due to reflect the taxable assessment after allowance for the homestead 7
exemption. 8
(d) Any person making application and qualifying for the homestead exemption 9
after property tax bills have been paid shall be entitled to a refund of the 10
property taxes applicable to the value of the homestead exemption. 11
(5) In this section, "taxation period" means the period from January 1 through 12
December 31 of the year in which application is made, unless the person 13
maintaining the classification dies before December 31, in which case "taxation 14
period" means the period from January 1 to the date of death. 15