Connecticut § 12-81c - Municipal option to exempt certain motor vehicles.
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§ 12-81c. Municipal option to exempt certain motor vehicles.
Sec. 12-81c. Municipal option to exempt certain motor vehicles. The legislative body of any municipality may, by ordinance, exempt from personal property taxation (1) any ambulance-type motor vehicle which is used exclusively for the purpose of transporting any medically incapacitated individual, except any such vehicle used to transport any such individual for profit, (2) any property owned by a nonprofit ambulance company, and (3) any motor vehicle owned by a person with disabilities, or owned by the parent or guardian of such person, which vehicle is equipped for purposes of adapting its use to the disability of such person, provided the legislative body of the municipality adopts a definition of such vehicle.
(P.A. 75-607, S. 2; P.A. 94-208; P.A. 98-125, S. 1, 2; P.A. 00-214.)
History: P.A. 94-208 applied exemption to property owned by a nonprofit ambulance company; P.A. 98-125 added Subdiv. (3) re vehicle owned by a person with disabilities which was adapted for use by the disabled person, effective May 27, 1998, and applicable to assessment years of municipalities commencing on or after October 1, 1998; P.A. 00-214 amended Subdiv. (3) to allow an exemption for vehicles owned by parents or guardians of persons with disabilities and deleted a provision limiting the kind of equipment which qualifies under that subdivision.
Source: official Connecticut text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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