Bill Text: WV HB3088 | 2021 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to assessment value of wind turbines
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-12 - To House Energy and Manufacturing [HB3088 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2021-HB3088-Introduced.html
WEST virginia Legislature
2021 regular session
Introduced
House Bill 3088
By Delegates G. Ward, Haynes and Jennings
[Introduced March 12, 2021; Referred to the Committee on Energy and Manufacturing then Finance]
A BILL to amend and reenact §11-6A-5a of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to assessment value of wind turbines; permitting counties to assess wind turbines from salvage value to true and actual value.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 6A. POLLUTION CONTROL FACILITIES TAX TREATMENT.
§11-6A-5a. Wind power projects.
(a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this article, a power project designed, constructed or installed to convert wind into electrical energy shall be subject to the provisions of this section.
(b) Each wind turbine installed
at a wind power project and each tower installed at a wind-power project
upon which the a turbine is affixed shall be considered to be
personal property that is a pollution control facility for purposes of this
article and, subject to an allocation of the value of project property
determined by the Tax Commissioner in accordance with this section, all of the
value associated with the wind turbine and tower shall be accorded
salvage valuation: Provided, That the portion of the total value of the
facility assigned salvage value in accordance with this section shall, on and
after July 1, 2007, be no greater than 79 percent of the total value of the
facility. All personal property at a wind power project other than a wind
turbine and tower shall not be accorded salvage valuation and shall may
not be considered to be personal property that is a pollution control facility.
Beginning July 1, 2021, counties may assess wind turbines installed at wind
power projects located within their boundaries at value ranging from salvage value
to actual value. For purposes of this section, "wind turbine and
tower" is limited to “wind turbine” means the rotor, consisting
of the blades and the supporting hub; the drive train, which includes the
remaining rotating parts such as the shafts, gearbox, coupling, a mechanical
brake and the generator; the nacelle and main frame, including the wind turbine
housing, bedplate and the yaw system; the turbine transformer; and the
machine controls. the tower; and the tower foundation
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to permit counties to assess wind turbines in wind power projects at values ranging from salvage value to true and actual value.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.