Chapter 79.--TAXATION
Article 14.--PROPERTY
VALUATION, EQUALIZING ASSESSMENTS, APPRAISERS AND ASSESSMENT OF PROPERTY
79-1476. Statewide
reappraisal of real property; duties and authorities of state director of
property valuation and county and district appraisers; methods of establishing
valuations; time of application of valuations. The director of property
valuation is hereby directed and empowered to administer and supervise a
statewide program of reappraisal of all real property located within the state.
Except as otherwise authorized by K.S.A. 19-428, and amendments thereto, each
county shall comprise a separate appraisal district under such program, and the
county appraiser shall have the duty of reappraising all of the real property
in the county pursuant to guidelines and timetables prescribed by the director
of property valuation and of updating the same on an annual basis. In the case
of multi-county appraisal districts, the district appraiser shall have the duty
of reappraising all of the real property in each of the counties comprising the
district pursuant to such guidelines and timetables and of updating the same on
an annual basis. Commencing in 2000, every parcel of real property shall be
actually viewed and inspected by the county or district appraiser once every
six years. Any county or district appraiser shall be deemed to be in compliance
with the foregoing requirement in any year if 17% or more of the parcels in
such county or district are actually viewed and inspected.
Compilation of data for the initial preparation or updating of
inventories for each parcel of real property and entry thereof into the state
computer system as provided for in K.S.A. 79-1477, and amendments thereto,
shall be completed not later than
Valuations shall be established for each parcel of real property
at its fair market value in money in accordance with the provisions of K.S.A.
79-503a, and amendments thereto.
In addition thereto valuations shall be established for each
parcel of land devoted to agricultural use upon the basis of the agricultural
income or productivity attributable to the inherent capabilities of such land
in its current usage under a degree of management reflecting median production
levels in the manner hereinafter provided. A classification system for all land
devoted to agricultural use shall be adopted by the director of property
valuation using criteria established by the United States department of
agriculture soil conservation service. For all taxable years commencing after
The share of net income from land in the various land classes
within each county or homogeneous region which is normally received by the
landlord shall be used as the basis for determining agricultural income for all
land devoted to agricultural use except pasture or rangeland. The net income
normally received by the landlord from such land shall be determined by deducting
expenses normally incurred by the landlord from the share of the gross income
normally received by the landlord. The net rental income normally received by
the landlord from pasture or rangeland within each county or homogeneous region
shall be used as the basis for determining agricultural income from such land.
The net rental income from pasture and rangeland which is normally received by
the landlord shall be determined by deducting expenses normally incurred from
the gross income normally received by the landlord. Commodity prices, crop
yields and pasture and rangeland rental rates and expenses shall be based on an
average of the eight calendar years immediately preceding
the calendar year which immediately precedes the year of valuation. Net income
for every land class within each county or homogeneous region shall be
capitalized at a rate determined to be the sum of the contract rate of interest
on new federal land bank loans in Kansas on July 1 of each year averaged over a
five-year period which includes the five years immediately preceding the
calendar year which immediately precedes the year of valuation, plus a
percentage not less than .75% nor more than 2.75%, as determined by the
director of property valuation, except that the capitalization rate calculated
for property tax year 2003, and all such years thereafter, shall not be less
than 11% nor more than 12%.
Based on the foregoing procedures the director of property
valuation shall make an annual determination of the value of land within each
of the various classes of land devoted to agricultural use within each county
or homogeneous region and furnish the same to the several county appraisers who
shall classify such land according to its current usage and apply the value
applicable to such class of land according to the valuation schedules prepared
and adopted by the director of property valuation under the provisions of this
section.
It is the intent of the legislature that appraisal judgment and
appraisal standards be followed and incorporated throughout the process of data
collection and analysis and establishment of values pursuant to this section.
For the purpose of the foregoing provisions of this section the
phrase "land devoted to agricultural use" shall mean and include
land, regardless of whether it is located in the unincorporated area of the
county or within the corporate limits of a city, which is devoted to the
production of plants, animals or horticultural products, including but not
limited to: Forages; grains and feed crops; dairy animals and dairy products;
poultry and poultry products; beef cattle, sheep, swine and horses; bees and
apiary products; trees and forest products; fruits, nuts and berries;
vegetables; nursery, floral, ornamental and greenhouse products. Land devoted
to agricultural use shall not include those lands which are used for
recreational purposes, other than that land established as a controlled
shooting area pursuant to K.S.A. 32-943, and amendments thereto, which shall be
deemed to be land devoted to agricultural use, suburban residential acreages,
rural home sites or farm home sites and yard plots whose primary function is
for residential or recreational purposes even though such properties may
produce or maintain some of those plants or animals listed in the foregoing
definition.
The term "expenses" shall mean those expenses typically
incurred in producing the plants, animals and horticultural products described
above including management fees, production costs, maintenance and depreciation
of fences, irrigation wells, irrigation laterals and real estate taxes, but the
term shall not include those expenses incurred in providing temporary or
permanent buildings used in the production of such plants, animals and
horticultural products.
The provisions of this act shall not be construed to conflict
with any other provisions of law relating to the appraisal of tangible property
for taxation purposes including the equalization processes of the county and
state court of tax appeals.
History: L. 1985, ch. 314, § 1; L. 1987, ch. 378, §
1; L. 1988, ch. 377, § 14; L. 1990, ch. 347, § 1; L. 1994, ch. 275, § 2; L.
1995, ch. 254, § 6; L. 1997, ch. 126, § 40; L. 1997, ch. 187, § 4; L. 1999, ch.
123, § 5; L. 2000, ch. 139, § 7; L. 2002, ch. 194, § 2; L. 2008, ch. 109, § 89;
July 1.