LD 1395
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LR 824
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(1) No director, trustee, officer or employee of any
organization claiming exemption shall may receive
directly or indirectly any pecuniary profit from the
operation thereof, excepting reasonable compensation
for services in effecting its purposes or as a proper
beneficiary of its purposes;

 
(2) All profits derived from the operation thereof and
the proceeds from the sale of its property are
devoted exclusively to the purposes for which it is
organized; and

 
(3) The institution, organization or corporation
claiming exemption under this subsection shall file
with the tax assessors upon their request a report
for its preceding fiscal year in such detail as the
tax assessors may reasonably require.;

 
G. Houses of religious worship, including vestries, and
the pews and furniture within the same; tombs and rights
of burial; and property owned and used by a religious
society as a parsonage to the value of $20,000, and
personal property not exceeding $6,000 in value, but so
much of any parsonage as is rented is liable to taxation.
For purposes of the tax exemption provided by this
paragraph a parsonage shall mean is the principal
residence provided by a religious society for its
clergyman whether or not located within the same
municipality or place as the house of religious worship
where the clergyman regularly conducts religious
services.;

 
H. Real estate and personal property owned by or held in
trust for fraternal organizations, except college
fraternities, operating under the lodge system which shall
that must be used solely by fraternal organizations for
meetings, ceremonials, religious or moralistic
instruction, including all facilities appurtenant to such
use and used in connection therewith. If any building
shall is not be used in its entirety for such purposes,
but shall be is used in part for such those purposes and
in part for any other purpose, exemption shall be is of
the part used for such those purposes.

 
Further conditions to the right of exemption are that:

 
(1) No director, trustee, officer or employee of any
organization claiming exemption shall may receive directly or
indirectly any pecuniary profit from the operation thereof,
excepting reasonable compensation


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