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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.;

 
J. The real and personal property owned by one or more of
the foregoing organizations listed in paragraphs A to I
and occupied or used solely for their own purposes by one
or more other such organizations.;

 
K. The real and personal property leased by and occupied
or used solely for its own purposes by an incorporated
benevolent and charitable organization which that is
exempt from taxation under section Section 501 of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended, and the primary
purpose of which is the operation of a hospital licensed
by the Department of Human Services, health maintenance
organization or blood bank.; and

 
L. Service charges.

 
(1) The owners of certain institutional and
organizational real and personal property, which is
otherwise exempt from state or municipal taxation
under this section, except those properties described
in paragraph G, may be are subject to service charges
when these charges that are calculated according to
the actual cost of providing municipal services to
that real property and to the persons who use that
property. Service charges must also be applied to
any improved property owned by the State that is
exempt from taxation under section 651. These
services shall include, without limitation:

 
(a) Fire protection;

 
(b) Police protection;

 
(c) Road maintenance and construction, traffic
control, snow and ice removal;


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