Property Taxes Law Guide – Revision 2013
 

436. Timber exempt from property taxation. On the lien date for the 1977–78 fiscal year and thereafter, all timber on both privately and publicly owned lands shall be exempt from property taxation, including possessory interest taxation, and shall not be assessed for taxation purposes. Nothing herein shall preclude the assessment of trees standing on land not zoned as timberland production under this article for purposes of property taxation based on their aesthetic or amenity value.

History.—Stats. 1982, Ch. 1489, in effect January 1, 1983, substituted "production" for "preserve" after "timberland" in the second sentence.

* Article 1.7 was added by Stats. 1976, Ch. 176, p. 320, in effect May 24, 1976. Secs. 20 and 21 thereof provided no payment by state to local governments because of this act. Sec. 22 thereof provided that the property tax assessment provisions shall be applicable to assessments for the 1977–78 fiscal year and thereafter.