Petition Status Find information about active and inactive petitions, including initiative, referendum, and recall petitions. Search Petitions Petition Type (Required) * Initiative Recall Referendum Status (Optional) Petition Year (Optional) Petition Year (Optional) Petition Topic Petition Topic All Petition IDs Your request returned multiple entries, please select an ID to view * Your request returned multiple entries, please select an ID to view * Petition Topic (Short Title) Submit Reset form If you are human, leave this field blank. Your search returned 1 results. Return to Petitions page. An initiative providing for local control of property assessment and taxation. Initiative Id: 01PRTX | AG File Number: 663-01-0156 State: Inactive Petition Status: Petition was not filed by the one year deadline and therefore has no force or effect Primary Sponsors Uwe Kalenka, Kristie Wise and James P. Jacobson Sponsors Proposed Bill Language PDF Download HTML version Petition Details Not on ballot. The petition application was received in the Lieutenant Governor’s Office on March 23, 2001. A copy of the application and signatures were sent to the Department of Law and Division of Elections on March 23, 2001 for review and verification of signatures. Notification that the Division of Elections verified 100 signatures of qualified voters was received on March 30, 2001. Legal review was received from the Department of Law on May 3, 2001. The application was certified on June 8, 2001. Petition booklets were distributed to the initiative committee on July 2, 2001. In accordance with AS 15.45.140, the initiative petition must be filed by July 2, 2002. The initiative was not filed by the July 2, 2002 deadline and therefore has no force or effect. Following is the petition booklets’ summary language: Municipal Property Assessment and Taxation This bill sets the value of property at the price that it would bring in an open market between a willing buyer and seller who know the property and current price levels. It allows local governments to set up classes of property based on use. Tax standards and mill rates may differ between classes of property. The bill allows local governments to limit both assessments and taxes. It also allows for property to be exempt in whole or in part from taxes. It allows voters to classify property based on use, and limit assessment and taxation, by local initiative.