Town of Lincoln, RI
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2023-07-25
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The Code
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Part II, General Legislation
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Chapter 228 Taxation
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Article II Veterans Exemption
- The Charter
- Ch C Charter
- The Code
- Part I, Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 5 Boards and Commissions
- Ch 7 Budget and Finance
- Ch 9 Council
- Ch 11 Court, Housing
- Ch 12 Court, Municipal
- Ch 15 Deferred Compensation Plan
- Ch 17 Ethics, Code of
- Ch 24 Land Trust
- Ch 28 Legal Assistance
- Ch 32 Libraries
- Ch 40 Officers and Employees
- Ch 44 Police Department
- Ch 48 Purchasing Policy
- Ch 49 Real Property, Conveyance of
- Ch 51 Redevelopment Agency
- Ch 53 Rescue Department
- Ch 55 Salaries and Compensation
- Ch 59 Town-Owned Vehicles
- Part II, General Legislation
- Ch 63 Adult Entertainment
- Ch 67 Alarm Systems
- Ch 70 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 72 Amusements
- Ch 75 Animals
- Ch 79 Bicycles
- Ch 82 Blasting
- Ch 89 Buildings, Moving of
- Ch 92 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 95 Cannabis
- Ch 101 Disorderly Conduct
- Ch 105 Drainage
- Ch 109 Earth Removal
- Ch 114 False Alarms
- Ch 117 Fees
- Ch 120 Firearms and Explosives
- Ch 123 Fire Prevention
- Ch 126 Flea Markets
- Ch 129 Flood Hazard Areas
- Ch 133 Gambling
- Ch 136 Game Rooms
- Ch 140 Hazardous Substances
- Ch 144 Horse Stables, Commercial
- Ch 147 Housing
- Ch 150 Hunting
- Ch 155 Junkyards and Junk Dealers
- Ch 161 Licenses and Business Regulations
- Ch 164 Littering
- Ch 167 Loitering
- Ch 171 Malicious Mischief
- Ch 175 Noise
- Ch 180 Parking Lots
- Ch 183 Parks and Recreation
- Ch 187 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 190 Picketing
- Ch 193 Plumbing
- Ch 196 Property, Abandoned
- Ch 199 Property, Defacement of
- Ch 202 Property Maintenance Code
- Ch 204 Rental Property
- Ch 207 Sewers
- Ch 209 Sex Offender Residency Restrictions
- Ch 213 Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control
- Ch 217 Solid Waste
- Ch 220 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 228 Taxation
- Ch 228 Art II Veterans Exemption
- § 228-5 Definition.
- § 228-6 Exemption for totally disabled veterans.
- § 228-7 Additional exemption for prisoners of war.
- Ch 236 Unruly Gatherings
- Ch 237 Vehicles, Abandoned
- Ch 240 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 244 Vehicles, Storage of
- Ch 250 Watercraft
- Ch 254 Wells and Cesspools
- Ch 260 Zoning
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[Adopted 11-17-1987 (Ch. 18, § 18-2, of the 1990
Code of Ordinances)]
For the purposes of this article, the following
terms shall have the meanings indicated:
Persons who served in the military or naval service of the
United States in the Spanish-American War, the insurrection in the
Philippines, the China-relief expedition, or World War I, and each
person who served in the military or naval service of the United States
in World War II at any time during the period beginning December 7,
1941, and ending September 2, 1945, and each person who served in
the military or naval services of the United States in the Korean
conflict at any time during the period beginning June 27, 1950, and
ending July 27, 1953, or in the Vietnam conflict at any time beginning
August 4, 1964, and ending May 15, 1975, or who actually served in
the Grenada or Lebanon conflicts of 1983 - 1984, and who was honorably
discharged therefrom, or who was discharged under conditions other
than dishonorable, or who, if not discharged, served honorably.
Any veteran who is a resident and citizen of
the Town, and who shall be determined, under applicable federal law
by the Veterans Administration of the United States to be totally
disabled through service-connected disability, shall receive an exemption
of $10,000 from local taxation on property he owns, whether real or
personal.
[Amended 6-18-2002 by Ord. No. 02-3]
There shall be an additional exemption from
local taxation of $11,000 on real and personal property owned by a
veteran who has been or who shall be classified as, or determined
to be, a prisoner-of-war by the Veterans Administration of the United
States.
