Section 203 Of Article 1. Taxable And Exempt Property From California Revenue And Taxation Code >> Division 1. >> Part 2. >> Chapter 1. >> Article 1.
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. (a) The college exemption is as specified in subdivision (e)
of Section 3 and Section 5 of Article XIII of the California
Constitution.
(b) An educational institution of collegiate grade is an
institution incorporated as a college or seminary of learning that
requires for regular admission the completion of a four-year high
school course or its equivalent, and confers upon its graduates at
least one academic or professional degree, based on a course of at
least one year in flight test technology or flight test science, for
which the master's degree program has been approved by the California
Council for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education or the
Bureau for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education, on a
course of at least two years in liberal arts and sciences, or on a
course of at least three years in professional studies, such as law,
theology, education, medicine, dentistry, engineering, veterinary
medicine, pharmacy, architecture, fine arts, commerce, or journalism.
(c) An educational institution of collegiate grade is not
conducted for profit when it is conducted exclusively for scientific
or educational purposes and no part of its net income inures to the
benefit of any private person.
(d) Without prejudice to the right to assert an exemption
otherwise available under subdivision (a), (d), or (e) of Section 3
of Article XIII of the Constitution, a property tax under this
division shall be imposed upon that portion of the bookstore property
determined to be generating the unrelated business taxable income,
as defined in Section 512 of the Internal Revenue Code, to the extent
property is both of the following:
(1) Owned by an educational institution of collegiate grade or
used by a nonprofit corporation operating a student bookstore
affiliated with an educational institution of collegiate grade.
(2) Primarily devoted to bookstore use that produces income that
is taxable as unrelated business taxable income.
This tax shall be determined by establishing a ratio of the
unrelated business taxable income to the bookstore's gross income as
defined by the Internal Revenue Code. That percent shall be the
maximum percentage of the bookstore property on which a property tax
can be levied.
At the end of a fiscal year when unrelated business income has
been generated, the nonprofit organization shall file with the
assessor copies of the organization's most recent tax return filed
with the Internal Revenue Service.