Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 79-430

  • Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
  • Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Property: includes personal and real property. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
  • real property: include lands, tenements and hereditaments, and all rights to them and interest in them, equitable as well as legal. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.

For all purposes associated with property taxation, the provisions of Kan. Stat. Ann. § 79-412 notwithstanding, that portion of the fair market value of real property attributable to the leasing of real property, or the creation of any other interest of less than fee simple in real property, for the purpose of the placement of a wireless communication tower, antenna or relay site upon the real property, shall be entered on the assessment roll separate from the remaining fair market value. Such portion of the fair market value shall be separately taxed to the owner of such wireless communication tower, antenna or relay site as real property at the same classification and same tax rate as the real property upon which the wireless communications tower, antenna or relay site is located except that, in the event the real property upon which the wireless communications tower, antenna or relay site is located is exempt from property taxation, such real property shall continue to be exempt from property taxation, except that portion of the fair market value of such tax-exempt real property attributable to the leasing of such tax-exempt real property, or the creation of any other interest of less than fee simple in such tax-exempt real property, for the purpose of the placement of a wireless communications tower, antenna or relay site upon such tax-exempt real property, shall be taxable and shall be assessed to the owner of such wireless communications tower, antenna or relay site as real property at 25% of value. Such tax shall be a lien on the interest in the real property of such owner of the wireless communications tower, antenna or relay site and shall be collected in the same manner as the collection of other taxes on real property.