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CONSTITUTION Acknowledgment of God
Preamble. We, the people of the Commonwealth of Kentucky,
grateful to Almighty God for the civil, political and religious liberties we enjoy,
and invoking the continuance of these blessings, do ordain and establish this
Constitution.
Religion Clauses Bill of
Rights, section 1. All men are, by nature, free and equal,
and have certain inherent and inalienable rights, among which may be reckoned:
Second: The right of worshiping Almighty God according to the
dictates of their consciences.
Bill of Rights,
section 5. No preference shall ever be given by law to any
religious sect, society or denomination; nor to any particular creed, mode of
worship or system of ecclesiastical polity; nor shall any person be compelled
to attend any place of worship, to contribute to the erection or maintenance of
any such place, or to the salary or support of any minister of religion; nor shall
any man be compelled to send his child to any school to which he may be conscientiously
opposed; and the civil rights, privileges or capacities of no person shall be
taken away, or in any way diminished or enlarged, on account of his belief or
disbelief of any religious tenet, dogma or teaching. No human authority shall,
in any case whatever, control or interfere with the rights of conscience.
Education Education, section 189. No portion
of any fund or tax now existing, or that may hereafter be raised or levied for
educational purposes, shall be appropriated to, or used by, or in aid of, any
church, sectarian or denominational school.
Finance/Property
Tax Revenue and Taxation, section 170. There
shall be exempt from taxation public property used for public purposes; places
of burial not held for private or corporate profit; real property owned and occupied
by, and personal property both tangible and intangible owned by, institutions
of religion; institutions of purely public charity, and institutions of education
not used or employed for gain by any person or corporation, and the income of
which is devoted solely to the cause of education, public libraries, their endowments,
and the income of such property as is used exclusively for their maintenance .
. . . The real property may be held by legal or equitable title, by the entireties,
jointly, in common, as a condominium, or indirectly by the stock ownership or
membership representing the owner's or member's proprietary interest in a corporation
owning a fee or a leasehold initially in excess of ninety-eight years. The exemptions
shall apply only to the value of the real property assessable to the owner or,
in case of ownership through stock or membership in a corporation, the value of
the proportion which his interest in the corporation bears to the assessed value
of the property. . . . Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 3, 172, and
174 of this Constitution to the contrary, the General Assembly may provide by
law an exemption for all or any portion of the property tax for any class of personal
property.
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