Any company owning or holding under lease, or otherwise, real or personal property used, or intended for use, as a wind farm producing power for the first time after March 31, 2015, shall pay an annual tax of $.00045 per kilowatt hour of electricity produced by the wind farm. Any company owning or holding under lease, or otherwise, real or personal property used, or intended for use, as a solar facility, shall pay an annual tax of $.00090 per kilowatt hour of electricity produced by the solar facility. The owner of a renewable facility subject to the tax shall file a report with the secretary detailing the amount of electricity in kilowatt-hours that was produced by the renewable facility for the previous calendar year. The secretary shall prescribe the form of the report. The tax for the electricity produced in a calendar year shall become due and be payable to the secretary on the first day of February of the following year. Except as otherwise provided in §§ 10-35-16 to 10-35-21, inclusive, the provisions of chapter 10-59 apply to the administration of the tax.

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Terms Used In South Dakota Codified Laws 10-35-19.1

  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Personal property: includes money, goods, chattels, things in action, and evidences of debt. See South Dakota Codified Laws 2-14-2

Source: SL 2015, ch 66, § 3, eff. Apr. 1, 2015; SL 2016, ch 61, § 4.