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<br />p) "Regional Tourist Entertainment Facility" means buildings and structures, including <br />fixed machinery and equipment, used or to be used in providing amusement! entertainment <br />through the admission of the general public where the majority of users reside at least 100 miles <br />from the City and where the majority of users are likely to stay in the City for more than one <br />day and will therefore likely utilize local restaurants and hotelj motel accommodations. <br /> <br />q) "Reinvestment Zone" is an area where the City or County has decided to influence <br />development patterns and attract major investments that will contribute to the development of <br />the area through the use of tax abatement for specified improvements. <br /> <br />r) "Research Facility" means buildings and structures, including fixed machinery and <br />equipment, used or to be used primarily for research or experimentation to improve or develop <br />new tangible goods or materials or to improve or develop the production processes thereto. <br /> <br />s) "Tax Abatement Committee" means the committee of persons designated from time <br />to time by the Paris Economic Development Corporation to study, review and recommend tax <br />abatement to the applicable taxing entities in the community. The Tax Abatement Committee <br />will be composed of one person from each of the City (the City Manager or designee), the <br />County of Lamar (the County Judge or designee), Paris Junior College (the President or <br />designee), the Chief Appraiser of the Lamar County Appraisal District, and the Executive <br />Director of the Paris Economic Development Corporation. <br /> <br />III. Designation of a Reinvestment Zone. <br /> <br />The City or County may designate an area as a Reinvestment Zone in accordance with <br />the criteria and procedural requirements set forth in the Property Redevelopment & Tax <br />Abatement Act, as amended (Texas Tax Code Sec. 312.401 (b)). <br /> <br />For any area within the jurisdiction of the City to be eligible for tax abatement it must <br />meet the criteria for designation as a tax abatement Reinvestment Zone as set forth in the <br />Property Redevelopment and Tax Abatement Act, Texas Tax Code Chapter 312. <br /> <br />IV. Tax Abatement Authorized. <br /> <br />The City, through its Council, may agree in writing with the owner and/ or lessee of <br />taxable Real Property that is located in a Reinvestment Zone, but that is not in an improvement <br />project financed by tax increment bonds, to exempt from taxation a portion of the value of the <br />Real Property, or of Personal Property located on the Real Property, or both. The period of the <br />abatement granted under the agreement shall not exceed the term authorized by law. Such <br />agreement will be based on the condition that the owner or lessee of the Property makes <br />specific improvements or repairs to the Property. An agreement may provide for the exemption <br />of the Real Property in each year covered by the agreement only to the extent its value for that <br />year exceeds the Base Year Value. An agreement may provide for the exemption of Personal <br />Property located on the Real Property in each year covered by the agreement other than <br />Personal Property that was located on the Real Property at any time before the period covered <br />by the agreement. Inventory or supplies cannot be abated as Personal Property. <br /> <br />3 <br />