Alabama County Budget, Amendment 17 (1955)

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The Alabama County Budget, Amendment 17, also known as Amendment 17, was on the ballot in Alabama on December 6, 1955, as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. It was defeated. The amendment proposed to amend the constitution. The amendment proposed that the legislature may fix, alter, and regulate the fees, commissions, percentages, allowances and salaries to be charged or received by the tax collector and tax assessor of Bullock County, including the right to place such officers on a salary and provide for the fees charged and collected by such officers to be paid into the treasury from which their salaries are paid, and provide for the method and basis of their compensation. Any provision of this constitution or any amendment thereto to the contrary notwithstanding, the Legislature may alter or fix the salary or other compensation of the tax collector and tax assessor who are holding office at the time this amendment is ratified during the term for which they were elected or appointed. After the expiration of the term of the tax collector and tax assessor who are holding office at the time this amendment is ratified, the legislature shall not increase or decrease, or authorize the increase or decrease, of the salary or other compensation of the tax collector or tax assessor of Bullock County during the term for which they are elected.

Election results

Alabama Amendment 17 (December 1955)
Result		Votes	Percentage
d No		144,398	76.49%
Yes		44,373	23.51%

Election results via: Alabama Official and Statistical Register, 1959

See also

Suggest a link

• Alabama 1955 ballot measures
• 1955 ballot measures
• List of Alabama ballot measures
• History of Initiative & Referendum in Alabama

External links

• Alabama Official and Statistical Register, 1959