Alabama County Hospital Budget, Amendment 40 (1961)

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The Alabama County Hospital Budget, Amendment 40, also known as Amendment 40, was on the ballot in Alabama on December 5, 1961, as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. It was approved. The amendment proposed to amend the constitution. The amendment proposed the following: "Authorizing and directing Mobile County Public Hospital Board, to prepare a budget for each fiscal year setting forth certain anticipated expenditures and receipts of the said board and to apportion any deficit in said budget among Mobile County and each municipality therein having a population of more than 1,000; providing that if a special ad valorem county tax for public hospital purposes shall be voted in Mobile County, the power of the said board to make and collect such assessments shall terminate within a specified period thereafter; authorizing the legislature by local or special legislation and without compliance with Section 106 of the Constitution to specify the character and maximum capacity of the hospital facilities with respect to which any budget may be prepared by the said board under said amendment; providing that the requirements of the said amendment and of any such local or special legislation respecting the facilities covered thereby shall terminate upon termination of the power of the said board to make and collect said assessments; validating all actions of Mobile County Hospital Board created and provided for by Act No. 105 adopted at the 1955 Regular Session of the Legislature of Alabama, as amended; providing for and validating the transfer by the latter board of all of its assets, contracts, properties, obligations and liabilities to the said board and the assumption of all thereof by the said board; providing for the dissolution of the said board created and provided for in the said Act No. 105, as amended; and providing that bonds and other securities issued by the said board shall not be deemed to constitute debts of Mobile County within the meaning of Section 224 or debts of any of said municipalities within the meaning of Section 225 of the constitution and shall not constitute bonds of said county or a subdivision thereof within the meaning of Section 222 of the constitution."

Election results

Alabama Amendment 40 (December 1961)
Result		Votes	Percentage
a Yes		64,870	65.48%
No		34,193	34.52%

Election results via: Alabama Official and Statistical Register, 1963

See also

Suggest a link

• Alabama 1961 ballot measures
• 1961 ballot measures
• List of Alabama ballot measures
• History of Initiative & Referendum in Alabama

External links

• Alabama Official and Statistical Register, 1963