Alabama County Hospital Tax, Amendment 4 (1955)

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The Alabama County Hospital Tax, Amendment 4, also known as Amendment 4, 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 governing body of a county is authorized to levy and collect, in addition to all other taxes authorized by law, a special tax not exceeding four mills on each dollar of taxable property in the area affected, the proceeds of which shall be used exclusively for acquiring, by purchase, lease, or otherwise, and constructing, operating, equipping, and maintaining a public hospital or other public health facilities. An election must be called within three months after receipt by the county governing body of a petition signed by not less than five percent of the qualified electors of each beat or precinct to be affected by the tax. The election shall be held and conducted in such manner and in accordance with such rules and regulations as the governing body of the county may prescribe. Whenever the tax shall be approved, the governing body of the county may anticipate the proceeds therefrom for any one or more of the purposes for which the tax shall have voted, by issuing, without further election, interest bearing tax anticipation bonds, warrants, or certificates of indebtedness payable solely from and secured by a pledge of not exceeding seventy-five percent of the annual proceeds from said tax. The governing body of each county in which the tax may be voted shall have the further power to designate as the agency of the county to acquire, construct, equip, operate, and maintain such hospital facilities any public corporation heretofore or hereafter organized for hospital purposes in the county under any general law heretofore or hereafter enacted by the Legislature. The issuance of such bonds and the power and authority of the county governing body with respect thereto shall be governed by the provisions of Amendment LXXVIl approved December 13, 1949, and proclaimed on December 21, 1949 (Proclamation Record, Volume H., p. 15, Office of the Secretary of State, State of Alabama). The provisions of this Amendment shall not apply to or in the counties of Jefferson, Mobile, and Montgomery.

Election results

Alabama Amendment 4 (December 1955)
Result		Votes	Percentage
d No		176,824	72.24%
Yes		67,949	27.76%

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