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Alabama County Special Property Tax, Amendment 5 (1962)
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The Alabama County Special Property Tax, Amendment 5, also known as Amendment 5, was on the ballot in Alabama on May 1, 1962, as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. It was approved. The amendment proposed to amend the constitution. The amendment proposed that Jackson County would be authorized to levy and collect a special property tax of five mills on each dollar's worth of taxable property, provided that the aggregate of all taxes levied for educational purposes does not exceed 14.5 mills on each dollar's worth of property. Four and one-half mills of the tax proceeds would be used for capital outlay and the revenue of the remaining would go toward current operating costs.[1]
Election results
| Alabama Amendment 5 (May 1962) | ||||
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| Result | Votes | Percentage | ||
 Yes | 121,542 | 60.57% | ||
| No | 79,133 | 39.43% | ||
Election results via: Alabama Official and Statistical Register, 1963
See also
- Alabama 1962 ballot measures
- 1962 ballot measures
- List of Alabama ballot measures
- History of Initiative & Referendum in Alabama
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Footnotes
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