Alabama County and Municipal Tax Rates, Amendment 28 (1965)

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The Alabama County and Municipal Tax Rates, Amendment 28, also known as Amendment 28, was on the ballot in Alabama on November 30, 1965, as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. It was approved. The amendment proposed to amend the constitution. The amendment stated the following: "A. The terms 'three mills' be, and the same hereby are, changed to read 'six mills' wherever the same appears in Paragraphs B and C of Amendment CXCV to the Constitution of Alabama.

B. The parenthetical phrase '(after deduction of costs of assessment and collection thereof pursuant to any statutory provisions at the time applicable)' appearing in Paragraph D of Amendment CXCV to the Constitution of Alabama be, and the same hereby is, deleted therefrom.

C. Paragraph E of Amendment CXCV to the Constitution of Alabama be, and the same hereby is, amended to read as follows: The rate of ad valorem taxation for general municipal purposes that is at the time otherwise permitted by the Constitution to each particular municipal corporation in Mobile County shall be reduced for the tax year of the municipality next succeeding any tax year of Mobile County for which the special tax shall have been levied at a rate exceeding one and one-half mills on each dollar of taxable property -in the county, any such reduction to be by a rate of millage equal to the rate by which the special tax levied for that tax year exceeds one and one-half mills on each dollar of such taxable property or by one and one-half mills on each dollar of taxable property in the county, whichever shall be the lesser reduction.

D. If a majority of the qualified electors of Mobile County participating in the election on the adoption of this amendment shall vote in favor thereof, then the approval of this amendment expressed by said vote shall of itself authorize the special tax and in that event no additional election by the voters of Mobile County shall be required to authorize the levy of the special tax."

Election results

Alabama Amendment 28 (1965)
Result		Votes	Percentage
a Yes		78,974	64.78%
No		42,945	35.22%

Election results via: Alabama Official and Statistical Register, 1967

See also

Suggest a link

• Alabama 1965 ballot measures
• 1965 ballot measures
• List of Alabama ballot measures
• History of Initiative & Referendum in Alabama

External links

• Alabama Official and Statistical Register, 1967