Alabama Legislative Power Over Municipal Government, Amendment 11 (1948, November)
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The Alabama Legislative Power Over Municipal Government, Amendment 11, also known as Amendment 11, was on the ballot in Alabama on November 2, 1948, as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. It was defeated. The amendment proposed to amend the constitution. The amendment proposed to add to the constitution the following: The legislature may, by general, local or special law, provide any plan, kind, manner, or form of municipal government for Jefferson County, and whenever deemed necessary or advisable may abolish city or town government and unite, consolidate, or merge cities and towns and County, or a portion thereof, under one municipal government. Any limitations in this constitution notwithstanding, the legislature may designate the names and fix and prescribe the number, designation, terms, qualifications, and method of appointment, election, and removal of the officers thereof; define their duties and fix penalties for nonperformance; fix and define boundaries of the territory so governed and specify its name, title, or manner of designation; and provide for the discontinuance of such form of government when deemed advisable.
The legislature, in any such consolidation act, shall designate the officers or employees who shall perform the acts and duties required of County officers by the constitution or by law, as far as applicable. Such consolidated unit of government may levy and collect such taxes as are now or may hereafter be permitted to be levied by counties, and in addition thereto, all such taxes as are now or may hereafter be permitted to be levied by any municipality within any such consolidated area. For the purpose of levying such taxes, the Legislature shall provide a method and procedure by which the governing body may arrange, locate, change, or relocate any portion or portions of such territory into urban districts.
State and County taxes, at the rate provided by the constitution and by law, shall be levied throughout the consolidated territory or area. The governing body shall have the power to levy additional taxes in the urban districts, which need not be uniform among the districts, in such consolidated territory or area at a rate not exceeding the highest rate of taxation allowed or permitted any municipality therein, at the time of such consolidation or merger. Such consolidated unit of government shall have all the power and authority to incur debt enjoyed by counties and municipalities subject to the limitations imposed by the constitution and by law. In determining the constitutional debt limit, the provisions of Section 224 and Section 225 of the constitution shall apply; provided, however, that all such property located within urban districts shall be taken and considered as being within a municipality. Bonded and other indebtedness of the political subdivisions united, consolidated, or merged under the terms of this section, existing at the time of such union, consolidation, or merger, shall be enforceable only against the property theretofore taxable.[1]
Election results
| Alabama Amendment 11 (1948) | ||||
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| Result | Votes | Percentage | ||
 No | 84,202 | 75.30% | ||
| Yes | 27,613 | 24.70% | ||
Election results via: Alabama Official and Statistical Register, 1951
See also
- Alabama 1948 ballot measures
- 1948 ballot measures
- List of Alabama ballot measures
- History of Initiative & Referendum in Alabama
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