Alabama Motor Vehicle Revenue Spending, Amendment 29 (1955)

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The Alabama Motor Vehicle Revenue Spending, Amendment 29, also known as Amendment 29, 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 all funds derived from fees, excises, or license taxes levied or imposed by the state relating to the registration, operation, or use of motor vehicles upon the public highways, except taxes levied by the state or gasoline or motor fuels, which are allocated for the use of Marion and Lamar counties under state law, may be expended by the court of county commissioners, board of revenue, or like governing body of the county to pay the cost of construction, reconstruction, maintenance and repair of public highways and bridges, the cost of acquiring highway rights-of-way, the cost of traffic regulation, the expense of enforcing traffic and motor vehicle laws, and for such other general purposes as such court, board, or body may prescribe, any provisions of this Constitution to the contrary notwithstanding.

Election results

Alabama Amendment 29 (December 1955)
Result		Votes	Percentage
d No		176,388	89.73%
Yes		20,190	10.27%

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