Alabama Municipal Indebtedness, Amendment 11 (1957)

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The Alabama Municipal Indebtedness, Amendment 11, also known as Amendment 11, was on the ballot in Alabama on December 17, 1957, as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. It was approved. The amendment proposed to amend the constitution. The amendment proposed that obligations incurred and securities issued for any of the following purposes and under the following circumstances by a municipality having a population of less than 6,000 inhabitants would not be deemed to constitute indebtedness of such municipality within the meaning of Section 225 of this constitution; for the purpose of acquiring, providing or constructing sanitary or storm water sewers, or street or sidewalk improvements, the cost of which, in whole or in part, is to be assessed against the property drained, served or benefited by such sewers or abutting such improvements; or for the purpose of acquiring, providing or constructing school houses, provided that there would be pledged for payment of the principal of and interest on such obligations or securities a tax which the governing body of such municipality would have determined, upon the basis of its estimate of the revenues from said tax, will be sufficient to pay said principal and interest at their respective maturities.

Election results

Alabama Amendment 11 (December 1957)
Result		Votes	Percentage
a Yes		60,484	57.08%
No		45,471	42.92%

Election results via: Alabama Official and Statistical Register, 1959

See also

Suggest a link

• Alabama 1957 ballot measures
• 1957 ballot measures
• List of Alabama ballot measures
• History of Initiative & Referendum in Alabama

External links

• Alabama Official and Statistical Register, 1959