Alabama Municipal Indebtedness, Amendment 7 (1955)

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The Alabama Municipal Indebtedness, Amendment 7, also known as Amendment 7, 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 obligations hereafter incurred and securities hereafter issued for any of the following purposes and under the following circumstances by a municipality with a population of less than 6,000 inhabitants shall not be deemed to constitute indebtedness of such municipality within the meaning of Section 225 of this constitution: (a) 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 (b) for the purpose of acquiring, providing or constructing school houses, provided that there shall be pledged for payment of the principal of and interest on such obligations or securities a tax which the governing body of such municipality shall have determined, upon the basis of its estimate of the revenues from said tax, will be sufficient to pay said principal and interest.

Election results

Alabama Amendment 7 (December 1955)
Result		Votes	Percentage
d No		170,987	76.93%
Yes		51,263	23.07%

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