The Alabama Repeal County Sales Tax, Amendment 24, also known as Amendment 24, was on the ballot in Alabama on December 11, 1951, as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. It was defeated. The amendment proposed to amend the constitution. The amendment proposed that the legislature would not have power to repeal Act Number 485, adopted at the 1949 Regular Session of the legislature, as amended, which levied a sales tax and a use tax in Colbert County, or to amend said Act so as to alter for any purpose the distribution provided for in said Act of the revenues arising from said taxes, while there are outstanding and unpaid any warrants heretofore or hereafter issued by any board of education in said County for the payment of which warrants said revenues, or any share or part thereof, have heretofore or may hereafter be pledged. After the ratification of this amendment the Colbert County board of education is authorized to issue and sell revenue warrants against the taxes mentioned herein up to but not exceeding the principal amount of $600,000.[1]
Election results
| Alabama Amendment 24 (December 1951) |
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| Result | Votes | Percentage |
 d No | 43,371 | 59.82% |
| Yes | 29,126 | 40.18% |
Election results via: Alabama Official and Statistical Register, 1951
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