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Alabama School District Tax, Amendment 12 (1960)
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The Alabama School District Tax, Amendment 12, also known as Amendment 12, was on the ballot in Alabama on February 16, 1960, as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. It was approved. The amendment proposed to amend the constitution. The amendment proposed that school district 1 in Madison County would be authorized to levy and collect a special 5 mill tax on each dollar's worth of taxable property. The tax must be voted on by the electors and pass with a majority. After the levy and collection of the said tax, the question of repealing the tax must be presented to the county in the form of a petition with no less than 20 percent of the electors within the district and voted upon by the electors.[1]
Election results
| Alabama Amendment 12 (February 1960) | ||||
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| Result | Votes | Percentage | ||
 Yes | 58,292 | 66.79% | ||
| No | 28,979 | 33.21% | ||
Election results via: Alabama Official and Statistical Register, 1963
See also
- Alabama 1960 ballot measures
- 1960 ballot measures
- List of Alabama ballot measures
- History of Initiative & Referendum in Alabama
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Footnotes
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State of Alabama Montgomery (capital) |
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