Alabama Special School District Tax, Amendment 21 (1961)

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The Alabama Special School District Tax, Amendment 21, also known as Amendment 21, was on the ballot in Alabama on December 5, 1961, as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. It was approved. The amendment proposed to amend the constitution. The amendment proposed the following: "In addition to any taxes now authorized or that may hereafter be authorized by the Constitution and laws of Alabama, the several school districts of Jefferson County shall, subject to an election in each such school district as hereinafter provided, have power to levy and collect a special district tax of not exceeding fifty (50) cents on each one hundred dollars ($100) of taxable property in such district for the furtherance of education therein. A school district within the meaning of this section shall include (a) that part of Jefferson County outside of the municipalities of Birmingham, Bessemer, Fairfield Tarrant City and Mountain Brook as one district, (b) the City of Birmingham as one district, (c) the City of Bessemer as one district (d) the City of Fairfield as one district, (e) the City of Tarrant City as one district, and (f) the City of Mountain Brook as one district. No tax shall be levied hereunder unless the rate of such tax, the time such tax is to continue and the purpose thereof shall have been first submitted to the vote of the qualified electors in each such district and voted for by a majority of those voting at such election. (Under the provisions of Acts 637 and 1041, 1961.)"

Election results

Alabama Amendment 21 (December 1961)
Result		Votes	Percentage
a Yes		82,648	71.34%
No		33,206	28.66%

Election results via: Alabama Official and Statistical Register, 1963

See also

Suggest a link

• Alabama 1961 ballot measures
• 1961 ballot measures
• List of Alabama ballot measures
• History of Initiative & Referendum in Alabama

External links

• Alabama Official and Statistical Register, 1963