Alabama Transportation Tax, Amendment 2 (1920)

Voting on Transportation Ballot Measures By state By year Not on ballot Local Local transportation Red light cameras Registration tax Zoning and development Alabama Constitution Preamble Articles I • II • III • IV • V • VI • VII • VIII • IX • X • XI •XII •XIII •XIV • XV • XVI • XVII • XVIII Local Provisions

The Alabama Transportation Tax, Amendment 2, also known as Amendment 2, was on the ballot in Alabama on November 2, 1920, as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. It was defeated. The amendment proposed to amend the constitution. The amendment proposed that the legislature would have the power to authorize counties that have taxable property valued in excess of $100 million to acquire, construct, purchase, own, lease maintain, use, control and operate highways, railroads, freight stations, passenger stations, wharves, piers, docks, warehouses, grain elevators, storage tanks, team trucks and all other facilities and structures for the purpose of receiving, carrying, delivering, reducing in bulk, storing or preparing for shipment of goods, wares and merchandise or passengers over such railroads or in or through such terminal facilities, in aid of intrastate, interstate, or foreign commerce, including the dredging, on both banks of the approaches to the water terminals.

The above mentioned counties would be authorized to issue bonds, lend their credit, grant public money, or other things of value in aid of the internal improvement as described above.

The said tax shall be restricted to twenty cents on each $100 of taxable property and all such counties would be authorized to increase the limit of county indebtedness from 3.5 to 4.5 percent of such taxable property.

Election results

Alabama Amendment 2 (1920)
Result		Votes	Percentage
d No		91,698	56.64%
Yes		70,198	43.36%

Election results via: Alabama Official and Statistical Register, 1923

See also

Suggest a link

• Alabama 1920 ballot measures
• 1920 ballot measures
• List of Alabama ballot measures
• History of Initiative & Referendum in Alabama

External links

• Alabama Official and Statistical Register, 1923