Alabama Walker County Budget, Amendment 12 (1957)

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The Alabama Walker County Budget, Amendment 12, also known as Amendment 12, was on the ballot in Alabama on December 17, 1957, as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. It was approved. The amendment proposed to amend the constitution. The amendment proposed that the legislature may fix, alter, and regulate the costs and charges of courts in Walker County, and the method of disbursement. Also, the legislature may, by general or local laws, fix, alter, and regulate the costs, charges, fees, commissions, percentages, allowances, and compensation to be charged or received by the judge of probate, sheriff, circuit clerk, register of the circuit court, tax assessor, and tax collector of Walker County, or any other County officer on a fee basis, and may place place any of such officers on a salary, and provide that the costs, charges, fees, commissions, percentages, and allowances collected by such officers would be paid into the County treasury from which their salaries and office expenses would be paid.

Election results

Alabama Amendment 12 (December 1957)
Result		Votes	Percentage
a Yes		65,372	64.84%
No		35,443	35.16%

Election results via: Alabama Official and Statistical Register, 1959

See also

Suggest a link

• Alabama 1957 ballot measures
• 1957 ballot measures
• List of Alabama ballot measures
• History of Initiative & Referendum in Alabama

External links

• Alabama Official and Statistical Register, 1959