Georgia Amendment 15, Municipal Bonded Indebtedness Measure (1988)

Georgia Amendment 15
Election date November 8, 1988
Topic Bond issues and County and municipal governance
Status Defeated
Type Legislatively referred constitutional amendment	Origin State legislature

Georgia Amendment 15 was on the ballot as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment in Georgia on November 8, 1988. It was defeated.

A "yes" vote supported allowing municipalities with a population of 400,000 or more to incur an additional $8 million in annual bonded indebtedness without a referendum.

A "no" vote opposed allowing municipalities with a population of 400,000 or more to incur an additional $8 million in annual bonded indebtedness without a referendum.

Election results

Georgia Amendment 15
Result		Votes	Percentage
Yes		399,104	30.13%
No		925,692	69.87%

Results are officially certified.

Source

Text of measure

Ballot title

The ballot title for Amendment 15 was as follows:

“

Shall the Constitution be amended so as to authorize any municipality of this state having a population of 400,000 or more according to the United States decennial census of 1960 or any future such census to incur an additional $8 million per annum in bonded indebtedness without the necessity of a referendum?

”

Path to the ballot

See also: Amending the Georgia Constitution

A two-thirds (66.67%) vote is required during one legislative session for the Georgia State Legislature to place an amendment on the ballot. That amounts to a minimum of 120 votes in the Georgia House of Representatives and 38 votes in the Georgia State Senate, assuming no vacancies. Amendments do not require the governor's signature to be referred to the ballot.

See also

1988 Measures

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• Bond issues on the ballot
• 1988 legislative sessions

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