Georgia Amendment 30, Transfer of Library Services Measure (1978)

Georgia Amendment 30
Election date November 7, 1978
Topic County and municipal governance
Status Defeated
Type Legislatively referred constitutional amendment	Origin State legislature

Georgia Amendment 30 was on the ballot as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment in Georgia on November 7, 1978. It was defeated.

A "yes" vote supported transferring all library facilities and services in counties with populations of 600,000 or more to a countywide library service, and designating the county as the funding government and creating a library board of trustees to oversee it.

A "no" vote opposed transferring all library facilities and services in counties with populations of 600,000 or more to a countywide library service, and designating the county as the funding government and creating a library board of trustees to oversee it.

Election results

Georgia Amendment 30
Result		Votes	Percentage
Yes		176,178	41.91%
No		244,147	58.09%

Results are officially certified.

Source

Text of measure

Ballot title

The ballot title for Amendment 30 was as follows:

“

Shall the Constitution be amended so as to provide for the transfer of all existing library facilities and services located within any county of this State having a population of 600,000 or more according to the United States Decennial Census of 1970 or any future such census and within any municipality located wholly or partially within any such county, together with the property, with certain exceptions, debts, assets, and employees thereof, to the countywide library service; to designate such facilities and services as, and make them a part of, the countywide library service; to provide that such county shall be the funding government of the countywide library service; and to provide for a library board of trustees who shall administer the countywide library service?

”

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

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