Louisiana Local Government Act, Ballot Measure 13 (October 2003)
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The Louisiana Local Government Act, Ballot Measure 13 was on the ballot in Louisiana on October 4, 2003, as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. It was defeated. It proposed that a local government could lease property at below market rates to a local company to encourage economic development.[1][2][3]
Election results
| Louisiana Measure 13 (October 2003) | ||||
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| Result | Votes | Percentage | ||
 No | 610,608 | 58.93% | ||
| Yes | 425,615 | 41.07% | ||
Election results via: Louisiana Secretary of State
Text of measure
The question on the ballot:
| To authorize local governments, in exchange for economic or industrial development, to use tax revenues dedicated to such development or proceeds of bonds secured by such revenues to acquire immovable property or maintain immovable property of the local government or to grant the use of such immovable property or other immovable property of the local government to persons, associations, or corporations that enter into an agreement to locate or expand industrial operations in the area, provided the consideration to be provided by the person, association, or corporation for use of such property is of any such amount or nature as provided in the agreement, a number of area residents are employed as specified in the agreement, and the agreement is approved by the State Bond Commission. (Amends Article VII, Section 14 (B))[4][5] |
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Footnotes
- ↑ Louisiana Secretary of State, "Official Election Results," October 4, 2003
- ↑ Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana, "Voting on Louisiana Proposed Constitutional Amendments 1978-2015," accessed November 3, 2015
- ↑ Louisiana Secretary of State, "2003 Constitutional Amendments," accessed November 9, 2015
- ↑ Louisiana Secretary of State, "2003 Constitutional Amendments," accessed November 9, 2015
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
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