Michigan Increase Exemption Amount for Primary Residence from Forced Sale Amendment (1930)

Michigan Increase Exemption Amount for Primary Residence from Forced Sale Amendment
Election date November 4, 1930
Topic Banking policy
Status Defeated
Type Legislatively referred constitutional amendment	Origin State legislature

Michigan Increase Exemption Amount for Primary Residence from Forced Sale Amendment was on the ballot as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment in Michigan on November 4, 1930. It was defeated.

A “yes” vote supported increasing the amount of a primary residence, including land and a dwelling, that is exempt from forced sale to satisfy debts to at least $3,000.

A “no” vote opposed increasing the amount of a primary residence, including land and a dwelling, that is exempt from forced sale to satisfy debts to at least $3,000.

Election results

Michigan Increase Exemption Amount for Primary Residence from Forced Sale Amendment
Result		Votes	Percentage
Yes		298,909	45.58%
No		356,938	54.42%

Results are officially certified.

Source

Text of measure

Ballot title

The ballot title for Increase Exemption Amount for Primary Residence from Forced Sale Amendment was as follows:

“

PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION Relative to Increasing the homestead exemption to three thousand dollars. Amendment to Section 2 of Article XIV of the Constitution relative to increasing the homestead exemption to three thousand dollars.     Section 2. Every homestead of not exceeding forty acres of land and the dwelling house thereon and the appurtenances to be selected by the owner thereof and not included in any town plat, city or village; or instead thereof, at the option of the owner, any lot in any city, village or recorded town plat, or such parts of lots as shall be equal thereto, and the dwlling house thereon and its appurtenances, owned and occupied by any resident of the state, shall be exempt from forced sale on executino or any other final process from a court to the amount of not less than three thousand daollars. Such exemptions shall not extend to any mortgage thereon lawfully obtained, but such mortgage or other aliention of such land by owner thereof, if a married man, shall not be valid without the signature of his wife to the same. Yes No

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Full Text

The full text of this measure is available here.

Path to the ballot

See also: Amending the Michigan Constitution

A two-thirds vote is required during one legislative session for the Michigan State Legislature to place a constitutional amendment on the ballot. That amounts to a minimum of 74 votes in the Michigan House of Representatives and 26 votes in the Michigan State Senate, assuming no vacancies. Amendments do not require the governor's signature to be referred to the ballot.

See also

1930 Measures

• 1930 Measures
• Banking policy on the ballot
• 1930 legislative sessions

Michigan

• Michigan ballot measures
• Michigan ballot measure laws

News and analysis

• Ballot measure lawsuits
• Ballot measure readability
• Ballot measure polls

External links

• University of Michigan Press, "The Initiative and Referendum in Michigan," 1940