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Ohio Special Property Tax Assessments for Public Improvement Projects Amendment (August 1926)

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Ohio Special Property Tax Assessments for Public Improvement Projects Amendment

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Election date

August 10, 1926

Topic
County and municipal governance and Property
Status

DefeatedDefeated

Type
Legislatively referred constitutional amendment 		Origin

State legislature


Ohio Special Property Tax Assessments for Public Improvement Projects Amendment was on the ballot as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment in Ohio on August 10, 1926. It was defeated.

A “yes” vote supported this constitutional amendment to allow municipalities to enact an assessment on properties benefiting from a public improvement project, covering up to 100% of the project's cost, which would have been an increase from the existing limit of 50%.

A “no” vote opposed this constitutional amendment, thus continuing to allow municipalities to enact an assessment on properties benefiting from a public improvement project that covers not more than 50% of the project's cost.


Election results

Ohio Special Property Tax Assessments for Public Improvement Projects Amendment

Result Votes Percentage
Yes 234,754 39.99%

Defeated No

352,301 60.01%
Results are officially certified.
Source


Text of measure

Ballot title

The ballot title for Special Property Tax Assessments for Public Improvement Projects Amendment was as follows:

“

To authorize assessment by municipalities of the cost of acquiring property for public improvement up on lands benefited thereby.

Proposing to amend section 11 of article XVIII of the constitution of Ohio, so as to read as follows:

Section. 11. Any municipality acquiring property by purchase or appropriation for a public improvement may provide money therefor, in whole or in part, by assessments upon property benefited by the improvement whether abutting adjacent or otherwise located. Such assessments shall in no case exceed special benefits conferred thereby.

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Full Text

The full text of this measure is available here.


Constitutional changes

See also: Article XVIII, Ohio Constitution

The ballot measure would have amended Section 11 of Article XVIII of the Ohio Constitution. The following underlined text would have been added and struck-through text would have been deleted:[1][2]

Any municipality appropriating private acquiring property by purchase or appropriation for a public improvement may provide money therefor, whole or in part, by assessments upon property benefited property not in excess of by the improvement whether abutting adjacent or otherwise located. Such assessments shall in no case exceed special benefits conferred thereby upon such property by the improvements. Said assessments, however, upon all the abutting, adjacent, and other property in the district benefited, shall in no case be levied for more than fifty per centum of the cost of such appropriation.[3]

Support

Arguments

  • The Coshocton Tribune: “This amendment is really an approach to justice in taxation in that it relieves hundreds, perhaps thousands of taxpayers from being assessed for improvements which in no way benefit them, but which do benefit those whose property is increased in value solely thru the improvement and which is accordingly able to bear the cost.”


Opposition

Arguments

  • The Akron Beacon Journal: "The fact is that in spite of the soft and appealing arguments which are used in behalf of this amendment, the people have guessed its meaning. It is a scheme to abolish all existing tax limitations and debt limits and give the spenders a free hand in collecting money for their extravagant projects."


Path to the ballot

See also: Amending the Ohio Constitution

A 60% vote is required during one legislative session for the Ohio State Legislature to place a constitutional amendment on the ballot. That amounts to a minimum of 60 votes in the Ohio House of Representatives and 20 votes in the Ohio State Senate, assuming no vacancies. Amendments do not require the governor's signature to be referred to the ballot.

See also

1926 Measures

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Youngstown Vindicator, "Voters Will Have Hard Work Reading Lengthy Primary Ballot," August 7, 1926
  2. ↑ The Cincinnatian, "Value of Proposed City Plan Amendment," August 10, 1926
  3. ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source.

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