Utah Amendment 2, Fix the Property Tax Rate Measure (1908)

Utah Amendment 2
Election date November 3, 1908
Topic Property taxes and Sales taxes
Status Defeated
Type Legislatively referred constitutional amendment	Origin State legislature

Utah Amendment 2 was on the ballot as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment in Utah on November 3, 1908. It was defeated.

A "yes" vote supported amending the constitution to fix both the total property tax rate and the tax rate for general purposes, district school purposes, and high school purposes.

A "no" vote opposed amending the constitution to fix both the total property tax rate and the tax rate for general purposes, district school purposes, and high school purposes.

Election results

Utah Amendment 2
Result		Votes	Percentage
Yes		13,282	49.67%
No		13,459	50.33%

Results are officially certified.

Source

Text of measure

Ballot title

The ballot title for Amendment 2 was as follows:

“

Proposed Amendment to Section 7 of Article 13 of the Constitution of the State fixing the rate of taxation for State Purposes and apportioning same.

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Full Text

The full text of this measure is available here.

Path to the ballot

See also: Amending the Utah Constitution

A two-thirds majority vote in both the legislative chambers vote is required during one legislative session for the Utah State Legislature to place a constitutional amendment on the ballot. That amounts to a minimum of 50 votes in the Utah House of Representatives and 20 votes in the Utah State Senate, assuming no vacancies. Amendments do not require the governor's signature to be referred to the ballot.

See also

1908 Measures

• 1908 Measures
• Property taxes on the ballot
• Sales taxes on the ballot
• 1908 legislative sessions

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• Utah ballot measure laws

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