Georgia Amendment 26, Municipal Garbage Disposal Measure (1978)

Georgia Amendment 26
Election date November 7, 1978
Topic County and municipal governance and Utility policy
Status Defeated
Type Legislatively referred constitutional amendment	Origin State legislature

Georgia Amendment 26 was on the ballot as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment in Georgia on November 7, 1978. It was defeated.

A "yes" vote supported transferring the operation of municipally owned sanitary landfills or garbage disposal systems in certain counties with populations of 600,000 or more to the county, and prohibiting municipalities within such counties from operating these systems.

A "no" vote opposed transferring the operation of municipally owned sanitary landfills or garbage disposal systems in certain counties with populations of 600,000 or more to the county, and prohibiting municipalities within such counties from operating these systems.

Election results

Georgia Amendment 26
Result		Votes	Percentage
Yes		179,204	42.70%
No		240,516	57.30%

Results are officially certified.

Source

Text of measure

Ballot title

The ballot title for Amendment 26 was as follows:

“

Shall the Constitution be amended so as to provide for the transfer of all existing municipally owned or operated sanitary landfills or garbage disposal systems located within the unincorporated area of 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, or within, any municipality located wholly or partially within any such county, together with the personal property, debts, assets and employees thereof to such county for operation of said sanitary landfills or garbage disposal systems; and to provide that no municipality located wholly or partially within any such county may operate a sanitary landfill or garbage disposal system?

”

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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