AMENDMENT 316 RATIFIED
Special Tax in Mountain Brook School District in Jefferson County.
In addition to all taxes now authorized or that may hereafter be authorized by the Constitution of Alabama to be levied by the special school district in Jefferson county known as the Mountain Brook school district (which immediately prior to the adoption of this amendment comprised the territory embraced within the corporate limits of the city of Mountain Brook), including any additional territory that may hereafter be added to the said district, shall have power to levy and collect, for public school purposes in the said district, a special district ad valorem tax at a rate or rates not exceeding in the aggregate sixty cents on each one hundred dollars (equivalent to six mills on each dollar) of the assessed valuation of the property in the said district subject to taxation by it.
No tax shall be levied under the authority of this amendment until after the question of the levy of such tax, the rate thereof, the time it is to continue, and the purpose thereof shall have been first submitted to the vote of the qualified electors of the said district at an election duly called for that purpose by the governing body of the said county and a majority of the qualified electors of the said district voting at such election shall have voted in favor of the levy of the said tax; provided, that if a majority of the qualified electors of the said district participating in the election on the adoption of this amendment shall vote for such adoption, then the approval of this amendment expressed by the said vote in favor of its adoption shall of itself constitute approval of the levy of the said tax at the rate of sixty cents on each one hundred dollars of the said assessed valuation for a period of thirty years commencing with the levy for the tax year for which county ad valorem taxes will become due and payable on the October 1 next succeeding the date of such election and no additional election by the electors of the said district shall be required to authorize the levy of the said tax at the said rate and for the said period of time. If the majority of the qualified electors of the said district participating in the election on the adoption of this amendment should not vote for such adoption, or if the majority of the qualified electors of the said district voting at any election subsequently called by the governing body of the said county under the provisions of this amendment should not vote in favor of the levy of the said tax at an election so called, the governing body of the county may from time to time call other elections hereunder on the question of the levy of the said tax, but not more than one such election shall be held during any period of twelve consecutive months.
Each election that may be called by the governing body of the said county on the question of the levy of the district tax herein authorized shall be called and held and the results thereof declared in the same manner and at the same time as may be provided by law for the calling and holding of school district taxes generally, and the said tax shall be levied and collected in the same manner and at the same times as may be provided by law for the levy and collection of school district taxes generally; provided, that no countywide tax shall be required as a condition precedent to the calling or holding of any such election or to the levy or collection of the district tax herein authorized. The proceeds from any district tax levied under this amendment shall be expended solely for public school purposes in the said district.
