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Show Proposed Constitutional Amendment Amend-ment No. 2. 1 SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 6. j A resolution proposing nn amendment to Section 7. Article ?,. of the Constitution of the State of 1'tah relating to tax 1 rates for State purposes. Bo It resolved by the legislature of the I State of Ltah. two thirds of all the member elected to each House com nr ring therein- I S.-.-tion l. That It Is proposed to amend 1 Section 7, of Article X1TT. of the Constl tutlbfl of the BtatS of T'tah o that the Bam will re-ad . follows 1 Sec. 7. The rate of taxation on proper H ty for State purposes shall never exceed H S mills on each dollar of valuation to be H apportioned BJ follows Not to eXC J mills on each dollar of valuation for I general State purpopes. not to exceed S f mills on each dollar of valuation for dl IH trlct school purpos;s: not to exceed " It mill on ea. h dollar of valuation for h'jrn j school purposes; that part of the Stni tax apportioned to high school piirposCi BHH I shall constitute a fund tr. be culled tl- j , Hlfth School Fund and shall b- ipi"" m tloned to th cities anl school districts I maintaining hlgi schools in the mannej tht Legislature may provide nd when ever the taxable property within the State shall amount tc $4 00. 000, 000 00. the rates BHH .shall not exceed on each dollar if falUS BHH tlon two and four-tenths mills foi general fHHHI 1 State purposes, two-ti-nths of one mill for 1 hlfth pchool purposer. and s'-.ch levj Coj 1 district school purpose' s will ralM tn I nually an amount which, added to an: I other State funds avallaole for llstricl I I school purposes. equals IIS.M for each. BHH 1 person of school age In It e Sta.te. shown bH I by the last preceding school census, un H less a profiosltlnn to Increase such rat" BBBfl or rates, specifying the rate or rates prd BBH posed and the time during which the shall be levied, be first submitted ta BBBSsl vote of such of the qualified electors Ol ( the State, as, in the year next precd BBH InK such election, shall have paid a prop- I erty tax assessed to them within the State. 1 and the majority of thn.se -voting thereon j shall vote In favor then of, in such man 'tier as may be provided by latr. I j Sec. 2. The Secretary "of State Is dt- BBBB , reefed to caupe this proiioscd amendment i to be published as roqulred b) the Coil Mtitlltlr.n und tn !,.. i.nV.mltli.,1 tn ..... . . tors of the Stale m the next general 1 tlon In the manner provided by law. Sec 3 If approved by the electors of th I Sttte this proposed amendment hall tnkfl effect on the 1st day of January. BBBB Approved March IS. 1311 |