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HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 105

              (By Delegates Hatfield, Skaff, Manchin

                         and Poore)

[Introduced January 23, 2012; referred to the Committee on Constitutional Revision then the Judiciary.]

 

 

 

 

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of West Virginia, amending article X thereof by adding thereto a new section, designated section twelve, relating to simple majority rule on all county, city, school district and municipal excess levies and bonds; allowing counties, cities, school districts and municipal corporations to approve, by a vote of the people, excess levies and issue bonds by a majority of the votes cast for and against the same; numbering and designating such proposed amendment; and providing a summarized statement of the purpose of such proposed amendment.

    Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia, two thirds of the members elected to each house agreeing thereto:

    That the question of ratification or rejection of an amendment to the Constitution of the State of West Virginia be submitted to the voters of the state at the next general election to be held in the year 2012, which proposed amendment is that article X thereof be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated section twelve, to read as follows:

ARTICLE X. TAXATION AND FINANCE.

§12. Simple majority approval for all county, city, school district and municipal corporation levies and bonds.

    Notwithstanding the provisions of section one or eight of this article relating to a vote of the people or any other provision of this Constitution to the contrary, a county, city, school district or municipal corporation may contract indebtedness and issue bonds for purpose as provided by law, if, when submitted to a vote of the people of the county, city, school district or municipal corporation, in the manner provided by law, the question of contracting indebtedness and issuing bonds is approved by a majority of the votes cast for and against the same.

    Notwithstanding the provisions of section one or eight of this article relating to a vote of the people or any other provision of this Constitution to the contrary, a county, city, school district or municipal corporation may increase tax levies in the amount and manner as provided by law, if, when submitted to a vote of the people of the county, city, school district or municipal corporation, in the manner provided by law, the question of increasing tax levies is approved by a majority of the votes cast for and against the same.

    Resolved further, That in accordance with the provisions of article eleven, chapter three of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, the proposed amendment is hereby numbered “Amendment 1" and designated as “The Silenced Majority Local Levy and Bond Amendment” and the purpose of the proposed amendment is summarized as follows: “To allow a simple majority approval for all county, city, school district and municipal levies and bonds.”



    NOTE: The purpose of this joint resolution is to allow the citizens of a county, city, school district or municipal corporation in the State of West Virginia to approve a levy or bond by a simple majority of its voters.


     §12 is new; therefore, underscoring and strike-throughs have been omitted.

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