HJR 202 Text

ENROLLED
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 202

(By Mr. Speaker, Mr. Kiss, and Delegate Trump)
[By Request of the Executive]
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Adopted July 16, 2002.]

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of West Virginia, amending article ten thereof by adding thereto a new section, designated section eleven, relating to county and municipal excess levies; increasing from three to five the number of years of an excess levy; numbering and designating the proposed amendment; and providing a summarized statement of the purpose of the 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 two thousand two, which proposed amendment is that article ten thereof be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated section eleven to read as follows:
ARTICLE X. TAXATION AND FINANCE.
§11. County and municipal excess levy amendment.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Constitution to the contrary, the maximum rates authorized and allocated by law for tax levies on the several classes of property by county commissions and municipalities may be increased in any county or municipality, as provided in section one of this article, for a period not to exceed five years.

Resolved further, That in accordance with the provisions of article eleven, chapter three of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, such proposed amendment is hereby numbered "Amendment No. 2" and designated as
the "Equalizing Number of Years of Excess Levies Amendment" and the purpose of the proposed amendment is summarized as follows: "The purpose of this amendment is to allow county and municipal governments to propose excess levies for the same time periods as boards of education, which is up to five years."

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