Kentucky Constitution

Article Municipalities, § 157A — Credit of Commonwealth may be loaned or given to county for roads — County may vote to incur indebtedness and levy additional tax for roads

Kentucky Const. art. Municipalities, § 157A

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Ky. Const. art. Municipalities, § 157A.

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The credit of the Commonwealth may be given, pledged or loaned to any county of the Commonwealth for public road purposes, and any county may be permitted to incur an indebtedness in any amount fixed by the county, not in excess of five per centum of the value of the taxable property therein, for public road purposes in said county, provided said additional indebtedness is submitted to the voters of the county for their ratification or rejection at a special election held for said purpose, in such manner as may be provided by law and when any such indebtedness is incurred by any county said county may levy, in addition to the tax rate allowed under Section of the Constitution of Kentucky, an amount not exceeding twenty cents on the one hundred dollars of the assessed valuation of said county for the purpose of paying the interest on said indebtedness and providing a sinking fund for the payment of said indebtedness.

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History

Text as Ratified on: November 2, 1909. History: Creation proposed by 1908 Ky. Acts ch. 36, sec. 1.

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