The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1912-09-28

j ment submitted to the people at the same
time this amendment is submitted pro
viding a way to relieve municipalities
/ from general parish taxes, subject to an
| obligation to contribute to certain funds,
| is adopted, then each municipality so re-
lieved from such taxation, shall have the
right by its governing authority, to pro.
vide for the appointment or election OF
| it's own assessor or assessors and to nix
| their compensation.
Article VIII.
/. In order to reimburse parishes and
municipalities now free from parish
| taxes for loss Of revenue caused by the
withdrawal of the sources of State rev.
enue from parish and municipal taxation,
there Is hereby granted to each parish ana
to each such municipal corporation the
right to levy an additional tax of six mills
on unsegregated property.
3: In order to similarly reimburse mu-
inequalities not now free from parish
eight years after January l, 1914, the
.ix mill tax aforesaid, or SO much thereof
as may be necessary, and out OF the pro-
ceeds of this tax each sparish SHALL under
the supervision Of the Tax Commission,
compensate each such municipality
within its limits for loss of revenue
caused by such withdrawal. Such COM
pensation to be made on the basis pro-
vided in the following sentence for COM
pensation by the State to parishes. IF
the proceeds of such tax remaining to
each parish, added to the proceeds of the
levy of the one per cent tax now per-
Initted to be levied, after making the
compensation aforesaid, shall not be suffi-
Gent to repay to said parish the sum it
would have received by the levy of its
present one per cent alimony tax on the
basis Of the assessment rolls of 1911, plus
an increase of five per cent on the
amount of said tax, then the State shall
compensate each parish the amount Of
such deficiency as fixed and reported by
the Tax Commission.
3. Any municipality now free, or here
after made free, from parish taxation
the additional six mill tax. the power to
levy which is hereby granted to it, shall
be compensated by the General Assembly
on the basis above provided for compen-
satfon by the State to the parishes, the
amount of said compensation to be fixed
by the Tax Commission.
A. The obligation to make the conpen-
sations herein provided for shall be man
datory on the General Assembly, but no
such conversations shall be made after
the year 1921.
s. After the year 1921, no parish shall
levy any part Of such six mills within
the limit of any INCORPORATED municipal
ity and said municipalities shall be en-
titled to levy and collect such six mill
tax for their own account.
g. The claims of each parish and nlu-
nicipality for compensation shall be pre-
sented to the Tax Commission, which shall
examine such claims and report the facts
and Its conclusions to the General Assem-
bly, on or before the first day Of each
regular session.
Z. In reimbursement for the State
sources Of revenue herein Withdrawn
Joint benefit of her alin1ony and her ex-
listing one per cent debt tax, the city of
New Orleans, after January l. 1914 is
hereby granted the right to levy annually
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one per cent debt tax is required by law
to be levied, an additional tax of six
mills. Out Of the proceeds of this tax,
there shall be paid by preference annu-
City Debt, for the benefit of the one per
cent debt tax, sum equal to that which
said tax produced In the year 1912 on the
segregated sources of State revenue stu
ated within the CITY limits and the bal
ance of the proceeds of said six mill tax
shall go to the a1inony fund OF the city.
8. The two mill ad valorem special
sewerage and water tax Of the City Of
New Orleans shall continue to be levied
as long as required by law on the sources
Of State revenue subject to an ad va1orern
ta~.
. In case the referendum amendment
submitted to the people at the same time
this amendment is submitted providing
way to relieve municipalities from general
parish taxes subject to an obligation to
contribute to certain funds, is adopted,
then the power to levy six mills of addi-
5fional taxes Is hereby granted to all par
Ishes voting for such release to be#Ievied
on pronerty outside Of the municipalities,
and the power to levy six mills Of add
tiona1 taxes Is hereby granted to each
municipality 50 released to be levied on
the property within It's corporate limits,
the obligation OF the State to make COM
pensation remaining the same. Whether
said amendment shall be adopted. or not
the power to levy the extra. tax of six
mills hereby granted to all municipalities
that are now exempt from parish taxes
shall remain undisturbed.
s 10. And whether said amendment shall
be adopted or not adopted. the police
iuries of the several parishes and the
ish of Orleans .eyeented, and towns not
subject to parish taxes, shall levy and
collect and turn over to the duly consti-
tinted school authorities under the suner-
vision and control of the State Board of
Education. an amount equal to at least
three-tenths of the gross amount of ad
valorem taxes, which they levy and col
1ect, provided that such amount shall
never be less In any parish or munici-
Dality than the greatest amount due from
such parish or municipality to the school
board from the constitutional three mill
school ad valorem tax collected for either
the wear 1911 or 1912, taking the year
which Welded the highest amount Pro
vided further that cities and towns that
are not exempt from the payment of
parish taxes shall not be required to pay
this ad valorem tax II it be already i'm
posed by the parish authorities; provided
further, that this ad valorem tax shall not
be imposed to the maximum whenever
the school board certiies that a smaller
levy will meet the needs of the schools
II. All property the taxation of which
is reserved to the State, except products
Of mines, Of stone quarries, of sand,
gravel or shell pits, and Of oil or gas
wells, as well as all other property, which
may not be sneciallv exempted from such
taxation, shall continue to be subject to
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liable to such special taxes as may be i'm
posed by local, special districts and POI
litica1 subdivisions in the future in ac-
cordance with law; provided that no par
ish or incorporated municipality shall
levy a special tax for the support Of any
purpose which it is obligated to take care
Of out of It's ordinary alin1ony, until it
shall have first exhausted its ordinary
taxing power, upon an assessment of at
least fifty per cert Of the market value
Of the property subject to its taxing au-