The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1915-11-19
No, 20

the Constitution, just adopted, reIiev
Ing State. county, municipal and
school bonds from taxation, and
whether 1t is subject to referendum
like the clause providing for classic
cation of property. Assistant At
torney General Morris has given his
opinion that the provision is Self
operative and Aat 1t is not subject
to a referendum.
The question was raised by the Of
icials of Covington that city having
voted a school bond issue.
The provision in question follows:
Be 1t enacted by the general assem-
bly, of Kentucky
That upon the concurrence Of
three-fifths of all the mem bers elect
ed to each House, the yeas and nays
being taken thereon, and entered in
full in their respective journals. Sec
ton III of the constitution be, and
is amended and revised, so that it
shall read as follows:
The General Assembly shall pro-
vide by law an annual tax, which
with other resources shall be sufff-
cient to defray the estimated expen-
SEES of the Commonwealth for each
fiscal year. Taxes shall be levied
and collected for public purposes on
ly and shall be uniform upon all pro-
perty of the same class subject to
taxation within the territorial limits
of the authority levying the tax; and
all taxes shall be levied and collected
by general laws.
The General Assembly shall have
power to divide property into closses
and to determine what class or class
es of property shall be subject TO
LOCAL taxation. Bonds of the
State and of counties, municipalities.
taxing and school districts shall not
be subject to taxation.
Any law passed Or enacted by the
General Assembly pursuant to the
provisions of or under this amend
ment or amended section of the con-
stitution, classifying taxation OH per-
sonal property, tangible or intangible
than upon real estate, shall be sub
ject, to the referendum power of
the people, which is hereby declared
to exist to apply only to this section,
or amended section. The referen-
DUN may be demanded by the people
against one or more items, sections
or parts of any act enacted pursuant
to or under the power granted by
this amendment, or amended section.
The referendum petition shall be filed
with the Secretary of State not more
than four months after the final ad-
journment of the Legislative Assem-
bly, which passed the bill on which
veto power of the Governor shall not
extend to measures referred to the
people undr this section. All cleo
tons on measures referred to the
people under this act shall be at the
regular general elections, except
when the Legislative Assembly shall
order special election. Any meas
ure referred to the people shall take
effect and become a law when ap-
proved by the majority of the votes
cast thereon, and not otherwise. The
whole number of votes cast for the
candidates for Governor at the regu-
lar election last preceding the filing
of any petition shall be the basis up
on which the legal voters necessary
to sign such petitions shall be count
ed. The power of the referendum
shall be ordered by the Legislative
Assembly at any time any acts or
bills are enacted, pursuant to the
power granted under this section or
amended section prior to the year
of one thousand nine hundred and
seventeen. After that time the pow
er of the referendum may be ordered
either by the petition signed by per
cent of the legal voters or by the
Assembly at the time said
acts or bill are enacted, The Gil.
raj Assembly enacting the bill shall
provide a way by which the act shall
be submitted to the people. The FL
ing of referendum petition against
one or more items sections or parts
of an act shall not delay the remain
der of that act from becoming opera
tive.