Proposition Summary

Assembly Constitutional Amendment 37. Adds Section 15 to Article XIII of Constitution. Taxes companies, owning or operating, as common carriers upon public highways between fixed termini or over a regular route, jitney busses, stages or motor vehicles tor transporting persons, four and one-quarter per cent, and those operating trucks tor transporting property five per cent, of their gross receipts; exempts property so used from all other taxes and licenses; appropriates halt of such taxes to state and halt to counties, exclusively for maintaining and repairing public highways; empowers legislature to change such percentages .

Proposition Number

2

Year

1926

Document Type

Proposition

Pass/Fail

Pass

Popular Vote Results

Y: 751379; A: 78.0; N: 211618; B: 22.0

Election Type

General Election

Proposition Type

Assembly Constitutional Amendment

Code Sections Affected

Added Cal. Const. art. XIII, section 15.

For Author

Walter H. Duval, Assemblyman, Sixtieth District; F. E. Dayton, Assemblyman, Forty-eighth District

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