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
Recommended Citation
TAXING HIGHWAY TRANSPORTATION COMPANIES California Proposition 2 (1926).
https://repository.uclawsf.edu/ca_ballot_props/202
