Proposition Summary
Assembly Constitutional Amendment No. 17. Authorizes Legislature to exempt from property taxes property used for religious, hospital, or charitable purposes and owned by agencies organized for such purpose/l, which are not conducted for profit and no part of the earnings of which inure to the benefit of any individual. .
Proposition Number
4
Year
1944
Document Type
Proposition
Pass/Fail
Pass
Popular Vote Results
Y: 1532141; A: 54.5; N: 1277160; B: 45.5
Election Type
General Election
Proposition Type
Assembly Constitutional Amendment
Code Sections Affected
Added Cal. Const. art. XIII, section 1c.
For Author
Charles W. Lyon, Speaker and Member of the Assembly, Fifty-ninth District.; Thomas A. Maloney, Speaker Pro Tempore and Member of the Assembly, Twentieth District.
Against Author
T. Fenton Knight, Assemblyman, Forty-eighth District.
Recommended Citation
TAXATION EXEMPTION OF RELIGIOUS, HOSPITAL, AND CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS California Proposition 4 (1944).
https://repository.uclawsf.edu/ca_ballot_props/442