Utah State Constitutional Convention 1895 (2020 Edition)

Proceedings and Debates of the Convention Assembled to Adopt a Constitution for the State of Utah

Committee on Revenue, Taxation, and Public Debt

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Session 7526: 1895-03-19 10:00:00

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Proposition Relative to Taxation [File No. 105]

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The rate of taxation on property for State purposes on property for State purposes shall never exceed six mills on each dollar of valuation; and whenever the taxable property within the State shall amount to one hundred million dollars, the rate shall not exceed four mills on each dollar of valuation; and whenever the taxable property within the State shall amount to three hundred million dollars, the rate shall never exceed, thereafter, two mills on each dollar of valuation, unless a proposition to increase such rate, specifying the rate proposed and the time during which the same shall be … be first submitted to a vote of such of the qualified electors of the State as in the year next preceding such election, shall have paid a property tax assessed to them within the State, and a majority of those voting thereon shall vote in favor thereof in such manner as may be provided by law.

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