State v. Spring City’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. ““. . . the figure to be used in determining the debt limitation is the full value of the property computed from the assessor’s . . . figure. . . ., This view is in accord with decisions in Iowa, N. W. Halsey & Co. v. City of Belle Plaine, 128 Iowa 467 , 104 N. W. 494 , and Washington, Hansen v. City of Hoquian, 95 Wash. 132 , 163 P. 391 , where similar constitutional and statutory provisions prevail. “ ‘The language of Article XIV, Sec. 4 is clear and unambiguous. It establishes as a debt limitation “four per centum of the value of the taxable property” in the district. The word “value” is not limited or qualified by any adjectives. It does not read “assessed value” or specify any other particular kind, of value. The word “value” standing by itself can have only one meaning, viz. the full worth of [sic] [or] actual value — not a fractional share thereof.’ ” 3”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Allen Etc. v. Van Buren Township Etc.

2. “No debt in excess of the taxes for the current year shall be created by any county or subdivision thereof, or by any school district therein, or by any city, town or village, or any subdivision thereof in this State; unless the proposition to create such debt, shall have been submitted to a vote of such qualified electors as shall have paid a property tax therein, in the year preceding such election, and a majority of those voting thereon shall have voted in favor of incurring such debt.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Weese v. Davis County Commission