Code of Alabama
Ala. Code § 16-13-160 (2026)
Petition for Election; Calling of Election.
✓ official Alabama Legislature (ALISON) text, current July 2026
Upon a petition signed by 200 or more qualified electors of the county, who are also freeholders, to the county commission in any county within the State of Alabama, the said commission shall order an election to determine whether or not a special tax of one mill shall be levied for the support of the public schools within said county as hereinafter provided.
(School Code 1927, §253; Code 1940, T. 52, §246.)
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2
cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1985–2022 · leading case: Gulf Shores City Bd. of Educ. & Kelly Walker v. Eric Mackey, in his Off. capacity as Superintendent of the Alabama State Bd. of Educ. Teddy J. Faust, Jr., in his Off. capacity as Revenue Comm'r of Baldwin Cnty. James E. Ball, Joe Davis III, Billie Jo Underwood, & Charles F. Gruber, in their Off. capacities as Commissioners of Baldwin Cnty. Baldwin Cnty. Bd. of Educ. Baldwin Cnty. Circuit Judge Carmen E. Bosch, in her Off. capacity as Presiding Judge of the Baldwin Cnty. Juv. Court Robert Wilters, in his Off. capacity as Baldwin Cnty. Dist. Attorney & Coastal Alabama Cmty. Coll. (Ala. 2022).
Gulf Shores City Bd. of Educ. & Kelly Walker v. Eric Mackey, in his Off. capacity as Superintendent of the Alabama State Bd. of Educ. Teddy J. Faust, Jr., in his Off. capacity as Revenue Comm'r of Baldwin Cnty. James E. Ball, Joe Davis III, Billie Jo Underwood, & Charles F. Gruber, in their Off. capacities as Commissioners of Baldwin Cnty. Baldwin Cnty. Bd. of Educ. Baldwin Cnty. Circuit Judge Carmen E. Bosch, in her Off. capacity as Presiding Judge of the Baldwin Cnty. Juv. Court Robert Wilters, in his Off. capacity as Baldwin Cnty. Dist. Attorney & Coastal Alabama Cmty. Coll. (Ala. 2022). “For example, § 16-13-160 and § 16-13-180, Ala. Code 1975, allow a county to impose, respectively, a one-mill ad valorem tax and a three-mill ad valorem tax for the purpose of funding public education in the county.”
Opinion of the Justices, 469 So. 2d 110 (Ala. 1985). “3, implemented by Code 1975, § 16-13-160 et seq.; and Amendment No. 202 all provide general millage rate limits for county and district school taxes, but none contemplates the taxation of different kinds of property within the county or district at different millage rates.”
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