taxes abolished.
(1) Except as otherwise provided in KRS 157.440, 160.470(1), and 160.476(4), the ad
valorem tax levy for school purposes, other than sinking fund purposes, in each
school district, shall be not more than one dollar and fifty cents ($1.50) annually on
each one hundred dollars ($100) of property subject to local taxation.
(2) All existing subdistrict school tax levies, except those required to retire voted
bonds, are hereby abolished.
Effective: July 14, 2000
History: Amended 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 389, sec. 12, effective July 14, 2000. -- Amended
1996 Ky. Acts ch. 87, sec. 5, effective July 15, 1996. -- Amended 1990 Ky. Acts ch.
476, Pt. III, sec. 111, effective July 13, 1990. -- Amended 1976 Ky. Acts ch. 93, sec.
17, effective January 1, 1977. -- Amended 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 316, sec. 3; and ch.
386, sec. 30. -- Created 1946 Ky. Acts ch. 36, secs. 1 (1), (2) and 2.
Notes of Decisions
Folks v. Barren County (1950)
kyctapp
“50 as fixed by KRS 160.475 and that the proceeds thereof shall be segregated in a special account, the funds of which may be expended only for the purposes enumerated in the statute.”
Folks v. Barren County (1950)
kyctapphigh
“50 *1013 as fixed by KRS 160.475 and that the proceeds thereof shall be segregated in a special account, the funds of which may be expended only for the purposes enumerated in the statute.”
Miller v. Nunnelley (1971)
kyctapphigh
“Prior to the enactment of the “RollBack” law each school board had the option, under KRS 160.475, of selecting a basic property tax rate anywhere between the minimum of 25 cents and the maximum of $1.”
Fendley v. Board of Education (1951)
kyctapp
“” Section (1) (c) provides: “If a majority of those voting on the question favor the special school building tax levy, the tax levying authority shall when the next tax rate for the district is fixed levy the special rate specified by the board of education of the school…”
Hopson v. Board of Education (1955)
kyctapp · cites it 2×
“KRS 160.475. In 1954, as a part of an Act designed to provide the basis for a maximum foundation program for the common schools, the General Assembly enacted KRS 157.”
Board of Education v. Citizens Fidelity Bank & Trust Co. (1953)
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“The statute prescribes that this tax levy shall be in addition to the'maximum tax levy for general school purposes provided by KRS 160.475. At an election held last November a majority of'the voters of the Louisville school district favored the imposition of this tax.”
Bell v. Board of Education (1961)
kyctapp · cites it 2×
“The order and resolution of the Board authorizing the bonds provide that they are to be secured by the pledge of the “levy and collection of an annual tax, without limitation as to rate or amount sufficient to pay the bonds and interest requirements and that the fiscal court…”
Holmes v. Walden (1965)
kyctapp · cites it 6×
“380, for participation in the equalization account of the public school foundation program fund, such districts or any other district may exceed this levy or the maximum levy provided by KRS 160.475 provided that, upon request of the board, the tax levying authority of the…”
— Ky. Rev. Stat. § 160.475(1) — 2 cases
Holmes v. Walden (1965)
kyctapp
“380, for participation in the equalization account of the public school foundation program fund, such districts or any other district may exceed this levy or the maximum levy provided by KRS 160.475 provided that, upon request of the board, the tax levying authority of the…”
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