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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1964
Page
6
Legal notice outlines Proposed Amendments 1 2 and 3 for the November 3 1964 ballot. Amendment 1 seeks four year terms for top state officials including Governor and Attorney General with governor appointment powers for heads of other departments. Amendments 2 and 3 address property tax exemptions for veterans and intangible property taxation and related provisions.
Voter amendment proposed by the Legislature for November 1964 to Article VIII Section 1 of the Nebraska Constitution. It authorizes a separate tax method for motor vehicles and directs revenue distribution across state and local units. It outlines uniform valuation standards for property and allows a dealer held resale vehicle tax method.
The proposal shifts taxation to motor vehicles by the Legislature, creating separate classes for resale by dealers and for trucks and trailers operated in interstate commerce. It allows reciprocal and proportionate taxation and permits tax proceeds from motor vehicles to be levied by valuation on all other property. Also notes a proposed amendment realigning duties of state executive officers.
The document lists amendments to the Nebraska Constitution covering budgetary controls, state accounts, and expenditure reporting. It proposes specifics on officers’ allowances, governor budget power, and annual financial reporting, plus general authority for loans, loans rates, and local government provisions. It also notes publication dates in October 1964.
Notice outlines a 1964 general election in Cheyenne County Nebraska for a special levy of 0.1 mill to fund Cheyenne County Historical Association activities, including establishment, management, purchase of exhibits, and building improvements, effective 1965, with other probate and estate notices interspersed in the public notices.
The text outlines tax exemptions for state property and subdivisions, agricultural and horticultural societies, educational religious charitable or cemetery properties used without financial gain, along with possible exemptions for household goods and a legislatively set value formula. It notes that general law may expand or define these exemptions and practices.
Charles Thone, a Lincoln attorney born near Hartington and longtime civic volunteer, leads Democrats and Republicans in the race for Nebraska lieutenant governor. The 40 year old promises impartial legislative leadership, frugal tax dollars, and closer work with committees after a May primary victory.
The text describes Sec 18 prohibiting the Legislature from passing local or special laws in specific cases. It lists forbidding divorces changing names of persons or places laying out opening altering and working roads and highways vacating roads town plats streets alleys and public grounds assing or changing County seats.
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