Lámar v. Board of Education of Hancock Co. Sch. Dist.

STEINFELD, Judge.

This litigation involves the validity of legislation which authorizes the respective counties acting on the initiative of the school boards located therein to levy a tax for school purposes of three percent of the gross receipts derived from furnishing utility services within the county. KRS 160.613. In a class action (CR 23) the parties to this appeal submitted to the trial court certain questions in a proceeding authorized by KRS 418.020, a part of the Declaratory Judgment Act. They sought to obtain an adjudication of a controversy as to the constitutionality of House Bill…