School Dist. 1, Mult. Co. v. Bingham

The provisions of Art. XI, § 11, of the Constitution of Oregon, which we are called upon to construe read as follows:

“(1) Unless specifically authorized by a majority of the legal voters voting upon the question, no taxing unit, whether it be the state, any county, municipality, district or body to which the power to levy a tax shall have been delegated, shall in any year so exercise that power as to raise a greater amount of revenue for purposes other than the payment of bonded indebtedness or interest thereon than its tax base, as hereinafter defined. The tax base of each said taxing unit…