Keller v. Marion County Ambulance District

BENTON, Judge.

On November 4, 1980, the people of Missouri adopted an amendment, popularly known as the Hancock Amendment, to the Missouri Constitution.1 With the passage of this amendment, the people limited the power to raise taxes that they had traditionally given the governments of Missouri. Since that time, the courts of this state have frequently been called upon to clarify the resulting new relationships between the people, the state, and local governments.2 This Court, once again, undertakes this crucial task.

Appellant, Marion County Ambulance District (“the District”), was organized…