68.090 County ad valorem taxes -- Limitation -- Special tax for tubercular institution

68.090 County ad valorem taxes -- Limitation -- Special tax for tubercular

institution.

(1) For county purposes the fiscal court of each county shall levy an ad valorem tax on

all property subject to county taxation. This section does not authorize the fiscal

court to levy a tax to pay any railroad bonded indebtedness or any interest thereon.

The ad valorem tax shall not exceed fifty cents ($0.50) on each one hundred dollars'

($100) worth of property taxed.

(2) In any county which has under the law established itself as a tubercular district the

fiscal court shall levy a tax sufficient to maintain a tubercular institution and

provide for the salaries of the medical staff thereof and any other necessary

expenses incident thereto taking into consideration any federal, state, or private

financial assistance which may be given to the institution or which by law the

institution is entitled to receive. The levy shall be an ad valorem tax on all property

subject to county taxation and shall not exceed ten cents ($0.10) on each one

hundred dollars' ($100) worth of property so taxed and the ten cents ($0.10) shall be

an additional tax to the fifty cents ($0.50) ad valorem tax limitation hereinbefore

provided for.