Georgia Homestead Exemptions for Veterans, Amendment 18 (1978)
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The Georgia Homestead Exemptions for Veterans Amendment, also known as Amendment 18, was on the ballot in Georgia on November 7, 1978, as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. It was approved. The measure increased the homestead exemption for disabled veterans from $12,500 to $25,000 and provided that unmarried widows of veterans and their minor children receive an equal exemption as long as they continue to reside in said homestead.[1]
Election results
| Georgia Amendment 18 (1978) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Result | Votes | Percentage | ||
| 312,755 | 63.80% | |||
| No | 177,450 | 36.20% | ||
Election results via: Georgia's Official Register 1977-78
Text of measure
The question on the ballot:
| Shall the Constitution be amended so as to increase the homestead exemption from $12,500.00 to $25,000.00 for disabled veterans who have been disabled due to loss, or loss of use, of both lower extremities, such as to preclude locomotion without the aid of braces, crutches, canes, or a wheelchair, or blindness in both eyes, having only light perception, plus loss, or loss of use, of one lower extremity, or due to the loss, or loss of use, of one lower extremity together with residuals of organic disease or injury which so affects the functions of balance or propulsion as to preclude locomotion without resort to a wheelchair and to provide for a homestead exemption equal to the homestead exemption received by the veteran during his lifetime for his unremarried widow or minor children so long as his unremarried widow or minor children continue to actually occupy the home as a residence and homestead?[1][2] |
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Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 State of Georgia Department of Archives and History, "Georgia's Official Register 1977-78," accessed October 9, 2015
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
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