(a) The following words and phrases shall have the following meanings:
(1) AMENDMENT NO. 56. That amendment to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, that was proposed by Act No. 383, H. 458, 1945 Session and now appears as Section 216.04 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended.
(2) AMENDMENT NO. 373. That amendment to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, that was proposed by Act No. 6, H. 170, 1978 Second Special Session and which now appears as Section 217 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended.
(3) CITY. Enterprise, Alabama.
(4) COUNCIL. The Enterprise City Council.
(b) In compliance with the provisions of subsection (f) of Amendment No. 373, there is hereby approved the proposal of the City Council of the City of Enterprise in Coffee County to increase the rate of the ad valorem tax to be levied and collected annually in the city for general fund purposes for the ad valorem tax year beginning October 1, 2009, and due and payable October 1, 2010, at the rate of 7 mills (seventy cents ($.70) for each one hundred dollars ($100) worth of taxable property within the city) to 10 1/2 mills (one dollar and five cents ($1.05) on each one hundred dollars ($100) worth of taxable property within the city) in order to have funds available which may be used for general city purposes, including, but without limitation, construction of school facilities, after the expiration of the 3 1/2 mill ad valorem tax presently levied and collected pursuant to Amendment No. 56, which was approved by the council in Ordinance 2-19-85-A on February 19, 1985.
(c) The increase in the rate at which the ad valorem tax may be levied and collected pursuant to this section is subject to the approval of a majority of the qualified electors residing in the city who vote on the proposed increase at a special election called and held for that purpose pursuant to the provisions of subsection (f) of Amendment No. 373.