Sec. 48-e.  EMERGENCY SERVICES DISTRICTS.  Laws may be enacted to provide for the establishment and creation of special districts to provide emergency services and to authorize the commissioners courts of participating counties to levy a tax on the ad valorem property situated in said districts not to exceed Ten Cents (10¢) on the One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) valuation for the support thereof; provided that no tax shall be levied in support of said districts until approved by a vote of the qualified voters residing therein.  Such a district may provide emergency medical services, emergency ambulance services, rural fire prevention and control services, or other emergency services authorized by the Legislature.  
(Added Nov. 3, 1987; amended Nov. 2, 1999.)  (TEMPORARY TRANSITION PROVISIONS for Sec. 48-e: See Appendix, Note 1.)