Ala. Code § 45-45A-35.04
The modification in the rate at which the Amendment 8 school tax may be levied and collected in the city pursuant to this part is subject to the favorable vote of a majority of the qualified electors residing in the city who vote on the proposed change at a special election called and held for that purpose pursuant to subsection (f) of Amendment 373 and, in respect of any county in which the city is then situated, the corresponding reduction prior to or contemporaneously with the levy, of the rates of the special school ad valorem taxes levied in any part of the city therein for public school purposes, all to the end that the Amendment 8 school tax may thereafter be levied by the city throughout the city school district at rates not exceeding the aggregate of the rates at which the Amendment 8 school tax and the special school ad valorem taxes were levied on taxable property located in portions of the city school district.
Ala. Code § 45-45A-35.04 (1975)