If now or hereafter in any county, city, town, township, school district or other municipal subdivision of the State of Oklahoma, there exists no deficit in the sinking fund thereof, the governing body of such municipality may by proper resolution recite such facts and cancel all taxes thereof which are unpaid and which were levied for the sinking fund of such municipality, for all fiscal years previous to the one in which such resolution is passed. Such resolution need be only in general terms reciting the rate of levy and the year or years for which the same was levied and shall thereupon be applicable to all taxes levied for that purpose for that year or years which are unpaid.