2010 Michigan Compiled Laws
Chapter 211 - TAXATION OF REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY
Act 62 of 1933 - PROPERTY TAX LIMITATION ACT (211.201 - 211.217a)
Section 211.205b - Form of petition; warning; circulator of petition; signature and acknowledgment.

PROPERTY TAX LIMITATION ACT (EXCERPT)
Act 62 of 1933

211.205b Form of petition; warning; circulator of petition; signature and acknowledgment.

Sec. 5b.

(1) The petition for the adoption of a separate tax limitation shall be in substantially the following form:

"Petition initiating procedures for the adoption of separate tax limitations to the county board of commissioners: We, the undersigned qualified and registered electors and residents of the city or township of ............., in the county of .............., and state of Michigan, petition the county board of commissioners to place before the voters of this county the question of establishing separate tax limitation millage rates for a period of ...... years or for an indefinite period, or until altered by the voters of the county, for the county of ............. and the townships and intermediate school districts within the county, the aggregate of which shall not exceed ...... mills, as follows: Mills County of ................... ............ Townships ............ Intermediate school districts ............ Total ............".

(2) In addition to the requirements of subsection (1), the petition shall also include a warning as prescribed in section 482 of the Michigan election law, 1954 PA 116, MCL 168.482.

(3) The circulator of the petition shall be a qualified and registered elector of the county in which he or she circulates the petition. Petitions shall be signed and acknowledged by the circulator before a person authorized by law to take acknowledgments.

History: Add. 1964, Act 278, Eff. Aug. 28, 1964 ;-- Am. 1965, Act 104, Imd. Eff. June 30, 1965 ;-- Am. 1966, Act 303, Imd. Eff. Sept. 14, 1966 ;-- Am. 1966, Act 335, Eff. Mar. 10, 1967 ;-- Am. 1979, Act 98, Imd. Eff. Aug. 3, 1979 ;-- Am. 1994, Act 190, Imd. Eff. June 21, 1994 ;-- Am. 1998, Act 162, Eff. Mar. 23, 1999