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Chapter 397 - LIBRARIES
Act 164 of 1877 - CITY, VILLAGE, AND TOWNSHIP LIBRARIES (397.201 - 397.217)
CITY, VILLAGE, AND TOWNSHIP LIBRARIES Act 164 of 1877
AN ACT to authorize cities, incorporated villages, and townships to establish and maintain, or contract for the use of, free public libraries and reading rooms; and to prescribe penalties and provide remedies.
History: 1877, Act 164, Eff. Aug. 21, 1877
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Am. 1984, Act 128, Imd. Eff. June 1, 1984
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Am. 1998, Act 177, Eff. Mar. 23, 1999
- Section 397.201 - Public library and reading room; establishment and maintenance by city council; tax levy; library fund; tax additional to tax limitation.
- Section 397.202 - Board of directors; members; qualifications; number; terms.
- Section 397.203 - Board of directors; appointment, terms, removal.
- Section 397.204 - Board of directors; vacancies, compensation.
- Section 397.205 - Board of directors; officers, powers and duties; library fund, expenditures, accounting.
- Section 397.206 - City library; free use; regulations.
- Section 397.207 - Board of directors; annual report, contents.
- Section 397.208 - City library; injury to property, ordinances, penalties.
- Section 397.209 - City library; donations, acceptance.
- Section 397.210 - Free public library in village or township; petition to levy tax for establishment; notice of election; library fund; board of directors; estimate of money necessary for support and maintenance of library; report; assessment and collection of tax; powers of corporate authorities; library as authority under state constitution.
- Section 397.210a - Free public library in city; establishment; petition for tax; notice; form of ballot; library fund; preparing and reporting estimate of money necessary for support and maintenance; tax additional to tax limitation.
- Section 397.210b - Free public library established in township or village incorporated as city; continuation of library board, library, and tax.
- Section 397.210c - Increasing library millage; ballot; election; validation of millage renewal.
- Section 397.211 - Library board of city, village, or township; establishment; provisional or permanent; director; vacancy; powers of library board.
- Section 397.211a - Violation of MCL 168.1 to 168.992 applicable to petitions; penalties.
- Section 397.212 - Applicability of MCL 397.210a and 397.211; exception; organization of existing public library under MCL 397.210a.
- Section 397.213 - Use of library services by adjacent township, village, or city; contract; payment.
- Section 397.214 - Contract with township, city, or village for use of library and reading room; procedure; tax levy; library fund.
- Section 397.215 - Contract for use of library services by county; joint library board; number of directors; provisions of contract; vacancies; removal of director; vacating offices of directors; powers and duties of joint library board.
- Section 397.216 - Rights in use and benefits of library; uniform rules and regulations.
- Section 397.217 - Joint municipal libraries; villages and cities.
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