2010 Michigan Compiled Laws
Chapter 397 - LIBRARIES
Act 164 of 1877 - CITY, VILLAGE, AND TOWNSHIP LIBRARIES (397.201 - 397.217)
Section 397.210c - Increasing library millage; ballot; election; validation of millage renewal.

Sec. 10c.

(1) If a city, village, or township has voted on, approved, and established a library pursuant to this act and the library board of directors by resolution determines that the estimate of the amount of money necessary for the support and maintenance of the library exceeds the previously authorized millage or that, if the previously authorized millage was approved for a specific number of years, the millage should be renewed, the question of increasing the library millage to not more than 2 mills or of renewing the millage shall be placed on the ballot for approval at the next regular annual election for that city, village, or township or at a special election for that city, village, or township. The increase or renewal may be of unlimited duration or the question may specify the number of years for which the increase or renewal shall be levied. The costs of a special election shall be paid from the library fund.

(2) If, before the effective date of the amendatory act that added this subsection, a library millage was renewed in the manner provided by subsection (1), that millage renewal is hereby validated.

History: Add. 1986, Act 133, Imd. Eff. June 16, 1986 ;-- Am. 1994, Act 81, Imd. Eff. Apr. 11, 1994