HOUSE BILL No. 4362

 

February 28, 2007, Introduced by Reps. Hansen, Booher, Nofs, Casperson, Moore, Agema and Calley and referred to the Committee on Intergovernmental, Urban and Regional Affairs.

 

     A bill to amend 1988 PA 265, entitled

 

"District library financing act,"

 

by amending section 8 (MCL 397.288), as amended by 1989 PA 25.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 8. If a majority of the qualified electors of a district

 

voting on the question of issuing bonds approves the issuance, or

 

if bonds are otherwise issued pursuant to section 5, the board, by

 

resolution, shall authorize and levy the taxes necessary to pay the

 

principal of and interest on the bonds. The taxes shall be levied

 

and collected with the nonallocated county taxes. If, pursuant to

 

section 5, the bonds are issued without submission of the question

 

of the bond issue to the electors, the board shall not authorize or

 

levy a tax that exceeds the tax levy authorized by a vote of the

 


qualified electors of the district as provided in sections 13 to 23

 

of the district library establishment act.