HOUSE BILL NO. 5703

March 25, 2020, Introduced by Rep. Lightner and referred to the Committee on Local Government and Municipal Finance.

A bill to amend 1905 PA 110, entitled

"An act to authorize townships, cities, and villages to appropriate money to defray the expenses of the proper observance of armistice, independence, and memorial or decoration day or a diamond jubilee or centennial,"

by amending the title and section 1 (MCL 123.851).

the people of the state of michigan enact:

TITLE

An act to authorize townships, cities, and villages to appropriate money to defray the expenses of the proper observance of armistice, independence, and memorial or decoration day or a diamond jubilee, or centennial, sesquicentennial, or bicentennial.

Sec. 1. The township board of a township, the board of trustees of a village, or the common council of a city in this state , may appropriate money for the purpose of defraying the expenses of the proper observance of armistice, independence, and memorial or decoration day or for the proper observance of a diamond jubilee, or centennial, sesquicentennial, or bicentennial. The sums money appropriated shall must be assessed, levied, and collected in the same manner as other expenses of a township, village, or city are assessed, levied, and collected.