Libraries

MCL 397.210: Fifty voters of an incorporated village or township may present to the clerk of the village or township a petition asking that a tax be levied for the establishment of a free public library in the village or township and specifying the rate of taxation, not to exceed 2 mills on the dollar.

The tax may be of unlimited duration or the petition may specify the number of years for which the tax shall be levied.

The clerk, in the next legal notice of the regular election in that village or township, shall give notice that at the election every voter may vote on the proposition including the rate and any duration of taxation for the free public library.

If the majority of all the votes cast in the village or township is for the tax for a free public library, the tax specified in the notice shall be levied and collected in the same manner as other general taxes of that village or township for the period, if any, specified in the petition, and shall be placed in a fund known as the library fund.

A library established under this section constitutes an authority under Section 6 of Article IX of the state Constitution of 1963.

Is a District Library the Right Choice for Your Township? (.pdf)
Michigan Township News, September 2000