Bill Text: MI HB6373 | 2019-2020 | 100th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Counties: financing; public notice regarding purchasing and construction or repair of public buildings or bridges; revise to make reference to the local government public notice act. Amends sec. 2 of 1911 PA 28 (MCL 141.72). TIE BAR WITH: HB 6440'20
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-11-18 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 11/18/2020 [HB6373 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2019-HB6373-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL NO. 6373
November 12, 2020, Introduced by Reps. Yaroch
and Steven Johnson and referred to the Committee on Government Operations.
A bill to amend 1911 PA 28, entitled
"An act to authorize the board of supervisors of any county to raise by taxation or borrow money for the purpose of purchasing real estate for sites for, and constructing or repairing public buildings and bridges; to limit the amount that can be raised or borrowed for such purpose by such boards in certain cases; to authorize such boards to submit the question of raising or borrowing money for such purposes to the electors of their certain counties; to provide for the manner of submission; and to repeal Act No. 41 of the Public Acts of 1909, entitled "An act limiting the amount which may be raised in any county in any 1 year by the board of supervisors," approved April twenty-first, 1909,"
by amending section 2 (MCL 141.72).
the people of the state of michigan enact:
Sec. 2. Whenever If the county board of supervisors commissioners of any county shall by resolution vote in favor of levying a tax or borrowing money in excess of the amounts prescribed in section 1, of this act, the question of levying or borrowing such the sum shall must be submitted to the electors of the county at the general November election , or the biennial spring election, or at an election to be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in April subsequent to May after the passage of such the resolution by the county board of supervisors. commissioners. A copy of such the resolution shall must be served upon the sheriff of the county by the county clerk. It shall be is the duty of the sheriff at least 20 days prior to before the date of the election , at which such the question shall be is submitted to the electors , to cause to be delivered to the township clerk in each township, and to the chairman chairperson of the board of election inspectors in each ward in any city in his or her county, a notice in writing that at such the election there will be submitted to the electors of such the county the question of raising the amount prescribed in the resolution passed by the county board of supervisors, and commissioners. Before January 1, 2022, the sheriff shall cause the same notice to be published in 1 or more newspapers printed and circulating in said the county, if 1 be is printed and circulated therein, in the county, at least 2 consecutive weeks before said the election. Beginning January 1, 2022, at least 20 days before the date of the election, the sheriff shall cause the notice to be posted as set forth in the local government public notice act.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 6440 (request no. 02449'19) of the 100th Legislature is enacted into law.
