Bill Text: MI SB0108 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Chaptered


Bill Title: Libraries; district; district library establishment act; modify. Amends sec. 2 of 1989 PA 24 (MCL 397.172).

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 9-2)

Status: (Passed) 2015-09-09 - Assigned Pa 0108'15 With Immediate Effect [SB0108 Detail]

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Act No. 108

Public Acts of 2015

Approved by the Governor

June 30, 2015

Filed with the Secretary of State

June 30, 2015

EFFECTIVE DATE: June 30, 2015

STATE OF MICHIGAN

98TH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2015

Introduced by Senators Zorn, Horn, Colbeck, Jones, Nofs, Booher, Marleau, Hansen, Gregory, MacGregor and Bieda

ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 108

AN ACT to amend 1989 PA 24, entitled “An act to provide for the establishment and maintenance of district libraries; to provide for district library boards; to define the powers and duties of certain state and local governmental entities; to prescribe penalties and provide remedies; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,” by amending section 2 (MCL 397.172), as amended by 2005 PA 60.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 2. As used in this act:

(a) “Agreement” means a district library agreement required by section 3 or the agreement governing a district library established under former 1955 PA 164.

(b) “Board” means a district library board.

(c) “Department” means the department of education.

(d) “District” means the territory of the participating municipalities that is served by a district library established under this act.

(e) “General election” means that term as defined in section 2 of the Michigan election law, 1954 PA 116, MCL 168.2.

(f) “Largest” means, if used in reference to a participating school district, the participating school district having the most electors voting at the last regularly scheduled school board election in the participating school district.

(g) “Largest” means, if used in reference to a county, the county having the most registered electors of a district as last reported to the county clerk under section 661 of the Michigan election law, 1954 PA 116, MCL 168.661.

(h) “Legislative body” means, if the municipality is a school district, the school board.

(i) “Municipality” means a city, village, school district, township, or county.

(j) “Participating” means, in reference to a municipality, that the municipality is a party to an agreement.

(k) “School district” means 1 of the following but does not include a primary school district or a school district that holds meetings rather than elections:

(i) “Local act school district” as defined in section 5 of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380.5.

(ii) “Local school district” as that term is used in the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380.1 to 380.1852.

(l) “State librarian” means the department.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Secretary of the Senate

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Approved

Governor