397.201 Public library and reading room; establishment and maintenance by city council; tax levy; library fund; tax additional to tax limitation. Sec. 1. (1) The city council of each incorporated city may establish and maintain a public library and reading room for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of the city. The city council […]
397.202 Governing board; number; qualifications; terms. Sec. 2. (1) If a city council decides to establish and maintain a public library and reading room under this act, the mayor of that city shall, with the approval of the city council, appoint a governing board of 5 members for the library and reading room, chosen from […]
397.203 Boards of directors; appointment; terms; removal. Sec. 3. The offices of boards of directors appointed before July 1, 1932 under this act, consisting of 9 members, are vacant effective July 1, 1932, and a board of 5 members to succeed them or a board of 5 members for a library newly established under this […]
397.204 Governing board; vacancy; compensation. Sec. 4. A vacancy in the governing board of a library occasioned by removal, resignation, or otherwise, shall be reported to the city council and filled in the same manner as the original appointment, and no member shall receive compensation as such. History: 1877, Act 164, Eff. Aug. 21, 1877 […]
397.205 Governing board; president; officers; powers and duties; library fund; expenditures; establishment and maintenance of public library and reading room. Sec. 5. The governing board of a library shall, immediately after appointment, meet and organize, by the election of 1 member as president, and by the election of other officers as necessary. The governing board […]
397.206 City library; free use; regulations. Sec. 6. Every library and reading room established under this act shall be forever free to the use of the inhabitants where located, always subject to such reasonable rules and regulations as the library board may adopt; and said board may exclude from the use of said library and […]
397.207 Governing board; annual report; contents; affidavit. Sec. 7. The governing board appointed under section 2 shall annually report to the city council on the money received from the library fund and from other sources, and how the money has been expended and for what purposes; the number of books and periodicals on hand; the […]
397.208 City library; injury to property, ordinances, penalties. Sec. 8. The city council of said city shall have power to pass ordinances imposing suitable penalties for the punishment of persons committing injury upon such library, or the grounds or other property thereof, or for wilful injury to or failure to return any book belonging to […]
397.209 Donation of money, personal property, or real estate; governing board as trustee. Sec. 9. Any person desiring to donate money, personal property, or real estate for the benefit of a library has the right to vest the title to money or real estate donated in a governing board created under this act, to be […]
397.210 Free public library in village or township; petition to levy tax for establishment; notice of election; library fund; governing board; estimate of money necessary for support and maintenance of library; report; assessment and collection of tax; powers of corporate authorities; library as authority under state constitution. Sec. 10. (1) Fifty voters of an incorporated […]
397.210a Free public library in city; establishment; petition for tax; notice; library fund; preparing and reporting estimate of money necessary for support and maintenance; tax additional to tax limitation. Sec. 10a. (1) Fifty voters of a city may present to the clerk of the city a petition asking that a tax be levied for the […]
397.210b Free public library established in township or village incorporated as city; continuation of library board, library, and tax. Sec. 10b. If a township or village in which a free public library has been established pursuant to section 10 is incorporated in its entirety as a city, the library board of the free public library […]
397.210c Increasing or renewing library millage; ballot; election; validation of millage renewal. Sec. 10c. (1) If a city, village, or township has voted on, approved, and established a library pursuant to this act and the governing board by resolution determines that the estimate of the amount of money necessary for the support and maintenance of […]
397.211 Vote of city, village, or township to establish free public library; governing board; establishment; provisional or permanent; membership; powers. Sec. 11. (1) Immediately after a city, a village, or a township has voted to establish a free public library, the city, village, or township shall establish a governing board as provided in subsections (3) […]
397.211a Violation of MCL 168.1 to 168.992 applicable to petitions; penalties. Sec. 11a. A petition under section 10, 10a, or 11, including the circulation and signing of the petition, is subject to section 488 of the Michigan election law, 1954 PA 116, MCL 168.488. A person who violates a provision of the Michigan election law, […]
397.212 Applicability of MCL 397.210a and 397.211; exception; organization of existing public library under MCL 397.210a. Sec. 12. Except as otherwise provided in section 10b, sections 10a and 11 do not apply to a city, village, or township maintaining a public library under a special act or to a public library contained in the 1979 […]
397.213 Use of library services by adjacent township, village, or city; contract; payment. Sec. 13. (1) Notwithstanding a contrary city, village, or township charter provision, a township, village, or city adjacent to a township, village, or city that supports a free public circulating library and reading room under this act may contract for the use […]
397.214 Contract with township, city, or village for use of library and reading room; procedure; tax levy; library fund. Sec. 14. (1) Upon receipt of a petition signed by not less than 10% of the electors in any township based on the highest vote cast at the last regular election for township officers of the […]
397.215 Contract for use of library services by county; joint governing board; membership; provisions of contract; powers and duties of joint governing board. Sec. 15. (1) In a county that does not have a county library established under 1917 PA 138, MCL 397.301 to 397.305, or counties in which the population exceeds 1,000,000, a contract […]
397.216 Rights in use and benefits of library; uniform rules and regulations. Sec. 16. After fulfilling the contractual requirements, the people of a township, village, or city that has contracted for library services with another township, village, or city have all rights in the use and benefits of the library that they would have if […]
