HOUSE BILL No. 5144


     September 30, 1997, Introduced by Reps. Brackenridge, Birkholz, Crissman, Hammerstrom and Dobronski and referred to the Committee on Local Government.


        A bill to amend 1909 PA 278, entitled

   "The home rule village act,"

   (MCL 78.1 to 78.28) by amending the title and by adding section

   2a.

               THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 1                                  TITLE

 2         An act to provide for the incorporation of villages and for

 3    revising and amending their charters; to provide for the levy and

 4    collection of taxes, borrowing of money, and issuance of bonds

 5    and other evidences of indebtedness;  and  to validate bonds

 6    issued and obligations previously incurred; AND TO PRESCRIBE PEN-

 7    ALTIES AND PROVIDE REMEDIES.

 8         SEC. 2A.  A PETITION UNDER SECTION 2, 3, 4, 7, 11, 12, 13,

 9    14, OR 17, INCLUDING THE CIRCULATION AND SIGNING OF THE PETITION,

10    IS SUBJECT TO SECTION 488 OF THE MICHIGAN ELECTION LAW, 1954 PA


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 1    116, MCL 168.488.  A PERSON WHO VIOLATES A PROVISION OF THE

 2    MICHIGAN ELECTION LAW, 1954 PA 116, MCL 168.1 TO 168.992, APPLI-

 3    CABLE TO A PETITION DESCRIBED IN THIS SECTION IS SUBJECT TO THE

 4    PENALTIES PRESCRIBED FOR THAT VIOLATION IN THE MICHIGAN ELECTION

 5    LAW, 1954 PA 116, MCL 168.1 TO 168.992.

 6         Enacting section 1.  This amendatory act does not take

 7    effect unless Senate Bill No. _____ or House Bill No. _____

 8    (request no. 02378'97) of the 89th Legislature is enacted into

 9    law.






































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