Terms Used In Michigan Laws 141.166

  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Public corporation: means a county, city, village, township, charter township, port authority, metropolitan district, or authority of this state, or a combination of these entities when authorized by law to act jointly. See Michigan Laws 141.162
  • Tax obligation: means a bond, note, contract obligation, assessment, or other evidence of indebtedness payable primarily or secondarily from ad valorem taxes as a general or full faith and credit obligation of a public corporation. See Michigan Laws 141.162
  • Unlimited tax pledge: means an undertaking by a public corporation to secure and pay a tax obligation from ad valorem taxes to be levied on all taxable property within the boundaries of the public corporation without limitation as to rate or amount and in addition to other taxes which the public corporation may be authorized to levy. See Michigan Laws 141.162
   A public corporation shall not be required to have issued or incurred 1 or more tax obligations to be supported by 1 or more unlimited tax pledges before the election at which the question of making the pledges is submitted, and a public corporation may conduct the election either before, concurrently with, or after issuing or incurring a tax obligation. A public corporation may make an unlimited tax pledge in support of a tax obligation before the election to approve the pledge, but a pledge shall not be binding on the public corporation until the question of making the pledge has been approved by the electors of the public corporation as provided in section 4.
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