19-2717.   Same; certification of tax levy by township board; limitations;certain countiesbetween 125,000 and 165,000; election.(a) The township board shall determine the amount of money necessary to beraised by taxation to furnish fire protection or street lighting or bothwithin such taxing district, and shall certify to the board of countycommissioners the said levy in the same manner and at the same time aslevies are certified for township purposes. Except as provided in subsection(b), the tax to be levied shallnot exceed in any event three mills upon the dollar of the assessedvaluation of the property within such taxing district.

      (b)   The township board of any township located in a county with a populationover one hundred twenty-five thousand and not more than one hundred sixty-fivethousand in order to furnish fire protection or street lighting or bothmay levy a tax of not to exceed six mills upon the dollar of assessed valuationof the property within such taxing district. Whenever any said board proposesto levy a tax under this subsection, it shall adopt a resolution statingthe amount of the proposed levy and giving notice thereof. Such notice shallbe published once each week for two consecutive weeks in the official countynewspaper. If, within sixty days next following the last publication ofsuch notice, a petition protesting such tax levy signed by not less thanfive percent of the qualified electors of such taxing district, no suchlevy shall be made unless the proposition to levy such tax has been submittedto and approved by a majority of the qualified electors of the taxing districtvoting at an election called and held thereon. Such election shall be noticed,called and held in the manner prescribed for the noticing, calling and holdingof elections under the general bond law.

      History:   L. 1927, ch. 170, § 2; L. 1938, ch. 43, § 2; L. 1980,ch. 90, § 1; July 1.