19-2717. Same; certification of tax levy by township board; limitations; certain counties between 125,000 and 165,000; election.
19-2717
19-2717. Same; certification of tax levy by township board; limitations;
certain counties
between 125,000 and 165,000; election.
(a) The township board shall determine the amount of money necessary to be
raised by taxation to furnish fire protection or street lighting or both
within such taxing district, and shall certify to the board of county
commissioners the said levy in the same manner and at the same time as
levies are certified for township purposes. Except as provided in subsection
(b), the tax to be levied shall
not exceed in any event three mills upon the dollar of the assessed
valuation of the property within such taxing district.
(b) The township board of any township located in a county with a population
over one hundred twenty-five thousand and not more than one hundred sixty-five
thousand in order to furnish fire protection or street lighting or both
may levy a tax of not to exceed six mills upon the dollar of assessed valuation
of the property within such taxing district. Whenever any said board proposes
to levy a tax under this subsection, it shall adopt a resolution stating
the amount of the proposed levy and giving notice thereof. Such notice shall
be published once each week for two consecutive weeks in the official county
newspaper. If, within sixty days next following the last publication of
such notice, a petition protesting such tax levy signed by not less than
five percent of the qualified electors of such taxing district, no such
levy shall be made unless the proposition to levy such tax has been submitted
to and approved by a majority of the qualified electors of the taxing district
voting at an election called and held thereon. Such election shall be noticed,
called and held in the manner prescribed for the noticing, calling and holding
of elections under the general bond law.
History: L. 1927, ch. 170, § 2; L. 1938, ch. 43, § 2; L. 1980,
ch. 90, § 1; July 1.