Title and section amended. [No. 6.] AN ACT to amend the title and section one of act number one hundred nine of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred five, entitled "An act to prevent persons from unlawfully using or wearing the badge or button of the Grand Army of the Republic, the Loyal Legion of the United States, or the United Spanish War Veterans, and to repeal section eleven thousand seven hundred sixty-eight of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven," being section fifteen thousand five hundred seventy-nine of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The title and section one of act number one hundred nine of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred five, entitled "An act to prevent persons from unlawfully using or wearing the badge or button of the Grand Army of the Republic, the Loyal Legion of the United States, or United Spanish War Veterans, and to repeal section eleven thousand seven hundred sixty-eight of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven," being section fifteen thousand five hundred seventy-nine of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, are hereby amended to read as follows: Unlawfully wearing badge, etc. TITLE. An Act to prevent persons from unlawfully using or wearing the badge or button of the Grand Army of the Republic, the Loyal Legion of the United States, the United Spanish War Veterans, Military Order of Foreign Wars, or the American Legion, or of any legally incorporated organization composed of honorably discharged veterans of any war in which the United States has been, or may be, a participant, and to repeal section eleven thousand seven hundred sixty-eight of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven. SEC. 1. Any person who shall wear the badge or button of the Grand Army of the Republic, the Loyal Legion of the United States, the United Spanish War Veterans, Military Order of Foreign Wars, or the American Legion, or of any legally incorporated organization composed of honorably discharged veterans of any war in which the United States has been, or may be, a participant, without being entitled to use or wear the same under the rules and regulations of such several organizations, or who shall use or wear the badge or button thereof to obtain aid or assistance thereby within the state of Michigan shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and if convicted thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in Penalty. the county jail for a term not exceeding thirty days, or a fine not exceeding twenty dollars. Approved March 10, 1921. [No. 7.] AN ACT to amend section sixteen of act number one hundred forty-one of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, entitled "An act to provide for the organization of school districts in cities having a population of over one hundred thousand and less than two hundred fifty thousand inhabitants; to provide for a board of education for such districts; and prescribing the powers and duties of such board," as amended by act number four hundred five of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nineteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section sixteen of act number one hundred Section amended. forty-one of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, entitled "An act to provide for the organization of school districts in cities having a population of over one hundred thousand and less than two hundred fifty thousand inhabitants; to provide for a board of education for such districts; and prescribing the powers and duties of such board," as amended by act number four hundred five of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nineteen, is hereby amended to read as follows: to estimate taxes. SEC. 16. The board shall annually on or before the first When board Tuesday in April in each year, make an estimate of the amount of taxes deemed necessary for the ensuing year for all purposes within the power of said board, which estimate shall specify the amounts required for the different objects. The board shall transmit such estimates to the common council, city commission or other legislative body of the city on or before the second Monday in April of each year for ratification, amendment or rejection. If for any reason Approval the common council, city commission or other legislative by council, body of said city shall fail to pass on said estimate and finally adopt the same after such amendment, increase or decrease as it determines, before the second Monday in May in each year, then the estimate made by such board shall stand as approved and be considered as approved and ratified by such legislative body and reported accordingly, and the amount therein named, levied and collected accordingly. On or When secrebefore the third Monday in May the secretary of the board try to report shall make to the assessing officers of said city, a written etc. to assessor. Limit. report of the amount of taxes so deemed necessary and ap- This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Section amended. Meeting, when held. [No. 8.] AN ACT to amend section five of act number forty-four of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred eleven, entitled "An act to create a State Board of Equalization; to prescribe its powers and duties; to provide that said board shall be furnished with certain information by the several boards of supervisors and by the Board of State Tax Commissioners; to provide for meeting the expense authorized by this act, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts contravening the provisions of this act," being section one hundred sixty-four of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section five of act number forty-four of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred eleven, entitled "An act to create a State Board of Equalization; to prescribe its powers and duties; to provide that said board shall be furnished. with certain information by the several boards of supervisors and by the Board of State Tax Commissioners; to provide for meeting the expense authorized by this act, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts contravening the provisions of this act," being section one hundred sixty-four of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 5. A meeting of the board of supervisors of each county shall be held on the fourth Monday in June, nineteen hundred twenty-one, and on the fourth Monday in June every year thereafter. Said boards of supervisors shall when convened proceed to equalize the assessment rolls in the manner Supervisors to provided by law. Prior to such meeting each of said supervisors shall add up the columns of his assessment roll, enumerating the number of acres of land and the value of the total assessment roll, etc. real and personal property assessed, so as to show the aggre- This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 9.] AN ACT to amend section one of chapter three of act number two hundred eighty-three of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nine, entitled "An act to revise, consolidate and add to the laws relating to the establishment, opening, improvement, maintenance and use of the public highways and private roads, the condemnation of property and gravel therefor; the building, repairing and preservation of bridges; setting and protecting shade trees, drainage, cutting weeds and brush within this state, and providing for the election and defining the powers, duties and compensation of state, county, township and district highway officials," same being section four thousand three hundred thirty-seven of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended. SECTION 1. Section one of chapter three of act number Section two hundred eighty-three of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nine, entitled "An act to revise, consolidate and add to the laws relating to the establishment, opening, improvement, maintenance and use of the public highways and pri vate roads, the condemnation of property and gravel therefor; the building, repairing and preservation of bridges; setting and protecting shade trees, drainage, cutting weeds and brush within this state, and providing for the election and Good roads district, formation of. road system adopted. defining the powers, duties and compensation of state, county, township and district highway officials," same being section four thousand three hundred thirty-seven of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 1. Any two or more organized townships, or any one or more townships, and one or more villages, or one or more townships, and one or more cities, or any combination of townships, villages or cities lying contiguous in any county, are hereby authorized to form themselves into a district to be known as a good roads district, and such district shall operate under the provisions of the county road law, except as herein otherwise provided; but should any county in which a good roads district be formed, afterwards adopt the county road system, such good roads district shall be thereby dissolved excepting for the purpose of completing work then under contract, or for the payment of any bonds that may have been issued, by the return to the district of all moneys assessed in said district for county road taxes when working under the county road system, until all bonds issued by said When county district are retired. In any case where a good roads district has heretofore been, or may hereafter be, dissolved by the adoption of the county road system, or otherwise, it shall be the duty of the board of district good roads commissioners, if there are outstanding bonds issued by such district, to certify the amount thereof to the board of supervisors and to the county treasurer. Thereupon the treasurer shall set aside the county road tax that has been or may be collected and received from the townships and cities comprising such district, and shall preserve the same as a special fund out of which the principal and interest of the district road bonds shall be paid, pursuant to the direction of the board of supervisors of the county: Provided, That no amount in excess of the actual indebtedness of the district, plus interest, shall be so set aside by the county treasurer. In case such district shall become so dissolved and come under the county road system, any funds of the good roads district remaining in the county treasury, or thereafter paid therein, to the credit of such good roads district fund shall be returned to the highway funds of the different townships, villages and cities composing such good roads district in the proportion in which the good roads district tax was paid by them for the last preceding year. Proviso. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. |