MCL 397.371 Privately owned libraries; public support, limitation, conditions.
397.371. Privately owned libraries; public support, limitation, conditions.
Sec. 1.
Any township, city or village within this state, having within its limits a library that had been open to the public upon the payment of dues, may appropriate not to exceed 1/2 of 1 mill on its assessed valuation for the support of such library, and such sum or sums shall be raised by taxation in the ordinary way: Provided, That any library so receiving support from any municipality shall be kept open for the convenience of the public not less than the afternoons and evenings of 3 days of each week, and the books therein shall be for the free use of the public under such reasonable restrictions as such library shall prescribe.
1925, Act 213, Imd. Eff. May 6, 1925; CL 1929, 8102; CL 1948, 397.371