Sec. 11-36. Town or borough tax.
Sec. 11-36. Town or borough tax. When fifty electors of any town or borough
present a petition to the clerk of such town or borough, asking that an annual tax be
levied for the establishment and maintenance of a free public library and reading room
in such town or borough, and specify in their petition a rate of taxation, not to exceed
three mills on the dollar, such clerk shall, in the next legal notice of the regular municipal
election in such town or borough, give notice that at such election the question of an
annual tax for the maintenance of a library is to be voted upon in the manner prescribed
in section 9-369. The designation of such question on the voting machine ballot label
shall be "Shall a .... mill tax be levied to establish and maintain a free public library and
reading room?". Such notice and such designation of the question on the voting machine
ballot label shall specify the rate of taxation mentioned in such petition. If, upon the
official determination of the result of such vote, it appears that a majority of all the votes
upon such question are in approval of such question, the tax specified in such notice
shall be levied and collected in the same manner as other general taxes of such town or
borough and shall be known as the "library fund". Such tax may afterwards be lessened
or increased within the three-mill limit, or made to cease, in case the electors of any
such town or borough so determine by a majority vote at any regular municipal election
held therein, in the manner hereinbefore prescribed for voting upon such question; and
the corporate authorities of such town or borough may exercise the same powers relative
to free public libraries and reading rooms as are conferred upon the corporate authorities
of cities.
(1949 Rev., S. 1674; 1953, S. 1026d; P.A. 86-170, S. 10, 13.)
History: P.A. 86-170 required that designation on ballot label be in form of question.