Michigan Administrative Code
Department - Education
Superintendent of Public Instruction
State Aid Rules - Library of Michigan
Part 2 - APPLICATION FOR STATE AID
Section R. 397.22 - Contract area populations
Current through Vol. 24-16, September 15, 2024
Rule 22. State aid for a public library furnishing library service under a library service contract shall be calculated as follows:
(a) A public library's state aid service population shall include a contract area population if the library has served the contract area for 6 months or longer during the library's state aid reporting year.
(b) If 2 or more public libraries have each served the same contract area for less than 6 months during their respective reporting years, the library with the greatest time of service to the contract area within its reporting year shall include the contract area in its legal service area population.
(c) If 2 public libraries have served the same contract area for the same length of time but for less than 6 months during the reporting year, the public library whose contract was in force the nearest to October 1 of the year of state aid distribution shall include the contract area in its legal service area population.
(d) If a contract area is served by only 1 public library for less than 6 months in its reporting year and no other public library furnished service during the same reporting year, the public library shall include the contract area in the calculation of its legal service area population.
(e) A public library may require a contracting municipality to pay a reasonable fee based on the contracting municipality's population in addition to state aid funds and penal fine monies that may be paid as library service contract consideration.
(f) If a public library has contracted with a municipality for the provision of library service and the total local support for the legal service area population is less than the minimum local support requirement mandate in section 5(a) of the act, MCL 397.55 5(a), each governmental unit comprising the legal service area population may be treated as a separate unit and each unit shall meet the minimum support requirement prescribed in section 5(a) of the act, MCL 397.555(a).
