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ADVISORY OPINION 1982 PA 47

Docket No. 69345, (Calendar No. 5).

418 Mich. 49 (1983)

340 N.W.2d 817

ADVISORY OPINION ON CONSTITUTIONALITY OF 1982 PA 47

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided November 23, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, and Milton I. Firestone and Florence E. Fraser, Assistants Attorney General, in support of constitutionality, and

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, and Michael J. Moquin, Assistant Attorney General, in opposition to constitutionality.

Amici Curiae:

Miller, Canfield, Paddock & Stone (by Stratton S. Brown and Cynthia B. Faulhaber) for the cities of Battle Creek, Detroit, Kalamazoo, and Lapeer, and the Port Austin Area Sewer & Water Authority.

J. Brian Raymond for State Representatives Bobby D. Crim, William A. Ryan, Thomas J. Anderson, and Robert Emerson.

LEVIN, J.

Section 15 of the finance and taxation article of the constitution provides that the state may borrow money for specific purposes in amounts provided by acts adopted on a two-thirds vote of each house of the Legislature and approved by a majority of the electors at a general election. Section 15 provides that the ballot question shall state "the amount to be borrowed, the specific purpose to which the funds shall be devoted, and the method of repayment"...

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