County Road Ass'n v. Board of State Canvassers

These consolidated actions seek an order of mandamus to permanently restrain the Board of State Canvassers from declaring the sufficiency of petitions to refer 1978 PA 426 and 1978 PA 427 to referendum vote at the November 1980 general election.

1978 PA 426 amends §§ 2, 12, 18b, 22, 34, 64, 86 and 93 of 1927 PA 150, as amended, the gasoline and diesel motor fuel tax act, MCL 207.101 et seq.; MSA 7.291 et seq. Among other things, the act raises the tax on gasoline from nine cents to eleven cents per gallon (§ 2) and the tax on diesel fuel from seven cents to nine cents per gallon (§ 22).

1978 PA…