Renne v. Oxford Township

Leave to review the decision below (5 Mich App 415) was granted to consider the possibly too broad conclusion of Division 2 that (p 420) “Read as a whole, the apparent meaning of ‘district or territory affected’ is clearly ‘political subdivision’.” The quoted words appear in section 6 of article 2 of the Constitution of 1963:

“Sec. 6. Whenever any question is required to be submitted by a political subdivision to the electors for the increase of the ad valorem tax rate limitation imposed by section 6 of article 9 for a period of more than five years, or for the issue of bonds, only electors…