(1) When an election has been held in any county to authorize bonds of the county for the purpose of acquiring, improving, and extending a public library for the county, including the acquisition of equipment, furnishings, and books, and it was specified in the proposition that the bonds are to be payable from ad valorem taxes to be levied on all taxable property in the county, and when the election has carried, but none of the bonds authorized have been issued, the bonds authorized to be issued at election may be issued and shall be payable from taxes to be levied without limitation as to rate or amount on all taxable property in the county, despite any provision of law to the contrary in effect at the time of the election.

(2) All county library bonds that have been authorized but not yet issued, all county library bond elections previously held and carried, and all proceedings in connection with them that were adopted for the authorization of the bonds are hereby validated, ratified, approved, and confirmed, and the bonds, when issued in accordance with the election and proceedings, shall be binding, legal, valid, and enforceable obligations of the county issuing them in accordance with their terms.