Today, there are only six charter townships out of 125 in Michigan that have soil erosion and sedimentation control responsibility. Other changes in the bill establish stiffer fines for persons receiving municipal or state civil infractions. The bill allows the DEQ to charge fees for administering training, inspections and review of county or municipal programs. The bill further requires that a county or municipal enforcing agency approve or deny all permit applications within 30 days after a complete application has been filled. Although many townships already hold night board of review hours this new act makes it mandatory.
Citizens complain it is difficult to get to board of review meetings during the day.
The Act requires that if a published notice of a special assessment hearing includes a list of the property identification numbers to be assessed, that notice must also provide one or more sequential sets of property identification numbers. Under this Act townships that only identify properties in special assessment notices with PIN numbers would have to expand their descriptions with a map or a written description of the district boundaries.