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MI Comp L § 280.533 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 280 - Drain Code of 1956|Act 40 of 1956 - The Drain Code of 1956 (280.1 - 280.630)|40-1956-21. - Chapter 21. Intercounty Drains; Public Corporations. (280.511...280.549)|Section 280.533 - Costs; Items.

280.533 Costs; items. Sec. 533.  The cost of any drain project shall include (1) the cost of constructing or acquiring the facilities, structures, devices and equipment required to locate, establish and construct the drain or to improve or supplement the same, including bridges and culverts and any lands or rights of way necessary thereto; (2) the administrative and other expenses of the drainage board and augmented drainage board including the cost of service and publication of all notices; (3) all engineering, legal and other professional fees; (4) interest on bonds for the first year, if bonds are to be issued, and interest on moneys advanced pursuant to section 531; and (5) an amount not exceeding 10% of the gross sum to cover contingent expenses. History: 1956, Act 40, Imd. Eff. Mar. 28, 1956 ;-- Am. 1963, Act 215, Imd. Eff. May 17, 1963 Popular Name: Act 40
MI Comp L § 280.534 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 280 - Drain Code of 1956|Act 40 of 1956 - The Drain Code of 1956 (280.1 - 280.630)|40-1956-21. - Chapter 21. Intercounty Drains; Public Corporations. (280.511...280.549)|Section 280.534 - Deputy for Director of Agriculture; Powers.

280.534 Deputy for director of agriculture; powers. Sec. 534.  The director of agriculture may designate a deputy or an assistant to act in his stead in respect to the performance of his duties under this act. Where any deputy or assistant so acts, it shall be conclusively presumed that he was properly designated by the director of agriculture. Any official proceedings may be signed by such deputy or assistant in his own name. The signature of such deputy or assistant shall be followed by his official title. Where a deputy or assistant has been designated by the director of agriculture to act in his stead in connection with all the proceedings as to any project, then any notice required to be served upon or mailed to the director of agriculture may be served upon or mailed to such deputy or assistant. The director of agriculture is hereby empowered to appoint a deputy who shall have power to act in his place under any and all circumstances in respect to matters within the scope of this act, irrespective of whether or not he is authorized to appoint a general deputy. History: 1956, Act 40, Imd. Eff. Mar. 28, 1956 Popular Name: Act 40
MI Comp L § 280.535 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 280 - Drain Code of 1956|Act 40 of 1956 - The Drain Code of 1956 (280.1 - 280.630)|40-1956-21. - Chapter 21. Intercounty Drains; Public Corporations. (280.511...280.549)|Section 280.535 - Improvements or Additions to Drains for Public Health.

280.535 Improvements or additions to drains for public health. Sec. 535.  Any 1 or more intercounty drains or any portion thereof, now or hereafter existing, may be cleaned out, relocated, widened, deepened, straightened, extended, tiled, interconnected or otherwise improved, or branches added or connected thereto, when necessary for the public health, in the same manner as an intercounty drain may be located, established and constructed under this chapter, with such variations in the proceedings as may be necessary to make the same applicable, and also the cost thereof may be financed in like manner. A project to improve intercounty drains may include backfilling and leveling any portion thereof no longer needed after the improvements. History: 1956, Act 40, Imd. Eff. Mar. 28, 1956 ;-- Am. 1961, Act 46, Imd. Eff. May 20, 1961 ;-- Am. 1963, Act 215, Imd. Eff. May 17, 1963 ;-- Am. 1971, Act 60, Imd. Eff. July 20, 1971 Popular Name: Act 40
MI Comp L § 280.536 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 280 - Drain Code of 1956|Act 40 of 1956 - The Drain Code of 1956 (280.1 - 280.630)|40-1956-21. - Chapter 21. Intercounty Drains; Public Corporations. (280.511...280.549)|Section 280.536 - Certiorari; Time; Legal Establishment of Drain.

280.536 Certiorari; time; legal establishment of drain. Sec. 536.  Neither the final order of determination nor the final order of apportionment shall be subject to attack in any court except by proceedings in certiorari brought within 20 days after the filing of such order in the office of the secretary of the board issuing the same. If no such proceeding shall be brought within the time above prescribed, the drain shall be deemed to have been legally established and the legality of the drain and the assessments therefor shall not thereafter be questioned in any suit at law or in equity. History: 1956, Act 40, Imd. Eff. Mar. 28, 1956 Popular Name: Act 40
MI Comp L § 280.537 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 280 - Drain Code of 1956|Act 40 of 1956 - The Drain Code of 1956 (280.1 - 280.630)|40-1956-21. - Chapter 21. Intercounty Drains; Public Corporations. (280.511...280.549)|Section 280.537 - Procedures; Incorporation of Other Chapters in Drainage Board Orders.

280.537 Procedures; incorporation of other chapters in drainage board orders. Sec. 537.  In operating under the terms of this chapter, the several boards and officials shall not be limited by the provisions contained in other chapters of this act and the procedures required under the terms of such other chapters shall not be deemed to be applicable: Provided, That when not contrary to the express provisions of this chapter, any provision or provisions in other chapters of this act may be incorporated by recital or by references into any order or resolution of the drainage board or augmented drainage board, and when so incorporated shall be deemed applicable to the project under this chapter. History: 1956, Act 40, Imd. Eff. Mar. 28, 1956 Popular Name: Act 40
MI Comp L § 280.538 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 280 - Drain Code of 1956|Act 40 of 1956 - The Drain Code of 1956 (280.1 - 280.630)|40-1956-21. - Chapter 21. Intercounty Drains; Public Corporations. (280.511...280.549)|Section 280.538 - New Cities; Service of Notice on Township Clerk or De Facto City Officer.

280.538 New cities; service of notice on township clerk or de facto city officer. Sec. 538.  Whenever a new city has been or shall be incorporated but such incorporation shall not have been completed by the adoption of a city charter, then any notice required by this chapter to be served upon the city clerk shall be served upon the clerk or clerks of the township or townships from which the city was incorporated: Provided, That if a city charter shall have been submitted, but rejected by the electors, then such notice shall also be served upon the de facto officer of the city, if there be such an officer. Service of any notice made prior to the effective date of this amendment, which was made in the manner provided in this section, is hereby declared to be a valid compliance with the terms of this act in respect to service upon the city clerk. History: 1956, Act 40, Imd. Eff. Mar. 28, 1956 Popular Name: Act 40
MI Comp L § 280.540 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 280 - Drain Code of 1956|Act 40 of 1956 - The Drain Code of 1956 (280.1 - 280.630)|40-1956-21. - Chapter 21. Intercounty Drains; Public Corporations. (280.511...280.549)|Section 280.540 - Relief Drains.

280.540 Relief drains. Sec. 540.  When 2 or more public corporations, constituting as a whole contiguous territory, are served by 1 or more intercounty drains or by a combination of 1 or more intercounty drains and 1 or more county drains, and it is necessary for the public health to supplement such existing drain or drains by constructing 1 or more relief drains, which may consist of new drains and branches and connections thereto or extensions, enlargements, branches, connections or improvements described in section 535 to existing drains, or any combination thereof, then the entire project may be constructed and financed as a whole under the provisions of this chapter and the word "drain" shall be deemed to include such a project. History: Add. 1959, Act 261, Imd. Eff. Aug. 21, 1959 ;-- Am. 1963, Act 215, Imd. Eff. May 17, 1963 Popular Name: Act 40
MI Comp L § 280.541 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 280 - Drain Code of 1956|Act 40 of 1956 - The Drain Code of 1956 (280.1 - 280.630)|40-1956-21. - Chapter 21. Intercounty Drains; Public Corporations. (280.511...280.549)|Section 280.541 - River, Creek, or Watercourse; Petition to Inclusion in Jurisdiction.

280.541 River, creek, or watercourse; petition to inclusion in jurisdiction. Sec. 541.  A petition meeting the requirements of this chapter as to petitioners, execution and filing may request, for reasons of public health, that jurisdiction be assumed over all or a specified part of the bed, tributaries, banks and flood plains of a river, creek or watercourse, not part of an established drain. The petition shall describe the existing or threatened conditions which cause or increase the danger of flooding, pollution, desecration or obstruction of such river, creek or watercourse, and shall specify, in general terms, the works, property acquisition, actions or procedures deemed necessary to remove or lessen such danger. History: Add. 1965, Act 194, Imd. Eff. July 15, 1965 Popular Name: Act 40
MI Comp L § 280.542 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 280 - Drain Code of 1956|Act 40 of 1956 - The Drain Code of 1956 (280.1 - 280.630)|40-1956-21. - Chapter 21. Intercounty Drains; Public Corporations. (280.511...280.549)|Section 280.542 - River, Creek, or Watercourse; Petition; Content, Deposit to Pay Costs, Filing; Drainage Board, Hearing and Notice.

280.542 River, creek, or watercourse; petition; content, deposit to pay costs, filing; drainage board, hearing and notice. Sec. 542.  The petitioners named in a petition filed pursuant to section 541, shall include therein an agreement to pay the amount of, or shall accompany the petition with a deposit in the amount of, the estimated cost of the planning and engineering required to describe in recordable form the bed, tributaries, banks and flood plains of the river, creek or watercourse over which jurisdiction is necessary and is to be assumed and the work to be done or property to be acquired according to the petition. Upon filing such petition with the agreement or deposit to pay costs, the initial findings, actions and determinations shall be made and taken with respect thereto as described in sections 517 and 519, and such description shall be obtained and approved and adopted by the augmented drainage board. To assume jurisdiction of the bed, tributaries, banks and flood plains of the river, creek or watercourse and to perform the work proposed to be done thereon, if any, as so described, a meeting to hear objections to the assumption of such jurisdiction, to the petition therefor and to the proposed work or property acquisition shall be held as provided for other drain projects pursuant to this chapter. The notice of such hearing shall contain the description as approved and adopted by the augmented drainage board. History: Add. 1965, Act 194, Imd. Eff. July 15, 1965 Popular Name: Act 40
MI Comp L § 280.543 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 280 - Drain Code of 1956|Act 40 of 1956 - The Drain Code of 1956 (280.1 - 280.630)|40-1956-21. - Chapter 21. Intercounty Drains; Public Corporations. (280.511...280.549)|Section 280.543 - River, Creek, or Watercourse; Board Determination, Final Order, Contents, Recording, Effect.

280.543 River, creek, or watercourse; board determination, final order, contents, recording, effect. Sec. 543.  After the hearing, the augmented drainage board shall determine whether or not it will assume such jurisdiction and perform the work proposed, if any, and shall issue its order accordingly, which order shall be known as the "final order of determination". The final order of determination shall contain the description of the bed, tributaries, banks and flood plains of the river, creek or watercourse over which jurisdiction has been assumed and shall be recorded in the county records in the county in which any part thereof is located. After such recording, no constructing, excavating, land filling, removing of structures, trees, plants or shrubs, dumping, or discharging of sewers or drains shall be permitted or continued in the bed, tributaries, banks or flood plains of the river, creek or watercourse within the recorded description thereof, except upon written order or permit issued by the drainage board. History: Add. 1965, Act 194, Imd. Eff. July 15, 1965 Popular Name: Act 40
MI Comp L § 280.544 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 280 - Drain Code of 1956|Act 40 of 1956 - The Drain Code of 1956 (280.1 - 280.630)|40-1956-21. - Chapter 21. Intercounty Drains; Public Corporations. (280.511...280.549)|Section 280.544 - River, Creek, or Watercourse; Final Order of Determination; Recording Effect on Private Rights.

280.544 River, creek, or watercourse; final order of determination; recording effect on private rights. Sec. 544.  The recording of the description does not appropriate, terminate or lessen any private rights in property, real or personal, except such as shall be voluntarily released by written agreement or conveyance or as shall be condemned as provided in this chapter, or pursuant to applicable law. The recording of the description constitutes a regulation and limitation, for reasons of public health, of the use of the public and private property therein described to remove or lessen the danger of flooding, pollution, desecration or obstruction of the river, creek or watercourse, or parts thereof, involved. History: Add. 1965, Act 194, Imd. Eff. July 15, 1965 Popular Name: Act 40
MI Comp L § 280.545 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 280 - Drain Code of 1956|Act 40 of 1956 - The Drain Code of 1956 (280.1 - 280.630)|40-1956-21. - Chapter 21. Intercounty Drains; Public Corporations. (280.511...280.549)|Section 280.545 - River, Creek, or Watercourse; Assessment of Costs, Hearing; Powers.

280.545 River, creek, or watercourse; assessment of costs, hearing; powers. Sec. 545.  Before any work, other than preparation of the description and the approval, adoption and recording of the same, is done or rights in or ownership of property are acquired by the drainage board, pursuant to any petition filed under section 541, the augmented drainage board shall make a determination, following notice and a hearing as provided in this chapter, which may be the hearing provided for in section 542, as to the public corporations to be assessed for the cost of such work or acquisition. After the hearing and the determination to proceed with such work, the drainage board shall proceed in the same manner as is provided for other drain projects in this chapter and the drainage board shall have the rights and powers so provided. History: Add. 1965, Act 194, Imd. Eff. July 15, 1965 Popular Name: Act 40
MI Comp L § 280.546 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 280 - Drain Code of 1956|Act 40 of 1956 - The Drain Code of 1956 (280.1 - 280.630)|40-1956-21. - Chapter 21. Intercounty Drains; Public Corporations. (280.511...280.549)|Section 280.546 - Drainage Board Funds; Investment of Surplus, Interest.

280.546 Drainage board funds; investment of surplus, interest. Sec. 546.  The drainage board may direct the treasurer of any drainage district to invest any surplus funds belonging to and under the control of the drainage board, in bonds and other direct obligations of the United States or in certificates of deposit or depository receipts of any bank which is a member of the federal deposit insurance corporation in such amounts and issues as directed by the drainage board. The interest earnings from such investments shall be credited by the county treasurer to such drainage district funds. History: Add. 1970, Act 144, Imd. Eff. Aug. 1, 1970 Popular Name: Act 40
MI Comp L § 280.547 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 280 - Drain Code of 1956|Act 40 of 1956 - The Drain Code of 1956 (280.1 - 280.630)|40-1956-21. - Chapter 21. Intercounty Drains; Public Corporations. (280.511...280.549)|Section 280.547 - Surplus Construction Funds; Use; Transfer; Provisions of Contract With Public Corporation; Return of Funds; Applicability of MCL 280.547a; Definition.

280.547 Surplus construction funds; use; transfer; provisions of contract with public corporation; return of funds; applicability of MCL 280.547a; definition. Sec. 547.  (1) The drainage board shall use any surplus construction funds remaining in the construction fund after completion of the project for the inspection, repair, and maintenance of the drain as provided in section 196 or shall authorize the transfer of the funds to the bond and interest account, if bonds were issued, in the amounts the drainage board considers proper.  (2) The drainage board shall contract with a public corporation if that public corporation has been assessed for all or part of the cost of the drain or if land in a city, village, township, or combination thereof has been assessed for all or any part of the cost of a drain. The contract shall provide that after all outstanding drain orders or bonds are paid on a drainage district project, the drainage board shall authorize the county treasurers to pay over any portion of the surplus not needed for more than the cost of inspection, repair and maintenance of the drain as provided in section 196 to the county, township, city, or village in which the drain was located or in which assessments for benefits have been assessed and collected. The payments shall be on a pro rata basis in direct proportion to the amounts assessed and collected from each county, township, city, or village. The contract shall also provide that upon receipt of the surplus funds the county, city, village, or township shall utilize the surplus funds to alleviate drainage problems in their respective jurisdictions.  (3) If state highway funds are involved in a project, the drain commissioner or the drainage board, upon completion of a construction project, and after all outstanding drain orders or bonds are paid on the project shall return, on a pro rata basis, surplus construction funds in excess of the amount necessary to pay for inspection, repair, and maintenance of the drain as provided in section 196 to the state transportation department for the construction, maintenance, and administration of state highways.  (4) A drainage board may apply section 547a to surplus construction funds in place of this section.  (5) As used in this section and section 547a, "public corporation" includes a city, village, township, or county, or the state. History: Add. 1970, Act 144, Imd. Eff. Aug. 1, 1970 ;-- Am. 1988, Act 34, Imd. Eff. Feb. 25, 1988 ;-- Am. 1989, Act 149, Imd. Eff. July 14, 1989 Popular Name: Act 40
MI Comp L § 280.547a (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 280 - Drain Code of 1956|Act 40 of 1956 - The Drain Code of 1956 (280.1 - 280.630)|40-1956-21. - Chapter 21. Intercounty Drains; Public Corporations. (280.511...280.549)|Section 280.547a - Surplus Construction Funds; Disposition; Use.

280.547a Surplus construction funds; disposition; use. Sec. 547a.  (1) After the construction of a county drain for which none of the financing is obtained through special assessments under section 539, the drainage board shall provide for an amount from surplus construction funds sufficient to inspect, repair, and maintain the drain as provided in section 196. After providing for inspection, repair, and maintenance, the drainage board may apportion the balance of the surplus construction funds to separate accounts to the credit of the public corporations against which the cost of the drain is assessed. The funds shall be credited in direct proportion to amounts assessed and collected from the public corporations.  (2) Funds in an account apportioned to the credit of a public corporation under this section shall be used only for the following:  (a) To pay principal and interest on bonds issued to finance the drain for which the assessment is imposed.  (b) If bonds are not sold, to pay assessments due from the public corporation.  (c) At the request of the public corporation, to alleviate drainage problems in that public corporation. History: Add. 1988, Act 34, Imd. Eff. Feb. 25, 1988 ;-- Am. 1989, Act 149, Imd. Eff. July 14, 1989 Popular Name: Act 40
MI Comp L § 280.548 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 280 - Drain Code of 1956|Act 40 of 1956 - The Drain Code of 1956 (280.1 - 280.630)|40-1956-21. - Chapter 21. Intercounty Drains; Public Corporations. (280.511...280.549)|Section 280.548 - Pollution in Intercounty Drain; Abatement; Petition.

280.548 Pollution in intercounty drain; abatement; petition. Sec. 548.  Whenever the water resources commission or successor agency has determined that pollution exists in an inter-county drain which services any city, village or township or any combination thereof and has issued an order of determination or permit to such public corporation for abatement thereof, then a petition under this chapter may be filed in accordance with section 513 by any one such city having greater than 500,000 population. History: Add. 1973, Act 48, Imd. Eff. July 11, 1973 Popular Name: Act 40
MI Comp L § 280.549 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 280 - Drain Code of 1956|Act 40 of 1956 - The Drain Code of 1956 (280.1 - 280.630)|40-1956-21. - Chapter 21. Intercounty Drains; Public Corporations. (280.511...280.549)|Section 280.549 - Assessments Against Townships and Villages.

280.549 Assessments against townships and villages. Sec. 549.  Unless otherwise provided by the drainage board or the appropriate drain commissioner, assessments against a township shall be against the township as a whole, including any incorporated village, but the drainage board or the appropriate drain commissioner may determine to assess separately or exclude a village, in which case the assessment against the township shall be exclusive of the village and the tax levies to be made by the township to pay the assessment shall not include property taxable in the village. History: Add. 1976, Act 5, Imd. Eff. Feb. 10, 1976 Popular Name: Act 40
MI Comp L § 280.552 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 280 - Drain Code of 1956|Act 40 of 1956 - The Drain Code of 1956 (280.1 - 280.630)|40-1956-22. - Chapter 22. Water Management Districts and Subdistricts (280.551...280.583)|Section 280.552 - Water Management; Petition for Flood Control or Drainage Project, Filing, Signatures, Contents, Map.

280.552 Water management; petition for flood control or drainage project, filing, signatures, contents, map. Sec. 552.  Whenever it shall be necessary for the public health, safety or welfare to establish a water management district to undertake a project in all or part of 3 or more contiguous counties in this state for purposes of flood control or drainage, a petition therefor may be filed with the director of agriculture, signed by 3 or more public corporations, and, if a district with 8 or more counties, by 3 or more counties, which will be subject to assessments to pay the cost of such project. Such petition shall state that it is filed pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, shall set forth the proposed name of the district and the necessity for the project in the interest of the public health, safety or welfare; and shall contain a general description of the type, purpose and location of the proposed project, which description need be only sufficiently accurate as to determine with reasonable certainty the waters, works and territory involved in the project and the public corporations to be benefited thereby. A map showing the boundaries of the proposed district and a certified copy of the resolution of the governing body of each public corporation, authorizing its signature thereto, shall be attached to the petition. Such petition may be filed in more than 1 counterpart. History: 1956, Act 40, Imd. Eff. Mar. 28, 1956 Popular Name: Act 40