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MI Comp L § 125.914 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 125 - Planning, Housing, and Zoning|Act 250 of 1941 - Urban Redevelopment Corporations Law (125.901 - 125.922)|Section 125.914 - Proceedings Against Redevelopment Corporations; Parties.

125.914 Proceedings against redevelopment corporations; parties. Sec. 14.  Enforcement proceedings against redevelopment corporations. Whenever a redevelopment corporation shall not have obtained the certificates of approval of its development plan required by section 4 of this act within 12 months of the date upon which it became a redevelopment corporation, or shall not have substantially complied with its development plan within the time limits for the completion of each stage thereof as therein stated, reasonable delays caused by unforeseen difficulties excepted, or shall do, permit to be done or fail or omit to do anything contrary to or required of it, as the case may be, by this act, or shall be about so to do, permit to be done or fail or omit to have done, as the case may be, then any such fact may be certified by the planning commission or the supervising agency, whichever shall have supervision thereof, to the chief legal officer of the city, who may thereupon commence a proceeding in the circuit court of the county in which such city is located in its name for the purpose of having such action, failure or omission, or threatened action, failure or omission, established by order of the court for the purpose stated in paragraph 3 of section 6 of this act, or stopped, prevented or otherwise rectified by mandamus, injunction or otherwise. Such proceedings shall be commenced by a petition to the circuit court alleging the violation complained of and praying for appropriate relief. It shall thereupon be the duty of the court to specify the time, not exceeding 20 days after service of a copy of the petition, within which the redevelopment corporation complained of must answer the petition. The court shall, immediately after a default in answering or after answer, as the case may be, inquire into the facts and circumstances in such manner as the court shall direct without other or formal proceedings, and without respect to any technical requirements. Such other persons or corporations as it shall seem to the court necessary or proper to join as parties in order to make its orders or judgment effective may be joined as parties. The final judgment or order in any such action or proceeding shall dismiss the action or proceeding or establish the failure complained of or direct that a mandamus order, or an injunction, or both, issue, or grant such other relief as the court may deem appropriate. History: 1941, Act 250, Imd. Eff. June 16, 1941 ;-- CL 1948, 125.914
MI Comp L § 125.915 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 125 - Planning, Housing, and Zoning|Act 250 of 1941 - Urban Redevelopment Corporations Law (125.901 - 125.922)|Section 125.915 - Real Estate; Transfer to Redevelopment Corporations.

125.915 Real estate; transfer to redevelopment corporations. Sec. 15.  Transfer of real property to redevelopment corporation. Notwithstanding any requirement of law to the contrary or the absence of direct provision therefor in the instrument under which a fiduciary is acting, every executor, administrator, trustee, guardian or any other person, holding trust funds or acting in a fiduciary capacity, unless the instrument under which such fiduciary is acting expressly forbids, the state, its subdivisions, cities, all other public bodies, all public officers, corporations organized under or subject to the provisions of the banking law (including savings banks, savings and loan associations, trust companies, private bankers and private banking corporations), the commissioner of the banking department as conservator, liquidator or rehabilitator of any such person, partnership or corporation, persons, partnerships and corporations organized under or subject to the provisions of the insurance law, the commissioner of insurance as conservator, liquidator or rehabilitator of any such person, partnership or corporation, any of which owns or holds any real property within a development area, may grant, sell, lease or otherwise transfer any such real property to a redevelopment corporation, and receive and hold any cash, stocks, income debentures, mortgages, or other securities or obligations, secured or unsecured, exchanged therefor by such redevelopment corporation, and may execute such instruments and do such acts as may be deemed necessary or desirable by them or it and by the redevelopment corporation in connection with the development and the development plan. History: 1941, Act 250, Imd. Eff. June 16, 1941 ;-- CL 1948, 125.915
MI Comp L § 125.916 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 125 - Planning, Housing, and Zoning|Act 250 of 1941 - Urban Redevelopment Corporations Law (125.901 - 125.922)|Section 125.916 - Acquisition of Real Estate; Methods; Condemnation.

125.916 Acquisition of real estate; methods; condemnation. Sec. 16.  1. A redevelopment corporation may, whether before or after the certificates of approval of its development plan required by section 4 have been issued, acquire real property or secure options in its own name or in the name of nominees to acquire real property, by gift, grant, lease, purchase or otherwise.  2. A city may, upon request by a redevelopment corporation, and after a certificate of approval of condemnation with respect to the real property in question has been issued pursuant to sections 17 and 17a, acquire, or obligate itself to acquire, for such redevelopment corporation any real property included in such certificate of approval of condemnation, by condemnation. Real property acquired by a city for a redevelopment corporation shall be conveyed by such city to the redevelopment corporation upon payment to the city of all sums expended or required to be expended by the city in the acquisition of such real property, together with all costs which may have been incurred by the city.  3. The provisions of this act with respect to the condemnation of real property by a city for a redevelopment corporation shall prevail over the provisions of any other general, special or local law. History: 1941, Act 250, Imd. Eff. June 16, 1941 ;-- CL 1948, 125.916 ;-- Am. 1968, Act 325, Imd. Eff. July 3, 1968
MI Comp L § 125.917a (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 125 - Planning, Housing, and Zoning|Act 250 of 1941 - Urban Redevelopment Corporations Law (125.901 - 125.922)|Section 125.917a - Condemnation, Law Applicable.

125.917a Condemnation, law applicable.  Sec. 17a.  Notwithstanding the provisions of section 17, condemnation proceedings under this act shall be pursuant to Act No. 149 of the Public Acts of 1911, as amended, being sections 213.21 to 213.41 of the Compiled Laws of 1948. History: Add. 1968, Act 325, Imd. Eff. July 3, 1968
MI Comp L § 125.918 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 125 - Planning, Housing, and Zoning|Act 250 of 1941 - Urban Redevelopment Corporations Law (125.901 - 125.922)|Section 125.918 - Leasing of Property of Corporation; Termination of Tenancy.

125.918 Leasing of property of corporation; termination of tenancy. Sec. 18.  Temporary use or occupation of real property taken by condemnation. When title to real property has vested in a redevelopment corporation or city by gift, grant, devise, purchase or in condemnation proceedings or otherwise, the redevelopment corporation or city, as the case may be, may agree with the previous owners of such property, or any tenants continuing to occupy or use it, or any other persons who may occupy or use or seek to occupy or use such property, that such former owner, tenant or other persons may occupy or use such property upon the payment of a fixed sum of money for a definite term or upon the payment periodically of an agreed sum of money. Such occupation or use shall not be construed as a tenancy from month to month, nor require the giving of notice by the redevelopment corporation or the city, as the case may be, for the termination of such occupation or use or the right to such occupation or use, but immediately upon the expiration of the term for which payment has been made the redevelopment corporation or city, as the case may be, shall be entitled to possession of the real property and may maintain summary proceedings, obtain a writ of assistance, and shall be entitled to such other remedy as may be provided by law for obtaining immediate possession thereof. A former owner, tenant or other person occupying or using such property shall not be required to give notice to the redevelopment corporation or city, as the case may be, at the expiration of the term for which he has made payment for such occupation or use, as a condition to his cessation of occupation or use and termination of liability therefor.  In the event that a city has acquired real property for a redevelopment corporation, the city shall, in transferring title to the redevelopment corporation, deduct from the consideration or other moneys which the redevelopment corporation has become obligated to pay to the city for such purpose, and credit the redevelopment corporation with the amounts received by the city as payment for temporary occupation and use of the real property by a former owner, tenant, or other person, as in this section 18 provided, less the cost and expense incurred by the city for the maintenance and operation of such real property. History: 1941, Act 250, Imd. Eff. June 16, 1941 ;-- CL 1948, 125.918
MI Comp L § 125.919 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 125 - Planning, Housing, and Zoning|Act 250 of 1941 - Urban Redevelopment Corporations Law (125.901 - 125.922)|Section 125.919 - Mortgages of Corporation; Provisions Governing.

125.919 Mortgages of corporation; provisions governing. Sec. 19.  Mortgages.  1. Any redevelopment corporation may borrow funds and secure the repayment thereof by mortgage. Every such mortgage shall contain reasonable amortization provisions and shall be a lien upon no other real property except that forming the whole or a part of a single development area.  2. Certificates, bonds and notes, or part interests therein, or any part of an issue thereof, which are secured by a first mortgage on the real property in a development area, or any part thereof, shall be securities in which all the following persons, partnerships or corporations and public bodies or public officers may legally invest the funds within their control: Provided, That the principal amount secured by such mortgage shall not exceed the limits, if any, imposed by law for such investments by the person, partnership, corporation, public body or public officer making the same:  Every executor, administrator, trustee, guardian, committee or other person or corporation holding trust funds or acting in a fiduciary capacity; the state, its subdivisions, cities, all other public bodies, all public officers; persons, partnerships and corporations organized under or subject to the provisions of the banking law (including savings banks, savings and loan associations, trust companies, private bankers and private banking corporations); the commissioner of the banking department as conservator, liquidator or rehabilitator of any such person, partnership or corporation; persons, partnerships or corporations organized under or subject to the provisions of the insurance law; fraternal benefit societies; and the commissioner of insurance as conservator, liquidator or rehabilitator of any such person, partnership or corporation.  3. Any mortgage on the real property in a development area, or any part thereof, may create a first lien, or a second or other junior lien, upon such real property.  4. The limits as to principal amount secured by mortgage referred to in paragraph 2 of this section 19 shall not apply to certificates, bonds and notes, or part interests therein, or any part of an issue thereof, which are secured by first mortgage on real property in a development area, or any part thereof, which the federal housing administrator has insured or has made a commitment to insure under the national housing act. Any such person, partnership, corporation, public body or public officer may receive and hold any debentures, certificates or other instruments issued or delivered by the federal housing administrator, pursuant to the national housing act, in compliance with the contract of insurance of a mortgage on real property in the development area, or any part thereof.  History: 1941, Act 250, Imd. Eff. June 16, 1941 ;-- CL 1948, 125.919
MI Comp L § 125.920 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 125 - Planning, Housing, and Zoning|Act 250 of 1941 - Urban Redevelopment Corporations Law (125.901 - 125.922)|Section 125.920 - Sale or Lease of Real Estate by a City to Corporation.

125.920 Sale or lease of real estate by a city to corporation. Sec. 20.  Sale or lease of real property by a city to a redevelopment corporation.  1. The local legislative body may by resolution determine that real property, title to which is held by the city, specified and described in such resolution, is not required for use by the city and may authorize the city to convey, sell, or lease such real property to a redevelopment corporation: Provided, however, That the title of the city to such real property be not declared inalienable by charter of the city, or other similar law or instrument.  2. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special or local law or ordinance, such sale or lease may be made without appraisal, public notice or public bidding for such price or rental and upon such terms (and, in case of a lease, for such term not exceeding 50 years with a right to 1 renewal term of 30 years) as may be agreed upon between the city and the redevelopment corporation.   3. Before any sale or lease to a redevelopment corporation shall be authorized, a public hearing shall be held by the local legislative body to consider the proposed sale or lease.  4. Notice of such hearing shall be published at least 10 days before the date set for the hearing in such publication and in such manner as may be designated by the local legislative body.  5. The deed or lease of such real property shall be executed in the same manner as a deed or lease by the city of other real property owned by it and may contain appropriate conditions and provisions to enable the city to reenter the real property in the event of a violation by the redevelopment corporation of any of the provisions of this act relating to such redevelopment corporation or of the conditions or provisions of such deed or lease.  6. A redevelopment corporation purchasing or leasing real property from a city shall not, without the written approval of the city, use such real property for any purpose except in connection with its development. The deed shall contain a condition that the redevelopment corporation will devote the real property granted only for the purposes of its development subject to the restrictions of this act, for each of which the city shall have the right to reenter and repossess itself of the real property. History: 1941, Act 250, Imd. Eff. June 16, 1941 ;-- CL 1948, 125.920
MI Comp L § 125.921 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 125 - Planning, Housing, and Zoning|Act 250 of 1941 - Urban Redevelopment Corporations Law (125.901 - 125.922)|Section 125.921 - Provisions of Lease.

125.921 Provisions of lease. Sec. 21.  Provisions of lease.  If real property of a city be leased to a redevelopment corporation:  (1) The lease may provide that all improvements shall be the property of the lessor;   (2) The lessor may grant to the redevelopment corporation the right to mortgage the fee of such property and thus enable the redevelopment corporation to give as security for its notes or bonds a first lien upon the land and improvements;   (3) The execution of a lease shall not impose upon the lessor any liability or obligation in connection with or arising out of the financing, construction, management or operation of a development involving the land so leased. The lessor shall not, by executing such lease, incur any obligation or liability with respect to such leased premises other than may devolve upon the lessor with respect to premises not owned by it. The lessor, by consenting to the execution by a redevelopment corporation of a mortgage upon the leased land, shall not thereby assume, and such consent shall not be construed as imposing upon the lessor, any liability upon the note or bond secured by the mortgage;   (4) The lease may reserve such easements or other rights in connection with the real property as may be deemed necessary or desirable for the future planning and development of the city and the extension of public facilities therein (including the construction of subways and conduits, the widening and change of grades of streets); and it may contain such other provisions for the protection of the parties as are not inconsistent with the provisions of this act. History: 1941, Act 250, Imd. Eff. June 16, 1941 ;-- CL 1948, 125.921
MI Comp L § 125.922 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 125 - Planning, Housing, and Zoning|Act 250 of 1941 - Urban Redevelopment Corporations Law (125.901 - 125.922)|Section 125.922 - Construction of Act.

125.922 Construction of act. Sec. 22.  Construction. This act shall be construed liberally to effectuate the purposes hereof, and the enumeration of specific powers in this act shall not operate to restrict the meaning of any general grant of power contained in this act or to exclude other powers comprehended in such general grant. History: 1941, Act 250, Imd. Eff. June 16, 1941 ;-- CL 1948, 125.922
MI Comp L § 125.941 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 125 - Planning, Housing, and Zoning|Act 208 of 1949 - Neighborhood Area Improvements (125.941 - 125.952)|Section 125.941 - Neighborhood Areas in Municipalities; Improvement, Declared to Be Public Use and Public Purpose.

125.941 Neighborhood areas in municipalities; improvement, declared to be public use and public purpose. Sec. 1.  It is hereby found and declared that many residential neighborhood areas in the municipalities of this state are in danger of becoming blighted, with the consequent impairment of taxable values upon which in large part, municipal revenues depend; that such areas can prove detrimental or inimical to the health, safety, morals and general welfare of the citizens and to the economic welfare of the municipality; that in order to improve and maintain the general character of the municipality, it may be necessary to improve, or better, such areas; that the conditions found in such areas cannot be efficiently and economically remedied, with due regard to the general welfare of the public, without public participation in the planning, property acquisition and disposal, and the financing thereof; that the purposes of this act are to improve such areas by acquiring and developing properties within such areas for the protection of the health, safety, morals and general welfare of the municipality, to preserve existing values of other properties within or adjacent to such areas, and to preserve the taxable value of the property within such areas; and the necessity in the public interest for provisions herein enacted is hereby declared as a matter of legislative determination to be a public use and a public purpose. History: 1949, Act 208, Eff. Sept. 23, 1949
MI Comp L § 125.944 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 125 - Planning, Housing, and Zoning|Act 208 of 1949 - Neighborhood Area Improvements (125.941 - 125.952)|Section 125.944 - Acquisition of Property; Condemnation; Proceedings Under Eminent Domain.

125.944 Acquisition of property; condemnation; proceedings under eminent domain.Sec. 4.  (1) For the accomplishment of the purposes of this act, the municipality may acquire fee simple title in real property by purchase, gift, or exchange and may acquire under this act title to blighted property by condemnation. The municipality shall then apply that blighted property acquired by condemnation under this act and other real property acquired by other means to the expressed purposes of this act.  (2) By authority of this act for blighted property, or by authority of other state law authorizing the condemnation of property for other public uses, the local legislative body may institute and prosecute proceedings under the power of eminent domain in accordance with the state constitution of 1963 and the laws of the state or provisions of any local charter relative to condemnation. History: 1949, Act 208, Eff. Sept. 23, 1949 ;-- Am. 2006, Act 676, Imd. Eff. Jan. 10, 2007
MI Comp L § 125.945 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 125 - Planning, Housing, and Zoning|Act 208 of 1949 - Neighborhood Area Improvements (125.941 - 125.952)|Section 125.945 - Neighborhood Areas in Municipalities; Transfers to Public Agencies; Excess Land Sold or Exchanged; Special Assessment District.

125.945 Neighborhood areas in municipalities; transfers to public agencies; excess land sold or exchanged; special assessment district.  Sec. 5.  After the acquisition of the real property such property as will be used by public agencies shall be transferred to or placed under the jurisdiction of the appropriate public agencies for public use as defined in this act. The remainder of the land which, in accordance with the betterment plan, is to be devoted to private uses shall be sold or exchanged to individuals, companies, or corporations, whose use of such property shall be in accordance with the limitations and conditions provided in the development plan. If the cost and expense of acquiring and altering, removing or demolishing real property is assessed against a special district, the proceeds from the sale of any remainder shall be credited to the special assessment roll.  Any such sale or exchange may be made without public bidding but only after public hearing by the legislative body upon the proposed sale or exchange and the provisions thereof. The sale or exchange shall be under terms fixed by the legislative body and shall contain provisions that the betterment plan for the property be carried out. History: 1949, Act 208, Eff. Sept. 23, 1949
MI Comp L § 125.946 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 125 - Planning, Housing, and Zoning|Act 208 of 1949 - Neighborhood Area Improvements (125.941 - 125.952)|Section 125.946 - Repealed. 1957, Act 298, Eff. Sept. 27, 1957.

125.946 Repealed. 1957, Act 298, Eff. Sept. 27, 1957. Compiler's Notes: The repealed section pertained to neighborhood area improvements, financing, special assessment districts.