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MI Comp L § 41.429 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 41 - Townships|Act 157 of 1905 - Township Parks and Places of Recreation (41.421 - 41.429)|Section 41.429 - Wharves, Piers, Docks, and Landing Places.

41.429 Wharves, piers, docks, and landing places. Sec. 9.  (1) A township abutting upon navigable waters in this state may acquire, construct, and maintain wharves, piers, docks, and landing places for the use and benefit of the public and may lease and control the wharves, piers, docks, and landing places. The township board shall act for the township in acquiring, constructing, and maintaining wharves, piers, docks, and landing places if authorized to do so by the affirmative vote of 3/5 of the registered voters of the township voting on the question at a general or special election.  (2) Proceedings taken under this section shall be taken by the township board, which has the power and authority usually exercised by the board of county road commissioners of the township in acquiring land for laying out, constructing, and maintaining highways. The township board may acquire land for wharves, piers, docks, and landing places and lay out, construct, and maintain these in accordance with the same proceedings, so far as applicable, as are required to be taken by the board of county road commissioners of the township for acquiring land and constructing and maintaining highways. Act No. 283 of the Public Acts of 1909, being sections 220.1 to 239.6 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, is extended to include wharves, piers, docks, and landing places, subject to the provisions contained in this section. History: Add. 1989, Act 79, Imd. Eff. June 20, 1989
MI Comp L § 41.711 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 41 - Townships|Act 50 of 1960 - Ambulance and Inhalator Service and Hospital Support (41.711 - 41.713)|Section 41.711 - Ambulance and Inhalator Service.

41.711 Ambulance and inhalator service. Sec. 1.  The township board of a township or the county board of commissioners may operate or join with another municipality or contract with individuals, firms, organizations, or corporations in operating or furnishing an ambulance and inhalator service for the use and benefit of the residents of the township or county. The service by the township or the county may be in connection with fire protection service or as a separate operation. History: 1960, Act 50, Imd. Eff. Apr. 19, 1960 ;-- Am. 1967, Act 217, Imd. Eff. July 10, 1967 ;-- Am. 1968, Act 163, Imd. Eff. June 17, 1968 ;-- Am. 1989, Act 84, Imd. Eff. June 20, 1989
MI Comp L § 41.711a (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 41 - Townships|Act 50 of 1960 - Ambulance and Inhalator Service and Hospital Support (41.711 - 41.713)|Section 41.711a - Ambulance Personnel; Emergency Care, Civil Liability.

41.711a Ambulance personnel; emergency care, civil liability. Sec. 1a.  Any municipal or private ambulance driver or attendant or policeman or fireman engaged in emergency first aid service, who, in good faith renders emergency care at the scene of an emergency, shall not be liable for any civil damages as a result of acts or omissions in rendering the emergency care, except acts or omissions constituting gross negligence or wilful and wanton misconduct. History: Add. 1967, Act 217, Imd. Eff. July 10, 1967 ;-- Am. 1968, Act 163, Imd. Eff. June 17, 1968
MI Comp L § 41.711b (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 41 - Townships|Act 50 of 1960 - Ambulance and Inhalator Service and Hospital Support (41.711 - 41.713)|Section 41.711b - Ambulance Personnel; Training, Red Cross First Aid Courses.

41.711b Ambulance personnel; training, red cross first aid courses. Sec. 1b.  The municipality, person, firm, organization or corporation employing any ambulance driver, attendant, policeman or fireman engaged in performing emergency first aid service, shall require that they pass a red cross first aid course before they shall be entitled to the protection of this act. History: Add. 1967, Act 217, Imd. Eff. July 10, 1967 ;-- Am. 1968, Act 163, Imd. Eff. June 17, 1968
MI Comp L § 41.712 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 41 - Townships|Act 50 of 1960 - Ambulance and Inhalator Service and Hospital Support (41.711 - 41.713)|Section 41.712 - Maintenance and Support of Hospital.

41.712 Maintenance and support of hospital. Sec. 2.  A township board may, by majority vote, pay from unexpended balances in its contingent fund to any hospital a sum that fairly represents the reasonable share of the township in the maintenance and support of the hospital whose facilities are made available to the residents of the township at standard rates. However, the hospital and township board shall agree upon the number of residents of the township to which the hospital shall make facilities available during each year. History: Add. 1989, Act 84, Imd. Eff. June 20, 1989
MI Comp L § 41.713 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 41 - Townships|Act 50 of 1960 - Ambulance and Inhalator Service and Hospital Support (41.711 - 41.713)|Section 41.713 - Operating Medical Clinic and Providing Primary Health Care Services; Financing; Question Submitted to Electors; Conducting Election and Canvassing Vote; Validity of Certain Elections and Levy of Tax.

41.713 Operating medical clinic and providing primary health care services; financing; question submitted to electors; conducting election and canvassing vote; validity of certain elections and levy of tax. Sec. 3.  (1) A township, alone or in conjunction with 1 or more other townships, may operate a medical clinic and provide primary health care services.   (2) A township board may finance the operation of a medical clinic and the provision of primary health care service by any lawful means, including, but not limited to, the levy of a tax of not more than 2 mills on taxable property within the township. If a township board desires to levy a tax under this subsection, it shall submit the question of levying the tax to the electors of the township at a general or special election. The question submitted shall state the purpose of the tax, the number of mills to be levied, and the duration of the tax. The election shall be conducted and the vote shall be canvassed as provided in the Michigan election law, Act No. 116 of the Public Acts of 1954, being sections 168.1 to 168.992 of the Michigan Compiled Laws. If a majority of the electors voting on the question approve the levy of the tax, the township board is authorized to levy the tax.  (3) An election, held after September 30, 1991 and before December 21, 1991 in a township located on an island, in which the electors approved the levy of a tax for 5 years to finance the operation of a medical clinic and the provision of primary health care service by the township, alone or in conjunction with another township, for residents of the township or townships, is valid and the tax may be levied for that purpose. History: Add. 1993, Act 135, Imd. Eff. Aug. 2, 1992
MI Comp L § 41.721 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 41 - Townships|Act 188 of 1954 - Public Improvements (41.721 - 41.738)|Section 41.721 - Public Improvements by Township Board; Bonds; Special Assessments to Defray Costs.

41.721 Public improvements by township board; bonds; special assessments to defray costs. Sec. 1.  The township board has the power to make an improvement named in this act, to provide for the payment of an improvement by the issuance of bonds as provided in section 15, and to determine that the whole or any part of the cost of an improvement shall be defrayed by special assessments against the property especially benefited by the improvement. The cost of engineering services and all expenses incident to the proceedings for the making and financing of the improvement shall be deemed to be a part of the cost of the improvement.  History: 1954, Act 188, Imd. Eff. May 5, 1954 ;-- Am. 1974, Act 143, Imd. Eff. June 5, 1974 ;-- Am. 1986, Act 180, Imd. Eff. July 8, 1986
MI Comp L § 41.721a (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 41 - Townships|Act 188 of 1954 - Public Improvements (41.721 - 41.738)|Section 41.721a - “Record Owner” Defined.

41.721a “Record owner” defined.  Sec. 1a.  As used in this act, "record owner" means a person, sole proprietorship, partnership, association, firm, corporation, or other legal entity, possessed of the most recent fee title or a land contract vendee's interest in the land as shown by the records of the county register of deeds. History: Add. 1986, Act 180, Imd. Eff. July 8, 1986
MI Comp L § 41.723 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 41 - Townships|Act 188 of 1954 - Public Improvements (41.721 - 41.738)|Section 41.723 - Written Objections; Petition; Filing; Signatures; Determining Record Owners; Determining Sufficiency of Petition; Supplement to Petition; Validity of Signatures.

41.723 Written objections; petition; filing; signatures; determining record owners; determining sufficiency of petition; supplement to petition; validity of signatures. Sec. 3.  (1) The township board may proceed to carry out an improvement as provided in this act unless written objections to the improvement are filed with the township board at or before the hearing provided in section 4 by property owners as follows:  (a) For an improvement under section 2(1)(a), (b), (d), (e), (f), (h), (i), (j), (l), (n), or (o) by the record owners of land constituting more than 20% of the total land area in the proposed special assessment district.  (b) For an improvement under section 2(1)(c), (g), (k), or (m), by the record owners of land constituting more than 20% of the total frontage upon the road, bicycle path, or sidewalk.  (2) A township board may require the filing of a petition meeting the requirements of subsection (3) before proceeding with an improvement under this act.  (3) If written objections are filed as provided in subsection (1), or if the township board requires a petition before proceeding, the township board shall not proceed with the improvement until there is filed with the board a petition signed as follows:  (a) For an improvement under section 2(1)(a), (b), (d), (e), (f), (h), (i), (j), (l), (n), or (o) by the record owners of land constituting more than 50% of the total land area in the special assessment district as finally established by the township board.  (b) For an improvement under section 2(1)(c), (g), (k), or (m), by the record owners of land constituting more than 50% of the total frontage upon the road, bicycle path, or sidewalk.  (4) Record owners shall be determined by the records in the register of deeds' office as of the day of the filing of a petition, or if written objections are filed as provided in subsection (1), then on the day of the hearing. In determining the sufficiency of the petition, lands not subject to special assessment and lands within a public highway or alley shall not be included in computing frontage or an assessment district area. A filed petition may be supplemented as to signatures by the filing of an additional signed copy or copies of the petition. The validity of the signatures on a supplemental petition shall be determined by the records as of the day of filing the supplemental petition. History: 1954, Act 188, Imd. Eff. May 5, 1954 ;-- Am. 1957, Act 187, Imd. Eff. June 4, 1957 ;-- Am. 1961, Act 143, Eff. Sept. 8, 1961 ;-- Am. 1976, Act 113, Imd. Eff. May 14, 1976 ;-- Am. 1976, Act 148, Imd. Eff. June 16, 1976 ;-- Am. 1976, Act 332, Imd. Eff. Dec. 15, 1976 ;-- Am. 1986, Act 180, Imd. Eff. July 8, 1986 ;-- Am. 1995, Act 139, Imd. Eff. July 10, 1995
MI Comp L § 41.725 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 41 - Townships|Act 188 of 1954 - Public Improvements (41.721 - 41.738)|Section 41.725 - Approval or Determination by Township Board; Levy of Special Assessment.

41.725 Approval or determination by township board; levy of special assessment. Sec. 5.  (1) If, after the hearing provided for in section 4, the township board desires to proceed with the improvement, the township board shall approve or determine by resolution all of the following:  (a) The completion of the improvement.  (b) The plans and estimate of cost as originally presented or as revised, corrected, amended, or changed.  (c) The sufficiency of the petition for the improvement if a petition is required. After this determination, the sufficiency of the petition is not subject to attack except in an action brought in a court of competent jurisdiction within 30 days after the adoption of the resolution determining the sufficiency of the petition.   (d) The special assessment district including the term of the special assessment district's existence. If the nature of the improvement to be made is such that a periodic redetermination of cost will be necessary without a change in the special assessment district boundaries, the township board shall state that in the resolution and shall set the dates when the redeterminations shall be made. After finally determining the special assessment district, the township board shall direct the supervisor to make a special assessment roll in which are entered and described all the parcels of land to be assessed, with the names of the respective record owners of each parcel, if known, and the total amount to be assessed against each parcel of land, which amount shall be the relative portion of the whole sum to be levied against all parcels of land in the special assessment district as the benefit to the parcel of land bears to the total benefit to all parcels of land in the special assessment district. When the supervisor completes the assessment roll, the supervisor shall affix to the roll his or her certificate stating that the roll was made pursuant to a resolution of the township board adopted on a specified date, and that in making the assessment roll the supervisor, according to his or her best judgment, has conformed in all respects to the directions contained in the resolution and the statutes of this state.  (2) After December 31, 1998, an ad valorem special assessment levied under this act shall be levied on the taxable value of the property assessed.   (3) If the levy of an ad valorem special assessment on the property's taxable value is found to be invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, the levy of the ad valorem special assessment shall be levied on the property's state equalized value.  (4) As used in this section and section 15b, "taxable value" means that value determined under section 27a of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211.27a. History: 1954, Act 188, Imd. Eff. May 5, 1954 ;-- Am. 1974, Act 143, Imd. Eff. June 5, 1974 ;-- Am. 1986, Act 180, Imd. Eff. July 8, 1986 ;-- Am. 1998, Act 544, Imd. Eff. Jan. 20, 1999
MI Comp L § 41.726 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 41 - Townships|Act 188 of 1954 - Public Improvements (41.721 - 41.738)|Section 41.726 - Filing and Review of Special Assessment Roll; Hearing; Notice; Adjournments; Objections; Confirmation, Referral, or Annulment; Endorsement; Finality; Action Contesting Assessment.

41.726 Filing and review of special assessment roll; hearing; notice; adjournments; objections; confirmation, referral, or annulment; endorsement; finality; action contesting assessment. Sec. 6.  (1) When a special assessment roll is reported by the supervisor to the township board, the assessment roll shall be filed in the office of the township clerk. Before confirming the assessment roll, the township board shall appoint a time and place when it will meet, review, and hear any objections to the assessment roll. The township board shall give notice of the hearing and the filing of the assessment roll as required by section 4a.  (2) A hearing under this section may be adjourned from time to time without further notice. A person objecting to the assessment roll shall file the objection in writing with the township clerk before the close of the hearing or within such further time as the township board may grant. After the hearing the township board, at the same or at a subsequent meeting, may confirm the special assessment roll as reported to the township board by the supervisor or as amended or corrected by the township board; may refer the assessment roll back to the supervisor for revision; or may annul it and direct a new roll to be made.   (3) If a special assessment roll is confirmed, the township clerk shall endorse on the assessment roll the date of the confirmation. After the confirmation of the special assessment roll, all assessments on that assessment roll shall be final and conclusive unless an action contesting an assessment is filed in a court of competent jurisdiction within 30 days after the date of confirmation. History: 1954, Act 188, Imd. Eff. May 5, 1954 ;-- Am. 1974, Act 143, Imd. Eff. June 5, 1974 ;-- Am. 1986, Act 180, Imd. Eff. July 8, 1986
MI Comp L § 41.728 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 41 - Townships|Act 188 of 1954 - Public Improvements (41.721 - 41.738)|Section 41.728 - Special Assessments to Constitute Lien; Limitation; Character and Effect.

41.728 Special assessments to constitute lien; limitation; character and effect.Sec. 8.  (1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2), all special assessments contained in any special assessment roll shall, from the date of confirmation of that roll, constitute a lien upon the respective parcels of property assessed.   (2) If the township board provides that a special assessment is payable in installments under section 7(1), the amount of any lien on the parcel of property assessed for that special assessment is limited to each individual installment and shall not attach to the property assessed until that individual installment is due as provided in section 7(2).  (3) A lien for a special assessment under this act shall be of the same character and effect as a lien created for township taxes and shall include accrued interest and penalties.  (4) No judgment or decree or any act of the township board vacating a special assessment shall destroy or impair a lien of the township upon the property assessed for the amount of the assessment that may be equitably charged against that property, or through a regular mode of proceeding may be lawfully assessed on that property. History: 1954, Act 188, Imd. Eff. May 5, 1954 ;-- Am. 2014, Act 561, Imd. Eff. Jan 15, 2015
MI Comp L § 41.729 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 41 - Townships|Act 188 of 1954 - Public Improvements (41.721 - 41.738)|Section 41.729 - Special Assessments; Collection by Township Treasurer, Report of Delinquencies.

41.729 Special assessments; collection by township treasurer, report of delinquencies. Sec. 9.  When any special assessment roll shall be confirmed the township board shall direct the assessments made therein to be collected. The township clerk shall thereupon deliver to the township treasurer such special assessment roll, to which he shall attach his warrant commanding the township treasurer to collect the assessments therein in accordance with the directions of the township board in respect thereto. Said warrant shall further require the township treasurer on the 1st day of September following the date when any such assessments or any part thereof have become due to submit to the township board a sworn statement setting forth the names of the persons delinquent, if known, a description of the parcels of land upon which there are delinquent assessments and the amount of such delinquency, including accrued interest and penalties computed to September 1 of such year. Upon receiving such special assessment roll and warrant the treasurer shall proceed to collect the several amounts assessed therein as the same shall become due. History: 1954, Act 188, Imd. Eff. May 5, 1954
MI Comp L § 41.729a (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 41 - Townships|Act 188 of 1954 - Public Improvements (41.721 - 41.738)|Section 41.729a - Deferred Assessment; Application; Evidence of Hardship; Ordinance; Deferred Assessment as Recorded Lien.

41.729a Deferred assessment; application; evidence of hardship; ordinance; deferred assessment as recorded lien.Sec. 9a.  (1) An owner of property who by reason of hardship is unable to contribute to the cost of an assessment for an improvement authorized in section 2(1)(a), (b), (c), (g), (h), or (n) may have the assessment deferred by application to the assessing officer. Upon receipt of evidence of hardship, the township may defer partial or total payment of the assessment.   (2) The township board may enact an ordinance to define hardship and to permit deferred or partial payment of an assessment pursuant to this section. As a condition of granting the deferred or partial payment of an assessment, the township board shall require that any deferred assessment constitute a recorded lien against the property, subject to section 8(2). History: Add. 1976, Act 148, Imd. Eff. June 16, 1976 ;-- Am. 1995, Act 139, Imd. Eff. July 10, 1995 ;-- Am. 2014, Act 561, Imd. Eff. Jan. 15, 2015
MI Comp L § 41.730 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 41 - Townships|Act 188 of 1954 - Public Improvements (41.721 - 41.738)|Section 41.730 - Special Assessments; Delinquencies, Reassessment.

41.730 Special assessments; delinquencies, reassessment. Sec. 10.  In case the treasurer shall, as above provided, report as delinquent any assessment or part thereof, the township board shall certify the same to the supervisor, who shall reassess on the annual township tax roll of such year in a column headed "special assessments" the sum so delinquent, with interest and penalties to September 1 of such year, and an additional penalty of 6% of the total amount. Thereafter the statutes relating to township taxes shall be applicable to such reassessments. History: 1954, Act 188, Imd. Eff. May 5, 1954
MI Comp L § 41.731 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 41 - Townships|Act 188 of 1954 - Public Improvements (41.721 - 41.738)|Section 41.731 - Division of Lands; Apportionment of Uncollected Assessments.

41.731 Division of lands; apportionment of uncollected assessments. Sec. 11.  Should any parcel of land be divided after a special assessment thereon has been confirmed, and before the collection thereof, the township board may require the supervisor to apportion the uncollected amounts between the several divisions thereof and the report of such apportionment when confirmed by the township board shall be conclusive upon all parties: Provided, That if the interested parties do not agree in writing to such apportionment, then before such confirmation notice of hearing shall be given to all the interested parties, either by personal service or by publication as above provided in case of an original assessment roll. History: 1954, Act 188, Imd. Eff. May 5, 1954
MI Comp L § 41.732 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 41 - Townships|Act 188 of 1954 - Public Improvements (41.721 - 41.738)|Section 41.732 - Special Assessment Roll; Insufficiency, Additional Pro Rata Assessments; Surplus, Refunds.

41.732 Special assessment roll; insufficiency, additional pro rata assessments; surplus, refunds. Sec. 12.  Should the assessments in any special assessment roll prove insufficient for any reason, including the noncollection thereof, to pay for the improvement for which they were made or to pay the principal and interest on the bonds issued in anticipation of the collection thereof, then the township board shall make additional pro rata assessments to supply the deficiency, but the total amount assessed against any parcel of land shall not exceed the value of the benefits received from the improvement. Should the total amount collected on assessments prove larger than necessary by more than 5% of the original roll, then the surplus shall be prorated among the properties assessed in accordance with the amount assessed against each and applied toward the payment of the next township tax levied against such properties, respectively, or if there be no such tax then it shall be refunded to the persons who are the respective record owners of the properties on the date of the passage of the resolution ordering such refund. Any such surplus of 5% or less may be paid into the township contingent funds disposed of as above provided. History: 1954, Act 188, Imd. Eff. May 5, 1954