Michigan Statutes

Chapter 41 - TOWNSHIPS

Act 27 of 1960 - Repealed-RETIREMENT SYSTEMS AND GROUP INSURANCE FOR OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES (41.901 - 41.905)
Act 28 of 1923 - Repealed-TOWNSHIP FIRE PROTECTION (41.301 - 41.305)
Act 28 of 1968 - Repealed-ADVERTISING TOWNSHIP (41.991 - 41.991)
Act 29 of 1937 - Repealed-TOWNSHIP FUNDS; UNEXPENDED BALANCES (41.161 - 41.163)
Act 33 of 1951 - POLICE AND FIRE PROTECTION (41.801 - 41.813)
- Section 41.801 - Purchase of police and fire motor vehicles, apparatus, equipment, and housing; appropriation; special assessment; bonds; election; estimate of cost and expenses; special assessment di
- Section 41.802 - Annual appropriation.
- Section 41.803 - Proceedings relating to making, levying, and collection of special assessments, and to issuing bonds; payment of special assessments and special assessment bonds.
- Section 41.804 - Fire protection; referendum, special election, laws governing.
- Section 41.805 - Fire protection ordinances and standard fire prevention codes; adoption, publication.
- Section 41.806 - Police and fire departments; contracts for service or for maintenance and operation of equipment; delegation of powers; agreements to furnish protection to city, village, or other tow
- Section 41.806a - Emergency police or fire service; emergency ambulance and inhalator service; ordinance authorizing collection of fees.
- Section 41.807 - Repeals.
- Section 41.808 - Rights or obligations safeguarded.
- Section 41.809 - Joint meetings of township boards.
- Section 41.810 - Fire protection for townships, villages, and qualified cities; "qualified city" defined.
- Section 41.811 - Joint administrative board; creation; appointment, qualifications, and terms of members; compensation and expenses; vacancy; additional member; election of chairperson and vice-chairp
- Section 41.812 - Administrative board; appointment, qualifications, and terms of members; vacancy; expenses; continuation of prior administrative board; annual budget; powers and functions; section su
- Section 41.813 - Traffic officers; employment; compensation; joint meeting to appoint traffic officer.
Act 35 of 1966 - Repealed-SIDEWALKS IN TOWNSHIPS (41.931 - 41.934)
Act 36 of 1933 - Repealed-TOWNSHIP POLLING PLACES IN CITIES (41.211 - 41.211)
Act 41 of 1955 - Repealed-WEED CONTROL IN INLAND LAKES (41.671 - 41.673)
Act 45 of 1941 - Repealed-TOWNSHIP BUILDINGS IN CITIES (41.221 - 41.221)
Act 47 of 1941 - Repealed-TOWNSHIP WATER SUPPLY CONTRACTS (41.351 - 41.356)
Act 50 of 1919 - Repealed-TRAFFIC OFFICERS (41.201 - 41.202)
Act 50 of 1960 - AMBULANCE AND INHALATOR SERVICE AND HOSPITAL SUPPORT (41.711 - 41.713)
- Section 41.711 - Ambulance and inhalator service.
- Section 41.711a - Ambulance personnel; emergency care, civil liability.
- Section 41.711b - Ambulance personnel; training, red cross first aid courses.
- Section 41.712 - Maintenance and support of hospital.
- 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
Act 51 of 1867 - Repealed-ADDITIONAL SURETIES FROM TOWNSHIP TREASURER (41.611 - 41.617)
Act 53 of 1921 - Repealed-RECREATION HALLS IN TOWNSHIPS (41.501 - 41.507)
Act 57 of 1951 - Repealed-POLICE OR FIRE ADMINISTRATIVE BOARD (41.751 - 41.753)
Act 67 of 1961 - Repealed-SIDEWALKS OUTSIDE CITIES AND VILLAGES (41.921 - 41.925)
Act 88 of 1919 - Repealed-TOWNSHIP WATER SUPPLY CONTRACTS (41.391 - 41.398)
Act 96 of 1951 - Repealed-WATER SERVICE FOR FIRE PROTECTION (41.831 - 41.841)
Act 97 of 1919 - Repealed-RECREATION HALLS IN TOWNSHIPS (41.531 - 41.535)
Act 97 of 1954 - Repealed-TOWNSHIP ATTORNEY (41.661 - 41.661)
Act 107 of 1941 - TOWNSHIP WATER SUPPLY AND SEWAGE DISPOSAL SERVICES AND FACILITIES (41.331 - 41.351z)
- Section 41.331 - Furnishing water to water supply district; petitions; contracts; terms and conditions.
- Section 41.332 - Water mains and fittings; purchase, installation, and maintenance.
- Section 41.333 - Water supply system; payment from contingent fund; limitations; separately financed and operated water supply system; map.
- Section 41.334 - Percentage of net cost remaining after application of MCL 41.333; payment.
- Section 41.335 - Tapping or making connection with mains of water supply district; payment; plan for financing, maintenance, and control of improvement.
- Section 41.335a - Township water board; establishment; powers; loans from private parties; retirement of loans.
- Section 41.336 - Publication of plan adopted under MCL 41.335.
- Section 41.337 - Failure to pay percentage of net cost remaining after application of MCL 41.333; refund of money previously deposited.
- Section 41.338 - Installation of improvement by township board; loan.
- Section 41.339 - Excess money; deposit in contingent fund; applicability of section.
- Section 41.340 - Maintenance and use of mains and fittings of water supply district; control by township board; amendment of rules and regulations; notice; publication.
- Section 41.341 - Water mains extended or installed in accordance with similar plan; control by township board; rules and regulations; publication; amendment or alteration; notice.
- Section 41.342 - Definitions.
- Section 41.343 - Township water supply and sewage disposal system; loan from corporation; bonds.
- Section 41.344 - Contract for issuance and delivery of negotiable revenue bonds; interest, terms, and conditions.
- Section 41.345 - Exercise of power by ordinance; incorporation and publication of contract as part of ordinance.
- Section 41.346 - Statutory lien upon net revenues; net revenues as trust funds.
- Section 41.347 - Duration and enforcement of statutory lien.
- Section 41.348 - Default in payment of principal or interest on bond; appointment and powers of receiver.
- Section 41.349 - Payment of principal and interest on bonds solely from net revenues; bond or coupon not general obligation or indebtedness; registration.
- Section 41.350 - Operation or maintenance of public improvement; appropriation to pay expenses.
- Section 41.350a - Powers conferred by MCL 41.331 to 41.350.
- Section 41.350b - Water service for fire protection within district; special assessment; resolution.
- Section 41.350c - Contents of resolution required by MCL 41.350b.
- Section 41.350d - Annual fire protection cost; payment.
- Section 41.350e - Fixing date for public hearing.
- Section 41.350f - Preparation and levy of assessment; report.
- Section 41.350g - Making assessment on special assessment roll or on regular township tax roll; due date; collection; return for nonpayment.
- Section 41.350h - Conducting business at public meeting; notice.
- Section 41.350i - Public hearing; objections; determination; equitable change.
- Section 41.350j - Review, correction, and confirmation of assessment roll; collection.
- Section 41.350k - Annual determination of amount to be assessed; levy; additional hearings.
- Section 41.350m - Acquisition and installation of water supply facilities; borrowing money and issuing notes.
- Section 41.350n - Provisions to which transaction authorized by MCL 41.350m subject.
- Section 41.350o - Notes issued under MCL 41.350m.
- Section 41.350p - Pledge of sales tax money by ordinance.
- Section 41.350q - Withholding and paying lender constitutionally allocated money.
- Section 41.350r - Exercise of powers by ordinance; procedure.
- Section 41.350s - Effective date of ordinance authorized by MCL 41.350r; petition; election.
- Section 41.350t - Powers cumulative.
- Section 41.350u - Violation of MCL 168.1 to 168.992 applicable to petitions; penalties.
- Section 41.351z - Repealed. 1989, Act 83, Imd. Eff. June 20, 1989.
Act 116 of 1923 - TOWNSHIP AND VILLAGE PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT AND PUBLIC SERVICE ACT (41.411 - 41.419)
- Section 41.411 - Township board, common council, or board of trustees of incorporated village; powers and duties; short title.
- Section 41.412 - Special assessment district; creation, enlargement, and discontinuance; petitions; assessment.
- Section 41.413 - Cost of proposed improvement or service; special assessment bonds; special assessment taxes; proceedings; insufficiency of special assessment fund; advancement of township funds; reim
- Section 41.413a - Waterworks; control and operation; election and terms of members of board of public service commissioners; vacancy; member as resident of district; “annual township election” defined
- Section 41.413b - Lighting in residential areas; special assessments; basis.
- Section 41.414 - Special assessment installments; limitations; collection; appeal; tapping works to supply water outside of village or district; restrictions; special assessment after December 31, 199
- Section 41.415 - Special assessments levied against platted corner lots; payment by township.
- Section 41.416 - Borrowing money; motion; application; referendum; issuing bonds; use of money borrowed.
- Section 41.416a - Requirements of application filed pursuant to MCL 41.416; resolution; submission of proposition to electors of township; ballot; notices; calling special election.
- Section 41.416b - Conduct of election; canvass of vote.
- Section 41.416c - Issuance and sale of bonds in conformity with revised municipal finance act.
- Section 41.416d - Levy and collection of tax.
- Section 41.416e - Tax for maintenance, upkeep, or repair of public buildings.
- Section 41.416f - Library.
- Section 41.417 - Use of building by township for public purposes where real property becomes part of incorporated village or city.
- Section 41.417a - Township or village scales.
- Section 41.418 - Weed control.
- Section 41.418a - Control of weeds in inland public lakes.
- Section 41.418b - Use of pesticide for weed control in inland lake; “pesticide” defined.
- Section 41.419 - Spraying of trees or shrubs.
Act 122 of 1915 - Repealed-INTEREST BEARING ORDERS (41.151 - 41.151)
Act 123 of 1917 - Repealed-TOWNSHIP SCALES (41.491 - 41.491)
Act 130 of 1915 - Repealed-SURETY BONDS; COST (41.601 - 41.601)
Act 140 of 1963 - Repealed-BILLIARD AND POOL ROOMS (41.561 - 41.562)
Act 144 of 1949 - Repealed-HOSPITAL MAINTENANCE AND SUPPORT (41.701 - 41.701)
Act 144 of 1969 - Repealed-CODIFICATION AND PUBLICATION OF ORDINANCES (41.641 - 41.641)
Act 151 of 1931 - Repealed-FIRE PROTECTION FOR ADJOINING TOWNSHIPS (41.321 - 41.323)
Act 157 of 1867 - Repealed-TOWNSHIP BUILDINGS (41.231 - 41.232)
Act 157 of 1905 - TOWNSHIP PARKS AND PLACES OF RECREATION (41.421 - 41.429)
- Section 41.421 - Township parks; acquisition; control by board of commissioners; condemnation of land.
- Section 41.422 - Place of recreation; adoption of rules and regulations by board of commissioners; violation as misdemeanor; recreational trailway; posting of regulations; prohibited operation of vehi
- Section 41.423 - Board of commissioners; election of officers; employees; record of transactions; treasurer, bond.
- Section 41.424 - Township parks; plan for acquisition, specifications; referendum, adoption, record.
- Section 41.425 - Exemption from taxation.
- Section 41.425a - Violation of MCL 168.1 to 168.992 applicable to petitions; penalties.
- Section 41.426 - Township park commission; petition; election; membership; terms; increase or decrease in number of members; vacancy.
- Section 41.426a - Township park commission; authority generally.
- Section 41.426b - Township park commission; compensation of members; employment of clerical assistance; expenses.
- Section 41.426c - Budget; limitation; assessment, levy, and collection of tax.
- Section 41.426d - Township bonds; acquisition of lands for parks and places of recreation; payment.
- Section 41.426e - Sale or conveyance of portions of land not needed.
- Section 41.426f - Annual report.
- Section 41.426g - Township park commission; dissolution; procedures.
- Section 41.426h - Township park commission; dissolution; validation; ratification.
- Section 41.427 - Conveyances to and duties of board of county park trustees.
- Section 41.428 - Appropriation; purpose; contribution to park commission.
- Section 41.429 - Wharves, piers, docks, and landing places.
Act 162 of 1915 - Repealed-BILLIARD AND POOL ROOMS (41.541 - 41.543)
Act 168 of 1877 - Repealed-ADMINISTRATION OF OATHS BY SUPERVISORS (41.651 - 41.651)
Act 168 of 1931 - Repealed-TOWNSHIP BOARD MEETINGS (41.121 - 41.123)
Act 181 of 1937 - Repealed-TOWNSHIP FIRE PROTECTION (41.311 - 41.316a)
Act 181 of 1951 - Repealed-POLICE PROTECTION (41.851 - 41.856)
Act 188 of 1954 - PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS (41.721 - 41.738)
- Section 41.721 - Public improvements by township board; bonds; special assessments to defray costs.
- Section 41.721a - “Record owner” defined.
- Section 41.722 - Types of improvements authorized; approval; conditions.
- Section 41.723 - Written objections; petition; filing; signatures; determining record owners; determining sufficiency of petition; supplement to petition; validity of signatures.
- Section 41.724 - Plans; cost estimate; resolution; designation of special assessment district; hearing; notice; periodic redeterminations of cost; objections; adding property to special assessment dis
- Section 41.724a - Notice of hearings in special assessment proceedings.
- Section 41.725 - Approval or determination by township board; levy of special assessment.
- Section 41.726 - Filing and review of special assessment roll; hearing; notice; adjournments; objections; confirmation, referral, or annulment; endorsement; finality; action contesting assessment.
- Section 41.727 - Payment of special assessments in installments; amount of installment; extension; due dates; interest on unpaid installments; payment of future due installments; delinquent installmen
- Section 41.728 - Special assessments to constitute lien; character and effect.
- Section 41.729 - Special assessments; collection by township treasurer, report of delinquencies.
- Section 41.729a - Deferred assessment; application; evidence of hardship; ordinance; deferred assessment as recorded lien.
- Section 41.730 - Special assessments; delinquencies, reassessment.
- Section 41.731 - Division of lands; apportionment of uncollected assessments.
- Section 41.732 - Special assessment roll; insufficiency, additional pro rata assessments; surplus, refunds.
- Section 41.733 - Illegal special assessment; reassessment proceedings.
- Section 41.734 - Exempt corporations; agreement to pay assessment.
- Section 41.734a - Assessment on platted corner lots; payment of portion by governing body.
- Section 41.735 - Bonds.
- Section 41.735a - Township improvement revolving fund; advances; interest.
- Section 41.735b - Township improvement revolving fund; transfer of funds; amount.
- Section 41.735c - Special assessments to defray certain obligations.
- Section 41.736 - Public improvements; powers granted to townships.
- Section 41.737 - Scope of act.
- Section 41.738 - Use of interest earned from investments, money from bond proceeds, or money from interest and penalties on unpaid special assessment.
Act 191 of 1939 - Repealed-PUBLICATION OF TOWNSHIP ORDINANCES (41.191 - 41.192)
Act 194 of 1929 - Repealed-DEFICIENCY IN SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS (41.141 - 41.141)
Act 195 of 1959 - Repealed-DUTCH ELM DISEASE (41.681 - 41.681)
Act 200 of 1849 - Repealed-EMERGENCY EXPENSES (41.131 - 41.131)
Act 203 of 1957 - Repealed-STREET MAINTENANCE EQUIPMENT (41.291 - 41.291)
Act 207 of 1953 - Repealed-WATER SUPPLY CONTRACTS (41.871 - 41.878)
Act 210 of 1911 - Repealed-BILLIARD AND POOL ROOMS (41.551 - 41.552)
Act 221 of 1931 - Repealed-LIGHTING OF HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES (41.261 - 41.262)
Act 246 of 1931 - PAVEMENTS, SIDEWALKS, AND ELEVATED STRUCTURES (41.271 - 41.290)
- Section 41.271 - Pavements or sidewalks; application by petition; eligibility of signers, certificate of tax status; authority of county road commissioners; highway or public highway, definition.
- Section 41.271a - Pavements or sidewalks; application by resolution of township board; declaration of necessity, public hearing; petition for discontinuance.
- Section 41.272 - Pavements or sidewalks; survey, plat; adoption of materials, grade and manner of construction by county road commissioners.
- Section 41.273 - Bridges, drains, curbing, culverts and additional rights of way; deemed part of improvement.
- Section 41.274 - Pavements or sidewalks; first order of determination, specifications, description of assessment district by county road commissioners; location along state trunk line, approval by sta
- Section 41.275 - Pavements or sidewalks; hearing of objections, notice, contents; change in specifications or boundaries of assessment district, new hearing.
- Section 41.276 - Pavements or sidewalks; liability of petitioners.
- Section 41.277 - Pavements or sidewalks; final order of determination, attachment of specifications.
- Section 41.278 - Contracts for construction of improvement; bids, notice, procedure; commencement of construction.
- Section 41.279 - Special assessment district; determination, announcement, addition of lands; determination of installments.
- Section 41.280 - Assessment of benefits against township and parcels of land; review; assessment against state lands; numbering of districts.
- Section 41.281 - Creation of indebtedness; approval by township board; limitation on issue of township bonds.
- Section 41.282 - Maintenance and repair of improvement; proration of expense of joint improvement.
- Section 41.283 - Proceedings governed by MCL 247.418 to 247.481; records; reports.
- Section 41.283a - Bonds; issuance and sale; full faith and credit; assessment district sinking fund; bonds subject to revised municipal finance act.
- Section 41.284 - Advancement of county road funds; reimbursement by township.
- Section 41.285 - County board of supervisors; appropriation of funds for advancement; establishment of revolving fund.
- Section 41.286 - Hearing examiners; powers and duties; determination of board of county road commissioners, petition for reconsideration, filing; notice, hearing.
- Section 41.287 - Validation of prior actions, special assessments, and bonds.
- Section 41.288 - Installation of sidewalks and elevated structures; payment; contracts; approval.
- Section 41.288a - Sidewalk construction, repair, or maintenance; order; meeting; notice; assessment of costs; approval; election.
- Section 41.288b - Public street cleaning vehicles and snow removal equipment.
- Section 41.289 - Lighting of roads, highways, and bridges generally.
- Section 41.289a - Lighting of roads, highways, and bridges; supervision; contracts.
- Section 41.289b - Expenses for lighting highways; special assessment; hearing; notice.
- Section 41.289c - Assessment in district for lighting roads, highways, and bridges.
- Section 41.289d - Relieving district of duty to light streets or highways.
- Section 41.290 - Lighting county roads, highways, and bridges; expense; contracts; extension of lines or service; payment; statement and budget; apportionment of sum required; tax; lighting state trun
Act 246 of 1945 - TOWNSHIP ORDINANCES (41.181 - 41.187)
- Section 41.181 - Adoption of ordinances by township board.
- Section 41.182 - Repealed. 1989, Act 78, Imd. Eff. June 20, 1989.
- Section 41.183 - Sanctions for violations; designation of violation as civil infraction; civil fine; penalty; act or omission constituting crime; institution of action in district court; distribution
- Section 41.183a - Recreational trailway; posting of ordinance; prohibited operation of vehicle as municipal civil infraction.
- Section 41.184 - Township ordinance; effective date; publication; adoption by reference.
- Section 41.185 - Township ordinance; recording and filing requirements; fees.
- Section 41.186 - Codifying, recodifying, and continuing ordinances in code; publication of ordinance adopting code and subsequent ordinance; amending, repealing, revising, or rearranging ordinances by
- Section 41.187 - Employment, duties, and compensation of attorney.
Act 251 of 1957 - Repealed-SIDEWALKS ALONG HIGHWAYS (41.401 - 41.402)
Act 262 of 1897 - Repealed-TOWNSHIP FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (41.171 - 41.173)
Act 264 of 1917 - Repealed-LIGHTING OF HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES (41.251 - 41.257)
Act 271 of 1931 - Repealed-TOWNSHIP PARK COMMISSION (41.441 - 41.446)
Act 286 of 1923 - Repealed-WHARFS, PIERS, AND DOCKS (41.481 - 41.482)
Act 300 of 1939 - Repealed-TOWNSHIP PARKS (41.431 - 41.431)
Act 307 of 1941 - Repealed-TOWNSHIP PARK, CITY, OR VILLAGE APPROPRIATION (41.461 - 41.461)
Act 381 of 1927 - Repealed-TOWN HALL AND OTHER BUILDINGS (41.241 - 41.247)
R.S. of 1846 - Revised Statutes of 1846 (41.1 - 41.110c)