Title 41, TOWNSHIPS

Sec. 5. A person or property owner shall not tap or make a connection with the mains of a water supply district established under section 1 without having paid for the privilege. On compliance with the provisions of section 3, the township board shall promulgate and adopt, by res…

Sec. 5a. The township board may include, in its plan under section 5, rules and regulations for the establishment of a township water board and for loans to the water board from private parties of money necessary to aid in the financing of the project petitioned for under section…

Sec. 6. Immediately following adoption of the plan under section 5, it shall be published at full length by the township board once each week for 3 successive weeks in a newspaper circulating within the township in which the improvement petitioned for under section 1 is to be mad…

Sec. 7. If the percentage of the net cost remaining after application of section 3 is not, in pursuance of the plan under section 5, fully paid in to the township treasurer, by paid for connection rights as provided for in the plan or loans made in accordance with section 5a, or …

Sec. 8. If a sufficient number of private connection rights are timely paid for in accordance with the terms of the plan provided for by section 5, the township board shall immediately proceed to make and install the improvement petitioned for under section 1 and may, by resoluti…

Sec. 9. Money that is paid in to the township treasurer for private connection rights under section 5 on or before the date specified pursuant to section 5(b) which creates an excess over the percentage of the net cost remaining after application of section 3 and money that is pa…

Sec. 10. The township board has exclusive governing control over the maintenance and use of the mains and fittings of a water supply district established under section 1 and shall exercise this control in accordance with the terms of sections 1 to 20a and the rules and regulation…

Sec. 11. If water mains have been extended or installed in accordance with a plan substantially similar to that contemplated by section 5, the township board, subject to provisions of any contract that has been made with another township or a city, village, or authority for furni…

Sec. 12. As used in sections 1 to 20a: (a) "Township water supply district" means the portion of the township described in the petition required by section 1. (b) "Private connection" means the tapping of a main and the connection of the main with a nonpublic building or premises…

Sec. 13. A corporation proposing to locate and construct, in a township having no sewage disposal system and a water supply system installed before June 14, 1951 under the terms of sections 1 to 12 that is inadequate for domestic and proposed industrial or commercial requirements…

Sec. 14. A township borrowing pursuant to section 13 may enter into a contract with the corporation described in section 13 for the issuance and delivery to the corporation or its assigns of self-liquidating and fully negotiable revenue bonds for the repayment of the loan with in…

Sec. 15. The power conferred on a township by sections 13 and 14 shall be exercised by means of an ordinance adopted by the township board according to the procedure set forth in Act No. 191 of the Public Acts of 1939, being sections 41.191 to 41.192 of the Michigan Compiled Laws…

Sec. 16. There shall be created in an ordinance required by section 15 a lien, by this act made a statutory lien, upon the net revenues of the water supply and sewage disposal project authorized by section 13. The authorizing ordinance shall pledge the net revenues to the payment…

Sec. 17. The net revenues pledged pursuant to section 13 remain subject to the statutory lien required by section 16 until payment in full of the principal of and interest upon the revenue bonds issued under section 13. The holder or holders of the bonds representing in the aggre…

Sec. 18. If there is a default in the payment of the principal of or interest upon a bond issued under section 13, a court having jurisdiction in a proper action may appoint a receiver to do 1 or more of the following: (a) Administer and operate on behalf of the township, under t…

Sec. 19. The principal of and interest upon the bonds issued under section 13 are payable solely from net revenues derived from the operation of the water supply and sewage disposal system purchased, acquired, constructed, improved, enlarged, extended, or repaired from the procee…

Sec. 20. A township that borrows money under section 13 may appropriate and use revenues from a source other than the operation of the public improvement authorized by section 13 to pay expenses of operation or maintenance of the public improvement.

Sec. 20a. Sections 1 to 20 constitute a new and independent authority for the exercise of the powers granted in those sections. The powers conferred by sections 1 to 20 are not affected or limited by any other statute, except as expressly provided in those sections. Sections 1 to…

Sec. 20b. In a township where there are lands serviced by a water system financed by revenue bonds issued under the revenue bond act of 1933, Act No. 94 of the Public Acts of 1933, being sections 141.101 to 141.140 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, or by bonds issued under the count…

Sec. 20c. A resolution of the township board shall designate the boundaries of the special assessment district authorized by section 20b, estimate and determine the reasonable annual cost and value of the water service available for fire protection through fire hydrants and mains…

Sec. 20d. The township board may use unappropriated money in its general fund to pay for a portion of the annual fire protection cost described in section 20c, including money received under the provisions of sections 8 and 10 of article IX of the state constitution of 1963.

Sec. 20e. The township board shall fix a date for a public hearing upon the establishment of a special assessment district authorized by section 20b, the properties to be included in the district, the estimate of the reasonable cost and value of the fire protection afforded annua…

Sec. 20f. After fixing a date for a public hearing pursuant to section 20e, the township board shall direct that the assessment authorized by section 20b be prepared by the township supervisor, who shall levy the total sum estimated of fire protection benefit apportioned in accor…

Sec. 20g. The assessment authorized by section 20b may be made either on a special assessment roll or in a column provided for this purpose on the regular township tax roll. After the assessment has been confirmed, it shall become due and collected when other township taxes fall …

Sec. 20h. The business that the township board performs pursuant to sections 20b to 20k shall be conducted at a public meeting held in compliance with the open meetings act, Act No. 267 of the Public Acts of 1976, being sections 15.261 to 15.275 of the Michigan Compiled Laws. The…

Sec. 20i. The township board shall hold the public hearing required by section 20e and hear and consider all objections relative to the establishment of the special assessment district authorized by section 20b, the boundaries of the district, the properties to be included in the…

Sec. 20j. If the township board approves the establishment of a special assessment district authorized by section 20b, it shall review, correct, and confirm the assessment roll and direct that it be collected immediately in the same manner as township taxes.

Sec. 20k. After the creation of a special assessment district authorized by section 20b and while bonds are still outstanding, the township board may annually determine the amount to be assessed in the district and then levy that amount of annual assessments as special assessment…

Sec. 20l. The township board of a township may contract with another township or a city or village for the supplying of water to the township for fire protection and domestic purposes under terms and conditions agreed upon between the township board and the legislative body of th…

Sec. 20m. A township board may borrow money and issue notes for money necessary for acquisition and installation by the township of water supply facilities, including water mains and elevated water tanks, which are required of the township by the terms of a water supply contract …

Sec. 20n. A transaction authorized by section 20m is subject to the following provisions: (a) A note shall be payable in annual installments the aggregate of which does not exceed 10 and the first of which is due not later than August 1 after the calendar year in which the note i…

Sec. 20o. Notes issued under section 20m are subject to the revised municipal finance act, 2001 PA 34, MCL 141.2101 to 141.2821.

Sec. 20p. To secure repayment of a loan authorized by section 20m, the township board may pledge, by ordinance as provided in sections 20q to 20s, all or any specified portion of sales tax money to be received by the township under sections 8 and 10 of article IX of the state con…

Sec. 20q. An ordinance pledging sales tax money pursuant to section 20p may provide that the official charged with disbursement of sales tax money returnable to the township pursuant to sections 8 and 10 of article IX of the state constitution of 1963 shall withhold and pay to th…

Sec. 20r. By the affirmative vote of 2/3 of its members, the township board may adopt an ordinance relating to the exercise of the powers granted in sections 20l to 20t and to any other matter necessary or desirable to effectuate the full intent and purpose of sections 20 l to 20…

Sec. 20s. If, within 30 days after the date of publication of an ordinance authorized by section 20r, a petition signed by not less than 10% of the registered electors residing within the limits of the township is filed with the township clerk requesting a referendum upon the eff…

Sec. 20t. The powers granted to townships in sections 20l to 20s are granted in addition to those granted by other statutes.

Sec. 20u. A petition under section 20s, including the circulation and signing of the petition, is subject to section 488 of the Michigan election law, 1954 PA 116, MCL 168.488. A person who violates a provision of the Michigan election law, 1954 PA 116, MCL 168.1 to 168.992, appl…