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Mich. Comp. Laws § 108.6 Work done by board of public works; reports to council, contents; payment of claims.
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Sec. 6. All work done under the supervision of said board shall be reported to the council from time to time, and no money shall be paid out of the treasury on account of any work so done until the council shall have authorized the same and ordered the same paid by warrant drawn …
Mich. Comp. Laws § 108.7 Reports to council; expense estimate submitted to council, time.
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Sec. 7. On or before the first Monday of September, or on or before the first Monday of May in each year where the council has decided to have the taxes levied and collected in 2 installments as authorized in section 2 of chapter 30, the board of public works shall submit to the …
Mich. Comp. Laws § 108.8 Moneys received; disposition; statement, filing.
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Sec. 8. The board of public works shall on the first Monday of each month pay into the city treasury to the credit of the water, light, sewer or other fund, as the case may be, all moneys received by them and belonging to any such fund, and shall file a detailed statement thereof…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 108.9 Rate charges, payment; suit.
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Sec. 9. The board of public works may provide when and to whom all water and light rates, and other moneys collectible by them shall be paid, and what steps shall be taken to enforce payment thereof, and may provide in case of non-payment that such water, light or sewerage connec…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 109.1 Fire protection; ordinances and regulations; fire department, establishment.
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Sec. 1. The council of any city shall have power to enact such ordinances and establish and enforce such regulations as they shall deem necessary to guard against the occurrence of fires, and to protect the property and persons of the citizens against damage and accident resultin…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 109.10 Compensation of officers, fire fighters, and employees; compensation for injuries.
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Sec. 10. The officers, fire fighters, and employees of the department shall receive compensation as the council may provide. The council may provide suitable compensation for an injury to person or property which a fire fighter receives in consequence of the performance of the fi…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 109.11 Destruction of buildings at fires; damages, settlement; jury trial.
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Sec. 11. The engineer in charge of the department at any fire, with the concurrence of the mayor or any 2 aldermen, may cause any building to be pulled down or destroyed, when deemed necessary, in order to arrest the progress of the fire. Whenever any building is so pulled down o…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 109.12 Harbor fire ordinances.
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Sec. 12. The council of any city located upon any of the navigable waters of the state may, by ordinance, prescribe such regulations to be observed by owners, masters and employes of steamboats and water craft as may be necessary for the prevention of fires in the harbor, and to …
Mich. Comp. Laws § 109.2 Fire equipment; water supply.
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Sec. 2. The council may purchase and provide suitable fire engines and such other apparatus, instruments and means for the use of the department as may be deemed necessary for the extinguishment of fires; and may sink wells and construct cisterns and reservoirs in the streets, pu…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 109.3 Fire houses.
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Sec. 3. The council may also provide or erect all necessary and suitable buildings for keeping the engines, carriages, teams and fire apparatus of the department.
Mich. Comp. Laws § 109.4 Fire chief; duties; assistants.
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Sec. 4. The engineer of the fire department shall be the chief of the department, and, subject to the direction of the mayor, shall have the supervision and direction of the department and the care and management of the fire engines, apparatus and property, subject to such rules …
Mich. Comp. Laws § 109.5 Fire chief; power to command aid at fire; refusal, penalty.
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Sec. 5. The chief of the fire department, or other officer acting as such, may command any person present at a fire to aid in the extinguishment thereof and to assist in the protection of property thereat. If any person shall wilfully disobey any such lawful requirement or other …
Mich. Comp. Laws § 109.6 Fire wardens; appointment, duties.
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Sec. 6. The council may provide by ordinance for the appointment of, and may appoint, such number of fire wardens as may be deemed necessary; and for the examination by them, from time to time, of the stoves, furnaces and heating apparatus and devices in all the dwellings, buildi…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 109.7 Fire ordinances; limits on wooden structures, construction, regulation; escapes.
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Sec. 7. The council may prescribe by ordinance, from time to time, limits of districts within the city within which wooden buildings and structures shall not be erected, placed, enlarged or repaired; and to direct the manner of constructing buildings within such districts, with r…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 109.8 Trades within certain districts prohibited; combustibles, regulation.
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Sec. 8. The council may also prohibit within such places or districts as they shall deem expedient, the location of shops; the prosecution of any trade or business; the keeping of lumber yards; and the storing of lumber, wood or other easily inflammable material, in open places, …
Mich. Comp. Laws § 109.9 Prohibited structure; nuisance, abatement.
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Sec. 9. Every building or structure which may be erected, placed, enlarged, repaired or kept, in violation of any ordinance or regulation made for the prevention of fires, is hereby declared to be a nuisance, and may be abated or removed by the direction of the council.
Mich. Comp. Laws § 110.1 Fiscal year.
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Sec. 1. The fiscal year of cities subject to the provisions of this act shall commence on the first Monday of March in each year, or when the council has decided to have the taxes collected in 2 installments, as authorized by section 2 of chapter 30, the fiscal year shall commenc…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 110.10 Expense estimates of council; time, contents.
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Sec. 10. It shall be the duty of the council to cause estimates to be made in the month of September, or in the month of May in each year, where the council has decided to have the taxes levied and collected in 2 installments as authorized in section 2 of chapter 30 of this act, …
Mich. Comp. Laws § 110.11 Expense estimate of council; deficiencies; installment levies.
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Sec. 11. The council shall also in the same month determine upon the amount required to be raised in the next general tax levy to meet any deficiencies for the current year; also the amount or part of any special assessments which they required to be levied or reassessed in the n…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 110.12 Annual appropriation bill; purpose; contents.
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Sec. 12. The council shall also in the said month of September, or in said month of May where the council has decided to have the taxes levied and paid in 2 installments as authorized in section 2 of chapter 30, pass an ordinance, to be termed the annual appropriation bill, in wh…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 110.13 Taxes certified to board of supervisors and ward supervisors; manner.
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Sec. 13. All sums ordered in the annual appropriation bill, in any year to be raised for the several general funds (except in cases where the council have decided to have the taxes levied and collected in 2 installments, in which case such sums shall, by the board of review and e…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 110.14 Annual appropriation bill; raising of moneys after passage prohibited.
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Sec. 14. After the passage of the annual appropriation bill, no further sums shall be used, raised or appropriated; nor shall any further liability be incurred for any purpose, to be paid from any general fund or street district fund, during the fiscal year for which the appropri…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 110.15 Improvements prohibited unless appropriation made; expenditures only from appropriations.
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Sec. 15. No improvement, work, repairs or expense, to be paid for out of any general fund, or street district fund, excepting as herein otherwise provided, shall be ordered, commenced or contracted for, or incurred in any fiscal year, unless in pursuance of an appropriation speci…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 110.16 Improvements financed by special assessments.
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Sec. 16. Sections 14 and 15 of this chapter do not apply to appropriations, contracts, incurring of liabilities, expenditures and work in connection with any improvements financed by special assessments.
Mich. Comp. Laws § 110.17 Improvement before tax levy prohibited.
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Sec. 17. No public work, improvement or expenditure shall be commenced, nor any contract therefor be let or made, except as herein otherwise provided, until a tax or assessment shall have been levied to pay the cost and expense thereof, and no such work or improvement shall be pa…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 110.18 Taxes and loans for capital improvements; bonds; limitation.
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Sec. 18. Instead of levying a tax for the whole amount authorized by this act to be raised in that manner in any year, for the purpose of the capital improvements, the council may, in its discretion, raise a part thereof by tax and a part thereof by loan and issue bonds of the ci…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 110.19 Loan in anticipation of receipts from special assessments; purpose; limitation; bonds.
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Sec. 19. The council shall also have authority to raise moneys by loan in anticipation of the receipts from special assessments for the purpose of defraying the costs of the improvement for which the assessment was levied. Such loan shall not exceed the amount of the assessment f…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 110.2 Council's power of taxation; collection; installments.
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Sec. 2. The council of any such city shall have authority, within the limitations herein prescribed, to raise annually by taxation within the corporation such sum of money as may be necessary to defray the expenses and pay the liabilities of the city and to carry into effect the …
Mich. Comp. Laws § 110.20 Tax or loan to raise greater amount; vote of electors; maximum amount; limitation on amount of indebtedness; fire, flood, or other calamity requiring emergency fund; exclusions from computation of net indebtedness; deducting resources of sinking fund; validation of bonds or contract or assessment obligations; calculating assessed value equivalent.
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Sec. 20. (1) If a greater amount is required in any year for a lawful purpose than can be raised by the council under the provisions of this chapter, the amount may be raised by tax or loan, or partly by tax and partly by loan. The amount that may be voted or raised by tax, if ap…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 110.21 Bonds; approval of electors required; exceptions.
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Sec. 21. Bonds shall not be issued, except special assessment bonds, bonds for the portion of the cost of local improvements to be paid by the city at large, not to exceed 40% of the cost of the improvements, bonds for capital improvements in the annual budget as provided in sect…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 110.22 Accounting rules; moneys received.
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Sec. 22. All moneys and taxes raised, loaned or appropriated for the purposes of any particular fund, shall be paid in and credited to such fund, and shall be applied to the purposes for which such moneys were raised and received, and to none other; nor shall the moneys belonging…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 110.23 Moneys; procedure for disbursement.
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Sec. 23. No money shall be drawn from the treasury, except in pursuance of the authority and appropriation of the council and upon the warrant of the clerk. Such warrant shall specify the fund from which it is payable, and shall be paid from no other fund.
Mich. Comp. Laws § 110.24 Moneys; drawing upon exhausted funds; warrants on such funds declared void.
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Sec. 24. No warrant shall be drawn upon the treasury, after the fund from which it should be paid has been exhausted; nor when the liabilities outstanding, and previously incurred and payable from such fund, are sufficient to exhaust it. Any warrant, draft or contract, payable by…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 110.25 Loans; limitation; bonds.
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Sec. 25. Loans shall not be made by the council, or by its authority, in any year exceeding the amounts prescribed in this act. For any loans lawfully made, the bonds of the city may be issued, subject to the provisions of the revised municipal finance act, 2001 PA 34, MCL 141.21…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 110.26 Annual accounts audit by council; statement, contents.
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Sec. 26. Immediately upon the close of the fiscal year the council shall audit and settle the accounts of the city treasurer and other officers of the city, and the accounts also, as far as practicable, of all persons having claims against the city, or accounts with it not previo…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 110.27 Statement of receipts; filing, publication.
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Sec. 27. Said statement, signed by the mayor and clerk, shall be filed in the office of the city clerk, and a copy thereof published in 1 of the newspapers of the city.
Mich. Comp. Laws § 110.28 Misappropriation of moneys; penalty.
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Sec. 28. If any officer of the corporation shall, directly or indirectly, appropriate or convert any of the moneys, securities, evidences of value, or any property whatsoever, belonging to the corporation or any board thereof, to his own use, or shall directly or indirectly and k…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 110.3 Tax revenues; division into funds.
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Sec. 3. The revenues raised by general tax upon all the property in the city or by loan to be repaid by a general tax shall be divided into so many of the following general funds as are necessary: (a) Contingent fund, for the contingent and other expenses of the city for the paym…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 110.4 Tax money; special funds.
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Sec. 4. Revenues and moneys raised by taxation in special districts of the city shall be divided into the following special funds: First, A street district fund, for each street district,—for defraying the expenses of grading, improving, repairing and working upon the streets the…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 110.5 Taxes for general fund; limitation on council.
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Sec. 5. The aggregate amount which the council may raise by general tax upon the taxable real and personal property in the city for the purpose of defraying the general expenses and liabilities of the corporation, and for all purposes for which the several general funds mentioned…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 110.6 Tax raised in street district; purposes, limitation.
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Sec. 6. The council may also raise by tax in each street district for defraying the expenses of working upon, improving and repairing and cleaning the streets of the district and for all purposes for which the street district fund above mentioned is constituted, a sum not exceedi…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 110.7 Special assessments; purposes; local improvements, street and drain construction.
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Sec. 7. In addition to the above amounts, the council may raise by special assessment in sewer districts and special assessment districts, for the purpose of grading, paving, curbing, graveling and otherwise improving the streets and for constructing sewers and drains and making …
Mich. Comp. Laws § 110.8 Private sewer tax.
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Sec. 8. A tax or assessment of not more than 2 dollars per year may be levied upon each lot or premises drained by a private sewer or drain leading into any public drain or sewer.
Mich. Comp. Laws § 110.9 Annual tax levy; purpose; credit for surplus moneys.
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Sec. 9. The council shall also raise annually by taxation, an amount such that the estimated collections therefrom are sufficient to promptly pay when due the interest, that portion of the principal and all required sinking fund deposits on all outstanding bonds or other evidence…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 111.1 Tax assessment and collection by supervisors; city assessor, duties; rules.
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Sec. 1. The supervisors of every city shall, in each year, make and complete an assessment of all the real and personal property within their respective wards liable to taxation under the laws of the state, and of all the property of any person liable to be assessed therein, in t…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 111.10 Certification of taxes by city clerk to ward supervisors.
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Sec. 10. On or before the first day of October, or on or before the first Monday of June in each year where the council have decided to have the taxes levied and collected in 2 installments, the city clerk shall certify to the supervisors of each ward for the assessment therein, …
Mich. Comp. Laws § 111.11 Ward supervisors; duties as to tax levy.
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Sec. 11. Each supervisor, shall, where the taxes are levied and collected on 1 tax roll, at the time of levying state and county taxes in his ward for the year, levy in the same roll upon all the taxable property in the ward, the amounts certified to him by the clerk of the board…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 111.12 Ward supervisors; delivery of roll to city clerk; amounts charged to treasurer, bond; collection procedure.
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Sec. 12. Each supervisor [upon] on completing his roll shall certify to the city clerk the amounts of taxes levied in the roll for the state and county purposes, and for city and school taxes, special assessments and other purposes, and the clerk shall charge the said amounts to …
Mich. Comp. Laws § 111.13 Warrant annexed to roll; contents.
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Sec. 13. The warrant annexed to each roll shall state the several amounts levied therein to be paid into the city and county treasuries respectively; and shall command the city treasurer to collect from the several persons named in the said roll the several sums named in the last…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 111.14 Taxes; lien on land.
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Sec. 14. All taxes levied in any ward tax roll, shall be and remain a lien upon the lands upon which they are levied until paid.