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Mich. Comp. Laws § 90.15 Fines imposed for violations; disposition.
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Sec. 15. Fines paid into the city treasury for violations of ordinances of the city shall be disposed of as the council may direct. The expense of apprehending and sanctioning a person who violates an ordinance of the city, except the part of the expense paid by costs collected, …
Mich. Comp. Laws § 90.16 District court; jurisdiction; proceedings; applicable laws.
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Sec. 16. The district court in the judicial district in which a city incorporated under this act is located has jurisdiction to hear, try, and determine a case for a violation of an ordinance of the city. Unless the case is a civil infraction action, proceedings in the district c…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 90.18 Prosecutions by person other than officer; security filed for payment of costs.
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Sec. 18. In all prosecutions for violations of the ordinances of the city, commenced by any person other than an officer of the city, the court may require the prosecutor to file security for the payment of the costs of the proceedings, in case the defendant is acquitted. But he …
Mich. Comp. Laws § 90.4 Violations; commencement of action; warrant for arrest.
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Sec. 4. Except in the case of a civil infraction action or an action against a corporation, an action for the violation of an ordinance of the city may be commenced by warrant for the arrest of the offender.
Mich. Comp. Laws § 90.5 Contents, form, and issuance of warrant; law governing proceedings.
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Sec. 5. (1) A warrant shall be in the name of the people of the state of Michigan and shall set forth the substance of the offense complained of, and shall be substantially of the form and be issued upon complaint made, as provided by law in misdemeanor cases in the district cour…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 90.6 Judgment or conviction; limitation on sanctions; costs.
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Sec. 6. Upon judgment or conviction, the court shall impose a sanction not exceeding the limit prescribed in the ordinance violated, as the nature of the case may require, together with such costs of prosecution as the court shall order. In a civil infraction action, the district…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 90.7 Judgment; execution; fine and imprisonment.
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Sec. 7. Every such judgment shall be executed by virtue of an execution or warrant, specifying the particulars of the judgment. If the judgment be for the payment of a fine only, with or without costs, execution of the form prescribed in section 3 of this chapter shall issue fort…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 90.8 Imprisonment; city use of county jail.
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Sec. 8. Every city shall be allowed the use of the jail of the county in which it is located, for the confinement of all persons liable to imprisonment under the ordinances thereof, or under any of the provisions of this act; and any person so liable to imprisonment may be senten…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 90.9 Process; direction and execution.
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Sec. 9. Process issued in a prosecution or proceeding for the violation of an ordinance of the city shall be directed to the city marshal or to a constable of the city or county, and may be executed in any part of the state by these officers or another officer authorized by law t…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 91.1 General powers.
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Sec. 1. (1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (3), a city incorporated under the provisions of this act has, and the council may pass ordinances relating to, the following general powers: (a) To restrain and prevent vice and immorality, gambling, noise and disturbance, a…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 91.2 License; conditions for granting; revocation; sanctions.
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Sec. 2. (1) The council may prescribe the terms and conditions upon which a license shall be granted and may require payment of a reasonable sum for a license. The person receiving the license shall, before the license is issued, execute a bond to the corporation, if required by …
Mich. Comp. Laws § 91.3 License; term; transfer prohibited; sanctions.
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Sec. 3. Except as otherwise provided in section 1(1)(mm) of this chapter, a license shall not be granted for a term beyond the next first Monday in June or be transferable. The council may provide sanctions for a person who, without license, does something for which a license is …
Mich. Comp. Laws § 91.4 License receipts; disposition.
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Sec. 4. All sums received for licenses granted for any purpose by the city or under its authority, shall be paid into the city treasury to the credit of the contingent fund.
Mich. Comp. Laws § 91.5 Franchise rights in streets; council vote; private damage suits.
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Sec. 5. The council of any city shall have authority to permit any railroad company or street railway company to lay its track, and operate its road with steam, electric or other power, in or across the streets, highways and public alleys of the city, as the council may deem expe…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 91.6 Railroad track; location and grade of street crossings; construction and repair; flagmen; lighting; enforcement of ordinance prescribing maximum speed limit.
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Sec. 6. The council may provide for and change the location and grade of street crossings of any railroad track; compel any railroad company or street railway company to raise or lower its railroad track to conform to street grades which may be established by the city; construct …
Mich. Comp. Laws § 91.7 Railroad companies; drainage repairs; failure, expense of company.
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Sec. 7. The council shall have power to require and compel any railroad company and any street railway company to make, keep open and in repair, such ditches, drains, sewers and culverts, along and under, or across their railroad tracks, as may be necessary to drain their grounds…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 91.8 Partition fence; ordinances, by-laws, regulation.
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Sec. 8. The council is authorized to enact all such ordinances and by-laws as it may deem proper relative to the building, rebuilding, maintaining and repairing of partition fences by the owners and occupants of adjoining lots, inclosures and parcels of land in said city; and rel…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 91.9 Support of poor persons; director of the poor.
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Sec. 9. The council of any city may make such provision as they shall deem expedient for the support and relief of poor persons residing in the city; and for that purpose may provide by ordinance for the election or appointment of a director of the poor for the city, and may pres…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 92.1 Policemen; watchmen.
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Sec. 1. The council of any city may provide, by ordinance, for a police force and for the appointment by the mayor of such number of policemen and nightwatchmen as they may think necessary for the good government of the city and for the protection of the persons and property of t…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 92.2 Policemen; rules, regulations; temporary appointments.
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Sec. 2. The council may make and establish rules for the regulation and government of the police, prescribing and defining the powers and duties of policemen and nightwatchmen, and shall prescribe and enforce such police regulations as will most effectually preserve the peace and…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 92.3 City marshal; duties.
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Sec. 3. The city marshal, subject to the direction of the mayor, shall, as chief of police, have the superintendence and direction of the policemen and night-watchmen, subject to such regulations as may be prescribed by the council.
Mich. Comp. Laws § 92.4 Police officers; powers; duties.
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Sec. 4. Under the direction of the mayor and chief of police, and in conformity with the ordinances of the city and laws of this state, the police shall suppress riots, disturbances, and breaches of the peace; pursue and arrest a person fleeing from justice in any part of the sta…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 92.4a Police officer or constable; authority to execute bench warrant.
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Sec. 4a. A police officer of a city or, if authorized by the city council, a constable of a city has the same authority within the city as a deputy sheriff to execute a bench warrant for arrest issued by a court of record or a municipal court.
Mich. Comp. Laws § 92.5 Police force; fees, compensation; monthly report.
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Sec. 5. When employed in the service of process, policemen shall receive the same fees therefor as are allowed to constables for like services; when otherwise engaged in the performance of police duty, they shall receive such compensation therefor from the city as the council may…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 92.6 Police force; suspension, removal.
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Sec. 6. The mayor may suspend any policeman or nightwatchman on the complaint in writing and under oath of any citizen or on his own motion for a period of not longer than 30 days for neglect of duty, misconduct, or other sufficient cause. At a public hearing before such mayor, a…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 93.1 Prison facilities.
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Sec. 1. The council of any city shall have power to provide and maintain a city prison, and such watch or station houses as may be necessary, and may provide for the confinement therein of all persons liable to imprisonment or detention under the ordinances of the city, and for t…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 93.2 Prisoners; hard labor.
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Sec. 2. All persons sentenced to confinement in the city prison, and all persons imprisoned therein on execution or commitment for the non-payment of fines for violations of the ordinances of the city, may be kept at hard labor during the term of their imprisonment, either within…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 95.1 City ownership of cemetery; regulation.
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Sec. 1. Any city may acquire, hold and own such cemetery or public burial place or places, either within or without the limits of the corporation, as in the opinion of the council shall be necessary for the public welfare, and suitable for the convenience of the inhabitants, and …
Mich. Comp. Laws § 95.2 Appropriation, cemetery.
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Sec. 2. The council may, within the limitations of this act contained, raise and appropriate such sums as may be necessary for the purchase of cemetery grounds and for the improvement, adornment, protection and care thereof.
Mich. Comp. Laws § 95.3 Board of cemetery trustees; appointment, term, removal.
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Sec. 3. Whenever any city shall own, purchase or otherwise acquire any cemetery or cemetery grounds, the mayor, by and with the consent of the council, shall appoint 5 trustees who shall be freeholders and electors in the city, and who shall constitute a "board of cemetery truste…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 95.4 Board of cemetery trustees; chairman, clerk; powers.
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Sec. 4. The board of cemetery trustees shall appoint 1 of their number chairman, and the city clerk shall be the clerk of the board. And the council may by ordinance invest the board with such powers and authority as may be necessary for the care, management and preservation of s…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 95.5 Board of cemetery trustees; property management powers, duties.
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Sec. 5. Said board, subject to the directions and ordinances of the council, shall have the care and management of any such cemetery or burial place or places, and shall direct the improvements and embellishments of the grounds; cause such grounds to be laid out into lots, avenue…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 95.6 Board of cemetery trustees; necessary employees; ordinances, enforcement.
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Sec. 6. Said board shall appoint the necessary superintendents and employes for the cemetery; expend the money provided for the care and improvement of the grounds; enforce the ordinances of the city made for the management and care thereof and make such regulations for the buria…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 95.7 Board of cemetery trustees; cemetery fund, accounting; report to council, contents.
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Sec. 7. All moneys raised for any public cemetery authorized by this act and all moneys received from the sale of lots therein, or otherwise therefrom, shall be paid into the city treasury, and constitute a fund to be denominated the "cemetery fund." Said fund shall not be devote…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 95.8 Cemetery; city owned; ordinances; passage; enforcement.
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Sec. 8. If a city owns a public cemetery, whether within or without the city, the council of a city may pass and enforce ordinances necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this chapter, to control or regulate the cemetery and the improvement of the cemetery, to protect t…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 95.9 Privately owned cemeteries; ordinances governing.
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Sec. 9. The council shall have power also to pass all ordinances deemed necessary for the preservation and protection of any cemetery or burial place within the city, belonging to or under the control of any church, religious society, corporation, company or association, and for …
Mich. Comp. Laws § 96.1 City owned pounds; impounding regulations; poundmaster.
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Sec. 1. The council may provide and maintain 1 or more pounds within the city and may appoint poundmasters, prescribe their powers and duties, and fix their compensation; and may authorize the impounding of all beasts and fowls found in the streets or otherwise at large contrary …
Mich. Comp. Laws § 96.2 Fees for impounding; sale of animals; penalties.
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Sec. 2. The council may also prescribe the fees for impounding and the amount or rate of expenses for keeping, and the charges to be paid by the owner or keeper of the beasts or fowls impounded; and may authorize the sale of such beasts and fowls for the payment of such fees, exp…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 97.1 Authority of council; public wharves.
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Sec. 1. The council of any city located upon or adjacent to any of the navigable waters of the state shall have the power to establish, construct, maintain and control public wharves, docks, piers, landing places and levees, basins and canals, upon any lands or property belonging…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 97.2 Authority of council; construction of wharves.
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Sec. 2. The council shall have authority also to require and cause all docks, wharves and landings, whether upon public grounds or upon the property of private individuals, to be constructed of such material and in such manner and maintained in conformity with such grade as may b…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 97.3 Authority of council; regulation of use of wharves, rates.
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Sec. 3. The council shall have authority to prohibit the encumbering of the public wharves and landings, and to regulate the use of all wharves, docks, and landing places within the city; regulate the use and location of wharf boats; and to regulate and prescribe the rates and ch…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 97.4 Authority of council; preservation of water purity; use of harbor; ordinances and regulations.
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Sec. 4. The council may provide by ordinance for the preservation of the purity of a body of water within the city, and within 1/2 mile from the corporate boundaries of the city; prohibit and impose sanctions for the depositing of filth, logs, floating matter, or any injurious th…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 97.5 Authority of council; regulation of use of tugs and bridges.
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Sec. 5. The council may also license and regulate the use of tugs and prescribe the rates and charges of towage within the harbor or other waters of the city, and regulate the opening and passage of bridges.
Mich. Comp. Laws § 97.6 Authority of council; appointment of harbor officers; powers, duties.
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Sec. 6. The council may also appoint a harbormaster, wharfmaster, port wardens, and such other officers as may be necessary for the enforcement of all such ordinances and regulations as the council may lawfully enact and prescribe, in respect to and over the navigable waters, har…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 98.1 Regulation and licensing of ferries by council; sanctions.
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Sec. 1. The council of a city may regulate and license ferries from the city or a place in the city; require the payment of a reasonable sum for a ferry license; impose reasonable terms and restrictions in relation to the keeping and management of ferries, and the time, manner, a…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 99.1 Council; powers to establish and regulate markets.
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Sec. 1. The council of any city shall have the power to erect market houses, establish and regulate markets and market places for the sale of meats, fish, vegetables and other provisions and articles necessary to the sustenance, convenience and comfort of the inhabitants; to pres…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 99.2 Council; rules and regulations.
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Sec. 2. The council may adopt and enforce such rules and regulations as may be necessary to prevent fraud, and to preserve order in the markets; and may authorize the immediate seizure, arrest and removal from the market of any person violating its regulations, together with any …