™Your Policy Risk Impact Agent
1 chapters · 347 sections in this title.
Mich. Comp. Laws § 105.18 Circuit court jury; impaneling.
1.6K chars
Sec. 18. The circuit judge shall make an order that a jury be impaneled in the case. Such jury shall be composed of 12 freeholders of the municipality or vicinity, and shall be selected and impaneled as follows: The city marshal or any member of the police force of such city shal…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 105.19 Circuit court; oath of jurors, form; duties; instruction.
1.1K chars
Sec. 19. The jurors so impaneled shall be sworn or shall affirm in substance as follows: "You do solemnly swear (or affirm) that you will well and truly ascertain, determine and award the just compensation to be made for the taking for the use or benefit of the public the private…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 105.2 Condemnation; proceedings.
0.5K chars
Sec. 2. If it shall become necessary to appropriate private property for the public uses or purposes specified in the preceding section, the right to occupy and hold the same and the ownership therein and thereto may be acquired by the city either in the manner and with like effe…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 105.20 Circuit court; verdict of jury; contents, necessity, damages.
0.4K chars
Sec. 20. The jury shall in their verdict separately award to the owners of such property, and others interested therein, such compensation therefor as they shall deem just. If any such private property shall be subject to a mortgage, lease, agreement or other lien, estate or inte…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 105.21 Circuit court; jury may retire with petition, map, blank verdict; form of verdict.
1.2K chars
Sec. 21. To assist the jury in arriving at their verdict, the circuit judge may allow the jury, when they retire, to take with them the petition filed in the case, and a map showing the location of the proposed improvement and of each and all the parcels of property to be taken a…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 105.22 Circuit court; confirmation of proceedings; cost.
0.5K chars
Sec. 22. Upon any dismissal of the appeal, or rendition of judgment after trial in the circuit court, said court shall confirm the proceedings and rights of the city to take and appropriate the lands of the appellant for the purpose mentioned in the resolution of the council. And…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 105.23 Circuit court; judgment of confirmation; records of city clerk; contents, evidence.
0.7K chars
Sec. 23. It shall be the duty of the city clerk to procure copies of any judgment of confirmation of the circuit court or of the probate court after the same has become final, as well as of the report and findings of the jury, and the same shall be recorded in a book of records t…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 105.24 Verdict confirmed; sums awarded; procedure for collection; assessment; evidence; city purchaser at sale.
2.2K chars
Sec. 24. When the verdict of the jury shall have been finally confirmed by the probate court and the time in which to take an appeal has expired, or, if an appeal is taken and the judgment has been confirmed, thereupon the proper and necessary proceedings, in due course, shall be…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 105.25 Verdict confirmed; sums awarded; payment within year; raising of funds; treasurer, duties; right of entry; writ of assistance.
2.7K chars
Sec. 25. Within 1 year after the confirmation of the verdict of the jury, or after the judgment of confirmation shall on appeal be confirmed, the council shall set apart and cause to be provided in the treasury, unless already provided, the amount required to make compensation to…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 105.26 Court proceedings; officers, jurors, witnesses; fees, compensation.
0.4K chars
Sec. 26. Officers, jurors and witnesses in any proceedings under this chapter shall be entitled to receive the same fees and compensation as are provided by law for similar services in an ordinary action at law in the probate courts of this state, and in cases of appeals, the sam…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 105.28 Property; sale of buildings; moneys, disposition.
0.4K chars
Sec. 28. In case there is on the private property taken a building or other structure, the same shall be sold by or under direction of the council; the amount produced by this sale shall belong and be paid to the fund for paying the compensation awarded for the property taken, an…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 105.29 Property; negotiation; purchase.
0.2K chars
Sec. 29. Nothing in this chapter contained shall prevent any city from obtaining private property for any of the public uses herein specified by negotiation and purchase.
Mich. Comp. Laws § 105.3 Condemnation; resolution of council; suit.
0.6K chars
Sec. 3. Whenever the council shall have declared a public improvement to be necessary in the municipality and shall have declared that they deem it necessary to take private property, describing it, for such public improvement, designating it, and that the improvement is for the …
Mich. Comp. Laws § 105.4 Condemnation; certified copy of resolution, delivery to attorney; petition, contents; filing; evidence.
2.0K chars
Sec. 4. The city clerk shall make and deliver to such attorney, as soon as may be, a copy of such resolution certified under seal, and it shall be the duty of such attorney to prepare and file with such probate court in the name of the city, a petition signed by him in his offici…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 105.5 Probate court summons; contents.
0.5K chars
Sec. 5. Upon receiving such petition it shall be the duty of the said probate court to issue a summons against the respondents named in such petition, stating briefly the object of said petition, and commanding them, in the name of the people of the state of Michigan, to appear b…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 105.6 Probate court summons; service; guardian ad litem; appearance order; alias, pluries summons; return, filing; evidence.
2.7K chars
Sec. 6. Said summons shall be served by the city marshal, any member of the police force or any constable of the city, at least 5 days before the return day thereof, upon all the respondents found within the county, by exhibiting the original and delivering a copy to each of them…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 105.7 Probate court; impaneling jury; composition of jury.
1.7K chars
Sec. 7. On the return day of the summons, or on some subsequent day to which the proceedings are adjourned, if no sufficient cause to the contrary has been shown, the probate court shall make an order that a jury be impaneled in the case. Such jury shall be composed of 12 freehol…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 105.8 Probate court; oath of jurors, form; duties; instruction; verdict.
1.3K chars
Sec. 8. The jurors so impaneled shall be sworn or shall affirm in substance as follows: "You do solemnly swear (or affirm) that you will well and truly ascertain and determine whether there is a public necessity for making the proposed improvement and for taking for the use or be…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 105.9 Probate court; verdict of jury; contents, necessity, damages.
0.6K chars
Sec. 9. The jury shall determine in their verdict the necessity for the proposed improvement and for taking such private property for the use or benefit of the public for the proposed improvement, and in case they find such necessity exists, they shall separately award to the own…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 106.1 City waterworks; uses.
0.5K chars
Sec. 1. Any city incorporated or reincorporated under the provisions of this act shall have authority to purchase or construct new and to maintain and extend existing waterworks for the introduction of water into such city, and supplying the same and the inhabitants thereof with …
Mich. Comp. Laws § 106.10 Establishing waterworks; condemnation of private property.
0.4K chars
Sec. 10. If it shall be necessary, in the judgment of the council, to appropriate private property either within or without the city for the construction and maintenance or for the due operation of waterworks, the right to occupy and hold the same, and the ownership therein and t…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 106.11 Contract for water supply; time limitation; privileges extended to company.
0.7K chars
Sec. 11. The council may contract from year to year, or for a period of time not exceeding 10 years, with any person or persons, or with any duly authorized corporation, for the supplying of such city and the inhabitants thereof with water upon such terms and conditions as may be…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 106.2 Types of waterworks; construction; maintenance.
0.4K chars
Sec. 2. Such city may acquire, purchase, erect and maintain such reservoirs, canals, aqueducts, sluices, buildings, engines, water wheels, pumps, hydraulic machines, distributing pipes and other apparatus, appurtenances and machinery, and may acquire, purchase, appropriate and ow…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 106.3 Constructing, purchasing, or extending waterworks; borrowing; expenditure.
0.4K chars
Sec. 3. It shall be lawful for a city, subject to the provisions of this act, to borrow money to be used exclusively for the purpose of purchasing, constructing, or extending waterworks, as provided in sections 1 and 2 of this chapter. The total amount expended for constructing, …
Mich. Comp. Laws § 106.4 Constructing, purchasing, or extending waterworks; estimate of expense; special assessment.
0.4K chars
Sec. 4. Before any money shall be borrowed, appropriated, raised, or expended for the purchase, construction, or extension of waterworks in any city, the council shall direct the board of public works to cause to be made an estimate of the expense thereof. The council may determi…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 106.5 Water pipes; private connections; repairs at owner's expense; permit.
0.4K chars
Sec. 5. The connecting or supplying pipes leading from buildings or yards to the distributing pipes, shall be inserted and kept in repair at the expense of the owner or occupant of the building or yard, and shall not be inserted or connected with the main pipe until a permit ther…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 106.6 Establishing of water rates; annual, approval of city council; furnishing of water outside corporate limits.
1.1K chars
Sec. 6. The board of public works shall annually, on or before the first Monday in June, establish a scale of rates to be charged and paid for supply of water for the year next ensuing, to be called water rates, which rates shall be approved by the council and shall be appropriat…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 106.7 Establishing waterworks; care, control ordinances.
0.4K chars
Sec. 7. The council may enact such ordinances and adopt such resolutions as may be necessary for the care, protection, preservation and control of the waterworks and all the fixtures, appurtenances, apparatus, buildings and machinery connected therewith or belonging thereto, and …
Mich. Comp. Laws § 106.8 Establishing waterworks; property beyond corporate limits, control.
0.7K chars
Sec. 8. When the council shall deem it for the public interest, such waterworks may be purchased, or may be constructed and maintained beyond the corporate limits of the city; and in such case the council shall have authority to enforce beyond the corporate limits of the city, wi…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 106.9 Establishing waterworks; construction privileges, duties.
0.8K chars
Sec. 9. For the purpose of operating, constructing, maintaining or extending such waterworks, the city shall have the right to lay conduits, pipes, aqueducts or other necessary works over or under any water-course, or under and along any street, alley, lane, turnpike, road, railr…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 107.1 City lighting plant.
0.5K chars
Sec. 1. It shall be lawful for any city incorporated or reincorporated under the provisions of this act to acquire by purchase or to construct, operate and maintain, either independently or in connection with the waterworks of such city, either within or without the city, works f…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 107.10 Repairs, alterations, and extensions; title retention contract providing for payment from available net revenues; construction.
1.0K chars
Sec. 10. Repairs, alterations, and extensions may also be provided by the city council by contract for the making and installation of repairs, alterations, and extensions, which contract shall not impose a general obligation on the city, but which may provide for payment out of t…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 107.2 City lighting plant; resolution of necessity; action of council.
0.4K chars
Sec. 2. Whenever the council of any city shall, by resolution, declare that it is expedient for such city to acquire by purchase, or to construct, as the case may be, works for the purpose of supplying such city and the inhabitants thereof, or either, with gas, electric or other …
Mich. Comp. Laws § 107.3 City lighting plant; expense estimates; vote by electors.
0.7K chars
Sec. 3. In case the council shall declare that it is expedient for such city to acquire by purchase or to construct, as the case may be, works for the purpose of supplying such city and the inhabitants thereof, or either, with electric or other lights, then the council shall dire…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 107.4 City lighting plant; borrowing power, limit; manner of payment.
0.9K chars
Sec. 4. It shall be lawful for any such city to borrow any sum of money not exceeding 5 per cent of the assessed value of the property in said city as shown by the last preceding tax roll, to be used exclusively for the purpose of purchasing or constructing and maintaining such l…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 107.5 City lighting plant; repairs, limit.
0.5K chars
Sec. 5. After lighting works have been purchased or constructed as aforesaid, in such city, the council may then raise and expend in making repairs or alterations, or in extending such works, such sum as it may deem advisable without submitting the question to the electors of the…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 107.6 City lighting plant; lighting rates, annual determination.
0.3K chars
Sec. 6. The board of public works subject to the approval of the council shall have the power to fix such just and equitable rates as may be deemed advisable for supplying the inhabitants of said city with lights, and shall annually on the first Monday in June fix such rates for …
Mich. Comp. Laws § 107.7 City lighting plant; condemnation of private property.
0.4K chars
Sec. 7. If it shall be necessary in the judgment of the council to appropriate private property either within or without the city for the construction and maintenance or for the due operation of lighting works, the right to occupy and hold the same and the ownership therein and t…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 107.8 Contract for lighting; time limitation; privileges extended to company.
0.7K chars
Sec. 8. The council may contract from year to year, or for a period of time not exceeding 10 years with any person or persons, or with any duly authorized corporation, for the supplying of such city or the inhabitants thereof, or both, with gas, electric or other lights upon such…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 107.9 City lighting plant; care and control ordinances.
0.4K chars
Sec. 9. The council may enact such ordinances and adopt such resolutions as may be necessary for the care, protection, preservation and control of the lighting works, and all the fixtures, appurtenances, apparatus, buildings and machinery connected therewith or belonging thereto,…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 108.1 Board of public works; members, appointment, terms.
1.1K chars
Sec. 1. There may be created and constituted in every city, subject to the provisions of this act, a board of public works composed of 5 members, who shall be freeholders and electors of the city and shall serve without compensation. Such board shall, as near as may be, be non-pa…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 108.10 Board of public works; employment of operating personnel; appointment, compensation.
0.4K chars
Sec. 10. The board of public works is hereby empowered, subject to the approval of the council, to employ all necessary officers, agents and employes that they may deem necessary to operate, carry on and improve all the public works and duties placed under their care and supervis…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 108.11 Board of public works abolished; procedure.
0.7K chars
Sec. 11. The council of every city subject to the provisions of this act and the acts to which this act is amendatory, upon petition to them of 50 or more registered electors of the city praying that an election of the qualified voters of the city be called to determine whether t…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 108.12 Board abolished; powers and duties transferred to council; committee established.
0.8K chars
Sec. 12. If at any such election, a majority of the electors voting thereon shall vote to abolish the board of public works in such city, then such board of public works shall be abolished, and all the powers, rights and privileges now exercised by or vested in said board of publ…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 108.13 Board of public works abolished; re-establishment procedure.
0.8K chars
Sec. 13. In a city subject to this act, and in which the board of public works has been abolished as provided in this chapter, the council, on petition to them of 100 registered electors of the city praying for the re-establishment of the board of public works in the city, shall,…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 108.14 Election of board; time, notice; form of proposition.
0.7K chars
Sec. 14. An election under the provisions of this chapter cannot be held oftener than once in 2 years and notice of such election shall be given in the same manner and for the same length of time as is provided in the charter of such city for the calling special elections, and th…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 108.2 Board of public works; officers, election, duties; quorum.
0.5K chars
Sec. 2. Said board shall, within 10 days after their first appointment and annually thereafter during the month of May, organize and elect 1 of their number president. A majority of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. The city clerk shall be ex of…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 108.3 Board of public works; powers and duties.
0.7K chars
Sec. 3. The said board of public works, subject to the direction of the council, is hereby charged and entrusted with the following duties, powers and responsibilities: First, The construction, management, supervision and control of such waterworks as are or shall be owned by the…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 108.4 Board of public works; rules, by-laws, regulations.
0.3K chars
Sec. 4. The said board shall have power to make and adopt all such by-laws, rules and regulations as they may deem necessary and expedient for the transaction of their business, not inconsistent with the ordinances of the city or the provisions of this act.
Mich. Comp. Laws § 108.5 Board of public works; letting contracts, conditions.
1.0K chars
Sec. 5. Whenever the expense of constructing or repairing any public work placed under the control of the board of public works shall not exceed the sum of 200 dollars, the work shall be done by such board in such manner as they may deem proper; but whenever such expense shall ex…