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Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.556 Water management commission; petitions, review; notice of first meeting.
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Sec. 556. Within 30 days following receipt of a petition as provided in section 552 of this act, the director of agriculture shall review the petition for sufficiency and accuracy, shall make a preliminary finding of the counties which in his opinion include public corporations t…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.557 Water management commission; temporary secretary, by-laws, tentative determination, amendment of petition, notice of adjourned meeting; dismissal of petition; name of district; board; tentative determination; preliminary plans.
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Sec. 557. The commission shall elect a temporary secretary, and may adopt rules of procedure or by-laws, not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter. The commission shall also consider the petition for the project, and shall make a tentative determination as to the suffi…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.558 Water management board; hearing of objections; notice of hearing; preliminary order of determination; eliminating or adding public corporation.
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Sec. 558. The water management board shall fix a time, date, and place it will meet to hear objections to the proposed project, the petition for the project, and to the assessments of costs as contained in the tentative determination of the commission. Notice of the hearing shall…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.559 Assessment; basis.
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Sec. 559. Any assessment of any nature or kind determined or made under the provisions of this chapter shall be based upon benefits to the public corporation assessed and upon the extent to which such public corporation contributes to the conditions which make a project necessary…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.560 Preliminary plans; approval; detailed plans, contents, approval; official plans, filing.
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Sec. 560. The board shall secure the approval of the Michigan water resources commission of the preliminary plans for the project, as soon as may be reasonably possible, and before procuring detailed plans. After approval by the water resources commission of the preliminary plans…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.561 Tentative percentage of cost for assessment; apportionment.
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Sec. 561. After adoption of the official plans, the commission shall proceed to tentatively establish the percentage of cost of the project to be assessed against public corporations within each county within the district, and against the state and counties on account of drainage…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.562 Hearing of objections to tentative apportionments of costs; notice of hearing; report; confirmation or readjustment of apportionment.
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Sec. 562. After the tentative apportionments of costs have been made, the board shall set a time, date, and place it will meet and hear objections to the apportionments. Notice of the hearing shall be published twice in each county involved by inserting the notice in at least 1 n…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.563 Water management commission; review of board's apportionment; final order of apportionment; annual meeting; work plan, advisory committees.
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Sec. 563. The commission shall meet for the purpose of considering the apportionments and report made by the board. The commission may readjust the apportionments: Provided, That before any readjusted apportionments shall be confirmed, the commission shall set a time and a place …
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.564 Lands and rights of way; condemnation, procedure, federal governmental participation; costs.
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Sec. 564. The board shall then proceed to secure the necessary lands and/or rights of way for the proposed project. If the same cannot be secured by negotiation, then the board may proceed under the provisions of Act No. 149 of the Public Acts of 1911, as amended, being sections …
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.565 Contracts with federal government or corporations; bids.
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Sec. 565. The board may contract with the federal government (which term as used in this section shall include any agency thereof) whereby the federal government will pay the whole or any part of the cost of the project and/or will perform the whole or any part of the work connec…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.566 Special assessment roll; installments, payment, interest.
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Sec. 566. After the confirmation of the apportionments by the commission, the board shall cause to be prepared by the secretary of said board a special assessment roll assessing the estimated cost of the project (or if the actual cost has been ascertained, then such actual cost) …
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.567 Special assessment roll; contents, approval; certification to corporation assessed; annual notice of installment and interest; advancement by county; assessment against state; correction of assessment.
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Sec. 567. The special assessment roll shall contain the name of each public corporation assessed, the total estimated cost of the project (or actual cost if the same has been ascertained at the time of the preparation of the roll), the percentage apportioned to each public corpor…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.568 Assessments and taxes not subject to statutory or charter debt or tax limitations.
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Sec. 568. Assessments made under the terms of this chapter shall not constitute an indebtedness of a public corporation within any statutory or charter debt limitation, and taxes levied by a public corporation for the payment of such assessments shall not be deemed to be within a…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.569 Bonds; issuance; maturity; mandatory exemption; signatures; collection of assessments.
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Sec. 569. The board may issue bonds for and on behalf of the water management district, in anticipation of the collection of any or all installments of assessments, and pledge the full faith and credit of the water management district for the prompt payment of the principal of an…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.570 Additional assessment; apportionment.
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Sec. 570. If for any reason the original assessment shall not be sufficient to pay the principal and interest on bonds issued in anticipation of the collection thereof, then the board shall make such additional assessments therefor as may be necessary, apportioned as in the first…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.571 Water management board; continuation, responsibility; budget, hearing, adoption.
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Sec. 571. The board shall continue in existence with such changes in personnel as shall result from appointment of members by the commission. It shall be responsible for the operation and maintenance of district projects. The board shall prepare annually and submit to the commiss…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.572 Advancements by corporations; reimbursement.
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Sec. 572. Public corporations may advance funds for the payment of any part of the cost of a project hereunder and shall be repaid by the district when funds are available therefor. The board is hereby authorized to assess preliminary costs in an equitable manner prior to the iss…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.573 Costs; items, contingent expenses.
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Sec. 573. The cost of any project shall include (1) the cost of locating, establishing and constructing the project; (2) the administrative staff, office and other expenses of the board and commission; (3) the cost of construction of all works and appurtenances necessary to effic…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.574 Water management commission; powers.
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Sec. 574. The commission of any water management district created under this act may authorize the board to (a) sell surplus water acquired as a result of construction of projects; (b) lease district-owned lands for agricultural or other purposes; (c) cooperate with soil conserva…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.575 Subdistrict; petition; official plan, final order of apportionment of cost; assessment.
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Sec. 575. In the event it shall be necessary for the public health, safety or welfare to undertake a project within a portion of a water management district which will benefit only 1 or more contiguous public corporations within the water management district, a petition may be fi…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.576 Water management district in interstate river basin; powers of commission.
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Sec. 576. Whenever it shall be necessary for the public health, safety or welfare to establish a water management district in all or part of 1 or more contiguous Michigan counties lying within an interstate river basin, to undertake a project in cooperation with districts in stat…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.577 Venue of actions; appointment of circuit judge.
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Sec. 577. Any action arising from the provisions of this chapter except such actions as may be brought directly in the supreme court may be brought in the circuit court of any county in which any part of the project involved is located: Provided, That on request by any party to s…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.578 Deputy for director of agriculture; powers.
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Sec. 578. The director of agriculture may designate a deputy to act in his stead in respect to the performance of his duties under this chapter. Where any deputy so acts, it shall be conclusively presumed that he was properly designated by the director of agriculture. Any officia…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.579 Intercounty drain; construction or improvement for flood control project.
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Sec. 579. Any intercounty drain or any portion thereof now or hereafter existing may be constructed, cleaned out, relocated, widened, deepened, straightened, tiled or otherwise improved when necessary for the public health, as a part of any flood control project under the provisi…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.580 Public and private construction in works owned by water management district; plans, approval.
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Sec. 580. Plans for the alteration or construction of any bridge, road, pipe line, power line, drain, sewer or other public and private construction in, into or across any right of way or in, into or across any drain, channel, dike, reservoir or other works owned, constructed and…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.581 Certiorari; time; legal establishment of project.
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Sec. 581. Neither the final order of determination nor the final order of apportionment shall be subject to attack in any court except by proceedings in certiorari brought within 30 days after the filing of such order in the office of the secretary of the board issuing the same. …
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.582 Provisions applicable.
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Sec. 582. In operating under the terms of this chapter, the several boards and officials shall not be limited by the provisions contained in other chapters of this act and the procedures required under the terms of such other chapters shall not be deemed to be applicable.
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.583 Validation of prior bonds.
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Sec. 583. The provisions of this chapter shall not be construed to validate and shall not validate any bonds or other obligations issued prior to August 13, 1954.
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.6 Drains; public easements and rights of way; use; release, notice, protest.
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Sec. 6. All established drains regularly located and established in pursuance of law existing at the time of location and establishment and visibly in existence, which were established as drains, and all drains visibly in existence in written drain easements or rights of way on f…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.601 Drain commissioner; interest in contract prohibited; penalty.
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Sec. 601. If any commissioner is interested directly or indirectly in the profits of any contract, job, work or services, other than official services, to be performed for the drainage district, he is deemed to be guilty of a misdemeanor, and the office of such commissioner shall…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.602 Removal of stakes; injury to drain; penalty.
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Sec. 602. If any person shall wilfully or maliciously remove any section or grade stake set along the line of any drain, or obstruct or injure any drain, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $100.00 and …
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.621 Repeal.
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Sec. 621. Act No. 316 of the Public Acts of 1923, as amended, being sections 261.1 to 278B.33, inclusive, of the Compiled Laws of 1948, Act No. 243 of the Public Acts of 1931, being sections 279.1 and 279.2 of the Compiled Laws of 1948, Act No. 38 of the Public Acts of the First …
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.622 Amendment of act during progress of drain proceedings; applicable law.
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Sec. 622. In cases where the law shall have been amended during the progress of any drain proceedings, such proceedings shall not be invalidated by any such amendment, but may be continued to completion, and each step shall be governed by the law in force at the time such step wa…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.623 Saving clause.
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Sec. 623. This act shall not impair or affect any act done, offense committed or right accruing, accrued or acquired, or liability, penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred prior to the time this act takes effect, but the same may be enjoyed, asserted, enforced, prosecuted or i…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.624 Prior actions and bonds validated; contest prohibited.
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Sec. 624. Actions heretofore taken by a drainage district or a public corporation and bonds heretofore issued under this act as originally adopted or subsequently amended are hereby validated. A district acting under this act as originally adopted or subsequently amended, or a pu…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.625 Alternate procedures.
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Sec. 625. Drainage boards and officials operating under chapters 20 and 21 may employ the procedures of this chapter as an alternate method instead of the procedures in chapters 20 and 21 for the apportionment of costs and the preparation and collection of a special assessment ro…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.626 Assessment to public corporations of costs in excess of those apportioned for drainage to state or county highways; apportionment.
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Sec. 626. When 2 or more public corporations other than the state or a county or counties are to be assessed, the drainage board, or if appropriate in chapter 21 proceedings, the drain commissioner, may determine that costs to be assessed to the public corporations, in excess of …
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.627 Special assessment roll; preparation; contents; approval; certified copy of roll.
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Sec. 627. When employing this chapter, the chairman of the drainage board in chapter 20 proceedings or the secretary of the drainage board in chapter 21 proceedings shall prepare a special assessment roll which shall contain the name of each public corporation assessed, the total…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.628 Notice of due date of installment and interest; determination of amounts due from public corporation assessed in aggregate.
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Sec. 628. On or before June 1 of each year, or, if necessary in connection with notification of the due date of the initial installment only at any appropriate time, the chairman of the drainage board shall notify each public corporation to which costs are apportioned as provided…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.629 Calculating amounts of assessments chargeable against debt limitations of public corporations.
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Sec. 629. In calculating amounts of assessments chargeable against debt limitations of public corporations assessed under this chapter, each public corporation shall be charged with the same percentage of the total aggregate at large assessment as the state equalized valuation of…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.630 Purpose and construction of chapter.
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Sec. 630. It is the purpose and intention of this chapter to provide an additional and alternate method of apportioning drainage costs under chapters 20 and 21 to public corporations other than the state and counties. Therefore, this chapter when employed shall be construed to be…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.71 Petition to establish drain districts; filing, signers, certificate of county treasurer; municipality-signed petition.
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Sec. 71. After a drainage district has been established and the order therefor filed with the county drain commissioner, a petition to locate, establish and construct a drain may be filed with the commissioner having jurisdiction of the lands designated in such order as constitut…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.72 Board of determination; appointment, qualifications, and compensation of members; location of meeting; failure or refusal to serve; informing legislator of persons appointed; notice of meeting; publication; affidavit of mailing; effect of failure to receive notice; expenses of notice; election of chairperson and secretary; determination of necessity of proposed drain; statement; orders of board; notice; duties of commissioner.
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Sec. 72. (1) As soon as practicable after the filing of a petition, the commissioner authorized to act on the petition, if not disqualified under section 381 to make the apportionment of benefits, may appoint a board of determination composed of 3 disinterested property owners. I…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.72a Judicial determination of necessity; filing of action.
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Sec. 72a. Whenever the board of determination finds by majority vote of the whole number of members that the drain is or is not necessary, any person feeling aggrieved by the determination may institute an action in the circuit court for the county in which the real property is l…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.73 Proposed drain; plans, specifications and cost estimates; route, approval; easements on rights of way.
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Sec. 73. The commissioner shall secure from a professional engineer, plans, specifications and an estimate of cost of the proposed drain and descriptions of the lands or rights of way needed for the proposed drain. In approving the route of the drain as furnished by the engineers…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.74 Release of right of way; acknowledgments, oaths, form, area, signature of wife, resolution covering street or public place; open drain.
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Sec. 74. Commissioners may take acknowledgments of releases of right of way and administer oaths in all proceedings in any way pertaining to drains under this act. A simple form of release of right of way and damages that shall set forth by reference to the survey of the drain, o…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.75 Condemnation proceedings; obtaining right-of-way, easement, or other property interest.
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Sec. 75. If any person whose lands would be traversed or damaged by a proposed drain has not executed a release of the right-of-way, the drainage district may institute condemnation proceedings to obtain the necessary right-of-way, an easement, or other property interest pursuant…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.8 Conducting business at public meeting; notice; availability of writings to public.
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Sec. 8. (1) The business which a board or commission created pursuant to this act, or a body of special commissioners appointed pursuant to this act, may perform shall be conducted at a public meeting of the board, commission, or body of special commissioners held in compliance w…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.85 Owner's use of land of right of way.
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Sec. 85. The owner of any land over, through or across which a district has acquired a right of way for the construction and maintenance of an open or covered drain by grant, dedication, condemnation or otherwise, may use the land occupied by such right of way in any manner not i…