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Mich. Comp. Laws § 70.13 Police force; employment; compliance with standards.
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Sec. 13. (1) The council may establish a police force, and may authorize the president to appoint, with the consent of the council, the number of police officers and other personnel that the council considers expedient for the good government of the village and protection of pers…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 70.14 Police officers; powers, duties, and authority.
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Sec. 14. The council shall adopt rules for the government of the police, prescribe the powers and duties of police officers and other personnel, and invest them with authority necessary for the preservation of quiet and good order in the village. The police shall suppress riots, …
Mich. Comp. Laws § 70.15 Police chief; nomination; appointment; service; duties.
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Sec. 15. The president may nominate and the council may appoint a chief of police of the village. The police chief shall serve at the pleasure of the council, unless the council has agreed to some other condition of appointment, and is subject to the direction of the president an…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 70.16 Village police officer; powers vested; authority.
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Sec. 16. (1) A police officer of the village, within the village, is vested with all the powers conferred upon sheriffs for the preservation of quiet and good order and has the power to serve and execute all process directed or delivered to the police chief, in all proceedings fo…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 70.18 Department of public safety; creation; director; officers; structure.
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Sec. 18. (1) The council may by ordinance create a department of public safety and delegate to it all the power, authority, and duties which may be exercised by a fire department or a police department or both. If the ordinance provides for the combination of existing police and …
Mich. Comp. Laws § 70.2 Vehicles and equipment; water supply.
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Sec. 2. The council may purchase and provide suitable vehicles and equipment for the extinguishment of fires; and provide for a convenient supply of water for the use of the fire department.
Mich. Comp. Laws § 70.3 Necessary buildings for keeping vehicles and equipment.
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Sec. 3. The council may also provide or erect all necessary buildings for keeping the vehicles and equipment of the fire department.
Mich. Comp. Laws § 70.4 Chief of fire department; appointment; duties; section subject to ordinance.
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Sec. 4. The council may provide by ordinance or resolution for the appointment of a chief of the fire department, who shall be subject to the direction of the president and the regulations of the council. The chief of the fire department shall supervise and direct the department,…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 70.6 Storage and handling of hazardous substances; prevention and suppression of fires; ordinance; fire inspectors; authority subject to state and federal law.
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Sec. 6. (1) The council may provide by ordinance for the storage and handling of combustible, explosive, or other hazardous substances. (2) The council may provide by ordinance for the prevention and suppression of fires. The ordinance may prescribe, but need not be limited to, t…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 70.9 Building or structure as nuisance; abatement or removal.
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Sec. 9. Every building or structure erected, placed, enlarged, or kept, in violation of any ordinance or regulation lawfully made for the prevention of fires, is a nuisance, and may be abated or removed by the direction of the council under procedures set forth in an ordinance ad…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 71.1 Water works; establishment; maintenance.
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Sec. 1. Any village may purchase or construct and may maintain water works to provide the village with pure water.
Mich. Comp. Laws § 71.10 Water works; condemnation.
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Sec. 10. If it shall be necessary, in the judgment of the council, to appropriate private property for the construction, maintenance, or operation of water works, the right to occupy and hold the same and the ownership or easement rights may be acquired by the village in the mann…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 71.11 Water supply contract; use of streets, wharves, and public grounds.
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Sec. 11. The council may contract from year to year, or for a period not exceeding 10 years, with a person to supply the village with water and may grant to the person the right to the use of the streets, alleys, wharves, and public grounds of the village as necessary to construc…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 71.12 Street administrator; duties.
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Sec. 12. Unless otherwise provided by ordinance adopted under section 8 of chapter V, as directed by the council, the street administrator designated under section 13 of 1951 PA 51, MCL 247.663, shall perform, or cause to be performed under his or her supervision, labor, repairs,…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 71.13 Street administrator; report.
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Sec. 13. The street administrator shall provide the council, in writing and on oath once in each month, an exact report of all labor performed by the street administrator, or under his or her supervision, and the charges therefor; the amount of material used, and the expense ther…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 71.14 Department of public works; performance of duties of administrator; director.
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Sec. 14. The council by ordinance may establish a department of public works to perform the duties of the street administrator and other duties authorized by this act or by the council. The ordinance shall provide that the president shall nominate and the council shall appoint a …
Mich. Comp. Laws § 71.2 Water works or filtration plant; authorized acquisitions, construction, and maintenance.
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Sec. 2. The village may acquire, purchase, erect, and maintain the reservoirs, canals, aqueducts, sluices, buildings, engines, water wheels, pumps, hydraulic machines, distributing pipes, and other apparatus, appurtenances, and machinery, and may acquire, purchase, appropriate, a…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 71.3 Borrowing; purpose; limitations.
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Sec. 3. It shall be lawful for any village, subject to the provisions of this act, to borrow any sum of money, that will not make the total indebtedness of such village greater than the limitations imposed in chapter 9, to be used exclusively for the purpose of purchasing, constr…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 71.4 Estimate of expense; specially assessing cost of certain water improvements.
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Sec. 4. Before any money shall be borrowed, appropriated, raised, or expended for the purchase, construction, repairing, rebuilding, or extending of water works or filtration plants in any village, or for the payment of any indebtedness incurred by the village, in purchasing, con…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 71.5 Private connections; manner; permit; repairs at owner's expense.
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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 connected with the main pipe until a permit is obtained fro…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 71.6 Water rates; ordinance; terms.
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Sec. 6. The council shall establish just and equitable water rates to be charged and paid for water supply. The council shall periodically either modify, amend, increase, or diminish the water rates. The council may prescribe by ordinance when and to whom such water rates shall b…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 71.7 Water works; ordinances.
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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 water works, and all the fixtures, appurtenances, apparatus, buildings, and machinery connected therewith or belonging thereto…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 71.8 Water works; location outside corporate limits; control by council.
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Sec. 8. If the council considers it in the public interest, the village may purchase or construct and may maintain a water works beyond the corporate limits of the village. In such case the council may enforce beyond the corporate limits of the village, have control over the buil…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 71.9 Water works; use of street or highway.
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Sec. 9. For the purpose of operating or constructing and maintaining such water works, the village may, after obtaining appropriate rights as provided by law, use the ground or soil under any street, highway, or road for the purpose of introducing water into and through any and a…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 72.1 Authorized village lighting.
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Sec. 1. A village may purchase or construct, and operate and maintain either independently or in connection with the water works of the village, either within or without the village, works to supply the village with gas, electric, or other lights, at such times and on such terms …
Mich. Comp. Laws § 72.3 Authorized village lighting; acquisition estimate; referendum; restriction on council.
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Sec. 3. (1) To exercise the powers granted by section 1 of this chapter, the council shall adopt a resolution declaring that it is expedient for the village to acquire by purchase or construction, as applicable, works to supply the village with electric or other lights, and shall…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 72.4 Authorized village lighting; borrowing; limitation; payment; bonds; terms.
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Sec. 4. (1) A village may borrow a sum of money not exceeding 5% of the taxable value of the property in the village as shown by the last preceding tax roll, to be used exclusively for the purpose of purchasing or constructing and maintaining lighting works as provided in this ch…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 72.5 Lighting works; repairs, alterations, or extensions; raising and expenditure of funds; title retention contract providing for payment from available net revenues; construction.
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Sec. 5. (1) After lighting works have been purchased or constructed in the village as provided in this chapter, the council may raise and expend money to repair, alter, or extend the lighting works without submitting the question to the electors of the village. However, the sum t…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 72.6 Light rates.
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Sec. 6. The council may fix the just and equitable rates for supplying the village with lights.
Mich. Comp. Laws § 72.7 Lighting; condemnation of property.
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Sec. 7. If it is necessary in the judgment of the council to appropriate private property for the construction and maintenance, or for the due operation of lighting works, the village may do so in the manner provided in the uniform condemnation procedures act, 1980 PA 87, MCL 213…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 72.8 Lighting; contract; users of streets, wharves, public grounds.
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Sec. 8. The council may contract from year to year, or for a period not exceeding 10 years, with a person to supply the village with gas, electric, or other lights and may grant to the person the right to the use of the streets, alleys, wharves, and public grounds of the village …
Mich. Comp. Laws § 72.9 Lighting works; control and preservation; ordinances and resolutions.
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Sec. 9. The council may enact such ordinances and adopt resolutions for the care, protection, preservation, and control of the lighting works, and all the fixtures, appurtenances, apparatus, buildings, and machinery connected with or belonging to the lighting works, and to exerci…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 73.1 Condemnation.
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Sec. 1. Private property may be taken for public use in a village for opening, widening, altering, and extending streets, alleys, and avenues; for the construction of bridges, public buildings, and other public structures; for public grounds, parks, marketplaces, and spaces; for …
Mich. Comp. Laws § 73.2 Condemnation; acquisition of property; resolution.
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Sec. 2. To initiate the acquisition of private property, the council shall adopt a resolution describing the private property, declaring that the acquisition of the property is necessary for an improvement described in section 1 necessary for the use and benefit of the public, an…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 73.3 Condemnation; record of proceedings; admissible as evidence.
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Sec. 3. If a verdict and judgment in an action under the uniform condemnation procedures act, 1980 PA 87, MCL 213.51 to 213.75, is rendered in favor of the village in the circuit court, then, after the verdict and judgment become final, unless the cause was discontinued, the vill…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 73.4 Condemnation; assessment.
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Sec. 4. (1) After the village clerk records the final judgment and verdict as provided in section 30 of this chapter, the proper and necessary proceedings may be taken by the council for the collection of the sum awarded by the jury. (2) If the council believes that real estate i…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 73.5 Condemnation by negotiation and purchase.
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Sec. 5. This chapter does not prohibit a village from obtaining private property for a public use specified in section 1 of this chapter by negotiation and purchase. Further, this chapter does not permit a village to acquire property by condemnation that is located outside of the…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 74.1 Village; construed.
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Sec. 1. The term village, whenever used in this act, shall be construed to mean a village incorporated under this act or subject to its provisions.
Mich. Comp. Laws § 74.10 Reincorporation; existing by-laws, ordinances, rules and regulations.
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Sec. 10. The by-laws and ordinances of any such village, and the rules and regulations of the council and of any board of such village heretofore in force and not inconsistent with this act, shall remain in force after the passage of this act, and are hereby declared to be re-ena…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 74.12 Reincorporation; granted licenses.
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Sec. 12. All licenses granted by any such village under its former act of incorporation shall be and remain in full force and virtue until the expiration of the time for which they were granted.
Mich. Comp. Laws § 74.18a Disincorporation of village; procedure.
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Sec. 18a. (1) To initiate the disincorporation of a village, a petition signed by not less than 15% of the registered electors of the village requesting a vote on the question of whether the village shall disincorporate shall be filed with the township clerk. (2) A petition shall…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 74.19 Vacating incorporation of village; submission of transcript to county board of commissioners.
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Sec. 19. Upon receiving the transcript of the proceedings in submitting to a vote of the electors the question of vacating the incorporation of any village as provided in section 18a of this chapter, the county clerk shall submit the transcript to the county board of commissioner…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 74.2 Village not to own stock.
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Sec. 2. No village shall become the owner or holder of stock or shares in any incorporated company.
Mich. Comp. Laws § 74.20 Vacation of village incorporation; disposition of village property; assessment; levy; placement in separate fund.
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Sec. 20. (1) Upon the vacation of the incorporation of any village under sections 18a and 19 of this chapter, the officers of the village shall immediately deposit all books, papers, records, and files relating to the organization of or belonging to the village that are in their …
Mich. Comp. Laws § 74.21 Vacation of village incorporation; apportionment of indebtedness; village in more than one township or county.
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Sec. 21. (1) If the territory formerly embraced within a village vacated pursuant to sections 18a and 19 of this chapter consists of territory of 2 or more townships in the same county, the township boards shall apportion, among their townships, the amount of the indebtedness of …
Mich. Comp. Laws § 74.22 Placing property outside corporate limits; procedure; resolution, board of supervisors.
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Sec. 22. In case any person or persons want their property placed without the corporate limits of any village, they may make application to the board of supervisors of the county in which such village is located, to change the boundaries thereof in such manner as will place the p…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 74.23 Resolution for election of procedures.
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Sec. 23. Not later than the next meeting of council held after the clerk verifies the petition signatures and determines the sufficiency of the petition under section 18a of this chapter, the council may by resolution elect to proceed under this section and sections 23a to 23i of…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 74.23a Disincorporation commission; composition; appointment of members.
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Sec. 23a. (1) A disincorporation commission shall be composed of 3 members representing each township into which the village is proposed to be disincorporated and a number of members representing the village equal to the number of members representing townships. (2) The village p…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 74.23b Disincorporation commission; oath of office; vacancy.
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Sec. 23b. (1) An individual appointed to the disincorporation commission shall take the constitutional oath of office. (2) A vacancy in the disincorporation commission is created in the manner provided in section 3 of 1846 RS 15, MCL 201.3. (3) If a member of a disincorporation c…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 74.23c Disincorporation commission; chairperson; secretary; officers; bylaws; quorum; conducting business at public meetings.
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Sec. 23c. (1) The president of the village shall appoint 1 of the village members as chairperson of the disincorporation commission. (2) The village clerk shall call the first meeting of the disincorporation commission and shall serve as secretary of the commission and keep its m…