Title 41, TOWNSHIPS

Sec. 8. (1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, an annual meeting of the electors of each township shall be held on the last Saturday in the last month of each fiscal year, at the time and place selected by the township board. However, the annual meeting may be held on …

Sec. 80. Every person elected or appointed to the office of constable, before taking office and within the time prescribed by law for filing the official oath, shall execute, with sufficient sureties to be approved by the township board, an instrument in writing by which the cons…

Sec. 81. The bond required in section 80 shall be filed in the office of the township clerk, and a copy of the bond certified by the township clerk is presumptive evidence of the contents and execution of the bond. Actions against a constable or his or her sureties upon such a bo…

Sec. 82. (1) Constables shall serve all warrants, notices, and process lawfully directed to them by the township board, or the township clerk, or another officer, and shall perform other duties as are required of them by law. A township board, by ordinance, may restrict or limit …

Sec. 83. A constable may serve any writ, process, or order lawfully directed to him or her in any township in his or her county.

Sec. 83a. If a person has committed a civil infraction violation under the Michigan vehicle code, Act No. 300 of the Public Acts of 1949, being sections 257.1 to 257.923 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, within a township, or has committed or is suspected of having committed any cri…

Sec. 83b. A police officer of a township or, if authorized by the township board, a constable of a township has the same authority within the township as a deputy sheriff to execute a bench warrant for arrest issued by a court of record or a municipal court.

Sec. 84. Constables shall attend the sessions of the circuit courts for their respective counties when notified for that purpose by the sheriff and paid by their respective counties.

Sec. 9. A petition under section 8 or 95, including the circulation and signing of the petition, is subject to section 488 of the Michigan election law, 1954 PA 116, MCL 168.488. A person who violates a provision of the Michigan election law, 1954 PA 116, MCL 168.1 to 168.992, ap…

Sec. 95. (1) In a township that holds an annual meeting of the electors of the township as provided in section 8, the officers composing the township board are entitled to the salary as determined by resolution adopted by the township board at least 30 days prior to the annual me…

Sec. 96. For services not otherwise provided for by law, rendered to townships by township officers in the duties of their respective offices, the township board shall audit and allow such compensation as they shall deem reasonable.

Sec. 97. The supervisor, if present, shall be the moderator of an annual or special township meeting of the electors, and if he or she is not present, the meeting, under the direction of the township clerk, shall elect by voice vote, a moderator of the meeting. However, the towns…

Sec. 98. The moderator of a meeting of the electors shall preside in and regulate the proceedings of a meeting of the electors. He or she shall decide all questions of order and make public declaration of all votes passed, and if a vote so declared by him or her shall immediately…

Sec. 99. A person shall not address a meeting of the electors until permission is obtained from the moderator, nor while any other person is speaking. All persons at a meeting of the electors shall be silent at the request of the moderator.

Sec. 1. (1) The township board of a township, or the township boards of adjoining townships acting jointly, whether or not the townships are located in the same county, may purchase police and fire motor vehicles, apparatus, equipment, and housing and for that purpose may provide…

Sec. 2. After the creation of a special assessment district under section 1, the township board, or township boards of adjoining townships acting jointly, may appropriate annually that sum necessary for the maintenance and operation of the police and fire departments.

Sec. 3. All proceedings relating to the making, levying and collection of special assessments authorized by section 1 and the issuing of bonds, except as otherwise provided in this act, shall conform as near as practicable to proceedings provided for townships in Act No. 188 of t…

Sec. 4. Any special election called under the provisions of this act shall be held under the laws of this state governing biennial township elections so far as the same may be applicable. In case a majority of qualified electors voting at such election shall vote in favor of such…

Sec. 5. The township board of any township, where appropriations have been made as herein provided, shall have power to enact such ordinances and establish and enforce such resolutions as they shall deem necessary to guard against the occurrence of fires and to protect the proper…

Sec. 6. (1) The township board of a township, or the township boards of adjoining townships acting jointly, if appropriations have been made as provided in this act, may do any of the following: (a) Establish and maintain police and fire departments. (b) Organize and maintain pol…

Sec. 6a. The legislative body of a municipality providing emergency police or fire service or the legislative bodies of municipalities acting jointly to provide such a service pursuant to this act may authorize by ordinance the collection of fees for the service. The township boa…

Sec. 7. Act No. 28 of the Public Acts of 1923, as amended, being sections 41.301 to 41.305, inclusive, of the Compiled Laws of 1948; Act No. 181 of the Public Acts of 1937, as amended, being sections 41.311 to 41.316a, inclusive, of the Compiled Laws of 1948; and Act No. 151 of t…

Sec. 8. The provisions of this act shall not be construed to impair or affect any special assessment district, or any rights accruing or any obligations thereof, created under the provisions of any act repealed by this act, but the same may be asserted and all the provisions of s…

Sec. 9. For the purposes of this act, any joint meeting of township boards may be held in any one of the involved townships.

Sec. 10. (1) This act applies to townships and adjoining townships and incorporated villages and qualified cities. If reference is made in this act to townships, that reference applies to townships and incorporated villages and qualified cities. If reference is made in this act t…

Sec. 11. (1) The governing bodies of 2 or more contiguous townships, villages, or qualified cities may, acting jointly, create a joint police administrative board, fire administrative board, or police and fire administrative board. A joint administrative board shall consist of 2 …

Sec. 12. (1) The township board may create a police administrative board, a fire administrative board, or a police and fire administrative board. The board shall consist of 5 members, who shall be appointed by the township board for terms of 6 years each. Of the members first app…

Sec. 13. By a majority vote of the township board at a regular or a special meeting called for that purpose, a township board may provide for the employment of 1 or more traffic officers in the township. The compensation of the officer or officers shall be paid from the general f…

Sec. 1. The township board of a township or the county board of commissioners may operate or join with another municipality or contract with individuals, firms, organizations, or corporations in operating or furnishing an ambulance and inhalator service for the use and benefit of…

Sec. 1a. Any municipal or private ambulance driver or attendant or policeman or fireman engaged in emergency first aid service, who, in good faith renders emergency care at the scene of an emergency, shall not be liable for any civil damages as a result of acts or omissions in re…

Sec. 1b. The municipality, person, firm, organization or corporation employing any ambulance driver, attendant, policeman or fireman engaged in performing emergency first aid service, shall require that they pass a red cross first aid course before they shall be entitled to the p…

Sec. 2. A township board may, by majority vote, pay from unexpended balances in its contingent fund to any hospital a sum that fairly represents the reasonable share of the township in the maintenance and support of the hospital whose facilities are made available to the resident…

Sec. 3. (1) A township, alone or in conjunction with 1 or more other townships, may operate a medical clinic and provide primary health care services. (2) A township board may finance the operation of a medical clinic and the provision of primary health care service by any lawful…

Sec. 1. Upon filing with the township clerk of petitions, verified both as to signature and ownership, signed by 60% of the record owners of the land to be made into a township water supply district, the township board in the township may contract with another township or a city,…

Sec. 2. For the purpose of distributing the water to be furnished in pursuance of a contract authorized by section 1, the township board may purchase and lay necessary water mains and fittings and maintain and control their use, either along public highways or upon private proper…

Sec. 3. Not more than 75% of the net cost, exclusive of money, materials, and labor that are supplied by a federal agency, of purchasing and laying the mains and fittings of a water supply system shall be paid out of the contingent fund of the township. On resolving to make and i…

Sec. 4. The percentage of the net cost remaining after application of section 3 shall be raised by payment, in accordance with sections 5 and 5a from property owners in the township water supply district.

Sec. 5. A person or property owner shall not tap or make a connection with the mains of a water supply district established under section 1 without having paid for the privilege. On compliance with the provisions of section 3, the township board shall promulgate and adopt, by res…

Sec. 5a. The township board may include, in its plan under section 5, rules and regulations for the establishment of a township water board and for loans to the water board from private parties of money necessary to aid in the financing of the project petitioned for under section…

Sec. 6. Immediately following adoption of the plan under section 5, it shall be published at full length by the township board once each week for 3 successive weeks in a newspaper circulating within the township in which the improvement petitioned for under section 1 is to be mad…

Sec. 7. If the percentage of the net cost remaining after application of section 3 is not, in pursuance of the plan under section 5, fully paid in to the township treasurer, by paid for connection rights as provided for in the plan or loans made in accordance with section 5a, or …

Sec. 8. If a sufficient number of private connection rights are timely paid for in accordance with the terms of the plan provided for by section 5, the township board shall immediately proceed to make and install the improvement petitioned for under section 1 and may, by resoluti…

Sec. 9. Money that is paid in to the township treasurer for private connection rights under section 5 on or before the date specified pursuant to section 5(b) which creates an excess over the percentage of the net cost remaining after application of section 3 and money that is pa…

Sec. 10. The township board has exclusive governing control over the maintenance and use of the mains and fittings of a water supply district established under section 1 and shall exercise this control in accordance with the terms of sections 1 to 20a and the rules and regulation…

Sec. 11. If water mains have been extended or installed in accordance with a plan substantially similar to that contemplated by section 5, the township board, subject to provisions of any contract that has been made with another township or a city, village, or authority for furni…

Sec. 12. As used in sections 1 to 20a: (a) "Township water supply district" means the portion of the township described in the petition required by section 1. (b) "Private connection" means the tapping of a main and the connection of the main with a nonpublic building or premises…