Title 125, PLANNING, HOUSING, AND ZONING

Sec. 1. Unless prohibited by applicable federal law, the state treasurer shall allocate and reallocate any federal law bond limitation allocated, reallocated, or waived to the state of Michigan for any of the following in accordance with the federal law establishing the bond limi…

Sec. 2. (1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, unless prohibited by applicable federal law, the state treasurer may provide for the waiver, deemed waiver, or reallocation to the state of Michigan of any federal bond limitations specified in section 1 allocated to proje…

Sec. 3. In determining any allocation or reallocation under this act, the state treasurer shall, to the extent practicable, give priority to projects within a region in which an original allocation existed or a remaining allocation exists and which reflect a consensus or preferen…

Sec. 4. Any allocation or reallocation of bond limitation for qualified school construction bonds, recovery zone economic development bonds, recovery zone facility bonds, or qualified energy conservation bonds made by the Michigan department of education, the Michigan department …

Sec. 5. As used in this act, "municipality or other entity" means a county, city, school district, or other entity that has received a federal bond limitation allocation.

Sec. 1. Any city or incorporated village or township is hereby authorized to acquire, own, operate and maintain any existing temporary housing project of the United States government or any agency thereof, and to dispose of any housing project or part thereof so acquired when the…

Sec. 2. Any city or incorporated village or township shall make payments in lieu of taxes with respect to housing projects acquired hereunder in such amounts as may be deemed equitable and appropriate but not to exceed the taxes which would be levied on the property if it were no…

Sec. 1. A division of minority business enterprise is created within the office of economic expansion, department of commerce.

Sec. 2. As used in this act: (a) "Division" means the division of minority business enterprise. (b) "Department" means the department of commerce. (c) "Minority business enterprise" means a business enterprise that is owned or controlled solely by 1 or more socially or economical…

Sec. 3. The head of the division is the director and shall be appointed by the director of the office of economic expansion.

Sec. 4. The division shall: (a) Provide technical, managerial, and counseling services and assistance to minority business enterprises. (b) With the participation of other state departments and agencies as appropriate, develop comprehensive plans and specific program goals for a …

Sec. 5. The legislature shall make an annual appropriation of operating funds to the division to be included in the budget for the department.

Sec. 1. (1) This act shall be known and may be cited as the "housing law of Michigan". (2) This act applies to each city, village, and township that, according to the last regular or special federal census, has a population of 10,000 or more. However, this act does not apply to p…

Sec. 2. Definitions. Certain words in this act are defined for the purposes thereof as follows: Words used in the present tense include the future; words in the masculine gender include the feminine and neuter; the singular number includes the plural and the plural the singular; …

Sec. 2a. As used in this act: "Enforcing agency" means the designated officer or agency charged with responsibility for administration and enforcement of this act.

Sec. 7. Sewer connections and water supply. The provisions of this act with reference to sewer connections and water supply shall be deemed to apply only where connection with a public sewer and with public water mains is or becomes reasonably accessible. All questions of the pra…

Sec. 8. Minimum requirements; law not to be modified. The provisions of the act shall be held to be the minimum requirements adopted for the protection of health, welfare and safety of the community. Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to invalidate existing ordinances or re…

Sec. 9. State board of health. The state board of health shall have the power to examine into the enforcement of this act.

Sec. 10. Time for compliance. All improvements specifically required by this act upon dwellings erected prior to the date of its passage shall be made within 1 year from said date, or at such earlier period as may be fixed by the health officer or other authorized enforcement off…

Sec. 65. Public halls, lighting at night. In every multiple dwelling all public halls shall be kept adequately lighted at all times by the owner. In every multiple dwelling of class "b", except those of fireproof construction having more than 15 rooms or sleeping accommodations f…

Sec. 66. Water-closets in cellars. No water-closet shall be maintained in the cellar of any dwelling without a permit in writing from the health officer, who shall have power to make rules and regulations governing the maintenance of such closets. Under no circumstances shall the…

Sec. 67. Water-closet accommodations. In every dwelling existing prior to the passage of this act there shall be provided at least 1 water-closet for every 2 apartments, groups or suites of rooms, or fraction thereof, except that in multiple-dwellings of class B there shall be pr…

Sec. 68. Basement and cellar rooms. No room in the cellar of any dwelling erected prior to the passage of this act shall be occupied for living purposes. And no room in the basement of any such dwelling shall be so occupied without a written permit from the health officer, which …

Sec. 69. Use of kitchens. No kitchen or cooking accommodations shall be permitted or maintained in any room or space of any building for the common or joint use of the individual occupants of a 2 family or multiple family dwelling.

Sec. 70. Water-closets and sinks. In all 2 family dwellings and multiple dwellings the floor or other surface beneath and around water-closets and sinks shall be maintained in good order and repair and if of wood shall be kept well painted with light colored paint.

Sec. 71. Repairs and drainage. Every dwelling and all the parts thereof including plumbing, heating, ventilating and electrical wiring shall be kept in good repair by the owner. The roof shall be so maintained as not to leak and the rain water shall be drained and conveyed theref…

Sec. 72. Water supply. Every dwelling not exempted in section 7 of this act shall have within each apartment or family unit at least 1 approved sink with running water furnished in sufficient quantity at all times. The owner shall provide proper and suitable tanks, pumps or other…

Sec. 73. Catch-basins. In the case of dwellings where, because of lack of city water supply or sewers, sinks with running water are not provided inside the dwellings, 1 or more catch-basins or some other approved convenience for the disposal of waste water, as may be necessary in…

Sec. 74. Cleanliness of dwellings. Every dwelling and every part thereof shall be kept clean and shall also be kept free from any accumulation of dirt, filth, rubbish, garbage or other matter in or on the same, or in the yards, courts, passages, areas or alleys connected therewit…

Sec. 75. Walls of courts. In multiple dwellings the walls of all courts, unless built of a light color brick or stone, shall be thoroughly whitewashed by the owner or shall be painted a light color by him, and shall be so maintained. Such whitewash or paint shall be renewed whene…

Sec. 76. Walls and ceilings of rooms. In all multiple dwellings the health officer or such other appropriate official as the mayor may designate, may require the walls and ceiling of every room that does not open directly on the street to be kalsomined white or painted with white…

Sec. 77. Wall paper. No wall paper shall be placed upon a wall or ceiling of any multiple-dwelling unless all wall paper shall be first removed therefrom and said wall and ceiling thoroughly cleaned.

Sec. 78. Receptacles for ashes, garbage and rubbish. The owner of every multiple dwelling, and in the case of private and 2 family dwellings, the occupant or occupants thereof, shall provide for said dwelling, keep clean and in place, proper covered receptacles of non-absorbent m…

Sec. 79. Prohibited uses. No horse, cow, calf, swine, sheep, goat, chickens, geese or ducks shall be kept in any dwelling or part thereof. Nor shall any such animal be kept on the same lot or premises with a dwelling except under such conditions as may be prescribed by the health…

Sec. 80. Combustible materials and storage spaces. No dwelling, nor any part thereof, nor of the lot upon which it is situated, shall be used as a place of storage, keeping or handling of any article dangerous or detrimental to life or health; nor of any combustible article, exce…

Sec. 81. Certain dangerous businesses. There shall be no transom, window or door opening into a public hall from any part of a multiple dwelling where paint, oil, or inflammable liquids are stored or kept for the purpose of sale or otherwise.

Sec. 82. Supervision and safety provisions. In any multiple dwelling housing more than 8 families, in which the owner thereof does not reside, there shall be a responsible person, or persons, designated as such by the owner. Every multiple dwelling of class "b" containing over 75…

Sec. 82a. (1) Each dwelling unit contained within a class "A" multiple dwelling shall be equipped with a single-station or multiple-station smoke alarm that complies with the standards set forth in the state construction code promulgated under section 4c of the Stille-DeRossett-H…

Sec. 83. Overcrowding. No bedroom or room used as a bedroom in any class "b" multiple dwelling shall be so occupied as to provide less than 500 cubic feet of air space per occupant, exclusive of the cubic air space of bathrooms, toilet rooms and closets. No room, suite or group o…

Sec. 84. Lodgers prohibited. The health officer or such other appropriate public official as the mayor may designate may prohibit in any multiple dwelling the letting of lodgings therein by any of the tenants occupying such multiple dwelling, and may prescribe conditions under wh…

Sec. 85. Infected and uninhabitable dwellings to be vacated. Whenever it shall be certified by an inspector or officer of the health department that a dwelling is infected with contagious disease or that it is unfit for human habitation, or dangerous to life or health by reason o…

Sec. 85a. (1) Within 48 hours of discovering an illegal drug manufacturing site, a state or local law enforcement agency shall notify the enforcing agency, the local health department if the enforcing agency is not the local health department, and the department of community heal…

Sec. 86. Repairs to buildings, etc. Whenever any dwelling or any building, structure, excavation, business pursuit, matter or thing, in or about a dwelling, or the lot on which it is situated, or the plumbing, sewerage, drainage, light or ventilation thereof, is in the opinion of…

Sec. 87. Maintenance of fire escapes. All fire escapes shall be kept in a safe and sound condition and shall be properly painted and repaired to maintain this condition. No incumbrance or obstruction shall be placed or maintained on any part of any fire escape or in any means of …

Sec. 88. Scuttles, bulkheads, ladders and stairs. In all multiple dwellings where there are scuttles or bulkheads, they and all stairs or ladders leading thereto shall be easily accessible to all occupants of the building and shall be kept free from incumbrance and ready for use …

Sec. 89. Rooms, lighting and ventilation of. No room except water-closet compartments in a dwelling erected prior to the passage of this act shall hereafter be occupied unless it shall have a window or windows of an area equal to not less than 1/10 of the floor area opening direc…