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2011 Michigan Compiled Laws
Chapter 280 — DRAIN CODE OF 1956
Act 40 of 1956 — THE DRAIN CODE OF 1956 (280.1 - 280.630)
40-1956-8. — CHAPTER 8. CLEANING, WIDENING, DEEPENING, STRAIGHTENING AND EXTENDING DRAINS. (280.191...280.200)
- Section 280.191 — County drains; maintenance and improvements; petition; determination of necessity; apportionment; review.
- Section 280.192 — Intercounty drain; cleaning out, petition; drainage board; survey; procedure.
- Section 280.193 — Drains; apportionment for cleaning, widening, deepening, straightening, and extending; review; notice; consolidated districts.
- Section 280.194 — Petitions and proceedings; description of drain, relief drains.
- Section 280.195 — Further right of way; damages.
- Section 280.196 — Inspection of county and intercounty drains; deposits in drain fund; expenditures for inspection, repair, and maintenance of drain; assessment; resolution approving expenditure of additional amounts; reassessment; notice; affidavit of mailing; failure to receive notice; assessment according to benefits received; determination of maximum assessment; emergency condition; excess expenditures upon request of public corporation; costs and bids where work performed by federal agency or public corporation; costs of maintenance and repair; salaries, expenses, and benefits of certain employees.
- Section 280.197 — Surveying drain or district, laying out new district, or making profiles, plans, or estimates of work; filing data; land added to drainage district; meeting of board of determination; notice; affidavit of mailing; failure to receive notice; expense of notification; reconvening and order of board of determination; locating, establishing, and constructing of drains.
- Section 280.198 — Drain taxes; subsequent assessment.
- Section 280.199 — Cleaning out drain; apportionment of cost; use of surplus in drain fund.
- Section 280.200 — Cleaning out drain; cost of maintenance and repair; public contracts.
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