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Chapter 41 - Townships
Act 246 of 1931 PAVEMENTS, SIDEWALKS, AND ELEVATED STRUCTURES (41.271 - 41.290)
AN ACT to provide for the construction, repair, and maintenance of pavements, sidewalks, and elevated structures on or along public roads and highways; to provide for the levying of taxes and of special assessments; to authorize the borrowing of money and the issuance of bonds; to prescribe the powers and duties of certain state and local agencies and officers; to validate actions taken, special assessments levied, and bonds issued; and to provide for the lighting of certain roads, highways, and bridges.
History: 1931, Act 246, Eff. Sept. 18, 1931 ;-- Am. 1945, Act 141, Eff. Sept. 6, 1945 ;-- Am. 1973, Act 122, Imd. Eff. Aug. 21, 1973 ;-- Am. 1989, Act 80, Imd. Eff. June 20, 1989
- Section 41.271 Pavements or sidewalks; application by petition; eligibility of signers, certificate of tax status; authority of county road commissioners; highway or public highway, definition.
- Section 41.271a Pavements or sidewalks; application by resolution of township board; declaration of necessity, public hearing; petition for discontinuance.
- Section 41.272 Pavements or sidewalks; survey, plat; adoption of materials, grade and manner of construction by county road commissioners.
- Section 41.273 Bridges, drains, curbing, culverts and additional rights of way; deemed part of improvement.
- Section 41.274 Pavements or sidewalks; first order of determination, specifications, description of assessment district by county road commissioners; location along state trunk line, approval by state highway commissioner.
- Section 41.275 Pavements or sidewalks; hearing of objections, notice, contents; change in specifications or boundaries of assessment district, new hearing.
- Section 41.276 Pavements or sidewalks; liability of petitioners.
- Section 41.277 Pavements or sidewalks; final order of determination, attachment of specifications.
- Section 41.278 Contracts for construction of improvement; bids, notice, procedure; commencement of construction.
- Section 41.279 Special assessment district; determination, announcement, addition of lands; determination of installments.
- Section 41.280 Assessment of benefits against township and parcels of land; review; assessment against state lands; numbering of districts.
- Section 41.281 Creation of indebtedness; approval by township board; limitation on issue of township bonds.
- Section 41.282 Maintenance and repair of improvement; proration of expense of joint improvement.
- Section 41.283 Proceedings governed by MCL 247.418 to 247.481; records; reports.
- Section 41.283a Bonds; issuance and sale; full faith and credit; assessment district sinking fund; bonds subject to revised municipal finance act.
- Section 41.284 Advancement of county road funds; reimbursement by township.
- Section 41.285 County board of supervisors; appropriation of funds for advancement; establishment of revolving fund.
- Section 41.286 Hearing examiners; powers and duties; determination of board of county road commissioners, petition for reconsideration, filing; notice, hearing.
- Section 41.287 Validation of prior actions, special assessments, and bonds.
- Section 41.288 Installation of sidewalks and elevated structures; payment; contracts; approval.
- Section 41.288a Sidewalk construction, repair, or maintenance; order; meeting; notice; assessment of costs; approval; election.
- Section 41.288b Public street cleaning vehicles and snow removal equipment.
- Section 41.289 Lighting of roads, highways, and bridges generally.
- Section 41.289a Lighting of roads, highways, and bridges; supervision; contracts.
- Section 41.289b Expenses for lighting highways; special assessment; hearing; notice.
- Section 41.289c Assessment in district for lighting roads, highways, and bridges.
- Section 41.289d Relieving district of duty to light streets or highways.
- Section 41.290 Lighting county roads, highways, and bridges; expense; contracts; extension of lines or service; payment; statement and budget; apportionment of sum required; tax; lighting state trunk line highways and bridges.
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