2006 Michigan Compiled Laws - Mich. Comp. Laws § 125.323 Township planning commission; creation; referendum; resolution, copies to secretary of state and county or regional planning commission.

Sec. 3.

(1) The township board of any township may create, by resolution, a township planning commission with power to make, adopt, extend, add to or otherwise amend, and to carry out plans for the unincorporated portions of the township as provided in this act.

(2) The resolution creating a planning commission shall become effective 60 days after publication in a newspaper having general circulation in a township. Within 60 days following the publication of the resolution by the township board, a petition signed by a number of qualified and registered voters residing in the unincorporated portion of the township equal to not less than 8% of the total vote cast for all candidates for governor, at the last preceding general election at which a governor was elected, may be filed with the township clerk praying therein for the submission of the resolution to the electors residing in the unincorporated portion of the township for their approval or rejection. Upon the filing of the petition, the resolution shall not take effect until approved by a majority of the electors voting thereon at the next regular or special election which allows reasonable time for proper notices and printing of ballots or at any special election called for that purpose. The township board shall provide the manner of submitting such resolution to the electors for their approval or rejection, and determining the results thereof.

(3) Upon the filing with the township clerk of a petition requesting the township board to adopt a resolution as herein provided, signed by a number of qualified and registered voters residing in the unincorporated area of the township equal to not less than 8% of the total vote cast for all candidates for governor at the last preceding general election at which a governor was elected, the township board, at its first meeting following such filing shall submit the same to a vote as provided in this section.

(4) The township clerk shall transmit copies of the resolution to the secretary of state and to the planning commission of the county of which the township is a part, and if there is no county planning commission, to the regional planning commission which is exercising planning jurisdiction over the township, within 10 days after adoption. The secretary of state shall maintain a public record of all resolutions so received.

History: 1959, Act 168, Eff. Mar. 19, 1960 ;-- Am. 1962, Act 78, Eff. Mar. 28, 1963