2006 Michigan Compiled Laws - Mich. Comp. Laws § 211.157 Waste and removal of property from tax delinquent lands; county treasurer entitled to injunction.

***** 211.157 THIS SECTION IS REPEALED BY ACT 183 OF 2005 EFFECTIVE DECEMBER 31, 2006 *****

Sec. 157.

When any person, copartnership, company or corporation shall neglect or refuse to pay any tax assessed on the lands of such person, copartnership, company or corporation after such taxes shall have become due and have been returned to the county treasurer, and before said lands are sold for the nonpayment of taxes, the county treasurer shall make application for and be entitled to an injunction to restrain waste on any of such lands upon which the taxes shall remain unpaid, and to prevent the cutting of any timber standing or growing thereon or the removal of any timber, wood, logs, sand, gravel or mineral or the tearing down or removing of any buildings or fixtures therefrom, whether or not such acts constitute waste. Any circuit judge or circuit court commissioner of the county in which such lands are situated may on application of such county treasurer make an order restraining any person, copartnership, company or corporation from committing such waste on any such lands by the cutting of any timber standing or growing thereon or the removal of any timber, wood, logs, sand, gravel or mineral or the tearing down or removal of any buildings or fixtures therefrom. The right of the county treasurer to a writ of injunction shall not be lost or impaired by reason of any failure or neglect on the part of the township treasurer or other collecting officer to collect the above unpaid taxes.

History: Add. 1901, Act 46, Eff. Sept. 5, 1901 ;-- CL 1915, 4156 ;-- CL 1929, 3551 ;-- Am. 1941, Act 234, Imd. Eff. June 16, 1941 ;-- CL 1948, 211.157
Popular Name: Act 206