Michigan Code — CHARTER.TOWNSHIPS
Browse 46 sections in division CHARTER.TOWNSHIPS of the Michigan code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § 42.1. Short title; charter townships; incorporation; powers, privileges, immunities and liabilities; petition; special census; expenses.
- § 42.1a. Emergency financial manager; authority and responsibilities.
- § 42.1b. Minimum staffing requirement; adoption of ordinance prohibited.
- § 42.2. Incorporation; referendum; ballot, form and content; filing of petition or resolution by township clerk; finality of proceedings; term of incumbent officers; disincorporation.
- § 42.2a. Violation of MCL 168.1 to 168.992 applicable to petitions; penalties.
- § 42.3. Incorporation; submission of proposition to electors, time; petitions, verification of signatures.
- § 42.3a. Notice to clerk of township not incorporated as charter township; resolution of township board; notice of right to referendum; petition; signatures; submitting question of incorporation at general or special election; wording of ballot.
- § 42.4. Nomination of candidates for township office; conducting primary election; duties of township clerk; duties and composition of board of township election commissioners.
- § 42.5. Township board; election of members; powers and duties; supervisor as presiding and executive officer; authentication of instruments; president pro tem; clerk; record of proceedings; temporary clerk.
- § 42.6. Charter township board; compensation and expenses of members.
- § 42.6a. Ordinance establishing procedure for determining salary of elected official; contents; conducting business at public meeting; public notice; resolution implementing ordinance; petition for referendum; change of procedure; decreasing salary of elected township official.
- § 42.7. Township board; meetings; conducting business at public meeting; notice of meeting; transacting business at special meeting; quorum; adjournment; rules and order of business; journal; voting; availability of certain writings to public; attendance and conduct at meetings; misconduct in office; sergeant-at-arms.
- § 42.8. Charter township board; monthly publication of proceedings; notices and ordinances; posting.
- § 42.9. Township officers; powers and duties; additional officers, limitations.
- § 42.10. Township superintendent; appointment; delegation of powers and duties of township supervisor.
- § 42.10a. Township manager; employment; service; duties.
- § 42.11. Township superintendent; tenure; qualifications; residency requirements; waiver.
- § 42.11a. Township assessors; appointment, powers and duties, compensation.
- § 42.12. Township police force; establishment; township marshal, appointment; rules; policemen, powers and duties.
- § 42.13. Township fire department; establishment; township fire chief, appointment; rules and regulations; refusal to aid at fire, penalty.
- § 42.13a. Free public library; establishment or reestablishment and maintenance; conditions; ordinance; resolution; board of directors; appointment of library advisory committee; rules and regulations; state aid.
- § 42.14. Charter township; power to acquire property; approval of electors.
- § 42.14a. Bonds for public improvements; issuance; approval required; exceptions; limitation on net indebtedness; computation of net indebtedness; bonds subject to MCL 141.2101 to 141.2821; computation of net indebtedness.
- § 42.15. Ordinances to provide for peace, health, and safety; licenses, granting, fees, bonds.
- § 42.16. Streets, alleys, bridges and public places; regulation of use; record of ordinances, filing.
- § 42.17. Construction of buildings; powers and liabilities of charter townships as to public health and safety.
- § 42.18. Joint action with other governmental unit or agency.
- § 42.19. Ordinances, resolutions, rules and regulations of former township; continuation.
- § 42.20. Legislation to be ordinance or resolution; form, passage, amendment, recording, authentication, and compilation of ordinances.
- § 42.21. Violation of ordinances; sanction; designation as civil infraction; act or omission constituting crime; penalty; distribution of fines.
- § 42.21a. Police officers; right to pursue, arrest, and detain person outside of charter township limits.
- § 42.21b. Police officer or constable; authority to execute bench warrant.
- § 42.21c. Regulation of recreational trailway; posting of ordinance; violation as municipal civil infraction; penalty.
- § 42.22. Ordinance; publication; effective date; publication of summary or true copy; catch lines required; drafting of summary.
- § 42.23. State law or standard code; adoption as township ordinance by citation; publication, distribution, charge.
- § 42.24. Submission of itemized estimates of anticipated expenditures; preparation and submission of budget proposal; time.
- § 42.25. Budget proposal; contents; commencement of fiscal year.
- § 42.26. Budget; notice, public hearing, prior public inspection.
- § 42.27. Adoption of budget by township board; resolution; appropriation; tax levy; limitation; separate appropriation for fire and police departments; tax collection; interim budget.
- § 42.28. Budget or supplemental appropriations; expenditure, restrictions; unencumbered balances, transfer, reappropriation.
- § 42.29. Quarterly statement of estimated and actual income and expenses; submission by supervisor to township board; reduction of appropriations, exceptions.
- § 42.30. Annual audit of accounts; results, filing, public inspection; annual report of township business.
- § 42.31. Local or public improvements; approval; determination of necessity; special assessments; bonds.
- § 42.32. Succession to properties of former township; suits or prosecutions, debts and liabilities, uncollected taxes and assessments.
- § 42.33. Liberal construction of act.
- § 42.34. Exemption of charter township from annexation to contiguous city or village; exceptions.