Michigan Code — FOURTH.CLASS.CITIES
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- § 81.1. Fourth class cities.
- § 81.1a. Short title; definitions.
- § 81.1b. Fourth class cities; construction of act; validation of amendments and acts.
- § 81.1c. Incorporated city as home rule city; charter.
- § 81.1d. Emergency financial manager; authority and responsibilities.
- § 81.2. Incorporation.
- § 81.3. Incorporation; petition; resolution of village council; referendum.
- § 81.4. Election; notices, contents.
- § 81.5. Election; qualified voters; form of submission, canvass; return.
- § 81.6. Election; authorizing vote; resolution of council, contents; records.
- § 81.7. Election results; adoption, recording; declaration of incorporation, filing.
- § 81.8. Village deemed fourth class city; evidence.
- § 81.9. Village deemed fourth class city; officers in power.
- § 81.10. Village deemed fourth class city; division into wards.
- § 81.11. First election of new city; time, procedure.
- § 81.12. First election of new city; prerequisites.
- § 81.13. Inspectors of election; oath, duties.
- § 81.14. Inspectors of first election; duties.
- § 81.15. Fourth class city; bodies corporate.
- § 81.16. Fourth class cities; judicial notice taken; changes in organization.
- § 81.17. Existing ordinances, by-laws, resolutions.
- § 81.18. Status of former rights; liabilities; remedies.
- § 82.1. Change of boundaries; procedure; order of determination, entry upon records; approval by electors of territory affected.
- § 82.2. Change of boundaries; rights and liabilities of annexed territory.
- § 83.1. Existing wards.
- § 83.2. Wards; number, apportionment.
- § 83.3. Wards; existing ward officers or aldermen.
- § 83.4. New wards; aldermen, terms.
- § 84.1. Electors; qualifications; registration; precincts.
- § 85.1. Election of certain city officers.
- § 85.2. Ward officers; election, term.
- § 85.3. Appointment, powers, and duties of city officers; availability of writings to public.
- § 85.3a. Conducting business at public meeting; notice.
- § 85.4. City officers; appointment, time.
- § 85.5. First election; election and terms of aldermen.
- § 85.6. City officers; terms.
- § 85.7. Appointive officers; terms, vacancies.
- § 85.8. Entering upon duties of offices.
- § 85.9. City offices; qualifications; defaulters, election or appointment void.
- § 85.10. Oath of office.
- § 85.11. Bond or security.
- § 85.12. Required bond; sufficiency of sureties, inquiry; examination annexed to bond.
- § 85.13. New bonds; failure to comply.
- § 85.14. Resignations.
- § 85.15. Office declared vacant.
- § 85.16. Office declared vacant; failure to file oath or bond.
- § 85.17. Vacancies; filling.
- § 85.18. Vacating officer; liabilities.
- § 85.19. Property turned over to successor; penalty.
- § 86.1. Annual city election; time, place.
- § 86.2. Special election; resolution of council.
- § 86.10. Elections; manner conducted.
- § 86.11. Violation of MCL 168.1 to 168.992 applicable to petitions; penalties.
- § 86.12. Vote by ballot.
- § 86.15. Notification of election or appointment.
- § 86.16. Oath of office or bond; failure to file; notice by clerk.
- § 87.1. Mayor; duties.
- § 87.2. Mayor; conservator of peace; limitation.
- § 87.3. Mayor; suspension of appointed officers, procedure; records, inspection.
- § 87.4. Mayor; vacancy in office, president pro tem.
- § 87.5. Aldermen; powers, duties.
- § 87.6. City clerk; powers, duties.
- § 87.7. City clerk; general accountant; tax reports.
- § 87.8. Supervision duties over moneys and property; accounts.
- § 87.9. Financial report to council.
- § 87.10. Deputy; appointment, duties; responsibility of clerk.
- § 87.11. City treasurer; powers; duties; depositary, bond; deputy.
- § 87.12. Financial reports; time.
- § 87.13. Payment receipts and vouchers.
- § 87.15. Public moneys; prohibited handling; removal from office.
- § 87.16. City marshal; chief of police and peace officer; duties.
- § 87.17. City marshal; suppression of riots.
- § 87.18. Monthly report to council; contents; moneys, disposition.
- § 87.19. Fees.
- § 87.20. City attorney; duties.
- § 87.21. City surveyor; powers, duties.
- § 87.22. Street commissioner; duties.
- § 87.23. Monthly report to council; contents; marshal as street commissioner.
- § 87.24. Constables; powers, duties.
- § 87.25. Neglect or refusal to perform duty; penalty; bond.
- § 87.26. Supervisors; powers, duties; representation upon county board.
- § 87.27. Selection of jury lists.
- § 87.37. Additional powers and liabilities of officers.
- § 87.38. City officers; compensation; fees.
- § 87.39. Increase or diminishment of salary during term prohibited; exception; eligibility for office resigned or vacated.
- § 87.40. Ordinance establishing alternate procedure for determining salaries; local officials compensation commission; resolution; petition for referendum; changing procedure by charter amendment or revision.
- § 88.1. City council; members.
- § 88.2. Mayor to be president.
- § 88.3. President pro tempore; powers, duties.
- § 88.4. Clerks; duties.
- § 88.5. Aldermen; required attendance; loss of vote, interest.
- § 88.6. Election returns; qualification of membership; meetings, notice.
- § 88.7. Conducting business at public meeting; notice; quorum; adjournment; pending business; compelling attendance of absent members; concurring vote required for certain actions; reconsidering or rescinding vote at special meeting; appropriation of money; passing or adopting resolution.
- § 88.8. Rules for council proceedings; record or journal of proceedings; availability of writings to public; taking votes; entering votes on journal; publication of record and votes.
- § 88.9. Compelling attendance at meetings; fines for nonattendance; sanctions for disorderly conduct; ordinance.
- § 88.10. City officers; attendance at meetings; public attendance and participation not prohibited.
- § 88.11. Powers of council; control of finances, property.
- § 88.12. Powers of council; ordinances, enactment.
- § 88.13. Powers of council; standing committees; appointment, duties.
- § 88.14. Records, books, documents, or papers; location; filing; inspection; defacement or destruction; violation; penalty.
- § 88.15. Members; compensation.
- § 88.17. Removal from office; preferring charges against and trying officers.
- § 88.18. Investigation of charges or other matters; procedure.
- § 88.19. Witnesses; summons, oath.
- § 88.20. Claims against city; audit, allowance; rules; defense to suit.
- § 89.1. Style of ordinance; passage; required vote; effective date of ordinance.
- § 89.2. Violation of ordinance; sanction; designation of civil infractions; act or omission constituting crime; limitation on fine or forfeiture; penalty.
- § 89.2a. Recreational trailway; posting of ordinance; prohibited operation of vehicle as municipal civil infraction; penalty.
- § 89.3. Veto powers of officers; passage of resolution over veto.
- § 89.4. Repealed ordinances; re-enactment.
- § 89.5. Approved ordinances; recording.
- § 89.6. Approved ordinances; publication; certificate; plumbing, electric, building codes, adoption; publication.
- § 89.7. Judicial notice of ordinances; best evidence, order.
- § 90.1. Violations; commencement of action; time limitation.
- § 90.4. Violations; commencement of action; warrant for arrest.
- § 90.5. Contents, form, and issuance of warrant; law governing proceedings.
- § 90.6. Judgment or conviction; limitation on sanctions; costs.
- § 90.7. Judgment; execution; fine and imprisonment.
- § 90.8. Imprisonment; city use of county jail.
- § 90.9. Process; direction and execution.
- § 90.10. Cause of action; allegations; applicability of subsection (1); judicial notice.
- § 90.11. Trial by jury.
- § 90.12. Appeal; judicial notice of ordinances and resolutions.
- § 90.13. Fines imposed for violations; payment.
- § 90.14. Fines imposed for violations; neglect of receiver, penalty.
- § 90.15. Fines imposed for violations; disposition.
- § 90.16. District court; jurisdiction; proceedings; applicable laws.
- § 90.18. Prosecutions by person other than officer; security filed for payment of costs.
- § 91.1. General powers.
- § 91.2. License; conditions for granting; revocation; sanctions.
- § 91.3. License; term; transfer prohibited; sanctions.
- § 91.4. License receipts; disposition.
- § 91.5. Franchise rights in streets; council vote; private damage suits.
- § 91.6. Railroad track; location and grade of street crossings; construction and repair; flagmen; lighting; enforcement of ordinance prescribing maximum speed limit.
- § 91.7. Railroad companies; drainage repairs; failure, expense of company.
- § 91.8. Partition fence; ordinances, by-laws, regulation.
- § 91.9. Support of poor persons; director of the poor.
- § 92.1. Policemen; watchmen.
- § 92.2. Policemen; rules, regulations; temporary appointments.
- § 92.3. City marshal; duties.
- § 92.4. Police officers; powers; duties.
- § 92.4a. Police officer or constable; authority to execute bench warrant.
- § 92.5. Police force; fees, compensation; monthly report.
- § 92.6. Police force; suspension, removal.
- § 93.1. Prison facilities.
- § 93.2. Prisoners; hard labor.
- § 95.1. City ownership of cemetery; regulation.
- § 95.2. Appropriation, cemetery.
- § 95.3. Board of cemetery trustees; appointment, term, removal.
- § 95.4. Board of cemetery trustees; chairman, clerk; powers.
- § 95.5. Board of cemetery trustees; property management powers, duties.
- § 95.6. Board of cemetery trustees; necessary employees; ordinances, enforcement.
- § 95.7. Board of cemetery trustees; cemetery fund, accounting; report to council, contents.
- § 95.8. Cemetery; city owned; ordinances; passage; enforcement.
- § 95.9. Privately owned cemeteries; ordinances governing.
- § 96.1. City owned pounds; impounding regulations; poundmaster.
- § 96.2. Fees for impounding; sale of animals; penalties.
- § 97.1. Authority of council; public wharves.
- § 97.2. Authority of council; construction of wharves.
- § 97.3. Authority of council; regulation of use of wharves, rates.
- § 97.4. Authority of council; preservation of water purity; use of harbor; ordinances and regulations.
- § 97.5. Authority of council; regulation of use of tugs and bridges.
- § 97.6. Authority of council; appointment of harbor officers; powers, duties.
- § 98.1. Regulation and licensing of ferries by council; sanctions.
- § 99.1. Council; powers to establish and regulate markets.
- § 99.2. Council; rules and regulations.
- § 100.1. Council; power to acquire real estate.
- § 100.2. Council; grounds for prisons; hospitals outside city limits.
- § 100.3. Council; public parks.
- § 101.1. Construction of sewage systems; condemnation; location.
- § 101.2. Board of public works; powers, duties.
- § 101.3. Board of public works; drainage construction plan.
- § 101.4. Board of public works; sewer districts; plats submitted to councils; adoption, filing.
- § 101.5. Main sewer districts; subdivision; special sewer districts.
- § 101.6. Main trunk sewers; adoption, recording.
- § 101.7. Main or trunk sewers; payment of cost and expenses; assessment; taxation.
- § 101.10. Special assessments for construction of sewers.
- § 101.11. Construction petition; sewer districts.
- § 101.12. Drains privately owned; regulations; expense lien.
- § 101.13. Drains privately owned; connection with public sewers.
- § 101.14. Drains privately owned; annual charge, lien.
- § 101.15. Improvement of ditches and water courses; special assessment.
- § 101.16. Public sewers; repair; cost, payment.
- § 101.17. Public sewers; ordinances for protection and control.
- § 102.1. Thoroughfares and public grounds; control by council; damage suits, liability; required notice.
- § 102.2. Thoroughfares; public improvements; condemnation; expenses, assessment.
- § 102.3. Thoroughfares; resolution to vacate; hearing, notice.
- § 102.4. Thoroughfares; survey; boundaries; recording of descriptions; ordinance to discontinue street; filing with secretary of state.
- § 102.5. Thoroughfares; street grading; diagrams, record.
- § 102.6. Thoroughfares; expense of grading, payment.
- § 102.7. Thoroughfares; grade changes, damage to property owner; compensation, assessment, procedure.
- § 102.8. Improvement and repair of highways, streets, avenues, lanes, and alleys; street districts; sewer, water, and gas connections; liability for cost; penalty; special assessment.
- § 102.9. Street districts; expenses of improvement, payment.
- § 102.11. Obstructions to highways; removal.
- § 102.12. Shade trees; lighting system.
- § 102.13. Removal of soil; street openings.
- § 102.14. Use of highways and streets.
- § 103.1. Sidewalks; control; grading; construction, maintenance.
- § 103.2. Sidewalks; required construction and repair by owners at public expense.
- § 103.3. Sidewalks; removal of snow, ice; repair, removal of obstructions.
- § 103.4. Sidewalks; upkeep, failure of owner; work at owner's expense; assessment; suit.
- § 103.5. Sidewalks; use regulated by council.
- § 104A.1. Special assessment for local public improvement or repair; resolution.
- § 104A.2. Special assessment procedure; ordinance.
- § 104A.3. Special assessment and interest thereon as lien and debt; delinquency.
- § 104A.4. Action to contest or enjoin collection of special assessment; notice; time limitation; effect of illegality in assessment roll.
- § 104A.5. Bonds.
- § 105.1. Condemnation.
- § 105.2. Condemnation; proceedings.
- § 105.3. Condemnation; resolution of council; suit.
- § 105.4. Condemnation; certified copy of resolution, delivery to attorney; petition, contents; filing; evidence.
- § 105.5. Probate court summons; contents.
- § 105.6. Probate court summons; service; guardian ad litem; appearance order; alias, pluries summons; return, filing; evidence.
- § 105.7. Probate court; impaneling jury; composition of jury.
- § 105.8. Probate court; oath of jurors, form; duties; instruction; verdict.
- § 105.9. Probate court; verdict of jury; contents, necessity, damages.
- § 105.10. Probate court; jury to retire with petition, map, blank verdict; form of verdict.
- § 105.11. Probate court; amendments allowed.
- § 105.12. Probate court; docket entries, copy; confirmation judgement on application, time; new proceedings; appeal.
- § 105.13. Probate court; disagreement of jury; impaneling new jury.
- § 105.14. Juror; disability; procedure.
- § 105.15. Circuit court; appeal, procedure; bond.
- § 105.16. Circuit court; probate court to return appeal.
- § 105.17. Circuit court; jurisdiction; proceedings.
- § 105.18. Circuit court jury; impaneling.
- § 105.19. Circuit court; oath of jurors, form; duties; instruction.
- § 105.20. Circuit court; verdict of jury; contents, necessity, damages.
- § 105.21. Circuit court; jury may retire with petition, map, blank verdict; form of verdict.
- § 105.22. Circuit court; confirmation of proceedings; cost.
- § 105.23. Circuit court; judgment of confirmation; records of city clerk; contents, evidence.
- § 105.24. Verdict confirmed; sums awarded; procedure for collection; assessment; evidence; city purchaser at sale.
- § 105.25. Verdict confirmed; sums awarded; payment within year; raising of funds; treasurer, duties; right of entry; writ of assistance.
- § 105.26. Court proceedings; officers, jurors, witnesses; fees, compensation.
- § 105.28. Property; sale of buildings; moneys, disposition.
- § 105.29. Property; negotiation; purchase.
- § 106.1. City waterworks; uses.
- § 106.2. Types of waterworks; construction; maintenance.
- § 106.3. Constructing, purchasing, or extending waterworks; borrowing; expenditure.
- § 106.4. Constructing, purchasing, or extending waterworks; estimate of expense; special assessment.
- § 106.5. Water pipes; private connections; repairs at owner's expense; permit.
- § 106.6. Establishing of water rates; annual, approval of city council; furnishing of water outside corporate limits.
- § 106.7. Establishing waterworks; care, control ordinances.
- § 106.8. Establishing waterworks; property beyond corporate limits, control.
- § 106.9. Establishing waterworks; construction privileges, duties.
- § 106.10. Establishing waterworks; condemnation of private property.
- § 106.11. Contract for water supply; time limitation; privileges extended to company.
- § 107.1. City lighting plant.
- § 107.2. City lighting plant; resolution of necessity; action of council.
- § 107.3. City lighting plant; expense estimates; vote by electors.
- § 107.4. City lighting plant; borrowing power, limit; manner of payment.
- § 107.5. City lighting plant; repairs, limit.
- § 107.6. City lighting plant; lighting rates, annual determination.
- § 107.7. City lighting plant; condemnation of private property.
- § 107.8. Contract for lighting; time limitation; privileges extended to company.
- § 107.9. City lighting plant; care and control ordinances.
- § 107.10. Repairs, alterations, and extensions; title retention contract providing for payment from available net revenues; construction.
- § 108.1. Board of public works; members, appointment, terms.
- § 108.2. Board of public works; officers, election, duties; quorum.
- § 108.3. Board of public works; powers and duties.
- § 108.4. Board of public works; rules, by-laws, regulations.
- § 108.5. Board of public works; letting contracts, conditions.
- § 108.6. Work done by board of public works; reports to council, contents; payment of claims.
- § 108.7. Reports to council; expense estimate submitted to council, time.
- § 108.8. Moneys received; disposition; statement, filing.
- § 108.9. Rate charges, payment; suit.
- § 108.10. Board of public works; employment of operating personnel; appointment, compensation.
- § 108.11. Board of public works abolished; procedure.
- § 108.12. Board abolished; powers and duties transferred to council; committee established.
- § 108.13. Board of public works abolished; re-establishment procedure.
- § 108.14. Election of board; time, notice; form of proposition.
- § 109.1. Fire protection; ordinances and regulations; fire department, establishment.
- § 109.2. Fire equipment; water supply.
- § 109.3. Fire houses.
- § 109.4. Fire chief; duties; assistants.
- § 109.5. Fire chief; power to command aid at fire; refusal, penalty.
- § 109.6. Fire wardens; appointment, duties.
- § 109.7. Fire ordinances; limits on wooden structures, construction, regulation; escapes.
- § 109.8. Trades within certain districts prohibited; combustibles, regulation.
- § 109.9. Prohibited structure; nuisance, abatement.
- § 109.10. Compensation of officers, fire fighters, and employees; compensation for injuries.
- § 109.11. Destruction of buildings at fires; damages, settlement; jury trial.
- § 109.12. Harbor fire ordinances.
- § 110.1. Fiscal year.
- § 110.2. Council's power of taxation; collection; installments.
- § 110.3. Tax revenues; division into funds.
- § 110.4. Tax money; special funds.
- § 110.5. Taxes for general fund; limitation on council.
- § 110.6. Tax raised in street district; purposes, limitation.
- § 110.7. Special assessments; purposes; local improvements, street and drain construction.
- § 110.8. Private sewer tax.
- § 110.9. Annual tax levy; purpose; credit for surplus moneys.
- § 110.10. Expense estimates of council; time, contents.
- § 110.11. Expense estimate of council; deficiencies; installment levies.
- § 110.12. Annual appropriation bill; purpose; contents.
- § 110.13. Taxes certified to board of supervisors and ward supervisors; manner.
- § 110.14. Annual appropriation bill; raising of moneys after passage prohibited.
- § 110.15. Improvements prohibited unless appropriation made; expenditures only from appropriations.
- § 110.16. Improvements financed by special assessments.
- § 110.17. Improvement before tax levy prohibited.
- § 110.18. Taxes and loans for capital improvements; bonds; limitation.