Michigan · statute · 107 of 1941, Mich. Comp. Laws · 42 active provisions
Upon filing with the township clerk of petitions, verified both as to signature and ownership, signed by 60% of the record owners of the land to be made into a township water supply district, the township board in the township may contract with another township or a city, village, or authority for the furnishing of wat…
For the purpose of distributing the water to be furnished in pursuance of a contract authorized by section 1, the township board may purchase and lay necessary water mains and fittings and maintain and control their use, either along public highways or upon private property for which the right to lay the pipe has been…
Not more than 75% of the net cost, exclusive of money, materials, and labor that are supplied by a federal agency, of purchasing and laying the mains and fittings of a water supply system shall be paid out of the contingent fund of the township. On resolving to make and install the improvement, the township board shall…
The percentage of the net cost remaining after application of section 3 shall be raised by payment, in accordance with sections 5 and 5a from property owners in the township water supply district.
A person or property owner shall not tap or make a connection with the mains of a water supply district established under section 1 without having paid for the privilege. On compliance with the provisions of section 3, the township board shall promulgate and adopt, by resolution, a plan for financing, maintenance, and…
The township board may include, in its plan under section 5, rules and regulations for the establishment of a township water board and for loans to the water board from private parties of money necessary to aid in the financing of the project petitioned for under section 1. The loans shall be retired only out of excess…
Immediately following adoption of the plan under section 5, it shall be published at full length by the township board once each week for 3 successive weeks in a newspaper circulating within the township in which the improvement petitioned for under section 1 is to be made. Proof of the publication shall be made and fi…
If the percentage of the net cost remaining after application of section 3 is not, in pursuance of the plan under section 5, fully paid in to the township treasurer, by paid for connection rights as provided for in the plan or loans made in accordance with section 5a, or both, by the date specified pursuant to section…
If a sufficient number of private connection rights are timely paid for in accordance with the terms of the plan provided for by section 5, the township board shall immediately proceed to make and install the improvement petitioned for under section 1 and may, by resolution, do what is necessary to accomplish the purpo…
Money that is paid in to the township treasurer for private connection rights under section 5 on or before the date specified pursuant to section 5(b) which creates an excess over the percentage of the net cost remaining after application of section 3 and money that is paid into the township treasurer for the rights af…
The township board has exclusive governing control over the maintenance and use of the mains and fittings of a water supply district established under section 1 and shall exercise this control in accordance with the terms of sections 1 to 20a and the rules and regulations that are required by and conform to section 5(d…
If water mains have been extended or installed in accordance with a plan substantially similar to that contemplated by section 5, the township board, subject to provisions of any contract that has been made with another township or a city, village, or authority for furnishing water through the mains, has exclusive gove…
As used in sections 1 to 20a: (a) "Township water supply district" means the portion of the township described in the petition required by section 1. (b) "Private connection" means the tapping of a main and the connection of the main with a nonpublic building or premises as distinguished from a connection with a public…
A corporation proposing to locate and construct, in a township having no sewage disposal system and a water supply system installed before June 14, 1951 under the terms of sections 1 to 12 that is inadequate for domestic and proposed industrial or commercial requirements, a business or plant requiring the facilities of…
A township borrowing pursuant to section 13 may enter into a contract with the corporation described in section 13 for the issuance and delivery to the corporation or its assigns of self-liquidating and fully negotiable revenue bonds for the repayment of the loan with interest on the bonds not exceeding the legal rate,…
The power conferred on a township by sections 13 and 14 shall be exercised by means of an ordinance adopted by the township board according to the procedure set forth in Act No. 191 of the Public Acts of 1939, being sections 41.191 to 41.192 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, and the contract agreed upon with the corporati…
There shall be created in an ordinance required by section 15 a lien, by this act made a statutory lien, upon the net revenues of the water supply and sewage disposal project authorized by section 13. The authorizing ordinance shall pledge the net revenues to the payment of the principal of and interest upon the bonds…
The net revenues pledged pursuant to section 13 remain subject to the statutory lien required by section 16 until payment in full of the principal of and interest upon the revenue bonds issued under section 13. The holder or holders of the bonds representing in the aggregate not less than 20 per cent of the entire issu…
If there is a default in the payment of the principal of or interest upon a bond issued under section 13, a court having jurisdiction in a proper action may appoint a receiver to do 1 or more of the following: (a) Administer and operate on behalf of the township, under the direction of the court, the water supply and s…
The principal of and interest upon the bonds issued under section 13 are payable solely from net revenues derived from the operation of the water supply and sewage disposal system purchased, acquired, constructed, improved, enlarged, extended, or repaired from the proceeds of the bonds that are pledged in the authorizi…
A township that borrows money under section 13 may appropriate and use revenues from a source other than the operation of the public improvement authorized by section 13 to pay expenses of operation or maintenance of the public improvement.
Sections 1 to 20 constitute a new and independent authority for the exercise of the powers granted in those sections. The powers conferred by sections 1 to 20 are not affected or limited by any other statute, except as expressly provided in those sections. Sections 1 to 20 create a full and complete additional and alte…
In a township where there are lands serviced by a water system financed by revenue bonds issued under the revenue bond act of 1933, Act No. 94 of the Public Acts of 1933, being sections 141.101 to 141.140 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, or by bonds issued under the county public improvement act of 1939, Act No. 342 of t…
A resolution of the township board shall designate the boundaries of the special assessment district authorized by section 20b, estimate and determine the reasonable annual cost and value of the water service available for fire protection through fire hydrants and mains, and determine what portion of this annual fire p…
The township board may use unappropriated money in its general fund to pay for a portion of the annual fire protection cost described in section 20c, including money received under the provisions of sections 8 and 10 of article IX of the state constitution of 1963.