Michigan · statute · 139 of 1972, Mich. Comp. Laws · 6 active provisions
In any township, the township board may contract for the maintenance or improvement of any private roads within the township by the creation of a special assessment district. Fifty-one percent of the property owners owning the frontage along a private road shall be required to request the improvement or maintenance by…
Upon receiving a petition, the township board of any township may enter into a contract or make any maintenance or improvement with the allocation of cost to be spread against all of the owners in the special assessment district benefiting on a pro rata frontage basis or against each owner equally in the special assess…
The making of improvements or the maintenance of private roads and the creation of a special assessment district and the assessments levied to be placed upon the tax roll of the township shall all be in accordance with the procedures and requirements of Act No. 188 of the Public Acts of 1954, as amended, being sections…
The maintenance or improvement approved by the township board may be an annual maintenance or improvement program not to exceed 5 years in scope and the assessment district shall not be assessed for a period longer than 5 years unless a new district with a new assessment is created to continue the program.
Maintenance, as used in this act, is defined as that word applies and has been adopted by the department of state highways manual to cities and villages.
The township board may enter into contracts with the board of county road commissioners to provide maintenance or make improvement but such contracts shall include specific terms holding and saving the county free from damages resulting from the maintenance or improvement of private roads.