Michigan · statute · 59 of 1915, Mich. Comp. Laws · 57 active provisions
On the completion of the roll, apportioning the per cent of benefits to be paid by the respective parties and municipalities, the county road commissioners or the state highway commissioner shall give notice by advertising and posting, of a review of said roll. Notice of such hearing shall be given by publishing a noti…
At such review the said county road commissioners or the state highway commissioner shall appear and hear all objections to the proposed apportionment of benefits, and equalize the same, and may make such changes and corrections in such rolls as they shall deem just and equitable. Such hearing may be adjourned from tim…
In case the proposed improvement is divided into sections for letting in separate years, as heretofore provided, then this roll shall be for the first section only, and a new roll shall be prepared each succeeding year for each succeeding section. Each such assessment roll shall be equalized in the manner herein provid…
If the rolls are made before the contracts for the construction of the improvement are let the total amount of such rolls shall be the estimates heretofore referred to, to which estimates the county road commissioners or the state highway commissioner shall add such further sum, not exceeding 10 per cent, as shall be d…
After the time for appeal from said roll has expired, or after an appeal shall have been decided, the county road commissioners or the state highway commissioner shall then prepare a tax assessment roll for the first year, for the collection of taxes and shall certify the same to the several township boards, to the leg…
Any person who has, or shall become the owner of, any interest, less than the whole, in any lands subject to the special assessments for road purposes as provided in this act, and the acquiring of said interest occurred or shall occur subsequent to the time for appeal from the roll as referred to in section 22 of this…
Exclusive of interest, the roll for the total cost of the improvement shall be divided by the number of years in which the total assessment is to be paid. The roll prepared for the first year's collection may contain an interest charge at the rate of 6% per annum upon the total assessment from the date of the confirmat…
Except as provided in section 23, after the first installment of the assessment, the succeeding annual installments of all taxes and moneys to be paid shall draw interest at the rate of 6% per annum. The commissioners or commissioner shall prepare their successive annual tax rolls or assessments in proper time each yea…
(1) Money collected on account of an improvement shall be paid to the county treasurer and credited to the special assessment district. (2) The money shall be disbursed only by an order of the county road commission or the state transportation commission and only for the purposes of this act. (3) The county treasurer s…
The county road commissioners or the state highway commissioner shall certify to the county treasurer of the county, the various sums to be paid by the county at large, townships at large, and lands benefited in each township, and shall also certify to the treasurer of any city assessed at large the amount to be paid b…
If the sum ordered raised shall not be enough to complete the improvement or to pay in full outstanding indebtedness with the interest thereon, whether such insufficiency is due to the anticipation of installments as provided in section 25 or otherwise, then the county road commissioners or the state highway commission…
Orders on the improvement fund of any special assessment district created and existing hereunder, shall be drawn by the state highway commissioner or by the chairman of the board of county road commissioners on the majority vote of the members of said board, as the case may be, and countersigned by the county clerk. In…
Donations of money may be received by either the state highway commissioner or the county road commissioners for the benefit of any road sought to be improved in accordance with the provisions of this act. Such money shall be paid to the treasurer of the county in which such special assessment district, or the greater…
All taxes assessed under the provisions of this act, shall be subject to the same interest and charges as are state and other general taxes. When the rolls are delivered to the township boards, they shall be collected in the same manner as state and other general taxes are collected. Collecting officers are hereby vest…
If any tax assessed under this act is rejected because of an error in the description of the premises sought to be charged, the tax shall be ordered charged back by the board of supervisors, and reassessed upon the lands in the same manner that unpaid or rejected taxes may be charged back by the state treasurer and rea…
If 2 or more parcels of land owned by different persons are assessed as 1 parcel and the frontage of the different parcels upon the improvement are not relatively the same, then upon discovery of the error the county road commissioners or the department of transportation, or any 1 of the several owners, may require the…
All special assessment rolls and copies of rolls heretofore required to be delivered to county or township clerks under this act shall be prima facie evidence of the regularity and legality of all proceedings had to levy such tax. Any determination herein required to be made by the state highway commissioner or by the…
In case a petition is presented to the state highway commissioner where authority to act is hereby vested in the board of county road commissioners of the county wherein such road is situated, such petition shall be immediately transmitted to said board and action thereon is hereby authorized as though the said petitio…
Any act or proceeding herein directed or authorized to be performed or conducted by the state highway commissioner, may be done by said commissioner in person, or by 1 of his deputies or by any other person generally or specifically deputized by him for the doing of such work. Any determination made by such deputy, or…
All highways improved under the provisions of this act by the county road commissioners, or by the state highway commissioner, where more than 1 county is affected, that are parts of county roads shall be and remain under the jurisdiction of the county road commissioners of the county in which such highway is situate.…
The county or city at large, or any township at large assessed a per cent for any benefit for the improvement of any highway by the county road commissioners, or by the state highway commissioner, may within 10 days after the final hearing of the review heretofore provided for, appeal therefrom, and for such purpose ma…
The probate court upon the receipt of any such application for appeal, shall forthwith notify the county road commissioners or the state highway commissioner in writing of such an appeal. The probate court shall thereupon make an order appointing the day of hearing upon such application, and shall require notice of suc…
At such hearing the board of review shall have the right, and it shall be their duty to review and equalize all assessments of per cent of benefits made by the county road commissioners, or the state highway commissioner, for such improvement upon the county at large, or upon any city, and the total assessment made upo…
The board of review shall proceed to hear the proofs and allegations of the county, or of any city assessed at large, and of the several townships at large, in respect to the matter of the appeal, and shall proceed to view the lands benefited by such improvement, and to review the total per cent ordered to be paid by t…
In case the assessment of the county road commissioners, or the state highway commissioner, shall be sustained by such board of review, the appellant shall pay the whole cost and expense of the appeal. Such cost and expense shall be ascertained and determined by the judge of probate; and the amount so determined by sai…