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Act 40 of 1956 - The Drain Code of 1956 (280.1 - 280.630)
40-1956-1. - Chapter 1. Drains. (280.1...280.12)
Section 280.1 - Drain Code of 1956; Short Title. - Sec. 1. This act shall be known and may be...
Section 280.2 - Drains; Location, Establishment, Construction, Maintenance, and Improvements; Petition. - Sec. 2. Drains including branches may be located, established, constructed...
Section 280.3 - Drain; Definition. - Sec. 3. The word "drain", whenever used in this act,...
Section 280.4 - “Commissioner,”“drain Commissioner,” or “County Drain Commissioner” Defined. - Sec. 4. As used in this act, "commissioner", "drain commissioner",...
Section 280.5 - Drainage District; Body Corporate; Powers. - Sec. 5. A drainage district is a body corporate with...
Section 280.6 - Drains; Public Easements and Rights of Way; Use; Release, Notice, Protest. - Sec. 6. All established drains regularly located and established in...
Section 280.8 - Conducting Business at Public Meeting; Notice; Availability of Writings to Public. - Sec. 8. (1) The business which a board or commission...
Section 280.10 - Drains; Location; Meetings; Jurisdiction of Commissioner; Exception; Payment of Bonds or Drain Orders; Deficiency. - Sec. 10. Drains may be laid or extended into or...
Section 280.11 - Easement; Right of Way; Release of Damages; Recording. - Sec. 11. Any easement, right of way or release of...
Section 280.12 - Specification of Time; Directory or Mandatory. - Sec. 12. Except as provided in section 8, when a...
40-1956-2. - Chapter 2. County Drain Commissioner. (280.21...280.33)
Section 280.21 - County Drain Commissioner; Election; Term; Temporary Replacement; Vacancy; Bond; Abolishment of Office in Certain Counties; Transfer of Power and Duties; Effect of Establishing Department of Public Works or Public Improvement Agency;... - Sec. 21. (1) At the general election to be held...
Section 280.21a - Powers and Duties of Drain Commissioner Performed by Designated Persons in Certain Counties. - Sec. 21a. In a county organized under a charter adopted...
Section 280.22 - Drain Commissioner; Establishment of Office. - Sec. 22. All commissioners holding such office when this act...
Section 280.23 - Drain Commissioner; Jurisdiction; Drains in More Than One County; Outlet Only in Another County. - Sec. 23. The commissioner shall have jurisdiction over all drains...
Section 280.24 - Deputy Commissioners; Appointment; Revocation; Bond; Powers and Duties. - Sec. 24. A commissioner may appoint a deputy or deputies,...
Section 280.25 - Deputy Drain Commissioner; Liability of Commissioner and Bondsmen; Liability of Drainage District; Public Liability or Other Insurance. - Sec. 25. The commissioner and his bondsmen shall be liable...
Section 280.26 - Deputy Drain Commissioner; Salary, Expenses, Reports to Drain Commissioner. - Sec. 26. Each deputy commissioner shall receive such salary or...
Section 280.27 - Supplies; Blank Applications, Office, Location, Hours. - Sec. 27. County clerks, or the board of auditors in...
Section 280.28 - County Drain Commissioner; Salary and Expenses; Itemized and Verified Expense Account. - Sec. 28. (1) Each commissioner shall receive an annual salary...
Section 280.29 - Surveys; Use of Books, Equipment, Field Notes, Profiles, Blueprints, Specifications, Estimates, Engineers. - Sec. 29. The county shall furnish the commissioner with all...
Section 280.30 - Drainage District; Financial Statement, Records, Prerequisites to Tax Spread. - Sec. 30. It shall be the duty of each commissioner...
Section 280.31 - List of Drainage Districts Assessed for Maintenance Work; Annual Report and Financial Statement to County Board of Commissioners; Reports and Information Required by Director of Department; Liability on Bond. - Sec. 31. (1) A drain commissioner shall prepare a list...
Section 280.32 - Drain Commissioner; Social Security; Agreement for Coverage; Appropriation. - Sec. 32. The board of supervisors of each county having...
Section 280.33 - Salary of Commissioner, Deputy Commissioners, Clerks, and Employees; Payment From General Fund; Drain Maintenance Employees; Hiring, Status, and Compensation; Reimbursement of County General Fund by Drain Districts; Waiver. - Sec. 33. (1) The salary of the commissioner, deputy commissioners,...
40-1956-3. - Chapter 3. County Drainage Districts. (280.51...280.54)
Section 280.51 - County Drainage Districts; Application, Signers, Eligibility, Sufficiency; Deposit for Costs. - Sec. 51. Before a commissioner takes any action on any...
Section 280.52 - County Drainage Districts; Practicability of Drainage; Survey, Determination; Tax Delinquency. - Sec. 52. Upon filing of such application for a new...
Section 280.53 - County Drains; Surveyor, Duties; Route. - Sec. 53. The surveyor or engineer authorized to make the...
Section 280.54 - Order Designating County Drainage District; Contents; Notice of Filing; Amendment of Name or Number of Drain; Procedure. - Sec. 54. The commissioner shall prepare and file in his...
40-1956-4. - Chapter 4. County Drains. (280.71...280.88)
Section 280.71 - Petition to Establish Drain Districts; Filing, Signers, Certificate of County Treasurer; Municipality-Signed Petition. - Sec. 71. After a drainage district has been established and...
Section 280.72 - Board of Determination; Appointment, Qualifications, and Compensation of Members; Location of Meeting; Failure or Refusal to Serve; Informing Legislator of Persons Appointed; Notice of Meeting; Publication; Affidavit of Mailing; Effe... - Sec. 72. (1) As soon as practicable after the filing...
Section 280.72a - Judicial Determination of Necessity; Filing of Action. - Sec. 72a. Whenever the board of determination finds by majority...
Section 280.73 - Proposed Drain; Plans, Specifications and Cost Estimates; Route, Approval; Easements on Rights of Way. - Sec. 73. The commissioner shall secure from a professional engineer,...
Section 280.74 - Release of Right of Way; Acknowledgments, Oaths, Form, Area, Signature of Wife, Resolution Covering Street or Public Place; Open Drain. - Sec. 74. Commissioners may take acknowledgments of releases of right...
Section 280.75 - Condemnation Proceedings; Obtaining Right-of-Way, Easement, or Other Property Interest. - Sec. 75. If any person whose lands would be traversed...
Section 280.76 - Repealed. 2013, Act 262, Imd. Eff. Dec. 30, 2013. - Compiler's Notes: The repealed section pertained to hearing requirements for...
Section 280.77 - Repealed. 2013, Act 262, Imd. Eff. Dec. 30, 2013. - Compiler's Notes: The repealed section pertained to citation requirements for...
Section 280.78 - Repealed. 2013, Act 262, Imd. Eff. Dec. 30, 2013. - Compiler's Notes: The repealed section pertained to notices and orders...
Section 280.79 - Repealed. 2013, Act 262, Imd. Eff. Dec. 30, 2013. - Compiler's Notes: The repealed section pertained to conduct of condemnation...
Section 280.80 - Repealed. 2013, Act 262, Imd. Eff. Dec. 30, 2013. - Compiler's Notes: The repealed section pertained to hearings and orders...
Section 280.81 - Repealed. 2013, Act 262, Imd. Eff. Dec. 30, 2013. - Compiler's Notes: The repealed section pertained to determinations by court...
Section 280.82 - Repealed. 2013, Act 262, Imd. Eff. Dec. 30, 2013. - Compiler's Notes: The repealed section pertained to verdicts in condemnation...
Section 280.83 - Repealed. 2013, Act 262, Imd. Eff. Dec. 30, 2013. - Compiler's Notes: The repealed section pertained to release of right...
Section 280.84 - Repealed. 2013, Act 262, Imd. Eff. Dec. 30, 2013. - Compiler's Notes: The repealed section pertained to setting off damages...
Section 280.85 - Owner's Use of Land of Right of Way. - Sec. 85. The owner of any land over, through or...
Section 280.86 - Repealed. 2013, Act 262, Imd. Eff. Dec. 30, 2013. - Compiler's Notes: The repealed section pertained to owner's use of...
Section 280.87 - Repealed. 2013, Act 262, Imd. Eff. Dec. 30, 2013. - Compiler's Notes: The repealed section pertained to compensation of special...
Section 280.88 - Repealed. 2013, Act 262, Imd. Eff. Dec. 30, 2013. - Compiler's Notes: The repealed section pertained to certificates, reports, and...
40-1956-5. - Chapter 5. Intercounty Drainage Districts. (280.101...280.106)
Section 280.101 - Intercounty Drainage Districts; Application; Filing; Signatures; Eligibility. - Sec. 101. (1) Before any action is taken on a...
Section 280.102 - Intercounty Drainage Districts; Copies; Joint Drainage Board, Meeting, Time, Location, Notice. - Sec. 102. (1) Within 20 days after an application is...
Section 280.103 - Chairperson of Drainage Board; Disqualification of Member; Determination of Practicability; Survey. - Sec. 103. (1) The director of the department of agriculture...
Section 280.104 - Surveyor; Duties as to Intercounty Drain, Delivery of Papers to Board; Route. - Sec. 104. The surveyor or engineer authorized to make the...
Section 280.105 - Order Designating Intercounty Drainage District; Contents, Notice of Filing, Copies Furnished Commissioners; Amendment of Name or Number of Drain; Costs. - Sec. 105. (1) After considering the recommendations of the surveyor...
Section 280.106 - Review of Apportionment by Arbitration Board; Claim for Review; Nomination and Selection of Board Members; Meeting; Notice; Election of Chairperson and Secretary; Adjournment; Findings. - Sec. 106. If the drain commissioner of a county involved...
40-1956-6. - Chapter 6. Intercounty Drains. (280.121...280.135)
Section 280.121 - Intercounty Drains; Petition to Establish; Filing, Signatures; Certificate of County Treasurer; Eligibility of Signers; "Municipality" Defined. - Sec. 121. (1) After an intercounty drainage district has been...
Section 280.122 - Drainage Board; Duties Generally; Voting; Notice of Meeting; Affidavit of Mailing; Failure to Receive Notice; Expense of Notification; Drainage Board as Board of Determination; Determination of Necessity, Order; Liability for Percen... - Sec. 122. (1) Within 20 days after a petition to...
Section 280.122a - Judicial Determination of Drain Necessity; Filing of Action. - Sec. 122a. Whenever the drain board finds by majority vote...
Section 280.123 - Apportionment of Benefits; Assessment, Correction, Appeal. - Sec. 123. (1) After securing the necessary property rights or...
Section 280.124 - Meetings of Drainage Board to Receive Bids and Review Apportionment of Benefits; Notice. - Sec. 124. After such apportionment shall have been made by...
Section 280.125 - Meetings of Drainage Board; Review, Appeal, Computation of Costs. - Sec. 125. At such meeting the respective commissioners shall hear...
Section 280.126 - Construction of Drain; Receipt of Bids and Letting of Contracts; Abandonment of Petition; Order; Notice. - Sec. 126. At the time and place fixed in said...
Section 280.127 - Releases of Right of Way and Damages. - Sec. 127. Within 60 days next succeeding the entry of...
Section 280.128 - Condemnation Proceedings; Obtaining Right-of-Way, Easement, or Other Property Interest. - Sec. 128. If any person whose lands would be traversed...
Section 280.129 - Repealed. 2013, Act 262, Imd. Eff. Dec. 30, 2013. - Compiler's Notes: The repealed section pertained to meetings of special...
Section 280.130 - Computation of Construction Cost; Certification of Special Assessment Rolls, Filing; Levy and Collection of Taxes. - Sec. 130. The commissioners of each county affected shall within...
Section 280.131 - Drain Record; Certified Copies Furnished Other Commissioners, Filing. - Sec. 131. A full record of such drain shall be...
Section 280.132 - Drainage Bonds; Issuance; Terms; Deposit of Money; Disposition. - Sec. 132. If it is determined that the assessments shall...
Section 280.133 - Interstate Drain; Application and Petition, Drainage District, Proceedings; Release of Right of Way, Obstruction Agreement. - Sec. 133. Whenever any proposed drain lies wholly or partly...
Section 280.134 - Intercounty Drain; Venue of Actions; Appointment of Outside Circuit Judge. - Sec. 134. Any action involving intercounty drains, except such actions...
Section 280.135 - County or Intercounty Drain; Extension Into County Not in Original Drainage District; Adding to or Removing Lands From District; Procedure; Apportionment of Cost; Order. - Sec. 135. (1) If at any time after a county...
40-1956-7. - Chapter 7. Apportionment and Review. (280.151...280.162)
Section 280.151 - Final Order of Determination; Filing; Contracts for Sections or Whole; Apportionment of Costs, Benefits; Review, Appeal. - Sec. 151. Upon the release of the right of way...
Section 280.152 - Apportionment of Benefits; Description of Lands. - Sec. 152. All apportionments of benefits under the provisions of...
Section 280.153 - Order to Contain Description of Special Assessment District; Designation. - Sec. 153. Such order of determination shall contain a description...
Section 280.154 - Advertisement for Receipt of Bids and Review of Apportionment of Benefits; Publication and Mailing of Notice; Affidavit of Mailing; Failure to Receive Notice; Contents of Notice; Posting on Internet; Computation of Cost; Adjournment... - Sec. 154. (1) The drain commissioner shall advertise for the...
Section 280.155 - Bids; Appeal; Application for Board of Review, Bond. - Sec. 155. The owner of any land in the drainage...
Section 280.156 - Bids; Board of Review, Appointment, Meeting, Time, Notice, Duties. - Sec. 156. The probate court upon receipt of any such...
Section 280.157 - Board of Review; Duties Generally; Changes in Apportionment; Added Lands; Adjournment; Notice; Action and Decision. - Sec. 157. The board of review shall proceed at the...
Section 280.158 - Appeal Cost and Expenses; Liability on Bond. - Sec. 158. In case the apportionment of the commissioner shall...
Section 280.159 - Board of Review; Vacancies, Adjournment. - Sec. 159. Should any or all of the persons so...
Section 280.160 - Liability for Costs; Only One Board of Review, Adjournment. - Sec. 160. In case the apportionment made by the commissioner...
Section 280.161 - Certiorari to Review Drain Proceedings and Taxes; Issues of Fact, Costs, Postponement of Proceedings. - Sec. 161. The proceedings in establishing any drain and levying...
Section 280.162 - Village or City; Incorporation or Annexation; Reapportionment of Cost of Drain. - Sec. 162. Whenever a village or a city is incorporated...
40-1956-8. - Chapter 8. Cleaning, Widening, Deepening, Straightening and Extending Drains. (280.191...280.201)
Section 280.191 - County Drains; Maintenance and Improvements; Petition; Determination of Necessity; Apportionment. - Sec. 191. (1) If a drain or portion of a...
Section 280.192 - Intercounty Drain; Cleaning Out; Petition; Drainage Board; Procedure. - Sec. 192. (1) If a drain or portion of a...
Section 280.193 - Drains; Apportionment for Cleaning, Widening, Deepening, Straightening, and Extending; Review; Notice; Consolidated Districts. - Sec. 193. All apportionments hereunder shall be made according to...
Section 280.194 - Petitions and Proceedings; Description of Drain, Relief Drains. - Sec. 194. In any petition filed under this chapter it...
Section 280.195 - Further Right of Way; Damages. - Sec. 195. In case it shall be necessary to secure...
Section 280.196 - Inspection of County and Intercounty Drains; Deposits in Drain Fund; Expenditures for Inspection, Repair, and Maintenance of Drain; Assessment; Resolution Approving Expenditure of Additional Amounts; Reassessment; Notice; Affidavit... - Sec. 196. (1) An annual inspection may be made of...
Section 280.196a - Drain Not Established Under Act; Removal of Debris From Watercourse; Conditions; Permission From Property Owner; Costs. - Sec. 196a. Notwithstanding other provisions of this act, a drain...
Section 280.197 - Surveying Drain and Reviewing District Boundaries, Laying Out Revised District, or Making Profiles, Plans, or Estimates of Work; Retaining Services of Surveyor or Engineer; Filing Data; Revision of Boundaries of Drainage District; A... - Sec. 197. (1) Upon receipt of a petition filed under...
Section 280.198 - Drain Taxes; Subsequent Assessment. - Sec. 198. The assessment, collection and return of drain taxes...
Section 280.199 - Cleaning Out Drain; Apportionment of Cost; Use of Surplus in Drain Fund. - Sec. 199. In case the necessity for cleaning out any...
Section 280.200 - Cleaning Out Drain; Cost of Maintenance and Repair; Public Contracts. - Sec. 200. In lieu of assessing the cost of the...
Section 280.201 - Entering Property for Excavation or Tree Removal; Notice; Exception. - Sec. 201. (1) At least 7 days before entering property...
40-1956-9. - Chapter 9. Letting of Contracts. (280.221...280.223)
Section 280.221 - Construction of Drain; Advertisement and Receipt of Bids; Sealed Bids; Contracts; Bonds; Abandonment of Petition; Order; Notice; Affidavit; Board of County Road Commissioners Authorized to Bid. - Sec. 221. (1) The drain commissioner or drainage board shall...
Section 280.222 - Letting Contracts; Rejection of Bids; Adjournment. - Sec. 222. The commissioner shall first let the section at...
Section 280.223 - Deposit With Bid; Purpose; Retention of Deposit; Damages for Nonexecuted Contract; Return of Deposit; Disposition of Forfeited Money; Security; Conditions and Limitations of Personal Surety; Failure to Complete Contract; Bond or Ind... - Sec. 223. (1) A deposit in the form of a...
40-1956-10. - Chapter 10. Inspection and Approval of Construction and Payment for the Drain. (280.241...280.248)
Section 280.241 - Inspection of Drain; Order of Approval, Payments on Contract. - Sec. 241. No warrant or drain order for the payment...
Section 280.242 - Extension of Time on Contract; Forfeiture; Reletting Unfinished Portion; Recovery of Excess Cost. - Sec. 242. The commissioner shall have power to grant a...
Section 280.243 - Deficiency; Assessment, Collection, Review, Appeal; Embezzlement; Payment From County General Fund, Conditions. - Sec. 243. Whenever the amount assessed for the construction of...
Section 280.244 - Drain Orders; Drawing and Payment, Restrictions; Payment From County General Fund, Reimbursement. - Sec. 244. All orders for the payment for services rendered...
Section 280.245 - Drain Orders; Contents, Recording; Payment; Insufficient Funds, Interest; Drain Order Redemption Fund; Payment of Drainage Taxes; Reports to Commissioner by County Treasurer. - Sec. 245. All drain orders made by the commissioner shall...
Section 280.246 - Advertising Rates; Fees of Judge of Probate and Other Officers. - Sec. 246. Newspaper publishers shall receive legal rates for advertising....
Section 280.247 - Attorney; Employment; Expenses and Costs, Payment From Drain Fund; Prosecuting Attorney; "Attendant Expenses and Costs" Defined . - Sec. 247. (1) The county drain commissioner or drainage board...
Section 280.248 - Expenses of State Director of Agriculture or Deputy; Payment. - Sec. 248. The state director of agriculture, or any deputy...
40-1956-11. - Chapter 11. Levy and Collection of Drain Taxes. (280.261...280.283)
Section 280.261 - Computation of Cost; Items Included; Contingent Expenses. - Sec. 261. Within 10 days after the letting of contracts,...
Section 280.262 - Special Assessment Roll and Tax Assessment Roll; Contents; Installment Payments. - Sec. 262. (1) The commissioner shall thereupon make a special...
Section 280.263 - Spread of Drain Taxes on Rolls; Time. - Sec. 263. It shall be the duty of the supervisor,...
Section 280.264 - Statement of Assessments Upon Township at Large Furnished Township Treasurer. - Sec. 264. The supervisor shall, at the time of the...
Section 280.265 - Drain Taxes; General Tax Law Applicable, Payment Under Protest, Action, Lien, Personal Claim. - Sec. 265. All drain taxes assessed under the provisions of...
Section 280.266 - Return of Delinquent Drain Taxes; General Tax Law Applicable. - Sec. 266. If the taxes levied for the construction, cleaning...
Section 280.267 - Injunction After Assessment. - Sec. 267. After any taxes have been assessed for the...
Section 280.268 - Perpetual Injunction Not Allowed for Informalities; Plaintiff May Show Injury. - Sec. 268. The collection of no tax levied or ordered...
Section 280.269 - Invalidation Proceedings; Proofs, Correction of Damages or Assessment, Order, Costs. - Sec. 269. The court in which such proceedings are begun...
Section 280.270 - Tax Lien; Proceeding to Compel Spread of Tax; Established Drains. - Sec. 270. Whenever any drain has been located and established,...
Section 280.271 - Tax Collection Suits; Tax Reassessment. - Sec. 271. Any drain taxes that may have been assessed...
Section 280.272 - Tax Collection Suits; Assumpsit; Prima Facie Evidence, Judgment Based on Benefits; Authority to Sue. - Sec. 272. In any suit brought for the collection of...
Section 280.273 - New Proceedings When Tax Set Aside; Report of Defects to Supervisors, Reassessment. - Sec. 273. In case any drain tax heretofore or to...
Section 280.274 - Invalidation Proceedings; Commissioner as Party. - Sec. 274. In any suit brought to set aside any...
Section 280.275 - Drainage District Bonds; Issuance; Terms; Sale Subject to Revised Municipal Finance Act; Premium; Limitation on Payment From County General Fund. - Sec. 275. If bonds are issued, as provided in this...
Section 280.276 - County Drainage District Bonds or Notes; Intracounty Drains; Faith and Credit; Advancement by County, Reassessment. - Sec. 276. If bonds or notes are to be issued...
Section 280.277 - Drainage District Bonds; Delinquent Assessments, Advance by Cities, Villages, or Townships; Reimbursement; Reassessment; Validation of Drain Orders or Bonds. - Sec. 277. Whenever lands in any city, village, or township...
Section 280.278 - Interest on Installments of Drain Taxes; Payment of Interest; Disposition and Use of Installments and Interest; Bank Deposits; Interest on Bonds or Notes. - Sec. 278. If bonds or notes are issued and sold...
Section 280.279 - Special Assessments; Payment in Full; Notice to Commissioner; Deficiency Assessment. - Sec. 279. Any person liable to the payment of special...
Section 280.280 - Additional Assessments; Levy; Surplus; Exemption of Certain Lands From Deficiency Assessments; Purpose. - Sec. 280. (1) If there is not sufficient money in...
Section 280.281 - Special Drain Assessment; Definition of Municipal Corporation. - Sec. 281. Any municipal corporation may contract to pay all...
Section 280.282 - Investment of Surplus Funds; Consolidation of Drainage District Funds; Disposition and Use of Interest; Revolving Maintenance Fund; Consolidation With Other Funds for Investment Purposes; Disposition of Interest Earned; Accounting f... - Sec. 282. (1) The drain commissioner or drainage board may...
Section 280.283 - Use or Transfer of Surplus Construction Funds; Contract With Public Corporation; Provisions of Contract; Return of Surplus Construction Funds to State Transportation Department; Definitions. - Sec. 283. (1) The drain commissioner or drainage board shall...
40-1956-12. - Chapter 12. Revolving Funds for Drains. (280.301...280.307)
Section 280.301 - Revolving Drain Fund; Creation, Use. - Sec. 301. At the October session of the board of...
Section 280.302 - Revolving Drain Fund; Use; Intercounty Drains; Expenses After Date of Letting Drain Contracts. - Sec. 302. The revolving fund may be used for paying...
Section 280.303 - Revolving Drain Fund; Accounting Records; Reimbursement. - Sec. 303. The county treasurers shall carry as a separate...
Section 280.304 - Revolving Drain Fund; Deposit in Bank; Interest. - Sec. 304. The said revolving fund shall be deposited in...
Section 280.305 - Revolving Drain Fund; Transfer to Particular Drain Fund of Moneys Under Former Law, Use. - Sec. 305. When the moneys for the revolving fund shall...
Section 280.306 - Revolving Fund; Expenditures or Obligation Before Completion of Improvement; Report to County Board of Commissioners; Apportionment. - Sec. 306. If revolving fund money has been expended or...
Section 280.307 - Revolving Fund; Expenditures or Obligation Before Completion of Improvement; Intercounty Drainage District, Apportionment; Recovery of Money. - Sec. 307. (1) The drainage board shall apportion the cost...
40-1956-13. - Chapter 13. Highways. (280.321...280.328)
Section 280.321 - Drains in Public Highways; Permit; Release of Right of Way. - Sec. 321. Drains may be laid within or across the...
Section 280.322 - Drains in Public Highways; Cost of Construction; Contract; Maintenance, Bridges or Culverts to Farms. - Sec. 322. When any drain crosses a highway, the necessary...
Section 280.322b - Drains; Highways, Crossing; Expenses. - Sec. 322b. If any person desires during construction or reconstruction...
Section 280.323 - Drains Along Public Highways; Consent; Disposition of Materials; Apportionment Against State Trunk Line Highway; Payment of Assessment; Certificate of Amount Due; Drains Constructed Prior to 1923. - Sec. 323. Before a drain is constructed along a public...
Section 280.324 - Drainage Across Lands Adjacent to Highways; Right of Way; Approval of Purchase. - Sec. 324. Whenever it is necessary or more convenient for...
Section 280.325 - Cost to Township for Highway Drainage; Report by County Road Commission, Drain Fund. - Sec. 325. The county road commission shall report to the...
Section 280.326 - Construction Report; Restriction on County Road Commission. - Sec. 326. On the completion by the county road commission...
Section 280.327 - Construction or Maintenance of Highway; County or Intercounty Drain; Application or Petition, Procedure, Jurisdiction, and Authority of County Drain Commissioner or Drainage Board; Meeting to Be Held by Director of Department of Agr... - Sec. 327. (1) If it is necessary for the construction...
Section 280.328 - Forwarding Engineering Plans to Drain Commissioner. - Sec. 328. Before the department of state highways may commence...
40-1956-14. - Chapter 14. Railroads. (280.341...280.343)
Section 280.341 - Drains Along Railroad; Release of Right of Way; Consent. - Sec. 341. Drains may be laid along the line of...
Section 280.342 - Drains Across Public Utility Right of Way; Mandamus to Compel Opening; Costs. - Sec. 342. Whenever it is necessary to lay out and...
Section 280.343 - Violation of Act; Penalty. - Sec. 343. In case such railroad company shall refuse or...
40-1956-15. - Chapter 15. Dams in Drains. (280.351...280.356)
Section 280.351 - Dams in Drains to Control Flow, Water Levels and Seepage; Removal of Drainage by Pumps. - Sec. 351. Established drains may be improved for the benefit...
Section 280.352 - Dams in Drains; Petition, Signers, Contents, Examination, Finding. - Sec. 352. When it appears upon the written petition of...
Section 280.353 - Dams in Drains; First Order of Determination, Contents. - Sec. 353. If such commissioner determines such improvement, as set...
Section 280.354 - Dams in Drains; Construction Contract With Owners of Lands Benefited; Default, Contract for Completion, Costs and Expenses. - Sec. 354. If at any time after the commissioner has...
Section 280.355 - Dams in Drains; Supervision of Work; Governing Provisions. - Sec. 355. All work done under the provisions of this...
Section 280.356 - Dams in Drains; Intercounty Drains; Governing Provisions. - Sec. 356. Each and every act required by the foregoing...
40-1956-16. - Chapter 16. Special County Commissioner. (280.381...280.384)
Section 280.381 - Disqualification of Commissioner; Petition Filed With Probate Judge. - Sec. 381. Whenever the commissioner of any county shall receive...
Section 280.382 - Disqualification of Commissioner; Appointment of Disinterested Commissioner; Duties as to County Drain. - Sec. 382. Upon receiving such petition and certificate aforesaid, the...
Section 280.383 - Disqualification of Commissioner; Appointment in Case of Intercounty Drain. - Sec. 383. In the case of a drain affecting more...
Section 280.384 - Disinterested Commissioner; Salary and Expenses, Assessment. - Sec. 384. The salary of the commissioner so appointed, which...
40-1956-17. - Chapter 17. Abandoned and Vacated Drains—disposal of Funds. (280.391...280.396)
Section 280.391 - Abandoned and Vacated Drains; Procedure; Private Rights; New Drain. - Sec. 391. Any drain or part thereof which has ceased...
Section 280.392 - Abandoned and Vacated Drains; Notices; Disposal of Money in Drain Funds. - Sec. 392. Whenever any drain shall have been declared vacated...
Section 280.393 - Abandoned and Vacated Drains; Duties of Township Treasurer in Distribution of Funds. - Sec. 393. Upon receiving such money, and the accompanying statement,...
Section 280.394 - Abandoned and Vacated Drains; Disposal of Funds, Payments by Township Treasurer. - Sec. 394. In case any person who might be entitled...
Section 280.395 - County or Intercounty Drain; Transfer of Jurisdiction and Control; Conditions; Approval; Transfer of Drain Fund. - Sec. 395. (1) The county drain commissioner or the intercounty...
Section 280.396 - Transfer of Drain Project to County Department of Public Works. - Sec. 396. In any county which has established a department...
40-1956-18. - Chapter 18. Obstructions in Drains; Sewage; Miscellaneous Provisions. (280.421...280.435)
Section 280.421 - Obstructions; Removal; Expenses, Notice; Livestock; Criminal Complaint. - Sec. 421. Whenever any person shall obstruct any established drain,...
Section 280.422 - Obstructions; Public Utility Companies; Removal, Mandamus. - Sec. 422. Railroad or railway companies, telephone, telegraph, or pipeline...
Section 280.423 - Discharge of Certain Sewage or Waste Matter Into Drains Prohibited; Construction to Purify Flow; Petitions; Order of Determination; Findings; Construction of Drain; Plans and Specifications; Contracts; Costs; Review; Acquisition of... - Sec. 423. (1) A person shall not continue to discharge...
Section 280.424 - Inadequate Disposal or Filtration Plant; Abatement of Nuisance; Estimate of Annual Cost; Appeal; Notice; Posting; Review of Apportionment; Board of Review; Meeting; Proceedings; Determination; Payment; Assessment; Water Rates. - Sec. 424. Whenever a disposal plant, filtration plant or other...
Section 280.425 - Petition to Construct Open or Closed Drain; Permission of Commissioners or Drainage Board; Consent of Landowners; Expense; Time and Manner of Construction; Protection of Drain Entrance; Signature of Applicant or Petitioner; Tiling S... - Sec. 425. A landowner in the drainage district whose land...
Section 280.426 - Drain Orders Received for Drain Taxes. - Sec. 426. The drain orders issued for each particular drain...
Section 280.427 - Corporation or Land Contract Vendee as Freeholder; Corporate Agent or Officer as Signer of Petition. - Sec. 427. In any application or petition required to be...
Section 280.428 - Drainage District Including State Lands; Assessment, Payment. - Sec. 428. If any drain commissioner shall receive an application...
Section 280.429 - Flood Control Projects; Easements to United States; Approval. - Sec. 429. Subject to the consent and approval of the...
Section 280.430 - Sanitary Sewage; Contracts for Use of Drains; Charges; Lien; Cost Included in Charges. - Sec. 430. (1) Whenever any county or intercounty drain is...
Section 280.431 - Contracts for Drain Projects; Federal Government; Public Corporations; Relief From Assessments; Flood Control Projects; Conservation and Utilization of Soil and Water; “Public Corporation” Defined. - Sec. 431. The drain commissioner or drainage board may contract...
Section 280.432 - Obstruction of Drain Commissioner; Drainage Board or Agents; Misdemeanor. - Sec. 432. Whoever, after the drain commissioner has given notice...
Section 280.433 - Enlargement of Drainage District; Agreement; Construction and Cost of Drainage Facilities; Certificate of Registered Professional Engineer; Payment of Excess Amount and Pro Rata Equitable Share; Liability of Added Lands for Assessme... - Sec. 433. (1) An existing intracounty or intercounty drainage district...
Section 280.434 - Drain Project; Construction or Studies; Borrowing Money or Accepting Advances; Reimbursement; Contract or Note as Evidence of Obligation; Full Faith and Credit; Source of Payments; Applicability of Section. - Sec. 434. (1) A drainage district may borrow money or...
Section 280.435 - Financing of Flood Control or Drainage Projects; Contract or Agreement With Federal Government; Payments and Purposes; Determination of Necessity; Notes or Bonds; Issuance Subject to Revised Municipal Finance Act. - Sec. 435. (1) The drain commissioner or drainage board may...
40-1956-19. - Chapter 19. Consolidated Districts. (280.441...280.448)
Section 280.441 - Consolidating and Organizing 2 or More Drainage Districts in Same County as Single Drainage District; Signing and Filing Petition for Consolidation; Land Included; Appointment, Qualifications, and Compensation of Members of Board of... - Sec. 441. (1) Two or more drainage districts located in...
Section 280.441a - Consolidating and Organizing 2 or More Drainage Districts as Single Drainage District Within More Than 1 County; Signing and Filing Petition; Land Included; Composition of Drainage Board; Notice of Meeting; Affidavit of Mailing; Fa... - Sec. 441a. (1) Two or more drainage districts may be...
Section 280.442 - Drainage Districts; Consolidation; Surveys. - Sec. 442. In any proceeding for the consolidation of 2...
Section 280.443 - Drainage Districts; Consolidation; Existing Drain, Recognition and Credit, Exemption From Special Assessment. - Sec. 443. When in any consolidated district it shall be...
Section 280.444 - Drainage Districts; Consolidation; Indebtedness, Retirement; Special Assessment. - Sec. 444. In case any drainage district which is included...
Section 280.445 - Drainage Districts; Consolidation; Bonds and Contracts, Assumption by Consolidated District. - Sec. 445. The merging of any drainage district into a...
Section 280.446 - Drainage Districts; Consolidation; Abandonment or Vacation of Included Drain; Proration of Moneys. - Sec. 446. Any drain which has been included and merged...
Section 280.447 - Drainage Districts; Consolidation; Rights and Powers, Validation of Bonds. - Sec. 447. After any drainage districts have consolidated as provided...
Section 280.448 - Drainage Districts; Consolidation; Consent of County Auditors or Comptroller. - Sec. 448. In any proceeding to consolidate drainage districts pursuant...
40-1956-20. - Chapter 20. Intracounty Drains; Public Corporations. (280.461...280.499)
Section 280.461 - Definitions. - Sec. 461. Whenever used in this chapter, except when otherwise...
Section 280.462 - County Drains; Public Health, Assessment Against Public Corporations. - Sec. 462. County drains which are necessary for the public...
Section 280.463 - Petition to Locate, Establish, and Construct County Drain; Determination; Filing and Contents of Petition; Notice; Certified Copy of Resolution; Authorizing Execution; Order of Determination. - Sec. 463. (1) Before filing a petition under this section,...
Section 280.464 - Drainage Board; Creation; Members; Disqualification; Compensation, Mileage, and Expenses; County Drain Commissioner as Chairperson; Minutes, Records, and Files; Requirements for Substantive Actions and Determinations. - Sec. 464. (1) A drainage board is created for each...
Section 280.465 - Meeting of Drainage Board; Notice; Affidavit of Mailing; Quorum; Adjournment; Action by Board; Signing of Orders. - Sec. 465. A meeting of the drainage board may be...
Section 280.466 - Drainage Board; First Meeting, Notice. - Sec. 466. Upon receipt of a petition as hereinbefore provided,...
Section 280.467 - Drainage Board; Tentative Determinations; Naming Drain and Drainage District; Composition of District; Objections; Notice of Hearing; Final Order of Determination; Eliminating or Adding Public Corporation. - Sec. 467. The drainage board, at its first meeting, shall...
Section 280.468 - Plans, Specifications, and Estimate of Cost; Approval, Adoption, and Filing; Route of Drain; Apportionment of Costs; Designation of Area to Be Served; Assumption of Additional Cost; Altering and Supplementing Proceedings. - Sec. 468. The drainage board shall secure from a competent...
Section 280.469 - Objections to Apportionments; Notice of Hearing; Confirmation or Readjustment of Apportionments; Notice of Rehearing; Final Order of Apportionment. - Sec. 469. After the tentative apportionments of cost have been...
Section 280.470 - Drainage Board; Lands and Rights of Way, Condemnation; Procedure, Federal Government Participation; Costs. - Sec. 470. The drainage board shall then proceed to secure...
Section 280.471 - Drainage Board; Contracts With Federal Government or Corporations; Bids. - Sec. 471. The drainage board may contract with the federal...
Section 280.472 - Funds; County Treasurer, Deputies; Bonds; Expenditures. - Sec. 472. The county treasurer shall be the custodian of...
Section 280.473 - Special Assessment Roll; Preparation; Estimated or Actual Costs; Annual Installments; Interest; Advance Payment; Altering and Supplementing Proceedings. - Sec. 473. After the confirmation of the apportionments by the...
Section 280.474 - Special Assessment Roll; Contents; Approval; Statement; Certification to Assessed Public Corporation; Installments and Interest; Advances From County Funds; Notice; Deduction; Reimbursement; Assessments Against State; Sufficiency of... - Sec. 474. The special assessment roll shall contain the name...
Section 280.475 - Statutory or Charter Tax Limitations Inapplicable; Rate or Amount of Taxes. - Sec. 475. Taxes levied by a public corporation for the...
Section 280.476 - Bonds; Issuance; Maturity; Mandatory Redemption; Signatures; Collection of Assessments. - Sec. 476. The drainage board may issue 1 or more...
Section 280.477 - Additional Assessment; Apportionment. - Sec. 477. If, for any reason, the original assessments shall...
Section 280.478 - Drainage Board; Continuation; Responsibility; Expenses; Relinquishment; Moneys, Disposition, Consent. - Sec. 478. (1) The drainage board for each project shall...
Section 280.479 - Advancements by Corporations; Reimbursement. - Sec. 479. Any public or private corporation, firm, or individual...
Section 280.480 - Costs; Items. - Sec. 480. The cost of any drain project shall include...
Section 280.481 - Assessments Against Townships and Villages. - Sec. 481. Unless otherwise provided by the drainage board, assessments...
Section 280.482 - Improvements or Additions to Drains for Public Health. - Sec. 482. Any 1 or more county drains or any...
Section 280.483 - Certiorari; Time; Legal Establishment of Drain. - Sec. 483. Neither the final order of determination nor the...
Section 280.484 - Procedures; Incorporation of Other Chapters in Drainage Board Orders. - Sec. 484. In operating under the terms of this chapter,...
Section 280.485 - Relief Drains. - Sec. 485. When 2 or more public corporations, constituting as...
Section 280.486 - Drains to Which Chapter Applicable; Sufficiency of Petition. - Sec. 486. This chapter shall be applicable (1) to any...
Section 280.487 - Drainage Board; Absence of Members, Deputies, Vice-Chairman. - Sec. 487. Any drain commissioner may act under this chapter...
Section 280.488 - Additional Grant of Power; Prior Projects. - Sec. 488. The provisions of this chapter shall be construed...
Section 280.489 - New Cities; Service of Notice on Township Clerks or De Facto City Officer. - Sec. 489. Whenever a new city has been or shall...
Section 280.489a - Land Especially Benefited by Drain Project; Duties of Legislative Body; Affidavit as Conclusive Proof of Notice; Meeting; Powers of Legislative Body; Reimbursement for Pro Rata Share of Costs. - Sec. 489a. (1) If the legislative body of a public...
Section 280.490 - Land Especially Benefited by Drain Project; Special Assessment; Resolution; Preparation of Special Assessment Roll; Conduct of Proceedings; Objections; Hearing in Lieu of Meeting; Use of Special Assessment Collections; Reduction of... - Sec. 490. (1) Subject to the requirements of section 489a,...
Section 280.491 - River, Creek or Watercourse; Petition for Inclusion Within Jurisdiction. - Sec. 491. A petition meeting the requirements of this chapter...
Section 280.492 - Petition; Content, Deposit to Pay Cost; Drainage Board Hearing and Notice. - Sec. 492. The petitioners named in a petition filed pursuant...
Section 280.493 - Final Order of Determination; Contents, Recording, Effect. - Sec. 493. After the hearing, the drainage board shall determine...
Section 280.494 - Final Order of Determination; Recording Effect on Private Rights. - Sec. 494. The recording of the description does not appropriate,...
Section 280.495 - Assessment of Cost; Hearing; Powers. - Sec. 495. Before any work, other than preparation of the...
Section 280.496 - Drainage Board Funds; Investment of Surplus, Interest. - Sec. 496. The drainage board may direct the treasurer of...
Section 280.497 - Use or Transfer of Surplus Construction Funds; Contract With Public Corporation; Provisions of Contract; Return of Surplus Construction Funds to State Transportation Department; Application of MCL 280.499; Definition. - Sec. 497. (1) The drainage board shall use any surplus...
Section 280.498 - Pollution in County Drain; Abatement; Petition. - Sec. 498. Whenever the water resources commission or successor agency...
Section 280.499 - Providing Amount From Surplus Construction Funds to Inspect, Repair, and Maintain Drain; Apportioning Balance of Surplus Construction Funds to Credit of Public Corporations; Use of Funds. - Sec. 499. (1) After the construction of a county drain...
40-1956-21. - Chapter 21. Intercounty Drains; Public Corporations. (280.511...280.549)
Section 280.511 - Definitions. - Sec. 511. Whenever used in this chapter, except when otherwise...
Section 280.512 - Public Health; Assessment Against Public Corporations. - Sec. 512. Intercounty drains which are necessary for the public...
Section 280.513 - Petition to Locate, Establish, and Construct Intercounty Drain; Determination; Filing and Contents of Petition; Notice; Certified Copy of Resolution; Authorizing Execution; Order of Determination. - Sec. 513. (1) Before filing a petition under this section,...
Section 280.514 - Drainage Board; Membership; Chairperson; Appointee; Exception. - Sec. 514. (1) A drainage board is created for each...
Section 280.515 - Augmented Drainage Board; Members, Compensation; Expenses. - Sec. 515. There is created for each project petitioned for...
Section 280.516 - Minutes of Meetings; Secretary's Duties, Records, Filing. - Sec. 516. The secretary of the drainage board shall prepare...
Section 280.517 - Preliminary Finding; First Meeting of Boards, Time and Place, Notice, Selection of Secretary. - Sec. 517. Upon receipt of a petition as hereinbefore provided,...
Section 280.518 - Meetings of Drainage Board or Augmented Drainage Board; Notice; Quorum; Action by Board; Signing of Orders. - Sec. 518. Meetings of the drainage board, or of the...
Section 280.519 - Augmented Drainage Board; Tentative Determinations; Naming Drain and Drainage District; Composition of District; Resolution; New Meeting; Objections; Notice of Hearing; Final Order of Determination; Eliminating or Adding Public Corp... - Sec. 519. The augmented drainage board, at its first meeting,...
Section 280.520 - Plans, Specifications, and Estimate of Cost; Approval, Adoption, and Filing; Route of Drain; Apportionment of Costs; Designation of Area to Be Served; Assumption of Additional Cost; Altering or Supplementing Proceedings. - Sec. 520. The drainage board shall secure from a competent...
Section 280.521 - Objections to Apportionments; Notice of Hearing; Confirmation or Readjustment of Apportionments; Notice of Rehearing; Final Order of Apportionment. - Sec. 521. After the tentative apportionments of cost have been...
Section 280.522 - Lands and Rights of Way; Condemnation; Procedure, Federal Government Participation; Prior Agreement as to Highways; Costs. - Sec. 522. The drainage board shall then proceed to secure...
Section 280.523 - Contracts With Federal Government or Corporations; Bids. - Sec. 523. The drainage board may contract with the federal...
Section 280.524 - Designation of a County Treasurer; Deputies, Bonds; Expenditures. - Sec. 524. The drainage board shall designate the treasurer of...
Section 280.525 - Special Assessment Roll; Preparation; Estimated or Actual Costs; Annual Installments; Interest; Advance Payment; Spreading Levy on County Tax Roll; Altering or Supplementing Proceedings. - Sec. 525. After the confirmation of the apportionments by the...
Section 280.526 - Special Assessment Roll; Contents; Approval; Statement; Certification to Assessed Public Corporation; Installments and Interest; Advances From County Funds; Notice; Deduction; Reimbursement; Assessments Against State; Sufficiency of... - Sec. 526. The special assessment roll shall contain the name...
Section 280.527 - Statutory or Charter Tax Limitation Inapplicable; Rate or Amount of Taxes. - Sec. 527. Taxes levied by a public corporation for the...
Section 280.528 - Bonds; Issuance; Maturity; Mandatory Redemption; Signatures; Collection of Assessments. - Sec. 528. The drainage board may issue 1 or more...
Section 280.529 - Additional Assessment; Apportionment. - Sec. 529. If for any reason the original assessments shall...
Section 280.530 - Drainage Board; Continuation; Responsibility; Expenses; Relinquishment; Moneys, Disposition; Consent. - Sec. 530. (1) The drainage board for each project shall...
Section 280.531 - Advances by Corporations; Reimbursement. - Sec. 531. Any public or private corporation, firm, or individual...
Section 280.532 - Venue of Actions; Appointment of Circuit Judge. - Sec. 532. Any action arising from the provisions of this...
Section 280.533 - Costs; Items. - Sec. 533. The cost of any drain project shall include...
Section 280.534 - Deputy for Director of Agriculture; Powers. - Sec. 534. The director of agriculture may designate a deputy...
Section 280.535 - Improvements or Additions to Drains for Public Health. - Sec. 535. Any 1 or more intercounty drains or any...
Section 280.536 - Certiorari; Time; Legal Establishment of Drain. - Sec. 536. Neither the final order of determination nor the...
Section 280.537 - Procedures; Incorporation of Other Chapters in Drainage Board Orders. - Sec. 537. In operating under the terms of this chapter,...
Section 280.538 - New Cities; Service of Notice on Township Clerk or De Facto City Officer. - Sec. 538. Whenever a new city has been or shall...
Section 280.538a - Land Especially Benefited by Drain Project; Duties of Legislative Body; Affidavit as Conclusive Proof of Notice; Meeting; Powers of Legislative Body; Reimbursement for Pro Rata Share of Costs. - Sec. 538a. (1) If the legislative body of a public...
Section 280.539 - Land Especially Benefited by Drain Projects; Special Assessment; Resolution; Preparation of Special Assessment Roll; Conduct of Proceedings; Objections; Hearing in Lieu of Meeting; Use of Special Assessment Collections; Reduction of... - Sec. 539. (1) Subject to the requirements of section 538a,...
Section 280.540 - Relief Drains. - Sec. 540. When 2 or more public corporations, constituting as...
Section 280.541 - River, Creek, or Watercourse; Petition to Inclusion in Jurisdiction. - Sec. 541. A petition meeting the requirements of this chapter...
Section 280.542 - River, Creek, or Watercourse; Petition; Content, Deposit to Pay Costs, Filing; Drainage Board, Hearing and Notice. - Sec. 542. The petitioners named in a petition filed pursuant...
Section 280.543 - River, Creek, or Watercourse; Board Determination, Final Order, Contents, Recording, Effect. - Sec. 543. After the hearing, the augmented drainage board shall...
Section 280.544 - River, Creek, or Watercourse; Final Order of Determination; Recording Effect on Private Rights. - Sec. 544. The recording of the description does not appropriate,...
Section 280.545 - River, Creek, or Watercourse; Assessment of Costs, Hearing; Powers. - Sec. 545. Before any work, other than preparation of the...
Section 280.546 - Drainage Board Funds; Investment of Surplus, Interest. - Sec. 546. The drainage board may direct the treasurer of...
Section 280.547 - Surplus Construction Funds; Use; Transfer; Provisions of Contract With Public Corporation; Return of Funds; Applicability of MCL 280.547a; Definition. - Sec. 547. (1) The drainage board shall use any surplus...
Section 280.547a - Surplus Construction Funds; Disposition; Use. - Sec. 547a. (1) After the construction of a county drain...
Section 280.548 - Pollution in Intercounty Drain; Abatement; Petition. - Sec. 548. Whenever the water resources commission or successor agency...
Section 280.549 - Assessments Against Townships and Villages. - Sec. 549. Unless otherwise provided by the drainage board or...
40-1956-22. - Chapter 22. Water Management Districts and Subdistricts (280.551...280.583)
Section 280.551 - Water Management; Definitions. - Sec. 551. Whenever used in this chapter, except when otherwise...
Section 280.552 - Water Management; Petition for Flood Control or Drainage Project, Filing, Signatures, Contents, Map. - Sec. 552. Whenever it shall be necessary for the public...
Section 280.553 - Water Management Commission; Members, Appointment, Compensation, Expenses, Approval of Plans, Orders and Assessments. - Sec. 553. There is created for each water management district...
Section 280.554 - Water Management Board; Members; Terms; Vacancy; Qualifications; Chairman; Procedures; Employees; Treasurer; Bond; Secretary; Audit. - Sec. 554. (a) For each water management district created under...
Section 280.555 - Water Management Commission or Water Management Board; Meetings; Notice; Quorum; Adjournment; Action by Board; Signing of Orders; Minutes of Proceedings; Records; Meetings and Records Open to Public. - Sec. 555. This section shall pertain to either the water...
Section 280.556 - Water Management Commission; Petitions, Review; Notice of First Meeting. - Sec. 556. Within 30 days following receipt of a petition...
Section 280.557 - Water Management Commission; Temporary Secretary, By-Laws, Tentative Determination, Amendment of Petition, Notice of Adjourned Meeting; Dismissal of Petition; Name of District; Board; Tentative Determination; Preliminary Plans. - Sec. 557. The commission shall elect a temporary secretary, and...
Section 280.558 - Water Management Board; Hearing of Objections; Notice of Hearing; Preliminary Order of Determination; Eliminating or Adding Public Corporation. - Sec. 558. The water management board shall fix a time,...
Section 280.559 - Assessment; Basis. - Sec. 559. Any assessment of any nature or kind determined...
Section 280.560 - Preliminary Plans; Approval; Detailed Plans, Contents, Approval; Official Plans, Filing. - Sec. 560. The board shall secure the approval of the...
Section 280.561 - Tentative Percentage of Cost for Assessment; Apportionment. - Sec. 561. After adoption of the official plans, the commission...
Section 280.562 - Hearing of Objections to Tentative Apportionments of Costs; Notice of Hearing; Report; Confirmation or Readjustment of Apportionment. - Sec. 562. After the tentative apportionments of costs have been...
Section 280.563 - Water Management Commission; Review of Board's Apportionment; Final Order of Apportionment; Annual Meeting; Work Plan, Advisory Committees. - Sec. 563. The commission shall meet for the purpose of...
Section 280.564 - Lands and Rights of Way; Condemnation, Procedure, Federal Governmental Participation; Costs. - Sec. 564. The board shall then proceed to secure the...
Section 280.565 - Contracts With Federal Government or Corporations; Bids. - Sec. 565. The board may contract with the federal government...
Section 280.566 - Special Assessment Roll; Installments, Payment, Interest. - Sec. 566. After the confirmation of the apportionments by the...
Section 280.567 - Special Assessment Roll; Contents, Approval; Certification to Corporation Assessed; Annual Notice of Installment and Interest; Advancement by County; Assessment Against State; Correction of Assessment. - Sec. 567. The special assessment roll shall contain the name...
Section 280.568 - Assessments and Taxes Not Subject to Statutory or Charter Debt or Tax Limitations. - Sec. 568. Assessments made under the terms of this chapter...
Section 280.569 - Bonds; Issuance; Maturity; Mandatory Exemption; Signatures; Collection of Assessments. - Sec. 569. The board may issue bonds for and on...
Section 280.570 - Additional Assessment; Apportionment. - Sec. 570. If for any reason the original assessment shall...
Section 280.571 - Water Management Board; Continuation, Responsibility; Budget, Hearing, Adoption. - Sec. 571. The board shall continue in existence with such...
Section 280.572 - Advancements by Corporations; Reimbursement. - Sec. 572. Public corporations may advance funds for the payment...
Section 280.573 - Costs; Items, Contingent Expenses. - Sec. 573. The cost of any project shall include (1)...
Section 280.574 - Water Management Commission; Powers. - Sec. 574. The commission of any water management district created...
Section 280.575 - Subdistrict; Petition; Official Plan, Final Order of Apportionment of Cost; Assessment. - Sec. 575. In the event it shall be necessary for...
Section 280.576 - Water Management District in Interstate River Basin; Powers of Commission. - Sec. 576. Whenever it shall be necessary for the public...
Section 280.577 - Venue of Actions; Appointment of Circuit Judge. - Sec. 577. Any action arising from the provisions of this...
Section 280.578 - Deputy for Director of Agriculture; Powers. - Sec. 578. The director of agriculture may designate a deputy...
Section 280.579 - Intercounty Drain; Construction or Improvement for Flood Control Project. - Sec. 579. Any intercounty drain or any portion thereof now...
Section 280.580 - Public and Private Construction in Works Owned by Water Management District; Plans, Approval. - Sec. 580. Plans for the alteration or construction of any...
Section 280.581 - Certiorari; Time; Legal Establishment of Project. - Sec. 581. Neither the final order of determination nor the...
Section 280.582 - Provisions Applicable. - Sec. 582. In operating under the terms of this chapter,...
Section 280.583 - Validation of Prior Bonds. - Sec. 583. The provisions of this chapter shall not be...
40-1956-23. - Chapter 23. Penalties. (280.601...280.602)
Section 280.601 - Drain Commissioner; Interest in Contract Prohibited; Penalty. - Sec. 601. If any commissioner is interested directly or indirectly...
Section 280.602 - Removal of Stakes; Injury to Drain; Penalty. - Sec. 602. If any person shall wilfully or maliciously remove...
40-1956-24. - Chapter 24. Repeals and Saving Clauses. (280.621...280.624)
Section 280.621 - Repeal. - Sec. 621. Act No. 316 of the Public Acts of...
Section 280.622 - Amendment of Act During Progress of Drain Proceedings; Applicable Law. - Sec. 622. In cases where the law shall have been...
Section 280.623 - Saving Clause. - Sec. 623. This act shall not impair or affect any...
Section 280.624 - Prior Actions and Bonds Validated; Contest Prohibited. - Sec. 624. Actions heretofore taken by a drainage district or...
40-1956-25. - Chapter 25. Alternate Procedures (280.625...280.630)
Section 280.625 - Alternate Procedures. - Sec. 625. Drainage boards and officials operating under chapters 20...
Section 280.626 - Assessment to Public Corporations of Costs in Excess of Those Apportioned for Drainage to State or County Highways; Apportionment. - Sec. 626. When 2 or more public corporations other than...
Section 280.627 - Special Assessment Roll; Preparation; Contents; Approval; Certified Copy of Roll. - Sec. 627. When employing this chapter, the chairman of the...
Section 280.628 - Notice of Due Date of Installment and Interest; Determination of Amounts Due From Public Corporation Assessed in Aggregate. - Sec. 628. On or before June 1 of each year,...
Section 280.629 - Calculating Amounts of Assessments Chargeable Against Debt Limitations of Public Corporations. - Sec. 629. In calculating amounts of assessments chargeable against debt...
Section 280.630 - Purpose and Construction of Chapter. - Sec. 630. It is the purpose and intention of this...