Michigan Compiled Laws
40-1956-21. - Chapter 21. Intercounty Drains; Public Corporations. (280.511...280.549)
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 augmented drainage board, may be called by the chairperson or 2 members of the board, on notice sent by registered mail to each member. The notice shall be mailed not less than 10 days before the time of the meeting. A majority of the members of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, but a lesser number may adjourn from time to time. A meeting may be adjourned from time to time. Unless otherwise provided herein, an action shall not be taken by either of the boards except by a majority vote of its members. All orders issued by either the drainage board, or the augmented drainage board, shall be signed by the chairperson and secretary.
History: 1956, Act 40, Imd. Eff. Mar. 28, 1956 ;-- Am. 1978, Act 235, Imd. Eff. June 15, 1978 Popular Name: Act 40

Structure Michigan Compiled Laws

Michigan Compiled Laws

Chapter 280 - Drain Code of 1956

Act 40 of 1956 - The Drain Code of 1956 (280.1 - 280.630)

40-1956-21. - Chapter 21. Intercounty Drains; Public Corporations. (280.511...280.549)

Section 280.511 - Definitions.

Section 280.512 - Public Health; Assessment Against Public Corporations.

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.

Section 280.514 - Drainage Board; Membership; Chairperson; Appointee; Exception.

Section 280.515 - Augmented Drainage Board; Members, Compensation; Expenses.

Section 280.516 - Minutes of Meetings; Secretary's Duties, Records, Filing.

Section 280.517 - Preliminary Finding; First Meeting of Boards, Time and Place, Notice, Selection of Secretary.

Section 280.518 - Meetings of Drainage Board or Augmented Drainage Board; Notice; Quorum; Action by Board; Signing of Orders.

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...

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.

Section 280.521 - Objections to Apportionments; Notice of Hearing; Confirmation or Readjustment of Apportionments; Notice of Rehearing; Final Order of Apportionment.

Section 280.522 - Lands and Rights of Way; Condemnation; Procedure, Federal Government Participation; Prior Agreement as to Highways; Costs.

Section 280.523 - Contracts With Federal Government or Corporations; Bids.

Section 280.524 - Designation of a County Treasurer; Deputies, Bonds; Expenditures.

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.

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...

Section 280.527 - Statutory or Charter Tax Limitation Inapplicable; Rate or Amount of Taxes.

Section 280.528 - Bonds; Issuance; Maturity; Mandatory Redemption; Signatures; Collection of Assessments.

Section 280.529 - Additional Assessment; Apportionment.

Section 280.530 - Drainage Board; Continuation; Responsibility; Expenses; Relinquishment; Moneys, Disposition; Consent.

Section 280.531 - Advances by Corporations; Reimbursement.

Section 280.532 - Venue of Actions; Appointment of Circuit Judge.

Section 280.533 - Costs; Items.

Section 280.534 - Deputy for Director of Agriculture; Powers.

Section 280.535 - Improvements or Additions to Drains for Public Health.

Section 280.536 - Certiorari; Time; Legal Establishment of Drain.

Section 280.537 - Procedures; Incorporation of Other Chapters in Drainage Board Orders.

Section 280.538 - New Cities; Service of Notice on Township Clerk or De Facto City Officer.

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.

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...

Section 280.540 - Relief Drains.

Section 280.541 - River, Creek, or Watercourse; Petition to Inclusion in Jurisdiction.

Section 280.542 - River, Creek, or Watercourse; Petition; Content, Deposit to Pay Costs, Filing; Drainage Board, Hearing and Notice.

Section 280.543 - River, Creek, or Watercourse; Board Determination, Final Order, Contents, Recording, Effect.

Section 280.544 - River, Creek, or Watercourse; Final Order of Determination; Recording Effect on Private Rights.

Section 280.545 - River, Creek, or Watercourse; Assessment of Costs, Hearing; Powers.

Section 280.546 - Drainage Board Funds; Investment of Surplus, Interest.

Section 280.547 - Surplus Construction Funds; Use; Transfer; Provisions of Contract With Public Corporation; Return of Funds; Applicability of MCL 280.547a; Definition.

Section 280.547a - Surplus Construction Funds; Disposition; Use.

Section 280.548 - Pollution in Intercounty Drain; Abatement; Petition.

Section 280.549 - Assessments Against Townships and Villages.