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• Body Corporate - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.1
  Each organized city shall be a body corporate. History: 1909, Act 279, Eff. Sept. 1, 1909 ;-- CL 1915, 3304 ;-- CL 1929, 2228...
• Short Title - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.1a
  This act shall be known and may be cited as "the home rule city act". History: Add. 1945, Act 15, Eff. Sept. 6, 1945...
• Emergency Financial Manager; Authority and Responsibilities - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.1b
  Notwithstanding any provision of this act, if an emergency financial manager has been appointed under the local government fiscal responsibility act, Act No. 101...
• Saving Clause - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.2
  Each city now existing shall continue with all its present rights and powers until otherwise provided by law. History: 1909, Act 279, Eff. Sept....
• Mandatory Charter Provisions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.3
  Each city charter shall provide for all of the following: (a) The election of a mayor, who shall be the chief executive officer of...
• Abolishment of At - Large City Council; Election of Members From Single - Member Election Districts; Ballot Question; Approval; Determination of City Council President; Adoption of Apportionment Plan by Commission; Qualifications of Candidates; Rules and Procedures; Amendment of Charter - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.3a
  (1) A city that has a population of not less than 750,000 as determined by the most recent federal decennial census and that has...
• Terms of Office; Staggered Terms; Resolution; Initial Terms; Applicability of Subsection (1) - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.3b
  (1) Notwithstanding any charter provision, the city may provide by resolution for the terms of office of its elected officials and for staggered terms....
• Conduct of Racing Event Under Mcl 257.1701 et Seq.; Powers and Duties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.4
  A city may permit the conducting of a racing event under the "city motor vehicle racing act of 1981" and shall have the powers...
• Borrowing Money and Issuing Bonds; Net Indebtedness; Limitation; Computation; Borrowing in Case of Fire, Flood, or Other Calamity; Incurring Obligation for Construction, Renovation, or Modernization of Hospital; Bonds as Obligation of Special Assessment District and City; Validation of Bonds Issued and Obligations Incurred Before July 31, 1973 - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.4a
  (1) Each city in its charter may provide for the borrowing of money on the credit of the city and issuing bonds for the...
• Refunds; Bonds; Sewers; Waterworks; Lighting; Permissible Charter Provisions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.4b
  Each city may in its charter provide: (1) For refunding money advanced or paid on special assessments imposed, for water main extensions; for borrowing...
• Permissible Charter Provisions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.4c
  Each city which is authorized to acquire, own, purchase, construct or operate any public utility, may provide in its charter for the issuance of...
• Permissible Charter Provisions; Assessing Costs of Public Improvement and Boulevard Lighting System; Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.4d
  (1) Each city may in its charter provide: (a) For assessing and reassessing the costs, or a portion of the costs, of a public...
• Public Property; Condemnation of Private Property; Permissible Charter Provisions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.4e
  Each city may in its charter provide: (1) For the acquisition by purchase, gift, condemnation, lease, construction or otherwise, either within or without its...
• Permissible City Charter Provisions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.4f
  Each city may in its charter provide for any of the following: (a) For the purchase or condemnation of franchises, if any exist, and...
• Rapid Transit System; Permissible Charter Provisions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.4g
  Each city may in its charter provide: (1) For the acquisition by construction, condemnation or purchase and for the ownership, equipment, possession, leasing, operation...
• Public Ways; Permissible Charter Provisions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.4h
  Each city may in its charter provide: (1) For the use, regulation, improvement and control of the surface of its streets, alleys and public...
• Permissible Charter Provisions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.4i
  Each city may provide in its charter for 1 or more of the following: (a) Laying and collecting rents, tolls, and excises. (b) Regulating...
• City Departments; Special Acts; Municipal Powers; Permissible Charter Provisions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.4j
  Each city may in its charter provide: (1) For the establishment of any department that it may deem necessary for the general welfare of...
• Civic, Artistic, and Cultural Activities; Public Funds - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.4k
  Each city in its charter may provide for the appropriation and allocation of public funds to a public or private nonprofit institution engaged within...
• Ordinance; Designation as Civil Infraction or Blight Violation; Civil Fine; Act or Omission Constituting Crime - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.4l
  (1) Consistent with any of the following statutes and whether or not authorized by the city charter, the legislative body of a city may...
• Ordinance Regulating Recreational Trailway; Posting; Violation as Municipal Civil Infraction; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.4m
  (1) An ordinance regulating a recreational trailway is not effective unless it is posted and maintained near each gate or principal entrance to the...
• Medical Facility for Public Purpose; Establishment, Operation, or Maintenance by Private Nonprofit Corporation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.4n
  Each city may in its charter provide for the city or 1 or more of its public corporations to become a member or joint...
• Formation of Nonprofit Corporation by City - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.4o
  (1) The legislative body of a city may by ordinance or resolution authorize the formation of a nonprofit corporation under the nonprofit corporation act,...
• Administrative Hearings Bureau; Establishment; Administrative Hearings; Procedures - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.4q
  (1) A city that has a population of 7,500 or more and is located in any county, or a city that has a population...
• Nonpayment of Civil Fine or Costs or Installment Payment by Defendant; Lien; Recording; Enforcement; Priority; Collection of Judgment; Duration of Lien; Default - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.4r
  (1) If a defendant does not pay a civil fine or costs or an installment payment ordered by a hearing officer under section 4q...
• Prohibited Powers - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.5
  (1) A city does not have power to do any of the following: (a) To increase the rate of taxation now fixed by law,...
• Membership in Certain Societies Not to Affect Employment - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.5a
  No city shall have power to deny employment to any person for the reason that he is a member of any society which is...
• Code of Municipal Ordinances; Publication - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.5b
  Each city shall have power, whether provided in its charter or not, to codify, recodify and continue in code its municipal ordinances, in whole...
• Local Officers Compensation Commission; Creation; Purpose; Appointment, Qualifications, and Terms of Members; Vacancies; Determination of Salaries; Expenses; Meetings; Quorum; Concurrence of Majority Required; Election of Chairperson; Compensation of Members; Conducting Business At Public Meeting; Notice of Meeting; Availability of Certain Writings to Public; Resolution; Changing Procedure; Petition for Referendum - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.5c
  In place of a charter provision existing on December 31, 1972 establishing the salaries or the procedure for determining salaries of elected officials, the...
• Locomotives; Enforceability of Ordinance Prescribing Maximum Speed Limit - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.5d
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this act, on and after the effective date of a passenger railroad maximum speed limit specified in a final...
• Municipal Water or Sewage System; Annual Audit; Public Hearing Before Proposed Rate Increase - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.5e
  A municipal water or sewage system established by a city incorporated under this act which serves more than 40% of the population of the...
• Energy Conservation Improvements; Resolution; Payment; Scope of Improvements; Acquisition of Improvements by Contracts or Notes; Reports; Forms - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.5f
  (1) The legislative body of a city may provide by resolution for energy conservation improvements to be made to city facilities and may pay...
• Flood Control Project - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.5g
  The legislative body of a city may provide by resolution for a flood control project financed in any manner that is authorized by statute...
• Regulation or Prohibition of Public Nudity; "public Nudity" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.5h
  (1) Whether or not so provided in its charter, a city may, by ordinance, regulate or prohibit public nudity within city boundaries. (2) As...
• Snow Removal From Streets, Mosquito Abatement, and Security Services Provided by Private Contractors; Special Assessment - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.5i
  (1) Whether or not authorized by its charter, a city with a population of more than 600,000 may provide by ordinance a procedure to...
• Sewer Separation; Authorization; Ordinance; Special Assessment - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.5j
  A city, in order to protect the public health, may adopt an ordinance to provide for the separation of storm water drainage and footing...
• Incorporation, Consolidation, or Alteration of Boundaries; Petition; Signatures; Deposit; Enumeration - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.6
  Cities may be incorporated or territory detached therefrom or added thereto, or consolidation made of 2 or more cities or villages into 1 city,...
• Incorporation, Consolidation or Alteration of Boundaries; Fifth Class Cities; Population Requisites; Representation on Board of Supervisors - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.7
  Said petition shall accurately describe the proposed boundaries of the city, or of the territory to be annexed thereto or detached therefrom, and if...
• Incorporation, Consolidation, or Alteration of Boundaries; Petition; Filing; Resolution; Adoption - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.8
  (1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3), a petition filed under section 6 shall be addressed to the county board of commissioners of the...
• Incorporation, Consolidation or Alteration of Boundaries; Filing Substitute Petition; Action by Supervisors - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.8a
  In case a petition has been filed with the clerk pursuant to section 8, and subsequently another petition is filed by other petitioners proposing...
• Incorporation, Consolidation, or Change of Boundaries; Governing Law; Affected District; Petition or Resolution for Annexation; Voting; Duties of Commission - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.9
  (1) In the event of a conflict between the provisions of this act and 1968 PA 191, MCL 123.1001 to 123.1020, regarding an incorporation...
• Annexation of Township Remnant Territory to Home Rule City; Procedure - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.9a
  Whenever the process of incorporation, consolidation, or annexation leaves a portion of a township with no qualified electors residing in that portion and without...
• Detachment of Territory From City; Conditions; Intergovernmental Agreement Imposing Conditions on Detachment; Reannexation to Detaching City; Detached Territory Not Subject to Annexation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.9b
  (1) In addition to the detachment procedures otherwise authorized by this act, territory may be detached from a city if all of the following...
• Repealed. 1986, Act 64, Eff. July 1, 1986. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Certified Copies of Petition and Resolution; Transmittal; Election Notices - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.10
  The county clerk shall, within 3 days after the passage of the resolution provided for in section 8 of this act, transmit a certified...
• Petition for Incorporation, Consolidation, or Change of Boundaries; Affidavit; Filing With Secretary of State; Certification; Notice; Election - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.11
  (1) If the territory to be affected by a proposed incorporation, consolidation, or change of boundaries is situated in more than 1 county, the...
• Election Returns; Canvass; Village Clerk, Duties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.12
  The returns by the several boards of election inspectors shall be made to the clerk of the county in which the city or proposed...
• Effective Date of Incorporation, Consolidation, Attachment or Detachment; Certificate of Board of County Canvassers; Representation, Transfer of Property, Governmental Function - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.13
  On the filing in the office of the secretary of state and the clerk of the county or counties within which the city or...
• Incorporation or Annexation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.14
  Whenever an incorporated village is incorporated as a city, without change of boundaries, such city shall succeed to the ownership of all the property...
• Petition for Vacating Incorporation; Initiation; Election; Certification; Assets, Disbursement; Debts and Obligations - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.14a
  Whenever the qualified electors of any city incorporated under the provisions of this act shall file a petition with the city clerk, which petition...
• Relocation of Common Boundaries - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.14b
  Whenever the boundaries between cities lying within the same county and subject to this act divide platted lots, or are affected by the relocation...
• Election on Question of Intent to Incorporate or Consolidate; Electors as Members of Charter Commission; Notice; Preparation, Form, and Contents of Ballot; Expenses; Procedure; Canvass; Certification of Election; Oath; Vacancies; Quorum; Convening of Charter Commission; Framing Charter; Conducting Business At Public Meeting; Notice of Meeting; Officers; Rules; Journal; Roll Call; Nomination of Candidates; Holding Election; Publication of Proposed Charter; Publishing and Posting Notice of Election; Polling Places; Canvassing Results - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.15
  (1) At an election on the question of the intent to incorporate a new city, or to make a consolidation permitted by this act,...
• Incorporation; Expenses of Charter Commission; Payment - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.15a
  When the residents of a township have voted to incorporate the entire township or fractional part thereof as a city, the township or townships...
• Incorporation; Rejection of Charter; De Facto Mayor; Duties; Resubmission of Charter, Procedure; Effect of Nonadoption Within 3 Years of Election to Incorporate - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.16
  (1) If the proposed charter is rejected at an election, the election of officers is void, except that the elector who receives the highest...
• Incorporation; New Charter Commission, Petition, Procedure, Eligibility, Duties, Expenses; Control of Territory Pending Adoption; Date of Incorporation; Voting Franchise - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.17
  In cases where the qualified electors of a proposed city shall reject a proposed charter, any 300 electors of said proposed city may petition...
• Incorporation; Revision of Charter, Procedure, Commission, Advisory Vote; Incorporation of Provision in Original Charter Granted by Legislature - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.18
  Any city desiring to revise its charter shall do so in the following manner, unless otherwise provided by charter; when its legislative body shall...
• Charter; Duty of Legislative Body - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.19
  The legislative body of the municipality unless it is otherwise provided, shall fix in advance of the election of a charter commission the place...
• Charter Commission; First Meeting; Duties of City Clerk; Powers and Duties of Commission; Roll Call; Vacancy; Compensation; Quorum; Public Sessions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.20
  The charter commission shall convene on the second Tuesday after the election at the place designated pursuant to section 19. The city clerk shall...
• Charter Amendment; Procedure - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.21
  (1) An amendment to an existing city charter, whether the charter was adopted under this act or formerly granted or passed by the legislature...
• Charter Amendment; Submission to Governor, Approval; Re - Consideration - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.22
  Every amendment to a city charter whether passed pursuant to the provisions of this act or heretofore granted or passed by the state legislature...
• Publication of Proposed Charter and Amendments; Submission of Charter and Separate Propositions to Electors; Adoption; Ballot - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.23
  (1) A proposed city charter and each amendment to an existing city charter before submission to the electors, shall be published as the charter...
• Charters or Amendments; Filing; Effective Date - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.24
  If the charter, or any amendment thereto, whether of cities incorporated under the provisions of this act, or under an existing charter of the...
• Initiatory Petition; Filing With City Clerk; Contents; Verification; Signatures and Inscriptions; Perjury and Other Felonies; Punishment; Canvass; Certifying Sufficiency or Insufficiency of Petition; Causing Proposed Amendment to Be Submitted to Electors; Calling Special Election; Submitting Proposal At Primary, Regular, or Special Election Called for Other Purposes; Initiative Proposal Receiving Majority of Votes; Proposal Contemplating Increased Expenditure of Funds; Proposal Increasing Ad Valorem Property Tax Limitation; Effective Date; Tax Levy; Action Against City Clerk - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.25
  (1) An initiatory petition authorized by this act shall be addressed to and filed with the city clerk. The petition shall state what body,...
• Violation of Mcl 168.1 to 168.992 Applicable to Petitions; Penalties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.25a
  Except as otherwise provided in this section, a petition under section 3, 5, 5c, 6, 7, 8, 8a, 9(5), 11, 14a, 15, 16, 17,...
• Elections; General Provisions; Applicability of Mcl 168.641 - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.26
  (1) All elections held under this act shall be paid for by the locality where held. Except as otherwise provided by law or ordinance,...
• Repealed. 1966, Act 261, Eff. Mar. 10, 1967. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Apportionment of Wards; Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.27a
  (1) For the purposes of this section: (a) "Local legislative body" means the council, common council or commission of a city. (b) "Ward" means...
• Board of Review; Appointment of Members, Functions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.27b
  When the charter of any city heretofore adopted provides that the city representatives on the board of supervisors of the county shall be members...
• Charter Change; Laws in Force; Justice and Police Courts, Justices, Charter Provisions, Ordinances - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.28
  In all cities now organized, which may hereafter amend or revise their charters under the provisions of this act, all of the provisions of...
• Municipal Courts in Cities in Certain Counties; Civil Jurisdiction - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.28a
  In counties having a population of less than 100,000 in which municipal courts are now or may be established, said courts shall have such...
• Municipal Courts in Cities in Certain Counties; Attorney Fees Based on Amount of Judgment - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.28b
  In all cases, in any municipal court now or hereafter established under the provisions of this act, where a contested trial takes place, and...
• Recovery and Enforcement of Fines, Penalties, and Forfeitures; Violations; Administrative Hearings - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.29
  (1) Except as provided in subsection (2), the district court, a municipal court, or the circuit court, as provided by law, may hear, try,...
• Appeal to Circuit Court; Recognizance or Bond - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.30
  In all actions and prosecutions arising under the charter and ordinances of the city the right of appeal to the circuit court of the...
• Disposition of Fines - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.31
  All fines collected or received by the district court for or on account of violations of the charter or ordinances of the city, shall...
• Constables; Election or Appointment; Powers and Duties; Salary; Fees; Provisions Inapplicable to Certain Cities; Compliance With Minimum Employment Standards - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.32
  (1) Except as provided in subsection (3), there may be elected or appointed in each city 1 or more constables who shall have the...
• Constables; Election, Qualification, and Compensation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.33
  The provisions of the general law applying to the election, qualification, and compensation of constables in townships shall apply to the constables provided for...
• Police Officers; Powers - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.34
  When any person has committed or is suspected of having committed any crime or misdemeanor within a city, or has escaped from any city...
• Police Officer or Constable; Authority to Execute Bench Warrant - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.34a
  A police officer of a city or, if authorized by the legislative body, a constable of a city has the same authority within the...
• Acquisition of Property; Condemnation or Purchase Proceedings - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.35
  Any city may acquire by purchase or condemnation proceedings any lands within or without its corporate limits necessary for disposing of sewage or for...
• General Obligation Bonds; Issuance; Conditions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.35a
  Any municipality with a population of 750,000 or more may issue general obligation bonds and other evidences of debt for all lawful purposes in...
• Charter Provisions; Conflict - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.36
  No provision of any city charter shall conflict with or contravene the provisions of any general law of the state. History: 1909, Act 279,...
• Financial Recovery Bonds; Amounts; Terms and Conditions; Net Indebtedness of City; Limitations; "Third - Party Tax Collector" Defined; Refund; Deposit of Revenues Into Separate Account for Paying Principal and Interest; Creation of Lien and Trust; Ability of State Treasurer to Withhold Distributable Aid From City; Bonds Not Subject to Mcl 141.2101 to 141.2821 - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.36a
  (1) Except as otherwise provided under this section, if a financial emergency exists under the local government and school district fiscal accountability act, 2011...
• Saving Clause - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.37
  All charters heretofore formulated and all proceedings of charter commissions heretofore had under this act are hereby validated and made effectual so far as...
• Construction of Act - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 117.38
  It is intended by this act to re-enact sections 21, 22, 23 and 24, as above amended pursuant to the adoption of the amendment...

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