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• Short Title; Corporate Existence Of Villages To Continue; Village Subject To General Laws; Seal; Suit - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 78.1
  (1) This act shall be known and may be cited as "the home rule village act". (2) All villages within this state incorporated before September ...
• Conducting Business At Public Meeting; Notice Of Meeting; Availability Of Certain Writings To Public - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 78.1a
  (1) The business which a charter commission or a legislative body of a village may perform shall be conducted at a public meeting of the ...
• Emergency Financial Manager; Authority And Responsibilities - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 78.1b
  Notwithstanding any provision of this act, if an emergency financial manager has been appointed under the local government fiscal responsibility act, Act No. 101 ...
• Incorporation, Detachment Or Addition Of Territory, Or Consolidation; Petition; Signatures; Incorporation Of Summer Resort Association; Proceedings; Certification; Appointment, Oath, Duties, And Compensation Of Enumerators; Sworn Statement; "Qualified Electors" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 78.2
  Villages may be incorporated or territory detached therefrom or added thereto, or consolidation made of 2 or more villages into 1 village by proceedings ...
• Violation Of SS 168.1 To 168.992 Applicable To Petitions; Penalties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 78.2a
  Except as otherwise provided in this section, a petition under section 2, 3, 4, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14, or 17, including the circulation ...
• Petitions; Contents - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 78.3
  Said petition shall accurately describe the proposed boundaries of the village or of the territory to be annexed thereto or detached therefrom and if ...
• Petition; Presentation; Action Of County Board Of Commissioners; Resolution; Vote; Review - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 78.4
  (1) A petition under section 2 shall be addressed to the county board of commissioners of the county in which the territory to be affected ...
• Incorporation, Consolidation Or Change Of Boundaries; Affected District; Referendum; Authorizing Vote - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 78.5
  The district to be affected by every such proposed incorporation, consolidation or change of boundaries, shall be deemed to include the whole of each ...
• Annexation; Petition; Vote; Approval Of Adjoining City, Village Or Township - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 78.5a
  Where the territory proposed to be annexed is adjacent to a village and consists of fractional parts of platted subdivision lots, located in an ...
• Petition And Resolution; Certified Copies, Transmittal To Local Clerks, Time; Election Notices - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 78.6
  The county clerk shall, within 3 days after the passage of the resolution provided for in section 4 of this act, transmit a certified ...
• Villages In More Than 1 County; Incorporation, Consolidation Or Change In Boundary; Procedure - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 78.7
  (1) If the territory to be affected by a proposed incorporation, consolidation, or change of boundaries is situated in more than 1 county, the petition ...
• Returns Canvass - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 78.8
  The returns by the several boards of election inspectors shall be made to the clerk of the county in which the village or proposed ...
• Proceedings; Copy Filed With Secretary Of State; Recording; Change Effected; Certificate To State Treasurer; Time - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 78.9
  (1) On the filing in the office of the secretary of state and the clerk of the county or counties within which the village is ...
• Annexation Of Entire Village Or Township; Incorporation Of Village From Part Of Township; Annexation Of Part Of City, Village, Or Township By Village - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 78.10
  Whenever an entire village or township is annexed to a village, the village to which it is annexed shall succeed to the ownership of ...
• New Village; Charter Commission, Election, Manner, Duties, Oath; Proposed Charter, Vote, Manner; Notices - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 78.11
  At every election on the question of incorporation of a new village, each elector residing within its proposed territorial limits shall also be entitled ...
• Village Charter; Rejection, Effect; President De Facto; Resubmission; Revert To Prior Status - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 78.12
  If the proposed charter be rejected at such election the election of officers shall be void, except that the elector who shall receive the ...
• Village Charter; New Charter Commission, Petition, Procedure, Duties; Eligibility; Expenses, Payment; Territory, Control - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 78.13
  In cases where the qualified electors of a village shall reject a proposed charter, any 100 electors of said village may petition the de ...
• Village Charter; Revision - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 78.14
  Any village desiring to revise its charter shall do so in the following manner, unless otherwise provided by charter: When its legislative body shall ...
• Election Of Charter Commission; Details Fixed By Legislative Body - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 78.15
  The legislative body of the municipality, unless it is otherwise provided, shall fix in advance of the election of a charter commission, the manner ...
• Charter Commission; Quorum - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 78.16
  A majority of those elected shall constitute a quorum of the commission and its powers and duties shall be the same as those prescribed ...
• Charter; Amendments, Submission - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 78.17
  Any amendment to any existing charter, whether passed pursuant to the provisions of this act or heretofore granted or passed by the state legislature, ...
• Charter Commission; Prosecuting Attorneys To Give Advice; Charter Vote Prerequisites - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 78.18
  It shall be the duty of the prosecuting attorneys of the several counties, to give advice to any and all charter commissions of this ...
• Charter; Publication Prerequisites - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 78.19
  Every charter and amendment thereto, whether of villages incorporated under this act or under an existing charter of the village heretofore granted or passed ...
• Charter Of Amendment; Approval; Filing Time - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 78.20
  If the charter or any amendment thereto, whether of villages incorporated under this act or under an existing charter of the village heretofore granted ...
• Election; Expenses; Manner Of Conducting - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 78.21
  (1) All elections held under this act shall be paid for as provided by the Michigan election law, 1954 PA 116, MCL 168.1 to 168.992. ...
• Police Officers Of Village; Powers - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 78.22
  When any person has committed or is suspected of having committed any crime or misdemeanor within a village, whether incorporated under the provisions of ...
• District Court Or Municipal Court; Hearing And Determining Cases - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 78.22a
  The district court or municipal court in the judicial district in which a village is located shall hear and determine all cases that occur ...
• Police Officer; Authority To Execute Bench Warrant - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 78.22b
  A police officer of a village has the same authority within the village as a deputy sheriff to execute a bench warrant for arrest ...
• Village Charter; Mandatory Provisions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 78.23
  Each village charter shall provide for all of the following: (a) The election of and compensation for a president who shall be the executive ...
• Village Charter; Permissible Provisions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 78.24
  A village may provide in its charter for 1 or more of the following: (a) The regulation of a trade, occupation, or amusement within ...
• Codification Of Ordinances - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 78.24a
  Each village shall have the power, whether provided in its charter or not, to codify, recodify, and continue in code the village's municipal ordinances, ...
• Energy Conservation Improvements; Resolution; Payment; Scope Of Improvements; Acquisition Of Improvements By Contracts Or Notes; Reports; Forms - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 78.24b
  (1) The governing body of a village may provide by resolution for energy conservation improvements to be made to village facilities and may pay for ...
• Acquisition Of Land For Disposal Of Sewage Or Protection Of Water Supply - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 78.24c
  A village may acquire land outside its corporate limits necessary for the disposal of sewage or the obtaining or protection of a water supply ...
• Staggered Terms Of Office; Resolution; Length Of Initial Terms; Applicability Of Subsection (1) - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 78.24d
  (1) Notwithstanding any charter provision, a village may pass a resolution to provide for the terms of office of its elected officials and for the ...
• Statutory Provisions; Adoption - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 78.25
  Each village may adopt as its charter or any part of the same, any chapter, act or section of the statutes of this state ...
• Ordinance; Designation Of Violation As Civil Infraction; Civil Fine; Act Or Omission Constituting Crime - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 78.25a
  (1) Consistent with any of the following statutes and whether or not authorized by the village charter, the village council may adopt an ordinance that ...
• Recreational Trailway; Posting Of Ordinance; Prohibited Violation Of Ordinance As Municipal Civil Infraction; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 78.25b
  (1) An ordinance regulating a recreational trailway is not effective unless it is posted and maintained near each gate or principal entrance to the trailway. ...
• Prohibited Powers - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 78.26
  (1) A village shall not do any of the following: (a) Submit to the electors a charter or a revision of a charter more often ...
• Locomotives; Enforceability Of Ordinance Prescribing Maximum Speed Limit - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 78.26a
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this act, on and after the effective date of a passenger railroad maximum speed limit specified in a final ...
• Village Charter; Prohibited Conflicts - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 78.27
  No provision of any village charter shall conflict with or contravene the provisions of any general law of the state, except as in section ...
• Construction Of Act - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 78.28
  It is hereby intended by this act to reenact sections 17, 18, 19 and 20, as above amended, pursuant to the adoption of the ...

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