Michigan Compiled Laws 40-1956-22. Chapter 22. Water Management Districts And Subdistricts (280.551...280.583)

• Section 280.551 Water Management; Definitions.
  Whenever used in this chapter, except when otherwise indicated by the context: (a) The term “state” shall be deemed to mean the state of...
• Section 280.552 Water Management; Petition For Flood Control Or Drainage Project, Filing, Signatures, Contents, Map.
  Whenever it shall be necessary for the public health, safety or welfare to establish a water management district to undertake a project in all...
• Section 280.553 Water Management Commission; Members, Appointment, Compensation, Expenses, Approval Of Plans, Orders And Assessments.
  There is created for each water management district petitioned for under the provisions of this chapter, a water management commission consisting of (a) the...
• Section 280.554 Water Management Board; Members; Terms; Vacancy; Qualifications; Chairman; Procedures; Employees; Treasurer; Bond; Secretary; Audit.
  (a) For each water management district created under the provisions of this chapter, there is also created a water management board, to consist of...
• 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.
  This section shall pertain to either the water management commission or the water management board. Meetings may be called by the chairperson or 2...
• Section 280.556 Water Management Commission; Petitions, Review; Notice Of First Meeting.
  Within 30 days following receipt of a petition as provided in section 552 of this act, the director of agriculture shall review the 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.
  The commission shall elect a temporary secretary, and may adopt rules of procedure or by-laws, not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter. The...
• Section 280.558 Water Management Board; Hearing Of Objections; Notice Of Hearing; Preliminary Order Of Determination; Eliminating Or Adding Public Corporation.
  The water management board shall fix a time, date, and place it will meet to hear objections to the proposed project, the petition for...
• Section 280.559 Assessment; Basis.
  Any assessment of any nature or kind determined or made under the provisions of this chapter shall be based upon benefits to the public...
• Section 280.560 Preliminary Plans; Approval; Detailed Plans, Contents, Approval; Official Plans, Filing.
  The board shall secure the approval of the Michigan water resources commission of the preliminary plans for the project, as soon as may be...
• Section 280.561 Tentative Percentage Of Cost For Assessment; Apportionment.
  After adoption of the official plans, the commission shall proceed to tentatively establish the percentage of cost of the project to be assessed against...
• Section 280.562 Hearing Of Objections To Tentative Apportionments Of Costs; Notice Of Hearing; Report; Confirmation Or Readjustment Of Apportionment.
  After the tentative apportionments of costs have been made, the board shall set a time, date, and place it will meet and hear objections...
• Section 280.563 Water Management Commission; Review Of Board's Apportionment; Final Order Of Apportionment; Annual Meeting; Work Plan, Advisory Committees.
  The commission shall meet for the purpose of considering the apportionments and report made by the board. The commission may readjust the apportionments: Provided,...
• Section 280.564 Lands And Rights Of Way; Condemnation, Procedure, Federal Governmental Participation; Costs.
  The board shall then proceed to secure the necessary lands and/or rights of way for the proposed project. If the same cannot be secured...
• Section 280.565 Contracts With Federal Government Or Corporations; Bids.
  The board may contract with the federal government (which term as used in this section shall include any agency thereof) whereby the federal government...
• Section 280.566 Special Assessment Roll; Installments, Payment, Interest.
  After the confirmation of the apportionments by the commission, the board shall cause to be prepared by the secretary of said board a special...
• 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.
  The special assessment roll shall contain the name of each public corporation assessed, the total estimated cost of the project (or actual cost if...
• Section 280.568 Assessments And Taxes Not Subject To Statutory Or Charter Debt Or Tax Limitations.
  Assessments made under the terms of this chapter shall not constitute an indebtedness of a public corporation within any statutory or charter debt limitation,...
• Section 280.569 Bonds; Issuance, Maturity, Signatures; Collection Of Assessments.
  The board may issue bonds for and on behalf of the water management district, in anticipation of the collection of any or all installments...
• Section 280.570 Additional Assessment; Apportionment.
  If for any reason the original assessment shall not be sufficient to pay the principal and interest on bonds issued in anticipation of the...
• Section 280.571 Water Management Board; Continuation, Responsibility; Budget, Hearing, Adoption.
  The board shall continue in existence with such changes in personnel as shall result from appointment of members by the commission. It shall be...
• Section 280.572 Advancements By Corporations; Reimbursement.
  Public corporations may advance funds for the payment of any part of the cost of a project hereunder and shall be repaid by the...
• Section 280.573 Costs; Items, Contingent Expenses.
  The cost of any project shall include (1) the cost of locating, establishing and constructing the project; (2) the administrative staff, office and other...
• Section 280.574 Water Management Commission; Powers.
  The commission of any water management district created under this act may authorize the board to (a) sell surplus water acquired as a result...
• Section 280.575 Subdistrict; Petition; Official Plan, Final Order Of Apportionment Of Cost; Assessment.
  In the event it shall be necessary for the public health, safety or welfare to undertake a project within a portion of a water...
• Section 280.576 Water Management District In Interstate River Basin; Powers Of Commission.
  Whenever it shall be necessary for the public health, safety or welfare to establish a water management district in all or part of 1...
• Section 280.577 Venue Of Actions; Appointment Of Circuit Judge.
  Any action arising from the provisions of this chapter except such actions as may be brought directly in the supreme court may be brought...
• Section 280.578 Deputy For Director Of Agriculture; Powers.
  The director of agriculture may designate a deputy to act in his stead in respect to the performance of his duties under this chapter....
• Section 280.579 Intercounty Drain; Construction Or Improvement For Flood Control Project.
  Any intercounty drain or any portion thereof now or hereafter existing may be constructed, cleaned out, relocated, widened, deepened, straightened, tiled or otherwise improved...
• Section 280.580 Public And Private Construction In Works Owned By Water Management District; Plans, Approval.
  Plans for the alteration or construction of any bridge, road, pipe line, power line, drain, sewer or other public and private construction in, into...
• Section 280.581 Certiorari; Time; Legal Establishment Of Project.
  Neither the final order of determination nor the final order of apportionment shall be subject to attack in any court except by proceedings in...
• Section 280.582 Provisions Applicable.
  In operating under the terms of this chapter, the several boards and officials shall not be limited by the provisions contained in other chapters...
• Section 280.583 Validation Of Prior Bonds.
  The provisions of this chapter shall not be construed to validate and shall not validate any bonds or other obligations issued prior to August...

Last modified: October 10, 2016