Michigan Compiled Laws 40-1956-1. Chapter 1. Drains. (280.1...280.12)

• Section 280.1 Drain Code Of 1956; Short Title.
  This act shall be known and may be cited as “the drain code of 1956”. History: 1956, Act 40, Imd. Eff. Mar. 28, 1956...
• Section 280.2 Drains; Location, Establishment, Construction, Maintenance, And Improvements; Petition.
  Drains including branches may be located, established, constructed and maintained, and existing drains, creeks, rivers and watercourses and their branches, or tributaries whether located,...
• Section 280.3 Drain; Definition.
  The word “drain”, whenever used in this act, shall include the main stream or trunk and all tributaries or branches of any creek or...
• Section 280.4 “commissioner,”“drain Commissioner,” Or “county Drain Commissioner” Defined.
  As used in this act, “commissioner”, “drain commissioner”, or “county drain commissioner” means the elected county drain commissioner or the person or persons designated...
• Section 280.5 Drainage District; Body Corporate; Powers.
  A drainage district is a body corporate with power to contract; to sue and to be sued; to acquire interests in real or personal...
• Section 280.6 Drains; Public Easements And Rights Of Way; Use; Release, Notice, Protest.
  All established drains regularly located and established in pursuance of law existing at the time of location and establishment and visibly in existence, which...
• Section 280.8 Conducting Business At Public Meeting; Notice; Availability Of Writings To Public.
  (1) The business which a board or commission created pursuant to this act, or a body of special commissioners appointed pursuant to this act,...
• Section 280.10 Drains; Location; Meetings; Jurisdiction Of Commissioner; Exception; Payment Of Bonds Or Drain Orders; Deficiency.
  Drains may be laid or extended into or along or from any lake or other body of water surrounded wholly or in part by...
• Section 280.11 Easement; Right Of Way; Release Of Damages; Recording.
  Any easement, right of way or release of damages obtained in connection with any proposed drain or drains shall, following the expiration of 30...
• Section 280.12 Specification Of Time; Directory Or Mandatory.
  Except as provided in section 8, when a time is specified in this act in which the drain commissioner or a drainage board shall...

Last modified: October 10, 2016