Michigan Compiled Laws 40-1956-11. Chapter 11. Levy And Collection Of Drain Taxes. (280.261...280.283)

• Section 280.261 Computation Of Cost; Items Included; Contingent Expenses.
  Within 10 days after the letting of contracts, or in case of an appeal, then forthwith after such appeal shall have been decided, the...
• Section 280.262 Special Assessment Roll And Tax Assessment Roll; Contents; Installment Payments.
  (1) The commissioner shall thereupon make a special assessment roll for the drain for each county, township, city, or village and each state trunk...
• Section 280.263 Spread Of Drain Taxes On Rolls; Time.
  It shall be the duty of the supervisor, village or city assessor, to spread on his roll the total amount of all drain taxes...
• Section 280.264 Statement Of Assessments Upon Township At Large Furnished Township Treasurer.
  The supervisor shall, at the time of the delivery of his assessment roll to the township treasurer, also furnish him with an itemized statement...
• Section 280.265 Drain Taxes; General Tax Law Applicable, Payment Under Protest, Action, Lien, Personal Claim.
  All drain taxes assessed under the provisions of this act shall be subject to the same interest and charges, and shall be collected in...
• Section 280.266 Return Of Delinquent Drain Taxes; General Tax Law Applicable.
  If the taxes levied for the construction, cleaning out, widening, deepening, straightening or extending of any drain are not collected by the township, city...
• Section 280.267 Injunction After Assessment.
  After any taxes have been assessed for the construction, location or establishment of any drain, no injunction shall issue to restrain the spreading of...
• Section 280.268 Perpetual Injunction Not Allowed For Informalities; Plaintiff May Show Injury.
  The collection of no tax levied or ordered to be levied for the payment of the location or construction of any drain laid out...
• Section 280.269 Invalidation Proceedings; Proofs, Correction Of Damages Or Assessment, Order, Costs.
  The court in which such proceedings are begun shall allow proof that the drain was necessary and conducive to the public health, convenience or...
• Section 280.270 Tax Lien; Proceeding To Compel Spread Of Tax; Established Drains.
  Whenever any drain has been located and established, and contracts let for its construction, and the work of construction has been completed, or partly...
• Section 280.271 Tax Collection Suits; Tax Reassessment.
  Any drain taxes that may have been assessed and returned upon any lands under any drain law enacted before this act and remaining unpaid,...
• Section 280.272 Tax Collection Suits; Assumpsit; Prima Facie Evidence, Judgment Based On Benefits; Authority To Sue.
  In any suit brought for the collection of any unpaid drain taxes by virtue of section 271, the commissioner bringing such suit may declare...
• Section 280.273 New Proceedings When Tax Set Aside; Report Of Defects To Supervisors, Reassessment.
  In case any drain tax heretofore or to be hereafter assessed shall be set aside, except for causes that would deprive the commissioner of...
• Section 280.274 Invalidation Proceedings; Commissioner As Party.
  In any suit brought to set aside any drain tax, or in any way attacking the legality of any drain proceedings, the commissioner shall...
• Section 280.275 Drainage District Bonds; Issuance, Terms, Sale, Premium; Sale Subject To Revised Municipal Finance Act; Limitation On Payment From County General Fund.
  In cases where the issuing of bonds shall have been determined upon, as provided in this act, and subject to the provisions of section...
• Section 280.276 County Drainage District Bonds Or Notes; Intracounty Drains; Faith And Credit; Advancement By County, Reassessment.
  If bonds or notes are to be issued in respect to an intracounty drain, the county board of commissioners may, by resolution adopted by...
• Section 280.277 Drainage District Bonds; Delinquent Assessments, Advancements By Municipalities, Reimbursement, Reassessment, Validation Of Drain Orders Or Bonds.
  Whenever lands in any city, village or township or combination thereof shall be assessed for all or any part of the cost of a...
• Section 280.278 Interest On Installments Of Drain Taxes; Payment Of Interest; Disposition And Use Of Installments And Interest; Bank Deposits; Interest On Bonds Or Notes.
  If bonds or notes are issued and sold by the commissioner, installments of the drain taxes shall bear interest not to exceed a rate...
• Section 280.279 Special Assessments; Payment In Full; Notice To Commissioner; Deficiency Assessment.
  Any person liable to the payment of special assessments for benefits received from the construction of a drain hereunder may pay the same in...
• Section 280.280 Additional Assessments; Levy; Purposes; Surplus; Exemption Of Certain Lands From Deficiency Assessments.
  (1) If there is not sufficient money in the fund in a particular drain at the time of the maturity of the bonds last...
• Section 280.281 Special Drain Assessment; Definition Of Municipal Corporation.
  Any municipal corporation may contract to pay all or any part of a special drain assessment for drain improvements made by any county agency...
• Section 280.282 Investment Of Surplus Funds; Consolidation Of Drainage District Funds; Disposition And Use Of Interest; Revolving Maintenance Fund; Consolidation With Other Funds For Investment Purposes; Disposition Of Interest Earned; Accounting For Principal Balances; Expenditures.
  (1) The drain commissioner or drainage board may direct the treasurer of any drainage district to invest any surplus funds belonging to and under...
• Section 280.283 Use Or Transfer Of Surplus Construction Funds; Contract With Public Corporation; Provisions Of Contract; Return Of Surplus Construction Funds To State Transportation Department; Definitions.
  (1) The drain commissioner or drainage board shall use any surplus construction funds remaining in the construction fund after completion of the project for...

Last modified: October 10, 2016