Michigan Compiled Laws 40-1956-6. Chapter 6. Intercounty Drains. (280.121...280.135)

• Section 280.121 Intercounty Drains; Petition To Establish; Filing, Signatures; Certificate Of County Treasurer; Eligibility Of Signers; "Municipality" Defined.
  (1) After an intercounty drainage district has been established and the order establishing the intercounty drainage district has been filed as provided in this...
• Section 280.122 Drainage Board; Duties Generally; Voting; Notice Of Meeting; Affidavit Of Mailing; Failure To Receive Notice; Expense Of Notification; Determination Of Necessity, Percentages, And Number Of Installments; Order; Drainage Board As Board Of Determination; Submission Of Apportionment To Board Of Arbitration; Finality.
  Upon filing of a petition to locate, establish, and construct an intercounty drain the commissioner receiving the petition, within 20 days, shall notify by...
• Section 280.122a Judicial Determination Of Drain Necessity; Filing Of Action.
  Whenever the drain board finds by majority vote of the whole number of members that the drain is or is not necessary, a person...
• Section 280.123 Apportionment Of Benefits; Assessment, Correction, Appeal.
  After securing releases of right of way as herein provided, the commissioner of each county affected shall apportion the benefits for the construction of...
• Section 280.124 Meetings Of Drainage Board To Receive Bids And Review Apportionment Of Benefits; Notice.
  After such apportionment shall have been made by each of the commissioners, the chairman of the drainage board shall prepare and have printed notice...
• Section 280.125 Meetings Of Drainage Board; Review, Appeal, Computation Of Costs.
  At such meeting the respective commissioners shall hear the proofs and allegations offered and shall reconsider and review the descriptions of land in that...
• Section 280.126 Construction Of Drain; Receipt Of Bids And Letting Of Contracts; Abandonment Of Petition; Order; Notice.
  At the time and place fixed in said notice, or at an adjourned date, the drainage board shall receive bids and let contracts for...
• Section 280.127 Releases Of Right Of Way And Damages.
  Within 60 days next succeeding the entry of the first order of determination the said commissioners shall within their respective counties endeavor to secure...
• Section 280.128 Condemnation Proceedings; Obtaining Right-of-way, Easement, Or Other Property Interest.
  If any person whose lands would be traversed or damaged by a proposed drain has not executed a release of the right-of-way, the drainage...
• Section 280.129 Repealed. 2013, Act 262, Imd. Eff. Dec. 30, 2013.
  Compiler's Notes: The repealed section pertained to meetings of special commissioners.Popular Name: Act 40
• Section 280.130 Computation Of Construction Cost; Certification Of Special Assessment Rolls, Filing; Levy And Collection Of Taxes.
  The commissioners of each county affected shall within the time limited in chapter 11, being sections 261 to 280, inclusive, of this act, and...
• Section 280.131 Drain Record; Certified Copies Furnished Other Commissioners, Filing.
  A full record of such drain shall be made and entered by the several commissioners in the drain record books of their respective counties,...
• Section 280.132 Drainage Bonds; Issuance, Terms; Moneys, Disposition.
  In cases where it is determined that the assessments shall be collected in more than 2 installments, the drainage board, acting on behalf of...
• Section 280.133 Interstate Drain; Application And Petition, Drainage District, Proceedings; Release Of Right Of Way, Obstruction Agreement.
  Whenever any proposed drain lies wholly or partly in an adjoining state, or the lands to be drained thereby lie partly in an adjoining...
• Section 280.134 Intercounty Drain; Venue Of Actions; Appointment Of Outside Circuit Judge.
  Any action involving intercounty drains, except such actions as may be brought directly in the supreme court, may be brought in the circuit court...
• Section 280.135 Intercounty Drain; Extension Into County Not In Original District; Procedure, Apportionment Of Cost; Addition Of Lands By Expanded Board.
  If at any time after an intercounty drainage district has been established and a drain has been located, established and constructed therein, it appears...

Last modified: October 10, 2016