Sec. 117.
(1) The proprietor shall submit 2 copies of the preliminary plat to the department of environmental quality, if any of the subdivision lies wholly or in part within the floodplain of a river, stream, creek, or lake. The department of environmental quality, within 30 days after receipt of the preliminary plat, shall approve it, approve it subject to conditions, or reject it. If the preliminary plat is approved, the department of environmental quality shall note its approval on the copy to be returned to the proprietor. If the department of environmental quality approves the preliminary plat subject to conditions or rejects the preliminary plat, the department shall give the reasons for rejection and requirements for approval in writing to the proprietor and to each of the other officers and agencies to which the proprietor was required to submit the preliminary plat under sections 113 to 115 and 117 to 119. The determination of a floodplain area shall be based on rules specified in section 105(f).
(2) The preliminary plat submittal to the department of environmental quality under subsection (1) shall be accompanied by a fee of $500.00 to cover the administrative cost of the department's preliminary plat review. If the department of environmental quality determines that engineering computations are required to establish the limits of the floodplain on a preliminary plat, the department shall assess an additional fee of $1,500.00 to cover the department's cost of establishing those limits.
(3) The department of environmental quality shall forward fees collected under this section to the state treasurer for deposit in the land and water management permit fee fund created in section 30113 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324.30113.
History: 1967, Act 288, Eff. Jan. 1, 1968 ;-- Am. 1993, Act 150, Eff. Sept. 30, 1993 ;-- Am. 1995, Act 172, Imd. Eff. Oct. 9, 1995 ;-- Am. 1998, Act 549, Imd. Eff. Jan. 20, 1999 ;-- Am. 2004, Act 525, Eff. July 1, 2005
Popular Name: Plat Act
Popular Name: Subdivision Control
Last modified: October 10, 2016