Bill Text: MI HB4117 | 2011-2012 | 96th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Townships; charter; posting of legal notices as alternative to publishing; provide for. Amends 1947 PA 359 (MCL 42.1 - 42.34) by adding sec. 1b.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 4-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-01-25 - Printed Bill Filed 01/21/2011 [HB4117 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2011-HB4117-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 4117

 

January 20, 2011, Introduced by Reps. Haveman, Lund, Daley, Constan, Geiss and Denby and referred to the Committee on Local, Intergovernmental, and Regional Affairs.

 

     A bill to amend 1947 PA 359, entitled

 

"The charter township act,"

 

(MCL 42.1 to 42.34) by adding section 1b.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 1b. Except as otherwise specifically provided by law and

 

notwithstanding any charter provision, a charter township that is

 

required to publish a legal notice in a newspaper of general

 

circulation in the charter township may satisfy that requirement by

 

posting the legal notice in the office of the charter township

 

clerk and on at least 1 of the following:

 

     (a) The charter township's website.

 

     (b) The website of the newspaper designated by the charter

 

township as the official newspaper of general circulation in the

 

charter township.

 

     (c) The public, education, and government channel operated in

 

that charter township.