Bill Text: MI HB6017 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Local government; other; public notice to incorporate an authority to provide emergency services to municipalities; revise to make reference to the local government public notice act. Amends secs. 2 & 3 of 1988 PA 57 (MCL 124.602 & 124.603). TIE BAR WITH: HB 5560'14
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-12-03 - Printed Bill Filed 12/03/2014 [HB6017 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2013-HB6017-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL No. 6017
December 2, 2014, Introduced by Rep. Price and referred to the Committee on Local Government.
A bill to amend 1988 PA 57, entitled
"An act to provide for the incorporation by 2 or more
municipalities of certain authorities for the purpose of providing
emergency services to municipalities; to provide for the powers and
duties of authorities and of certain state and local agencies and
officers; to provide for certain condemnation proceedings; to
provide for fees; to provide for the levy of property taxes for
certain purposes; and to prescribe penalties and provide remedies,"
by amending sections 2 and 3 (MCL 124.602 and 124.603).
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 2. (1) Any 2 or more municipalities may incorporate an
authority for the purpose of providing emergency services to the
incorporating municipalities. An incorporating municipality may
transfer to the authority of which it is a part any municipal
emergency service.
(2) An authority is created by the adoption of articles of
incorporation by the legislative body of each incorporating
municipality. The adoption by an incorporating municipality shall
be endorsed on the articles of incorporation in the case of a
county by the county executive or chairperson of the board of
commissioners of the county and the county clerk; in the case of a
city by the mayor and clerk of the city; in the case of a village
by the president and clerk of a village; and in the case of a
township by the supervisor and clerk of a township, in a form
substantially as follows:
"The foregoing articles of incorporation were adopted by the
________________________ of the ____________________________ of
_______________________________________, ________________ county,
Michigan, at a meeting duly held on the _____________ day of
______________________________,
19____ ____ of said
_________________ Clerk of said ____________________".
(3) An authority's jurisdiction shall be comprised of the
total
territory within the incorporating municipalities. The Before
January 1, 2015, the articles of incorporation shall be published
at least once in a newspaper designated in the articles of
incorporation and circulating within the territory of the
authority. Beginning January 1, 2015, tier B public notice with a
link of the articles of incorporation shall be provided as set
forth in the local government public notice act. A printed copy of
the articles of incorporation, certified as a true copy by the
person or persons designated in the articles, and containing the
date and place of publication or posting, shall be filed with the
secretary of state. An authority shall become effective at the time
provided in its articles of incorporation. The validity of the
incorporation of an authority shall be conclusively presumed unless
questioned in a court of competent jurisdiction within 60 days
after the date on which certified copies of the articles of
incorporation are filed with the secretary of state.
(4) The laws of this state applying to a municipality that
becomes a part of an authority also shall continue to apply to the
municipality and the authority after the municipality becomes a
part of the authority.
Sec. 3. (1) Any county, city, village, or township may become
a part of an existing authority by amendment to the authority's
articles of incorporation, adopted by the legislative body of the
county, city, village, or township and by the legislative body of
every other county, city, village, or township of which the
existing authority is composed.
(2) Other amendments may be made to an authority's articles of
incorporation if adopted by the legislative body of each city,
village, or township of which the authority is composed. An
amendment shall be endorsed and published or posted, and certified
printed copies shall be filed in the same manner as the original
articles of incorporation, except that the filed printed copies
shall be certified by the recording officer of the authority.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect
unless Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 5560 (request no.
03796'13) of the 97th Legislature is enacted into law.
