HOUSE BILL No. 4678


     May 13, 1999, Introduced by Reps. Pumford, Sanborn, Mead, Tabor, Patterson, Vear, Vander Roest, Ehardt, Bradstreet, Rivet and Garcia and referred to the Committee on Local Government and Urban Policy.


        A bill to amend 1846 RS 16, entitled

   "Of the powers and duties of townships, the election and duties
   of township officers, and the division of townships,"

   (MCL 41.1a to 41.110c) by adding section 104b.

               THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 1         SEC. 104B.  (1) TERRITORY IN A TOWNSHIP WITH A POPULATION OF

 2    3,000 OR MORE AS SHOWN BY THE LAST FEDERAL DECENNIAL CENSUS OR

 3    ANY SPECIAL FEDERAL OR STATE CENSUS HELD AFTER THE LAST FEDERAL

 4    DECENNIAL CENSUS OR WITH A STATE EQUALIZED VALUATION OF

 5    $25,000,000.00 OR MORE SHALL NOT BE ANNEXED BY ANY CITY, VILLAGE,

 6    TOWNSHIP, OR CHARTER TOWNSHIP, UNLESS THE QUESTION OF THE ANNEXA-

 7    TION HAS BEEN VOTED UPON BY THE VOTERS IN THE TERRITORY PROPOSED

 8    FOR ANNEXATION, IF ANY, AND THE BALANCE OF EACH CITY, VILLAGE,

 9    TOWNSHIP, OR CHARTER TOWNSHIP AFFECTED BY THE ANNEXATION VOTING

10    INDEPENDENTLY.



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 1         (2) IF A VOTE IS REQUIRED UNDER SUBSECTION (1), THE

 2    ANNEXATION SHALL BE CONSIDERED DEFEATED IF A MAJORITY OF THE

 3    ELECTORS VOTING ON THE ISSUE IN THE ANNEXING CITY, VILLAGE, TOWN-

 4    SHIP, OR CHARTER TOWNSHIP, THE TERRITORY PROPOSED FOR ANNEXATION,

 5    OR THE BALANCE OF THE TOWNSHIP WITHIN WHICH THE TERRITORY PRO-

 6    POSED FOR ANNEXATION IS LOCATED VOTE AGAINST THE ANNEXATION.












































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