November 10, 2005, Introduced by Senators CHERRY, BRATER, SCHAUER and GOSCHKA and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs.
A bill to amend 1943 PA 184, entitled
"Township zoning act,"
by amending section 24 (MCL 125.294), as amended by 1994 PA 24.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 24. A use of land, or a dwelling, building, or structure
including a tent or trailer coach, used, erected, altered, razed,
or converted in violation of a local ordinance or regulation
adopted pursuant to this act is a nuisance per se. The court shall
order the nuisance abated and the owner or agent in charge of the
dwelling, building, structure, tent, trailer coach, or land is
liable for maintaining a nuisance per se. The township board shall
in the ordinance enacted under this act designate the proper
official or officials who shall administer and enforce that
ordinance
and do either 1
of the following for each violation of
the ordinance:
(a) Impose a penalty for the violation.
(b) Designate the violation as a municipal civil infraction
and impose a civil fine for the violation.
(c) Designate the violation as a blight violation and impose a
civil fine or other sanction authorized by law if the township
establishes an administrative hearings bureau pursuant to statute
to adjudicate and impose sanctions for blight violations.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect
unless all of the following bills of the 93rd Legislature are
enacted into law:
(a) Senate Bill No. 889.
(b) Senate Bill No. 888.
(c) Senate Bill No. 887.