HOUSE BILL No. 4476

 

March 22, 2011, Introduced by Rep. Haveman and referred to the Committee on Local, Intergovernmental, and Regional Affairs.

 

     A bill to amend 1909 PA 278, entitled

 

"The home rule village act,"

 

(MCL 78.1 to 78.28) by adding section 1c.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

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

 

notwithstanding any charter provision or ordinance, a village that

 

is required to publish a legal notice in a newspaper of general

 

circulation in the village may satisfy that requirement by posting

 

the legal notice in the office of the village clerk and on at least

 

1 of the following:

 

     (a) The village's website.

 

     (b) The website of the newspaper designated by the village as

 

the official newspaper of general circulation in the village.

 


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

 

that village.