Act No. 21

Public Acts of 2002

Approved by the Governor

March 4, 2002

Filed with the Secretary of State

March 4, 2002

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 4, 2002

STATE OF MICHIGAN

91ST LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2002

Introduced by Rep. Sanborn

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 5025

AN ACT to amend 1967 PA 288, entitled "An act to regulate the division of land; to promote the public health, safety, and general welfare; to further the orderly layout and use of land; to require that the land be suitable for building sites and public improvements and that there be adequate drainage of the land; to provide for proper ingress and egress to lots and parcels; to promote proper surveying and monumenting of land subdivided and conveyed by accurate legal descriptions; to provide for the approvals to be obtained prior to the recording and filing of plats and other land divisions; to provide for the establishment of special assessment districts and for the imposition of special assessments to defray the cost of the operation and maintenance of retention basins for land within a final plat; to establish the procedure for vacating, correcting, and revising plats; to control residential building development within floodplain areas; to provide for reserving easements for utilities in vacated streets and alleys; to provide for the filing of amended plats; to provide for the making of assessors plats; to provide penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act; to repeal certain parts of this act on specific dates; and to repeal acts and parts of acts," by amending section 144 (MCL 560.144).

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 144. (1) The proprietor's certificate on the plat shall include the following:

(a) The caption of the plat.

(b) A statement that the proprietor has caused the land described on the plat to be surveyed, divided, monumented, mapped, and dedicated as shown on the plat.

(c) A statement that the streets, alleys, parks, and other places shown on it that are usually public are dedicated to the use of the public.

(d) A statement that all public utility easements are private easements and that all other easements are reserved to the uses shown on the plat.

(e) The name of each street, park, or other place that is usually public and that is intended to be reserved to other than public use, and the character and purpose of that use.

(f) A statement that the plat includes all land to the water's edge.

(2) The proprietor's certificate shall be signed by the following, and each signature shall be acknowledged as deeds conveying lands are required to be acknowledged:

(a) All persons holding the title by deed of the lands.

(b) All persons holding any other title of record.

(c) All persons holding title as mortgagee or vendee under land contract or who are in possession but are not renters.

(d) The spouses of persons named in subdivisions (a), (b), and (c).

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Clerk of the House of Representatives.

Secretary of the Senate.

Approved

Governor.