Act No. 376

Public Acts of 2002

Approved by the Governor

May 24, 2002

Filed with the Secretary of State

May 24, 2002

EFFECTIVE DATE: May 24, 2002

STATE OF MICHIGAN

91ST LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2002

Introduced by Rep. Jacobs

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 5671

AN ACT to amend 1895 PA 215, entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of cities of the fourth class; to provide for the vacation of the incorporation thereof; to define the powers and duties of such cities and the powers and duties of the municipal finance commission or its successor agency and of the department of treasury with regard thereto; to provide for the levy and collection of taxes, borrowing of money, and issuance of bonds and other evidences of indebtedness by cities; to define the application of this act and provide for its amendment by cities subject thereto; to validate such prior amendments and certain prior actions taken and bonds issued by such cities; and to prescribe penalties and provide remedies," by amending section 4 (MCL 102.4).

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 4. The council may cause all public streets, alleys, and public grounds to be surveyed, and may determine and establish their boundaries and cause those surveys and descriptions to be recorded in the office of the city clerk, in a book of street records; and they shall cause surveys and descriptions of all streets, alleys, and public grounds opened, laid out, altered, extended, or accepted and confirmed by the council, to be recorded in like manner; and that record shall be prima facie evidence of the existence of those streets, alleys, or public grounds as in the records described. Every resolution or ordinance discontinuing or vacating any street, alley, or public ground shall also be recorded in the book of street records, and the record shall be prima facie evidence of all the matters set forth in that book, and a true copy of every resolution or ordinance, containing an accurate description of the lands comprising any street, alley, or public ground, laid out, altered, extended, discontinued, or vacated shall be recorded in the office of the register of deeds for the county where those lands are situated, and shall thereafter be filed in the office of the secretary of state.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Clerk of the House of Representatives.

Secretary of the Senate.

Approved

Governor.