Act No. 14

Public Acts of 1999

Approved by the Governor

April 27, 1999

Filed with the Secretary of State

April 27, 1999

EFFECTIVE DATE: April 27, 1999

STATE OF MICHIGAN

90TH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 1999

Introduced by Reps. Middaugh, Birkholz, LaSata, Byl, Shackleton, Geiger, DeWeese and Scranton

Reps. Basham, Bovin, Cameron Brown, Cassis, Clarke, DeHart, Dennis, DeRossett, DeVuyst, Gosselin, Hardman, Hart, Howell, Jamnick, Julian, Koetje, Kuipers, Kukuk, Law, Lemmons, Lockwood, Mead, O'Neil, Pappageorge, Patterson, Pumford, Reeves, Richner, Rocca, Scott, Stamas, Toy, Vaughn, Voorhees and Woodward named co-sponsors

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 4013

AN ACT to amend 1931 PA 285, entitled "An act to provide for city, village and municipal planning; the creation, organization, powers and duties of planning commissions; the regulation and subdivision of land; and to provide penalties for violation of the provisions of this act," by amending section 8 (MCL 125.38).

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 8. (1) The commission may adopt the plan as a whole by a single resolution. The commission may by successive resolutions adopt successive parts of the plan corresponding with major geographical sections or divisions of the municipality or with functional subdivisions of the subject matter of the plan. The commission may adopt any amendment or extension of the plan or addition to the plan.

(2) Before the adoption of the plan or any part, amendment, extension, or addition to the plan, the commission shall hold not less than 1 public hearing. Notice of the time and place of the public hearing shall be given not less than 15days prior to the hearing by 1 publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality and in the official gazette, if any, of the municipality, and by registered United States mail to each public utility company and to each railroad company owning or operating any public utility or railroad within the geographical sections or divisions of the municipality affected.

(3) The adoption of the plan or any part, amendment, extension, or addition to the plan shall be by resolution of the commission carried by the affirmative votes of not less than 2/3 of the members of the commission. The resolution shall refer expressly to the maps and descriptive and other matter intended by the commission to form the whole or part of the plan, and the action taken shall be recorded on the map and plan and descriptive matter by the identifying signature of the chairperson or the secretary of the commission.

(4) An attested copy of the plan or part of the plan shall be certified to the council and to the county register of deeds.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Clerk of the House of Representatives.

Secretary of the Senate.

Approved

Governor.