The Council shall have power to do any public work or make any public improvement by the employment of the necessary labor and the purchase of the necessary supplies and materials with separate accounting as to each improvement so made, or to do such work by contract duly let after competitive bidding. Where competitive bids are secured, the village, or any village department qualified to do the work, may enter a bid on an equal footing with other bidders. The Council shall also have the power to do any public work or make any public improvement under any legally constituted plan under which the labor is furnished by any other governmental unit, department, or agency of the United States or the State of Michigan, or which is wholly or in part financed by them or either of them.
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Before making any purchase or contract for supplies, materials, equipment, or contractual services, opportunity shall be given for competition, under such rules and regulations, and with such exceptions as the Council may by ordinance prescribe. All expenditures for supplies, materials, equipment, or contractual services involving more than one thousand dollars ($1000.00) shall be made on written contract, and such contract shall be awarded to the lowest competent bidder meeting specifications and whose bid is most advantageous to the village after such public notice and competition as may be prescribed by ordinance; provided, however, that the Council shall have the power to reject all bids and advertise again. The Council shall provide, by ordinance, for the ordinary purchasing procedure to be followed in purchasing village supplies.
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When any lot, building, or structure within the village, because of accumulation of refuse or debris, the uncontrolled growing of weeds, or age or dilapidation, or because of any other condition or happening, becomes, in the opinion of the Council, a public hazard or nuisance which is dangerous to the health or safety of the inhabitants of the village or of those of them residing or habitually going near such lot, building, or structure, the Council may, after investigation, give notice to the owner of the land upon which such hazard or nuisance exists, or to the owner of the building or structure itself, specifying the nature of the nuisance, to promptly have it eliminated within a time to be specified by the Council which shall be commensurate with the nature of the nuisance. If, at the expiration of the time limit in said notice, said owner has not complied with the requirements thereof, or in any case where the owner of the land or of the building or structure itself is not known, the Council may order such hazard or nuisance abated by the proper department or agency of the village which is qualified to do the work required and the cost of such abatement, assessed against the lot, premises, or description of real property upon which such hazard or nuisance was located. Procedure to be followed to make this section fully effective shall be established by ordinance.
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The Council may prescribe that sidewalks, except crosswalks, shall be built by the owners of lands within the village which abut upon such sidewalks in the manner and within the time prescribed by ordinance; provided that in case of failure of any such owner to comply with the provisions of such ordinance, the village may build or cause to be built such sidewalk and assess the cost thereof against such owner and against the land improved thereby, in the manner prescribed by the Council by ordinance.
(Adopted 3-13-67)
(a) Private property may be taken and appropriated for public use by the Village of Lake Orion, either within or without its limits, for the purposes of opening, widening, altering and extending streets, alleys and avenues; for the construction of bridges, for public buildings and for other public structures; for public grounds, parks, market places and spaces; for the improvement of water courses; for the providing of water and utilities; for the acquisition and improvement of property for the public parking of motor vehicles; for sewers, drains and ditches; for public hospitals, pest houses, quarantine grounds and public cemeteries; for jails and firehalls and other lawful and necessary public uses.
(b) If it shall become necessary to take and appropriate private property for the public uses for the purposes specified in the preceding section, the right to occupy and hold the same and the ownership therein and thereto, may be acquired by the village in the manner and with like effect, as provided by any of the general laws, statutes or Constitution of this State relating to the taking of private property for public use by cities and villages.
(Adopted 3-13-67)