CHARTER

Section

   1   Short title; charter townships, incorporation; powers, privileges, immunities and liabilities; petition; special census, expenses

   1a   Emergency financial manager; authority and responsibilities

   2   Incorporation; referendum; ballot, form and content; filing of petition or resolution by township clerk; finality of proceedings; term of incumbent officers; disincorporation

   2a   Violation of §§ 168.1 to 168.992 applicable to petitions; penalties

   3   Incorporation; submission of proposition to electors; time; petitions; verification of signatures

   3a   Notice to clerk of township not incorporated as charter township; resolution of township board; notice of right to referendum; petition; signatures; submitting question of incorporation at general or special election; wording of ballot

   4   Nomination of candidates for township office; conducting primary election; duties of township clerk; duties and composition of board of township election commissioners

   5   Township board; election of members; powers and duties; supervisor as presiding and executive officer; authentication of instruments; president pro tem; clerk; record of proceedings; temporary clerk

   6   Charter township board; compensation, expenses of members

   6a   Ordinance establishing procedure for determining salary of elected official; contents; conducting business at public meeting; public notice; resolution implementing ordinance; petition for referendum; change of procedure; decreasing salary of elected township official

   7   Township board; meetings; conducting business at public meeting; notice of meeting; transacting business at special meeting; quorum; adjournment; rules and order of business; journal; voting; availability of certain writings to public; attendance and conduct at meetings; misconduct in office; sergeant-at-arms

   8   Charter township board; monthly publication of proceedings, notices and ordinances

   9   Township officers, powers and duties; additional officers, limitations

   10   Township superintendent; appointment; delegation of powers and duties of township supervisor

   11   Township superintendent; tenure; qualifications; residency requirements; waiver

   11a   Township assessors; appointment, power and duties, compensation

   12   Township police force, establishment; township marshal, appointment; rules; policemen, powers and duties

   13   Township fire department; establishment; township fire chief; appointment; rules and regulations; refusal to aid at fire, penalty

   14   Charter township; power to acquire property; approval of electors

   14a   Bonds for public improvements; issuance; approval required; exceptions; limitation of net indebtedness, computation of net indebtedness; bonds subject to provisions

   15   Ordinances to provide for peace, health and safety; licenses, granting, fees, bonds

   16   Streets, alleys, bridges, and public places; regulation of use; record of ordinances, filing

   17   Construction of buildings; powers and liabilities of charter townships as to public health and safety

   18   Joint action with other governmental unit or agency

   19   Ordinances, resolutions, rules and regulations of former township; continuation

   20   Legislation to be by ordinance or resolution; form, passage, amendment, recording, authentication, and compilation of ordinance

   21   Violation of ordinances; sanctions; designation as civil infraction; act or omission constituting crime; penalty; distribution of fines

   21a   Police officers; right to pursue, arrest, and right to detain person outside of charter township limits

   21b   Police officer or constable; authority to execute bench warrant

   21c   Regulation of recreational trailway; posting of ordinance; violation as municipal civil infraction; penalty

   22   Ordinance; publication; effective date; publication of summary or true copy; catch lines required; drafting of summary

   23   State law or standard code; adoption as township ordinance by citation; publication, distribution, charge

   24   Submission of itemized estimates of anticipated expenditures; preparation and submission of budget proposal; time

   25   Budget proposal; contents; commencement of fiscal year

   26   Budget; notice, public hearing, prior public inspection

   27   Adoption of budget by township board; resolution; appropriation; tax levy; limitation; separate appropriation for fire and police departments; tax collection; interim budget

   28   Budget or supplemental appropriations; expenditure, restrictions; unencumbered balances, transfer, reappropriation

   29   Quarterly statement of estimated and actual income and expenses; submission by supervisor to township board; reduction of appropriations; exceptions

   30   Annual audit of accounts, results, filing, public inspection; annual report of township business

   31   Local or public improvements; determination of necessity; special assessments; duties of officers; bonds

   32   Succession to properties of former township; suites or prosecutions; debts and liabilities; uncollected taxes and assessments

   33   Liberal construction of act

   34   Exemption of charter township from annexation to contiguous city or village; exceptions