Section 247.470 - Faulty proceedings; collection of tax; new proceedings.
CONSTRUCTION, IMPROVEMENT, AND MAINTENANCE OF HIGHWAYS (EXCERPT)
Act 59 of 1915
247.470 Faulty proceedings; collection of tax; new proceedings.
Sec. 70.
The collection of no tax levied, or ordered to be levied for the payment of the improvement or construction of any highway laid out under this act shall be perpetually enjoined, or declared absolutely void in consequence of any error or informality appearing in the record of the proceedings under which any highway shall have been constructed or improved, nor on account of any irregularity or informality in the condemnation of the right of way, nor for want of any record thereof, but the court in which any action may be brought to recover any tax or assessment paid, or to declare void the highway proceedings, or to enjoin any tax or assessment levied or ordered to be levied for the payment of the labor and expenses of the improvement thereof, shall, if there be manifest error in the proceedings, allow the county road commissioners, or the state highway commissioner, to begin their proceedings anew at the stage prior to which the error occurred.
History: 1915, Act 59, Eff. Aug. 24, 1915 ;-- CL 1915, 4740 ;-- Am. 1917, Act 125, Imd. Eff. Apr. 25, 1917 ;-- CL 1929, 4385 ;-- CL 1948, 247.470