Section 280.395 - County drainage district wholly within township, city or village; transfer of jurisdiction; approval; distribution of drain fund.
THE DRAIN CODE OF 1956 (EXCERPT)
Act 40 of 1956
280.395 County drainage district wholly within township, city or village; transfer of jurisdiction; approval; distribution of drain fund.
Sec. 395.
The county drain commissioner may relinquish jurisdiction and control to a township, city or village of any county drainage district upon which there is no outstanding indebtedness or contract liability and which is wholly located within the boundaries of a township, city or village, and thereafter the county drain commissioner shall be relieved of, and the township, city or village shall assume, the maintenance, jurisdiction, control and operation thereof and its future operation shall be financed in the same manner as is provided for special assessment districts within such township, city or village: Provided, That such proceeding shall have first been approved by a majority of the members elect of the county board of supervisors and by the resolution of the governing body of the township, city or village in which such drain is located.
Any money which shall be in the drain fund of any such drainage district at the time jurisdiction over it is transferred as provided in this section shall be distributed in the same manner as is provided in sections 391 to 394, inclusive, of this act in the case of abandoned or vacated drains.
History: 1956, Act 40, Imd. Eff. Mar. 28, 1956 ;-- Am. 1957, Act 120, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1957
Popular Name: Act 40