Section 280.461 - Definitions.
THE DRAIN CODE OF 1956 (EXCERPT)
Act 40 of 1956
280.461 Definitions.
Sec. 461.
Whenever used in this chapter, except when otherwise indicated by the context:
(a) “State” means this state.
(b) “Public corporation” includes this state, counties, cities, villages, townships, metropolitan districts and authorities created by or pursuant to state statutes.
(c) “Agencies” includes those officers, boards, commissions and other bodies created by public corporations or by the federal government, which are authorized to act in their own names.
(d) “County drain” means any drain, irrespective of size, carrying drainage water or sewage or both originating in 1 county, and includes drains located, established and constructed by a county drain commissioner or drainage board, by a city, village or township. The finding of the drainage board that all drain water and sewage does originate in 1 county shall be final. In making such determination, the drainage board may disregard any drainage from another county which it deems to be inconsequential.
History: 1956, Act 40, Imd. Eff. Mar. 28, 1956 ;-- Am. 1971, Act 60, Imd. Eff. July 20, 1971
Popular Name: Act 40