Section 600.6094 - Recovery of judgment against school district.
REVISED JUDICATURE ACT OF 1961 (EXCERPT)
Act 236 of 1961
600.6094 Recovery of judgment against school district.
Sec. 6094.
(1) Whenever any final judgment is obtained against the school district, if it is not removed to any other court, the treasurer of the district shall certify to the supervisor of the township and to the director of the district the date and amount of the judgment, with the name of the person in whose favor it was rendered, and if the judgment is removed to another court, the treasurer shall certify it as aforesaid immediately after the final determination thereof against the district.
(2) If the treasurer fails to certify the judgment, the party obtaining it, his executors, administrators, or assigns, may file with the supervisor the certificate of the clerk of the court rendering the judgment, showing the facts which should have been certified by the treasurer.
(3) If the district against which a judgment is rendered is situated in part in 2 or more townships, a certificate thereof shall be delivered as aforesaid to the supervisor of each township in which the district is in part situated.
(4) The supervisor or supervisors receiving either of the certificates of a judgment as aforesaid shall proceed to assess the amount thereof, with interest from the date of the judgment to the time when the warrant for the collection thereof will expire, upon the taxable property of the district, placing it on the next township assessment roll in the column for school taxes; and the same proceedings shall be had, and it shall be collected and returned in the same manner as other district taxes.
History: 1961, Act 236, Eff. Jan. 1, 1963 ;-- Am. 1974, Act 297, Eff. Apr. 1, 1975