THE HOME RULE VILLAGE ACT
- Section 78.1 - Short title; corporate existence of villages to continue; village subject to general laws; seal; suit
- Section 78.1a - Conducting business at public meeting; notice of meeting; availability of certain writings to public
- Section 78.1b - Emergency financial manager; authority and responsibilities
- Section 78.2 - Incorporation, detachment or addition of territory, or consolidation; petition; signatures; incorporation of summer resort association; proceedings; certification; appointment, oath, duties, and compensation of enumerators; sworn statement; "qualified electors" defined
- Section 78.2a - Violation of MCL 168.1 to 168.992 applicable to petitions; penalties
- Section 78.3 - Petitions; contents
- Section 78.4 - Petition; presentation; action of county board of commissioners; resolution; vote; review
- Section 78.5 - Incorporation, consolidation or change of boundaries; affected district; referendum; authorizing vote
- Section 78.5a - Annexation; petition; vote; approval of adjoining city, village or township
- Section 78.6 - Petition and resolution; certified copies, transmittal to local clerks, time; election notices
- Section 78.7 - Villages in more than 1 county; incorporation, consolidation or change in boundary; procedure
- Section 78.8 - Returns canvass
- Section 78.9 - Proceedings; copy filed with secretary of state; recording; change effected; certificate to state treasurer; time
- Section 78.10 - Annexation of entire village or township; incorporation of village from part of township; annexation of part of city, village, or township by village
- Section 78.11 - New village; charter commission, election, manner, duties, oath; proposed charter, vote, manner; notices
- Section 78.12 - Village charter; rejection; effect; president de facto; resubmission; revert to prior status
- Section 78.13 - Village charter; new charter commission, petition, procedure, duties; eligibility; expenses, payment; territory, control
- Section 78.14 - Village charter; revision
- Section 78.15 - Election of charter commission; details fixed by legislative body
- Section 78.16 - Charter commission; quorum
- Section 78.17 - Charter; amendments, submission
- Section 78.18 - Charter commission; prosecuting attorneys to give advice; charter vote prerequisites
- Section 78.19 - Charter; publication prerequisites
- Section 78.20 - Charter of amendment; approval; filing time
- Section 78.21 - Election; expenses; manner of conducting
- Section 78.22 - Police officers of village; powers
- Section 78.22a - District court or municipal court; hearing and determining cases
- Section 78.22b - Police officer; authority to execute bench warrant
- Section 78.23 - Village charter; mandatory provisions
- Section 78.24 - Village charter; permissible provisions
- Section 78.24a - Codification of ordinances
- Section 78.24b - Energy conservation improvements; acquisition or financing; resolution; payment; scope of improvements; acquisition of improvements by contract, lease-purchase agreement, or notes; reports; forms; terms of lease-purchase agreement
- Section 78.24c - Acquisition of land for disposal of sewage or protection of water supply
- Section 78.24d - Staggered terms of office; resolution; length of initial terms; applicability of subsection (1)
- Section 78.25 - Statutory provisions; adoption
- Section 78.25a - Ordinance; designation of violation as civil infraction; civil fine; act or omission constituting crime
- Section 78.25b - Recreational trailway; posting of ordinance; prohibited violation of ordinance as municipal civil infraction; penalty
- Section 78.26 - Prohibited powers; computation of indebtedness
- Section 78.26a - Locomotives; enforceability of ordinance prescribing maximum speed limit
- Section 78.27 - Village charter; prohibited conflicts
- Section 78.28 - Construction of act