Michigan Laws 560.117 – Preliminary plat; approval or rejection; fees; disposition of fees
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Terms Used In Michigan Laws 560.117
- in writing: shall be construed to include printing, engraving, and lithographing; except that if the written signature of a person is required by law, the signature shall be the proper handwriting of the person or, if the person is unable to write, the person's proper mark, which may be, unless otherwise expressly prohibited by law, a clear and classifiable fingerprint of the person made with ink or another substance. See Michigan Laws 8.3q
- Land: means all land areas occupied by real property. See Michigan Laws 560.102
- Plat: means a map or chart of a subdivision of land. See Michigan Laws 560.102
- Preliminary plat: means a map showing the salient features of a proposed subdivision submitted to an approving authority for purposes of preliminary consideration. See Michigan Laws 560.102
- Proprietor: means a natural person, firm, association, partnership, corporation, or combination of any of them that holds an ownership interest in land whether recorded or not. See Michigan Laws 560.102
- state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories belonging to the United States; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
- subdivision: means the partitioning or splitting of a parcel or tract of land by the proprietor thereof or by his or her heirs, executors, administrators, legal representatives, successors, or assigns for the purpose of sale, or lease of more than 1 year, or of building development that results in 1 or more parcels of less than 40 acres or the equivalent, and that is not exempted from the platting requirements of this act by section 108 and 109. See Michigan Laws 560.102
(1) The proprietor shall submit 2 copies of the preliminary plat to the department of environmental quality, if any of the subdivision lies wholly or in part within the floodplain of a river, stream, creek, or lake. The department of environmental quality, within 30 days after receipt of the preliminary plat, shall approve it, approve it subject to conditions, or reject it. If the preliminary plat is approved, the department of environmental quality shall note its approval on the copy to be returned to the proprietor. If the department of environmental quality approves the preliminary plat subject to conditions or rejects the preliminary plat, the department shall give the reasons for rejection and requirements for approval in writing to the proprietor and to each of the other officers and agencies to which the proprietor was required to submit the preliminary plat under section 113 to 115 and 117 to 119. The determination of a floodplain area shall be based on rules specified in section 105(f).
(2) The preliminary plat submittal to the department of environmental quality under subsection (1) shall be accompanied by a fee of $500.00 to cover the administrative cost of the department’s preliminary plat review. If the department of environmental quality determines that engineering computations are required to establish the limits of the floodplain on a preliminary plat, the department shall assess an additional fee of $1,500.00 to cover the department’s cost of establishing those limits.
(3) The department of environmental quality shall forward fees collected under this section to the state treasurer for deposit in the land and water management permit fee fund created in section 30113 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324.30113.