Michigan Laws 560.144 – Proprietor’s certificate
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(1) The proprietor‘s certificate on the plat shall include the following:
(a) The caption of the plat.
Terms Used In Michigan Laws 560.144
- Caption: means the name by which the plat is legally and commonly known. See Michigan Laws 560.102
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
- Land: means all land areas occupied by real property. See Michigan Laws 560.102
- Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
- Plat: means a map or chart of a subdivision of land. 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
- Public utility: means all persons, firms, corporations, copartnerships, or municipal or other public authority providing gas, electricity, water, steam, telephone, sewer, or other services of a similar nature. See Michigan Laws 560.102
(b) A statement that the proprietor has caused the land described on the plat to be surveyed, divided, monumented, mapped, and dedicated as shown on the plat.
(c) A statement that the streets, alleys, parks, and other places shown on it that are usually public are dedicated to the use of the public.
(d) A statement that all public utility easements are private easements and that all other easements are reserved to the uses shown on the plat.
(e) The name of each street, park, or other place that is usually public and that is intended to be reserved to other than public use, and the character and purpose of that use.
(f) A statement that the plat includes all land to the water’s edge.
(2) The proprietor’s certificate shall be signed by the following, and each signature shall be acknowledged as deeds conveying lands are required to be acknowledged:
(a) All persons holding the title by deed of the lands.
(b) All persons holding any other title of record.
(c) All persons holding title as mortgagee or vendee under land contract or who are in possession but are not renters.
(d) The spouses of persons named in subdivisions (a), (b), and (c).