Michigan Laws 247.422a – Lands assessed for Covert road; purchase of part or interest; apportionment of assessment, procedure; expenses
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Terms Used In Michigan Laws 247.422a
- Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
- 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
- person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
- seal: shall be construed to include any of the following:
(a) The impression of the seal on the paper alone. See Michigan Laws 8.3nstate: 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
Any person who has, or shall become the owner of, any interest, less than the whole, in any lands subject to the special assessments for road purposes as provided in this act, and the acquiring of said interest occurred or shall occur subsequent to the time for appeal from the roll as referred to in section 22 of this act, may pay on the part thus acquired and owned, its proportionate share of said road assessments, by paying an amount having the same relation to the whole assessment as the area of the part on which payment is made has to the whole area originally assessed: Provided, That anyone desiring to so pay shall make application in writing to the county road commission or the state highway commissioner, as the case may be, setting forth fully and correctly a description of the part or parcel of land upon which the applicant desires to pay the assessment and also setting forth therein the interest of the applicant in such part or parcel. It shall be the duty of the county road commission or the state highway commissioner, as the case may be, to cause the description and claimed ownership to be checked, and if satisfied that the applicant is the owner of the interest claimed, said county road commission or state highway commissioner shall make a certificate over the signature of the proper officers and official seal, setting forth the proportion of the road assessment to be borne by the parcel, parcels or interest of the applicant and file the same in the office of the county treasurer of the county in which the lands in question lie and shall thereafter, and shall so long as any assessments under this act remain unpaid, prepare the annual rolls as provided in this act in accordance with any such division or divisions of such road assessment: Provided, That the actual costs incurred by said county road commission or state highway commissioner, as the case may be, shall be paid by such applicant, which cost, in the case of platted lands, of which a plat is of record in the county where the lands lie, shall not exceed $10.00 per lot and in the case of unplatted lands shall not exceed $50.00. These costs shall be paid before the filing of the certificate aforesaid in the office of the county treasurer.