HOUSE BILL No. 5845

 

February 18, 2010, Introduced by Reps. Haveman, Tyler, Hansen, Barnett, Bolger, McMillin, Booher, Meekhof, Walsh, Marleau, Hammel, Gregory, Geiss, LeBlanc and Knollenberg and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

     A bill to amend 1947 PA 359, entitled

 

"The charter township act,"

 

(MCL 42.1 to 42.34) by adding section 1b.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 1b. Except as otherwise specifically provided by law and

 

notwithstanding any charter provision, a charter township that is

 

required to publish a legal notice in a newspaper of general

 

circulation in the charter township may satisfy that requirement by

 

posting the legal notice in the office of the charter township

 

clerk and on at least 1 of the following:

 

     (a) The charter township's website.

 

     (b) The website of the newspaper designated by the charter

 

township as the official newspaper of general circulation in the


 

charter township.

 

     (c) The public, education, and government channel operated in

 

that charter township.