455.201 Summer resort owners; incorporation, purpose. Sec. 1. That any number of freeholders, not less than 10, who may desire to form a summer resort owners corporation for the better welfare of said community and for the purchase and improvement of lands to be occupied for summer homes and summer resort purposes, may, with their […]
455.202 Articles of association; contents. Sec. 2. The persons so associating shall subscribe and verify articles of association stating: First: The corporate name chosen; Second: The names and residences of the persons thus associating; Third: A legal description of the land owned by each of such persons and to be subject to the jurisdiction of […]
455.203 Execution and acknowledgment of articles of association; filing articles with department of commerce; classification of corporation as nonprofit. Sec. 3. The execution of such articles of association shall be acknowledged by the persons signing the same before some officer authorized to take the acknowledgment of deeds. Such articles shall thereupon be filed with the […]
455.204 Corporate powers and liabilities; property ownership, limitation. Sec. 4. On compliance with the foregoing provisions of this act, the persons so associating, their successors and assigns, shall become and be a body politic and corporate, under the name assumed in their articles of association and shall have and possess all the general powers and […]
455.205 Property; sale and disposition, proceedings. Sec. 5. The trustees of such corporation, when thereunto authorized, by majority vote of the members of such corporation voting thereon at any annual meeting, or any special meeting called expressly for that purpose, by a general by-law, adopted and recorded, may sell, mortgage, give, grant, convey and lease […]
455.206 Membership; eligibility; corporate jurisdiction as to property of nonmembers; election. Sec. 6. Persons eligible to membership in said corporation, at any and all times, must be freeholders of land in the county of its organization and such land must be contiguous to the resort community in which the corporation is organized: Provided, however, It […]
455.206a Election and registration; notice. Sec. 6a. For the foregoing purpose the said board of trustees or board of directors shall cause a notice of such election and notice of registration to be published in 4 succeeding issues of some newspaper printed within the county in which such territory is situated and having circulation within […]
455.206b Registration board; appointment, duties. Sec. 6b. The board of trustees or board of directors shall cause a 3 man board of registration to be appointed who shall establish a set of registration books to be opened and shall register therein all of the qualified voters of such territory who shall apply for registration between […]
455.206c Election; voters, eligibility. Sec. 6c. For the purpose of such election all freeholders who have resided week-ends in the territory to be affected for a period 1 month prior to such election and who are qualified voters in any voting precinct of the state of Michigan at general elections, are qualified voters for the […]
455.206d Election board; polls, hours open. Sec. 6d. The board of trustees or board of directors of such summer resort incorporation shall appoint an election board of 5 members who shall keep the polls open from 7 o’clock a.m. until 8 o’clock p.m. and permit all registered qualified voters to vote upon the proposition submitted. […]
455.206e Election; adoption of resolution, record. Sec. 6e. If a majority of the said qualified voters of the entire territory comprised in the territorial description contained in the notice of election shall vote in favor of the incorporation under this act, then the said board of trustees or directors shall declare the entire territory so […]
455.207 Members; grant of authority, procedure. Sec. 7. Members admitted to said corporation at its organization and afterwards, shall file with the secretary of said corporation a writing, subscribed, witnessed and acknowledged, in accordance with the requirements of deeds, which writing shall grant to the corporation the right to exercise all jurisdiction, conferred by this […]
455.208 Annual meeting; trustees, election, report. Sec. 8. The annual meeting of such association shall be held in its own county between June first and August thirty-first of each year, at such time and place as may be fixed by the board of trustees and such meeting may adjourn from day to day as may […]
455.209 Board of trustees; officers, quorum, vacancy. Sec. 9. Immediately following the election of trustees, the trustees so chosen shall elect a president, vice-president, secretary and treasurer from their members, who shall hold their offices for 1 year and until their successors shall be elected and qualified. They shall discharge the usual duties of such […]
455.210 Board of trustees; powers. Sec. 10. The board of trustees shall have the management and control of all the business and all the property, real and personal, of the corporation and shall represent the corporation, with full power of authority to act for it in all things legal whatsoever, and subject only to restrictions […]
455.211 Corporate jurisdiction; liability for condition of streets. Sec. 11. Such corporation, through its properly delegated officers, shall have jurisdiction over the lands owned by the corporation and over the lands owned by the members of said corporation for the exercise of the police powers herein conferred. The corporation shall have jurisdiction over the streets […]
455.212 By-laws; enactment, authority of board of trustees. Sec. 12. The board of trustees shall have the authority to enact by-laws, subject to repeal or modification by the members at any regular or special meeting, calculated and designed to carry into effect the following jurisdiction over the lands owned by the corporation and its members, […]
455.213 By-laws; effective date, posting. Sec. 13. All by-laws, so established by the corporation, shall take effect 10 days after passage and each of said by-laws shall be posted conspicuously in 3 public places within the jurisdictional area of said corporation, at least 5 days before the time of taking effect and proof of such […]
455.214 By-laws; violation, penalty. Sec. 14. Any person who shall violate any of such by-laws shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not exceeding 25 dollars or imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed 30 days or by both such fine and imprisonment […]
455.215 Marshal; powers, compensation, removal. Sec. 15. The board of trustees may appoint a marshal, whose duties shall be to enforce the by-laws of said corporation. Said marshal shall have the authority of a deputy sheriff in maintaining peace and order and the enforcement of law on the lands under the jurisdiction of the corporation, […]
