Terms Used In Michigan Laws 54.272

  • County plan: means a county monumentation and remonumentation plan and perpetual monument maintenance plan established under section 8. See Michigan Laws 54.262
  • Department: means the department of licensing and regulatory affairs. See Michigan Laws 54.262
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Fund: means the state survey and remonumentation fund created in section 11. See Michigan Laws 54.262
  • Monumentation: means all land surveying activities performed by a surveyor to monument a protracted public land survey corner under this act and in accordance with the laws of this state. See Michigan Laws 54.262
  • Remonumentation: means all land surveying activities performed by a surveyor to perpetuate a previously monumented original public land survey corner, protracted public land survey corner, or property controlling corner as provided in this act. See Michigan Laws 54.262
  • 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
  (1) Money in the fund shall be used by the department for the following purposes:
  (a) Annual grants to the various counties to implement their monumentation and remonumentation plans described in section 8(2)(a).
  (b) The implementation of county plans that are initiated and contracted for by the department under section 8(3).
  (c) Annual grants to counties to implement their perpetual monument maintenance plans described in section 8(2)(d).
  (d) The payment of contracts that are entered into by the department under section 10.
  (e) Other activities necessary, incidental, or appropriate to implement this act.
  (2) In addition to the purposes described in subsection (1), money in the fund shall be used to pay the costs of expediting a plan or to reimburse the cost described in section 8(4) for a county that has elected to expend or borrow money to expedite the implementation of the county’s plan.
  (3) Expenditures by the department for a county for the following purposes shall be in an amount not less than the following percentages of the money collected in that county and remitted to the state treasurer for deposit in the fund under section 2567a of the revised judicature act of 1961, 1961 PA 236, MCL 600.2567a, during the state fiscal year that began 2 years before the beginning of the state fiscal year in which the expenditure is made:
  (a) For an annual grant to the county under subsection (1)(a), 40%.
  (b) To implement the county plan if the department initiates and contracts for the implementation of the county plan under section 8(3), 40%.
  (c) For an annual grant to the county under subsection (1)(c), 20%.
  (d) For purposes described in section 8(2)(d), if the department initiates and contracts for the implementation of the county plan for the county under section 8(3), 20%.
  (4) In addition to the purposes described in subsections (1) and (2), to pay this state’s equitable share of the costs of the monumentation of the Michigan-Indiana state boundary line pursuant to the Michigan-Indiana state line monumentation act, the legislature may appropriate from the fund a total amount of not more than $500,000.00 that was appropriated or transferred to the fund after November 1, 2021.