Bill Text: MI HB4319 | 2011-2012 | 96th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Cities; home rule; posting of legal notices as alternative to publishing; provide for. Amends 1909 PA 279 (MCL 117.1 - 117.38) by adding sec. 4t.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-24 - Printed Bill Filed 02/24/2011 [HB4319 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2011-HB4319-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 4319

February 23, 2011, Introduced by Reps. Geiss and Haveman and referred to the Committee on Local, Intergovernmental, and Regional Affairs.

 

     A bill to amend 1909 PA 279, entitled

 

"The home rule city act,"

 

(MCL 117.1 to 117.38) by adding section 4t.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 4t. (1) Except as otherwise specifically provided by law

 

and notwithstanding any charter provision or ordinance, a city that

 

is required to publish a legal notice in a newspaper of general

 

circulation in the city may satisfy that requirement by posting the

 

legal notice in the office of the city clerk in a prominent place

 

visible to the public at all times and on, but not limited to, 1 or

 

more of the following:

 

     (a) On the homepage of the city's website under a section

 

labeled for legal notices.

 

     (b) On the homepage of the website of the newspaper designated

 

by the city as the official newspaper of general circulation in the

 

city under a section labeled for legal notices.

 

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

 

that city.

 

     (d) A public or commercial radio station broadcast in the

 

city.

 

     (e) A public or commercial television station broadcast in the

 

city.

 

     (2) The legal notice posted in the office of the city clerk as

 

provided in subsection (1) shall be notarized. The city clerk shall

 

retain a copy of the notarized legal notice in perpetuity, and the

 

notice may be viewed by a person upon request to the city clerk.

 

     (3) If a city clerk posts a legal notice as provided in this

 

section, the city clerk shall create and maintain a permanent

 

notice list. A person may make a request to the city clerk to be

 

placed on the permanent notice list to receive by regular mail or

 

electronic mail the legal notices posted pursuant to subsection

 

(1). Within 24 hours after a legal notice is posted in the office

 

of the city clerk as provided in subsection (1), the city clerk

 

shall send to each person on the permanent notice list by regular

 

mail or electronic mail a copy of that legal notice.

 

     (4) If a city changes the method by which a legal notice is

 

published or posted as provided in this section, that method for

 

publishing or posting a legal notice shall be maintained by the

 

city for not less than 1 year and that method for publishing or

 

posting a legal notice shall continue to be used by the city for

 

not less than 30 days after any additional change is made to the

 

method by which a legal notice is published or posted in the city.

 

     (5) If a city changes the method by which a legal notice is

 

published or posted as provided in this section, the city shall

 

provide notice of that change by using the most recent method that

 

the city uses for publishing or posting legal notices.