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Resolution #4177
June 13, 1963
By:
Reference:
Drain Committee - Mr. Potter
Miller Drain
TO: The Oakland County Board of Supervisors
. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS, Chapter 17, Section 395 of Act No. 40 of the Public Acts
of 1956, as amended, provides that
"The county drain commissioner may relinquish jurisdiction and
control to a township, city or village of any county drainage district upon
which there is no outstanding indebtedness or contract liability and which is
wholly located within the boundaries of a township, city or village, and there-
after the county drain comnissioner shall be relieved of and the township, cityi
r village shall assume, tLe :7aintenance, jurisdiction, control and operation
thereof and its future operzltion shall be financed in the same manner as is prot
vided for special assessment districts within such township, city or village:
'T-ovided, That such proceeding shall have first been approved by a majority of
the members elect of the county board of supervisors and by the resolution of
the governing body of the township, city or village in which such drain is
located."
WHEREAS, the territory now known as the City of Southfield becrffqo
incorporated as the City of Southfield on April 28, 1958; and
WHEREAS, the City of Southfield has, by resolution dated. April 15,
r63, formally requested the County Drain Commissioner to relinquish jurisdic-
tion of the Miller Drain, a county drain; and
WHEREAS, the aforementioned Miller Drain lies entirely within the
territorial limits of said City of Southfield.
NOW, THE7E 7777, BE IT RESOLVED, that pursuant to the provisions of
Chapter 17, Section 395 pf Act No. 40 of the Public Acts of 1956, as amended,
the County Drain Commissioner be and is hereby authorized to relinquish juris-
diction to the City of Southfield of the aforementioned Miller Drain and the
drainage district therefor.
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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the sum of $107.82 which is the re-
maining balance on hand in the Miller Drain fund, be turned over by the County
Treasurer to the City Treasurer of the City of Southfield.
Mr. Chairman, on behalf of the Drain Committee, I move the
adc2tion of the foregoing resolution.
DRAIN COMMITTEE
Moved. by Potter supported by Dohany the resolution be adopted.
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution was adopted.