LOCAL ACTS. [No. 1.] AN ACT to annex all that territory situate in the village of Fairview, in the township of Grosse Pointe, in the county of Wayne, lying and being west of a line two hundred feet east of the Alter Road in said village of Fairview, and extending from the northerly limits of said village to Lake St. Clair to the city of Detroit, and make operative in said territory the charter of the city of Detroit and all statutes, laws and ordinances now or hereafter made applicable to and operative in said city, and to repeal act number five hundred one of the local acts of nineteen hundred three, entitled "An act to incorporate the village of Fairview, in the township of Grosse Pointe, Wayne county." The People of the State of Michigan enact: annexed. SECTION 1. All that territory situate in the village of Territory Fairview, in the township of Grosse Pointe, in the county of Wayne, lying and being west of a line two hundred feet east of Alter Road in said village of Fairview and extending from the northerly limits of said village to Lake St. Clair, shall, by virtue of this act, be annexed to and form a part of said city of Detroit. SEC. 2. The said territory so annexed to said city shall Precincts. constitute one or more precincts in the seventeenth ward of said city of Detroit, the number of which precincts shall be designated by the common council of the city of Detroit. SEC. 3. Said common council shall provide the necessary Registrars registrars and inspectors of elections for said precinct or pre- of election. and inspectors cincts, which said officers shall hold office until their successors are duly elected and qualified in accordance with the election laws applying to said city of Detroit. cease. SEC. 4. The corporate organization of the village of Fair- Corporate view and all the powers and duties of the several officers powers to thereof shall cease, and all corporate powers and authority vested in said township of Grosse Pointe, in respect to the territory hereby annexed to said city, shall cease, and thereupon all right and title to property both real and per Transfer of control. Debts and obligations assumed. sonal, and all claims and demands belonging to either said village in its corporate capacity, and all right and title to real property situate within the territory hereby annexed to said city belonging to the township of Grosse Pointe in its corporate capacity shall, by virtue of this act, pass to and vest in said city. The officers of said village and township respectively shall thereupon transfer the possession and control thereof to the common council of said city, or to such Transfer of officer or officers as said common council may direct. All money, books, papers, etc. moneys belonging to said village shall be paid over to said city, and all books, papers and documents belonging to said village shall be transferred and delivered to the common council of said city or to such officer of said city as they may direct. The circuit court for the county of Wayne may compel the delivery of all property, moneys, books, papers and documents in this act referred to by the writ of mandamus issued out of and under the seal thereof. The said city of Detroit and the village of Grosse Pointe Park shall assume and pay such part or portion of all the bonds, debts and obligations of every name and nature owing by said village at the date aforesaid, that is to say, the said city of Detroit shall assume and pay such portion of said bonds, debts and obligations as the assessed valuation of the property within the territory hereby annexed to said city bears to the whole assessed valuation of the territory of said village of Fairview as appears by the last assessment roll of said village prior to the incorporation of said village of Grosse Pointe Park, and the said village of Grosse Pointe Park shall assume and pay such portion of said bonds, debts and obligations as the assessed valuation of that part of the territory in the village of Grosse Pointe Park bears to the total valuation of the entire property of said village of Fairview as appears by said last assessment roll of said village. All suits or actions, either at law or equity, pending in any court by or against said village of Fairview, shall be revived jointly for or against the city of Detroit and the village of Grosse Pointe Park as the case may be, upon the application of any party to said suit or of said city of Detroit or said village of Grosse Pointe Park, and all suits or actions either at law or in equity, hereafter commenced upon any debt, obligation or right of action, in favor of or against said village, shall be prosecuted by or against the city of Detroit and the village of Grosse Pointe Park as the case may be. Any judgment hereafter rendered upon any such debt or obligation or in any such suit shall be paid by said city of Detroit and said village of Grosse Pointe Park in the above proportion and may be enforced as judgments against municipalities are usually enforced and as provided by law for the enforcement of judgments against the city of Detroit and villages. Any judgments that may have been rendered or any decree entered against said village of Fairview the city of Detroit and the village of Grosse Pointe Park shall, for a period of sixty Suits or actions. Judgments. Right to appeal. days hereafter have respectively the right to appeal and review such judgment or decree in the proper appellate court. moneys, how appor board and common settle. missioner appointed. SEC. 5. All village taxes lawfully assessed in the territory Taxes, how collected, law hereby annexed to the said city shall be collected in the man- governing. ner now provided by law for the collection of taxes assessed within said city of Detroit. All taxes for State, county or other purposes levied in said territory in the year nineteen hundred seven shall be equalized, levied and collected in pursuance to the general laws of the State. All moneys be- Township longing to the township of Grosse Pointe at the date aforesaid, raised for township purposes, or thereafter collected for tioned." like purposes, on account of taxes levied and assessed, shall be apportioned between the said city and said township according to the relative valuation of the taxable property so annexed to said city assessed on the last assessment roll of said township, and the valuation of property so assessed remaining in said township. Such settlement and apportion- Township ment shall be made by agreement between the township board of said township and the common council of said city; and council to the amount found due upon such settlement shall be paid over to said city by the proper officers of said township. In When comcase the said township board and the said common council shall not be able to agree upon an adjustment and settlement, the same may be made by commissioners to be appointed by the circuit court for the county of Wayne, in chancery, on petition of either party; and said court is hereby given jurisdiction and authority to determine any and all questions that may arise in carrying out the provisions of this section, and to grant such relief in the premises as may be equitable. SEC. 6. This act shall not change in any respect the Representative boundaries of the first and second representative districts of changed. the county of Wayne as they exist prior to the passage of this act, and shall not change the manner of electing representatives in such districts. The common council of the city of Voting Detroit shall fix and establish voting precincts in said territory hereby annexed to said city whereby the electors residing within said territory may vote for representatives in the State legislature in the said second representative district of Wayne county until the next apportionment and division of said Wayne county into representative districts. SEC. 7. The corporate organization of the public schools and School organization school district within the territory so annexed to said city, and within the powers and duties of the several boards and officers thereof annexed shall cease; and thereupon all right and title to property, both real and personal, belonging to said public schools situate entirely within the said territory so annexed to said city, shall pass to and vest in the board of education of the city of Detroit; and the officers of said public schools and Transfer of school district shall transfer the possession and control there- officers. of to said board of education, or to such officer or officers as it may direct. Said board of education shall thereafter take charge of and manage and conduct the schools in said ter districts not precincts. territory. control by papers, etc. Transfer of ritory. All moneys and funds belonging to said public moneys, books, schools and school district situate entirely within the territory so annexed to said city shall be paid over by the boards and officers of said schools and school district having charge thereof to the said board of education. All books, papers and documents belonging to said public schools or school district shall also be turned over and transferred to said board Bonds, debts of education. Said board of education shall assume and pay all bonds, debts and obligations owing by said public schools and school district situate entirely within the territory so annexed to said city. and obligations. Disposition of severed districts. Adjustment and settlement. In case of disagreement. Act governing. Act repealed. SEC. 8. It shall be the duty of the board of school inspectors of said town of Grosse Pointe to make proper disposition of the parts of the school districts severed by this act remaining in said township. The township board of said township and the board of education of said city of Detroit shall adjust the relative rights and interests of the parts of the said school districts so severed, remaining in said township and the parts thereof embraced within the territory so annexed to said city. The value of the school property and the unexpended school money, and all debts and obligations of such districts shall be apportioned and settled according to the assessed value of the taxable property of the respective parts of the divided districts. Upon such settlement being made, if it shall appear that one party is indebted to the other party, the party so indebted shall pay such indebtedness to the party entitled thereto as soon as money applicable to such purposes can be secured. In case the said township board and said board of education shall not be able to agree upon an adjustment and settlement, the circuit court for the county of Wayne, in chancery, shall have like jurisdiction to determine an adjustment as is hereinbefore in this act provided in case of a disagreement between said township board and the common council of said city. SEC. 9. All the provisions of an act, entitled "An act to provide a charter for the city of Detroit, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith," approved June seven, eighteen hundred eighty-three, as amended, and all other statutes, laws and ordinances applicable to said city of Detroit shall apply to and be operative in the territory so annexed to said city, in like manner as in other territory of said city, except as in this act otherwise provided. SEC. 10. Act number five hundred one, of the local acts of the legislature of nineteen hundred three, entitled "An act to incorporate the village of Fairview, in the township of Grosse Pointe, Wayne county," is hereby repealed. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. |
