Closing of roads under repair, etc. [No. 165.] AN ACT to authorize highway officials to close roads under construction, improvement or repair, or any portion of a highway whereon a bridge is being constructed or repaired; to require such officials to place in good repair and to mark by proper signs suitable detours around roads, or portions of roads, which are closed hereunder; to provide suitable barriers, and lights shall be maintained at the end of such roads or portions of roads which are thus closed and at the intersections thereof with other roads; to require the removal of signs and barriers located and placed hereunder; and to provide a penalty for a violation of the provisions hereof. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The officials who may have in charge the work of constructing, improving or repairing roads in any county, good roads district or township in this State are hereby given authority to close any road or portion of any road, which is under process of construction, improvement or repair or upon which is located any bridge which is being constructed or repaired: Provided, That no road shall be deemed to be closed when deemed under the provisions of this act until suitable barriers have been erected at the ends of said road or of the closed portion thereof, and also at the point of intersection of such road or portion of highway with other roads. Said barriers shall be conspicuously marked at night by red lights. Proviso, closed. Red lights. Detours. Notices placed. Removal of barriers, etc. Penalty. SEC. 2. No road shall be closed under the provisions of this act until suitable detours around the same, or the closed portion thereof, are provided and are placed in reasonably safe and passable condition for traffic. Notices in the form of plainly legible signs shall be placed by the highway officials having such work in charge at either end of the closed highway or portion of highway and at such intermediate points along the detour, or detours, as may be necessary to plainly mark the same. Upon the completion of the work of construction, improvement or repair and as soon as the road or bridge constructed, improved or repaired shall be in suitable condition for public travel, all barriers, marks and signs whatsoever erected under the provisions hereof shall be at once removed by the officials erecting or placing the same. SEC. 3. Any highway official who shall neglect or refuse to provide suitable detours or to plainly mark the same or to remove barriers and signs as herein provided, or any person who wilfully enters upon the closed portion of any road or removes the barriers therefrom, or who removes, obliterates or defaces any sign or mark, or who extinguishes or removes any light placed or maintained hereunder, except by permission of the highway officials in charge, shall be deemed guilty of a [No. 166.] AN ACT to classify all school districts, now in existence or hereafter created, which shall have a population of five hundred or more and less than seventy-five thousand as districts of the third or fourth classes; to provide for the government, control and administration of such school districts and the schools therein through boards of education; to provide for the manner of nomination and election of such boards and their powers and duties; and to repeal all general or special laws that conflict with the provisions of this act. The People of the State of Michigan enact : of districts. SECTION 1. Each and every school district now organized Continuation and existing under the laws of this State, and any school district or districts which hereafter may be formed and organized under the said laws, which has a population of five hundred or more and less than seventy-five thousand, shall constitute and continue to be a school district under this act, to be designated and known as the "School District of ... (here insert the name of the city, village or township in which the whole or the greater part of said school district is situated)," with the same territorial limits which it now has or shall have when formed and organized: Provided, That the Proviso, terterritorial limits of any school district may be increased or decreased at any time by consolidation, division or otherwise in accordance with the laws of this State. ritorial limits. SEC. 2. The said several school districts shall be and here- Classification. by are divided into two classes as follows: (a) Each school district having a population of twelve thousand or more and less than seventy-five thousand, shall be a school district of the third class; (b) Each school district having a population of five hun dred or more and less than twelve thousand shall be a school district of the fourth class. SEC. 3. In each and every school district described in sec- Computation of population. tion one of this act which embraces all of the territory comprised in a city, village or township, and only that, or which Idem. Change of class. Annexed territory. embraces all of the territory comprised in one or more wards of a city and only that, or which embraces all the territory comprised in a city and township, a village and township, or two or more townships, and only that, the latest United States census as set forth in the official report thereof shall be the basis on which the population of said school district shall be computed. SEC. 4. In every other school district described in said section the population shall be determined by multiplying the number of school children of that district, as shown by the annual school census, provided for by the laws of this State, taken in the year in which the latest United States census is taken, by the quotient obtained by dividing the total population of the county in which the said district or the greater portion thereof is situated, as shown by the report of the latest United States census, by the total number of school children of the said county, as shown by the school census for the year in which the latest United States census is taken. SEC. 5. No change shall be made by any school district from one class of school districts to another except after the taking of a United States census which shall show the population of such school district to be such as to entitle it to make such change, or except after the taking of a United States census the method of computation provided for in section four of this act shall show, in a district where it is proper to use it, that the population of said district is such as to entitle it to change from one class of school districts to another, or except where the population of two districts consolidated subsequent to the taking of the latest Unted States census and ascertained from the official report of such census, or, in a proper case, by the method of computation provided for in section four of this act, is such as to entitle the consolidated district to be in a class different from the class of either of the districts consolidated. SEC. 6. Whenever hereafter any territory shall be annexed to ar y city, village or township forming the whole or a part of a school district of the third or fourth class, the territory so annexed shall become a part of the contiguous school district embracing the whole or some part of said city, village or township, and all property of any school district, situated wholly upon the territory so annexed, shall become the property of the school district to which the said territory is adjoined, and said last named district shall assume and pay such proportion of the then existing school indebtedness of the district from which such territory is taken as the assessed value of the taxable property in the territory annexed shall bear to the total assessed value, before such annexation was made, of the taxable property of the entire district from which such territory is taken, the value as shown by the assessment roll for the year preceding the annexation to be used as the basis of the computation. porate. SEC. 7. Each and every school district described in section Body corone of this act shall be a body corporate, under the name aforesaid, may sue and be sued in its own name, may acquire and take property, both real and personal, for educational purposes, by purchase, gift, grant, devise or bequest, may hold and use the same for such purposes, and may sell and convey the same as the interests of the said school district may require, subject to the conditions herein contained and to the general school law of this State. As such body corporate each and every said school district shall be the successor of any school district corporation heretofore existing within the same territorial limits, and shall be vested with the title to all property, real or personal, now or hereafter vested in the corporation of which it is the successor, and the indebtedness and obligations of the corporation superseded shall become and be the indebtedness and obligations of the succeeding corporation under this act. ing 4th class SEC. 8. In each respect and matter not hereinbefore pro- Law governvided for, every school district of the fourth class hereunder districts. shall be subject to and governed by the provisions of the law for graded school districts. cation, 3rd class districts. tinuation in office. SEC. 9. In each school district of the third class hereunder Board of edthe board of education shall consist of six members, two of those elected at the first election held under this act shall serve for two years, two for four years and two for six years; thereafter at the next school election immediately preceding the expiration of the respective terms of these officers their successors shall be elected to serve for terms of six years and until their successors are elected and qualify: Provided, Proviso, conThat the members of the board of education elected prior to the adoption of this act in any such school district shall continue in office until the expiration of the respective terms for which they were elected, or until their respective offices shall become vacant in the manner hereinafter provided in section twenty, and with the six new members elected at the first election under this act shall constitute the first board of education hereunder. The term of office of each member shall Terin of commence on the second Monday in July following his or her election, and the school and fiscal year shall begin on that date. office. election. SEC. 10. The regular annual school election in each school Annual school district of the third class shall be held at the time specified by the law in force in said district, when this law shall go into effect, but the time for holding such election may be changed to the first Monday in June of each year in any such school district, if a majority of the qualified school electors voting in said district voting thereon vote in favor of such change at a regular or special election at which the question of such change is properly submitted to the voters of said district. The members of the board of education in all school Members elected at. Special elections. Qualified school elector defined. of board members. districts of the third class hereunder shall be elected at the regular annual school election. SEC. 11. Special elections may be called by the board of education in any school district of the third class hereunder at such times and places in such district as they shall desig nate, and it shall be the duty of such board to call such an election on receipt of the written request of not less than twenty-five of the legal school voters of the district, by giving the notice hereinafter prescribed. No special election shall be called unless the question to be voted on and decided thereat may lawfully be submitted at such election, and all questions to be submitted at such election shall be stated briefly in the notice thereof. SEC. 12. At any regular or special election in any district of the third class hereunder, every citizen of the United States of the age of twenty-one years or over, male or female, who owns property which is assessed for school taxes in such district, or who is the parent or legal guardian of any child of school age included in the school census of such district, and who has resided in said district at least three months next preceding such election, shall be a qualified school elector. Qualifications Any qualified school elector of any such district who is the owner in his or her own right of property assessed for school taxes in said district and whose name appears on the assessment roll of said district at the time of a school election shall be eligible to be chosen as a member of the board of education for that district at said election: Provided, That where a husband and wife own property jointly, which appears on the assessment roll in the name of one of them only, each shall be eligible to be chosen as a member of the board of education for the district where they are voters and their property is situated. Proviso, husband and wife. When school and municipal elections held at same time. SEC. 13. In any school district of the third class hereunder where the annual school election is held at the same time as the city, village or township election, the board of registration, the election commissioners and inspectors and other election officials provided by law for such city, village or township election shall act in their respective capacities for said school Registration election, but the registration and poll books of the school electors shall be kept separate and apart from all others and separate ballot boxes shall be used for the school election. and poll books. When held at other times. SEC. 14. In any school district of the third class hereunder where the school election is held at another time than the time for holding the city, village or township election, the board of education shall divide said district into such voting precincts as in its judgment shall be necessary for the school registration and election. Such divisions shall be made at notice given. least twenty days prior to the first election held under this act, and a notice containing a diagram of the boundaries of each precinct, with a plain description and the number thereof, shall be posted and published with the notice of registra Precincts, when divided; |