PETITION FOR SPECIAL ASSESSMENT DISTRICT

FOR IMPROVEMENT OF _________________ LAKE

______________________Township, ___________________ County, Michigan

We, the undersigned, representing the record owners of more than (51%) percent of the total land area within the proposed special assessment district (being lands abutting or having deeded access to ________________________Lake) hereby petition the ________________________ Township Board to create a special assessment district for the purpose of lake management, aquatic vegetation control and related services to improve _______________________ Lake.  The proposed special assessment district is legally described as follows:    

Each owner of lands abutting  ______________________Lake will be assessed for one (1) unit. Each owner of property not abutting _________________  Lake but having deeded access to the lake shall be assessed for one-half unit. This special assessment is for an estimated amount of $__________ per year, per assessment unit share, for an initial period of 5 years.  Budgets for subsequent years shall be determined during the last year of the assessment and will be subject to public hearing.

We, the petitioners understand that the improvement shall be conducted in accordance with plans for the same to be prepared, reviewed and approved by the township board, and that the costs thereof, including expenses connected with engineering, planning and legal costs will be assessed against each parcel of land within said proposed district.

 

WARNING - A person who knowingly signs this petition more than once, signs a name other than his or her own, signs when not qualified, or sets opposite his or her signature on a petition, a date other than the actual date the signature was affixed, is violating the provisions of Michigan law.                      

 

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