Section 123.44. Annexation, consolidation, and incorporation; criteria information; methods of gathering.

After declaring the legal sufficiency of a docket for annexation, incorporation, or consolidation, the commission shall obtain the criteria data or information prescribed in section 9 of the act, MCL 123.1009, by using all or any combination of the following methods:

(a)     Instructing the petitioner and the involved units of government to complete and return within 30 days of receiving from the department a criteria data or information evaluation questionnaire.

(b)      Directing staff or other personnel to gather the necessary data or information, which shall be made available to the department at a specified date before the public hearing date. In addition, the department may direct that the raw data or information be analyzed, organized, condensed, summarized, and presented to the commission in a compacted form. All raw data shall be maintained as part of the docket.

(c)      Directing staff to send written questions or requests for specific information to the petitioner, involved units of government, affected or interested state and federal agencies, affected planning commissions or other interested persons or governmental units to be filed in writing with the department by a specified date.

History: 1979 AC; 2013 AACS.