HOWELL TP. v. ROOTO CORP.

Docket No. 210667.

600 N.W.2d 412 (1999)

236 Mich. App. 438

HOWELL TOWNSHIP, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. ROOTO CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided June 25, 1999, at 9:50 a.m.

Released for Publication October 11, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Foster, Swift, Collins & Smith, P.C. (by Charles E. Barbieri and Michael R. Huber), Lansing, for the plaintiff.

The Kizer Law Firm, P.C. (by Thomas Kizer, Jr., Darrell L. Cho, and Wendy W. Peterson), Howell, for the defendant.

Before: HOLBROOK, JR., P.J., and MURPHY and TALBOT, JJ.


TALBOT, J.

We are faced with a straightforward question of law: Does a township's failure to timely record a newly adopted ordinance in its statutorily required "book of ordinances" render the ordinance unenforceable? We conclude that it does not.

On September 25, 1995, the Howell Township Board adopted Ordinance 53, a provision allowing it to recover from private enterprises the costs incurred by the township in responding to calls for assistance in connection...

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