SB 304

Act No. 1
Local Acts of 2026
Approved by the Governor
June 3, 2026
Filed with the Secretary of State
June 3, 2026
EFFECTIVE
DATE: Pending
state of michigan
103rd Legislature
Regular session of 2026
Introduced by Senators Damoose, Bumstead, Singh,
McMorrow, Bayer, McBroom and Wojno
ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 304
AN ACT to amend 1899 LA 437,
entitled �An act to vacate the Township of Holmes and Village of Mackinac in
Mackinac County, State of Michigan, and to Incorporate the City of Mackinac
Island in said Mackinac County,� by amending section 1 of chapter IX and
section 1 of chapter XVI; and to provide for a referendum.
The People of the State of
Michigan enact:
CHAPTER IX
GENERAL POWERS OF CITY
CORPORATION
Section 1. Said City of
Mackinac Island shall, in addition to such other powers as are herein
conferred, have the general powers and authority in this chapter mentioned; and
the council may pass such ordinances in relation thereto and for the exercise
of the same, as they may deem proper, namely:
First, to restrain and
prevent vice and immorality, gambling, noise and disturbance, indecent or
disorderly conduct or assemblages, and to punish for the same; to prevent and
quell riots; to preserve peace and good order, and to protect the property of the
corporation, and of its inhabitants, and of any association, public or private
corporation or congregation therein, and to punish for injuries thereto, or for
unlawful interference therewith;
Second, to apprehend and
punish vagrants, truants, mendicants, street beggars, drunkards and persons
found drunk in any of the public streets or places in the city, disorderly
persons, and persons conducting themselves in a disorderly manner in any of the
public streets or places in the city, and common prostitutes;
Third, to prevent injury
or annoyance from anything dangerous, offensive, or unhealthy; to prohibit and
remove anything tending to cause or promote disease; to prevent and abate
nuisances, and to punish those occasioning them, or neglecting or refusing to
abate, discontinue, or remove the same;
Fourth, to prohibit and
suppress all disorderly houses and places, houses of ill-fame, assignation
houses, gambling houses, and all places where persons resort for gaming or to
play at games of chance, and to punish the keepers thereof;
Fifth, to regulate or
license the use of billiard tables, nine or ten-pin alleys or tables, and ball
alleys;
Sixth, to prohibit and
suppress every species of gaming, and to authorize the seizure and destruction
of all instruments and devices used for the purpose of gaming;
Seventh, to prohibit and
prevent the selling or giving of any spirituous, fermented or intoxicating
liquors to any drunkard or intemperate person, minor or apprentice, and to
punish any person so doing;
Eighth, to regulate,
restrain or prohibit all sports, exhibitions of natural or artificial
curiosities, caravans, circuses, menageries, theatrical exhibitions, shows, and
all exhibitions of whatever name or nature, for which money or other reward is
in any manner demanded or received; lectures on historic, literary, or
scientific subjects excepted;
Ninth, to prevent and
punish violations of the Sabbath day, and the disturbances of any religious
meeting, congregation or society, or other public meeting assembled for any
lawful purpose; and to require all places of business to be closed on the
Sabbath day;
Tenth, to license
auctioneers, auctions and sales at auction; to regulate or prohibit the sale of
live or domestic animals at auction in the streets or alleys, or upon any
public grounds within the city; to regulate or prohibit the sale of goods,
wares, property, or anything at auction, or by any manner of public biddings or
offers by the buyers or sellers after the manner of auction sales, and to
license the same, and to regulate the fees to be paid by and to auctioneers;
but no license shall be required in case of sales required by law to be made at
auction or public vendue;
Eleventh, to license
hawkers, peddlers, and pawnbrokers, and hawking and peddling, and to regulate,
license or prohibit the sale or peddling of goods, wares, merchandise,
refreshments, or any kind of property or thing by persons going about from
place to place in the city for that purpose, or from any stand, cart, vehicle,
or other device in or upon the streets, highways, alleys, sidewalks, or in or
upon the wharves, docks, or from boats, open places or spaces, public grounds
or buildings in the city;
Twelfth, to license and
regulate wharf boats, and to regulate the use of tugs and other boats used in
and about the harbor, and within the jurisdiction of the city;
Thirteenth, to establish
or authorize, license and regulate all aspects of
ferry service to and from the city, or any place therein, or from one
part of the city to another, and to regulate and prescribe from time to time all charges and prices for or
in connection with the transportation of persons and property, by ferry, including, but
not limited to, baggage fees, early or priority boarding fees, fees and charges
for parking of vehicles by persons accessing the ferry service, whether within
the city or on the mainland, and all other fees and charges in connection with
the ferry service;
Fourteenth, to regulate
and license all taverns and houses of public entertainment; all saloons,
restaurants, and eating houses, and to regulate and prescribe the location of
saloons; but this shall not be construed as authorizing the licensing of the sale
of intoxicating liquors;
Fifteenth, to license and
regulate all vehicles of every kind, used for the transportation of persons or
property for hire, in the city, and regulate or fix their stands on the streets
and public places, and at wharves, boat landings, railroad station grounds and
other places;
Sixteenth, to regulate
and license all toll bridges within the city, and to prescribe the rates and
charges for passage over the same;
Seventeenth,
to provide for and regulate the inspection of meats, poultry, fish,
butter, cheese, lard, vegetables, flour, meat, and other provisions;
Eighteenth, to regulate
the inspection, weighing and measuring of brick, lumber, fire-wood, coal, hay,
and any article of merchandise;
Nineteenth, to provide
for the inspection and sealing of weights and measures, and to enforce the
keeping and use of proper weights and measures by vendors;
Twentieth, to regulate
the construction, repair and use of vaults, cisterns, areas, hydrants, pumps,
sewers and gutters;
Twenty-first, to prohibit
and prevent, in the streets, or elsewhere in the city, indecent exposure of the
person, the show, sale, or exhibition for sale, of indecent or obscene
pictures, drawings, engravings, paintings, and books or pamphlets, and all indecent
or obscene exhibitions and shows of every kind;
Twenty-second, to
regulate or prohibit bathing in the rivers, ponds, streams and waters of the
city;
Twenty-third, to provide
for clearing the rivers, ponds, canals and streams of the city and the races
connected therewith of all driftwood and noxious matter; to prohibit and
prevent the depositing therein of any filth or other matter tending to render the
waters thereof impure, unwholesome and offensive;
Twenty-fourth, to compel
the owner or occupant of any grocery, tallow chandler shop, soap or candy
factory, butcher shop or stall, slaughterhouse, stable, barn, privy, sewer, or
other offensive, nauseous or unwholesome place or house, to cleanse, remove or
abate the same whenever the council shall deem it necessary for the health,
comfort, or convenience of the inhabitants of the city;
Twenty-fifth, to regulate
the keeping, selling, and using of dynamite, gunpowder, firecrackers and
fireworks, and other explosive or combustible materials, and the exhibition of
fireworks, and the discharge of firearms, and to restrain the making or lighting
of fires in the streets and other open spaces in the city;
Twenty-sixth, to direct
and regulate the construction of cellars, slips, barns, private drains, sinks,
and privies;
Twenty-seventh, to
prohibit, prevent and suppress mock auctions, and every kind of fraudulent
game, device, or practice, and to punish all persons managing, using,
practicing, or attempting to manage, use or practice the same, and all persons
aiding in the management or practice thereof;
Twenty-eighth, to
prohibit, prevent and suppress all lotteries for the drawing or disposing of
money or any other property whatsoever, and to punish all persons maintaining,
directing, or managing the same, or aiding in the maintenance, directing, or
managing the same;
Twenty-ninth, to license
and regulate solicitors for passengers or for baggage to and from any hotel,
tavern, public house, boat or street railway station; and to provide the places
where they may be admitted to solicit or receive patronage; also draymen,
carmen, truckmen, porters, runners, drivers of cabs, hackney coaches,
omnibuses, carriages, sleighs, express vehicles, and vehicles of every other
description used and employed for hire, and to fix and regulate the amounts and
rates of their compensation;
Thirtieth, to provide for
the protection and care of paupers, and to prohibit and prevent all persons
from bringing to the city, from any other place, any pauper, or other person
likely to become a charge upon the city, and to punish therefor;
Thirty-first, to provide
for taking a census of the inhabitants of the city, whenever the council shall
see fit, and to direct and regulate the same;
Thirty-second, to provide
for the issuing of licenses to the owners and keepers of dogs, and to compel
the owners and keepers thereof to pay for and obtain such licenses; and to
regulate and prevent the running at large of dogs; to require them to be muzzled
and to authorize the killing of all dogs not licensed, or running at large in
violation of any ordinance of the city;
Thirty-third, to prohibit
and punish the use of toy pistols, sling shots and other dangerous toys or
implements within the city;
Thirty-fourth, to require
any horses, mules, or other animals attached to any vehicle or standing in any
of the streets, lanes, or alleys in the city to be securely fastened, hitched,
watched or held; and to regulate the placing and provide for the preservation
of hitching posts;
Thirty-fifth, to provide
for and regulate the numbering of buildings upon the streets and alleys, and to
compel the owners or occupants to affix numbers on the same; and to designate
and change the names of public streets, alleys and parks;
Thirty-sixth, to provide
for, establish, regulate and preserve public fountains and reservoirs within
the city, and such troughs and basins for watering animals as they may deem
proper;
Thirty-seventh, to
prevent or provide for the construction and operation of street railways and to
regulate the same and to determine and designate the route and grade of any
street railway to be laid or constructed in said city;
Thirty-eighth, to
establish and maintain a public library, and to provide a suitable building
therefor, and to aid in maintaining such other public libraries as may be
established within the city by private beneficence as the council may deem to
be for the public good;
Thirty-ninth, the council
may also license transient traders, which shall be held to include all persons
who may engage in the business of selling goods or merchandise after the
commencement of the fiscal year, and the license fee in such cases may be apportioned
with relation to the part of the fiscal year which has expired, but such
traders, if they continue in the same business, shall not be required to take
out a second license after the commencement of the next fiscal year: Provided,
such goods or merchandise have been assessed for taxes for said fiscal year;
Fortieth, the council shall
further have authority to enact all ordinances, and to make all such
regulations, consistent with the laws and constitution of the state as they may
deem necessary for the safety, order and good government of the city, and the
general welfare of the inhabitants thereof; but no exclusive rights, privileges
or permits shall be granted by the council to any person or persons, or to any
corporation, for any purpose whatever.
CHAPTER XVI
FERRIES
Section 1. The council of
said city may license and regulate all aspects of ferries
from such city or any place of landing therein,
to the opposite shore, or from one part of the
city to another; and may require the payment of such reasonable sum for such
license as to the council shall seem proper and may impose such reasonable
terms and restrictions in relation to the keeping and management of a ferry transportation service, and the time,
manner, and rates of carriage and transportation of persons and property as may
be proper, including, but not limited to, baggage
fees, early or priority boarding fees, fees and charges for parking of vehicles
by persons accessing the ferry service, whether within the city or on the
mainland, and all other fees and charges in connection with the ferry service, and
provide for the revocation of any such licenses and for the punishment, by
proper fines and penalties, of the violation of any ordinance prohibiting
unlicensed ferries, and regulating those established and licensed. This section does not diminish any
authority provided by other statutes to any city, village, or township.
Enacting
section 1. (1) This amendatory act does not take effect unless approved by a
majority of the electors of the city of Mackinac Island voting on the question.
The question of the approval of this amendatory act shall be submitted to the
qualified electors of the city at the next regular election to be held not less
than 60 days after the effective date of this amendatory act or at a special
election called for that purpose. The question shall be submitted in
substantially the following form:
Shall 1899 Local Act 437, entitled �An act to amend 1899 LA
437, entitled �An act to vacate the Township of Holmes and Village of Mackinac
in Mackinac County, State of Michigan, and to Incorporate the City of Mackinac Island
in said Mackinac County,� by amending section 1 of chapter IX and section 1 of
chapter XVI; and to provide for a referendum,� be adopted?
Yes
( )
No�
( )
(2)
If a majority of the electors voting on the question, as determined by the
canvass of votes cast, vote in favor of the adoption of this amendatory act, it
takes effect 10 days following the certification of the election results.
This act is ordered to take
immediate effect.
Secretary of the Senate
Clerk of the House of
Representatives
Approved___________________________________________
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Governor