Township Table 1: Eligible Township Fee\u2010sharing Payment Calculations<\/a><\/p>\nOn October 1, 2014, the powers, duties, functions, and responsibilities previously vested in the Metropolitan Extension Telecommunications Rights\u2010of\u2010Way Oversight (METRO) Authority under the Metropolitan Extension Telecommunications Rights\u2010of\u2010Way Oversight Act, 2002 PA 48, as amended, MCL 484.3101 to 484.3120 (the \u201cMETRO Act\u201d) were transferred to and vested in the Local Community Stabilization Authority (the \u201cAuthority\u201d).<\/p>\n
Under the METRO Act, the Authority has the exclusive power to assess fees on telecommunication providers owning telecommunication facilities in public rights\u2010of\u2010way located within one or more cities, villages, or townships located, in whole or in part, within a county having a population of 10,000 or more or a city, village or township that enacts an ordinance or resolution electing to be classified as part of a metropolitan area under the METRO Act (each a \u201cMetropolitan Area\u201d).<\/p>\n
Telecommunications providers are required to pay an annual maintenance fee under section 8 of the METRO Act. April 1 to March 31 is the annual period for the assessment of the maintenance fees, which are due each year by April 29.<\/p>\n
John LaMacchia is the Assistant Director of State and Federal Affairs for the League handling transportation, infrastructure, energy and environment issues. He can be reached at jlamacchia@mml.org or 517-908-0303.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On May 25, 2018, the Local Community Stabilization Authority Council approved the disbursement of $24.7 million of METRO Act maintenance fees to the 516 eligible cities and villages and 1,240 eligible townships. The Authority will disburse the maintenance fees on May 31. CV Table 3: Eligible City and Village Fee\u2010sharing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","mml-onemagnify-plugin"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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