City of Royal Oak, MI
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2023-10-23
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The Charter
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Chapter C Charter
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CHAPTER ONE Name and Boundaries
- The Charter
- Ch C Charter
- Ch C Ch ONE Name and Boundaries
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- The Code
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 8 Appearance Tickets
- Ch 12 Appointments to Advisory Boards, Commissions and Committees
- Ch 17 Assessment Review
- Ch 26 (Reserved)
- Ch 33 Civil Service Merit System
- Ch 36 Commission for the Arts
- Ch 39 Committees
- Ch 45 Contracts
- Ch 52 Downtown Development
- Ch 58 Elections
- Ch 63 Emergency Management
- Ch 64 Environmental Advisory Board
- Ch 66 Ethics
- Ch 70 Fire Department
- Ch 76 Funds
- Ch 82 Historic Preservation
- Ch 87 Housing Commission
- Ch 90 Human Rights Commission
- Ch 113 Older Adults Advisory Board
- Ch 115 Parking Citations
- Ch 128 Personnel Policies
- Ch 134 Planning Commission
- Ch 142 Recreation and Public Service Department
- Ch 146 Retirement
- Ch 156 Veterans War Memorial
- Ch 160 Water Authority, Southeastern Oakland County
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 180 Alarm Systems
- Ch 188 (Reserved)
- Ch 195 Animals
- Ch 201 (Reserved)
- Ch 213 (Reserved)
- Ch 222 Cable Communications
- Ch 229 Cemetery
- Ch 236 (Reserved)
- Ch 244 (Reserved)
- Ch 251 Civil Emergencies
- Ch 260 Construction Code Enforcement
- Ch 264 Construction Sites
- Ch 267 Conversion Therapy
- Ch 273 (Reserved)
- Ch 278 Disorderly Conduct
- Ch 288 Drugs and Other Dangerous Substances
- Ch 306 Emergency Service Cost Recovery
- Ch 312 Events, Special
- Ch 323 Fences
- Ch 340 Fire Prevention
- Ch 345 Fireworks
- Ch 351 Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 363 (Reserved)
- Ch 379 Hazardous Materials and Incendiary-Type Fires
- Ch 388 Horse-Drawn Carriages
- Ch 394 Hotels, Boardinghouses, Bed-And-Breakfasts and Tourist Homes
- Ch 400 Housing
- Ch 402 Human Rights
- Ch 403 Immunodeficiency Virus Testing
- Ch 412 Lands, Abandoned
- Ch 420 Library
- Ch 425 Licensing, General
- Ch 430 Liquor
- Ch 435 Marihuana
- Ch 441 Market, City
- Ch 447 Massage Establishments
- Ch 458 (Reserved)
- Ch 461 Minors
- Ch 463 (Reserved)
- Ch 469 Motor Carrier Safety
- Ch 475 (Reserved)
- Ch 484 Nuisances, Public
- Ch 497 Parking Permits
- Ch 498 Parking, Pull-Off
- Ch 503 Parking Stations
- Ch 507 Parking System
- Ch 515 Parks and Public Recreational Facilities
- Ch 521 Pawnbrokers
- Ch 526 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 547 Precious Metals and Gems
- Ch 552 Property, Lost and Unclaimed
- Ch 556 Property Maintenance
- Ch 574 Refrigerators and Ice Boxes, Abandoned
- Ch 580 (Reserved)
- Ch 587 Rodent Control
- Ch 593 (Reserved)
- Ch 600 Sewers and Sewage Disposal
- Ch 607 Signs
- Ch 612 Skateboards, Roller Skates and In-Line Skates
- Ch 619 Smoke Pollution
- Ch 625 Snow Emergencies
- Ch 633 Solid Waste
- Ch 644 Stormwater Detention
- Ch 650 Public Right-Of-Way
- Ch 658 Subdivision Regulations
- Ch 671 Taxation
- Ch 679 (Reserved)
- Ch 684 Tobacco Products
- Ch 692 Trailer Coaches
- Ch 698 (Reserved)
- Ch 703 Transportation Safety
- Ch 710 Trees
- Ch 716 Vehicles, Abandoned and Inoperable
- Ch 720 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 727 (Reserved)
- Ch 733 Vehicles Transporting Flammable Liquids
- Ch 740 Wastewater
- Ch 745 Water
- Ch 752 Waterworks
- Ch 757 Weeds
- Ch 770 Zoning
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
NAME
The municipal corporation heretofore created shall now and hereafter
be known and designated under the name of the "City of Royal Oak."
BOUNDARIES
The City of Royal Oak shall include all the territory described
as follows, to-wit: The west half of the southwest quarter of Section
Fifteen (W. 1/2 of the S.W. 1/4 Sec. 15); the southeast quarter of
Section Sixteen (S.E. 1/4 of Sec. 16); all that part of the west half
(W. 1/2) of Section 21 lying easterly of the center of Woodward Avenue,
formerly called the Detroit and Birmingham Plank Road; the east half
of Section Twenty-one (E. 1/2 of Sec. 21), and the west half of the
west half of Section Twenty-two (W. 1/2 of the W. 1/2 of Sec. 22),
all being in the Township of Royal Oak, County of Oakland, State of
Michigan.
The City of Royal Oak shall constitute one ward.
[Amended and adopted 11-7-1939]
Territory may be detached from said City or added thereto, or
consolidation may be made with one or more other cities or villages
by complying with the provisions of the general laws of the State
in regard to annexing territory to or detaching territory from cities
and consolidation of cities and villages; provided, however, before
any proposition for the annexation of any territory to the City is
submitted to the electors thereof the territory to be annexed shall
have been provided with proper and adequate sewage and drainage facilities,
the streets of said territory shall have been properly graded and
improved and sufficient and adequate water pipes shall have been constructed
in said territory, said pipes to be in conformity with the specifications
and standards of the Detroit Water Board. It shall be the duty of
the City Commission to determine whether said improvements have been
installed and are suitable and adequate to take care of the needs
of said territory, prior to submitting such annexation to the electorate.
