Township of Bedford v. Bates

In Butcher v Grosse Ile Township, 387 Mich 42; 194 NW2d 845 (1972), our Supreme Court found MCLA 123.191 et seq.; MSA 5.2767(101) et seq., to be unconstitutional. The Butcher, supra, holding was based on the Court’s determination that the scope of the act exceeded its title, in that the act required all property owners to connect their sanitary facilities to public sewer systems, even though the title of said act spoke only to those properties "emanating sanitary sewage”. In other words, Butcher, supra, held that MCLA 123.191; MSA 5.2767(101), dealt only with those properties "emanating…