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A unique form of civil township in Michigan is the charter township, a status created by act of the state legislature in 1947, which grants additional powers and streamlined administration of townships. Charter townships that meet certain criteria are also provided greater protection against annexation by a city or village.
A charter township is a form of local government in the U.S. state of Michigan.While all townships in Michigan are organized governments, a charter township has been granted a charter, which allows it certain rights and responsibilities of home rule that are generally intermediate between those of a city (a semi-autonomous jurisdiction in Michigan) and a village.
Michigan has created charter townships as a separate type of government to allow greater flexibility for township governments to serve urbanized populations. In Michigan, as in other states with like systems (though sometimes different names), a township is an administrative division of a county, which is an administrative division of the state.
A type of municipality: Connecticut, New Jersey and Pennsylvania (also formerly Michigan and Minnesota) A subdivision of a consolidated city, corresponding to another present or previous political subdivision: New York and Virginia; In Alaska only, a borough is a county-equivalent. Municipal offices sign for Littlestown, a borough of Pennsylvania
The largest municipality by population in Michigan is Detroit with 639,111 residents; [1] the smallest municipality by population is Pointe Aux Barques Township with 15 residents. [3] The largest municipality by land area is McMillan Township which spans 588.78 sq mi (1,524.9 km 2 ), while Ahmeek is the smallest at 0.07 sq mi (0.18 km 2 ).
Madison Township Hall in Madison Township, Richland County, Ohio. Depending on the state, the township government has varying degrees of authority. In the Upper Midwestern states near the Great Lakes, civil townships (known in Michigan as general law townships [1] and in Wisconsin as towns), are often, but not always, overlaid on survey townships.
The township was first organized in 1834 under the name Kent Township. The village of Grand Rapids was within the township, and the state renamed the township as Grand Rapids Township in 1842. The village incorporated as an autonomous city from portions of the township in 1850. Grand Rapids Township became a charter township in 1979. [5]
Saginaw Charter Township is a charter township of Saginaw County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 41,679 at the 2020 census . The city of Saginaw is adjacent to the township to the southeast, but is administratively autonomous.