Mich. Comp. Laws » Michigan Compiled Laws / Chapter 455 / Act 137 of 1929
Michigan Compiled Laws

Mich. Comp. Laws § 455.201 (2026)

Summer resort owners; incorporation, purpose.

✓ current as of July 2026
Find cases: SyfertCases citing this section MI-LEGlegislature.mi.gov JustiaChapter on Justia CornellLII Search CasesGoogle Scholar

INCORPORATION OF SUMMER RESORT OWNERS


Act 137 of 1929


455.201 Summer resort owners; incorporation, purpose.

Sec. 1.

    That any number of freeholders, not less than 10, who may desire to form a summer resort owners corporation for the better welfare of said community and for the purchase and improvement of lands to be occupied for summer homes and summer resort purposes, may, with their associates and successors, become a body politic and corporate, under any name by them assumed in their articles of incorporation, in the manner herein provided.

History: 1929, Act 137, Eff. Aug. 28, 1929 ;-- CL 1929, 10363 ;-- CL 1948, 455.201

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 12 cases, 1951–2018 · leading case: Hogg v. Four Lakes Ass'n, Inc, 861 N.W.2d 341 (Mich. Ct. App. 2014).
Sort: Relevance Newest Treatment
Hogg v. Four Lakes Ass'n, Inc, 861 N.W.2d 341 (Mich. Ct. App. 2014). · cites it 2× “” 2 MCL 455.201 et seq. 3 MCL 455.201. 4 See, for example, MCL 455.”
Great Lakes Shores, Inc. v. Bartley, 311 Mich. App. 252 (Mich. Ct. App. 2015). “Plaintiff is organized under the summer resort owners corporation act, MCL 455.201 et seq. Lot owners are required to pay yearly dues and assessments, which are used to maintain the resort property and to pay for taxes and insurance.”
Baldwin v. North Shore Estates Ass'n, 179 N.W.2d 398 (Mich. 1970). · cites it 2× “1 MCLA §455.201 et seq. (Stat Ann 1963 Rev §21.”
Whitman v. Lake Diane Corp., 704 N.W.2d 468 (Mich. Ct. App. 2005). “BASIC FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY Defendant is a nonprofit corporation formed in 1977 under the summer resort owners corporation act, MCL 455.201 et seq., which provides for the creation and operation of a corporate association of property owners to act as a local body of…”
Ryan v. Ore Lake, 223 N.W.2d 637 (Mich. Ct. App. 1974). · cites it 2× “Defendant, Ore Lake, appeals from a decision of the Livingston County Circuit Court wherein the summer resort owners corporation act (MCLA 455.201 et seq.; MSA 21.751 et seq.) was declared unconstitutional by reason of its extreme vagueness.”
Bates v. Colony Park Ass'n, 393 F. Supp. 2d 578 (E.D. Mich. 2005). · cites it 2× “Defendant Colony Park Association (“CPA”) was incorporated in 1945 under Michigan’s Summer Resort Owners Act, Mich. Comp. Laws § 455.201 et seq, 5 CPA’s articles of incorporation provide that the purpose of this corporation is “[t]o better the welfare of the community; to buy,…”
Baker v. Roscommon Cnty. Road Comm'n, 46 N.W.2d 579 (Mich. 1951). “See CL 1948, § 455.201 et seq. (Stat Ann and Stat Ann 1949 Cum Supp § 21.”
Baldwin v. North Shore Estates Ass'n, 166 N.W.2d 552 (Mich. Ct. App. 1968). · cites it 2× “Relevant portions of CL 1948, § 455.201 et seq. (Stat Ann 1963 Rev § 21.”
Robert Roy v. Island & Fonda Lakes Ass'n (Mich. Ct. App. 2014). · cites it 2× “IFLA is a nonprofit corporation created in 1942 for the stated purpose of being “[f]or the upkeep of sanitation and improvement of roads, collecting of garbage” as a “summer resort -1- corporation” pursuant to 1929 PA 137 , as amended, MCL 455.201 et seq. The original term of…”
James McGue v. Glenbrook Beach Ass'n (Mich. Ct. App. 2018). “In 1947, the subdivision was incorporated under the Michigan Summer Resort Owners Corporation Act, MCL 455.201 et seq., as Glennbrook Beach Association (hereafter, “the association”).”
James McGue v. Glenbrook Beach Ass'n (Mich. Ct. App. 2018). “In 1947, the subdivision was incorporated under the Michigan Summer Resort Owners Corporation Act, MCL 455.201 et seq., as Glennbrook Beach Association (hereafter, “the association”).”
Great Lakes Shores Inc v. Jennifer M Bartley (Mich. Ct. App. 2015). “Plaintiff is organized under the summer resort owners corporation act, MCL 455.201 et seq. Lot owners are required to pay yearly dues and assessments, which are used to maintain the resort property and to pay for taxes and insurance.”
Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.