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Act No. 58
Public Acts of 2025
Approved by the Governor
December 23, 2025
Filed with the Secretary of State
December 23, 2025
EFFECTIVE DATE: Sine Die
(91st day after final adjournment of the 2025 Regular Session)
STATE OF MICHIGAN
103RD LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2025
Introduced by Senator Hertel
ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 23
AN ACT to amend 1967 PA 288, entitled “An act to regulate the division of land; to promote the public health,
safety, and general welfare; to further the orderly layout and use of land; to require that the land be suitable for
building sites and public improvements and that there be adequate drainage of the land; to provide for proper
ingress and egress to lots and parcels; to promote proper surveying and monumenting of land subdivided and
conveyed by accurate legal descriptions; to provide for the approvals to be obtained prior to the recording and
filing of plats and other land divisions; to provide for the establishment of special assessment districts and for the
imposition of special assessments to defray the cost of the operation and maintenance of retention basins for land
within a final plat; to establish the procedure for vacating, correcting, and re vising plats; to control residential
building development within floodplain areas; to provide for reserving easements for utilities in vacated streets
and alleys; to provide for the filing of amended plats; to provide for the making of assessors plats; to provide
penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act; to repeal certain parts of this act on specific dates; and to
repeal acts and parts of acts,” by amending section 108 (MCL 560.108), as added by 1996 PA 591.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 108. (1) A division is not subject to the platting requirements of this act.
(2) Subject to subsection (3), the division, together with any previous divisions of the same parent parcel or
parent tract, shall result in a number of parcels not more than the sum of the following, as applicable:
(a) For the first 10 acres or fraction thereof in the parent parcel or parent tract, the following number of parcels:
(i) Beginning on the effective date of the amendatory act that added subsection (6), until 1 year after that date,
and subject to subsection (6), 4 parcels.
(ii) Beginning 1 year after the effective date of the amendatory act that added subsection (6), 10 parcels.
(b) For each whole 10 acres in excess of the first 10 acres in the parent parcel or parent tract, 1 additional
parcel, for up to a maximum of 11 additional parcels.
(c) For each whole 40 acres in excess of the first 120 acres in the parent parcel or parent tract, 1 additional
parcel.
(3) For a parent parcel or parent tract of not less than 20 acres, the division may result in a total of 2 parcels
in addition to those permitted by subsection (2) if 1 or both of the following apply:
(a) Because of the establishment of 1 or more new roads, no new driveway accesses to an existing public road
for any of the resulting parcels under subsection (2) or this subsection are created or required.
(b) One of the resulting parcels under subsection (2) and this subsection comprises not less than 60% of the
area of the parent parcel or parent tract.
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(4) A parcel of 40 acres or more created by the division of a parent parcel or parent tract shall not be counted
toward the number of parcels permitted under subsections (2) and (3) and is not subject to section 109, if the
parcel is accessible.
(5) A parcel or tract created by an exempt split or a division is not a new parent parcel or parent tract and may
be further partitioned or split without being subject to the platting requirements of this act if all of the following
requirements are met:
(a) Not less than 10 years have elapsed since the parcel or tract was recorded.
(b) The partitioning or splitting results in not more than the following number of parcels, whichever is less:
(i) Two parcels for the first 10 acres or fraction thereof in the parcel or tract plus 1 additional parcel for each
whole 10 acres in excess of the first 10 acres in the parcel or tract.
(ii) Seven parcels or 10 parcels if one of the resulting parcels under this subsection comprises not less than
60% of the area of the parcel or tract being partitioned or split.
(c) The partitioning or splitting satisfies the requirements of section 109.
(6) Beginning on the effective date of the amendatory act that added this subsection, a parcel or tract may be
partitioned or split at any time into a greater number of parcels or tracts than otherwise authorized by this section
if the partitioning or spli tting is authorized by and complies with standards set forth in an ordinance of the
municipality or county having authority to approve or disapprove a division under section 109(1).
(7) A parcel or tract created under the provisions of subsection (5) or of an ordinance described in subsection (6)
may not be further partitioned or split without being subject to the platting requirements of this act, except in
accordance with the provisions of subsection (5) or of an ordinance described in subsection (6).
Secretary of the Senate
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Approved___________________________________________
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Governor