Foote Act News Today

Where the defendant city of East Lansing moved for summary disposition in a suit over a “franchise fee” that the Lansing Board of Water and Light, a public utility provider, charged its customers, that motion should have been allowed because the complaint’s Headlee Amendment claim was barred by the statute of limitations.

The state Court of Appeals said Ingham County Circuit Judge Wanda Stokes erred in finding the franchise fee amounts to an illegal tax.