§ 1.1. Name and Boundaries:

The municipal corporation, heretofore created by the vote of the electors on the 12th day of May, A.D. 1953, and shown by its Record, in the office of the Secretary of State, to be a duly and legally incorporated home-rule city from May 22nd, 1953, under provisions of the Public Act No. 279 of 1909 (MCL 117.1 et seq., MSA 5.2071 et seq.) as amended, shall be known as the "City of Lathrup Village." It is a body corporate and politic and shall have perpetual succession.

Said municipal corporation shall embrace the following described territory set apart from Southfield Township, Oakland County, Michigan, heretofore known as Lathrup Townsite and as Lathrup Village, together with such territory as may from time to time be attached thereto, and less such territory as may from time to time be detached therefrom, in accordance with law:

Beginning at the North quarter corner of Section 14, Town 1 North, Range 10 East, Township of Southfield, Oakland County, Michigan; thence North 89 degrees 55′ 30″ West along the North line of said Section 14, being also the center line of Twelve Mile Road so-called, a distance of 1292.58′; thence South 0 degrees, 2′ 30″ East, 738.90 feet; thence North 89 degrees 54′ West 210.65 feet; thence South 0 degrees 10′ East 1903.46 feet to the East and West quarter line of said Section 14, said line being also the Northerly line of Louise Lathrup's California Bungalow Subdivision No. 6, according to the recorded plat thereof; thence West along said quarter line to the Northwest corner of said Subdivision, said point being also the West quarter corner of said Section 14; thence South along the West line of said Section 14 being also the Westerly line of said Subdivision, to the Southwest corner thereof, being also the Southwest corner of Section 14; thence East along the South line of said Subdivision, being also the South line of Section 14 and the original center line of Eleven Mile Road so-called, to the Southeast corner of said Subdivision, being also the South quarter corner of Section 14 and the Northwest corner of Louise Lathrup's California Bungalow Subdivision No. 4, according to the recorded plat thereof; thence South along the West line of said Subdivision being also the North and South quarter line of Section 23 in said Township of Southfield, to the Southwest corner of said Subdivision the same being also the center of said Section 23; thence East along the East and West quarter line of said Section 23, being also the South line of said Louise Lathrup's California Bungalow Subdivision No. 4, to the Southeast corner of said Subdivision, being the East quarter corner of said Section 23, the West quarter corner of Section 24 in said Township of Southfield, and the Southwest corner of Louise Lathrup's California Bungalow Subdivision No. 5, according to the recorded plat thereof; thence East on the East and West quarter line of said Section 24 the same being also the Southerly line of said Louise Lathrup's California Bungalow Subdivision No. 5, to the Southeast corner of said Subdivision; thence North along the East line of Louise Lathrup's California Bungalow Subdivision No. 5 and continuing North along the East line of Louise Lathrup's California Bungalow Subdivision No. 3, according to the recorded plat thereof, to the Northeast corner of said Louise Lathrup's California Bungalow Subdivision No. 3, said point being located on the North line of Section 13 in said Township of Southfield, said North line being also the center line of the Twelve Mile Road so-called; thence West along the North line of Section 13 and continuing along the North line of said Section 14, being also the North line of Louise Lathrup's California Bungalow Subdivision No. 2, according to the recorded plat thereof, as well as the center line of the Twelve Mile Road, to the point of beginning. Excepting therefrom the following parcels: (I) Part of the Northeast ¼ of Section 23 in said Township of Southfield described as follows: Beginning at a point on the East line of said Section located due North from the East quarter Section corner 495 feet; thence West 202 feet; thence North 165 feet; thence East 202 feet; thence South 165 feet to the point of beginning. (II) Part of the Southwest ¼ of Section 14, in said Township of Southfield, described as follows: Beginning at a point on the West line of said Section North 0 degrees 2′ 30″ East 222.0 feet from the Southwest corner of said Section 14; thence North 89 degrees 59″ 30′ East 408.71 feet; thence North 0 degrees 2′ 30″ East 159.70 feet; thence North 89 degrees 57′ 30″ West 228 feet; thence South 0 degrees 2′ 30″ West 20 feet; thence North 89 degrees 57′ 30″ West 180 feet to the West line of Section 14; thence South along said West line to the point of beginning. (The territory so incorporated is herein described as it was when under the government of said Southfield Township).

State law reference

Organized cities to be body corporate, MCL 117.1, MSA 5.2071; annexation of territory, MCL 117.6 et seq., MSA 5.2085 et seq.