Michigan Compiled Laws, Chapter 213. Condemnation § 213.24

Sec. 4. Proceedings may be commenced and prosecuted under this act whenever a public corporation or state agency shall have declared a public improvement or the purposes of its incorporation or public purposes within the scope of its powers make it necessary, and shall declare that it deems it necessary to take private property for such public improvement or for the purposes of its incorporation or for the public purposes within the scope of its powers, designating the same, and that the improvement is for the use or benefit of the public. It shall by resolution direct its attorney to institute the necessary proceedings in its behalf in the circuit court of the county where the private property sought to be taken is located, or if said property is in a city, the proceeding may be instituted in the court in said city having general jurisdiction of condemnation proceedings for the opening of streets and highways.