The township board held a first reading last week and could adopt an ordinance next Tuesday that would ban all non-electric motors on Square Lake.
The board listened to about 35 residents at a meeting back in August and 26 residents attended a public hearing on the matter in November, involving the Department of Natural Resources.
The ordinance uses DNR wording and has been reviewed by township legal counsel. It follows a format used for similar ordinances previously adopted to regulate other township lakes.