Title 254, BRIDGES

Sec. 13. A copy of the determination of the state highway commissioner shall be filed with the clerk of each township, city and village affected, and thereupon such bridge shall be constructed, rebuilt, repaired and maintained in accordance therewith. Each such township, city and…

Sec. 14. Whenever the boards of county road commissioners of adjoining counties are unable to agree on the apportionment of the costs of constructing, rebuilding, repairing or maintaining an inter-county bridge on a county road, either of such boards may petition the state highwa…

Sec. 15. The board of county road commissioners of any county bordering on a stream which is the boundary line between such county and a county in another state, is hereby authorized, in conjunction with the proper highway authorities of such adjoining county or state, to constru…

Sec. 17. The bridge specifications of the state highway department shall provide such requirements for load capacity, clearances, allowable unit stresses and loads, distributions, workmanship, impact and deterioration allowances as in the judgment of the state highway commissione…

Sec. 19. Hereafter no bridge shall be constructed which shall have a carrying capacity less than that specified by the bridge specifications of the state highway department, current at the time the work of construction is commenced, or which shall have a roadway width at the narr…

Sec. 19a. The state transportation department shall institute and implement a federally compliant and risk-based inspection plan for all bridges under its jurisdiction.

Sec. 20. Every bridge which has a clear 2-way roadway width of less than 19 feet, but more than 17 feet at the narrowest part thereof, shall be posted as a narrow bridge; and every bridge which has a clear 2-way roadway width, as so measured, of 17 feet or less, shall be posted a…

Sec. 21. All movable bridges shall be provided with warning lights, signs, protection gates and other devices as shall be prescribed by the state highway commissioner and as may be required by the board of supervisors in its permit for construction, which said lights, signs, prot…

Sec. 22. Bridges over any navigable streams shall be so constructed as not to prevent or hinder the navigation of such streams by the usual crafts plying thereon. All such bridges shall be so constructed and maintained as not to interfere with the ordinary uses of said streams fo…

Sec. 23. The commissioners having charge of movable span bridges shall cause to be posted in each commissioner's or operator's shelter rules and regulations governing the operation of the structure and all parts appertaining thereto, and shall see that every operator complies wit…

Sec. 25. Hereafter, no person, firm, corporation, or municipality shall artificially alter the stage of water or widen or deepen the channel of any watercourse, except drains established by public authority, without first securing a written permit therefor from the commissioner o…

Sec. 26. The person, firm, corporation or municipality to whom any such permit shall hereafter be issued, shall pay the full cost of all bridges and bridge approach work made necessary by such proposed alteration, and every such permit shall require the person, firm, corporation …

Sec. 27. It shall be the duty of all owners, occupiers, or possessors of mills or other water works, where any race or races appertaining to the same may cross a public highway, to keep and maintain a good and sufficient bridge or bridges over the same, except where said mills ha…

Sec. 28. In all cases where the owner or owners, occupiers, or possessors of any such mill or mills, or other water works, shall refuse or neglect to construct such bridge or bridges, or shall refuse or neglect to keep the same in good repair, it shall be the duty of the commissi…

Sec. 29. The expense so incurred may be recovered by such commissioner or commissioners in an action of assumpsit, or, at the option of said commissioner or commissioners, may be certified to the clerk of the township in which such mill or water works are situated and, when so ce…

Sec. 30. The words “bridge” and “culvert” as used in this act shall be considered as synonymous terms.

Sec. 32. The provisions of this act shall not apply to any bridge across any river forming the boundary between this state and any foreign country.

Sec. 5. The commissioner or commissioners having in charge the construction or maintenance of any bridge shall have the power to provide for the removal of any booms, rafts, logs or other obstruction in the stream and to direct the time in which, and the places where, such booms,…

Sec. 6. Whenever the commissioners of highways and township boards of any 2 adjoining townships in either the same or different counties shall determine that a bridge on or across the township line over any stream or sink-hole, either crossing or running along the boundary line b…

Sec. 8. The word “townships”, as used in the 2 last preceding sections, shall be deemed to include cities and incorporated villages, both in their relation to each other and to townships, and when the word commissioner is used with reference to townships, it shall be deemed to in…

Sec. 9. Whenever any such township, city or incorporated village shall fail upon request to join in building, rebuilding, or repairing such bridge or to contribute its just share thereto, any such township, city or village desiring the building, rebuilding or repairing of such br…