Title 247, HIGHWAYS

Sec. 8. (1) If the board's decision is to transfer jurisdiction of a highway, the board shall include in its determination a description of the renovation, repair or reconstruction work and the estimated cost necessary to bring the highway up to reasonable acceptable standards as…

Sec. 9. The compensation and expenses of the board member appointed by the nonconsenting highway authority shall be paid by it. The compensation and expenses, if any, of the other board member and the chairman, and all stenographic and other expenses incurred by the board in conn…

Sec. 10. The provisions of this act shall not apply to the transfer of jurisdiction over county roads in unincorporated areas which become incorporated through annexation, incorporation or consolidation after the effective date of this act and which are transferred to the city or…

Sec. 11. The provisions for relinquishment of jurisdiction of a county road in section 18 of chapter 4 of Act No. 283 of the Public Acts of 1909, as amended, being section 224.18 of the Compiled Laws of 1948, and for abandonment of a state trunk line highway in section 4 of Act N…

Sec. 1. As used in this act: (a) "Department" means the state transportation department. (b) "Eligible attraction" means a tourist-oriented activity that is all of the following: (i) Within 10 miles of the rural road for which a tourist-oriented directional sign is sought, unless…

Sec. 2. (1) Within 6 months after the effective date of this act, the department shall implement a program for the placement of tourist-oriented directional signs and markers within the right-of-way of those portions of rural roads within state jurisdiction. At a minimum, the pro…

Sec. 3. (1) The operator of a tourist-oriented activity who wishes to participate in a directional sign program under this act shall submit to the department or its designee an application described in section 2. If the department or its designee determines that an application is…

Sec. 4. (1) The size, location, design, and arrangement of each tourist-oriented directional sign subject to this act shall conform to the specifications for signs contained in the state manual of uniform traffic control devices. (2) The department shall develop optional, standar…

Sec. 5. The department or its designee may impose a reasonable fee for a permit issued under this act, which shall be calculated to include reimbursement for the department's anticipated costs in implementing and administering this act, including the costs of installing, repairin…

Sec. 1. A public highway or a portion of a public highway that borders upon, crosses, is adjacent to, or ends at a lake, or the general course of a stream, shall not be abandoned, discontinued, vacated, or have its course altered resulting in a loss of public access by the order …

Sec. 2. If the official or officials having jurisdiction over the highways of a village or city in this state desire to abandon, discontinue, vacate, or alter the course of a public highway referred to in section 1, and the abandonment, discontinuation, vacation, or alteration wi…

Sec. 3. Upon the filing of an application required by section 2, the presiding circuit judge shall schedule a hearing on the application not later than 60 days from the date the application is filed. Notice of the application and the time of hearing on the application shall be pu…

Sec. 4. (1) Upon the day of hearing the application or any adjournment of the hearing, testimony may be taken from any person or persons interested in the application, and if it satisfactorily appears to the court that there is no reasonable objection to the application, and that…

Sec. 5. The proceedings required by section 4 are subject to appeal by a taxpayer of the village or city in which the highway is situated. Notice of a claim for appeal shall be served upon the parties to the action including the chief executive officer of the city or village in w…

Sec. 6. As used in this act: (a) "Adjacent" includes any highway, or portion of a highway, lying within 5 rods of the shore of any lake or the general course of any stream. (b) "Highway" includes, where applicable, local roads or streets.

Sec. 1. The governing body of any city, village or township may appoint a competent person to be the commissioner of noxious weeds who shall take the oath required of township, city or village officers, and shall hold office for the term of 2 years and until a successor is appoin…

Sec. 2. (1) For the purpose of this act, "noxious weeds" includes all of the following: (a) Canada thistle (Cirsium arvense). (b) Dodders (any species of the genus Cuscuta). (c) Mustards (charlock, black mustard, and Indian mustard, species of the genus Brassica or Sinapis). (d) …

Sec. 3. The commissioner of noxious weeds shall diligently inquire concerning the introduction and existence of noxious weeds in his township, city or village and if any are found growing therein, he shall take charge of all such growing and take care that they do not go to seed …

Sec. 4. (1) The owner of land on which noxious weeds are found growing shall destroy the weeds before they reach a seed bearing stage and prevent their regrowth, or shall prevent them from becoming a detriment to public health. The commissioner shall notify by certified mail with…

Sec. 4a. (1) Instead of the notice required by section 4, the township, city, or village may publish a notice in a newspaper of general circulation in the county during the month of March that weeds not cut by May 1 of that year may be cut by the township, village, or city and th…

Sec. 5. The commissioner shall apply the best known means, and use the utmost diligence, in eradicating noxious weeds; but he shall not have power to expend in work or materials more than $25.00 on any 1 infested tract, without the advice and consent, in writing, of the superviso…

Sec. 6. It shall be the duty of the commissioner to prosecute or complain to the proper authorities of any person or corporation who may violate any law now existing, or which may hereafter be passed, on the subject of noxious weeds.

Sec. 7. The commissioner shall, annually, before the first day of December, make a written report to the department of agriculture and to the body by whom he was appointed, as the case may be. Said report shall be made out upon blank forms furnished by the department of agricultu…

Sec. 8. The department of agriculture is authorized and it shall be its duty to assist in the enforcement of this law. The department shall cooperate with the various commissioners of noxious weeds in carrying out the provisions of this act and shall advise them from time to time…

Sec. 9. The board of supervisors or other official body appointing any commissioner shall audit the accounts of the commissioner, both for his services and for the money expended or labor employed by him; and they shall provide for their payment as they now do for other county or…

Sec. 10. (1) The county board of commissioners may make an appropriation from the county treasury to aid in destroying the noxious weeds in a town or precinct of the county. The board of commissioners may assume control over the noxious weeds in all or part of the county. The cou…

Sec. 11. If any company, association or person owning, controlling or operating a railroad shall refuse or neglect to dig up and destroy, or take other certain means of exterminating noxious weeds that may at any time be growing upon the right of way or other lands of such roads,…

Sec. 12. It shall be the duty of the state highway commissioner to prevent all noxious weeds as defined in this act from growing within the right of way of any highways under his jurisdiction. It shall be the duty of each county road commission to prevent all noxious weeds as def…

Sec. 1. In every case where a public highway has been or shall be encroached upon by any fence, building, or other encroachment, the commissioner or commissioners having jurisdiction over the road may make an order under his or their hand requiring the owner or occupant of the la…

Sec. 1a. This act does not prohibit the use of rights-of-way, bridges, towers, welcome centers, and rest stops to provide through the use of electronic technologies, including electronic kiosks, travel-related information or assistance and advance traffic information systems.

Sec. 2. If such encroachment shall not be removed within 30 days after the service of a copy of such order, such owner or occupant shall forfeit the sum of 1 dollar for every day after the expiration of that time during which such encroachment shall continue unremoved, to be reco…

Sec. 3. If the person upon whom the copy of such order shall be served at any time before the expiration of said 30 days, by a written notice served upon the commissioner or commissioners, deny such encroachment either in whole or in part, or shall deny the existence of a highway…

Sec. 4. Such action shall be brought by the commissioner or commissioners in his or their name of office, claiming nominal damages only in the sum of 6 cents, before any justice of the peace of the township, or of any adjoining township in the same county. The summons in such act…

Sec. 5. The declaration in such action shall follow the order required by section 1 of this chapter, in describing such encroachment. The defendant may plead denying the encroachment in whole or in part, and may also deny the existence of a highway where such encroachment is clai…

Sec. 6. The trial of said action may be adjourned for not to exceed 10 days. The jury shall specify in their verdict, if they find the defendant guilty of causing or maintaining the encroachment as charged, and the extent thereof, and if the existence of the highway has been deni…

Sec. 7. Either party may appeal to the circuit court of the proper county in the same manner that appeals are taken from justices' courts in other cases, but in case of an appeal taken by the commissioner or commissioners, he or they shall not be required to pay the costs or furn…

Sec. 8. In all cases of final judgment against any person for causing or maintaining an encroachment, the commissioner or commissioners may proceed to remove the same within 10 days after such judgment, in the same manner that he may do under section 2 of this chapter, where the …

Sec. 9. In all cases of final judgment against any person or persons for causing or maintaining an encroachment or obstruction upon a highway, if such person shall, subsequent to such final judgment, by force or otherwise, interfere with any commissioner or commissioners in the p…

Sec. 10. In case any saw logs, cordwood, or other loose obstruction shall be upon any highway, the commissioner or commissioners may notify the owner, if known, to remove the same within 2 days, and if not so removed, or the owner is unknown, the commissioner or commissioners may…

Sec. 11. In case the article or thing have no value or is not of sufficient value to pay for the removal, the commissioner or commissioners shall be entitled to compensation for the expense of removing it, and the expense of removal may be recovered from the owner in the name of …

Sec. 12. It shall hereafter be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to erect a fence along any road, of any material which, by reason of its construction or otherwise, is dangerous in itself or by reason of causing an obstruction to the highway. Any person violating the p…

Sec. 13. (1) Except as otherwise provided under subsection (2), telegraph, telephone, power, and other public utility companies, cable television companies, broadband companies, and municipalities may enter upon, construct, and maintain telegraph, telephone, or power lines, pipel…

Sec. 14. (1) A person that proposes to construct a telegraph, telephone, power line or cable television line, broadband line, pipe lines, wires, cables, poles, conduits, sewers, or like structures upon, over or under a county road or bridge, shall obtain the consent of the board …

Sec. 14a. (1) A person shall not enter a manhole being constructed or being used for repairs to underground utilities or remain inside of the opening unless a person is providing alert surveillance, except that a new manhole under construction is exempted if adequate steps are ta…

Sec. 15. The construction and maintenance of all such telegraph, telephone and power lines, cable television lines, pipe lines, wires, cables, poles, conduits, sewers and like structures shall be subject to the paramount right of the public to use such public places, roads, bridg…

Sec. 16. In no case shall any poles or other structures be placed above the ground or road grade between the curb or road shoulder lines, or closer than 15 feet from the center line of the roadway; and in no case shall any wires, cables or other fixtures be placed, or be permitte…