Title 324, NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

Sec. 74126. (1) The state owned land containing the White Pine trail, which traverses an abandoned rail corridor between Comstock Park and Cadillac, shall be known as the "Fred Meijer White Pine Trail State Park". (2) The department shall facilitate the establishment of a recreat…

Sec. 74201. (1) A person shall not camp on any state owned lands under the jurisdiction or control of the department without having first posted a camp registration card. (2) As used in this part, "to camp" means the erection of a tent or tent-type camper or the parking and occup…

Sec. 74202. A person may obtain without charge from a conservation officer or a person authorized to issue fishing or hunting licenses a camp registration card and shall enter on the camp registration card in the space provided, in plain and legible English, the name and address …

Sec. 74203. Upon breaking camp, every member of a camping party is responsible for the disposal, by burying or burning, of all rubbish, papers, cans, containers, or any other article or thing of any nature whatsoever brought into or built upon the premises by the camping party. A…

Sec. 74204. The department shall have printed and distributed a sufficient number of camp registration cards to implement this part.

Sec. 74205. It is the duty of any peace officer, including conservation officers, to enforce this part.

Sec. 74206. A person who violates this part is responsible for a state civil infraction and may be ordered to pay a civil fine of not more than $500.00, and, in addition, is liable for any costs incurred by the department in cleaning up the campsite of the person, which liability…

Sec. 74207. This part does not apply to any state park, campground, or recreation area administered by the department.

Sec. 74301. As used in this part: (a) "Foundation" means the Michigan state parks foundation created in section 74302. (b) "State park" means a state park or state recreation area designated by the director.

Sec. 74302. (1) The department shall create a foundation to be known as the Michigan state parks foundation. The foundation shall exercise its powers, functions, and duties independently of the department of natural resources. The foundation shall be governed by an executive boar…

Sec. 74303. The purpose of the foundation is to support the overall enhancement of the Michigan state parks system and to foster awareness, appreciation, understanding, and involvement in the system through focused assistance that is supplementary to appropriated parks funding.

Sec. 74304. The foundation shall do the following: (a) Determine those projects or undertakings for which the foundation will solicit funding. In determining projects to fund, the foundation shall select projects that enhance the use, preservation, enjoyment, or understanding of …

Sec. 74305. The foundation shall be managed solely pursuant to and for the purpose set forth in this part and money or other assets of the foundation shall not be loaned or otherwise transferred or used by the state for any purpose other than the purposes of this part.

Sec. 74306. The foundation shall annually prepare or cause to be prepared an accounting which shall be a public document and shall transmit a copy of the accounting to the governor, the senate majority and minority leaders, and the Republican and Democratic leaders of the house o…

Sec. 75101. As used in this part: (a) "Dark sky preserve" means an area designated in section 75102. (b) "Fully shielded" means outdoor light fixtures shielded or constructed so that no light rays are emitted by the installed fixture at angles above 15 degrees below the horizonta…

Sec. 75102. (1) The following lands are designated as dark sky preserves: (a) State-owned land at Lake Hudson, legally described as: All state-owned land located in Sections 25, 26, 27, 34, 35, and 36, T7S, R1E, and Section 1, T8S, R1E - Lenawee County, Michigan. (b) The state-ow…

Sec. 75103. (1) The commission shall ensure that outdoor lighting within a state-owned dark sky preserve is not installed unless necessary for safety, security, or the reasonable use and enjoyment of property within the preserve. (2) The commission shall ensure that outdoor light…

Sec. 75104. (1) The commission shall ensure that all outdoor lighting within a state-owned dark sky preserve conforms to the following: (a) Lighting shall be directed downward. (b) If possible, lighting shall be provided by fully shielded fixtures. (c) If practical and appropriat…

Sec. 75105. This part does not restrict the use and development of the state owned land at lake Hudson as prescribed by the master plan approved by the commission if the use and development are in compliance with this part.

Sec. 76101. As used in this part: (a) "Abandoned property" means an aircraft; a watercraft, including a ship, boat, canoe, skiff, raft, or barge; the rigging, gear, fittings, trappings, and equipment of an aircraft or watercraft; the personal property of the officers, crew, and p…

Sec. 76102. (1) The state reserves to itself the exclusive right and privilege, except as provided in this part, of exploring, surveying, excavating, and regulating through its authorized officers, agents, and employees, all aboriginal records and other antiquities, including mou…

Sec. 76103. (1) The underwater salvage and preserve committee is created in the department to provide technical and other advice to the department and the department of history, arts, and libraries with respect to their responsibilities under this part. (2) The underwater salvage…

Sec. 76104. A deed, as provided by this part, given by this state, except state tax deeds for the conveyance of any land owned by the state, shall contain a clause reserving to this state a property right in aboriginal antiquities including mounds, earthworks, forts, burial and v…

Sec. 76105. (1) A person, either personally or through an agent or employee, shall not explore or excavate an aboriginal remain covered by this part upon lands owned by the state, except as authorized by a permit issued by the department, with written approval of the department o…

Sec. 76106. Without the consent of the land owner, a person shall not remove any relics or records of antiquity such as human or other bones; shells, stone, bone, or copper implements; pottery or shards of pottery, or similar artifacts and objects from the premises where they hav…

Sec. 76107. (1) Except as provided in section 76108, a person shall not recover, alter, or destroy abandoned property which is in, on, under, or over the bottomlands of the Great Lakes, including those within a Great Lakes bottomlands preserve, unless the person has a permit issu…

Sec. 76108. (1) A person may recover abandoned property outside a Great Lakes bottomlands preserve without a permit if the abandoned property is not attached to, nor located on, in, or located in the immediate vicinity of and associated with a sunken aircraft or watercraft and if…

Sec. 76109. (1) A person shall not recover abandoned property located on, in, or located in the immediate vicinity of and associated with a sunken aircraft or watercraft except as authorized by a permit issued by the department and the department of history, arts, and libraries p…

Sec. 76110. (1) Within 10 days after recovery of abandoned property, a person with a permit issued pursuant to section 76109 shall report the recovery in writing to the department. The person recovering the abandoned property shall give authorized representatives of the departmen…

Sec. 76111. (1) Subject to subsection (7), the department of environmental quality shall establish Great Lakes bottomlands preserves by rule. A Great Lakes bottomlands preserve shall be established by emergency rule if it is determined by the department that this action is necess…

Sec. 76112. (1) The department and the department of history, arts, and libraries, jointly or separately, may promulgate rules as are necessary to implement this part. (2) Within each Great Lakes bottomlands preserve, the department and the department of history, arts, and librar…

Sec. 76113. Sections 76107 to 76110 shall not be considered to impose the following limitations: (a) A limitation on the right of a person to engage in diving for recreational purposes in and upon the Great Lakes or the bottomlands of the Great Lakes. (b) A limitation on the righ…

Sec. 76114. (1) If the department or the department of history, arts, and libraries finds that the holder of a permit issued pursuant to section 76105 or 76109 is not in compliance with this part, a rule promulgated under this part, or a provision of or condition in the permit, o…

Sec. 76115. Each person who participates in the sport of scuba diving on the Great Lakes bottomlands accepts the dangers that adhere in that sport insofar as the dangers are obvious and necessary. Those dangers include, but are not limited to, injuries which can result from entan…

Sec. 76116. (1) A person who violates section 76105 or 76106 is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment for not more than 30 days, or a fine of not more than $100.00, or both. (2) A person who violates sections 76107 or 76111 or a rule promulgated under this part is g…

Sec. 76117. (1) If a person who violates this part or a rule promulgated under this part uses a watercraft, mechanical or other assistance, scuba gear, sonar equipment, a motor vehicle, or any other equipment or apparatus during the course of committing the violation, the items s…

Sec. 76118. (1) The underwater preserve fund is created as a separate fund in the state treasury, and it may receive revenue as provided in this part, or revenue from any other source. (2) Money in the underwater preserve fund shall be appropriated for only the following purposes…

Sec. 76501. As used in this part: (a) "Commission" means the Mackinac Island state park commission created in section 76503. (b) "Director" means the director of the Mackinac Island state park commission. (c) "Motor vehicle" means any device that is self-propelled, or partially s…

Sec. 76502. Pursuant to the turning over to the state of Michigan, for use as a state park, and for no other purpose, the military reservation, lands and buildings of the national park on Mackinac Island, subject to a reversion to the United States whenever the state ceases to us…

Sec. 76503. (1) The Mackinac Island state park commission shall consist of 7 members appointed by the governor. (2) Members of the commission shall be citizens of, registered voters, and regularly domiciled in this state. However, the present members of the commission shall hold …

Sec. 76504. (1) The Mackinac Island state park shall be under the control and management of the commission, and a majority of the members of the commission constitutes a quorum for the transaction of business. The business which the commission may perform shall be conducted at a …

Sec. 76505. The director shall see to it that the United States flag is kept floating from the flagstaff at Fort Mackinac, and rules relative thereto are the same as those that have governed in that matter when the fort was in possession and occupancy by the United States troops.

Sec. 76506. The Mackinac Island state park commission may acquire by purchase, lease, grant, or transfer the use of certain state land in the county of Mackinac for the purpose of developing and restoring as an historical site the area in or near the location where Fort deBuade o…

Sec. 76507. Except as provided in section 76504, a person who operates a motor vehicle on land within the Mackinac Island state park without a permit is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not more than 93 days or a fine of not more than $500.00, or both, plus …

Sec. 76507a. (1) A person shall not cut, peel, damage, destroy, or remove a tree or other vegetation or state property located in any park or other property under the control of the commission, without written permission from the director. (2) A person who violates subsection (1)…

Sec. 76508. The director may appoint, by and with the consent of the commission, such number of special police as the commission may by resolution direct, which special police shall be under the supervision and direction of the director, who shall be charged with the enforcement …