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Mich. Comp. Laws § 225.14 State department; office and equipment.
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Sec. 14. There shall be assigned to the state highway commissioner, by the board of state auditors, suitable rooms at Lansing, and at such other cities as the state highway commissioner and board of state auditors may determine, for the conducting of the business of the state hig…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 225.2 Ridesharing programs; administration; duties; appropriation.
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Sec. 2. (1) The department of state highways and transportation shall administer ridesharing programs in the state and shall do all of the following: (a) Develop a comprehensive state ridesharing program. The program shall examine and recommend application of various ridesharing …
Mich. Comp. Laws § 225.2b Commissioner to control state roads; condemnation, construction and improvement of drains.
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Sec. 2b. The state highway commissioner is hereby invested with full charge and control over roads heretofore or hereafter built or maintained by the state; and shall have the same authority to purchase or condemn land for highway purposes including lands containing gravel, stone…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 225.3 Road institute; time; place; conducting business at public meeting; notice; duties of delegates; per diem and expenses.
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Sec. 3. If considered advisable by the state highway commission, the highway commissioners of the townships of this state, and the county highway commissioners in counties working under the county road law, shall meet annually in a road institute, at a time and place as the state…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 229.1 Application for private road; notice.
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Sec. 1. When an application is made to the township supervisor for a private road, he shall give notice in writing to the owner or occupant of the land over which the road is proposed to be laid out, to meet on a day and at a place certain, which shall not be more than 10 nor les…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 229.10 Temporary highways; winter use.
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Sec. 10. In case such highway is only to be used in the winter time such facts shall be set up in the application and also in the finding of the jury or commissioners, and this shall be taken into consideration in awarding damages to the owners of the land crossed.
Mich. Comp. Laws § 229.11 Appeal; affidavit; bond; fees; procedure; certification of judgment; costs; stay of proceedings.
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Sec. 11. Any party in interest may appeal from the determination of the jury or commissioners in any proceedings under this chapter to the circuit court for the county, within 30 days, by filing with the township clerk an affidavit made by himself, his agent or attorney, stating …
Mich. Comp. Laws § 229.2 Jury; formation; citation; conducting business at public meeting; notice.
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Sec. 2. At the time and place designated for selecting a jury the township supervisor shall direct a disinterested person to record the names of 12 disinterested property owners, from which the owner or occupant of the land to be crossed by the road and the applicant for the road…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 229.3 Jury; oath, duty.
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Sec. 3. Such freeholders, when met, shall be sworn by the commissioner well and truly to examine in regard to the necessity of such road, and in case they shall decide that such road is necessary, to justly and impartially appraise the damages of the owner or owners, or occupant …
Mich. Comp. Laws § 229.4 Certificate of determination; appraisal of damages; laying out road; recordation.
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Sec. 4. If the jury determines that the road applied for is necessary, they shall make and subscribe a certificate of the determination and their appraisal of the damages, and shall deliver the same to the township supervisor who shall thereupon lay out the road, describing the s…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 229.5 Payment of damages and expenses.
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Sec. 5. The damages awarded to the owner or occupant of the land through which the road is laid, together with the expenses of the proceedings, shall be paid to the township supervisor by the person applying for the road, which damages shall be paid or tendered by the supervisor …
Mich. Comp. Laws § 229.6 Width of road; use, purpose.
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Sec. 6. Private roads shall not be less than 1 rod in width, and when laid out as above provided, shall be for the use of the applicant, his heirs and assigns, but not to be converted to any other use or purpose than that of a road; but the owner or occupant of the land through w…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 229.7 Temporary highway; application; proceedings.
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Sec. 7. Whenever an owner of any timbered land, not less than 40 acres, shall wish to have a temporary highway laid out, over which a logging railroad may be operated on conditions hereinafter stated, he may in writing make application to the township supervisor of the proper tow…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 229.8 Temporary highway; notice; determinations; duration; logging railroad prohibited.
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Sec. 8. When an application shall be made, the township supervisor in which the road is to be located, shall give notice in writing to the owner and occupant of the land in substantially the same manner as provided in section 1 for the purpose of aiding in the striking of a jury …
Mich. Comp. Laws § 229.9 Owner's consent to highway or logging railroad; temporary highway deemed private highway; payment of expenses and damages; cutting trees.
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Sec. 9. A highway or logging railroad shall not be laid out along or upon any road made or caused to be made by the owner of any land or by any person with the consent of the owner and used by the person who made the same, unless the owner consents thereto in writing. Such tempor…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 230.4 Obstruction of navigable stream, highway drain or water course; forfeiture.
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Sec. 4. Whoever shall wilfully obstruct the navigation of any river or stream, which is now or may hereafter be declared a public highway, by felling any tree therein or by putting into any such river or stream any refuse lumber, slabs, or other waste materials, or who shall wilf…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 230.5 Mile-stone, guide-post; wilful destruction or injury; penalty.
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Sec. 5. Whoever shall wilfully destroy, remove, injure, or deface any mile-stone, mile-board, guide-post, or guide-board erected on any highway, or shall wilfully injure or deface any inscription or device placed thereupon, or who shall wilfully injure or deface any watering-trou…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 230.6 Trees or shrubs; wilful destruction or injury; civil liability.
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Sec. 6. Any person who shall wilfully injure, deface, tear, or destroy any tree or shrub planted along the margin of the highway, or purposely left there for shade or ornament, or who shall hitch any horse to any such tree, by means of which the same shall suffer injury, or who s…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 230.7 Injury to bridges; treble damages.
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Sec. 7. A person that injures a bridge maintained at public expense, or a public road, by drawing logs or timber on the surface of the road or bridge, or by any other act, is liable in damages to 3 times the amount of the injury, to be recovered in a civil action, brought by the …
Mich. Comp. Laws § 230.8 Trees felled in highway; removal, failure, forfeiture.
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Sec. 8. If any trees shall fall or be fallen by any person from any occupied land into any highway, any person may give notice to the occupant of the land from which such trees shall have fallen to remove the same in 2 days, and if such trees shall not be removed within that time…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 233.14 Ferry landings; deemed public highways.
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Sec. 14. Ferry landings shall be deemed public highways, and may be laid out, constructed, maintained, altered, or discontinued in the same manner, and shall in all respects be subject to the same regulations, so far as they may be applicable, as other public highways and bridges…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 235.1 Drain in public highway; release of right-of-way, damages.
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Sec. 1. Drains may be laid along and within the limits of or across any public highway: Provided, That when it is proposed to construct a drain in whole or in part along a public highway, the owners of the land abutting on the side of the highway along which such drain is propose…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 235.2 Drain in public highways; bridges and culverts; construction strength, apportionment and payment of cost, maintenance by property owner.
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Sec. 2. When any drain crosses a highway, the necessary bridge or culvert shall be constructed on the center line of the highway as located by survey, and in accordance with plans and specifications which shall be approved by the county, township or district highway commissioner …
Mich. Comp. Laws § 235.3 Open drain in highways; consent of commissioner, location, disposition of earth.
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Sec. 3. Before an open drain shall be laid along a public highway, the highway commissioner of the township in which the drain is located shall be consulted and his consent as to the proposed location of the drain shall be obtained in writing, stipulating that no excavation may b…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 235.4 Open drain in highway; drain commissioner to apportion costs.
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Sec. 4. The county drain commissioner shall apportion the per centum of the cost of construction of such drain which any township traversed or benefited thereby shall be liable to pay by reason of the benefit to the public health, convenience or welfare, or as the means of improv…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 235.5 Drain across adjacent land; acquisition of right-of-way, approval of board, deed.
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Sec. 5. Whenever it is necessary or more convenient for the proper drainage of any highway in this state that the surplus water be taken onto or across the land adjacent thereto, the highway commissioner of the township in which said highway is situated, may secure the right of w…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 235.6 Report to township electors; contents; highway drain fund, use of surplus.
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Sec. 6. The highway commissioner shall report to the electors of the township at their annual meeting the amount of money expended by him during the year for such highway drainage, specifying the amount expended on each drain. He shall also recommend the raising of such sums as h…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 235.7 Report on construction; contents, filing; powers limited to highway drainage.
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Sec. 7. On the completion by the highway commissioner of any drain constructed under the provisions of this act, it shall be the duty of said highway commissioner to file in the office of the county drain commissioner a detailed report of the construction of such drain, giving th…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 235.8 Failure to secure right-of-way; application to drain commissioner, procedure; jurisdiction.
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Sec. 8. In case the highway commissioner cannot secure the right of way across adjacent lands for the construction of any drain by agreement with the owner or owners of the land through which it will pass, he may make under his name of office an application to the drain commissio…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 235.8a Detour roads; expense.
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Sec. 8a. In case it shall be deemed necessary by the state highway commissioner or by the county road commissioners of any county where such drain or other public improvement is under construction to lay out and maintain a detour road for the safety and convenience of public trav…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 239.1 Culverts or cattle-passes; construction, permission, cost.
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Sec. 1. It shall be lawful for all persons owning land on opposite sides of any public highway to construct culverts or cattle-passes under such highways: Provided, That formal application is made to, and permission obtained from the commissioner of highways of the township in wh…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 239.2 Culverts or cattle-passes; material of construction.
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Sec. 2. Such culverts or cattle-passes, when constructed, shall be of such material and according to such plan as the commissioner of highways shall direct.
Mich. Comp. Laws § 239.3 Culverts or cattle-passes; failure to repair, removal, cost.
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Sec. 3. In case any such applicant, heirs or assigns shall fail to keep his culvert or cattle-pass already constructed, or hereafter to be constructed, in good repair, it shall be the duty of such highway commissioner to remove such culvert or cattle-pass from such highway at the…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 239.4 Culverts or cattle-passes; record.
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Sec. 4. A record of such culverts or cattle-passes, and of all proceedings relating thereto, shall be kept in the manner substantially as is provided for the record of private roads.
Mich. Comp. Laws § 239.5 Hedges; care, removal of brush; cities excepted.
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Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of every owner, occupant or person having charge of lands in this state, to cut or trim, or cause to be cut or trimmed, to a height not exceeding 4 1/2 feet and a width not exceeding 3 feet, all hedges or hedge rows along or on the public highway or a…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 239.6 Hedges; penalty for neglect.
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Sec. 6. Any owner, occupant or person having charge of lands who shall fail to comply with the provisions of this act, on conviction before a court of competent jurisdiction, shall be punished by a fine not more than 10 dollars, together with the cost of prosecution, and in defau…