2006 Michigan Compiled Laws - Mich. Comp. Laws § 750.501 Gasoline filling stations and public automobile garages.

Sec. 501.

Gasoline filling stations and public automobile garages—Any person who shall build or construct, in any city having a population of more than 50,000 inhabitants and less than 100,000 inhabitants, on any site where 80 per cent of the buildings within a radius of 400 feet of the proposed site are used exclusively for residential purposes, any building for use as a public gasoline filling station for the sale of gasoline and oil, or either of them, to supply motor vehicles, or any public automobile garage, without filing with the clerk of said city the written consent of 60 per cent of the property owners according to total frontage on any public street within a radius of 400 feet of the proposed site of said building, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor: Provided, however, In the event any city has a building ordinance or regulates and restricts the location of trades and industries and the location of buildings under Act No. 207 of the Public Acts of 1921 and acts and parts of acts amendatory thereof, being sections 2633 to 2641 inclusive of the Compiled Laws of 1929, this section shall not apply to such city.

History: 1931, Act 328, Eff. Sept. 18, 1931 ;-- CL 1948, 750.501
Compiler's Notes: For provisions of Act 207 of 1921, referred to in this section, see § 125.581 et seq.