2012 Michigan Compiled Laws
Chapter 483 — OIL, GAS, AND BRINE LINES
Act 16 of 1929 — CRUDE OIL AND PETROLEUM (483.1 - 483.11)
Section 483.4 — Common purchaser; definition, purchase without discrimination.

Sec. 4.

Every corporation, association or person, now or hereafter claiming or exercising the right to carry or transport crude oil or petroleum or any of the products thereof, by pipe line or pipe lines, for hire, compensation, or otherwise, within the limits of this state, as owner, lessee, licensee, or by virtue of any other right or claim, or now engaged or hereafter engaging in the business of purchasing or storing crude oil or petroleum, shall be a common purchaser thereof, and shall purchase all the petroleum in the vicinity of, or which may be reasonably reached by its pipe lines, or gathering branches, without discrimination in favor of 1 producer or 1 person as against another, and shall fully perform all the duties of a common purchaser; but if it shall be unable to perform the same, or be legally excused from purchasing, transporting or storing all of the petroleum produced, then it shall purchase, transport or store petroleum from each person and producer ratably, in proportion to the average daily production, and such common purchasers are hereby expressly prohibited from discriminating in price or amount for like grades of oil or facilities as between producers or persons; and in the event it is likewise a producer, it is hereby prohibited from discriminating in favor of its own production, or storage, or production or storage in which it may be interested directly or indirectly in whole or in part, and its own production and storage shall be treated as that of any other person or producer.

History: 1929, Act 16, Imd. Eff. Mar. 27, 1929 ;-- CL 1929, 11655 ;-- CL 1948, 483.4