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Chapter 247 - Highways
Act 368 of 1925 HIGHWAY OBSTRUCTIONS AND ENCROACHMENTS; USE OF HIGHWAY BY PUBLIC UTILITIES (247.171 - 247.191)
AN ACT to prohibit obstructions and encroachments on public highways, to provide for the removal thereof, to prescribe the conditions under which telegraph, telephone, power, and other public utility companies, cable television companies and municipalities may enter upon, construct and maintain telegraph, telephone, power or cable television lines, pipe lines, wires, cables, poles, conduits, sewers and like structures upon, over, across or under public roads, bridges, streets and waters and to provide penalties for the violation of this act.
History: 1925, Act 368, Eff. Aug. 27, 1925 ;-- Am. 1972, Act 268, Imd. Eff. Oct. 11, 1972
- Section 247.171 Encroachments; removal order, service; temporary permit.
- Section 247.171a Rights-of-way, bridges, towers, and welcome centers; use to provide travel-related information through electronic technologies.
- Section 247.172 Encroachments; removal by commissioner, penalty, expense charged to occupant, collection by tax; limitation.
- Section 247.173 Encroachments; denied, notice to commissioner; trespass action.
- Section 247.174 Trespass action; brought by commissioner.
- Section 247.175 Trespass action; pleadings and trial.
- Section 247.176 Trespass action; trial and verdict.
- Section 247.177 Trespass action; trial and appeal.
- Section 247.178 Encroachment; removal by commissioner; penalty on owner or occupant for neglect.
- Section 247.179 Encroachment; removal, interference, penalty.
- Section 247.180 Loose obstructions, logs, or wood; notice to remove; removal; removal by commissioner, sale; proceeds, disposition.
- Section 247.181 Loose obstructions, logs, or wood; no value, compensation for removing.
- Section 247.182 Obstructions; road fence if dangerous, penalty.
- Section 247.183 Public utilities, cable television companies, and municipalities; construction and maintenance of structures; consent of governing body; construction and maintenance of utility lines and structures longitudinally within limited access highway rights-of-way; standards; charges; use of revenue; use of electronic devices within limited access and rights-of-way to provide travel-related information.
- Section 247.184 Consent of county or state to construction.
- Section 247.184a Surveillance of occupied manhole; exceptions; training and duties of second employee.
- Section 247.185 Paramount rights of public; injury to trees and shrubs; regulation of rights.
- Section 247.186 Public utility; placing poles, fixtures, wires, or cables.
- Section 247.187 Encroachments; removal, expense of removal by commissioner.
- Section 247.188 Obstructions to traffic; moving; permit, bond; penalty.
- Section 247.189 Obstructions to traffic; left in roadway, penalty.
- Section 247.190 Width of highway; encroachment does not give right to land.
- Section 247.191 Act inapplicable to encroachments and obstructions erected under MCL 257.1701 et seq.
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