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MI Comp L § 247.175 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 247 - Highways|Act 368 of 1925 - Highway Obstructions and Encroachments; Use of Highway by Public Utilities (247.171 - 247.191)|Section 247.175 - Trespass Action; Pleadings and Trial.

247.175 Trespass action; pleadings and trial. Sec. 5.  The declaration in such action shall follow the order required by section 1 of this chapter, in describing such encroachment. The defendant may plead denying the encroachment in whole or in part, and may also deny the existence of a highway where such encroachment is claimed to be, but otherwise the legal existence of the highway shall not be questioned on the trial, and the fact of such encroachment, and where the true line of the highway is, shall only be tried. History: 1925, Act 368, Eff. Aug. 27, 1925 ;-- CL 1929, 4045 ;-- CL 1948, 247.175 Former Law: See section 3 of Ch. 7 of Act 283 of 1909, being CL 1915, § 4403.
MI Comp L § 247.176 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 247 - Highways|Act 368 of 1925 - Highway Obstructions and Encroachments; Use of Highway by Public Utilities (247.171 - 247.191)|Section 247.176 - Trespass Action; Trial and Verdict.

247.176 Trespass action; trial and verdict. Sec. 6.  The trial of said action may be adjourned for not to exceed 10 days. The jury shall specify in their verdict, if they find the defendant guilty of causing or maintaining the encroachment as charged, and the extent thereof, and if the existence of the highway has been denied, they shall also specify, if they find a highway to exist, whether it be such by public use or by having been regularly laid out and established as a public highway. In the trial of any cause involving the existence of any highway, the burden of proof shall be upon the contestants to show that the same has not been regularly laid out and established as a public highway, or has not become such by public use. History: 1925, Act 368, Eff. Aug. 27, 1925 ;-- CL 1929, 4046 ;-- CL 1948, 247.176 Former Law: See section 4 of Ch. 7 of Act 283 of 1909, being CL 1915, § 4404.
MI Comp L § 247.177 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 247 - Highways|Act 368 of 1925 - Highway Obstructions and Encroachments; Use of Highway by Public Utilities (247.171 - 247.191)|Section 247.177 - Trespass Action; Trial and Appeal.

247.177 Trespass action; trial and appeal. Sec. 7.  Either party may appeal to the circuit court of the proper county in the same manner that appeals are taken from justices' courts in other cases, but in case of an appeal taken by the commissioner or commissioners, he or they shall not be required to pay the costs or furnish an appeal bond. In case of such appeal, trial shall be had on the issue joined in the justice court, and in case of a judgment in any court against the commissioner or commissioners no execution shall issue, but the judgment shall be certified to the proper supervisor and the amount thereof assessed and collected as in case of judgments against townships and counties. History: 1925, Act 368, Eff. Aug. 27, 1925 ;-- CL 1929, 4047 ;-- CL 1948, 247.177 Former Law: See section 5 of Ch. 7 of Act 283 of 1909, being CL 1915, § 4405.
MI Comp L § 247.178 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 247 - Highways|Act 368 of 1925 - Highway Obstructions and Encroachments; Use of Highway by Public Utilities (247.171 - 247.191)|Section 247.178 - Encroachment; Removal by Commissioner; Penalty on Owner or Occupant for Neglect.

247.178 Encroachment; removal by commissioner; penalty on owner or occupant for neglect. Sec. 8.  In all cases of final judgment against any person for causing or maintaining an encroachment, the commissioner or commissioners may proceed to remove the same within 10 days after such judgment, in the same manner that he may do under section 2 of this chapter, where the encroachment or the existence of the highway is not denied, and the penalty prescribed in section 2 shall attach and continue from and after the expiration of the 30 days mentioned therein, until such encroachment be removed. History: 1925, Act 368, Eff. Aug. 27, 1925 ;-- CL 1929, 4048 ;-- CL 1948, 247.178 Former Law: See section 6 of Ch. 7 of Act 283 of 1909, being CL 1915, § 4406.
MI Comp L § 247.179 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 247 - Highways|Act 368 of 1925 - Highway Obstructions and Encroachments; Use of Highway by Public Utilities (247.171 - 247.191)|Section 247.179 - Encroachment; Removal, Interference, Penalty.

247.179 Encroachment; removal, interference, penalty. Sec. 9.  In all cases of final judgment against any person or persons for causing or maintaining an encroachment or obstruction upon a highway, if such person shall, subsequent to such final judgment, by force or otherwise, interfere with any commissioner or commissioners in the performance of his or their duties under this chapter, or if such person shall replace or cause to be replaced any of the encroachments or obstructions which had been removed, or in any way interfere with the said highway, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding 100 dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding 3 months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. History: 1925, Act 368, Eff. Aug. 27, 1925 ;-- CL 1929, 4049 ;-- CL 1948, 247.179 Former Law: See section 6 of Ch. 7 of Act 283 of 1909, being CL 1915, § 4406.
MI Comp L § 247.180 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 247 - Highways|Act 368 of 1925 - Highway Obstructions and Encroachments; Use of Highway by Public Utilities (247.171 - 247.191)|Section 247.180 - Loose Obstructions, Logs, or Wood; Notice to Remove; Removal; Removal by Commissioner, Sale; Proceeds, Disposition.

247.180 Loose obstructions, logs, or wood; notice to remove; removal; removal by commissioner, sale; proceeds, disposition. Sec. 10.  In case any saw logs, cordwood, or other loose obstruction shall be upon any highway, the commissioner or commissioners may notify the owner, if known, to remove the same within 2 days, and if not so removed, or the owner is unknown, the commissioner or commissioners may remove such obstruction to some convenient place, and if it has a value he or they shall hold it for 30 days subject to the order of the owner upon payment of the necessary expenses of removal, after which time he or they may sell the property removed, and such sale, notice of sale and application of the proceeds thereof shall be the same as is now required by law of constables' sale under execution, and the expense of removal, care of property and sale shall be deducted from the proceeds of sale, and the balance paid to the owner of such property, or deposited with the township clerk to be by him paid to the owner. History: 1925, Act 368, Eff. Aug. 27, 1925 ;-- CL 1929, 4050 ;-- CL 1948, 247.180 Former Law: See section 11 of Ch. 7 of Act 283 of 1909, being CL 1915, § 4411.
MI Comp L § 247.181 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 247 - Highways|Act 368 of 1925 - Highway Obstructions and Encroachments; Use of Highway by Public Utilities (247.171 - 247.191)|Section 247.181 - Loose Obstructions, Logs, or Wood; No Value, Compensation for Removing.

247.181 Loose obstructions, logs, or wood; no value, compensation for removing. Sec. 11.  In case the article or thing have no value or is not of sufficient value to pay for the removal, the commissioner or commissioners shall be entitled to compensation for the expense of removing it, and the expense of removal may be recovered from the owner in the name of the commissioner or commissioners in an action of assumpsit, or the same may be assessed upon any property of such owner and collected in the same manner as is provided in section 2 hereof. History: 1925, Act 368, Eff. Aug. 27, 1925 ;-- CL 1929, 4051 ;-- CL 1948, 247.181 Former Law: See section 11 of Ch. 7 of Act 283 of 1909, being CL 1915, § 4411.
MI Comp L § 247.182 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 247 - Highways|Act 368 of 1925 - Highway Obstructions and Encroachments; Use of Highway by Public Utilities (247.171 - 247.191)|Section 247.182 - Obstructions; Road Fence if Dangerous, Penalty.

247.182 Obstructions; road fence if dangerous, penalty. Sec. 12.  It shall hereafter be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to erect a fence along any road, of any material which, by reason of its construction or otherwise, is dangerous in itself or by reason of causing an obstruction to the highway. Any person violating the provisions hereof shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than 15 dollars, nor more than 50 dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period not exceeding 30 days or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. History: 1925, Act 368, Eff. Aug. 27, 1925 ;-- CL 1929, 4052 ;-- CL 1948, 247.182 Former Law: See section 13 of Ch. 7 of Act 283 of 1909, being CL 1915, § 4413.
MI Comp L § 247.184 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 247 - Highways|Act 368 of 1925 - Highway Obstructions and Encroachments; Use of Highway by Public Utilities (247.171 - 247.191)|Section 247.184 - Consent of County or State to Construction.

247.184 Consent of county or state to construction.Sec. 14.  (1) A person that proposes to construct a telegraph, telephone, power line or cable television line, broadband line, pipe lines, wires, cables, poles, conduits, sewers, or like structures upon, over or under a county road or bridge, shall obtain the consent of the board of county road commissioners before commencing work.   (2) A person that proposes to construct a telegraph, telephone, power line, cable television line, broadband line, pipe line, wires, cables, poles, conduits, sewers or like structures, upon, over or under a state trunk line highway, or upon, over or under any bridge that this state has participated in constructing, shall obtain the consent of the state highway commissioner before commencing work. History: 1925, Act 368, Eff. Aug. 27, 1925 ;-- CL 1929, 4054 ;-- CL 1948, 247.184 ;-- Am. 1972, Act 268, Imd. Eff. Oct. 11, 1972 ;-- Am. 2018, Act 450, Eff. Mar. 21, 2019
MI Comp L § 247.184a (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 247 - Highways|Act 368 of 1925 - Highway Obstructions and Encroachments; Use of Highway by Public Utilities (247.171 - 247.191)|Section 247.184a - Surveillance of Occupied Manhole; Exceptions; Training and Duties of Second Employee.

247.184a Surveillance of occupied manhole; exceptions; training and duties of second employee. Sec. 14a.  (1) A person shall not enter a manhole being constructed or being used for repairs to underground utilities or remain inside of the opening unless a person is providing alert surveillance, except that a new manhole under construction is exempted if adequate steps are taken to insure safe working conditions.  (2) A person, firm, or corporation authorized or permitted to construct or repair underground facilities by access through a manhole shall provide alert surveillance until the manhole cover is in place and no person remains in the underground facility. The second employee shall be trained in safety and first aid practices and shall be responsible for alert surveillance of the occupied manhole to afford immediate action in emergencies. The second employee could also perform other duties either above grade or in the manhole provided they did not interfere with the employees surveillance duties. This section does not preclude an employee trained in safety practices, in the absence of a second employee, from entering a manhole for a brief period of time not in excess of 20 minutes for purposes such as inspections, housekeeping, taking readings, or similar work, provided adequate steps have been taken to insure safe working conditions. History: Add. 1978, Act 287, Imd. Eff. July 7, 1978
MI Comp L § 247.185 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 247 - Highways|Act 368 of 1925 - Highway Obstructions and Encroachments; Use of Highway by Public Utilities (247.171 - 247.191)|Section 247.185 - Paramount Rights of Public; Injury to Trees and Shrubs; Regulation of Rights.

247.185 Paramount rights of public; injury to trees and shrubs; regulation of rights. Sec. 15.  The construction and maintenance of all such telegraph, telephone and power lines, cable television lines, pipe lines, wires, cables, poles, conduits, sewers and like structures shall be subject to the paramount right of the public to use such public places, roads, bridges and waters, and shall not interfere with other public uses thereof and nothing herein contained shall be construed to authorize any telegraph, telephone, power, or other public utility company, cable television company or municipality to cut, destroy, or in anywise injure any tree or shrub planted within any highway right of way or along the margin thereof, or purposely left there for shade or ornament or to bridge across any of the waters of this state. Nor shall anything in this section or sections 13 and 14 be construed to grant any rights whatsoever to any public utilities or cable television companies whatsoever, nor to impair anywise any existing rights granted in accordance with the constitution or laws of this state, but shall be construed as a regulation of the exercise of all such rights. History: 1925, Act 368, Eff. Aug. 27, 1925 ;-- CL 1929, 4055 ;-- CL 1948, 247.185 ;-- Am. 1972, Act 268, Imd. Eff. Oct. 11, 1972
MI Comp L § 247.186 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 247 - Highways|Act 368 of 1925 - Highway Obstructions and Encroachments; Use of Highway by Public Utilities (247.171 - 247.191)|Section 247.186 - Public Utility; Placing Poles, Fixtures, Wires, or Cables.

247.186 Public utility; placing poles, fixtures, wires, or cables. Sec. 16.  In no case shall any poles or other structures be placed above the ground or road grade between the curb or road shoulder lines, or closer than 15 feet from the center line of the roadway; and in no case shall any wires, cables or other fixtures be placed, or be permitted to remain, at less height than 15 feet above any part of the traveled portion of the road. History: 1925, Act 368, Eff. Aug. 27, 1925 ;-- CL 1929, 4056 ;-- CL 1948, 247.186 Former Law: See section 8 of Ch. 7 of Act 283 of 1909, being CL 1915, § 4408.
MI Comp L § 247.187 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 247 - Highways|Act 368 of 1925 - Highway Obstructions and Encroachments; Use of Highway by Public Utilities (247.171 - 247.191)|Section 247.187 - Encroachments; Removal, Expense of Removal by Commissioner.

247.187 Encroachments; removal, expense of removal by commissioner. Sec. 17.  Any person or persons, firm, corporation or municipality violating any of the provisions of this chapter, shall, upon written demand of the commissioner or commissioners having jurisdiction over the road, remove such encroachments, pipe lines, wires, cables, poles, conduits, sewers and like structures. If removal be not made within 30 days thereafter, then the said commissioner or commissioners shall have the right to remove the same and the person, persons, firm or corporation or municipality so violating, shall be liable for the amount of expense incurred in making such removal, to be collected in an action of assumpsit, or assessed upon the property of such person, persons, firm or corporation and collected in the same manner as other taxes are assessed and collected. History: 1925, Act 368, Eff. Aug. 27, 1925 ;-- CL 1929, 4057 ;-- CL 1948, 247.187 Former Law: See section 9 of Ch. 7 of Act 283 of 1909, being CL 1915, § 4409.
MI Comp L § 247.188 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 247 - Highways|Act 368 of 1925 - Highway Obstructions and Encroachments; Use of Highway by Public Utilities (247.171 - 247.191)|Section 247.188 - Obstructions to Traffic; Moving; Permit, Bond; Penalty.

247.188 Obstructions to traffic; moving; permit, bond; penalty. Sec. 18.  No building, or other obstruction to traffic shall be moved across, upon or along any road without consent being first obtained from the commissioner or commissioners having jurisdiction over the road, and without first executing to such commissioner or commissioners, a bond in an amount sufficient to cover all possible damage to the road on account of such moving, to be determined by the commissioner or commissioners aforesaid, and conditioned for the payment of all such damage or injury to the road on account of such moving. Any person violating the provisions hereof shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not to exceed 100 dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail for not to exceed 30 days or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. History: 1925, Act 368, Eff. Aug. 27, 1925 ;-- CL 1929, 4058 ;-- CL 1948, 247.188
MI Comp L § 247.189 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 247 - Highways|Act 368 of 1925 - Highway Obstructions and Encroachments; Use of Highway by Public Utilities (247.171 - 247.191)|Section 247.189 - Repealed. 2020, Act 264, Eff. Mar. 29, 2021.

247.189 Repealed. 2020, Act 264, Eff. Mar. 29, 2021. Compiler's Notes: The repealed section pertained to obstructions to traffic, removal, and penalties.
MI Comp L § 247.190 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 247 - Highways|Act 368 of 1925 - Highway Obstructions and Encroachments; Use of Highway by Public Utilities (247.171 - 247.191)|Section 247.190 - Width of Highway; Encroachment Does Not Give Right to Land.

247.190 Width of highway; encroachment does not give right to land. Sec. 20.  All public highways for which the right of way has at any time been dedicated, given or purchased, shall be and remain a highway of the width so dedicated, given or purchased, and no encroachments by fences, buildings or otherwise which may have been made since the purchase, dedication or gift nor any encroachments which were within the limits of such right of way at the time of such purchase, dedication or gift, and no encroachments which may hereafter be made, shall give the party or parties, firm or corporation so encroaching, any title or right to the land so encroached upon. History: 1925, Act 368, Eff. Aug. 27, 1925 ;-- CL 1929, 4060 ;-- CL 1948, 247.190
MI Comp L § 247.191 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 247 - Highways|Act 368 of 1925 - Highway Obstructions and Encroachments; Use of Highway by Public Utilities (247.171 - 247.191)|Section 247.191 - Act Inapplicable to Encroachments and Obstructions Erected Under MCL 257.1701 Et Seq.

247.191 Act inapplicable to encroachments and obstructions erected under MCL 257.1701 et seq. Sec. 21.  This act does not apply to encroachments and obstructions erected under the city motor vehicle racing act of 1981. History: Add. 1981, Act 176, Imd. Eff. Dec. 14, 1981
MI Comp L § 247.201 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 247 - Highways|Act 393 of 1913 - Private Roads (247.201 - 247.201)|Section 247.201 - Private Roads; Ingress and Egress, Application.

247.201 Private roads; ingress and egress, application. Sec. 1.  When lands owned in different descriptions by the same person, copartnership or corporation, and are contiguous at the corners or as more fully described at the points of intersection of description lines projected, a private road may be secured across the adjacent lands, not to exceed 12 feet on each side of the point of intersection, or a passage way of 24 feet permitting ingress and egress. Application for such easement shall be made by the owner of such land contiguous at the corners, in writing to the highway commissioner of the township who shall act on such application in the manner prescribed in chapter 9 of Act No. 283 of the Public Acts of 1909, entitled "An act to revise, consolidate and add to the laws relating to the establishment, opening, improvement, maintenance and use of the public highways and private roads, the condemnation of property and gravel therefor; the building, repairing and preservation of bridges; setting and protecting shade trees, drainage, cutting weeds and brush within this state, and providing for the election and defining the powers, duties and compensation of state, county, township and district highway officials." History: 1913, Act 393, Eff. Aug. 14, 1913 ;-- CL 1915, 4860 ;-- CL 1929, 4073 ;-- CL 1948, 247.201 Compiler's Notes: For provisions of chapter 9 of Act 283 of 1909, referred to in this section, see MCL 229.1 et seq.
MI Comp L § 247.211 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 247 - Highways|Act 172 of 1915 - Roads to Isolated Lands (247.211 - 247.211)|Section 247.211 - Isolated Lands; Road Established, Width, Record.

247.211 Isolated lands; road established, width, record. Sec. 1.  Owners of isolated lands, where the same are platted or subdivided into lots for residence purposes or lake resort homes and where said plat or subdivision shall have been duly recorded in the office of the register of deeds of the county wherein such lands are located, shall have the right to acquire in the same manner as provided by Act No. 283 of the Public Acts of 1909, for the establishment, opening and maintenance of private or public roads, a roadway leading to the streets on said plat from the nearest public highway across the lands adjacent to said plat or subdivision by the most feasible route. Said roadway shall be not less than 2 rods wide and when so acquired may be dedicated to the public for use as a highway by the owner or owners of said plat or subdivision. The survey or conveyance showing title to said roadway shall be recorded in the office of the register of deeds of the county wherein said land lies. History: 1915, Act 172, Imd. Eff. May 11, 1915 ;-- CL 1915, 4861 ;-- CL 1929, 4074 ;-- CL 1948, 247.211 Compiler's Notes: For provisions of Act 283 of 1909, referred to in this section, see MCL 220.1 et seq.