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• Repealed - Consolidation of Township and County Road Systems (247.1 - 247.13) - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Repealed - Snow Removal on County Roads (247.21 - 247.25) - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Repealed - Waterways on Overflowed Lands (247.31 - 247.33) - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Highway Bordering on Lake or Stream; Abandonment, Discontinuation, Alteration, or Vacation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.41
  A public highway or a portion of a public highway that borders upon, crosses, is adjacent to, or ends at a lake, or the...
• Highway Bordering on Lake or Stream; Application Signed by Landowners - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.42
  If the official or officials having jurisdiction over the highways of a village or city in this state desire to abandon, discontinue, vacate, or...
• Highway Bordering on Lake or Stream; Hearing; Notice; Publication; Posting; Service - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.43
  Upon the filing of an application required by section 2, the presiding circuit judge shall schedule a hearing on the application not later than...
• Highway Bordering on Lake or Stream; Court Order; Operation and Maintenance of Property; Effect of Noncompliance With Subsection (3); Reopening Road Ending; Closure; Initiation of Proceedings - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.44
  (1) Upon the day of hearing the application or any adjournment of the hearing, testimony may be taken from any person or persons interested...
• Highway Bordering on Lake or Stream; Appeal - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.45
  The proceedings required by section 4 are subject to appeal by a taxpayer of the village or city in which the highway is situated....
• "adjacent" and "highway" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.46
  As used in this act: (a) "Adjacent" includes any highway, or portion of a highway, lying within 5 rods of the shore of any...
• Repealed - Noxious Weeds, Wild Grass, or Foul Seeds (247.51 - 247.52) - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Commissioner of Noxious Weeds; Appointment, Term, Removal, Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.61
  The governing body of any city, village or township may appoint a competent person to be the commissioner of noxious weeds who shall take...
• Noxious Weeds; Definition - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.62
  For the purpose of this act, "noxious weeds" includes Canada thistle (Cirsium arvense), dodders (any species of Cuscuta), mustards (charlock, black mustard, and Indian...
• Noxious Weeds; Eradication; Duty of Commissioner - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.63
  The commissioner of noxious weeds shall diligently inquire concerning the introduction and existence of noxious weeds in his township, city or village and if...
• Destruction of Noxious Weeds; Duty of Owner, Commissioner, Agent, and Department of Natural Resources and Environment; Notice; Ordinance; Resolution; Expenses; Lien; Penalty; Exceptions; Action in Court of Claims - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.64
  (1) The owner of land on which noxious weeds are found growing shall destroy the weeds before they reach a seed bearing stage and...
• Cutting of Weeds by Township, City, or Village; Publication of Notice; Charging Cost to Owner; Provisions Inapplicable to Railroads - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.64a
  (1) Instead of the notice required by section 4, the township, city, or village may publish a notice in a newspaper of general circulation...
• Noxious Weeds; Means of Eradication; Limitation of Expense - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.65
  The commissioner shall apply the best known means, and use the utmost diligence, in eradicating noxious weeds; but he shall not have power to...
• Noxious Weeds; Prosecution of Violators of Act - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.66
  It shall be the duty of the commissioner to prosecute or complain to the proper authorities of any person or corporation who may violate...
• Commissioner; Annual Report, Contents - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.67
  The commissioner shall, annually, before the first day of December, make a written report to the department of agriculture and to the body by...
• Department of Agriculture; Duty to Enforce Law; Cooperation With Commissioners - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.68
  The department of agriculture is authorized and it shall be its duty to assist in the enforcement of this law. The department shall cooperate...
• Board of Supervisors; Auditing Accounts of Commissioner; Payment - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.69
  The board of supervisors or other official body appointing any commissioner shall audit the accounts of the commissioner, both for his services and for...
• County Board of Commissioners; Appropriation; Powers; Penalties; Jurisdiction - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.70
  (1) The county board of commissioners may make an appropriation from the county treasury to aid in destroying the noxious weeds in a town...
• Railroads; Failure to Comply, Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.71
  If any company, association or person owning, controlling or operating a railroad shall refuse or neglect to dig up and destroy, or take other...
• Highways; Noxious Weeds; Duty of Officials to Prevent Growth - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.72
  It shall be the duty of the state highway commissioner to prevent all noxious weeds as defined in this act from growing within the...
• Repealed - Abolition of Board of County Road Commissioners (247.101 - 247.103) - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Repealed - Highway Expenditures in Platted Portion of Unincorporated Villages (247.111 - 247.111) - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Transfer of Surplus Funds - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.121
  If a county operating under the county road system of this state has a surplus in the general fund, the board of commissioners of...
• Repealed - Township Roads (247.131 - 247.142) - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Repealed - State Reward Roads; Bonds (247.151 - 247.151) - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Repealed - State Reward Roads; Limitation (247.161 - 247.161) - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Encroachments; Removal Order, Service; Temporary Permit - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.171
  In every case where a public highway has been or shall be encroached upon by any fence, building, or other encroachment, the commissioner or...
• Rights - of - Way, Bridges, Towers, and Welcome Centers; Use to Provide Travel - Related Information Through Electronic Technologies - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.171a
  This act does not prohibit the use of rights-of-way, bridges, towers, welcome centers, and rest stops to provide through the use of electronic technologies,...
• Encroachments; Removal by Commissioner, Penalty, Expense Charged to Occupant, Collection by Tax; Limitation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.172
  If such encroachment shall not be removed within 30 days after the service of a copy of such order, such owner or occupant shall...
• Encroachments; Denied, Notice to Commissioner; Trespass Action - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.173
  If the person upon whom the copy of such order shall be served at any time before the expiration of said 30 days, by...
• Trespass Action; Brought by Commissioner - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.174
  Such action shall be brought by the commissioner or commissioners in his or their name of office, claiming nominal damages only in the sum...
• Trespass Action; Pleadings and Trial - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.175
  The declaration in such action shall follow the order required by section 1 of this chapter, in describing such encroachment. The defendant may plead...
• Trespass Action; Trial and Verdict - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.176
  The trial of said action may be adjourned for not to exceed 10 days. The jury shall specify in their verdict, if they find...
• Trespass Action; Trial and Appeal - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.177
  Either party may appeal to the circuit court of the proper county in the same manner that appeals are taken from justices' courts in...
• Encroachment; Removal by Commissioner; Penalty on Owner or Occupant for Neglect - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.178
  In all cases of final judgment against any person for causing or maintaining an encroachment, the commissioner or commissioners may proceed to remove the...
• Encroachment; Removal, Interference, Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.179
  In all cases of final judgment against any person or persons for causing or maintaining an encroachment or obstruction upon a highway, if such...
• Loose Obstructions, Logs, or Wood; Notice to Remove; Removal; Removal by Commissioner, Sale; Proceeds, Disposition - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.180
  In case any saw logs, cordwood, or other loose obstruction shall be upon any highway, the commissioner or commissioners may notify the owner, if...
• Loose Obstructions, Logs, or Wood; No Value, Compensation for Removing - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.181
  In case the article or thing have no value or is not of sufficient value to pay for the removal, the commissioner or commissioners...
• Obstructions; Road Fence if Dangerous, Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.182
  It shall hereafter be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to erect a fence along any road, of any material which, by reason...
• 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 - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.183
  (1) Except as otherwise provided under subsection (2), telegraph, telephone, power, and other public utility companies, cable television companies, and municipalities may enter upon,...
• Consent of County or State to Construction - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.184
  In case it is proposed to construct a telegraph, telephone, power line or cable television line, pipe lines, wires, cables, poles, conduits, sewers, or...
• Surveillance of Occupied Manhole; Exceptions; Training and Duties of Second Employee - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.184a
  (1) A person shall not enter a manhole being constructed or being used for repairs to underground utilities or remain inside of the opening...
• Paramount Rights of Public; Injury to Trees and Shrubs; Regulation of Rights - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.185
  The construction and maintenance of all such telegraph, telephone and power lines, cable television lines, pipe lines, wires, cables, poles, conduits, sewers and like...
• Public Utility; Placing Poles, Fixtures, Wires, or Cables - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.186
  In no case shall any poles or other structures be placed above the ground or road grade between the curb or road shoulder lines,...
• Encroachments; Removal, Expense of Removal by Commissioner - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.187
  Any person or persons, firm, corporation or municipality violating any of the provisions of this chapter, shall, upon written demand of the commissioner or...
• Obstructions to Traffic; Moving; Permit, Bond; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.188
  No building, or other obstruction to traffic shall be moved across, upon or along any road without consent being first obtained from the commissioner...
• Obstructions to Traffic; Left in Roadway, Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.189
  If any building or other obstruction as aforesaid shall, in the process of moving, be left in the highway so as to interfere with...
• Width of Highway; Encroachment Does Not Give Right to Land - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.190
  All public highways for which the right of way has at any time been dedicated, given or purchased, shall be and remain a highway...
• Act Inapplicable to Encroachments and Obstructions Erected Under Mcl 257.1701 et Seq - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.191
  This act does not apply to encroachments and obstructions erected under the city motor vehicle racing act of 1981.
• Private Roads; Ingress and Egress, Application - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.201
  When lands owned in different descriptions by the same person, copartnership or corporation, and are contiguous at the corners or as more fully described...
• Isolated Lands; Road Established, Width, Record - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.211
  Owners of isolated lands, where the same are platted or subdivided into lots for residence purposes or lake resort homes and where said plat...
• Temporary Road for Transportation of Forest Products - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.221
  Whenever any owner of any timber, logs, lumber, wood, poles, bark, ties or other forest products shall wish to have a temporary highway laid...
• Repealed - Planting of Trees (247.231 - 247.235) - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Trees or Shrubs; Unlawful Cutting, Destruction; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.241
  It shall be unlawful to cut, destroy or otherwise injure any shade or ornamental tree or shrub growing within the limits of any public...
• Trees or Shrubs; Planting and Protection - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.242
  The state highway commissioner is hereby authorized and empowered as a part of the maintenance of trunk line and federal aided roads to protect...
• Repealed - Claims for Labor and Materials (247.251 - 247.251) - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Repealed - Township Highway and Bridge Funds (247.261 - 247.264) - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Repealed - Marking Highways; Signs (247.271 - 247.281) - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Closing Highways or Bridges for Construction or Repair; Barriers; Highway, Definition - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.291
  The officials in charge of constructing, improving or repairing highways may close any highway or portion thereof, which is under process of construction, improvement...
• Closing of Highways or Bridges for Construction or Repair; Detours, Notices, Removal of Barriers on Completion of Work - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.292
  No highway shall be closed under the provisions of this act until suitable detours around the same, or the closed portion thereof, are provided...
• Refusal to Provide Barriers; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.293
  Any highway official who shall neglect or refuse to provide suitable barriers and suitable detours or to remove barriers and signs as herein provided,...
• Repealed - Traffic Signs, Signals, and Guide Posts (247.301 - 247.306) - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Highways; Definition - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.311
  The word "highways" as used in this act shall include without limitation all state, county and township highways and roads and all highways, streets,...
• Automatic or Mechanically Operated Barricading Devices - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.312
  A public authority having jurisdiction and control over any highway in this state that determines that the safety of persons and property require the...
• Barricading Devices on Highway; Automatic; Warning Signs, Size, Wording, Distance - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.313
  Whenever such barricading device shall be constructed, installed, operated or maintained, the public authorities having jurisdiction and control over the highway at any such...
• Barricading Devices; Expense - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.314
  The public authorities, or the political subdivision of the state, having jurisdiction and control over any highway, in which such device is constructed, installed,...
• Driveways, Banners and Parades on Highways; Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.321
  As used in this act: (a) "Driveway" means a driveway, lane, road or any other way providing vehicular access to or from the highway...
• Permit; Requirement, Local Ordinances - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.322
  No driveway, banner or parade is lawful except pursuant to a permit issued in accordance with this act unless otherwise provided. Nothing in this...
• Permits to Temporarily Close Highway and for Banners, Decorations, or Similar Objects; Issuance; Requests; Arrangements for Handling Highway Traffic; Section Inapplicable to Racing Event - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.323
  A permit to temporarily close a highway, or a portion of the highway, for a parade, celebration, festival, or similar activity, and a permit...
• Permit; Driveways; Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.324
  Permits for driveways shall be granted in conformity with rules promulgated by the highway authority which shall be consistent with the public safety and...
• Rules; Local Adoption - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.325
  The department of state highways shall make rules necessary for the administration of this act in accordance with the provisions of Act No. 88...
• Permit; Issuance Requirements; Revocation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.326
  A permit shall not be issued unless all the requirements of this act, and of rules made pursuant to section 5, are met. A...
• Existing Driveways; Correction of Driveway in Violation of Rules; Notice; Failure to Correct; Reimbursement - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.327
  This act shall not apply to driveways in existence on August 6, 1969, except that if the use of the land served by the...
• Construction of Act - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.328
  Nothing in this act shall limit the right of the highway authority in the exercise of its authority to acquire property for highway purposes...
• Authorization of City or Village to Issue Permits With Respect to State Trunk Line Highways; Conditions; Permit Issued by City Pursuant to Mcl 257.1701 et Seq - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.329
  (1) Except as provided in subsection (2), the state transportation commission by resolution may authorize any city or village to issue on behalf of...
• Bus Passenger Shelters; Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.331
  As used in this act: (1) "Advertisement" means any writing, printing, picture, painting, display, emblem, drawing, sign or similar device which is posted or...
• Bus Passenger Shelters; Construction on Highways, Municipal Consent - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.332
  Persons, firms, corporations and municipalities may enter upon, construct and maintain bus passenger shelters with all necessary erections and fixtures therefor upon that portion...
• Bus Passenger Shelters; County and State Highways, Consent - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.333
  If it is proposed to construct a bus passenger shelter on that portion of a county road lying within the corporate limits of any...
• Bus Passenger Shelters; Construction, Municipal Supervision - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.334
  The municipalities in which bus passenger shelters are proposed to be erected shall have the exclusive power to prescribe the size, shape and nature...
• Bus Passenger Shelters; Convenience of Public - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.335
  The construction and maintenance of all such bus passenger shelters shall be deemed to be for the use and convenience of the public, but...
• Bus Passenger Shelters; Advertisements, Approval - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.336
  Advertisements of such size, shape and nature as the municipality in which such advertisements are proposed to be posted shall approve may be posted...
• Signs Marking Township Limits - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.341
  A township may manufacture and place signs marking the township limits along any state highway which passes through the township. The department of state...
• Highways Within Townships; Contracts, Structures Included - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.351
  The township board of any township and the board of county road commissioners in which said township is located are hereby authorized and shall...
• Highways Within Townships; Contracts, Contents; Approval by Electors, Board of County Road Commissioners; Execution - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.352
  Said contract shall provide that all engineering with respect to such highways be performed by, and that all construction including the award of contracts...
• Highways Within Townships; Funds - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.353
  For the purpose of obtaining funds to carry out the provisions of this act the township board of any township which is a party...
• Bonds Issued in Anticipation of Sales Tax Money; Additional Security; Irrevocable Pledge and Appropriation; Annual Debt Service Requirements; Limitation; Successive Borrowings; Bonds and Notes Subject to Revised Municipal Finance Act - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.354
  (1) Bonds issued under this act in anticipation of sales tax revenue to be returned to the township shall be payable primarily from the...
• General Obligation Bonds - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.355
  General obligation bonds issued under this act shall be issued only after their issuance has been authorized by a majority vote of the qualified...
• Townships and Boards of County Road Commissioners; Enlargement of Powers - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.356
  The powers herein granted shall be deemed an enlargement of any power granted to townships and boards of county road commissioners.
• Snow Removal From Private Ways; Request; Contract; Liability; Validity of Snow Removal Operations - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.361
  (1) Upon request by the county board of commissioners, the board of county road commissioners of any county in the upper peninsula with a...
• Snow Removal; Service Charges, Determination; Reimbursement of County - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.362
  Before entering into the contracts, the board of county road commissioners shall determine the charges to be made for snow removal service, which charges...
• Snow Removal; Advance Payment, Disposition of Funds - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.363
  Upon entering into the contract, the board of county road commissioners shall demand and receive sufficient payment from the property owners to fully pay...
• Repealed - Maintenance of Private Roads (247.371 - 247.375) - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Repealed - Natural Beauty Roads (247.381 - 247.386) - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Contract for Maintenance of Private Roads; Special Assessment District; Petition - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.391
  In any township, the township board may contract for the maintenance or improvement of any private roads within the township by the creation of...
• Allocation of Costs; Notice of Public Hearings - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.392
  Upon receipt of a petition the township board of any township may enter into a contract or make such maintenance or improvement with the...
• Procedures and Requirements - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.393
  The making of improvements or the maintenance of private roads and the creation of a special assessment district and the assessments levied to be...
• Annual Program; Duration of Program; Assessment Period - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.394
  The maintenance or improvement approved by the township board may be an annual maintenance or improvement program not to exceed 5 years in scope...
• "maintenance" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.395
  Maintenance, as used in this act, is defined as that word applies and has been adopted by the department of state highways manual to...
• Contract With Board of County Road Commissioners - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.396
  The township board may enter into contracts with the board of county road commissioners to provide maintenance or make improvement but such contracts shall...
• Repealed. 1978, Act 108, Imd. Eff. Apr. 13, 1978. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Repeal of Mcl 247.371 to 247.375 - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.398
  Act No. 234 of the Public Acts of 1968, being sections 247.371 to 247.375 of the Compiled Laws of 1948, is repealed.
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.401
  As used in this act: (a) "Department" means the state transportation department. (b) "Eligible attraction" means a tourist-oriented activity that is all of the...
• Tourist - Oriented Directional Signs and Markers; Placement Program; Contract With Nongovernmental Entity - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.402
  (1) Within 6 months after the effective date of this act, the department shall implement a program for the placement of tourist-oriented directional signs...
• Directional Sign Program; Participation by Operator of Tourist - Oriented Activity; Application; Fee; Determination; Appeal; Issuance of Permit; Order Canceling Permit; Removal of Signs; Tourist - Oriented Directional Signs - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.403
  (1) The operator of a tourist-oriented activity who wishes to participate in a directional sign program under this act shall submit to the department...
• Sign Specifications; Symbols; Multiple Signs; Location - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.404
  (1) The size, location, design, and arrangement of each tourist-oriented directional sign subject to this act shall conform to the specifications for signs contained...
• Permit Fee; Calculation; Public Notice - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.405
  The department or its designee may impose a reasonable fee for a permit issued under this act, which shall be calculated to include reimbursement...
• Repealed. 1958, Act 77, Eff. Sept. 13, 1958. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Review of Roll; Notice, Posting, Publishing, Service - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.418
  On the completion of the roll, apportioning the per cent of benefits to be paid by the respective parties and municipalities, the county road...
• Hearing of Objections; Adjournment; Roll, Approval, Filing of Copy - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.419
  At such review the said county road commissioners or the state highway commissioner shall appear and hear all objections to the proposed apportionment of...
• Yearly Roll for Divided Improvement - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.420
  In case the proposed improvement is divided into sections for letting in separate years, as heretofore provided, then this roll shall be for the...
• Rolls; Computation of Cost, Total - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.421
  If the rolls are made before the contracts for the construction of the improvement are let the total amount of such rolls shall be...
• Rolls; Tax Assessment, Certification, Collection of Tax; Township Exemption - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.422
  After the time for appeal from said roll has expired, or after an appeal shall have been decided, the county road commissioners or the...
• Lands Assessed for Covert Road; Purchase of Part or Interest; Apportionment of Assessment, Procedure; Expenses - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.422a
  Any person who has, or shall become the owner of, any interest, less than the whole, in any lands subject to the special assessments...
• Division of Roll for Total Cost of Improvement by Number of Years in Which Assessment Paid; Interest Charge; Payment of Full Tax; Notice of Taxes Paid in Full and of Delinquent Taxes; Payment of Tax Spread Against Township At Large; Present Payment of Annual Installments by County - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.423
  Exclusive of interest, the roll for the total cost of the improvement shall be divided by the number of years in which the total...
• Interest on Annual Installments; Preparation of Annual Tax Rolls or Assessments; Delivery and Collection of Rolls for Successive Installments; Hearing of Objections; Installments, Interest, and Charges as Lien on Land - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.424
  Except as provided in section 23, after the first installment of the assessment, the succeeding annual installments of all taxes and moneys to be...
• Money Collected; Disposition; Disbursement; Interest; Secured Deposits; Limitation on Acceptable Assets; Designation of Financial Institution; "financial Institution" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.425
  (1) Money collected on account of an improvement shall be paid to the county treasurer and credited to the special assessment district. (2) The...
• Repealed. 1958, Act 77, Eff. Sept. 13, 1958. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Certification of Sums to Be Paid - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.428
  The county road commissioners or the state highway commissioner shall certify to the county treasurer of the county, the various sums to be paid...
• Deficiency Assessments; Surplus, Crediting, Transfer - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.429
  If the sum ordered raised shall not be enough to complete the improvement or to pay in full outstanding indebtedness with the interest thereon,...
• Orders on Improvement Fund; Payment, Limitation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.431
  Orders on the improvement fund of any special assessment district created and existing hereunder, shall be drawn by the state highway commissioner or by...
• Donation of Money; Application, Return - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.432
  Donations of money may be received by either the state highway commissioner or the county road commissioners for the benefit of any road sought...
• Taxes; Interest Charges, Collection, Powers of Collecting Officers, Return as Delinquent, Lien - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.433
  All taxes assessed under the provisions of this act, shall be subject to the same interest and charges as are state and other general...
• Taxes; Rejection; Reassessment - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.434
  If any tax assessed under this act is rejected because of an error in the description of the premises sought to be charged, the...
• Taxes; Apportionment on Parcels; Notice of Hearing; Correction of Roll - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.435
  If 2 or more parcels of land owned by different persons are assessed as 1 parcel and the frontage of the different parcels upon...
• Legality of Proceedings, Evidence; Finality of Determination - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.436
  All special assessment rolls and copies of rolls heretofore required to be delivered to county or township clerks under this act shall be prima...
• Petition for Improvement; Transmission to Proper Authorities - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.437
  In case a petition is presented to the state highway commissioner where authority to act is hereby vested in the board of county road...
• Deputy; Acting for Commissioner, Legal Effect - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.438
  Any act or proceeding herein directed or authorized to be performed or conducted by the state highway commissioner, may be done by said commissioner...
• Jurisdiction Over Highways in More Than One County - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.440
  All highways improved under the provisions of this act by the county road commissioners, or by the state highway commissioner, where more than 1...
• Appeal by Municipality; Application for Board of Review, Limitations; Authorized Representative - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.441
  The county or city at large, or any township at large assessed a per cent for any benefit for the improvement of any highway...
• Appeal by Municipality; Hearing, Notice; Board of Review or Joint Board; Appointment, Meeting, Notice, Duties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.442
  The probate court upon the receipt of any such application for appeal, shall forthwith notify the county road commissioners or the state highway commissioner...
• Board of Review; Duty, Limitation, Oath - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.443
  At such hearing the board of review shall have the right, and it shall be their duty to review and equalize all assessments of...
• Board of Review; Hearing, View of Lands, Correction of Errors, Additions; Hearing of Objections on Change; Decision, Preparation and Finality - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.444
  The board of review shall proceed to hear the proofs and allegations of the county, or of any city assessed at large, and of...
• Costs of Appeals - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.445
  In case the assessment of the county road commissioners, or the state highway commissioner, shall be sustained by such board of review, the appellant...
• Appeal by Land Owner; Application for Board of Review; Bond, Liability, Costs - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.446
  The owner of any lands assessed a per cent for benefits for improving any highway, who may conceive himself aggrieved by the assessment made...
• Appeal by Land Owner; Board of Review, Appointment, Eligibility, Notice; Hearing, Notice; Assessment District in More Than One County - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.447
  On the receipt of such claim of appeal by the land owner and the giving of a bond as aforesaid, the probate court shall...
• Apportionment Final; Hearing, Duties of Board; Boundaries of Districts - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.448
  The apportionment of benefits for the proposed improvements against the county at large, or against any city at large, and against the several townships...
• Hearing; Adjournment - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.449
  The several boards of review may adjourn from time to time, for the hearing of appeals; and public announcement of such adjourning shall be...
• Determination; Certification, Finality - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.450
  The several boards of review shall certify to the county road commissioners, or the state highway commissioner, their finding and determination upon any appeal,...
• Vacancy on Board; Filling - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.451
  Should any person appointed on either of the boards of review as aforesaid, neglect or refuse to serve, or be unable to act, the...
• Assessment Rolls; Spread and Collection; Delayed Report of Rolls, Subsequent Installments - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.452
  All the assessment rolls under this act, reported to the board of supervisors at the annual meeting thereof, shall be ordered spread and collected...
• Tax Set Aside; New Proceedings - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.453
  In case any tax assessed under the provisions of this act shall be set aside, except for the reason that the petition for the...
• Apportionment Based on Benefits; Description of Lands - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.454
  All apportionment for benefits under the provisions of this act, shall be upon the principle of benefits derived. All description of lands under the...
• Drainage; Petition of Commissioner - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.456
  In case the county road commissioners, or the state highway commissioner, shall deem it necessary for the proper drainage of the highway to be...
• Legal and Clerical Service, Expenses - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.457
  The county road commissioner, or the state highway commissioner, acting under the provisions of this act, may employ all necessary clerks, and such clerk...
• Record of Proceedings; Supplies - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.458
  The county road commissioners, or the state highway commissioner, shall procure record books, and keep a record of all the proceedings had under this...
• County Road Commissioners; Annual Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.459
  The county road commissioners shall render an annual report to the board of supervisors, of their doings, showing itemized statements of all the sums...
• County Road Commissioners; Administrative Board - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.460
  The county road commissioners shall work together as an administrative board in the performance of their work. History: 1915, Act 59, Eff. Aug. 24,...
• County Road Commissioners; Disqualification to Act; Procedure; Special Road Commissioner - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.461
  (1) If a county road commissioner is interested in the improvement of a highway, or is for any reason disqualified to act on the...
• Repealed. 1958, Act 77, Eff. Sept. 13, 1958. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Estimates and Certificates of Completed Work; Payments on Contracts, Prerequisites, Portion Withheld - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.463
  As the work of improvement progresses, the county road commissioners, or the state highway commissioner, shall cause written estimates to be made, and certificates...
• Repealed. 1963, Act 213, Eff. Sept. 6, 1963. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Contracts Under $500; Payments - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.465
  The county road commissioners, or the state highway commissioner, may let contracts under 500 dollars without advertising. They may make payments on such contracts...
• Certiorari; Notice, Hearing, Bond; Proceedings, Setting Aside; Costs; Postponement in Letting of Contracts - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.466
  The proceedings herein provided for improving any highway, shall be subject to review upon certiorari. Notice of such certiorari shall be served upon the...
• Tax Assessment; Irregularities Not Prejudicial; Presumptions; Prima Facie Evidence; Absent or Omitted Records; Signing of Papers; Deeds - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.467
  A tax assessed under this act upon any property or sale of the property shall not be held invalid by any court of this...
• Limitation of Actions; Tax Payment Under Protest; Suit Against County - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.468
  No suit shall be instituted to recover any tax or money paid, or for property therefor, or for damages on account thereof, unless brought...
• Injunction Restricted - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.469
  After any taxes shall have been assessed for the improvement of any highway under this act, no injunction shall issue to restrain the spreading...
• Faulty Proceedings; Collection of Tax; New Proceedings - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.470
  The collection of no tax levied, or ordered to be levied for the payment of the improvement or construction of any highway laid out...
• Delinquent Tax; Collection - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.471
  Any taxes that may have been assessed and returned delinquent to the county treasurer upon any lands and by virtue of the provisions of...
• Tax Set Aside; Parties to Action - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.472
  In case any suit shall be brought to set aside any tax assessed under the provisions of this act, or in any way attacking...
• Tax Set Aside; New Proceedings - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.473
  In case any tax assessed under the provisions of this act shall be set aside, except for the reason that the petition for the...
• Proceedings; Recommencement; Notice of Hearing; Credit for Tax Paid - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.474
  Whenever the work of improving any highway has been wholly or partly completed, and payment for same has not been legally made, the county...
• Saving Clause - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.476
  All proceedings heretofore taken under this act shall not be defeated or nullified because of any irregularity therein if there has been a substantial...
• Clerical Errors; Correction - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.477
  After the county road commissioners shall have made their apportionment of benefits, and held a review of the same, whether an appeal has been...
• Clerical Errors; Notice of Review and Correction - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.478
  The county road commissioners, or the state highway commissioner, on discovering any of the aforesaid errors, may make their order reciting the particular errors,...
• Clerical Errors; Correction of Omissions, Descriptions, Acreage, Apportionment of Benefits - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.479
  At such meeting, the county road commissioners, or the state highway commissioner, shall correct the errors aforesaid. Such meeting may be adjourned from time...
• Correction of Tax in Next Assessment Roll - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.480
  If a parcel of land shall have been erroneously assessed too high by reason of a mistake in the acreage of the parcel, and...
• Change in Apportionment or Tax; Restriction - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.481
  The county road commissioners or the state highway commissioner, as the case may be, shall have no power to change the apportionment or tax...
• Repealed. 1958, Act 77, Eff. Sept. 13, 1958. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Repealed - Local Road Improvements and Operations Revenue Act (247.521 - 247.525) - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Repealed - Revolving Fund for Highway Planning and Construction (247.601 - 247.603) - Mich. Comp. Laws
• State Trunk Line Highway System; Additions and Deletions; Designation and Reservation of High - Occupancy Vehicle Lanes - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.651
  (1) The state trunk line highway system of this state shall consist of all roads, streets, and highways, either located within or outside the...
• State Trunk Line Highway System; Additions and Deletions; Operating License Agreement With Regional Transit Authority to Operate Public Transit System - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.651.amended
  (1) The state trunk line highway system of this state consists of all roads, streets, and highways, either located within or outside the limits...
• State Trunk Line Highway System; Construction, Maintenance, Improvement; Control of State Highway Commissioner; Change in Line of Road - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.651a
  All state trunk line highways now or hereafter established as provided by law, shall be constructed, maintained and improved in accordance with the provisions...
• Cost of Maintaining State Trunk Line Highways; Preservation of Aesthetic and Historic Character of Abutting National Historic Landmark; Service Plaza Prohibited - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.651b
  (1) The state transportation department shall bear the entire cost of maintaining, in accordance with standards and specifications of the department, all state trunk...
• Cost of Opening, Widening, and Improving State Trunk Line Highways - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.651c
  The state transportation department shall bear the cost of opening, widening, and improving, including construction and reconstruction, in accordance with standards and specifications of...
• Contract for Joint Participation in Cost; Approval; Renegotiation; Local Taxation; Bonds; Special Assessment - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.651d
  The governing body of a city or village and the state highway commission may enter into a contract to effectuate joint participation in the...
• Contract With City or Village for Joint Participation in Cost; Assumption by Board of County Road Commissioners, Approval - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.651e
  Whenever the board of county road commissioners of any county shall have funds available, the board may enter into a contract or agreement, with...
• State Trunk Lines; Cancellation of Municipal Obligations; Assumption by State - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.651f
  The obligation of any city under 30,000 population which prior to July 1, 1957 entered into a contract with the state highway department pursuant...
• Pavement Management System - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.651g
  The transportation asset management council, in conjunction with the department, counties, and municipalities, shall develop and implement a pavement management system for each mile...
• Life - Cycle Cost Analysis; "Life - Cycle Cost" Defined; Use of Historical and Comparable Data From Other States - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.651h
  (1) The department shall develop and implement a life-cycle cost analysis for each project for which total pavement costs exceed $1,000,000.00 funded in whole,...
• Demonstration Projects - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.651i
  (1) Notwithstanding section 1h, the department may conduct not more than 4 pavement demonstration projects each year to evaluate new construction methods, materials, or...
• Tentative System of County Primary Roads; Selection and Certification; Check and Review; Approval; County Primary Road System - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.652
  By December 1, 1951, a tentative system of county primary roads shall be selected by the board of county road commissioners in each county...
• Tentative System of County Primary Roads; Roads Included or Deleted - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.653
  Roads may, from time to time, be included in or deleted from the county primary road system of any county by selection of the...
• Tentative System of County Primary Roads; Roads Under Jurisdiction of County Road Commissioners; Certification and Review - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.654
  All roads under the jurisdiction of the board of county road commissioners in each of the several counties of the state not included in...
• Tentative System of County Primary Roads; Official Name; Establishment, Certification, and Approval - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.655
  All roads, streets and highways included in the county primary road system of any county shall be officially known as county primary roads, and...
• Seasonal County Road System - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.655a
  (1) The board of county road commissioners of each county may establish a system of seasonal county roads, which may be part of either...
• Tentative System of Streets; Selection and Certification; Approval - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.656
  Within 6 months from the effective date of this act, a tentative system of major streets shall be selected in each incorporated city and...
• Tentative System of Streets; Included or Deleted - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.657
  Streets may, from time to time, be included in or deleted from the major street system of any municipality by selection by the governing...
• Tentative System of Streets; Streets Not Included, Certification and Approval - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.658
  All streets within the corporate limits and under the jurisdiction of each municipality of the state, exclusive of state trunk line highways and county...
• Tentative System of Streets; Official Name; Establishment and Certification - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.659
  All roads, streets and highways included in the major street system of any municipality shall be officially known as city or village major streets...
• Definitions; Transportation Asset Management Council; Creation; Charge; Membership; Appointments; Staff and Technical Assistance; Requirements and Procedures; Technical Advisory Panel; Report Including Multiyear Program; Funding; Records on Road and Bridge Work Performed and Funds Expended; Annual Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.659a
  (1) As used in this section: (a) "Asset management" means an ongoing process of maintaining, upgrading, and operating physical assets cost-effectively, based on a...
• Contracts to Construct or Repair Roads or Bridges; Assistance to Minority Business Enterprises; Notice to Legislative Committees; Definitions; Other Duties of Department - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.659b
  (1) After the effective date of the amendatory act that added this section, the department shall do all of the following regarding contracts to...
• Review of Adequacy of Surface Transportation and Aeronautics Service Provision and Finance; Appointment of Task Force by Governor; Duties; Membership; Citizens Advisory Committee; Creation; Purpose; Technical Staff and Administrative Support; Focus of Task Force; Report and Recommendations - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.659c
  (1) By February 1, 2008, the governor shall appoint not more than 9 persons who shall serve as a task force to review the...
• Michigan Transportation Fund; Establishment; Use of Money Appropriated; Programs; Allocation to Transportation Economic Development Fund; Transfer of Funds to State Trunk Line Fund; Creation of Local Bridge Fund and Regional Bridge Councils; Report; Rules; Selection of Bridge Projects for Funding; Availability of List to Interested Parties; Implementation of Bridge Project; Conditions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.660
  (1) A fund to be known as the Michigan transportation fund is established and shall be set up and maintained in the state treasury...
• Transferred Mileage; Worth Per Mile of County Primary and Local Roads; Determination of Money to Be Transferred; Jurisdictional Transfers Made After July 1, 1992; Construction of Subsections (4) and (5); Transfer of Funds Included in Appropriation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.660a
  (1) Annually the state transportation department shall determine the miles of state trunk line highways, county primary and local roads, and city and village...
• Comprehensive Transportation Fund - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.660b
  (1) A fund to be known as the comprehensive transportation fund is established and shall be set up and maintained in the state treasury...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.660c
  As used in this act: (a) "Urban or rural area" means a contiguous developed area, including the immediate surrounding area, where transportation services should...
• Comprehensive Transportation Fund; Distribution - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.660d
  The comprehensive transportation fund shall be distributed to eligible authorities for public transportation purposes, distributed to eligible governmental agencies which are not within the...
• Comprehensive Transportation Fund; Appropriation and Expenditure; Order of Priority; Capital Grants; Instructions; Submission of Local Transportation Program to Department; Department Transportation Program; Proposed State Transportation Program; Action by Commission; Approval of Projects; Agreement; Approval of Multiyear Public Transportation Program; Grant - in - Aid Instrument; Audits; Source of Funds for Payment of Eligible Capital Projects, Local Bus New Services, and Intercity Passenger Operating Assistance Projects; Demand Actuated Service; Plan; Exceptions; Annual Report; Appropriation; Application, Receipt, and Disbursement of Funds - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.660e
  (1) The comprehensive transportation fund is appropriated for each fiscal year in the following order of priority. (2) The first priority is to pay,...
• Repealed. 1982, Act 438, Eff. Jan. 1, 1983. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.660g
  The state transportation department shall promulgate rules for the implementation and administration of the comprehensive transportation fund pursuant to Act No. 306 of the...
• Report by State Transportation Commission to Legislature, Governor, and Auditor General; Contents; Audit; Cost; Submission of Audit Report and Management Letter to Department; Minimum Audit Standards and Requirements; Task Force - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.660h
  (1) By May 1 of each year, the state transportation commission shall report to each member of the legislature, the governor, and the auditor...
• Repealed. 1978, Act 444, Imd. Eff. Oct. 10, 1978. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Ineligibility for Grant or Distribution; Accrued Pension or Retirement Liabilities - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.660j
  (1) An eligible authority or eligible governmental agency may not receive a grant or distribution pursuant to this act if it has an employee...
• Nonmotorized Transportation Services and Facilities; Expenditures; Improvements as Qualified Nonmotorized Facility; Meeting Requirements of Section; 5 - Year Program; Notice and Consultation; Establishment of Facilities; Information and Assistance as to Planning, Design, and Construction - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.660k
  (1) Transportation purposes as provided in this act include provisions for facilities and services for nonmotorized transportation. (2) Of the funds allocated from the...
• Return of Audit as Credit to Cities, Villages, and Townships; Expenditure of Credit; Use of Unexpended Credit; Final Decision; Expenditure by County as Condition Prohibited; Coordination of Services; "operating Deficit" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.660l
  (1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3), for each 12-month period beginning October 1, 1987, and each 12-month period thereafter, $2,000,000.00 shall be returned...
• Schedule - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.660m
  An eligible authority or eligible governmental agency shall make available, at no cost, a schedule of the times at which public transportation services are...
• Comprehensive Transportation Fund; Distribution of Funds; Notes - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.660n
  (1) Funds from the comprehensive transportation fund may be distributed to a trustee, or to the Michigan municipal bond authority as created under the...
• Allocation of Federal Funds to Local Jurisdictions; Distributions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.660o
  (1) Twenty-three to twenty-seven percent of the DOT-FHWA highway research, planning, and construction federal funds appropriated to this state from the federal government for...
• Definitions; Complete Streets Policy; Duties of State Transportation Commission; Consultation by Department or County Road Agency With Municipality; Agreements for Maintenance of Transportation Facilities; Complete Streets Advisory Council; Creation; Membership; Appointment; Terms; Vacancy; Removal; Meetings; Election of Officers; Quorum; Voting; Business Conducted At Public Meeting; Writings; Compensation; Duties of Advisory Council - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.660p
  (1) As used in this section: (a) "Complete streets" means roadways planned, designed, and constructed to provide appropriate access to all legal users in...
• State Trunk Line Fund; Separate Fund; Appropriation; Purposes; Order of Priority; Expenditures; Deductions; Borrowing by County Road Commissions, Cities, and Villages; Limitation; Approval; Notice; Borrowing by State Transportation Commission; Procedures for Implementation and Administration of Loan Program; Expenditure for Administrative Expenses; Conduct of Performance Audits; Revised Municipal Finance Act Inadmissible; Definition - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.661
  (1) A fund to be known as the state trunk line fund is established and shall be set up and maintained in the state...
• Repealed. 1987, Act 234, Imd. Eff. Dec. 28, 1987. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Repealed. 2004, Act 384, Imd. Eff. Oct. 12, 2004. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Construction and Maintenance Projects to Be Performed by Contract Awarded by Competitive Bidding; Other Method; Findings; Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.661c
  All federal aid construction projects, all other projects of the department concerning highways, streets, roads, and bridges, whose cost exceeds $100,000.00 for construction or...
• Report to Legislature on Changes in Department's Accounting System - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.661d
  Within 6 months following the effective date of this section, the state transportation department shall report to the legislature on changes in the department's...
• Local Program Fund; Creation; Purpose; Distribution of Funds; Local Federal Match Program; Use - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.661e
  (1) There is created within the state trunk line fund a local program fund for the purpose of receiving funds allocated from the Michigan...
• Funds Received Under Local Federal Match Program; Projects; Submission; Grant Awards; Criteria; Unused Bond Proceeds; Reports; Distribution of Remaining Funds; Additional Criteria - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.661f
  (1) Funds received under the local federal match program created in section 11e shall be granted to local municipalities and other local road agencies...
• Return to County Treasurers of Amount Distributed to County Road Commissions; Manner, Purposes, Terms, and Conditions; Statewide Purchasing Pools; Expenditures; Definitions; Certification Concerning Average Annual Debt Service Requirements for Bonds or Notes; Representation of Charter County in Certain Transactions; Expenditure for Administrative Expenses; Conduct of Performance Audits - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.662
  (1) The amount distributed to the county road commissions shall be returned to the county treasurers in the manner, for the purposes, and under...
• Snow Removal; Distribution of Amount Returned to County Road Commission - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.662a
  (1) The amount withheld from the counties' November monthly distribution as specified in section 12(3) shall be returned to the county road commission of...
• County Urban System; Distribution of Amounts Returned; Urban Area Boundaries - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.662b
  (1) The amounts returned to the counties for the county urban system as provided in section 12(4) shall be distributed on the basis of...
• Placing County Primary Road Under Jurisdiction of City or Village; Request; Response by County Road Commission; Appeal; Hearing; Determination - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.662c
  (1) A city or village which desires to have a county primary road, which is under the jurisdiction of a county road commission and...
• Return of Distribution to City and Village Treasurers; Manner, Purpose, and Conditions; Audits; Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.663
  (1) The amount distributed to cities and villages shall be returned to the treasurers of the cities and villages in the manner, for the...
• Acquisition of Private Property Within Right of Way of Highway Project; Expenditure of Revenue - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.663a
  The state transportation commission, the county road commissions, and the cities and villages of the state, acting individually or jointly in accordance with a...
• Contracts Between County Road Commissions for Purchase or Use of Equipment or Machinery - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.663b
  A county road commission may contract with other county road commissions for the purchase and use of equipment or machinery necessary for the construction,...
• Biennial Primary Road and Major Street Programs; Separate Accounts; Records; Annual Report; Expenditures for Administration, Engineering, and Record Keeping; Effect of Noncompliance; Responsibility of State for Local County Road Support; Additional Funds - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.664
  (1) Each county road commission and city and village of the state shall prepare biennial primary road and major street programs, based on long-range...
• Expenditures to Pay Cost of Drain Assessments; Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.664a
  Expenditure of funds allocated by this act to the department of state highways or to a county road commission to pay the cost of...
• Reports Showing Disposition of Funds Appropriated, Apportioned, or Allocated; Other Information - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.665
  (1) Before May 2 of each year, each county road commission or the county executive or other agency acting as the county road commission...
• Intergovernmental Highway Corridor Planning Preservation Committees - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.665a
  County road commissions and cities and villages shall establish, where applicable, intergovernmental highway corridor planning preservation committees for the purpose of developing corridor plans...
• Mowing Right - of - Way of Public Road - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.665b
  (1) Road authorities shall mow the right-of-way of a public road in accordance with the requirements prescribed in this section, subject to the following:...
• Forfeiture of Funds - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.666
  The failure of a county road commission, city, or village to apply money returned pursuant to this act, to the purposes prescribed in this...
• Certifications Required; Warrants; Checks; Mandamus; Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.667
  (1) At the end of each month, the secretary of state shall certify to the state transportation department and the director of the department...
• Office of Audit; Creation; Head; Duties, Functions, and Responsibilities - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.667a
  There is hereby established the office of audit within the department to conduct financial and performance audits. The office shall be headed by an...
• Repealed. 1957, Act 262, Eff. July 1, 1957. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Michigan Transportation Fund; Payment of Notes, Bonds, or Other Indebtedness; Notes and Bonds Not General Obligations of State - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.668a
  Subject to the provisions and the limitations set forth in this act, money in the Michigan transportation fund, distributed as provided in this act,...
• State Transportation Commission; Bonds and Notes - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.668b
  (1) The state transportation commission may borrow money and issue notes or bonds for the following purposes: (a) To pay all or any portion...
• Counties; Bonds - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.668c
  (1) A county may borrow money and issue bonds to pay all or any portion of the cost of the construction or reconstruction of...
• Contracts Between Governmental Units for Construction or Reconstruction of Highways; Contributions; Pledges; Bonds; Applicability of Revised Municipal Finance Act and Agency Financing Reporting Act - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.668d
  (1) The state transportation commission, county road commission, and a city or village may enter into a contract providing for the construction or reconstruction...
• Bonds of Governmental Unit; Maturities; Interest; Measuring Maximum Annual Principal and Interest Requirements; Certification of State Transportation Commission Concerning Average Annual Debt Service Requirements for Certain Obligations; "preservation" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.668e
  Except for bonds issued under section 18c, bonds issued by a governmental unit under this act shall be serial bonds with periodic maturities, or...
• Approval of Construction; Sale Price of Bonds - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.668f
  If the aggregate maturities of the bonds exceed 15 years, the bonds shall not be issued until the state transportation department has approved the...
• Bonds; Protection of Outstanding Bonds - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.668g
  Nothing contained in this act shall be construed in such manner as to violate or impair any substantive rights existing in the holders of...
• Bonds; Negotiability; Payment, Exemption From Taxation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.668h
  Any bonds issued under the provisions of this act shall have all the qualities of negotiable instruments under the law merchant and the negotiable...
• Cumulative Authority of Act - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.668i
  The provisions of this act shall be construed as cumulative authority for the exercise of the bonding powers herein granted and shall not be...
• Annual Certification That Certain Employee - Related Conditions Met; Failure to Make Certification; Withholding Distributions to Local Road Agency; Website; "Transportation Employee" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.668j
  (1) Beginning September 30, 2014, each local road agency shall annually certify to the department that it satisfies 1 of the following conditions with...
• List of Projects for Which Notes or Bonds to Be Issued - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.668k
  If the state transportation commission, by resolution, after January 1, 1983, authorizes the issuance of notes or bonds, the state transportation commission shall provide...
• Borrowing Money and Issuing Notes or Bonds in Anticipation of Federal Funds - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.668l
  (1) In order to provide a more immediate economic impact and the creation of job opportunities by accelerating vital transportation projects as part of...
• Roads, Streets, and Alleys Taken Over as County Roads - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.669
  The board of county road commissioners in each of the several counties shall, within 1 year from the effective date of this act, complete...
• Unexpended Balances of Township Funds; Appropriation for Local Road Maintenance or Improvement; Additional Powers; Snow Removal in Marquette County Townships - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.670
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of this act the township board of any township may appropriate any unexpended balances in the contingent or general fund...
• Contract for Preservation of County Local Road System Within Township - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.670a
  A board of county road commissioners in a county and the township board of a township with a population of 15,000 or more, and...
• Repeal - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.671
  All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act, and the following acts and parts of acts, are hereby repealed,...
• Effective Date of Act - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.672
  This act shall become effective June 1, 1951.
• Effective Upon Passage of Certain Act - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.673
  This act shall not take effect unless Senate Bill No. 41 of the 1951 session of the legislature, relative to increase in the privilege...
• Refunding Bonds or Advance Refunding Bonds - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.674
  The state transportation commission may issue refunding bonds or advance refunding bonds for the purpose of refunding notes or bonds issued under this act...
• Truck Safety Fund and Michigan Truck Safety Commission; Establishment; Administration of Fund; Duty of Commission; Appointment, Qualifications, and Terms of Commission Members; Election of Chairperson; Vacancy; Meetings; Notice; Quorum; Expenditure of Fund; Annual Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.675
  (1) The truck safety fund is established and shall be maintained in the state treasury. The truck safety fund shall be administered by the...
• Transfer of Powers and Duties of the Transportation Needs Study Committee to the State Transportation Commission by Type III Transfer; Transfer of Powers and Duties of the Citizens Advisory Committee to the Director of the Department of Transportation by Type III Transfer - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.691
  247.691 Transfer of powers and duties of the transportation needs study committee to the state transportation commission by type III transfer; transfer of powers...
• Transfer of Public Transit Association Task Force to Department of Education by Type III Transfer; Abolishment of Public Transit Association Task Force - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.692
  247.692 Transfer of public transit association task force to department of education by type III transfer; abolishment of public transit association task force. WHEREAS,...
• Borrowing Money and Issuing Bonds; Purposes; Bonds Subject to Revised Municipal Finance Act; Refunding Bonds; Sale; Refund Prohibited Under Certain Conditions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.701
  (1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3), any incorporated city or village in this state is authorized to borrow money and issue its bonds...
• Authorization of Bonds; Cities and Villages; Resolution, Approval, Publication, Contents - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.702
  When the governing body of any incorporated city or village shall determine to borrow money under the provisions of this act, they shall by...
• Bonds; Principal and Interest; Payment; Additional Security; Existing Contract Rights; Priority - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.703
  (1) The principal of and interest upon the bonds shall be payable primarily from the proceeds of revenues derived from state collected taxes returned...
• Issuance of Bonds for Highway Purposes; Cities and Villages; Successive Borrowing - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.704
  A city or village shall not pledge, for annual debt service requirements, in excess of 50% of the revenues received, during the fiscal year...
• Revenues Set Aside; Source - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.705
  After any indebtedness shall be incurred under the provisions of this act, it shall be the duty of the treasurer of the city or...
• Repealed. 2002, Act 330, Imd. Eff. May 23, 2002. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Prohibition of Pledges - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.707
  Nothing in this act contained shall be construed as permitting any city or village to pledge such portion of the future revenues derived from...
• Highway Surveys on Public and Private Property; Liability - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.751
  In preparation for and in connection with the planning, construction and maintenance of state trunk line highways and county roads, it shall be lawful...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.801
  As used in this act: (1) "Commission" means the state transportation commission. (2) "Director" means the director of transportation. (3) "Department" means the department...
• Office of State Highway Commissioner Abolished; Transfer of Power and Duties; References - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.802
  The office of state highway commissioner is abolished and the powers and duties of that office are transferred to and vested in the commission....
• State Transportation Commission; Appointment and Terms of Members; Vacancies; Bond - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.803
  The governor with the advice and consent of the senate shall appoint the first members of the commission for terms of 1, 2, 3,...
• State Transportation Commission; Officers; Quorum; Transaction of Business - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.804
  The governor shall appoint 1 of the members of the commission as chairperson to serve at the pleasure of the governor. Each year by...
• Director; Appointment, Qualifications, and Term; Deputy Director - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.805
  (1) The governor shall appoint the director with the advice and consent of the senate. (2) The director shall possess proven executive and administrative...
• Bureau of Urban and Public Transportation; Chief Administrative Officer; Deputy Director of State Transportation Department - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.805a
  The chief administrative officer of the bureau of urban and public transportation of the state transportation department shall be appointed by the governor, shall...
• State Highway Commission; Transitional Powers - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.806
  Before assuming the powers and duties of the present state highway commissioner the commission shall meet at least monthly at the call of the...
• Powers of Director - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.806a
  The director may do the following: (a) Organize the department and its work, supervise the work of the employees of the department, create, merge,...
• Film Production Located in State; Authorization by Director or Commission to Use Property; Exception; Cooperation With Michigan Film Office; Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.806b
  (1) The director or the commission may authorize a person engaged in the production of a film in this state to use without charge...
• Powers and Duties of Commission - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.807
  (1) The commission's powers and duties shall include: (a) The awarding of all contracts for the construction, improvement, and maintenance of the highways and...
• Definitions; Partial Payments to Contractor; Retaining Portion of Total Amount Earned; Specifications; Escrow Account; Escrow Agent; Escrow Agreement; Terms - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.807a
  (1) As used in this section: (a) "Completion" means the date when the construction, improvement, or maintenance of a bridge, highway, or other transportation...
• Adoption of Bylaws by Commission - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.808
  The commission by an affirmative vote of a majority of its members may adopt bylaws pertaining to the following: (a) Any aspect of the...
• Rules; Violation as Misdemeanor - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.809
  (1) Except as provided in subsection (2), the commission shall by an affirmative vote of 4 members promulgate rules to implement its powers and...
• Conducting Business At Public Meeting; Notice - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.809a
  The business which the commission may perform shall be conducted at a public meeting of the commission held in compliance with Act No. 267...
• State Highway Commission; Issuance and Execution of Documents and Instruments - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.810
  Documents and instruments of any kind authorized to be issued or executed by the commission shall be issued or executed in the name of...
• State Highway Commission; Compensation, Expenses, Meetings, Offices - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.811
  The members of the commission and the director shall receive, in addition to compensation that may be appropriated, all reasonable and necessary expenses while...
• State Highway Commission; Conflict of Interest - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.812
  Neither a member of the commission, the director, nor any officer of the department shall be interested directly or indirectly in any contract with...
• State Highway Commission; Records of Acts, Proceedings and Transactions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.813
  The commission shall keep accurate records of all its acts and proceedings and a complete account of all financial transactions of the department in...
• Availability of Writings to Public - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.813a
  A writing prepared, owned, used, in the possession of, or retained by the department or the commission in the performance of an official function...
• Replacement of State Highway Commissioner on Boards, Commissions, Authorities, and Agencies - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.814
  The director or other person designated by the director shall replace the state highway commissioner on all boards, commissions, authorities, and agencies on which...
• Repeal - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.815
  Sections 2 and 2a of chapter 5 of Act No. 283 of the Public Acts of 1909, as amended, being sections 225.2 and 225.2a...
• Effective Date of Certain Sections - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.816
  Sections 2, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14 and 15 of this act shall take effect on July 1, 1965, or when the...
• Transfer of Department of Aeronautics and Aeronautics Commission; Transfer of Powers, Duties, and Functions of Port Authorities, Interagency Transportation Council, and Bureau of Transportation; Interagency Transportation Council Abolished; Development of Transportation Plan - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.821
  247.821 Transfer of department of aeronautics and aeronautics commission; transfer of powers, duties, and functions of port authorities, interagency transportation council, and bureau of...
• Transfer of Railroad Regulation Functions From Public Service Commission to Department of State Highways and Transportation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.822
  247.822 Transfer of railroad regulation functions from public service commission to department of state highways and transportation. WHEREAS, it is necessary to centralize certain...
• Transfer of Authority From Public Service Commission to Department of Transportation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.823
  247.823 Transfer of authority from public service commission to department of transportation. WHEREAS, for purposes of centralization of railroad functions and coordination of administration...
• Governor's Cooperation to Obtain Benefits Granted in Federal Highway Safety Act; Acceptance and Use of Federal Funds - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.841
  The governor shall have the responsibility but not the obligation to assure the full benefits available to this state under the federal highway safety...
• Transfer of Jurisdiction Over Highways; Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.851
  As used in this act: (a) "Highway authority" means the state highway commission, a board of county road commissioners or the governing body of...
• Transfer of Jurisdiction; Consent Required; Agreement, Contents; Effective Date - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.852
  The provisions of any law to the contrary notwithstanding, a highway may not not [sic] be transferred from the jurisdiction of the state to...
• Transfer of Jurisdiction; Non - Consent, Proceedings to Determine Question; Time for Granting - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.853
  (1) If a highway authority does not consent to accept jurisdiction over a highway proposed for transfer, within 90 days after its consent is...
• Determination Board; Membership Appointment - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.854
  (1) The highway authority proposing the transfer of highway jurisdiction shall appoint 1 member of the highway jurisdiction determination board and shall notify the...
• Board; Conducting Business At Public Meeting; Notice of Meeting; Date and Place of Hearing; Notice to Parties; Hearing Testimony and Receiving Evidence; Reconvening of Board; Quorum; Vote Required for Final Determination; Inability of Member to Perform Duties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.855
  (1) The business which the board may perform shall be conducted at a public meeting of the board held in compliance with Act No....
• Determination of Board; Factors - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.856
  (1) In making its determination, the board shall take into consideration the level and character of service provided by the highway before transfer and...
• Final Determination of Board; Time; Notice; Effect of Denial; Effective Date - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.857
  (1) Within 90 days after the first convening, the board shall make a final determination in writing on the transfer of jurisdiction of the...
• Determination of Board; Contents; Transferor's Duties; Renovation, Costs - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.858
  (1) If the board's decision is to transfer jurisdiction of a highway, the board shall include in its determination a description of the renovation,...
• Compensation and Expenses of Board; Payment - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.859
  The compensation and expenses of the board member appointed by the nonconsenting highway authority shall be paid by it. The compensation and expenses, if...
• Transfers Not Subject to Act - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.860
  The provisions of this act shall not apply to the transfer of jurisdiction over county roads in unincorporated areas which become incorporated through annexation,...
• Laws Superseded; Exception - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.861
  The provisions for relinquishment of jurisdiction of a county road in section 18 of chapter 4 of Act No. 283 of the Public Acts...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.901
  As used in this act: (a) "Administrator" means the person appointed by the department, in accordance with the policies of the commission and civil...
• Transportation Economic Development Fund and Office of Economic Development; Establishment; Purposes; Sources of Revenue - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.902
  (1) The transportation economic development fund is established and shall be set up and maintained in the state treasury as a separate fund for...
• Allocation of Funds for Projects; Notice; Hearings; Funding Projects Under Mcl 247.907(3) and 247.909(1)(a); Coordination of Projects; Department as Contracting Agent; Assistance to Commission; Appropriation for Administration of Fund; Duties of Commission and Office of Economic Development - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.903
  (1) Money from the fund shall be allocated for projects to be funded pursuant to section 11(3)(a) and (b) in accordance with the adopted...
• Repealed. 1993, Act 149, Imd. Eff. Aug. 19, 1993. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Applications for Projects; Solicitation; Form - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.906
  (1) The administrator may solicit project applications for the projects that may be funded under section 11(3)(a) each calendar quarter. (2) The requirements of...
• Submission of Application; Minimum Requirements - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.907
  (1) An applicant shall submit an application for funding on a form approved pursuant to section 6. (2) The department or a city, village,...
• Initial Review of Application; Criteria; Recommendation; Consultation; Informing Appropriations Committees; Hearings as Condition to Committing Funds - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.908
  (1) Each application shall be submitted for initial review to the administrator who may call upon other personnel of the department to assist in...
• Project Categories; Requirements; Criteria - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.909
  (1) A project shall relate to 1 or more of the following categories: (a) Economic development road projects in any of the following targeted...
• Cost of Project; Matching Funds; Evaluation Criteria - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.910
  (1) The costs of a project that are eligible to be funded under section 11(3)(a) and (c) shall be developed by the administrator in...
• Bonds; Appropriation of Fund Revenue; Percentages; Matching Federal - Aid Highway Funds; Obligation Authority for Federal Funds; Distribution - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.911
  (1) Bonds may be issued as authorized by the commission for the purpose of funding projects under this act in the manner provided in...
• Widening Projects; Designation and Selection by Task Forces; Failure to Submit Qualified Projects; Proposing Project Result Evaluation Criteria; Annual Report; Administration of Projects - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.912
  (1) The urban task force which represents the majority of the communities in the urban area of each county shall select and designate for...
• Recommendations of Regional Rural Task Force for Funding Projects; Failure to Submit Qualified Projects; Composition of Task Force; Basis for Funding Projects; Administration of Programs and Projects - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.912a
  (1) The regional rural task force shall make recommendations to the commission and the administrator for funding projects under section 11(3)(d) within their respective...
• Annual Report to Governor and Legislature - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.913
  By December 31 each year the commission shall report to the governor, the house and senate appropriations committees, and the house and senate fiscal...
• Repealed. 1993, Act 149, Imd. Eff. Aug. 19, 1993. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Repealed - Road Construction and Improvement (247.931 - 247.933) - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.951
  As used in this act: (a) "Commission" means the state transportation commission. (b) "Department" means the state transportation department. (c) "Heritage route" means a...
• Intent of the Legislature - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.952
  It is the intent of the legislature to establish the state's responsibility for the enhancement and enjoyment of Michigan's scenic, recreational, and historic resources...
• Heritage Routes; Characteristics - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.953
  Certain portions of the state trunkline highway system are so uniquely endowed by natural aesthetic, ecological, environmental, and cultural amenities immediately adjacent to the...
• Criteria and Procedures for Identification of Heritage Routes; Public Hearing; Review and Comment by Legislature; Factors to Be Considered; Action by Local Governmental Agencies - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.954
  (1) Not more than 60 days after the effective date of this act, the department shall submit recommendations to the commission regarding uniform criteria...
• Identification of Highways; Publication of Proposed Routes; Hearings by Legislative Standing Committees; Designation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.955
  Upon approval of the criteria and procedures by the commission, and notification of the legislature, the department shall identify those state highways that satisfy...
• Planning, Design, Reconstruction, and Maintenance of Routes; Criteria - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.956
  Planning, design, reconstruction, and maintenance of all designated heritage routes shall be governed by the criteria established by this act to ensure that these...
• Additions, Deletions, or Changes - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.957
  After a 30-day comment period and an opportunity for a public hearing, the department may make additions, deletions, or changes or not make additions...
• Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 247.958
  By December 31 each year, the department shall report to the commission, the governor, and the legislature the following information regarding this act: (a)...

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