Bill Text: MI HB4801 | 2011-2012 | 96th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: State; boundaries; accurate boundaries of the state; establish in statute. Amends title & secs. 1 & 2 of 1945 PA 78 (MCL 2.1 & 2.2).

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-06-28 - Printed Bill Filed 06/24/2011 [HB4801 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2011-HB4801-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 4801

 

June 23, 2011, Introduced by Reps. Potvin, Callton, Outman, Goike, Muxlow, Bumstead, Gilbert, Jenkins, Lindberg, Yonker, Haveman, Pscholka, Daley, Rutledge, Townsend, Melton, Cavanagh, Durhal, Switalski, Meadows and Womack and referred to the Committee on Government Operations.

 

     A bill to amend 1945 PA 78, entitled

 

"An act to declare the area of the state of Michigan,"

 

by amending the title and sections 1 and 2 (MCL 2.1 and 2.2).

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

TITLE

 

     An act to declare the area and boundaries of the state of

 

Michigan.

 

     Sec. 1. (1) The total area of the state of Michigan is hereby

 

declared to be approximately 96,720 square miles consisting of

 

57,022 square miles of land and 39,698 square miles of inland water

 

as based upon the boundaries of the state of Michigan according to

 

article I, section 1 of the constitution of the state of Michigan

 

of 1909, and United States statutes at large, volume 5, page 49,

 

chapter 99, approved June 15, 1836 as described in subsection (2).

 

     (2) The state of Michigan consists of and has jurisdiction

 

over the territory embraced within the following boundaries:

 

Commencing at a point on the eastern boundary line of the state of

 

Indiana, said point being the northwest corner of the state of

 

Ohio, as established by act of Congress, entitled "An Act to

 

establish the northern boundary line of the state of Ohio, and to

 

provide for the admission of the state of Michigan into the Union

 

upon the conditions therein expressed," approved June fifteenth,

 

1836; chapter 99, 5 Stat. 49 (1836), thence easterly with the said

 

boundary line of the state of Ohio, as adopted in 1917 by Joint

 

Resolution Number 6 of the Legislature of the State of Michigan,

 

entitled "A JOINT RESOLUTION with reference to the re-location and

 

permanent monumenting of the boundary line between Ohio and

 

Michigan," SJR 6, 1917 the line continues through Posts 70 and 71

 

to the original North Cape of Maumee Bay and Lake Erie as described

 

in the United States Supreme Court Special Master's Decree 410 U.S.

 

February 22, 1973: 410 U.S. 420 thence through Lake Erie and the

 

center of the "circular concrete seawall on Turtle Island" until

 

the line intersects the international boundary line between the

 

United States and Canada in Lake Erie, as said international

 

boundary line is ascertained and reestablished pursuant to Article

 

IV of the Treaty between Great Britain and the United States,

 

signed April Eleventh, 1908: Article IV, 35 Stat. 2009, thence with

 

the said international boundary line through the Detroit River,

 

Lake St. Clair, the St. Clair River, Lake Huron, the St. Marys

 

River, and Lake Superior to Point N on the said international

 

boundary line in Lake Superior, in the vicinity of Pigeon Point;

 

thence with the boundary line of the State of Minnesota in Lake

 

Superior to Point A, midpoint of Line N-M; thence with the boundary

 

line of the State of Wisconsin in Lake Superior to Point M in the

 

mouth of the Montreal River, as said points and boundary lines are

 

defined in 1947 PA 267, MCL 2.201 to 2.208 thence with the boundary

 

line of the State of Wisconsin through the main channel of the

 

Montreal River to a point which is the western terminus of the

 

overland boundary as defined in the Decree of the United States

 

Supreme Court entered March sixteenth, 1936; 297 U.S. 547 thence

 

with said overland boundary to its eastern terminus on the shore of

 

Lake Brule: thence along the shore of Lake Brule to the center of

 

the main channel of the River Brule: thence down the main channel

 

of the Rivers Brule and Menominee to the mouth of the Menominee

 

River: thence with the boundary line of the State of Wisconsin in

 

Green Bay, as defined in the Decree of the United States Supreme

 

Court entered March Sixteenth, 1936 297 U.S. 547; thence with the

 

said boundary line of the State of Wisconsin to Point G in Lake

 

Michigan, as defined in 1947 PA 267, MCL 2.201 to 2.208 thence

 

along the boundary line of the State of Wisconsin in Lake Michigan

 

to Point A, the southeast corner of the State of Wisconsin, as

 

defined in 1947 PA 267, MCL 2.201 to 2.208 thence southerly through

 

Lake Michigan with the boundary line of the State of Illinois

 

described in chapter 67, 3 Stat. 428 to the northern boundary line

 

of the state of Indiana, as that line was established by the act of

 

Congress of the nineteenth of April, 1816; chapter 57, 3 Stat. 289,

 

thence east with the northern boundary line of the said state of

 

Indiana to the northeast corner thereof; and thence south with the

 

eastern boundary line of the said State of Indiana to the place of

 

beginning.

 

     (3) This description shall be printed in the Michigan Manual

 

and successor publications with an unofficial appropriate general

 

reference map.

 

     Sec. 2. All official publications of the state of Michigan

 

issued after the passage of this act, in which the total area ,

 

total land area or total water area of Michigan are is stated,

 

shall use the figures set forth figure provided in section 1.