Bill Text: MI HB4804 | 2019-2020 | 100th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: State; other; depiction of state; clarify. Amends title & secs. 1 & 2 of 1945 PA 78 (MCL 2.1 & 2.2).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-07-02 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 07/02/2019 [HB4804 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2019-HB4804-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 4804

 

 

June 26, 2019, Introduced by Rep. Miller 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 boundaries described in this

 

act. The boundaries of this state and the coincident portions of

 

its bordering states and country are defined and located as

 

follows:

 

     (a) Beginning, for Ohio, from 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), the said northwest

 

corner further identified in the 1915 joint survey authorized by

 

1915 PA 84, for monumenting the boundary between Michigan and Ohio

 

and the official report submitted to the legislature, dated July 1,

 

1916, then easterly with the said boundary line of the state of

 

Ohio, as retraced and monumented in 1915 and, 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, then continuing through the said

 

1915 state line survey Posts 70 and 71 to the original North Cape

 

of Maumee Bay and, then northeast in Lake Erie as described in the

 

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

 

February 22, 1973, to the international boundary with Canada.

 

     (b) For Canada, running with the international boundary

 

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, being northerly through Lake Erie,

 

the Detroit River, Lake St. Clair, the St. Clair River, and

 

northerly then northwesterly through Lake Huron, the St. Marys

 

River, and westerly through Lake Superior, then continuing

 

southerly in Lake Superior to the boundary line of the state of

 

Minnesota.

 

     (c) For Minnesota, the boundaries described in 1947 PA 267,

 

MCL 2.201 to 2.207, to the boundary line of the state of Wisconsin.

 

     (d) For Wisconsin, the boundaries described in 1947 PA 267,

 

MCL 2.201 to 2.207 and the decree of the United States Supreme

 

Court entered March sixteenth, 1936; 297 US 547, into Green Bay,

 

and northeasterly and easterly out into Lake Michigan; thence

 

southerly through Lake Michigan with the boundary line of the state

 

of Wisconsin to the southeast corner of the state of Wisconsin.

 

     (e) For Illinois, the boundaries described from point A as

 

described in section 1 of 1947 PA 267, MCL 2.201, from the

 

southeast corner of the state of Wisconsin in Lake Michigan, thence

 

southerly through Lake Michigan with the boundary line of the state

 

of Illinois described in chapter 67, 3 Stat. 428, signed April

 

eighteenth, 1818, to the northern boundary line of the state of

 

Indiana.

 

     (f) For Indiana, boundaries described as established by the

 

act of congress on the nineteenth of April, 1816; chapter 57, 3

 

Stat. 289, from the boundary point with Illinois, then east with

 

the northern boundary line of the state of Indiana to the northeast

 

corner thereof, and thence south with the eastern boundary line of

 

the state of Indiana to the place of beginning as provided in

former 2010 PA 259 being the said northwest corner of the state of

 

Ohio described in subdivision (a).

 

     (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.