Bill Text: MI HB4973 | 2021-2022 | 101st Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Highways: local; liability for damage to bridge or highway; expand units of local government that may bring an action. Amends sec. 7, ch. X of 1909 PA 283 (MCL 230.7).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2022-06-02 - Assigned Pa 90'22 With Immediate Effect [HB4973 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2021-HB4973-Chaptered.html
Act No. 90
Public Acts of 2022
Approved by the Governor
June 6, 2022
Filed with the Secretary of State
June 6, 2022
EFFECTIVE DATE: June 6, 2022
state of michigan
101st Legislature
Regular session of 2022
Introduced by Rep. Filler
ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 4973
AN ACT to amend 1909 PA 283, entitled “An act to revise, consolidate, and add to the laws relating to the establishment, opening, discontinuing, vacating, closing, altering, improvement, maintenance, and use of the public highways and private roads; the condemnation of property and gravel therefor; the building, repairing and preservation of bridges; maintaining public access to waterways under certain conditions; setting and protecting shade trees, drainage, and cutting weeds and brush within this state; providing for the election or appointment and defining the powers, duties, and compensation of state, county, township, and district highway officials; and to prescribe penalties and provide remedies,” by amending section 7 of chapter X (MCL 230.7).
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
CHAPTER X
Sec. 7. A person that injures a bridge maintained at public expense, or a public road, by drawing logs or timber on the surface of the road or bridge, or by any other act, is liable in damages to 3 times the amount of the injury, to be recovered in a civil action, brought by the governmental entity with jurisdiction over the bridge or road, to be expended in the repair of roads under the jurisdiction of the governmental entity.
This
act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Secretary of the Senate
Approved___________________________________________
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Governor
