Bill Text: MI SB0277 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Vehicles; trucks; requirement that commercial vehicles weighing over 5,000 pounds display certain identification information; eliminate. Amends sec. 723 of 1949 PA 300 (MCL 257.723).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2014-10-02 - Assigned Pa 0294'14 [SB0277 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2013-SB0277-Chaptered.html
Act No. 294
Public Acts of 2014
Approved by the Governor
September 30, 2014
Filed with the Secretary of State
September 30, 2014
EFFECTIVE DATE: 91st day after final adjournment of 2014 Regular Session
STATE OF MICHIGAN
97TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2014
Introduced by Senator Hune
ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 277
AN ACT to amend 1949 PA 300, entitled “An act to provide for the registration, titling, sale, transfer, and regulation of certain vehicles operated upon the public highways of this state or any other place open to the general public or generally accessible to motor vehicles and distressed vehicles; to provide for the licensing of dealers; to provide for the examination, licensing, and control of operators and chauffeurs; to provide for the giving of proof of financial responsibility and security by owners and operators of vehicles; to provide for the imposition, levy, and collection of specific taxes on vehicles, and the levy and collection of sales and use taxes, license fees, and permit fees; to provide for the regulation and use of streets and highways; to create certain funds; to provide penalties and sanctions for a violation of this act; to provide for civil liability of manufacturers, the manufacturers of automated technology, upfitters, owners, and operators of vehicles and service of process on residents and nonresidents; to regulate the introduction and use of certain evidence; to provide for the levy of certain assessments; to provide for the enforcement of this act; to provide for the creation of and to prescribe the powers and duties of certain state and local agencies; to impose liability upon the state or local agencies; to provide appropriations for certain purposes; to repeal all other acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act or contrary to this act; and to repeal certain parts of this act on a specific date,” by amending section 723 (MCL 257.723), as amended by 2005 PA 179.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 723. (1) All towing or platform bed wreckers or road service vehicles in operation upon the public highways of this state shall have the name, city, and state or the registered logo or emblem of the registered owner of the vehicle, and lessee of the vehicle if the vehicle is being operated under lease, painted or permanently attached on each side of the vehicle in letters of not less than 3 inches in height, not lower than the bottom edge of the door. This information shall be in sharp color contrast to the background.
(2) A vehicle in compliance with the identification requirements of the federal motor carrier safety regulations, 49 CFR parts 390-399, is considered to be in compliance with this section.
(3) A person who violates this section is responsible for a civil infraction.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days after the date it is enacted into law.
Secretary of the Senate
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Approved
Governor
