All of the lands belonging to the state and being in township 16 north, range 9 east, in Wild Fowl bay, in the county of Huron, in this state, commonly known as the "middle ground," lying between Maison island, in Saginaw bay, and the main land, are set apart and dedicated for a public shooting or hunting ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people of this state.

     A person who has located upon or occupied or in the future locates upon or occupies any part of the lands described in this subpart, except as provided in this subpart, is a trespasser and may be prosecuted as a trespasser upon the public lands in the manner provided by law.

     A person may go upon any parts of the lands described in this subpart at any and all times permitted by the game laws of this state for the purpose of hunting or shooting wildfowl or game. However, a person shall not hunt or shoot wildfowl or game on the lands, or any part of the lands, described in this subpart at any season or time or manner that is not permitted by the game laws of this state, and any person violating any game laws of this state by hunting wildfowl or game on any of the lands described in this subpart shall be punished as provided by law.

     Public shooting grounds described in this subpart are under the control of the department. The department may make, publish, and enforce reasonable rules and regulations for the care and preservation of the shooting grounds, for the maintenance of good order, and for the protection of property as from time to time are necessary or expedient. If the department makes any rules or regulations pertaining to the management or welfare of the shooting grounds, the department may enforce the rules or regulations and cause a person violating any rule or regulation to be punished for that violation in the manner set forth in this subpart. All rules and regulations made by the department under the authority of this subpart or any other part or act shall be effective within the whole territory referred to in this subpart. A person who violates this subpart or any of the rules and regulations prescribed by the department is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment for not less than 10 days or more than 60 days, or a fine of not more than $50.00, or both.

     All of that part of Lake Erie lying adjacent to the surveyed lands of Monroe and Wayne counties and any submerged lands within the surveyed lines of these counties and connected with Lake Erie and the Detroit river, providing the surveyed lands are owned by the state, are set apart and dedicated for a public shooting or hunting ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people of the state, for a distance extending 1 mile into Lake Erie, the eastern line of the submerged lands and waters reserved by this subpart being 1 mile distant from the surveyed lines of the east side of Monroe and Wayne counties and parallel to those surveyed lines. This reservation and dedication shall not interfere with or detract from any rights or privileges as to fishing now enjoyed by any person or the public.

     A person who has located upon or occupied or in the future locates upon or occupies any part of the submerged lands or lake described in this subpart, except as provided in this subpart, is a trespasser and may be prosecuted as a trespasser upon the public lands in the manner provided by law. However, the waters shall be free for all purposes of navigation.

     A person shall not cut or otherwise destroy the rushes and other submarine vegetation growing on the reserve described in this subpart without the consent of the boards of commissioners of Monroe and Wayne counties. A person who willfully cuts or destroys the same, or causes that cutting or destruction to be done, knowingly, is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment for not more than 90 days or a fine of not more than $100.00.

     All of the swamp or submerged lands lying along the borders of Lakes Erie, Huron, Michigan, Superior, and St. Clair, except such parts of the "St. Clair Flats," so-called, as have been, prior to January 1, 1899, actually occupied, built up, cultivated, or improved to the extent of at least $25.00, within the boundaries of the state, and within the limits described in this section, and also all swamp or submerged lands adjoining these lakes, or in the bayous adjoining or emptying into these lakes, and also all swamp or submerged lands contiguous to and lying along the shores of the Kalamazoo river, Grand river, and Muskegon river, which now belong to the state, or to which the state later acquires title, are set apart and dedicated for a public shooting and hunting ground, for the benefit and enjoyment of the people of the state. This park shall extend to the state line into the respective lakes from the shoreline of the lakes, and the outer boundary of the park shall be the center line of the lakes or the boundary of the state. The park described in this subpart shall include all swamp or submerged lands lying between the shoreline and the outer boundary. The premises described in this subpart do not include any islands in any of the lakes to which the state does not have title, unless the state first acquires title. The park shall also include the swamp or submerged lands owned or acquired by the state that border upon the lakes or in or upon the bayous emptying into the lakes.

    (1) If the state acquires title to any swamp or submerged lands within the limits described in section 41508, whether by purchase, escheat, forfeiture, tax bid, or tax title, the lands shall be, by operation of this subpart, included in the park described in this subpart and shall not be offered for sale by the state.

    (2) This section does not apply to a conveyance made pursuant to a public act or a conveyance ratified pursuant to section 41510.

     All conveyances made before July 1, 1977, by or for and on behalf of the state conveying swamp or submerged lands described in section 41508 or 41509 are ratified and declared to have passed good and sufficient title to the lands conveyed.

     The reservation and dedication in section 41508 shall not interfere with or detract from any rights or privileges of fishing now enjoyed by private persons or the public, but the park described in this subpart shall be subject to the fish and game laws of this state in the same manner as though there had been no dedication. The waters in this park shall be free for all purposes of navigation. This subpart shall not interfere with the common law right of riparian owners to dockage and wharfage, and shall not interfere in any manner with dock or harbor lines or regulations of any municipality or of the state.

     A person who has located upon or occupied or in the future locates upon or occupies any part of the park set aside in section 41508, except as provided in this subpart, is a trespasser against the state, and an action may be brought against the person in the name of the people of the state by the prosecuting attorney or the board of supervisors of any county in which the trespass occurs, and no statute of limitations shall be considered operative against the state so as to bar any suit or proceeding brought by or on behalf of the state regarding the possession of these swamp or submerged lands.

     The board of commissioners of each county shall have the care and control of that part of the park described in this subpart within its own boundaries and that part lying opposite and immediately adjoining in the Great Lakes. The respective boards of commissioners, in their discretion, may allow the cutting or destruction of the rushes and submarine vegetation growing in the park in or opposite their respective counties.

     A person shall not cut or otherwise destroy, or cause the cutting or destruction of, any rushes or other submarine vegetation growing on the park described in this subpart without the consent of the board of commissioners of the county to which that portion of the park is immediately adjoining; and any person who willfully cuts or destroys the same, or causes such cutting or destruction to be done, is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment for not more than 90 days, or a fine of not more than $100.00 and costs of prosecution, or both.

     A person shall not willfully scare or drive wild ducks or other wild waterfowl, or cause the same to be done, from or away from any person lawfully hunting wild ducks or wild waterfowl within the park described in this subpart, for the purpose of depriving or attempting to deprive the person of any or all of his or her opportunities of shooting or hunting the wild duck or other wild waterfowl. A person who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment for not more than 90 days, or a fine of not more than $100.00 and costs of prosecution, or both. This subpart does not detract from the right of passage over the waters described in this subpart, in good faith, or in the ordinary course of navigation.