HOUSE BILL No. 5180


     September 30, 1997, Introduced by Reps. Birkholz, Brackenridge and Hammerstrom and referred to the Committee on Local Government.


        A bill 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 high-
   ways 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; and providing for the election or
   appointment and defining the powers, duties, and compensation of
   state, county, township, and district highway officials,"

   (MCL 220.1 to 239.6) by amending the title, as amended by 1996 PA

   218, and by adding section 1a to chapter IV.

               THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 1                                  TITLE

 2         An act to revise, consolidate, and add to the laws relating

 3    to the establishment, opening, discontinuing, vacating, closing,

 4    altering, improvement, maintenance, and use of the public

 5    highways and private roads; the condemnation of property and



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 1    gravel therefor; the building, repairing and preservation of

 2    bridges; maintaining public access to waterways under certain

 3    conditions; setting and protecting shade trees, drainage, and

 4    cutting weeds and brush within this state;  and  providing for

 5    the election or appointment and defining the powers, duties, and

 6    compensation of state, county, township, and district highway

 7    officials; AND TO PRESCRIBE PENALTIES AND PROVIDE REMEDIES.

 8                                CHAPTER IV

 9         SEC. 1A.  A PETITION UNDER SECTION 1, INCLUDING THE CIRCULA-

10    TION AND SIGNING OF THE PETITION, IS SUBJECT TO SECTION 488 OF

11    THE MICHIGAN ELECTION LAW, 1954 PA 116, MCL 168.488.  A PERSON

12    WHO VIOLATES A PROVISION OF THE MICHIGAN ELECTION LAW, 1954 PA

13    116, MCL 168.1 TO 168.992, APPLICABLE TO A PETITION DESCRIBED IN

14    THIS SECTION IS SUBJECT TO THE PENALTIES PRESCRIBED FOR THAT VIO-

15    LATION IN THE MICHIGAN ELECTION LAW, 1954 PA 116, MCL 168.1 TO

16    168.992.

17         Enacting section 1.  This amendatory act does not take

18    effect unless Senate Bill No. _____ or House Bill No. _____

19    (request no. 02378'97) of the 89th Legislature is enacted into

20    law.

















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