Act No. 84

Public Acts of 2014

Approved by the Governor

April 1, 2014

Filed with the Secretary of State

April 1, 2014

EFFECTIVE DATE: April 1, 2014

STATE OF MICHIGAN

97TH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2014

Introduced by Reps. Stallworth and Nesbitt

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 5255

AN ACT to amend 1929 PA 16, entitled “An act to regulate the business of carrying or transporting, buying, selling or dealing in crude oil or petroleum or its products, through pipe lines; to authorize the use of public highways and the condemnation of private property; to regulate the purchase and storage of crude oil or petroleum; to provide for the control and regulation of all corporations, associations and persons engaged in such business, by the Michigan public utilities commission; to define the powers and duties of the commission in relation thereto; and to prescribe penalties for violations of the provisions hereof,” by amending section 2 (MCL 483.2).

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 2. (1) A person described in section 1 is granted the right to condemn property by eminent domain and the use of the highways in this state to acquire necessary rights-of-way for any of the following purposes:

(a) To transport crude oil or petroleum or carbon dioxide substances.

(b) To locate, lay, construct, maintain, and operate pipelines for the purposes of subdivision (a).

(2) Condemnation proceedings under subsection (1) shall be conducted as provided in the uniform condemnation procedures act, 1980 PA 87, MCL 213.51 to 213.75.

Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless all of the following bills of the 97th Legislature are enacted into law:

(a) House Bill No. 4885.

(b) House Bill No. 5254.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Secretary of the Senate

Approved

Governor