HB-5255, As Passed House, February 13, 2014
SUBSTITUTE FOR
HOUSE BILL NO. 5255
A bill 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) For the purpose of acquiring necessary right-of-
ways,
every such corporation, association or person is hereby
granted
the right of condemnation A
person described in section 1
may
condemn property by eminent domain , and the may use of the
highways
in this state , for the purpose of transporting petroleum
by
pipe lines, and the location, laying, constructing, maintaining
and
operations thereof; and such condemnation 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
in accordance with the same procedure and in the same
manner
as is provided by the laws of this state for the
condemnation
of right-of-ways by railroad companies.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.