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Code · Michigan · Chapter 324 — Natural Resources and Environmental Protection

324.32512 Acts prohibited; exceptions; activities not subject to regulation; applicability of subsection (2) to certain lands.

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324.32512 Acts prohibited; exceptions; activities not subject to regulation; applicability of subsection
(2)to certain lands.
Sec. 32512.
(1)Except as provided in subsection (2), unless a permit has been granted by the department pursuant to part 13 or authorization has been granted by the legislature, or except as to boat wells and slips facilitating private, noncommercial, recreational boat use, not exceeding 50 feet in length where the spoil is not disposed of below the ordinary high-water mark of the body of water to which it is connected, a person shall not do any of the following:
(a)Construct, dredge, commence, or do any work with respect to an artificial canal, channel, ditch, lagoon, pond, lake, or similar waterway where the purpose is ultimate connection of the waterway with any of the Great Lakes, including Lake St. Clair.
(b)Connect any natural or artificially constructed waterway, canal, channel, ditch, lagoon, pond, lake, or similar waterway with any of the Great Lakes, including Lake St. Clair, for navigation or any other purpose.
(c)Dredge or place spoil or other material on bottomland.
(d)Construct a marina.
(2)Except as provided in subsection (3), the following activities are not subject to regulation under this part:
(a)Leveling of sand, removal of vegetation, grooming of soil, or removal of debris, in an area of unconsolidated material predominantly composed of sand, rock, or pebbles, located between the ordinary high-water mark and the water's edge.
(b)Mowing of vegetation between the ordinary high-water mark and the water's edge.
(3)Subsection
(2)does not apply to lands included in the survey of the delta of the St. Clair River, otherwise referred to as the St. Clair flats, located within Clay township, St. Clair county, as provided for in 1899 PA 175.
History: Add. 1995, Act 59, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1995 ;-- Am. 2003, Act 14 , Imd. Eff. June 5, 2003 ;-- Am. 2012, Act 247 , Imd. Eff. July 2, 2012
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