Michigan
Chapter 247 — Highways
318 entries
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247.41 Highway bordering on lake or stream; abandonment, discontinuation, alteration, or vacation.
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247.42 Highway bordering on lake or stream; application signed by landowners.
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247.43 Highway bordering on lake or stream; hearing; notice; publication; posting; service.
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247.44 Highway bordering on lake or stream; court order; operation and maintenance of property; effect of noncompliance with subsection (3); reopening road ending; closur
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247.45 Highway bordering on lake or stream; appeal.
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247.46 “Adjacent” and “highway” defined.
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247.61 Commissioner of noxious weeds; appointment, term, removal, report.
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247.62 Noxious weeds; definition; exclusion of milkweed.
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247.63 Noxious weeds; eradication; duty of commissioner.
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247.64 Destruction of noxious weeds; duty of owner, commissioner, agent, and department of natural resources and environment; notice; ordinance; resolution; expenses; lie
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247.64a Cutting of weeds by township, city, or village; publication of notice; charging cost to owner; provisions inapplicable to railroads.
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247.65 Noxious weeds; means of eradication; limitation of expense.
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247.66 Noxious weeds; prosecution of violators of act.
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247.67 Commissioner; annual report, contents.
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247.68 Department of agriculture; duty to enforce law; cooperation with commissioners.
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247.69 Board of supervisors; auditing accounts of commissioner; payment.
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247.70 County board of commissioners; appropriation; powers; penalties; jurisdiction.
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247.71 Railroads; failure to comply, penalty.
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247.72 Highways; noxious weeds; duty of officials to prevent growth.
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247.121 Transfer of surplus funds.
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247.171 Encroachments; removal order, service; temporary permit.
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247.171a Rights-of-way, bridges, towers, and welcome centers; use to provide travel-related information through electronic technologies.
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247.172 Encroachments; removal by commissioner, penalty, expense charged to occupant, collection by tax; limitation.
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247.173 Encroachments; denied, notice to commissioner; trespass action.
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247.174 Trespass action; brought by commissioner.
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247.175 Trespass action; pleadings and trial.
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247.176 Trespass action; trial and verdict.
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247.177 Trespass action; trial and appeal.
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247.178 Encroachment; removal by commissioner; penalty on owner or occupant for neglect.
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247.179 Encroachment; removal, interference, penalty.
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247.180 Loose obstructions, logs, or wood; notice to remove; removal; removal by commissioner, sale; proceeds, disposition.
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247.181 Loose obstructions, logs, or wood; no value, compensation for removing.
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247.182 Obstructions; road fence if dangerous, penalty.
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247.183 Public utilities, cable television companies, broadband companies, and municipalities; construction and maintenance of structures; consent of governing body; cons
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247.184 Consent of county or state to construction.
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247.184a Surveillance of occupied manhole; exceptions; training and duties of second employee.
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247.185 Paramount rights of public; injury to trees and shrubs; regulation of rights.
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247.186 Public utility; placing poles, fixtures, wires, or cables.
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247.187 Encroachments; removal, expense of removal by commissioner.
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247.188 Obstructions to traffic; moving; permit, bond; penalty.
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247.189 Repealed.
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247.190 Width of highway; encroachment does not give right to land.
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247.191 Act inapplicable to encroachments and obstructions erected under MCL 257.1701 et seq.
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247.201 Private roads; ingress and egress, application.
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247.211 Isolated lands; road established, width, record.
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247.221 Temporary road for transportation of forest products.
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247.241 Trees or shrubs; unlawful cutting, destruction; penalty.
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247.242 Trees or shrubs; planting and protection.
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247.291 Closing highways or bridges for construction or repair; barriers.
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247.291a Barrier requirements; closure of freeways or bridges; exception.
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247.291b Definitions.
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247.292 Closing of highways or bridges for construction or repair; detours, notices, removal of barriers on completion of work.
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247.293 Refusal to provide barriers; penalty.
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247.311 Highways; definition.
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247.312 Automatic or mechanically operated barricading devices.
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247.313 Barricading devices on highway; automatic; warning signs, size, wording, distance.
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247.314 Barricading devices; expense.
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247.321 Driveways, banners and parades on highways; definitions.
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247.322 Permit; requirement, local ordinances.
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247.323 Permits to temporarily close highway and for banners, decorations, or similar objects; issuance; requests; arrangements for handling highway traffic; section inap
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247.324 Permit; driveways; rules.
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247.325 Rules; local adoption.
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247.326 Permit; issuance requirements; revocation.
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247.327 Correction of driveway in violation of rules; applicability; notice; failure to correct; reimbursement; "constructed or reconstructed" defined.
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247.328 Construction of act.
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247.329 Authorization of city or village to issue permits with respect to state trunk line highways; conditions; permit issued by city pursuant to MCL 257.1701 et seq.
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247.331 Bus passenger shelters; definitions.
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247.332 Bus passenger shelters; construction on highways, municipal consent.
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247.333 Bus passenger shelters; county and state highways, consent.
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247.334 Bus passenger shelters; construction, municipal supervision.
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247.335 Bus passenger shelters; convenience of public.
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247.336 Bus passenger shelters; advertisements, approval.
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247.341 Signs marking township limits.
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247.351 Highways within townships; contracts, structures included.
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247.352 Highways within townships; contracts, contents; approval by electors, board of county road commissioners; execution.
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247.353 Highways within townships; funds.
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247.354 Bonds issued in anticipation of sales tax money; additional security; irrevocable pledge and appropriation; annual debt service requirements; limitation; successi
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247.355 General obligation bonds.
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247.356 Townships and boards of county road commissioners; enlargement of powers.
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247.361 Snow removal from private ways; request; contract; liability; validity of snow removal operations.
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247.362 Snow removal; service charges, determination; reimbursement of county.
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247.363 Snow removal; advance payment, disposition of funds.
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247.391 Contract for maintenance of private roads; special assessment district; petition.
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247.392 Allocation of costs; notice of public hearings.
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247.393 Procedures and requirements.
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247.394 Annual program; duration of program; assessment period.
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247.395 “Maintenance” defined.
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247.396 Contract with board of county road commissioners.
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247.397 Repealed.
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247.398 Repeal of MCL 247.371 to 247.375.
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247.401 Definitions.
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247.402 Tourist-oriented directional signs and markers; placement program; contract with nongovernmental entity.
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247.403 Directional sign program; participation by operator of tourist-oriented activity; application; fee; determination; appeal; issuance of permit; order canceling per
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247.404 Sign specifications; symbols; multiple signs; location.
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247.405 Permit fee; calculation; public notice.
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247.415-247.417 Repealed.
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247.418 Review of roll; notice, posting, publishing, service.
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247.419 Hearing of objections; adjournment; roll, approval, filing of copy.
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247.420 Yearly roll for divided improvement.
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247.421 Rolls; computation of cost, total.
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247.422 Rolls; tax assessment, certification, collection of tax; township exemption.
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247.422a Lands assessed for Covert road; purchase of part or interest; apportionment of assessment, procedure; expenses.
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247.423 Division of roll for total cost of improvement by number of years in which assessment paid; interest charge; payment of full tax; notice of taxes paid in full and
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247.424 Interest on annual installments; preparation of annual tax rolls or assessments; delivery and collection of rolls for successive installments; hearing of objectio
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247.425 Money collected; disposition; disbursement; interest; secured deposits; limitation on acceptable assets; designation of financial institution; “financial institut
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247.426, 247.427 Repealed.
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247.428 Certification of sums to be paid.
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247.429 Deficiency assessments; surplus, crediting, transfer.
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247.431 Orders on improvement fund; payment, limitation.
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247.432 Donation of money; application, return.
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247.433 Taxes; interest charges, collection, powers of collecting officers, return as delinquent, lien.
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247.434 Taxes; rejection; reassessment.
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247.435 Taxes; apportionment on parcels; notice of hearing; correction of roll.
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247.436 Legality of proceedings, evidence; finality of determination.
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247.437 Petition for improvement; transmission to proper authorities.
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247.438 Deputy; acting for commissioner, legal effect.
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247.440 Jurisdiction over highways in more than one county.
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247.441 Appeal by municipality; application for board of review, limitations; authorized representative.
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247.442 Appeal by municipality; hearing, notice; board of review or joint board; appointment, meeting, notice, duties.
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247.443 Board of review; duty, limitation, oath.
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247.444 Board of review; hearing, view of lands, correction of errors, additions; hearing of objections on change; decision, preparation and finality.
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247.445 Costs of appeals.
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247.446 Appeal by land owner; application for board of review; bond, liability, costs.
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247.447 Appeal by land owner; board of review, appointment, eligibility, notice; hearing, notice; assessment district in more than one county.
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247.448 Apportionment final; hearing, duties of board; boundaries of districts.
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247.449 Hearing; adjournment.
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247.450 Determination; certification, finality.
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247.451 Vacancy on board; filling.
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247.452 Assessment rolls; spread and collection; delayed report of rolls, subsequent installments.
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247.453 Tax set aside; new proceedings.
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247.454 Apportionment based on benefits; description of lands.
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247.456 Drainage; petition of commissioner.
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247.457 Legal and clerical service, expenses.
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247.458 Record of proceedings; supplies.
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247.459 County road commissioners; annual report.
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247.460 County road commissioners; administrative board.
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247.461 County road commissioners; disqualification to act; procedure; special road commissioner.
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247.462 Repealed.
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247.463 Estimates and certificates of completed work; payments on contracts, prerequisites, portion withheld.
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247.464 Repealed.
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247.465 Contracts under $500; payments.
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247.466 Certiorari; notice, hearing, bond; proceedings, setting aside; costs; postponement in letting of contracts.
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247.467 Tax assessment; irregularities not prejudicial; presumptions; prima facie evidence; absent or omitted records; signing of papers; deeds.
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247.468 Limitation of actions; tax payment under protest; suit against county.
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247.469 Injunction restricted.
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247.470 Faulty proceedings; collection of tax; new proceedings.
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247.471 Delinquent tax; collection.
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247.472 Tax set aside; parties to action.
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247.473 Tax set aside; new proceedings.
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247.474 Proceedings; recommencement; notice of hearing; credit for tax paid.
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247.476 Saving clause.
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247.477 Clerical errors; correction.
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247.478 Clerical errors; notice of review and correction.
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247.479 Clerical errors; correction of omissions, descriptions, acreage, apportionment of benefits.
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247.480 Correction of tax in next assessment roll.
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247.481 Change in apportionment or tax; restriction.
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247.482-247.487 Repealed.
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247.651 State trunk line highway system; additions and deletions; operating license agreement with regional transit authority to operate public transit system; lane desig
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247.651a State trunk line highway system; construction, maintenance, improvement; control of state highway commissioner; change in line of road.
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247.651b Cost of maintaining state trunk line highways; preservation of aesthetic and historic character of abutting national historic landmark; service plaza prohibited.
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247.651c Cost of opening, widening, and improving state trunk line highways.
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247.651d Contract for joint participation in cost; approval; renegotiation; local taxation; bonds; special assessment.
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247.651e Contract with city or village for joint participation in cost; assumption by board of county road commissioners, approval.
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247.651f State trunk lines; cancellation of municipal obligations; assumption by state.
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247.651g Pavement management system.
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247.651h Life-cycle cost analysis; "life-cycle cost" defined; substitutes for requirements listed in subsection (3).
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247.651i Demonstration projects.
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247.651j Road innovation task force; purpose; report; availability of report to public; update of finalized report; deposit of amount into state treasury; roads innovatio
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247.652 Tentative system of county primary roads; selection and certification; check and review; approval; county primary road system.
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247.653 Tentative system of county primary roads; roads included or deleted.
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247.654 Tentative system of county primary roads; roads under jurisdiction of county road commissioners; certification and review.
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247.655 Tentative system of county primary roads; official name; establishment, certification, and approval.
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247.655a Seasonal county road system.
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247.656 Tentative system of streets; selection and certification; approval.
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247.657 Tentative system of streets; included or deleted.
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247.658 Tentative system of streets; streets not included, certification and approval.
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247.659 Tentative system of streets; official name; establishment and certification.
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247.659a Definitions; transportation asset management council; creation; charge; membership; appointments; Michigan infrastructure council; staff and technical assistance
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247.659b Contracts to construct or repair roads or bridges; assistance to minority business enterprises; notice to legislative committees; definitions; other duties of de
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247.659c Review of adequacy of surface transportation and aeronautics service provision and finance; appointment of task force by governor; duties; membership; citizens a
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247.659d "Port facility" definition.
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247.660 Michigan transportation fund; establishment; use of appropriated money; programs; allocation to transportation economic development fund; establishment of local b
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247.660a Transferred mileage; worth per mile of county primary and local roads; determination of money to be transferred; jurisdictional transfers made after July 1, 1992
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247.660b Comprehensive transportation fund.
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247.660c Definitions.
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247.660d Comprehensive transportation fund; distribution.
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247.660e Comprehensive transportation fund; appropriation and expenditure; order of priority; capital grants; instructions; submission of local transportation program to
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247.660f Repealed.
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247.660g Rules.
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247.660h Report by state transportation commission to legislature, governor, and auditor general; contents; audit; cost; submission of audit report and management letter
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247.660i Repealed.
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247.660j Ineligibility for grant or distribution; accrued pension or retirement liabilities.
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247.660k Nonmotorized transportation services and facilities; expenditures; improvements as qualified nonmotorized facility; meeting requirements of section; 5-year progr
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247.660l Return of audit as credit to cities, villages, and townships; expenditure of credit; use of unexpended credit; final decision; expenditure by county as condition
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247.660m Schedule.
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247.660n Comprehensive transportation fund; distribution of funds; notes.
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247.660o Allocation of federal funds to local jurisdictions; distributions; local federal aid exchange program.
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247.660p Definitions; complete streets policy; duties of state transportation commission; consultation by department or county road agency with municipality; agreements f
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247.660r Tolling highways; feasibility study and strategic implementation plan; written report.
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247.660s Maritime and port facility assistance office; responsibilities and duties.
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247.661 State trunk line fund; separate fund; appropriation; purposes; order of priority; expenditures; borrowing by local road agency; deductions; approval; notice; borr
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247.661a Use of agricultural additives pilot program; report to legislature.
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247.661b Repealed.
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247.661c Construction or preservation projects to be performed by contract awarded by competitive bidding; other method; findings; report; "local road agency" defined.
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247.661d Report to legislature on changes in department's accounting system.
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247.661e Local program fund; creation; purpose; distribution of funds; local federal match program; use.
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247.661f Funds received under local federal match program; projects; submission; grant awards; criteria; unused bond proceeds; reports; distribution of remaining funds; a
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247.661g Movable bridge fund; contract with person or agency having jurisdiction of publicly owned movable bridge; operational procedures and costs; "operational costs" d
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247.661h Local agency wetland mitigation board fund; advisory board; duties.
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247.661i Local grade separation grant program.
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247.661j Prioritization parameters of funding applications; railroad crossing projects; local grade separation grant program.
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247.662 Return to county treasurers of amount distributed to county road commissions; manner, purposes, terms, and conditions; statewide purchasing pools; expenditures; u
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247.662a Snow removal; distribution of amount returned to county road commission.
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247.662b County urban system; distribution of amounts returned; urban area boundaries.
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247.662c Placing county primary road under jurisdiction of city or village; request; response by county road commission; appeal; hearing; determination.
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247.663 Return of distribution to city and village treasurers; manner, purpose, and conditions; audits; pavement warranties; permissible city or village expenditures; def
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247.663a Acquisition of private property within right of way of highway project; expenditure of revenue.
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247.663b Contracts between county road commissions for purchase or use of equipment or machinery.
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247.663c Neighborhood roads fund; administration; distribution.
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247.664 Biennial primary road and major street programs; separate accounts; records; annual report; expenditures for administration, engineering, and record keeping; nonc
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247.664a Expenditures to pay cost of drain assessments; rules.
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247.665 Reports showing disposition of funds appropriated, apportioned, or allocated; other information.
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247.665a Intergovernmental highway corridor planning preservation committees.
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247.665b Mowing right-of-way of public road.
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247.666 Forfeiture of funds.
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247.667 Certifications required; warrants; checks; mandamus; report.
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247.667a Office of audit; creation; head; duties, functions, and responsibilities.
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247.668 Repealed.
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247.668a Michigan transportation fund; payment of notes, bonds, or other indebtedness; notes and bonds not general obligations of state.
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247.668b State transportation commission; bonds and notes.
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247.668c Counties; bonds.
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247.668d Contracts between governmental units for construction or reconstruction of highways; contributions; pledges; bonds; applicability of revised municipal finance ac
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247.668e Bonds of governmental unit; maturities; interest; measuring maximum annual principal and interest requirements; certification of state transportation commission
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247.668f Approval of construction; sale price of bonds.
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247.668g Bonds; protection of outstanding bonds.
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247.668h Bonds; negotiability; payment, exemption from taxation.
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247.668i Cumulative authority of act.
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247.668j Annual certification that certain employee-related conditions met; failure to make certification; withholding distributions to local road agency; website.
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247.668k List of projects for which notes or bonds to be issued.
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247.668l Borrowing money and issuing notes or bonds in anticipation of federal funds.
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247.668m Borrowing from a state infrastructure bank program.
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247.669 Roads, streets, and alleys taken over as county roads.
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247.670 Unexpended balances of township funds; appropriation for local road maintenance or improvement; additional powers; snow removal in Marquette county townships.
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247.670a Contract for preservation of county local road system within township.
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247.671 Repeal.
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247.672 Effective date of act.
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247.673 Effective upon passage of certain act.
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247.674 Refunding bonds or advance refunding bonds.
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247.675 Truck safety fund and Michigan truck safety commission; establishment; administration of fund; duty of commission; appointment, qualifications, and terms of commi
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247.701 Borrowing money and issuing bonds; purposes; bonds subject to revised municipal finance act; refunding bonds; sale; refund prohibited under certain conditions.
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247.702 Authorization of bonds; cities and villages; resolution, approval, publication, contents.
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247.703 Bonds; principal and interest; payment; additional security; existing contract rights; priority.
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247.704 Issuance of bonds for highway purposes; cities and villages; successive borrowing.
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247.705 Revenues set aside; source.
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247.706 Repealed.
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247.707 Prohibition of pledges.
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247.751 Highway surveys on public and private property; liability.
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247.781 Definitions.
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247.783 State safety oversight entity; powers and duties.
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247.785 Office of rail; designation as state safety oversight entity; powers and duties; limitation.
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247.787 State safety oversight entity; legal and financial independence; funding; limitation; activities; conflict of interest policy.
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247.801 Definitions.
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247.802 Office of state highway commissioner abolished; transfer of power and duties; references.
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247.803 State transportation commission; appointment and terms of members; vacancies; bond.
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247.804 State transportation commission; officers; quorum; transaction of business.
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247.805 Director; appointment, qualifications, and term; deputy director.
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247.805a Bureau of urban and public transportation; chief administrative officer; deputy director of state transportation department.
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247.806 State highway commission; transitional powers.
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247.806a Powers of director.
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247.806b Film production located in state; authorization by director or commission to use property; exception; cooperation with Michigan film office; definitions.
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247.807 Powers and duties of commission.
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247.807a Definitions; partial payments to contractor; retaining portion of total amount earned; specifications; escrow account; escrow agent; escrow agreement; terms.
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247.808 Adoption of bylaws by commission.
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247.809 Rules; violation as misdemeanor.
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247.809a Conducting business at public meeting; notice.
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247.810 State highway commission; issuance and execution of documents and instruments.
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247.811 State highway commission; compensation, expenses, meetings, offices.
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247.812 State highway commission; conflict of interest.
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247.813 State highway commission; records of acts, proceedings, and transactions.
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247.813a Availability of writings to public.
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247.814 Replacement of state highway commissioner on boards, commissions, authorities, and agencies.
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247.815 Repeal.
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247.816 Effective date of certain sections.
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247.841 Governor's cooperation to obtain benefits granted in federal highway safety act; acceptance and use of federal funds.
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247.851 Transfer of jurisdiction over highways; definitions.
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247.852 Transfer of jurisdiction; consent required; agreement, contents; effective date.
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247.853 Transfer of jurisdiction; non-consent, proceedings to determine question; time for granting.
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247.854 Determination board; membership appointment.
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247.855 Board; conducting business at public meeting; notice of meeting; date and place of hearing; notice to parties; hearing testimony and receiving evidence; reconveni
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247.856 Determination of board; factors.
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247.857 Final determination of board; time; notice; effect of denial; effective date.
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247.858 Determination of board; contents; transferor's duties; renovation, costs.
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247.859 Compensation and expenses of board; payment.
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247.860 Transfers not subject to act.
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247.861 Laws superseded; exception.
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247.901 Definitions.
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247.902 Transportation economic development fund and office of economic development; establishment; purposes; sources of revenue.
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247.903 Allocation of funds for projects; notice; hearings; funding projects under MCL 247.907(3) and 247.909(1)(a); coordination of projects; department as contracting a
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247.905 Repealed.
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247.906 Applications for projects; solicitation; form.
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247.907 Submission of application; minimum requirements.
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247.908 Initial review of application; criteria; recommendation; consultation; informing appropriations committees; hearings as condition to committing funds.
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247.909 Project categories; requirements; criteria.
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247.910 Cost of project; matching funds; evaluation criteria.
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247.911 Bonds; issuance; purpose; appropriation of fund revenue; percentages; distribution to certain targeted industries.
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247.912 Selection and designation of projects by urban task force; failure to submit qualified projects; proposing project result evaluation criteria; annual report; admi
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247.912a Recommendations of regional rural task force for funding projects; failure to submit qualified projects; composition of task force; basis for funding projects; a
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247.913 Annual report to governor and legislature.
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247.914 Repealed.
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247.951 Definitions.
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247.952 Intent of the legislature.
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247.953 Heritage routes; characteristics.
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247.954 Pure Michigan byways; establishment; considerations; designation; trademark license; action by local government.
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247.955 Repealed.
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247.956 Planning, design, reconstruction, and maintenance of Pure Michigan byways; criteria.
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247.957 Additions, deletions, or changes.
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247.957a Designation of routes as Pure Michigan byways.
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247.958 Report.