Michigan · statute · 205 of 1941, Mich. Comp. Laws · 11 active provisions
For the purposes of this act, limited access highways are defined as highways specially designed for through traffic, and over, from or to which owners or occupants of abutting land have no easement or right of light, air or access by reason of such abuttal. Such highways may be parkways, with or without landscaped roa…
(1) The state transportation department, a board of county road commissioners, or a city or village, acting alone or in cooperation with each other or with a federal, state, or local agency having authority to participate in the construction and maintenance of highways, may establish, open, discontinue, vacate, close,…
For the purposes of this act, the aforesaid agencies may acquire private property and property rights by purchase, gift, devise, or condemnation, and the provisions of any existing laws of this state shall apply. All property rights acquired under the provisions of this act shall be in fee simple or other appropriate e…
Whenever it becomes necessary to acquire any real property for use in connection with the location, construction, reconstruction, improvement and maintenance of any limited access highway or section thereof, said agencies may in their discretion acquire an entire lot, block, or tract of land, if by so doing the interes…
Any such agency shall have authority to provide for the elimination of intersections of limited access highways with existing state and county roads, city and village streets and private driveways, by grade separation, access or service road, or by closing off such roads, streets and driveways at the boundary line of s…
Whenever the state highway commissioner and any county, city or village shall agree to acquire, construct, or improve any limited access highway or highways as defined by this act, the state highway commissioner shall procure plans and specifications for such project and an estimate of the cost thereof. The board of co…
The state highway commissioner and any county, city or village, after approval of the plans and specifications and estimate of cost as aforesaid, may enter into a contract or contracts providing for the acquisition, construction or improvement of the limited access highways proposed, which contract or contracts shall p…
For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act, and to enable limited access highways to be constructed, the state transportation commission is authorized to make annual contributions to the cost of construction of limited access highways as provided in this act, and to make an irrevocable pledge of funds o…
For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act, each county, city or village which is a party to a contract or contracts as herein authorized, for the construction of such limited access highways is authorized to make annual contributions to the cost thereof as hereinbefore provided, and to make an irrevoca…
Each governmental unit that is a party to any such contract or contracts for the construction of limited access highways is also authorized to make an additional irrevocable pledge for a fixed period of not exceeding 30 years, of any contributions or funds received, or to be received, from the federal government or any…
(1) This act, without reference to any other statute or to any charter, shall be considered full authority for the purposes provided in this act and shall be construed as an additional and alternative method for the financing of limited access highways, any provisions of the general laws of this state or of any charter…