Bill Text: MI SB0707 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Highways; other; definition of "constructed or reconstructed" in act regulating driveway, banners, events, and parades upon and over highway; modify. Amends sec. 7 of 1969 PA 200 (MCL 247.327).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2016-12-30 - Assigned Pa 0455'16 12/30/16 Addenda [SB0707 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2015-SB0707-Engrossed.html
SB-0707, As Passed Senate, May 24, 2016
SENATE BILL No. 707
January 14, 2016, Introduced by Senator CASPERSON and referred to the Committee on Transportation.
A bill to amend 1969 PA 200, entitled
"An act to regulate driveways, banners, events, and parades upon
and over highways; to provide for the promulgation of rules; to
prescribe requirements for the issuance of permits; and to provide
for the issuance of those permits,"
by amending section 7 (MCL 247.327).
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec.
7. This act shall does not apply to driveways a driveway
in existence on August 6, 1969, except that if the use of the land
served by the driveway is changed or expanded, and the change or
expansion causes the existing driveway to be a safety hazard, the
driveway shall be considered a new driveway subject to this act. A
driveway
which that is constructed or reconstructed after the
effective
date of the rules issued pursuant to under this act and
which
that is in violation of the rules shall be corrected by
the
owner within a period of time, not less than 30 days, specified in
the
a notice of violation sent by certified mail to the
owner. If
not corrected within the period required by the notice, the highway
authority or its agents may perform the necessary correction and
the owner shall reimburse the highway authority for the reasonable
cost of correction. As used in this section, "constructed or
reconstructed" does not include maintenance activities performed on
a driveway, including, but not limited to, the placement of
additional gravel.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days
after the date it is enacted into law.
