Bill Text: MI HB5734 | 2021-2022 | 101st Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Highways: construction and repair; use of certain traffic control devices when closing a freeway or portion of freeway; require under certain conditions. Amends sec. 1 of 1917 PA 165 (MCL 247.291) & adds secs. 1a & 1b.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-12-07 - Placed On Order Of General Orders [HB5734 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2021-HB5734-Engrossed.html
Substitute For
HOUSE BILL NO. 5734
A bill to amend 1917 PA 165, entitled
"An act to authorize highway officials to close roads under construction, improvement or repair, or any portion of a highway whereon a bridge is being constructed or repaired; to require such officials to place in good repair and to mark by proper signs suitable detours around roads, or portions of roads, which are closed hereunder; to provide suitable barriers, and lights shall be maintained at the end of such roads or portions of roads which are thus closed and at the intersections thereof with other roads; to require the removal of signs and barriers located and placed hereunder; and to provide a penalty for a violation of the provisions hereof,"
by amending section 1 (MCL 247.291) and by adding sections 1a and 1b.
the people of the state of michigan enact:
Sec. 1. The Subject to section 1a, the officials in charge of constructing, improving, or repairing highways may close any highway or portion thereof, which of highway that is under process of construction, improvement, or repair or upon which is located any bridge which that is being constructed or repaired. No A highway shall or portion of highway must not be closed under the provisions of this act until after suitable barriers have been erected at the ends of the closed highway or of the closed portion thereof, of highway, and also at the point of intersection of such the closed highway or portion thereof of highway with other highways. Suitable barriers are those which conform to the manual of uniform traffic control devices adopted pursuant to section 608 of Act No. 300 of the Public Acts of 1949, being section 257.608 of the Compiled Laws of 1948. For the purposes of this act "highway" includes roads and streets.
Sec. 1a. (1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2), if the state transportation department closes any freeway or portion of freeway under its jurisdiction for construction, improvement, or repair of that freeway, a portion of freeway, or a bridge located upon that freeway or portion of freeway, both of the following apply:
(b) If the freeway is not closed completely to traffic and a portion of the freeway is closed at any time between a half hour after sunset to a half hour before sunrise for work scheduled to be done at that time in a contract between a contractor and the state transportation department, concrete barriers or equivalent crashworthy temporary traffic barriers must separate any road workers who are present from traffic.
(2) This section does not apply if the freeway or portion of freeway described in subsection (1) is closed for not more than 3 days for an emergency repair that must be made immediately by employees, contractors, or agents of the state transportation department to protect the safety of motorists.
(a) "Crashworthy" means that term as defined in the Michigan manual on uniform traffic control devices.
(b) "Freeway" means that term as defined in section 18a of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.18a.
(c) "Highway" includes roads and streets.
(d) "Michigan manual on uniform traffic control devices" means the manual on uniform traffic control devices adopted under section 608 of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.608.
(e) "Suitable barrier" means a barrier that conforms to the Michigan manual on uniform traffic control devices.
