Bill Text: MI HB6044 | 2025-2026 | 103rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Highways: other; failing to remove an obstruction in the right of way; prohibit from being used as evidence of abandonment. Amends sec. 20 of 1925 PA 368 (MCL 247.190).
Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Introduced) 2026-06-09 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 06/04/2026 [HB6044 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2025-HB6044-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL NO. 6044
A bill to amend 1925 PA 368, entitled
"An act to prohibit obstructions and encroachments on public highways; to provide for the removal of obstructions and encroachments on public highways; to prescribe the conditions under which telegraph, telephone, power, and other public utility companies, cable television companies, broadband companies, and municipalities may enter upon, construct, and maintain telegraph, telephone, power, cable television, or broadband lines, pipe lines, wires, cables, poles, conduits, sewers, and like structures upon, over, across, or under public roads, bridges, streets, and waters; and to prescribe penalties and provide remedies,"
by amending section 20 (MCL 247.190).
the people of the state of michigan enact:
Sec. 20. (1) All public highways for which the right of way has at any time been dedicated, given, or purchased, shall be and remain a highway of the width so dedicated, given, or purchased, and no encroachments by fences, buildings, or otherwise which may have been made since the purchase, dedication, or gift nor any encroachments which were within the limits of such right of way at the time of such purchase, dedication, or gift, and no encroachments which may hereafter be made, shall give the party or parties, firm, or corporation so encroaching, any title or right to the land so encroached upon.
(2) The failure of a board of county road commissioners to order the removal of any encroachment or obstruction within a public highway shall not be used as evidence of the intention of the board to abandon the public highway by operation of common law or any other legal theory.
