Bill Text: MI SB1253 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Traffic control; traffic regulation; authorization to turn 1-way streets into 2-way streets; provide for. Amends sec. 606 of 1949 PA 300 (MCL 257.606).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2018-12-28 - Assigned Pa 0440'18 With Immediate Effect [SB1253 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2017-SB1253-Engrossed.html
SB-1253, As Passed Senate, December 6, 2018
SENATE BILL No. 1253
November 29, 2018, Introduced by Senator HANSEN and referred to the Committee on Transportation.
A bill to amend 1949 PA 300, entitled
"Michigan vehicle code,"
by amending section 606 (MCL 257.606), as amended by 2016 PA 448.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 606. (1) This chapter does not prevent a local authority
with respect to streets or highways under the jurisdiction of the
local authority and within the reasonable exercise of the police
power from doing any of the following:
(a) Regulating the standing or parking of vehicles.
(b) Regulating the impoundment or immobilization of vehicles
whose owner has failed to answer 6 or more parking violation
notices or citations regarding illegal parking.
(c) Regulating traffic by means of police officers or traffic
control signals.
(d) Regulating or prohibiting processions or assemblages on
the highways or streets.
(e) Designating particular highways as 1-way highways and
requiring that all vehicles on those highways be moved in 1
specific direction, or designating particular highways as 2-way
highways.
(f) Designating any highway as a through highway and requiring
that all vehicles stop before entering or crossing the through
highway; designating any intersection as a stop intersection and
requiring all vehicles to stop at 1 or more entrances to the
intersection; or designating any intersection as a yield
intersection and requiring all vehicles to yield the right of way
at 1 or more entrances to the intersection.
(g) Restricting the use of highways as authorized in section
726.
(h) Regulating the operation of bicycles and requiring the
registration and licensing of bicycles, including the requirement
of a registration fee.
(i) Regulating or prohibiting the turning of vehicles at
intersections.
(j) Adopting other traffic regulations as are specifically
authorized by this chapter.
(2) All traffic regulations described in subsection (1) shall
be based on standard and accepted engineering practices as
specified in the Michigan manual on uniform traffic control
devices.
(3) A local authority shall not erect or maintain a stop sign
or traffic control device that requires the traffic on any state
trunk line highway to stop before entering or crossing any
intersecting highway unless approval in writing has been first
obtained from the director of the state transportation department.
(4) An ordinance or regulation enacted under subsection
(1)(a),
(d), (e), (f), (g), (i), or (j) shall are not be
enforceable until signs giving notice of the local traffic
regulations are posted upon or at the entrance to the highway or
street or part of the highway or street affected, as may be most
appropriate, and are sufficiently legible as to be seen by an
ordinarily observant person. The posting of signs giving the notice
shall
is not be required for a local ordinance that
does not differ
from the provisions of this act regulating the parking or standing
of
vehicles ; nor to or for ordinances of general
application
throughout the jurisdiction of the municipalities enacting the
ordinances that prohibit, limit, or restrict all night parking or
parking during the early morning hours, if signs, approximately 3
feet by 4 feet, and sufficiently legible as to be seen by an
ordinarily observant person, giving notice of these ordinances
relating to all night parking or parking during the early morning
hours, are posted on highways at the corporate limits of the
municipality.
(5) A local authority, in providing by ordinance for the
impounding of any motor vehicle parked contrary to a local
ordinance, shall not require a bond or cash deposit by the owner of
the motor vehicle in excess of $500.00 in order to recover the
possession of the motor vehicle pending final adjudication of the
case.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days
after the date it is enacted into law.
