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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:
June 04, 2026, Introduced by Reps. Schuette, Fairbairn and Farhat and referred to Committee on
Transportation and Infrastructure.
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Sec. 20. (1) All public highways for which the right of way 1
has at any time been dedicated, given, or purchased, shall be and 2
remain a highway of the width so dedicated, given, or purchased, 3
and no encroachments by fences, buildings, or otherwise which may 4
have been made since the purchase, dedication, or gift nor any 5
encroachments which were within the limits of such right of way at 6
the time of such purchase, dedication, or gift, and no 7
encroachments which may hereafter be made, shall give the party or 8
parties, firm, or corporation so encroaching, any title or right to 9
the land so encroached upon. 10
(2) The failure of a board of county road commissioners to 11
order the removal of any encroachment or obstruction within a 12
public highway shall not be used as evidence of the intention of 13
the board to abandon the public highway by operation of common law 14
or any other legal theory. 15