Owner's consent to highway or logging railroad; temporary highway deemed private highway; payment of expenses and damages; cutting trees.
MCL 229.9
in effect229.9. Owner's consent to highway or logging railroad; temporary highway deemed private highway; payment of expenses and damages; cutting trees.
Sec. 9.
A highway or logging railroad shall not be laid out along or upon any road made or caused to be made by the owner of any land or by any person with the consent of the owner and used by the person who made the same, unless the owner consents thereto in writing. Such temporary highways shall be private highways, and the expenses of their laying out, including the compensation due the township supervisor, the jury or commissioners acting as such, for the services, and damages that may be awarded on account of the taking of lands therefor, shall be paid to the supervisor by the persons applying for the same, and upon the payment they may enter upon, open and work the highways at their own and sole expense, but no trees shall be cut therein except as shall be necessary to make a track or tracks.
1909, Act 283, Eff. Sept. 1, 1909; Am. 1913, Act 335, Eff. Aug. 14, 1913; CL 1915, 4455; CL 1929, 4070; CL 1948, 229.9; Am. 1972, Act 375, Imd. Eff. Jan. 9, 1973
[FormerLaw] See section 3 of Act 327 of 1907.
Source: Michigan Legislature (legislature.mi.gov)URL: https://legislature.mi.gov/Laws/MCL?objectName=mcl-229-9Fetched: 10/20/2026