STREET REGULATIONS.

MCL ch. 67, subtit. Act 3 of 1895, ch. VII, div. 67.20.D10

in effect

MCL 67.20 Obstructions, encroachments; removal; offenders, punishment.

67.20. Obstructions, encroachments; removal; offenders, punishment. Sec. 20. The council shall have the power to prohibit and prevent obstructions and incumbrances in and encroachments upon the public highways, streets, and alleys of the village, and remove the same; and to punish those who shall obstruct, encumber, encroach or maintain any encroachment, upon or in any such highway, street or alley; and to require all such persons to remove every such obstruction, incumbrance or encroachment. 1895, Act 3, Imd. Eff. Feb. 19, 1895; CL 1897, 2788; CL 1915, 2659; CL 1929, 1568; CL 1948, 67.20

MCL 67.21 Trees in highways; street lighting.

67.21. Trees in highways; street lighting. Sec. 21. The council may provide for and regulate the planting of shade and ornamental trees in public highways, streets and avenues of the village, and for the protection thereof, and the trimming of all trees in or that overhang such highway, streets, or avenues, or which obstruct public lighting, and may light the streets and public places, and regulate the setting of lamps and lamp posts therein and protect the same. 1895, Act 3, Imd. Eff. Feb. 19, 1895; Am. 1897, Act 54, Eff. Aug. 30, 1897; CL 1897, 2789; CL 1915, 2660; CL 1929, 1569; CL 1948, 67.21

MCL 67.22 Public streets; excavation, regulation.

67.22. Public streets; excavation, regulation. Sec. 22. The council may regulate the making of all openings in and removals of earth from public streets, for the laying or repair of sewers, drains, tunnels, gas pipes, water pipes, or for any other purpose; and may prohibit and prevent all such openings and removals of earth except by permission of the council, and at such times and upon such terms and regulations as they may prescribe. 1895, Act 3, Imd. Eff. Feb. 19, 1895; CL 1897, 2790; CL 1915, 2661; CL 1929, 1570; CL 1948, 67.22

MCL 67.23 Public streets; regulations; enforcement; council; powers.

67.23. Public streets; regulations; enforcement; council; powers. Sec. 23. The council may regulate the use of public highways, streets, avenues, and alleys of the village, subject to the right of travel and passage therein. The council may prescribe the stands for all vehicles kept for hire, or used for the transportation of persons or property for hire; designate the places where loads of wood, coal, hay, and other articles may stand for sale; regulate traffic and sales in the streets and upon sidewalks; regulate or prohibit the display, use, or placing of signs, advertisements, banners, awnings, posts, poles, or lamps in or over the streets; regulate or prohibit sports, amusement proceedings, and gatherings of crowds in the streets that may interfere with the lawful use thereof, or render travel or passage therein inconvenient or unsafe; prohibit and prevent the running at large of animals in the streets or elsewhere in the village, and impose sanctions upon the owners or keepers responsible; cleanse and purify the streets; prohibit, prevent, remove, and abate all nuisances in the streets, require a person creating or maintaining a nuisance to remove or abate it, sanction the person for the creation or maintenance of the nuisance, and generally prescribe and enforce regulations concerning the public streets as may be necessary to secure good order and safety to persons and property in their lawful use and to promote the general welfare. In addition, the council shall have the same authority and powers over and in respect to the public streets of the village as are conferred by law upon the board of county road commissioners. 1895, Act 3, Imd. Eff. Feb. 19, 1895; CL 1897, 2791; CL 1915, 2662; CL 1929, 1571; CL 1948, 67.23; Am. 1998, Act 255, Imd. Eff. July 13, 1998

Source: Michigan Legislature (legislature.mi.gov)URL: https://legislature.mi.gov/documents/mcl/Chapter%2061.xmlFetched: 10/20/2026