Michigan Laws 213.251 – Overhead and underground rights; acquisition; purposes
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Terms Used In Michigan Laws 213.251
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Devise: To gift property by will.
- Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
- state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories belonging to the United States; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
Any public corporation, authority or agency of this state empowered by law to acquire private property for the laying out, establishment or development of public streets and highways within their respective jurisdictions is hereby authorized to acquire overhead and underground rights, and rights of access, air, view and light for the laying out, establishment and development of such public streets and highways. Such rights may be acquired by gift, devise, purchase or condemnation in the same manner as such public corporation, authority or agency is now or hereafter may be authorized by law to acquire property or property rights for public purposes within the scope of its powers, either separately or in conjunction with any other property right or rights, and may also be acquired for the establishment or development of limited access highways as defined and provided for by the provisions of Act No. 205 of the Public Acts of 1941.