Terms Used In Michigan Laws 247.187

  • 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.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
   Any person or persons, firm, corporation or municipality violating any of the provisions of this chapter, shall, upon written demand of the commissioner or commissioners having jurisdiction over the road, remove such encroachments, pipe lines, wires, cables, poles, conduits, sewers and like structures. If removal be not made within 30 days thereafter, then the said commissioner or commissioners shall have the right to remove the same and the person, persons, firm or corporation or municipality so violating, shall be liable for the amount of expense incurred in making such removal, to be collected in an action of assumpsit, or assessed upon the property of such person, persons, firm or corporation and collected in the same manner as other taxes are assessed and collected.