vote.

road.

road.

and to levy and collect taxes for the same. The vote of the Yea and nay county road commissioners in respect to such determination shall be taken by yeas and nays, and shall be entered at large on the records of the said board of county road commissioners. Notice of such determination shall be forthwith Notice. given by the clerk to the highway commissioner of each township and the highway authorities of each city or village in which said road or any part thereof is situated and published in some newspaper printed and circulated in the county, once in each week for three successive weeks: Provided fur- Proviso. ther, In case there is no established printing office within the county, the said clerk, or the highway commissioner may advertise in a newspaper published in an adjoining county. Proof of such service and publication may be made by affi Proof of davit by any person knowing the facts, and be filed with the service, etc. clerk. Such affidavit or the record thereof, or certified copy of such affidavit or record shall be prima facie evidence of its contents. After service and publication of such notice, Control of the board of county road commissioners shall have sole and exclusive jurisdiction and control of such road so embraced within such determination, and the township or municipality within which the same is situated shall be relieved from all responsibility therefor. Immediately after laying out or Name of taking control of a road said board shall give the same a name by which it shall afterwards be known in its proceedings. Said board is also empowered to enter into agreements with the board of county road commissioners in any adjoining county with reference to the laying out, maintenance, construction and improvement of inter-county roads, the Inter-county undertaking of each such board becoming a party to any such agreement being limited to the construction, improvement or maintenance of the portion of the road subject to the jurisdiction of such board. The board of county road Abandoncommissioners of any county which has adopted the county road system is hereby authorized and empowered to, at any time, abandon and discontinue any county road, or any part thereof, by a majority vote. The vote of the county road commissioners in respect to such abandonment and discontinuance shall be taken and entered, and notice thereof be given, in the same manner as required in this section, in cases in which county roads are adopted. After proceed- Reversion to municipality. ings to discontinue and abandon have been had, the jurisdiction in control of such road shall revert to the township or municipality within which the same is situated, which, prior to the time of its adoption as a county road, had jurisdiction and control thereof, and the county shall be relieved of the responsibility therefor.

roads.

ment.

SEC. 20. Before the first day of October of each year said Surveys, plans and specificaboard of county road commissioners shall cause preliminary tions. surveys, general plans, specifications and estimates of roads, bridges and culverts to be made by the county highway engineer, whose qualifications shall be approved by the State

Determina

tion of tax.

Limit of tax.

Highway Commissioner in case it is intended by the commissioners to apply for state reward. Based upon the above estimates, said board of county road commissioners shall determine upon the amount of tax which in its judgment should be raised for such year in said county for the purposes aforesaid, specifying and itemizing the roads and parts of . roads upon which such moneys are to be expended, stating the amount asked for each of such roads, and shall cause such determination to be entered upon its records. Such tax shall not exceed five dollars on each one thousand dollars of assessed valuation according to the assessment roll of the last preceding year in counties where such valuation does not exceed twenty millions of dollars; such tax shall not exceed four dollars on each one thousand dollars of assessed valuation according to the assessment roll of the last preceding year in counties where such valuation is more than twenty million dollars and does not exceed forty millions of dollars; such tax shall not exceed three dollars on each one thousand dollars of assessed valuation according to the assessment roll of the last preceding year in counties where such valuation is more than forty million dollars and does not exceed one hundred million dollars; such tax shall not exceed two dollars on each one thousand dollars of assessed valuation according to the assessment roll of the last preceding year in counties where such valuation is more than one hundred million dollars and does not exceed two hundred million dollars. Such tax shall not exceed one dollar on each one thousand dollars of assessed valuation according to the assessment roll of the last preceding year in counties where such valuation is more than two hundred million dollars. At the annual meeting of the board of supervisors, held in October, the county clerk shall lay such determination before the board of supervisors, and such board of supervisors, shall pass upon the said determination, and if a majority of such board of supervisors agree therewith, then such tax shall be apportioned among the several townships and cities of said county according to their equalized valuation. If the determination of the board of county road commissioners shall not meet with the approval of a majority of the board of supervisors, then the said board of supervisors shall proceed to decide upon the amount of tax to be raised for such year in such county for the purposes aforesaid and may allow or reject in whole or in part any or all of the items for the sections of roads thus submitted for its consideration; and it shall not be lawful for such county road commissioners without the consent of such board of supervisors to expend any such moneys To be kept in upon any other roads than as thus specified. It shall be the

To be laid before board

of supervisors.

When supervisors to determine amount.

reasonable

repair.

duty of the board of supervisors to raise a sufficient tax to keep any county roads or bridges already built in reasonable repair, and in condition reasonably safe and fit for public travel. After the said board of supervisors shall have decided upon the amount of tax to be raised, the said board shall

thereupon apportion such tax between the several townships and cities of said county according to their equalized valnation. The supervisors or other assessing officers in such Levy. townships and cities shall levy and apportion the taxes so apportioned as provided in this section, to their respective townships and cities respectively, upon which the county taxes are assessed. The taxes so assessed shall be collected Collection. and paid to the county treasurer the same as other county taxes. All the provisions of law relating to the assessment, levy, collection and return of county taxes and the sale of property delinquent therefor, shall apply to taxes to be raised pursuant to this act. The county treasurer shall keep a sep- Account of arate account of the taxes collected and moneys received under this act and shall pay the same out only upon the order How paid of such board of county road commissioners and upon warrants signed by the chairman and countersigned by the clerk of the board. In counties having a county auditor or board of county auditors the warrants shall pass through the hands of such county auditors and be further countersigned by them, when payment shall be made thereof by the county treasurer. All moneys raised under the provisions of this Expenditure. act shall be expended by such board of county road commissioners exclusively for the purposes herein mentioned.

CHAPTER V.

taxes.

out.

where vested.

tion, pro

SEC. 2b. The State Highway Commissioner is hereby in- Control, etc., vested with full charge and control over roads heretofore or hereafter built or maintained by the state; and shall have the same authority to purchase or condemn land for highway purposes including lands containing gravel, stone or other material used and useful in highway construction as is or may be granted by law to township highway commissioners and to county road commissioners. The procedure that is, Condemnaor may be, prescribed for condemnation proceedings insti- cedure. tuted by boards of county road commissioners, is hereby expressly made applicable to such a proceeding when brought by the State Highway Commissioner. Such right of pur- Condemnachase or condemnation shall be deemed to exist in the case deemed to of the construction or maintenance of any road built or im- exist. proved solely by the state, or by the state with federal aid, or by the state in conjunction with any of the municipalities of the state. The said commissioner may also exercise the same measure of authority as is or may be granted to county road commissioners with respect to the construction of drains when necessary for the construction or improvement of any highway within the contemplation hereof.

CHAPTER VIII.

tion, when

of highway.

SEC. 15. The Commissioner of Highways shall have power Commissioner to purchase land suitable for obtaining gravel for the use of power to purthe highways of his township. If he be able to agree with chase gravel.

with owner,

notice of

the owner thereof, he may purchase the same and pay therefor out of the general highway fund of the township, upon Disagreement the approval of the township board. Whenever said Highway Commissioner shall be unable to agree with any owner of condemnation. any parcel of such land which the said commissioner desires to purchase for graveling purposes, as to compensation to be paid therefor, the Highway Commissioner shall give notice in writing to the owner or occupant of the land, on which may be located such gravel desired for the use of the improvement of the highways of the township of his intention to condemn such land for such purposes, and all subsequent proceedings for the condemnation of such lands shall be in accordance with the provisions of law relating to the condemnation of land for highway purposes, by boards of county road commissioners.

Bridge or cul

vert over drain.

Strength.

Cost.

Proviso, apportionment of cost.

CHAPTER XV.

SEC. 2. When any drain crosses a highway, the necessary bridge or culvert shall be constructed on the center line of the highway as located by survey, and in accordance with plans and specifications which shall be approved by the county, township or district highway commissioner having jurisdiction, or by the State Highway Commissioner if such road is a trunk line road, and such bridge or culvert shall be of a permanent nature and of sufficient strength to safely carry a fifteen ton moving load. The cost of constructing the necessary bridge or culvert shall be charged in the first instance as part of the cost of construction of such drain after which such bridge or culvert shall be maintained as a part of the highway: Provided, however, That if such highway is a trunk line road, or is a county road, the State Highway Commissioner, or the board of county road commissioners, as the case may be, may assume and bear such proportion of the cost as may be agreed on between the drain commissioner and State Highway Commissioner or board. In such case however the contract for the construction of the bridge shall not be let by the drain commissioner without the written consent of the State Highway Commissioner or the board of county road Expense, how commissioners. Any such expense assumed by the state shall be met out of any funds appropriated for the State Highway Department that may be available therefor; and the proportion of the cost of any bridge to be borne by the board of county road commissioners shall be paid out of moneys in the county road fund not otherwise appropriated. When a drain passes along a highway, there shall be constructed at least one bridge or passageway across such drain connecting the highway with each enclosed field and with each farm entrance, which bridge or passageway shall also be charged in the first instance as a part of the construction of such drain, after which such bridge or passageway shall be maintained by the owner of the land.

met.

Bridges over drain along highway.

How maintained.

Approved May 18, 1921.

[No. 368.]

AN ACT to amend section sixteen, as amended by act number three hundred eighty-three of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nineteen, and section twenty-one of act number three hundred two of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred fifteen, entitled, as amended, "An act to provide for the registration, identification and regulation of motor vehicles and trailers attached thereto operated upon the public highways of this state, and of the operators of such vehicles, and to provide for levying specific taxes upon such vehicles so operated, and to provide for the disposition of such funds and to exempt from all other taxation such motor vehicles so specifically taxed, registered, identified and regulated, and to repeal all other acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith or contrary hereto," being sections four thousand eight hundred twelve and four thousand eight hundred seventeen of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

amended.

SECTION 1. Section sixteen, as amended by act number Sections three hundred eighty-three of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nineteen, and section twenty-one of act number three hundred two of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred fifteen, entitled, as amended, "An act to provide for the registration, identification and regulation of motor vehicles and trailers attached thereto operated upon the public highways of this state, and of the operators of such vehicles, and to provide for levying specific taxes upon such vehicles so operated, and to provide for the disposition of such funds and to exempt from all other taxation such motor vehicles so specifically taxed, registered, identified and regulated, and to repeal all other acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith or contrary hereto," being sections four thousand eight hundred twelve and four thousand eight hundred seventeen of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, are hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 16. Brakes, horns, lamps, et cetera. Every motor Equipment vehicle operated and driven upon the public highways of required. this state, shall be provided with adequate brakes sufficient to control the vehicle at all times, and a suitable and adequate bell, horn or other device for signaling, and shall during the period from one hour after sunset to one hour before sunrise, be equipped with and display a lamp or lamps as hereinafter provided, of sufficient power and so adjusted and operated as to enable the operator of such vehicle to proceed with safety to himself and to other users of the highways under all ordinary conditions of highway and weather.