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SEC. 6. The provisions of this act shall not relieve any per- Not relieved son or any railroad, interurban or suburban railway company bility. from the performance of any duties or obligations imposed by law, statutory or otherwise.

act.

SEC. 7. Any person who violates any of the provisions of Violation of this act and any person who removes, destroys, damages or defaces any sign or signboard erected by or under the direction of the state highway commissioner or the state administrative board at any "stop crossing" as herein provided for, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and. upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten Penalty for. dollars or not more than one hundred dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than ninety days, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court, for each such offense.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved April 23, 1925.

[No. 93.]

AN ACT to amend section two of chapter forty-two of the revised statutes of eighteen hundred forty-six, entitled "Of the maintenance of illegitimate children," being section seven thousand seven hundred fifty-four of the compiled laws of nineteen hundred fifteen.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Section two of chapter forty-two of the re- Section vised statutes of eighteen hundred forty-six, entitled "Of the amended. maintenance of illegitimate children," being section seven thousand seven hundred fifty-four of the compiled laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, is hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 2. The said justice may thereupon issue his warrant Warrant; against the person accused which may be executed in any part proceedings. of this state and upon said accused being brought before the justice by virtue of said warrant, said justice shall thereupon, or as soon thereafter as may be, proceed to hear the testimony under oath of said complainant with reference to the matters set forth in her complaint, and shall hear such other testimony under oath as may be relevant and material to said complaint. Said justice shall thereupon determine from all of said testimony whether or not said complainant is pregnant with a child, which if born alive may be a bastard or whether said complainant has been delivered of a bastard child and whether or not there is probable cause to believe the defendant to be the father of said child. If said justice shall determine said questions in the affirmative, he shall require said defendant to enter into a recognizance with one or more sufficient sureties satisfactory to said justice in a sum not less than one hundred

or more than five hundred dollars, upon condition that said defendant appear and answer the said complaint at the next term of the circuit court for the same county and to abide the order of the court thereon, and said justice may order said defendant to be committed to the county jail until he shall furnish such recognizance.

Approved April 23, 1925.

Commercial forest re

[No. 94.]

AN ACT to provide for the establishment of commercial forest reserves and for the administration and taxation of the

same.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. The department of conservation is hereby vested serves, main- With authority and charged with certain duties in connection tenance, etc. with the establishment and maintenance of commercial forest reserves as herein defined and provided, and shall have authority to make such rules and regulations not herein specifically provided for as may be necessary to accomplish the intent and purpose of this act. All expense to be incurred and help to be employed shall be with the approval of the state administrative board.

Defined.

SEC. 2. A commercial forest reserve, within the meaning and purpose of this act, is hereby defined as a tract of land from which the mature forest growth has been removed, containing no material natural resources other than forest growth, not primarily valuable for agricultural, mineral, industrial, recreational or resort purposes and upon which the owner proposes to develop and maintain a forest either through planting or natural reproduction or both. Such land must be capable of producing a thrifty forest growth and must at the time of listing as a commercial forest reserve actually carry sufficient forest growth of suitable character and so distributed as to give reasonable assurance that a stand of merchantable timber will be developed in the near future. The intent and purpose of this section is to exclude from classification as a commercial forest reserve land carrying any considerable stand of mature forest growth in excess of what may be required to insure satisfactory reforestation as well as land primarily more valuable for other purposes than for the production of forest products and to exclude land not sufficiently stocked with young growth either by planting or natural reproduction to promise to become a satisfactory stand of merchantable timber, but not to exclude from such classification land carrying a stand of forest growth well advanced toward maturity but still requiring a period of years in which to be

come sufficiently mature to produce high grade forest products.

for listing.

SEC. 3. The owner of any land within this state, which Application complies substantially with the requirements heretofore specified in section two of this act, may make application to the department of conservation to have such land determined. and listed a commercial forest reserve, specifying in such application the legal description and acreage of such land and such additional information as may be called for by said department of conservation. The applicant shall furnish such information under oath and upon blanks provided for the purpose.

SEC. 4. Upon receipt of such application establishing Hearing. prima facie the right of any land to be classed as a commercial forest reserve, it shall be the duty of the department of conservation to determine the character of the land offered and to fix a date for a public hearing upon the eligibility of such land for listing as a commercial forest reserve. Said hear- When and ing shall be held in the county where the land is located not where held. later than the first day of November following receipt of the application, and all applications offering lands in the same county may be heard on the same day and at the same place. The department of conservation shall cause a notice of such Notice. hearing and a list of the descriptions to be considered for classification as commercial forest reserves to be published in a newspaper published and circulated in said county, and at least twenty days shall elapse between the date of publication of said notice and the date of the hearing. Any person desiring to protest against the listing as a commercial forest reserve of any of the descriptions offered, may appear and be heard at such hearing. Such hearing may be conducted by the director or any employee of the department of conservation designated for the purpose.

In case the department of conservation shall determine that Approval the descriptions listed, or any of them, comply substantially with the requirements as to commercial forest reserves heretofore specified in section two of this act and that the owner has a good faith purpose to devote the land to the development and maintenance thereon of a commercial forest, and that there are no unpaid valid taxes against such land, the department of conservation shall forthwith report such determination to the applicant and also to the supervisor of the township and shall record with the register of deeds in the county in which said commercial forest reserve is located, the application of the owner and the approval of the department of conservation endorsed thereon.

tax upon.

SEC. 5. Lands offered by the owner and approved as com- Specific mercial forest reserves and certified as such by the department of conservation to the supervisor of the township in which located, shall not thereafter be subject to the ad valorem general property tax except as to such taxes as may have been previously levied, but shall be subject to an annual specific tax of five cents per acre on pine lands which con

Certification to auditor general.

Withdrawal

fees.

form substantially with the requirements heretofore specified in section two of this act and a specific tax of ten cents per acre on hardwood lands which conform substantially with the requirements heretofore specified in section two of this act; and to the yield or stumpage tax as hereinafter provided. The supervisor of the township shall remove from the list of descriptions assessed and taxed under the ad valorem general property tax the descriptions certified to him by the department of conservation as being commercial forest reserves and shall enter such descriptions on a roll separate from lands assessed and taxed under the ad valorem general property tax and shall spread against such commercial forest reserve lands the specific tax hereinbefore provided and the township treasurer shall collect such specific tax at the same time and in the same manner as ad valorem general property taxes are collected and subject to the same collection charges. Lands listed and taxed as commercial forest reserves shall be subject to return and sale for non-payment of taxes in the same manner, at the same time, and under the same penalties as lands returned and sold for non-payment of taxes levied under the ad valorem general property tax laws. No valuation shall be determined for descriptions listed as commercial forest reserves and such lands shall not be considered by the county board of supervisors or by the state board of equalization in connection with county or state equalization for taxation purposes. All sums collected because of the annual tax as hereinbefore provided shall be distributed by the county board of supervisors in the same manner and proportions as are the funds of the general property tax.

SEC. 6. On the first day of December of each year after the passage of this act the department of conservation shall certify to the auditor general the number of acres of land determined and listed as commercial forest reserves in each county and the auditor general shall transmit to the treasurer of each county in which such lands are situate a warrant on the state treasurer for an amount equal to five cents per acre upon each acre of land certified and listed as commercial forest reserve in such county. The board of supervisors of each county shall distribute such sum of five cents per acre in the same manner as the specific tax paid by the owner of such land is distributed.

SEC. 7. Any owner of land listed as a commercial forest reserve desiring to withdraw his land in whole or in part from the operations of this act, shall make written application to the department of conservation and such application shall be granted only on payment to the department of conservation of a fee of five cents per acre for each and every year the land has been registered as a commercial forest reserve, such fee to accompany the withdrawal application. In case application is made to withdraw from classification as a commercial forest reserve land that has been listed as such for more than fifteen years, then and in such case the application shall be granted only upon payment of the fee of five cents per acre

per year, already provided for, and an additional fee of ten cents per acre for each year in excess of fifteen years the land has been listed as a commercial forest reserve. In case of application to withdraw from classification as a commercial forest reserve land listed as such for more than twenty-five years, such application shall be granted only on payment of a fee equivalent to thirty per cent of the full stumpage value of the forest products then upon the land, as determined by the department of conservation. All fees received by the department How of conservation by virtue of withdrawals from listing as here- distributed. in before provided shall be distributed as follows: One-half to the state treasurer to be covered into the general fund of the state and one-half to the county in which the lands are situated, to be distributed by the county board of supervisors in the same manner and proportions as the specific tax paid by the owner. Whenever application to withdraw land from classification as a commercial forest reserve is granted, the department of conservation shall at once notify the applicant and also the supervisor of the township and the register of deeds of the county in which the lands are located of such action and shall file with those officials a list of the lands withdrawn and such lands shall forthwith be removed from the list of lands paying specific taxes and shall thereafter be assessed and taxed under the ad valorem general property tax the same as though never listed under this act: Pro- Proviso. vided, That if application to withdraw is filed after the first day of April in any year, the specific tax as herein before provided and not the ad valorem general property tax shall be paid for that year.

products.

SEC. 8. The owner of land registered as a commercial Permit to forest reserve shall be entitled to a permit to cut forest prod- cut forest ucts on such land without withdrawing it from classification as a commercial forest reserve and without payment of any fee or tax other than the annual specific tax and the stumpage tax hereinafter provided. Any owner desiring to cut and remove merchantable forest products from land that has been listed as a commercial forest reserve shall make application to the department of conservation for a permit to cut, stating in his application the description or descriptions from which forest products are to be cut and the approximate amount and stumpage value, as near as may be, of such forest products at the place of cutting. The department of Examination, conservation shall thereupon examine and estimate the etc. timber to be cut and the value of the same and shall certify · its estimates to the owner, and thereupon it shall be the duty of the owner to file with the department of conservation an approved bond in the amount of fifty per cent of the stumpage value as estimated by the department of conservation and conditioned that the owner will pay to the department of conservation the full amount of any yield or stumpage tax that may be levied upon the forest products cut under said permit. Upon the filing of such bond, the department of conservation shall issue a permit and it shall be unlawful

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