Sec. 2.
In order to promote the public safety, health, welfare, convenience and enjoyment of public travel, to protect the public investment in public highways, to preserve and enhance the scenic beauty of lands bordering public highways, to attract tourists and promote the prosperity, economic well-being and general welfare of the state, and to provide a statutory basis for controlling junkyards consistent with the public policy declared by congress in title 23 of the United States code, it is declared to be in the public interest to regulate and restrict the establishment, operation and maintenance of junkyards in areas adjacent to interstate, primary and secondary highways within this state. All junkyards which do not conform to the requirements of this act are public nuisances.
History: 1966, Act 219, Imd. Eff. July 11, 1966 ;-- Am. 1972, Act 132, Eff. Jan. 1, 1973
Structure Michigan Compiled Laws
Act 219 of 1966 - Control of Junkyards Adjacent to Highways (252.201 - 252.211)
Section 252.201 - Definitions.
Section 252.202 - Legislative Declaration; Nonconforming Junkyard as Public Nuisance.
Section 252.203 - Junkyards Prohibited Within 1000 Feet of Highway; Exceptions.
Section 252.204 - Screening or Removal of Nonconforming Junkyards; Removal Cost.
Section 252.204a - Junkyards Adjacent to Secondary Highway; Screening or Removal.
Section 252.205 - Screening by State Highway Department; Acquisition of Land.
Section 252.206 - Junkyards; Relocation, Removal or Disposal; Costs.
Section 252.207 - Construction or Maintenance of Junkyards; Rules and Regulations; Standards.
Section 252.208 - Injunction to Compel Conformance.
Section 252.209 - Construction of Act.
Section 252.210 - Control of Junkyards; Agreement With United States Secretary of Commerce.
Section 252.211 - Interests in Land to Be Acquired; Methods.