Michigan Compiled Laws
300-1949-VI-SPECIAL-STOPS-REQUIRED - Special Stops Required (257.667...257.671)
Section 257.671 - Designation of Through Highways; Designation of Stop, Yield, or Merge Intersections; Stop, Yield, or Merge Signs; Violation as Civil Infraction.

Sec. 671.
(1) The state highway commission with respect to highways under its jurisdiction, the county road commission, and local authorities with reference to other highways under their jurisdiction, subject to the approval of the state highway commission if a state trunk line highway, may designate through highways and erect stop, yield, or merge signs at specified entrances thereto or may designate any intersection as a stop, yield, or merge intersection and erect like signs at 1 or more entrances to the intersections.
(2) Every stop, yield, or merge sign shall be reflectorized or illuminated at night. Every stop, yield, or merge sign shall be located as near as practicable at the nearest line of the crosswalk thereat, or, if none, at the nearest line of the roadway.
(3) A person who fails to obey a stop, yield, or merge sign erected pursuant to this section is responsible for a civil infraction.
History: 1949, Act 300, Eff. Sept. 23, 1949 ;-- Am. 1976, Act 75, Imd. Eff. Apr. 11, 1976 ;-- Am. 1978, Act 510, Eff. Aug. 1, 1979

Structure Michigan Compiled Laws

Michigan Compiled Laws

Chapter 257 - Motor Vehicles

Act 300 of 1949 - Michigan Vehicle Code (257.1 - 257.923)

300-1949-VI - Chapter VI Obedience to and Effect of Traffic Laws (257.601...257.750)

300-1949-VI-SPECIAL-STOPS-REQUIRED - Special Stops Required (257.667...257.671)

Section 257.667 - Stopping at Railroad Grade Crossing; Driving Through, Around, or Under Crossing Gate or Barrier; Violation as Civil Infraction.

Section 257.667a - Installation and Use of Unmanned Traffic Monitoring Devices at Railroad Grade Crossing; Civil Infraction; Evidence; Diagnostic Study Team Review Required Where Fatality at Public Railroad Grade Crossing; Exception.

Section 257.668 - Designating Certain Grade Crossings as "Stop" Crossings or "Yield" Crossings; Signs; Duties of Driver; Cost of Yield Sign Installations; Action for Negligence; Exception for On-Track Equipment; Failure to Stop or Yield as Civil Infr...

Section 257.669 - Vehicles Required to Activate Hazard Warning Lights and Stop at Railroad Track Grade Crossing; Driver to Listen and Look in Both Directions; Shifting Gears Prohibited; Exceptions; "Inactive Railroad Track" Defined; Violation as Civi...

Section 257.669a - Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations; Adoption; Transportation of Persons and Property Over Railroad-Highway Grade Crossings.

Section 257.670 - Operating or Moving Certain Vehicles or Equipment Upon or Across Steam Railroad Tracks at Grade Level; Notice of Intended Crossing; Stopping, Listening, and Looking; Warning; Violation as Civil Infraction.

Section 257.671 - Designation of Through Highways; Designation of Stop, Yield, or Merge Intersections; Stop, Yield, or Merge Signs; Violation as Civil Infraction.