MCL 485.211 Improvement Powers; Repair Duty; Driving of Logs; Tolls and Expenses, Lien

• Library: Michigan Statutes
• Edition: 2023
• Currency: Current through Public Act 321 of the 2023 Legislative Session
• Year: 2023
• Citation: MCL 485.211

Any such corporation formed for the improvement of any boundary river in whole or part and any of its tributaries, and for driving, sorting, holding and delivering logs thereon, which shall have taken prior possession of such boundary river for that purpose, shall have power to improve such river and its tributaries by clearing and straightening the channels thereof, closing sloughs, erecting sluiceways, booms of all kinds, side rolling and flooding dams, driving piles and erecting piers or otherwise, as may be necessary or suitable for the purpose aforesaid: Provided, That such sluiceways, booms, dams, piles and piers shall, so far as practicable, be so constructed and used as to allow of the free passage of logs, timber and other floatables along such waters. Every corporation which shall so improve a boundary river or any of its tributaries for the purpose of driving logs thereon, and keep in repair and operate its works, may charge and collect reasonable and uniform tolls upon all logs, lumber and timber driven or floated on the same, and may take possession of all logs put into said stream, or upon rollways so as to impede the drive, when the owners thereof or their agents shall not have come upon the stream adequately provided with men, teams and tools for breaking rollways and driving such logs in season for making a through dr...