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230.6. Trees or shrubs; wilful destruction or injury;
civil liability
Sec. 6. Any person who shall wilfully injure, deface, tear, or destroy any
tree or shrub planted along the margin of the highway, or purposely left there
for shade or ornament, or who shall hitch any horse to any such tree, by means
of which the same shall suffer injury, or who shall negligently or carelessly,
by any other means, suffer any horse or other beast driven by or for him, or any
beast belonging to him and lawfully in the highway, to break down, destroy, or
injure any tree or shrub not his own, standing for use or ornament in any
highway, shall be liable to an action for damages in a sum not less than 1 nor
more than 25 dollars for each offense, to be recovered at the suit and for the
benefit of the owner or tenant of the land in front of which such tree or shrub
stands, or at the suit of the commissioner in whose township such tree or shrub
may be situated, for the benefit of the highway improvement fund of such
township.
CHAPTER 257. MOTOR VEHICLES
MICHIGAN VEHICLE CODE
CHAPTER I. WORDS AND PHRASES DEFINED
257.69. Traffic
Sec. 69. "Traffic" means pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, street cars and other conveyances either singly or together while using any highway for purposes of travel.
CHAPTER VI. OBEDIENCE TO AND EFFECT OF TRAFFIC LAWS
IN GENERAL
257.601c. Moving violations causing injury or death to person operating implement of husbandry
Sec. 601c. (1) A person who commits a moving violation that has criminal penalties and as a result causes injury to a person operating an implement of husbandry on a highway in compliance with this act is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not more than 1 year or a fine of not more than $1,000.00, or both.
(2) A person who commits a moving violation that has criminal penalties and as a result causes death to a person operating an implement of husbandry on a highway in compliance with this act is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than 15 years or a fine of not more than $7,500.00, or both.
(3) As used in this section, "moving violation" means an act or omission prohibited under this act or a local ordinance substantially corresponding to this act that occurs while a person is operating a motor vehicle, and for which the person is subject to a fine.
257.604. Riders of animals and drivers of animal-drawn vehicles, application of chapter
Sec. 604. A person riding an animal or driving an animal-drawn vehicle upon a roadway shall be granted all of the rights and shall be subject to all the duties, criminal penalties, and civil sanctions applicable to the driver of a vehicle by this chapter, except those provisions of this chapter which by their very nature may not have application.
Amended in 2002.
Reviewed and updated by AAHS in May 2003.
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