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MI HB5945
Bill
Status
12/31/2018
Primary Sponsor
Donna Lasinski
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AI Summary
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Allows local authorities and county road commissions to prohibit trucks or commercial vehicles on designated highways or streets, impose weight limitations, or designate specific routes for commercial use.
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Requires appropriate signs consistent with section 608 requirements to mark all prohibitions, limitations, and truck route designations.
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Permits adjoining townships to object within 60 days if a prohibition diverts traffic to shared border roads, with county road commissions having final approval or rejection authority after investigation and negotiation periods.
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Exempts vehicles transporting agricultural products, farm machinery, farm supplies, or combinations thereof to or from farms or for agricultural production from truck prohibitions and limitations.
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Classifies violations of truck prohibitions, limitations, or route designations as civil infractions, effective 90 days after enactment.
Legislative Description
Traffic control; traffic regulation; truck route designations by local authorities and county road commissions; provide for agriculture equipment exemption. Amends sec. 726 of 1949 PA 300 (MCL 257.726).
Traffic control: traffic regulation
Last Action
Assigned Pa 533'18 With Immediate Effect
12/31/2018