MI SB0043

Governmental agencies with jurisdiction over highways must maintain them in reasonable repair and reasonably safe condition for public travel.

Persons injured or suffering property damage due to a governmental agency's failure to maintain a highway may recover damages from that agency.

Governmental agency liability for highway maintenance extends only to the improved portion designed for vehicular travel, excluding sidewalks, trailways, crosswalks, and other installations outside the vehicular travel area.

When the state transportation department contracts another governmental agency to perform work on a state trunk line highway, liability claims must be brought only against the state transportation department, not the contractor agency.

The amended act takes effect 90 days after enactment, contingent upon Senate Bill No. 39 of the 101st Legislature being enacted into law.