Mich. Comp. Laws § 54.222
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Section corners and quarter posts; marking; removal, penalty.
Official statutory text
Sec. 2.
The surveyor as above employed shall sink into the earth at all section and quarter post corners from the surface to a depth of at least 3 feet, a column of broken brick, charcoal, broken stones, or other easily distinguishable substance, of a diameter of at least 3 inches, and carefully describe the same in the records of his survey, and also to mark and record new witness trees wherever possible to do so, and if any person shall wilfully cut down, destroy, deface or injure any living witness tree, or remove a corner post in any shape, as above established, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be liable to a fine of not less than 25 dollars nor more than 50 dollars.
History: 1883, Act 149, Eff. Sept. 8, 1883; How. 510b; Am. 1889, Act 71, Eff. Sept. 8, 1889; CL 1897, 2512; CL 1915, 2330; CL 1929, 1184; CL 1948, 54.222
The surveyor as above employed shall sink into the earth at all section and quarter post corners from the surface to a depth of at least 3 feet, a column of broken brick, charcoal, broken stones, or other easily distinguishable substance, of a diameter of at least 3 inches, and carefully describe the same in the records of his survey, and also to mark and record new witness trees wherever possible to do so, and if any person shall wilfully cut down, destroy, deface or injure any living witness tree, or remove a corner post in any shape, as above established, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be liable to a fine of not less than 25 dollars nor more than 50 dollars.
History: 1883, Act 149, Eff. Sept. 8, 1883; How. 510b; Am. 1889, Act 71, Eff. Sept. 8, 1889; CL 1897, 2512; CL 1915, 2330; CL 1929, 1184; CL 1948, 54.222
Status: in_force · Read it on the official government site
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