when to mature. ing, rebuilding, extending and maintaining water works, or This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 106.] AN ACT to provide for the assent of the state of Michigan to the purposes of the grants of money authorized by the act of the congress of the United States, entitled "An act to authorize the more complete endowment of agricultural experiment stations, and for other purposes", approved February twenty-four, nineteen hundred twenty-five; and to provide for the acceptance and use of all funds appropriated pursuant to said act. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The state of Michigan assents to the purposes Assent. of the grants of money authorized by the act of the congress of the United States, entitled "An act to authorize the more complete endowment of agricultural experiment stations, and for other purposes", approved February twenty-four, nineteen hundred twenty-five. SEC. 2. The state board of agriculture is authorized and May receive empowered to receive all funds appropriated by the federal funds. government pursuant to the provisions of said act of congress and to receive the grants made under the provisions of said act of congress for the benefit of the experiment station of the Michigan agricultural college, and to use them in accordance with the terms and conditions expressed in the aforesaid act of congress. Approved April 30, 1925. Act amended. Section added. Marriage delivered. Proviso. [No. 107.] AN ACT to amend act number one hundred twenty-eight of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-seven, entitled "An act for the requiring of a civil license in order to marry, and the due registration of the same, and to provide a penalty for the violation of the provisions of the same," by adding a new section thereto to stand as section 3-a. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Act number one hundred twenty-eight of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-seven, entitled "An act for the requiring of a civil license in order to marry, and the due registration of the same, and to provide a penalty for the violation of the provisions of the same," is hereby amended by adding thereto a new section to stand as section three-a and to read as follows: SEC. 3-a. No license to marry shall be delivered within a license, when period of five days immediately following the date of application therefor: Provided, however, That the judge of probate of each county, for good and sufficient cause shown, may, by an order in writing signed by him, authorize the county clerk to deliver such license immediately following the application therefor. Approved April 30, 1925. Trunk lines, how marked. [No. 108.] AN ACT to provide for the marking of public highways; and to regulate the erecting and maintaining of signs, guide posts, markers and advertising devices on or along public highways. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of the state highway commissioner to cause all trunk line highway routes to be distinctly marked by signs and guide posts of a uniform design, as he may deem necessary for the public convenience and necessity. SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of boards of county road com- County missioners to cause all county roads within their respective roads. counties to be distinctly marked by signs and guide posts of a uniform design, as they may deem necessary for the public convenience and necessity. sections. SEC. 3. Township highway commissioners shall cause signs Township and guide posts to be erected and kept in repair at the inter- road intersections of all such township roads within their respective townships as they may deem necessary for the public convenience and necessity. SEC. 4. Signs and guide posts erected by boards of county County, etc., road commissioners and township highway commissioners designed. signs, how shall follow the general design and plans of the signs and guide posts erected by the state highway commissioner. required. SEC. 5. No person, firm or corporation shall erect or cause Approval to be erected on or along any highway any sign, guide post, marker or advertising device without the approval of the commissioner or commissioners having jurisdiction over such highway; and no sign, marker or advertising device shall be Advertisepainted upon, attached to, or made to form a part of any fence, building, rock or other surface that marks, or is on the line of, the highway right of way, except to advertise a business conducted upon the property abutting on the highway at the place where the advertisement is situated. ments. SEC. 6. In no case shall any sign, marker, or advertising Location device, except signs and guide posts erected by or with the of. approval of the proper highway commissioner or commissioners be erected, painted or maintained within five hundred feet from any highway intersection or railroad or railway crossing, or so as to obstruct the view of any such intersection or crossing or of a turn or sharp change of alignment in the highway, or in any manner dangerous to the public. tion. SEC. 7. Any person who shall erect or cause to be erected Penalty any sign, guide post, marker or advertising device, in viola- for violation of the provisions hereof, or who shall remove, deface, injure or destroy any sign or guide post lawfully placed or maintained along a highway, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. lawful. SEC. 8. The proper commissioner or commissioners shall Removal of, cause to be removed all signs, guide posts, markers and ad- when unvertising devices that have not been duly authorized. Any person, firm or corporation who erects or maintains, or causes to be erected or maintained, any sign, guide post, marker or advertising device in violation of the provisions hereof, or who injures, defaces or removes any sign or guide post erected or maintained by the proper highway commissioner or com Assumpsit. Signs, etc., how paid for. To cooperate with federal government, etc. missioners, or with his or their consent, shall be liable for the expense occasioned by such unlawful act. SEC. 9. An action of assumpsit to recover such expense may be brought by the commissioner or commissioners having the matter in charge, and any moneys recovered shall be paid into the treasury, and shall then be credited to the highway fund of the state, county or township as the case may be. SEC. 10. The cost of placing and maintaining signs and guide posts hereunder shall be deemed to be a part of the construction, improvement and maintenance of the road, and shall be paid for accordingly. SEC. 11. The state highway commissioner is hereby authorized to co-operate with the bureau of public roads of the federal government with respect to the designating and marking of national and federal aided roads, and to change any system or plan adopted in this state so as to conform to the federal system. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Sections amended. Section added. Intoxicated, cles. [No. 109.] AN ACT to amend sections one and two of act number one hundred sixty-four of the public acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, entitled "An act to prohibit the driving or operation of motor vehicles by persons under the influence of intoxicating liquor, or of any exhilarating or stupefying drug, and to provide penalties therefor", and to add a new section thereto to stand as section three. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Sections one and two of act number one hundred sixty-four of the public acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, entitled "An act to prohibit the driving or operation of motor vehicles by persons under the influence of intoxicating liquor, or of any exhilarating or stupefying drug, and to provide penalties therefor", are hereby amended and a new section is hereby added, said amended sections and added section to read as follows: SEC. 1. Hereafter it shall be unlawful for any person under not to drive the influence of intoxicating liquor, or of any exhilarating or motor vehi- stupefying drug, to drive, operate or have charge of the power of any automobile, motor cycle, or other motor vehicle upon any public highway, street, avenue, driveway, alley (or other public place), within this state. It shall also be unlawful for the owner of any motor vehicle, or any person having such vehicle in charge or in control thereof, to authorize or knowingly permit the same to be driven or operated upon any public highway, street, avenue, driveway, alley (or other public place), within this state, by any person who is under the influence of any intoxicating liquor, or of any exhilarating or stupefying drug. SEC. 2. Any person violating the provisions of this act Penalty. shall, for the first offense, be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be liable to a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars or to impris cnment in the county jail or Detroit house of correction for a term of not more than ninety days or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court; and his driver's license shall be revoked for a period of not less than three months, or more in the discretion of the court. The operator's Operator's. or special or chauffeur's license of any person found guilty revoked. of violating the provisions of this act shall be thereupon surrendered to the court in which such conviction shall be had; and the judge before whom such conviction was had shall-immediately notify the secretary of state thereof and the said court shall cause the license so surrendered to be forwarded with this certificate of conviction to the secretary of state. If the license is not forwarded an explanation of the reason why it is absent shall be attached. etc., license second SEC. 3. Any person violating the provisions of this act Penalty for shall, for a second or subsequent offense, be guilty of a mis- offense. demeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail, the Detroit house of correction, or other penal institution in this state as the court may direct, not to exceed one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. The driver's license of persons convicted of a second or subsequent offense under the provisions of this act shall be revoked and surrendered in the same manner as provided by section two of this act, for a period of time not less than one year, as the court may designate. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved April 30, 1925. |