Michigan § 54.317 - Duties of commission; replacement of lost corner positions; collaboration.
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§ 54.317. Duties of commission; replacement of lost corner positions; collaboration.
(1) Subject to subsection (2), the commission shall do all of the following:
(a) Administer a survey and remonumentation of the Michigan-Indiana state line or any part of the line.
(b) Recover or reestablish monuments at the mileposts and intermediate monument control points of the Michigan-Indiana state line or any part of the line as established in the 1827 federal survey that defined that line or part of the line. The commission also shall recover or reestablish monuments at the posts originally set at or near the shores of lakes and large rivers of the Michigan-Indiana state line or any part of the line as established in the 1827 federal survey, or witness corners for set posts. The commission shall review the survey upon completion of each milepost.
(c) Compile appropriate records and documents verifying the location of the mileposts and submit those records and documents to the respective county peer review groups.
(d) Resolve any differences revealed by the survey between record documents and recovered evidence regarding the location of mileposts defining the Michigan-Indiana state line or any part of the line.
(e) Provide regular updates to the department's office of land survey and remonumentation.
(2) The director of the department's office of land survey and remonumentation shall keep the state survey and remonumentation commission created under section 3 of the state survey and remonumentation act, 1990 PA 345, MCL 54.263, apprised of the Michigan-Indiana state line commission's progress in discharging its duties under subsection (1).
(3) The commission shall not replace lost corner positions if the state of Indiana does not participate in the survey and remonumentation project as authorized by Indiana law.
(4) To accomplish the purposes of this act, the commission or its representative may meet and collaborate with a similar commission established by the state of Indiana or that commission's representative.
Source: official Michigan text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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