PLANTING OF TREES ALONG HIGHWAYS. 



(Seu. Enr. Act No. 18, Public Act 36 of 1919.) 



An Act to regulate the planting of ornamental, nut-bear- 

 ing or other food producing trees along the highways of the 

 State of Michigan or in public places, and for the mainte- 

 nance, protection and care of such trees and to provide a 

 penalty for injury thereof, or for stealing the products 

 thereof. 



The People of the State of Michigan enact: 



Section 1. The State Highway Commissioner and the State Authority 

 Board of Agriculture, acting jointly hereunder, shall have offlcers^o 

 authority and it shall be their duty to select and plant, by i'^^^^- 

 seed, scions or otherAvise, ornamental, nut-bearing, or other 

 food-producing trees (to be supplied by the Public Domain 

 Commission or the Michigan Agricultural College, as may be 

 recommended or approved by the Division of Agriculture of 

 said college), suitable for shade trees, along the State trunk 

 line highAvays and all other highways of the State of Michi- 

 gan, upon which State reward has been paid or earned: Promo. 

 Provided, That in no case shall such trees be planted except 

 by and with the consent of the owner of the property adjoin- 

 ing such highway. The State Highway Commissioner shall 

 establish rules and regulations for uniform planting or proper 

 placing of all trees under the provisions of this act, and all 

 such trees shall belong to the State, but the products there- 

 of shall belong to the owners of the adjacent land. Nothing 

 herein contained shall authorize the State Highway Commis- 

 sioner, or the State Board of Agriculture to cut down or in- 

 terfere with shade trees now growing along any such high- 

 way, without permission in writing from the owner of the 

 adjoining xjroperty. All expenses incurred in carrying out 

 the provisions of this section shall be paid out of any moneys 

 in the State Highway fund that may be available therefor. 



Section 2. Counties, townships, cities and villages may ^^^^,^ 

 annually appropriate money to be used in planting, pruning appropriated 

 and protecting, and whenever necessary in acquiring shade, ^""^ ^^^^' 

 nut-bearing and ornamental trees to be placed along and 

 within public highways within the respective limits of said 

 municipalities. The expenditure of any such fund shall be 

 vested in the highway commissioner of the township upon 

 township roads, in the county highway commissioner in the 

 case of county roads and in the proper highway authorities 

 of the city or village as the case may be. 



