Sec. 1.
There is hereby created and established a state highway department, which shall be charged with the giving of instruction in the art of building, improving and repairing public wagon roads and bridges, collecting reports from township and county highway commissioners, overseers of highways and superintendents and commissioners of streets in villages and cities, and with the distribution of any state reward for improving the public wagon roads, that this legislature or any future session may provide for, or any funds that may be given to the state for such purposes by the United States government.
History: 1909, Act 283, Eff. Sept. 1, 1909 ;-- CL 1915, 4378 ;-- CL 1929, 4019 ;-- CL 1948, 225.1
Compiler's Notes: Section 2 of amendatory Act 300 of 1947 provides as follows:“Section 2. All records, files and documents in the office of the Mackinac bridge authority shall be turned over to the state highway department, and kept in said department.”
Former Law: See section 1 of Act 146 of 1905; and section 1 of Act 203 of 1903.