February 26, 2015, Introduced by Reps. Potvin and Leutheuser and referred to the Committee on Local Government.
A bill to amend 1945 PA 78, entitled
"An act to declare the area of the state of Michigan,"
by amending the title and sections 1 and 2 (MCL 2.1 and 2.2).
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
TITLE
An act to declare the area and boundaries of the state of
Michigan.
Sec. 1. (1) The total area of the state of Michigan is hereby
declared
to be approximately 96,720 square miles consisting of
57,022
square miles of land and 39,698 square miles of inland water
as
based upon the boundaries of the state of Michigan according to
article
I, section 1 of the constitution of the state of Michigan
of
1909, and United States statutes at large, volume 5, page 49,
chapter
99, approved June 15, 1836 as
described in subsection (2).
(2) The state of Michigan consists of and has jurisdiction
over the territory embraced within the boundaries described in this
act. The boundaries of this state and its bordering states and
country are as follows:
(a) For Ohio, the northwest corner of the state of Ohio, as
established by act of Congress, entitled "An Act to establish the
northern boundary line of the state of Ohio, and to provide for the
admission of the state of Michigan into the Union upon the
conditions therein expressed," approved June fifteenth, 1836;
chapter 99, 5 Stat. 49 (1836), then easterly with the said boundary
line of the state of Ohio, as adopted in 1917 by Joint Resolution
Number 6 of the Legislature of the State of Michigan, entitled "A
JOINT RESOLUTION with reference to the re-location and permanent
monumenting of the boundary line between Ohio and Michigan," SJR 6,
1917 then continuing through Posts 70 and 71 to the original North
Cape of Maumee Bay and Lake Erie as described in the United States
Supreme Court Special Master's Decree 410 U.S. February 22, 1973.
(b) For Indiana, boundaries described as established by the
act of congress on the nineteenth of April, 1816; chapter 57, 3
Stat. 289, from the boundary point with Illinois, then east with
the northern boundary line of the state of Indiana to the northeast
corner thereof, and thence south with the eastern boundary line of
the state of Indiana to the place of beginning as provided in the
Michigan and Indiana state line monumentation act, 2010 PA 259, MCL
54.291 to 54.305.
(c) For Illinois, the boundaries described from point A as
described in section 1 of 1947 PA 267, MCL 2.201, the southeast
corner of the state of Wisconsin, thence southerly through Lake
Michigan with the boundary line of the state of Illinois described
in chapter 67, 3 Stat. 428, signed April eighteenth, 1818, to the
northern boundary line of the state of Indiana.
(d) For Wisconsin, the boundaries described in 1947 PA 267,
MCL 2.201 to 2.208 and the decree of the United States Supreme
Court entered March sixteenth, 1936; 297 US 547.
(e) For Minnesota, the boundaries described in 1947 PA 267,
MCL 2.201 to 2.208.
(f) For Canada, the international boundary ascertained and
reestablished pursuant to Article IV of the Treaty between Great
Britain and the United States, signed April Eleventh, 1908: Article
IV, 35 Stat. 2009.
(3) This description shall be printed in the Michigan manual
and successor publications with an unofficial appropriate general
reference map.
Sec. 2. All official publications of the state of Michigan
issued
after the passage of this act, in which the total area ,
total
land area or total water area of Michigan are
is stated,
shall
use the figures set forth figure
provided in section 1.