MEMORIAL HIGHWAYS - H.B. 4878: COMMITTEE SUMMARY
House Bill 4878 (as passed by the House)
Sponsor: Representative Thomas George
House Committee: Transportation
Senate Committee: Transportation and Tourism
Date Completed: 9-24-01
CONTENT
The bill would create the "Michigan Memorial Highway Act" to repeal and recodify a number of statutes and resolutions naming highways or parts of highways in Michigan after individuals, events, or organizations.
Under the bill, the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) would be required to provide for the erection of suitable markers at the approach of any of the highways only when sufficient private contributions were received to pay the cost of putting up those markers.
Table 1, following, indicates the name of the highway under the bill, the route affected, the general location, and the source that either named the highway or requested the State to designate it, which the bill would repeal and re-enact. (The source is a Public Act (PA), Senate Concurrent Resolution (SCR), House Concurrent Resolution (HCR), Senate Resolution (SR), House Resolution (HR), or, according to MDOT, the State Highway Commissioner. A precise description of the route, the person honored, and the counties affected is available on the MDOT Internet site.)
Table 2 lists a Public Act and resolutions that the bill would repeal but not re-enact.
- Legislative Analyst: S. Lowe
FISCAL IMPACT
The bill would not have a fiscal impact on the State as the costs of erecting highway markers would be borne by private contributions. Current practice requires highway markers to be paid for by private funds, regardless of whether a highway was named under a Public Act, resolution, or the authority of the State Highway Commissioner.
- Fiscal Analyst: C. Thiel
Table 1
Highway Names Repealed & Re-enacted under H.B. 4878
|
Name |
Route |
Location |
Source |
| Carleton Road | US-223, M-34, M-99 | Calhoun, Hillsdale, Lenawee & Monroe Counties | PA 113 of 1925 |
| Roberts-Linton Highway & Veterans of World War I Memorial Highway | US-23 | Saginaw to Bay City | SR 35 of 1931 |
| Frank D. Fitzgerald Memorial Highway | M-43 | E. Lansing to Grand Ledge | Commissioner |
| Earle Memorial Highway | M-53 | Detroit to Port Austin | PA 118 of 1941 |
| United Spanish War Veterans' Memorial Highway | US-23 | MI-OH line to Mackinaw City | PA 207 of 1945 |
| United Spanish War Veterans Memorial Highway | US-2, M-35, M-41, M-69, M-95 | Upper Peninsula | PA 104 of 1949 |
| Leif Erikson Memorial Highway | M-95 | MI-WI line to Champion | Commissioner |
| 107th Engineer Memorial Road | M-107 | Silver City to Porcupine Mountains | Commissioner |
| Blue Star Memorial Highway | US-31 | MI-IN line to Straits of Mackinac | PA 71 of 1952 |
| Pulaski Memorial Highway | US-12 | Detroit to New Buffalo | PA 11 of 1953 |
| Clara Barton Memorial Highway | M-125 & M-24 | MI-OH line to Detroit | PA 80 of 1954 |
| Pere Marquette Memorial Highway | US-31 | Muskegon-Oceana Co. line to Mason-Manistee Co. line | PA 93 of 1954 |
| Columbus Memorial Highway | M-102 | Farmington to M-3 | PA 86 of 1955 |
| AmVets Memorial Drive | US-2, US-41, & M-35 | Escanaba to Co. Rd. 426 | PA 144 of 1959 |
| Green Arrow Route | M-66 | M-78 to US-131 | PA 170 of 1959 |
| Mackinac Trail | US-131 | MI-IN line to M-66 | PA 170 of 1959 |
| Green Arrow Route-Mackinac Trail | US-131, US-31 | M-66 to US-31, US-131 to Straits of Mackinac | PA 170 of 1959 |
| AmVets Memorial Parkway | I-94 | Kalamazoo Co. | HCR 13 of 1963 |
| Adler Memorial Highway | I-696 | Oakland & Macomb Co. between 8 Mile & Telegraph | HCR 309 of 1966 |
| American Legion Memorial Highway | I-75 | MI-OH line to Sault Ste. Marie | HCR 21 of 1969 |
| David Dunbar Buick Freeway | I-475 | Genesee Co. | HCR 22 of 1969 |
| Louis Chevrolet Freeway | I-69 | Shiawassee-Genesee Co. line to Genesee-Lapeer Co. line | HCR 22 of 1969 |
| Walter P. Reuther Highway | I-696 | Oakland & Macomb Co. | SCR 57 of 1971 |
| Charles J. Rogers Interchange | I-75 & Davidson Highway Interchange | Wayne Co. | SCR 150 of 1971 |
| Olds Freeway | I-496 | Lansing | HR 48 of 1970 &
SCR 345 of 1972 |
| Gerald R. Ford Freeway | I-196 | Wayne Co. to Muskegon Co. | SCR 415 of 1974 |
| G. Mennen Williams Highway & Prentiss M. Brown Memorial Highway | I-75 | Cheboygan Co. & Mackinac Co. | SCR 559 of 1976 & SCR 560 of 1976 |
| Sojourner Truth Memorial Highway | M-66 | Calhoun Co. | PA 93 of 1976 |
| Philip A. Hart Memorial Highway | I-275 | Monroe, Oakland & Wayne Co. | SCR 307 of 1978 |
| Veterans Memorial Highway | M-59 | Pontiac to Utica | HCR 691 of 1978 |
| Christopher Columbus Freeway | M-53 | Sterling Heights to Washington | HCR 694 of 1978 |
| Veterans Memorial Highway | I-69 | Flint to Port Huron | HCR 545 of 1980 |
| Chevrolet-Buick Freeway | I-69 | Genesee Co. | HCR 622 of 1980 |
| DeWayne T. Williams Memorial Highway | I-69 | Lapeer to Port Huron | SCR 914 of 1984 & HCR 690 of 1976 |
| American Legion Memorial Highway | I-75 | MI-OH line to Sault Ste. Marie | PA 174 of 1984 |
| Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial Highway | I-94 | Albion | SCR 42 of 1985 |
| Jacobetti Highway | M-28 | M-123 to Negaunee | HR 506 of 1986 |
| Disabled American Veterans Highway | M-121 | Genesee Co. | HCR 986 of 1988 & HCR 344 of 1989 |
| Fort Custer Memorial Highway | M-96 | I-94 to Augusta | HCR 677 of 1988 |
| Veterans Memorial Road | M-125 | Monroe Co. | HR 365 of 1989 & HCR 414 of 1989 |
| Moses J. Jones Parkway | US-31 business route | Muskegon | HCR 425 of 1989 |
| Vietnam Veterans Memorial Highway | M-59 | I-96 to M-3 | HR 324 of 1989 &
PA 240 of 1992 |
| AmVets Memorial Highway | I-96 | Wayne Co. to Muskegon Co. | HCR 134 of 1990 & PA 124 of 1994 |
| Walter P. Chrysler Freeway | I-75 | Wayne Co. &
Oakland Co. |
HR 627 of 1990 &
SR 435 of 1990 |
| Joseph H. Meagher Memorial Highway | M-38 | Ontonagon Village to Houghton Co. line | SCR 286 of 1992 |
| Haskell L. Nichols Memorial Highway | US-127 | Jackson Co. to I-94 | PA 249 of 1992 |
| 117th Quartermaster Battalion (In Honor of) | M-117 | M-28 to US-2 | HR 148 of 1993 |
| Iron Brigade Memorial Highway | US-12 | Wayne Co. to
Berrien Co. |
HCR 626 of 1994 |
| St. Joseph Valley Parkway | US-31 | MI-IN line to I-94 | HCR 26 of 1993 |
| World War II Veterans Memorial Highway | M-37 | US-10 to Lake-Wexford Co. line | SR 205 of 1995 |
| Disabled American Veterans Memorial Highway | I-275 | Livonia | PA 185 of 1996 |
| Matt McNeely Boulevard | M-85 | Detroit | PA 14 of 1997 |
| Paul B. Henry Freeway | M-6 | Kent Co. &
Ottawa Co. |
PA 399 of 1998 |
| Keith Deacon Memorial Highway | M-5 | Farmington & Farmington Hills | PA 12 of 1999 |
| Sydney Ouwinga Memorial Bypass | US-131 bypass | Wexford Co. | PA 174 of 2000 |
| Veterans' Memorial Drive | M-33 | Ogenaw Co. & Oscoda Co. | PA 174 of 2000 |
| Veterans' Memorial Highway | M-32 | Alpena | PA 174 of 2000 |
Table 2
Highway Designations Repealed under H.B. 4878
|
Name/Other |
Route |
Location |
Source |
| Arthur Vandenberg Memorial Highway | US-16 | Detroit to Muskegon | PA 70 of 1952 |
| William Howard Taft Memorial Highway | Mackinac City to MI-OH line | HCR 9 of 1933 | |
| Michigan Bicentennial Freedom Way (1976 only) | I-75 | SCR 216 of 1975 | |
| U.A.W. Freeway | I-475 | Genesee Co. | HCR 583 of 1980 |
| I.L. "Curley" Lewis Highway (commemoration) | Upper Peninsula | HCR 401 of 1981 | |
| Scenic route designation | US-23 | Standish to Mackinaw City | HCR 67 of 1983 |
| Martin Luther King Memorial Highway | Skyline Drive | Battle Creek | HCR 34 of 1991 |
| Business 31 | US-31 | Berrien Co. | HCR 25 of 1993 |
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This analysis was prepared by nonpartisan Senate staff for use by the Senate in its deliberations and does not constitute an official statement of legislative intent.