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The Speaker Pro Tempore resumed the Chair.
House Bill No. 4396, entitled
A bill to amend 1925 PA 368, entitled “An act to prohibit obstructions and encroachments on public
highways; to provide for the removal of obstructions and encroachments on public highways; to prescribe
the conditions under which telegraph, telephone, power, and other public utility companies, cable television
companies, broadband companies, and municipalities may enter upon, construct, and maintain telegraph,
telephone, power, cable television, or broadband lines, pipe lines, wires, cables, poles, conduits, sewers, and
like structures upon, over, across, or under public roads, bridges, streets, and waters; and to prescribe
penalties and provide remedies,” by repealing section 19 (MCL 247.189).
Was read a third time and passed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, by yeas and nays, as
follows: