Section 35.1055 - Monument; financing and construction; design; inscription; location; criteria.
MICHIGAN VIETNAM VETERANS MEMORIAL ACT (EXCERPT)
Act 234 of 1988
35.1055 Monument; financing and construction; design; inscription; location; criteria.
Sec. 5.
(1) The commission shall oversee the financing and construction of a memorial monument dedicated to Vietnam veterans from Michigan who died or are listed as missing in action as a result of the Vietnam conflict. The commission shall solicit designs for the monument and shall select the final design.
(2) The names of each Michigan Vietnam veteran who died or is listed as missing in action as a result of the Vietnam conflict shall be inscribed on the Vietnam veterans memorial monument.
(3) The Vietnam veterans memorial monument shall be located within the veterans memorial park on a state owned site that is a 1-acre parcel of land measuring approximately 186.95 feet, in an east-west direction and approximately 233.00 feet, in a north-south direction, the west line of this parcel is 41.71 feet east of and parallel with the east right of way line of Butler Street and the north line of this parcel is 30.00 feet north of and parallel with the centerline of Michigan Avenue. The actual structure of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Monument shall not be closer than 15.625 feet south of the center axis.
This parcel being more particularly described as beginning at a point that is 127.00 feet northerly on the west line of block 1, Bush, Butler and Sparrow's Addition, City of Lansing, Ingham County, Michigan and 41.71 feet easterly from the southwest corner of said block 1; thence northerly 233.00 feet parallel with the west line of said block 1; thence easterly 186.95 feet parallel with the centerline of Michigan Avenue; thence southerly 233.00 feet parallel with the west line of said block 1; thence westerly 186.95 feet parallel with the centerline of Michigan Avenue to the point of beginning, containing 1.00 acre, more or less.
History: 1988, Act 234, Imd. Eff. July 8, 1988 ;-- Am. 1992, Act 122, Eff. July 9, 1992 ;-- Am. 2000, Act 470, Imd. Eff. Jan. 10, 2001