Except as otherwise provided by law, if land or other real or personal property is acquired by a township in eminent domain proceedings, other than for street or highway or easement purposes, or is acquired by gift, purchase or otherwise, the title obtained by the township shall be in fee simple absolute or like absolute ownership unless the parties agree otherwise in writing and the agreement expressly appears in a recorded deed affecting real property acquired by the township or in the notice of condemnation. CHAPTER 55 STREETS AND HIGHWAYS Sec. 5501. Definitions. 5502. Township street plan. 5503. Certain streets declared public streets. 5504. Power to lay out, open, vacate and alter streets. 5505. Prohibition. 5506. Procedures for laying out, opening, changing, improving or vacating streets. 5507. Petition for opening. 5508. Notice of petition. 5509. Width of public streets. 5510. Opening and repairing streets. 5511. Street closings and detours. 5512. Street connecting with street of another municipal corporation. 5513. Acceptance of land for street purposes. 5514. Powers of State and counties preserved. 5515. Exclusive nature of provisions. 5516. Failure of board of commissioners to hold hearing. 5517. Entry on land to maintain marks and monuments. 5518. Bike paths. 5519. Streets in or near public parks. 5520. Elimination of curves and acquisition of views. 5521. Improving or vacating streets by agreement. 5522. Proceedings with or without petition. 5523. Power to open drains and ditches. 5524. Trees and shrubbery within right-of-way. 5525. Protection of streets or highways from snowdrifts. 5526. Naming of streets. 5527. Street lighting, ornamental lighting and traffic control signals and devices. 5528. Penalty for destroying signs. 5529. Railroad crossings. 5530. Street permits. 5531. County aid in the improvement of township streets. 5532. Boundary streets. 5533. When center line of street is boundary between township and another municipal corporation. 5534. Streets having more than half of their width within township. 5535. Assessment for improvements on property outside limits where street entirely within township.
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