{"data":{"id":"us-mi/mich.-comp.-laws-54.233","jurisdiction":"us-mi","citation":"Mich. Comp. Laws § 54.233","heading":"Use of coordinates.","body":"Sec. 3.\n\nThe coordinates for a point on or near the earth's surface that are used to express the geographic position of that point in the appropriate zone of this system shall consist of 2 distances. Each distance shall be expressed in United States survey feet (1 foot = 12/39.37 meters) and decimals of a survey foot if using the Michigan coordinate system of 1927, or shall be expressed in meters and decimals of a meter or in international feet (1 foot = 0.3048 meter) and decimals of an international foot if using the Michigan coordinate system of 1983. One of these distances, to be known as the \"x-coordinate\", shall give the position in an east and west direction; the other distance, to be known as the \"y-coordinate\", shall give the position in a north and south direction. The coordinates shall depend upon and conform to values published by the NOAA/NGS for the monumented points of the North American horizontal geodetic control network, the coordinates of which monumented points were computed on the systems designated in this act.","path":["MI Code","Chapter 54","Act Act-9-of-1964"],"source_url":"https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Laws/MCL?objectName=mcl-54-233","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:31Z","sha256":"478a6d69279e224eeb3cf64afe6595536e950229b2ad7ecacd29eb17c295cb1e","source_id":"us-mi","stale":false,"prev":"us-mi/mich.-comp.-laws-54.232","next":"us-mi/mich.-comp.-laws-54.234"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}