Section 565.104 - Marketable record title; failure to file notice not to bar right to possession; applicability to government property or oil and gas interests(1) This act must not be applied to do any of the following: (a) Bar a lessor or a lessor's successor as reversioner of the lessor's right to possession on the expiration of a lease or a lessee or the lessee's successor of the lessee's rights in and to a lease.(b) Bar any interest of a mortgagor or a mortgagee or interest in the nature of that of a mortgagor or mortgagee until after the instrument under which the interest is claimed has become due and payable, except if the instrument has no due date expressed, or if the instrument has been executed by a railroad, railroad bridge, tunnel, union depot company, or public utility or public service company.(c) Bar or extinguish an easement or interest in the nature of an easement, the existence of which is clearly observable by physical evidences of its use.(d) Bar or extinguish an easement or interest in the nature of an easement, or any rights appurtenant to the easement or interest granted, excepted, or reserved by a recorded instrument creating the easement or interest, including any rights for future use, due to a failure to file the notice required under this act, if the easement, observable or not, is for any of the following: (i) The operation, construction, maintenance, improvement, removal, replacement, or protection of a pipe, valve, road, wire, cable, conduit, duct, sewer, track, pole, tower, or other physical facility, whether or not the existence of the facility is observable.(ii) Flowage rights for an impoundment that exists as part of a federally licensed hydroelectric facility.(iii) The management of vegetation within the easement.(e) Bar or extinguish any land or resource use restriction, including any of the following:(i) An environmental restrictive covenant or other recorded instrument if the restrictive covenant or other recorded instrument specifically cites the state or federal environmental statute that is the basis for the restriction, including any of the following: (A) The natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324.101 to 324.90106.(B) The resource conservation and recovery act of 1976, Public Law 94-580.(C) The comprehensive environmental response, compensation, and liability act of 1980, 42 USC Chapter 103.(ii) A conservation easement as that term is defined in section 2140 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324.2140.(iii) Any environmental land or resource use restriction recorded by a public utility as that term is defined in section 1 of 1929 PA 69, MCL 460.501, or by an independent transmission company as that term is defined in section 2 of the electric transmission line certification act, 1995 PA 30, MCL 460.562, on real property in which the public utility or independent transmission company had an interest when recorded.(2) This act does not affect any right, title, or interest in land owned by the United States, this state, or any department, commission, or political subdivision of this state.(3) This act does not affect any oil and gas lease, or other interest in oil or gas, owned by a person other than the owner of the surface, or any storage agreement or other interest in subsurface storage formations owned by a person other than the owner of the surface.1945, Act 200, Eff. 9/6/1945 ;-- Am. 1946, 1st Ex. Sess., Act 25, Imd. Eff. 2/26/1946 ;-- Am. 1947, Act 117, Imd. Eff. 5/22/1947 ;-- CL 1948, 565.104 ;-- Am. 1951, Act 235, Eff. 9/28/1951 ;-- Am. 1965, Act 323, Eff. 3/31/1966 ;-- Am. 2018, Act 572, Eff. 3/29/2019 ;-- Am. 2022, Act 235, Eff. 3/29/2023.