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Riparian Rights
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Riparian rights are property rights.
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Riparian rights are inherent in a riparian parcel of land.
A parcel of land must border a natural body of water to be identified as
LAKE MAPS riparian.
LINKS If you own a riparian parcel of land you own:
RIPARIAN RIGHTS z The upland.
z Your building and dock.
TIDBITS z The bottomland offshore from your lot.
z The aquatic vegetation growing on your bottomland.
z The ice above your bottomland.
z The right to fish, hunt, swim and boat on the entire lake surface in common
with all other riparian property owners.
z You have exclusive rights to use:
{ Your upland
{ Your beach
{ Your bottomland to anchor offshore docks, rafts, etc.
Riparian rights are enjoyed only on land which abuts a natural water course.
Those rights are of two kinds, natural and correlative. Natural rights include those
uses "necessary for the existence of the riparian proprietor and his family, such as
to quench thirst and for household uses".
Correlative rights "are those which merely increase one's comfort and prosperity
and do not rank as essential to his existence, such as commercial profit and
recreation".* Correlative rights must be reasonable at all times and cannot
encroach or infringe unreasonably upon the use of the surface of the lake or
A person who owns land abutting an inland lake or stream in Michigan may
NOT:
* Quotes are from Thompson vs. Enz, 379 Mich 667, after remand 385 Mich. 103
(1971).
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