Michigan Compiled Laws, Chapter 247. Highways § 247.181

Sec. 11.  In case the article or thing have no value or is not of sufficient value to pay for the removal, the commissioner or commissioners shall be entitled to compensation for the expense of removing it, and the expense of removal may be recovered from the owner in the name of the commissioner or commissioners in an action of assumpsit, or the same may be assessed upon any property of such owner and collected in the same manner as is provided in section 2 hereof.  1