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Mich. Comp. Laws § 205.763 — MI Code / Chapter 205 / Act Act-186-of-1973 / Section 205.763
Appearances.
Status: in_force

Sec. 63.

A person or legal entity may appear before the division in his own behalf, or may be represented by an attorney or by such other person as the appellant may choose.

History: 1973, Act 186, Eff. July 1, 1974
Mich. Comp. Laws § 254.101 — MI Code / Chapter 254 / Act Act-181-of-1921 / Section 254.101
Bridge across Portage Lake declared state trunk line highway.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

The bridge across Portage lake extending from Dakotah street in the village of Houghton to Front street in the city of Hancock, Houghton county, is declared a part of the state trunk line highway system, and the improvement, repair and maintenance thereof shall be under the supervision and control of the state highway commissioner. The county of Houghton is hereby relieved of all duties, powers and obligations with respect to the future repair, maintenance and improvement of said bridge.

History: 1921, Act 181, Eff. Aug. 18, 1921; CL 1929, 4578; CL 1948, 254.101
Mich. Comp. Laws § 457.56 — MI Code / Chapter 457 / Act Act-55-of-1895 / Section 457.56
Erection of buildings; capital stock, creation, shares; cemetery or crematorium, purchase, rules and regulations.
Status: in_force

Sec. 6.

Any corporation formed in pursuance of this act, may erect and own such suitable edifice, buildings or hall as to such corporation may seem proper, with convenient rooms for the meetings of the Loyal Orange Institution; and for that purpose may create a capital stock of not more than 100,000 dollars, to be divided into shares of not more than 25 dollars each: Provided, That said corporation shall have the right and privilege of purchasing said stock in case of sale or transfer of the same by any of its members: And provided further, That none of said stock shall be sold or transferred to any person or persons who are not members in good standing of the Loyal Orange Institution of this state; and any such corporation may take, purchase, hold and own such suitable lot or parcel of ground as may be convenient for the purpose of a cemetery or crematorium and may make all lawful rules and regulations for the disposition of lots and the disposal of its dead, as to such corporation may seem proper.

History: 1895, Act 55, Imd. Eff. Mar. 29, 1895; CL 1897, 7838; CL 1915, 10274; CL 1929, 10564; CL 1948, 457.56
Mich. Comp. Laws § 16.191 — MI Code / Chapter 16 / Act Act-380-of-1965 / Section 16.191
Investment functions transferred; powers and duties of state treasurer; reports; creation and composition of investment advisory committee; appointment, terms, and compensation of members; meetings; powers and duties of committee; investment consultants.
Status: in_force

Sec. 91.

The investment functions of the boards named in section 106(a), (c), (d), (e), and (f) are transferred to the department of treasury. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other act, the state treasurer shall invest, reinvest, assign, reassign, sell, transfer, and manage the investment funds and portfolios of the respective retirement systems, may solicit proxies in connection with contests for corporate control of corporations in which the treasurer has made an investment, and may use nominees to facilitate transfers. The state treasurer or his or her designee may execute all necessary instruments to effectuate those purposes. The state treasurer shall promptly report all investment transactions to the department of management and budget and to the respective retirement boards, and to the attorney general, not less than once every 3 months. There is created an investment advisory committee composed of the director of commerce, the director of the department of management and budget, or their duly authorized representatives, and 3 public members appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate. The term of office for all public members shall be 3 years or until the member's successor has been appointed and has qualified. The public members shall serve without pay, but shall be paid actual and necessary travel and other expenses in accordance with the provisions of the standard travel regulations issued by the department of management and budget. The investment advisory committee shall meet at least once each quarter. The investment advisory committee shall review investments, goals, and objectives of each of the retirement funds, and may submit recommendations. The investment advisory committee may also, by a majority vote, direct the state treasurer to dispose of any holding which in the committee's judgment is not suitable for the fund involved, and may by unanimous vote direct the state treasurer to make specific investments. Investment consultants may be engaged by the state treasurer to advise with respect to investments to the extent that funds for those expenditures are made available by the legislature. A report shall be made annually to the appropriating committees of the senate and house of representatives listing the consultants engaged and the compensation paid to each.

History: Add. 1968, Act 45, Imd. Eff. May 23, 1968; Am. 1969, Act 232, Imd. Eff. Aug. 11, 1969; Am. 1983, Act 225, Imd. Eff. Nov. 28, 1983; Am. 1988, Act 42, Eff. Mar. 30, 1989
Mich. Comp. Laws § 554.403 — MI Code / Chapter 554 / Act Act-258-of-1925 / Section 554.403
Lands sale held for public purposes and purchase of new lands; decree.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3.

If upon the hearing it shall appear to the satisfaction of the court that the allegations in the bill of complaint are true and that because of changed conditions or circumstances since the execution of such conveyance it is impossible or impractical to longer hold or use said lands for the purposes limited in such conveyance and that the religious, educational, charitable, benevolent or public object of the grantor, as set forth in such conveyance, may be defeated thereby, a decree may be entered authorizing the grantor to sell such lands for the highest price obtainable therefor, in the same manner as may be provided by law for the sale of lands of infants and incompetent persons, and directing that the proceeds of the sale of such lands shall be reinvested in other lands suitable for the use or purpose set forth in the original conveyance, which lands shall thereupon be held by the grantee named in the original conveyance subject to the same limitations as set forth therein.

History: 1925, Act 258, Eff. Aug. 27, 1925; CL 1929, 13520; CL 1948, 554.403
Mich. Comp. Laws § 168.719 — MI Code / Chapter 168 / Act Act-116-of-1954 / Section 168.719
City and township election commissions; party committees; duties; proof of ballot; public inspection.
Status: in_force

Sec. 719.

The election commission of each city and township shall perform those duties relative to the preparation, printing, and delivery of ballots as are required by law of the boards of county election commissioners. The duties and privileges enjoined and granted by this act upon and to the various committees of the different political organizations are prescribed for county committees in matters pertaining to any city or township election, except that it is not necessary for a county committee of a political party or organization to furnish a heading for the ballots other than to designate the name of the party or political organization that they represent. In cities and townships, the names of candidates for city or township offices must be given by the county committees of the various political organizations to the board of election commissioners of the city or township not less than 18 days before each election, but it is not necessary for any county party committee to give to the board of election commissioners the name of any candidate nominated at an official primary election. The proof of the ballot must be open to public inspection at the office of the township or city clerk not less than 15 days before the election.

History: 1954, Act 116, Eff. June 1, 1955; Am. 2017, Act 113, Eff. Oct. 25, 2017; Am. 2018, Act 120, Eff. Dec. 31, 2018; Am. 2022, Act 104, Imd. Eff. June 16, 2022
Mich. Comp. Laws § 257.626a — MI Code / Chapter 257 / Act Act-300-of-1949 / Section 257.626a
Drag races; prohibition on public highways; definition; prima facie evidence; applicability within Silver Lake State Park; "drag race" defined.
Status: in_force

Sec. 626a.

(1) A person shall not do either of the following:

(a) Operate a vehicle upon a highway, or any other place open to the general public, including an area designated for the parking of motor vehicles, in a speed or acceleration contest or drag race or to make a speed record.

(b) Assist in a violation of subdivision (a).

(2) The operation of 2 or more vehicles either at speeds in excess of the prima facie lawfully established speed or rapidly accelerating from a common starting point to a speed in excess of the prima facie lawful speed is prima facie evidence of a drag race.

(3) Subsections (1) and (2) do not apply within the Silver Lake State Park scramble area.

(4) As used in this section, "drag race" means the operation of 2 or more vehicles from a point side by side at accelerating speeds in a competitive attempt to out-distance each other over a common selected course or where timing is involved or where timing devices are used in competitive accelerations of speeds by participating vehicles.

History: Add. 1964, Act 206, Eff. Aug. 28, 1964; Am. 1966, Act 159, Eff. Mar. 10, 1967; Am. 2021, Act 75, Imd. Eff. July 29, 2021
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.48702 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.48702
Fish, reptiles, amphibians, mollusks, and crustaceans as property of state; exception; registration under Michigan aquaculture development act.
Status: in_force

Sec. 48702.

Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2), all fish, reptiles, amphibians, mollusks, and crustaceans found in this state are the property of the state and may only be taken at times and in a manner as provided in this part.

Fish, reptiles, amphibians, mollusks, crustaceans, and any other aquaculture species propagated, reared, produced, or possessed pursuant to a registration or permit issued under the Michigan aquaculture development act are not the property of the state and may be taken, produced, purchased, acquired, lawfully exported or imported, or possessed only in compliance with that act.

The department shall consider a registration under the Michigan aquaculture development act as equivalent to a game fish breeders license for purposes of obtaining a planting permit under this part.

History: Add. 1995, Act 57, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1995; Am. 1996, Act 200, Imd. Eff. May 17, 1996
Mich. Comp. Laws § 393.67 — MI Code / Chapter 393 / Act Act-116-of-1893 / Section 393.67
Deaf and dumb; education of public charges at school for deaf.
Status: in_force

Sec. 17.

The superintendents of the poor in each of the counties of this state in which there are or shall be hereafter, any person or persons of suitable age, who shall possess a good natural intellect and a good moral character, and shall have no contagious disease, who shall be deaf and dumb, or partially deaf and dumb, and who shall be, or shall become chargeable to said county, or to any township therein, shall cause any and all such persons to be taken to the Michigan school for the deaf, at the city of Flint, to be there educated as pupils in said institution in accordance with the rules and regulations thereof.

History: 1893, Act 116, Imd. Eff. May 26, 1893; CL 1897, 2006; CL 1915, 1461; CL 1929, 7973; CL 1948, 393.67
Mich. Comp. Laws § 250.1114 — MI Code / Chapter 250 / Act Act-142-of-2001 / Section 250.1114
"Korean War Veterans Memorial Drive".
Status: in_force

Sec. 114.

The portion of highway M-11 in Kent County beginning at the intersection of highway M-11 and 3 Mile Road and continuing south to the bridge on highway M-11 over the Grand River shall be known as the "Korean War Veterans Memorial Drive".

History: Add. 2024, Act 125, Imd. Eff. Oct. 3, 2024
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.31119 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.31119
Director of public health; powers unaffected.
Status: in_force

Sec. 31119.

The functions, powers, and duties of the director of public health as provided for by Act No. 98 of the Public Acts of 1913, being sections 325.201 to 325.214 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, shall remain unaffected by this part.

History: Add. 1995, Act 59, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1995
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.61503c — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.61503c
Violation of MCL 324.61503a or MCL 324.61503b; penalty; injunction or damages; separate offenses; recovery of postproduction costs and attorney fees; notice.
Status: in_force

Sec. 61503c.

Notwithstanding section 61522, a person who knowingly violates section 61503a or 61503b is responsible for the payment of a civil fine of not more than $1,000.00. A default in the payment of a civil fine or costs ordered under this section or an installment of the fine or costs may be remedied by any means authorized under the revised judicature act of 1961, 1961 PA 236, MCL 600.101 to 600.9948.

The attorney general or the lessor of a gas lease with respect to his or her lease may bring an action in circuit court for injunctive relief or damages, or both, against a person who violates section 61503a or 61503b.

If a person who has entered into a gas lease as a lessee violates section 61503a or 61503b, each day the violation continues constitutes a separate offense only for 5 days; thereafter, each day the violation continues does not constitute a separate offense. If a person who has entered into a gas lease as a lessee violates section 61503a or 61503b and such a violation affects more than 1 lessor having an interest in the same well, pooled unit, or unitized area, the violation as to all lessors constitutes only 1 offense.

If a court finds that a lessee deducted postproduction costs from a lessor's royalty contrary to section 61503b(1), the lessor may recover as damages the amount of postproduction costs deducted contrary to section 61503b(1) and may also recover reasonable attorney fees incurred in bringing the action unless the lessee endeavored to cure the alleged violation pursuant to subsection (5) prior to the bringing of the action. In addition, a lessee who prevails in litigation under this subsection may recover reasonable attorney fees incurred in defending an action under this subsection, if the court finds that the position taken by the lessor in the litigation was frivolous.

A person shall not bring an action under this section unless the person has first given the lessee written notice of the alleged violation of section 61503a or 61503b, with reasonably comprehensive details, and allowed a period of at least 30 days for the lessee to cure the alleged violation.

History: Add. 1999, Act 247, Eff. Mar. 28, 2000; Am. 2000, Act 441, Imd. Eff. Jan. 9, 2001
Mich. Comp. Laws § 254.165 — MI Code / Chapter 254 / Act Act-147-of-1935 / Section 254.165
Competing ferries.
Status: in_force

Sec. 15.

Competing ferries. If the commission shall provide for the issuance hereunder of a single issue of revenue bonds for the purpose of paying the cost of constructing a bridge or tunnel and of acquiring a ferry or ferries within 5 miles of the location which shall be selected for such bridge or tunnel, the commission shall not be required to maintain or operate any such ferry but in the discretion of the commission any such ferry, with the appurtenances and property thereto connected and belonging, may be sold or otherwise disposed of or may be abandoned and dismantled whenever in the judgment of the commission it may seem expedient so to do. The proceeds of any sale or disposition of any ferry or ferries shall be paid into the sinking fund hereinabove provided for the bonds.

History: 1935, Act 147, Imd. Eff. June 4, 1935; CL 1948, 254.165
Mich. Comp. Laws § 3.902 — MI Code / Chapter 3 / Act Act-359-of-1974 / Section 3.902
Reversion.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

The deed and cession shall contain a provision that if the United States ceases to use the lands and water area for national lakeshore or similar public recreational purposes, all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to these lands and water area described in section 1 shall revert to the state.

History: 1974, Act 359, Imd. Eff. Dec. 23, 1974
Mich. Comp. Laws § 408.1105 — MI Code / Chapter 408 / Act Act-10-of-2023 / Section 408.1105
Prevailing wage and fringe benefit rates; posting by contractors.
Status: in_force

Sec. 5.

Every contractor and subcontractor shall keep posted on the construction site, in a conspicuous place, a copy of all prevailing wage and fringe benefit rates prescribed in a contract and shall keep an accurate record showing the name and occupation of and the actual wages and benefits paid to each construction mechanic employed by it in connection with said contract. This record shall be available for reasonable inspection by the contracting agent or the commissioner.

History: 2023, Act 10, Eff. Feb. 13, 2024
Mich. Comp. Laws § 752.1002 — MI Code / Chapter 752 / Act Act-323-of-1984 / Section 752.1002
Definitions.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

As used in this act:

"Claim" means any attempt to cause a health care corporation or health care insurer to make the payment of a health care benefit.

"Deceptive" means making a claim to a health care corporation or health care insurer which contains a statement of fact or which fails to reveal a material fact, which statement or failure leads the health care corporation or health care insurer to believe the represented or suggested state of affair to be other than it actually is.

"False" means wholly or partially untrue or deceptive.

"Health care benefit" means the right under a contract or a certificate or policy of insurance to have a payment made by a health care corporation or health care insurer for a specified health care service.

"Health care corporation" means a nonprofit dental care corporation incorporated under Act No. 125 of the Public Acts of 1963, being sections 550.351 to 550.373 of the Michigan Compiled Laws; a hospital service corporation, medical care corporation, or a consolidated hospital service corporation and medical care corporation incorporated or reincorporated under Act No. 350 of the Public Acts of 1980, being sections 550.1101 to 550.1704 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, or incorporated or consolidated under Act No. 108 or 109 of the Public Acts of 1939; or a health maintenance organization licensed under Act No. 368 of the Public Acts of 1978, being sections 333.1101 to 333.25211 of the Michigan Compiled Laws.

"Health care insurer" means any insurance company authorized to provide health insurance in this state or any legal entity which is self-insured and providing health care benefits to its employees.

"Health facility or agency" means a health facility or agency, as defined in section 20106 of the public health code, Act No. 368 of the Public Acts of 1978, being section 333.20106 of the Michigan Compiled Laws.

"Knowing" and "knowingly" means that a person is in possession of facts under which he or she is aware or should be aware of the nature of his or her conduct and that his or her conduct is substantially certain to cause the payment of a health care benefit. "Knowing" or "knowingly" does not include conduct which is an error or mistake unless the person's course of conduct indicates a systematic or persistent tendency to cause inaccuracies to be present.

"Person" means an individual, corporation, partnership, association, or any other legal entity.

History: 1984, Act 323, Eff. Mar. 29, 1985
Mich. Comp. Laws § 397.233 — MI Code / Chapter 397 / Act Act-181-of-1973 / Section 397.233
Conveyance of library property to other governing body.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3.

The governing body of the city may convey the property of such library to the governing body of another governmental unit for use of the property for library purposes.

History: 1973, Act 181, Imd. Eff. Dec. 28, 1973
Mich. Comp. Laws § 35.851 — MI Code / Chapter 35 / Act Act-130-of-1889 / Section 35.851
Veterans' memorials and monumental buildings; joint construction by municipalities.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

Whenever any township, incorporated village, city, or county, in which a veterans' memorial or monumental building or structure is proposed to be erected, desires to erect or to unite with another township or townships, village or villages, city or cities and county or counties in the erection of such veterans' memorial building or structure, each such county, township, village or city shall have the right to aid and assist in the construction and building of the same to the same extent as though such building or structure was to be used solely for such township, village and city or county purposes, and each such township, village, city or county shall have power, and they are hereby authorized to contract with each other and thereby determine the proportions that each said township, village, city or county shall pay towards the construction of said building or structure, the architecture and arrangement of the same, and the separate portions respectively, which shall be occupied or used by the respective parties to such contract. The erection of a veterans' memorial or monumental building or structure is hereby declared to be a township, village, city or county purpose.

History: 1889, Act 130, Eff. Oct. 2, 1889; How. 993g; CL 1897, 1700; CL 1915, 1066; CL 1929, 940; CL 1948, 35.851; Am. 1959, Act 104, Imd. Eff. July 8, 1959
Mich. Comp. Laws § 168.637 — MI Code / Chapter 168 / Act Act-116-of-1954 / Section 168.637
Primary elections; provisions governing.
Status: in_force

Sec. 637.

All primary elections held in this state shall be governed by and conducted in accordance with the provisions of this act.

History: 1954, Act 116, Eff. June 1, 1955
Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.958d — MI Code / Chapter 722 / Act Act-203-of-1994 / Section 722.958d
Children's assurance of quality foster care policy; prepare and distribute information.
Status: in_force

Sec. 8d.

(1) The department shall prepare and distribute to each child placed in foster care, as age-appropriate, information describing the children's assurance of quality foster care policy and the process to follow if the child in foster care has concerns regarding a violation of the children's assurance of quality foster care policy. This information shall include information regarding the child in foster care's caseworker, lawyer guardian ad litem, the office of the child advocate, the department's office of family advocate, and the foster care review board.

(2) The department shall implement this section by no later than June 26, 2019.

History: Add. 2018, Act 632, Eff. Mar. 28, 2019; Am. 2023, Act 296, Eff. Feb. 13, 2024