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Mich. Comp. Laws § 28.31 — MI Code / Chapter 28 / Act E-R-O-No-1989-1 / Section 28.31
Transfer of administration and distribution of secondary road patrol and traffic accident prevention funds to office of highway safety planning.
Status: in_force

WHEREAS, it is the duty of all local police and peace officers and the duty of the director of the Department of State Police to cooperate with all other state and local law enforcement authorities in the detecting of crime, enforcing traffic laws, the apprehending of criminals, the preservation of law and order throughout the state, and the protection of the public in the use of the highways of this state; and

WHEREAS, it is in the public interest to avoid duplication of effort and to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of law enforcement road patrols; and

WHEREAS, Article 5, Section 2, of the Michigan Constitution of 1963 empowers the Governor to make changes in the organization of the Executive Branch or assignment of functions among its units which are necessary for efficient administration;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, JAMES J. BLANCHARD, Governor of the State of Michigan, pursuant to the powers vested in me by the Michigan Constitution of 1963 and the laws of the State of Michigan, do hereby order the following:

1. All the powers, duties, functions, and responsibilities of the Office of Criminal Justice to administer state funds appropriated for the implementation of secondary road patrols and traffic accident prevention as set forth by Section 77 of Act 313 of the Public Acts of 1982, being Section 51.77 of the Compiled Law of 1979, are hereby transferred to the Office of Highway Safety Planning within the Department of State Police.

2. The Director of the Department of State Police, or a person designated by the director in writing, shall be the state official authorized to enter into the agreements with a county pursuant to Section 77 of Act 313 of the Public Acts of 1982, being Section 51.77 of the Compiled Laws of 1979.

3. Of the total of one (1) position currently appropriated in fiscal year 1988-89 for Office of Criminal Justice related responsibilities, the equivalent of one (1) position is transferred to the Department of State Police to preform the functions set forth above.

4. All records, property, personnel, and unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations and other funds used, held, employed, available, or to be made available to the Office of Criminal Justice for the activities transferred to the Department of State Police by this Order are hereby transferred to the Department of State Police.

5. After the effective date of this Order, the Office of Criminal Justice and the Office of Highway Safety Planning within the Department of State Police shall make internal organizational changes as may be administratively necessary to complete the realignment of responsibilities prescribed by this Order. It is intended, however, that the personnel changes authorized by this Order shall be achieved without adversely affecting the existing rights and interests of individual employees.

History: 1989, E.R.O. No. 1989-1, Eff. Oct. 1, 1989
Mich. Comp. Laws § 333.26234 — MI Code / Chapter 333 / Act Act-134-of-2007 / Section 333.26234
Money, interest, and earnings; expenditures; availability of gift or donation for distribution.
Status: in_force

Sec. 4.

(1) The money, interest, and earnings of the fund shall be expended solely for the purposes described in this act.

(2) Money granted or received as a gift or donation to the fund is available for distribution upon appropriation.

History: 2007, Act 134, Imd. Eff. Nov. 1, 2007
Mich. Comp. Laws § 125.2092 — MI Code / Chapter 125 / Act Act-270-of-1984 / Section 125.2092
Repeal of MCL 125.1701 to 125.1770 and MCL 125.1901 to 125.1934.
Status: in_force

Sec. 92.

The following acts and parts of acts are repealed:

Effective upon the expiration of 180 days after the effective date of this act, Act No. 301 of the Public Acts of 1975, being sections 125.1701 to 125.1770 of the Michigan Compiled Laws.

Effective upon the expiration of 180 days after the effective date of this act, Act No. 70 of the Public Acts of 1982, being sections 125.1901 to 125.1934 of the Michigan Compiled Laws.

History: 1984, Act 270, Eff. Mar. 29, 1985
Mich. Comp. Laws § 455.109 — MI Code / Chapter 455 / Act Act-69-of-1887 / Section 455.109
Lots and plots; tax assessment; sale for taxes, association as purchaser.
Status: in_force

Sec. 9.

All lots or plots sold shall be assessed and taxed to the owners and holders thereof, and sold in default of the payment of taxes, in like manner as provided by law for the taxation and sale of other real estate; and in case of any such sale the trustees of the association may purchase such lots or plots upon the same terms and conditions, and with like effect as in case of individual or other bidders.

History: 1887, Act 69, Imd. Eff. Apr. 15, 1887; How. 3983f-9; CL 1897, 7662; CL 1915, 10093; CL 1929, 10358; CL 1948, 455.109
Mich. Comp. Laws § 389.123b — MI Code / Chapter 389 / Act Act-331-of-1966 / Section 389.123b
Admission applicant serving or served as member of military, national guard, or military reserves; duties of board of trustees; "transcript' defined.
Status: in_force

Sec. 123b.

(1) The board of trustees shall ensure that the community college does all of the following in its admission application process if it knows that an applicant for admission is currently serving, or has ever served, as a member of the military, the national guard, or the military reserves:

(a) Inform the applicant that he or she may receive academic credit for college-level training and education he or she received while serving in the military.

(b) Inform the applicant that he or she may submit a transcript of his or her college-level military training and education to the community college.

(c) If the applicant submits a transcript described in subdivision (b), evaluate that transcript and notify the applicant of what transfer credits are available to the applicant from the community college for his or her college-level military training and education.

(2) As used in this section, "transcript" includes a joint services transcript prepared for the applicant under the American council on education registry of credit recommendations.

History: Add. 2014, Act 483, Eff. Apr. 13, 2015
Mich. Comp. Laws § 700.3505 — MI Code / Chapter 700 / Act Act-386-of-1998 / Section 700.3505
Supervised administration; interim orders; partial distribution or other relief.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3505.

Unless otherwise ordered by the court, supervised administration is terminated by an order in accordance with time restrictions, notices, and contents of orders prescribed for proceedings under section 3952. The court may issue an interim order approving or directing a partial distribution or granting other relief at any time during the pendency of a supervised administration on the petition of the personal representative or an interested person.

History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000; Am. 2000, Act 54, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000
Mich. Comp. Laws § 28.403 — MI Code / Chapter 28 / Act Act-203-of-1937 / Section 28.403
Stolen property; authority for sale; publication of notice.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3.

The state administrative board shall act on the request of the commissioner of the Michigan state police within 6 months after the receipt of such request. In case authority is granted to the commissioner of the Michigan state police to turn any money so recovered and held over to the state treasurer or to sell any other property so recovered and held, the commissioner of the Michigan state police shall post 3 notices in the county in which the stolen money or other property was recovered, and also publish notice in a newspaper of general circulation in such county by insertions in 2 issues of said newspaper. Said notice shall describe the money so recovered and held and also the other property so recovered and held, together with the time and place of public sale at which said other property may be purchased by the highest bidder. Up until the said date of sale, the money or other property may be claimed at the East Lansing post of the Michigan state police, and if ownership is proved, such money or other property shall be turned over to the claimant, and the sale cancelled insofar as such property is concerned.

History: 1937, Act 203, Eff. Oct. 29, 1937; CL 1948, 28.403
Mich. Comp. Laws § 125.4215 — MI Code / Chapter 125 / Act Act-57-of-2018 / Section 125.4215
Transmitting and expending tax increments revenues; reversion of surplus funds; abolishment of tax increment financing plan; conditions.
Status: in_force

Sec. 215.

(1) The municipal and county treasurers shall transmit to the authority tax increment revenues.

(2) The authority shall expend the tax increment revenues received for the development program only pursuant to the tax increment financing plan. Surplus funds shall revert proportionately to the respective taxing bodies. These revenues shall not be used to circumvent existing property tax limitations. The governing body of the municipality may abolish the tax increment financing plan when it finds that the purposes for which it was established are accomplished. However, the tax increment financing plan shall not be abolished, allowed to expire, or otherwise terminate until the principal of, and interest on, bonds issued pursuant to section 216 have been paid or funds sufficient to make the payment have been segregated.

History: 2018, Act 57, Eff. Jan. 1, 2019
Mich. Comp. Laws § 752.389 — MI Code / Chapter 752 / Act Act-11-of-2025 / Section 752.389
Application of act; cause of actions.
Status: in_force

Sec. 9.

(1) This act does not affect the ability to bring a civil action under any other law.

(2) This act does not limit the ability to prosecute a person under any other law.

History: 2025, Act 11, Imd. Eff. Aug. 26, 2025
Mich. Comp. Laws § Article IV § 11 — MI Code / Chapter 1 / Act CONSTITUTION-OF-MICHIGAN-OF-1963 / Section Article IV § 11
Legislators privileged from civil arrest and civil process; limitation; questioning for speech in either house prohibited.
Status: in_force

Sec. 11.

Except as provided by law, senators and representatives shall be privileged from civil arrest and civil process during sessions of the legislature and for five days next before the commencement and after the termination thereof. They shall not be questioned in any other place for any speech in either house.

History: Const. 1963, Art. IV, § 11, Eff. Jan. 1, 1964; Am. S.J.R. A, approved Nov. 2, 1982, Eff. Dec. 18, 1982
Mich. Comp. Laws § 500.3927 — MI Code / Chapter 500 / Act Act-218-of-1956 / Section 500.3927
Reasonableness of benefits relative to premiums; expected loss ratio; evaluation of factors; applicability of section.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3927.

(1) Benefits under individual long-term care insurance policies shall be considered reasonable in relation to premiums provided the expected loss ratio is at least 60%, calculated in a manner that provides for adequate reserving of the long-term care insurance risk. In evaluating the expected loss ratio, due consideration shall be given to all relevant factors, including:

(a) Statistical credibility of incurred claims experience and earned premiums.

(b) The period for which rates are computed to provide coverage.

(c) Experienced and projected trends.

(d) Concentration of experience within early policy duration.

(e) Expected claim fluctuation.

(f) Experience refunds, adjustments, or dividends.

(g) Renewability features.

(h) All appropriate expense factors.

(i) Interest.

(j) Experimental nature of the coverage.

(k) Policy reserves.

( l ) Mix of business by risk classification.

(m) Product features such as long elimination periods, high deductibles, and high maximum limits.

(n) Premiums charged and losses incurred for other similar policies.

(2) This section does not apply to fixed indivisible premium life insurance policies that fund long-term care benefits entirely by accelerating the death benefit.

(3) This section applies to all long-term care insurance policies or certificates except those described in sections 3926(1) and 3926a(1) and (2).

History: Add. 1992, Act 84, Imd. Eff. June 2, 1992; Am. 2006, Act 442, Imd. Eff. Oct. 19, 2006
Mich. Comp. Laws § 35.85a — MI Code / Chapter 35 / Act Act-321-of-1937 / Section 35.85a
Successor corporate guardians; appointment, conditions and procedure.
Status: in_force

Sec. 15a.

Any trust company or bank with trust powers, organized under the laws of this state or organized under the laws of the United States, hereinafter in this section referred to as a corporate guardian or fiduciary, with approval of the probate court having jurisdiction, may resign its trust as guardian under this act in accordance with the provisions of this act and the general probate laws of this state. Where the corporate fiduciary has resigned, subject to the provisions of this act, for the purpose of expediting and facilitating the appointment and qualification as successor fiduciary of another corporate guardian, the laws of this state relating to notice of hearing on the appointment of a successor guardian shall not be applicable.

It shall be sufficient for the resignation and discharge of a guardian and the contemporaneous appointment as successor corporate guardian if the following requirements are met:

The filing of a petition by a corporate guardian, praying that its resignation be accepted, that it be discharged, its bond or other undertaking cancelled and the surety thereon released upon the filing of its final account, the allowance thereof, and the transfer of the assets to the corporate successor guardian to be appointed under the provisions of this section.

The appointment of a qualified successor corporate guardian at a hearing on the petition of the resigning guardian with notice only to the veterans' administration as provided in section 3 of this act, or appointment ex parte of the corporate successor guardian upon the filing of a written waiver of notice of hearing thereon by the veterans' administration. The resignation of the former guardian and petition for the appointment of a corporate successor guardian may be combined in 1 instrument to be signed by the former guardian.

The filing of an acceptance of trust or bond by the successor corporate guardian as may be directed by the court.

Upon the allowance of its final account and filing of a receipt for the assets as provided by law, the former guardian may be discharged, its bond or other undertaking cancelled and the surety thereon released.

History: Add. 1958, Act 103, Imd. Eff. Apr. 14, 1958
Mich. Comp. Laws § 566.41 — MI Code / Chapter 566 / Act Act-434-of-1998 / Section 566.41
"Protected series" and "series organization" defined.
Status: in_force

Sec. 11.

(1) As used in this section:

(a) "Protected series" means an arrangement, however denominated, created by a series organization that, pursuant to the law under which the series organization is organized, has the characteristics set forth in subdivision (b).

(b) "Series organization" means an organization that, pursuant to the law under which it is organized, has the following characteristics:

( i ) The organic record of the organization provides for creation by the organization of 1 or more protected series, however denominated, with respect to specified property of the organization, and for records to be maintained for each protected series that identify the property of or associated with the protected series.

( ii ) Debt incurred or existing with respect to the activities of, or property of or associated with, a particular protected series is enforceable against the property of or associated with the protected series only, and not against the property of or associated with the organization or other protected series of the organization.

( iii ) Debt incurred or existing with respect to the activities or property of the organization is enforceable against the property of the organization only, and not against the property of or associated with a protected series of the organization.

(2) A series organization and each protected series of the organization is a separate person for purposes of this act, even if for other purposes a protected series is not a person separate from the organization or other protected series of the organization.

History: 1998, Act 434, Imd. Eff. Dec. 30, 1998; Am. 2016, Act 552, Eff. Apr. 10, 2017
Mich. Comp. Laws § 257.17c — MI Code / Chapter 257 / Act Act-300-of-1949 / Section 257.17c
“Flood vehicle” defined.
Status: in_force

Sec. 17c.

"Flood vehicle" means a vehicle that was submerged in water to the point that water entered the passenger compartment or trunk over the sill of the trunk floor pan or doorsill or a vehicle acquired by an insurance company as part of the settlement of a water damage claim.

History: Add. 2002, Act 485, Eff. Oct. 1, 2002
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.21521 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.21521
Denial of claim, invoice, request for indemnification, or request for eligibility determination; review; negotiated resolution; appeal.
Status: in_force

Sec. 21521.

(1) If the administrator denies a claim, work invoice, request for indemnification, or request for an eligibility determination under section 21510(8), the owner or operator who submitted the claim, work invoice, request for indemnification, or request for an eligibility determination under section 21510(8) may, within 14 days following the denial, request review by the board. However, if the administrator believes the dispute may be able to be resolved without the board's review, the administrator may contact the owner or operator regarding the issues in dispute and may negotiate a resolution of the dispute prior to the board's review. The board shall conduct a review of the denial to determine whether the claim, work invoice, or request for indemnification is payable under this part.

(2) A person who is denied approval by the board after review under subsection (1) may appeal the decision directly to the circuit court.

History: 1994, Act 451, Eff. Mar. 30, 1995; Am. 2014, Act 416, Imd. Eff. Dec. 30, 2014; Am. 2016, Act 380, Eff. Mar. 22, 2017
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.19511 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.19511
Conditions to making grant or loan.
Status: in_force

Sec. 19511.

The department shall not make a grant or a loan under section 19508(1)(a) or (b) unless all of the following conditions are met:

(a) The applicant demonstrates that the proposed project is in compliance with or will result in compliance with all applicable state laws and rules.

(b) The applicant demonstrates to the department the capability to carry out the proposed project.

(c) The applicant provides the department with evidence that a licensed professional engineer has approved the plans and specifications for the project, if appropriate.

(d) The applicant demonstrates to the department that there is an identifiable source of funds for the future maintenance and operation of the proposed project.

(e) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, for grant projects approved for funding under section 19508(1)(a) on or after the effective date of the 2016 amendatory act that amended this section, subdivisions (a) to (d) do not apply and the department shall apply the same application requirements provided for a grant or loan in section 19609.

History: Add. 1995, Act 60, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1995; Am. 2016, Act 472, Eff. Apr. 5, 2017
Mich. Comp. Laws § 257.256 — MI Code / Chapter 257 / Act Act-300-of-1949 / Section 257.256
Unlawful lending or use of certificate of title, registration certificate, registration plate, special plate, or permit; unlawful carrying or display of registration certificate or plate; violation as misdemeanor; penalty; unlawful display of registration plate on commercial vehicle.
Status: in_force

Sec. 256.

A person shall not lend to another person, or knowingly permit the use of, any certificate of title, registration certificate, registration plate, special plate, or permit issued to him or her if the person receiving or using the certificate of title, registration certificate, registration plate, special plate, or permit would not be entitled to the use thereof. A person shall not carry or display upon a vehicle any registration certificate or registration plate not issued for the vehicle or not otherwise lawfully used under this act.

Except as otherwise provided in this section, a person who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment for not more than 90 days, or by a fine of not more than $100.00, or both.

A person who displays upon a commercial vehicle which is required to be registered according to the schedule of elected gross vehicle weights under section 801(1)(k) any registration plate not issued for the vehicle or not otherwise lawfully used under this act is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment for not more than 90 days, or by a fine of not more than $500.00, or both.

History: 1949, Act 300, Eff. Sept. 23, 1949; Am. 1987, Act 34, Eff. Aug. 26, 1987
Mich. Comp. Laws § 380.473 — MI Code / Chapter 380 / Act Act-451-of-1976 / Section 380.473
Effect of act on laws governing public libraries; transfer of power and duties regarding libraries.
Status: in_force

Sec. 473.

This part shall not repeal or affect a general law or local law governing the management and control of public libraries as now established in school districts under this part. The powers and duties of the boards of education now in existence regarding libraries shall be assigned to and transferred to the first class school district board created by this part.

History: 1976, Act 451, Imd. Eff. Jan. 13, 1977
Mich. Comp. Laws § 125.803 — MI Code / Chapter 125 / Act Act-56-of-1980 / Section 125.803
Definitions; B, C.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3.

(1) "Bureau" means the bureau of community services in the department of labor.

(2) "Business firm" means a sole proprietorship, partnership, or corporation authorized to do business in this state and subject to tax under either the single business tax act, 1975 PA 228, MCL 208.1 to 208.145, or the Michigan business tax act, 2007 PA 36, MCL 208.1101 to 208.1601.

(3) "Community development commission" means an advisory commission established pursuant to law within the department of labor.

(4) "Community services" means services, including counseling and advice, recreational programs, emergency assistance, medical care, or instructional services furnished to a person or a group in an eligible neighborhood.

(5) "Crime prevention" means activities which aid in the reduction of crime in an eligible neighborhood.

History: 1980, Act 56, Imd. Eff. Apr. 1, 1980; Am. 1983, Act 104, Imd. Eff. June 30, 1983; Am. 2007, Act 177, Imd. Eff. Dec. 21, 2007