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Mich. Comp. Laws § 400.11d — MI Code / Chapter 400 / Act Act-280-of-1939 / Section 400.11d
Availability of writing to public; exception; correction of inaccurate statements; identification of unsubstantiated statements.
Status: in_force

Sec. 11d.

(1) Except as provided in section 5 of the financial exploitation prevention act, a writing prepared, owned, used, in the possession of, or retained by the state department in the performance of its duties under this act must be made available to the public in compliance with freedom of information act, 1976 PA 442, MCL 15.231 to 15.246.

(2) The state department shall correct any inaccurate statement and shall clearly identify any unsubstantiated statement in a record or report provided to the state department under sections 11 to 11e.

(3) Any person who is the subject of a report provided to the state department under sections 11 to 11e may request that the director correct an inaccurate report or clearly identify as unsubstantiated any record of a case for which the investigation did not reveal an incident described in sections 11 to 11e. If the director determines that the request is valid, the state department shall take the appropriate action. A correction or identification provided for in this subsection must not be made until an investigation has been completed and the case has been closed to receipt of adult protective services.

History: Add. 1982, Act 519, Eff. Mar. 30, 1983; Am. 2020, Act 346, Eff. Sept. 26, 2021
Mich. Comp. Laws § 400.47 — MI Code / Chapter 400 / Act Act-280-of-1939 / Section 400.47
Organization of district department of social welfare and medical relief; powers and duties vested in district social welfare board and medical advisory council; appointment, qualifications, and terms of members; applicability of references; chairperson; conducting business at public meeting; notice; availability of writings to public.
Status: in_force

Sec. 47.

Two or more counties may organize a district department of social welfare and medical relief by a majority vote of the members elect of the county board of commissioners of each county. The administration of the powers and duties of the department shall be vested in a district social welfare board and medical advisory council. The district social welfare board and medical advisory council shall consist of members appointed from persons who are residents within the district, for 3-year terms as follows: 1 member shall be appointed by the state social welfare commission and the county board of commissioners of each county included in the district shall each appoint 2 members. Of the members first appointed the member appointed by the state social welfare commission shall be appointed for a term of 1 year; 1 member appointed by the county board of commissioners of each county shall be appointed for the term of 2 years, and 1 member for the term of 3 years. A reference in this act to a county department of social services or to a county social services board, shall be deemed to apply to a district department of social welfare or a district social welfare board, where a district has been created as provided in this section. A member of a district board shall not hold an elective office. The members of the district social welfare board shall choose a chairperson as provided in section 46.

The business which a district social welfare board may perform shall be conducted at a public meeting of the board held in compliance with Act No. 267 of the Public Acts of 1976. Public notice of the time, date, and place of the meeting shall be given in the manner required by Act No. 267 of the Public Acts of 1976.

Except as prescribed in sections 35 and 64, a writing prepared, owned, used, in the possession of, or retained by a district department of social welfare or a district social welfare board in the performance of an official function shall be made available to the public in compliance with Act No. 442 of the Public Acts of 1976.

History: 1939, Act 280, Imd. Eff. June 16, 1939; CL 1948, 400.47; Am. 1978, Act 224, Imd. Eff. June 13, 1978
Mich. Comp. Laws § 484.3312 — MI Code / Chapter 484 / Act Act-480-of-2006 / Section 484.3312
Administration of act; limitations; report.
Status: in_force

Sec. 12.

(1) The commission's authority to administer this act is limited to the powers and duties explicitly provided for under this act, and the commission shall not have the authority to regulate or control a provider under this act as a public utility.

(2) The commission shall file a report with the governor and legislature by February 1 of each year that shall include information on the status of competition for video services in this state and recommendations for any needed legislation. A video service provider shall submit to the commission any information requested by the commission necessary for the preparation of the annual report required under this subsection. The obligation of a video service provider under this subsection is limited to the submission of information generated or gathered in the normal course of business.

History: 2006, Act 480, Eff. Jan. 1, 2007
Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.859 — MI Code / Chapter 600 / Act Act-236-of-1961 / Section 600.859
Taking testimony; record; keeping index and original notes.
Status: in_force

Sec. 859.

(1) The following testimony before a probate judge shall be recorded:

(a) Testimony in contested matters.

(b) Testimony in matters pertaining to the admission to a hospital or other facility for mentally ill or developmentally disabled persons.

(c) Testimony in matters pertaining to persons having a contagious disease.

(d) Testimony in other matters if requested by an interested party.

(e) Testimony and other proceedings required by supreme court rule.

(2) In matters not governed by subsection (1), testimony before a probate judge, probate register, or deputy probate register may be given orally without a record being made of the testimony.

(3) The court shall keep sufficient index of the testimony and the court shall keep the index and the original notes as prescribed by supreme court rules.

History: Add. 1978, Act 543, Eff. July 1, 1979; Am. 1979, Act 69, Imd. Eff. July 25, 1979; Am. 1986, Act 308, Eff. Jan. 1, 1987; Am. 2005, Act 326, Imd. Eff. Dec. 27, 2005; Am. 2013, Act 201, Imd. Eff. Dec. 18, 2013
Mich. Comp. Laws § 570.445 — MI Code / Chapter 570 / Act Act-59-of-1864-Ex-Sess- / Section 570.445
Enforcement of lien; time limitation, effect of bona fide purchase of craft.
Status: in_force

Sec. 45.

Liens may be enforced under this act at any time within 6 years from their origin: Provided, That no lien shall be enforced against a water-craft in the hands of a bona-fide purchaser without notice, unless a complaint to enforce the same shall have been filed in the proper court in the county where the party claiming the lien resides, within 1 year from the time when the same accrued.

History: 1864, Ex. Sess., Act 59, Eff. May 7, 1864; CL 1871, 6690; How. 8279; CL 1897, 10832; CL 1915, 14935; CL 1929, 13181; CL 1948, 570.445
Mich. Comp. Laws § 120.113 — MI Code / Chapter 120 / Act Act-639-of-1978 / Section 120.113
Contracts for acquisition, improvement, enlargement, or extension of port facilities; payment of cost; pledge of full faith and credit; tax levy; methods of raising funds; assessment of costs.
Status: in_force

Sec. 13.

An authority and 1 or more constituent units may enter into a contract or contracts for the acquisition, improvement, enlargement, or extension of port facilities and for the payment of the cost thereof by the contracting constituent units, with interest, over a period of not more than 40 years.

Each contracting constituent unit shall pledge its full faith and credit for the payment of its obligations under the contract. If the constituent unit has taxing power, each year it shall levy a tax upon all real and personal property within the constituent unit, which may be imposed without limitation as to rate or amount, to the extent necessary for the prompt payment of that part of the contract obligations as shall fall due before the following year's tax collection. The tax shall be in addition to any tax which the contracting constituent unit may otherwise be authorized to levy and may be imposed without limitation as to rate or amount, but shall not be in excess of the rate or amount necessary to pay the contract obligation. If any contracting constituent unit at the time of its annual tax levy has on hand in cash any amount pledged to the payment of the current obligations for which the tax levy is to be made, then the annual tax levy may be reduced by that amount. For the purpose of obtaining the credit, funds may be raised by a contracting constituent unit in 1 or more of the following methods:

By service charge to users of the facilities owned by the port authority.

By setting aside state collected funds disbursed to the contracting constituent unit.

By special assessment upon lands benefited.

By setting aside any other available money.

A contracting constituent unit may agree to raise all or any part of its contract obligation by 1 or more of the methods enumerated in subsection (2) which may be available. The various powers granted in this act to a constituent unit shall be exercised by its governing body.

If a constituent unit, other than a county, operating under this act elects to raise money to pay all or a portion of its share of the cost of a project by assessing the costs upon benefited lands, its governing body shall so determine by resolution and fix the district therefor. The governing body shall then cause a special assessment roll to be prepared and thereafter the proceedings in respect to the special assessment roll and the making and collection of the special assessments on the roll, shall be in accordance with the provisions of the statute or charter governing special assessments in the constituent unit, except that the total assessment may be divided into any number of installments not exceeding 30, and any person assessed shall have the right at the hearing upon the special assessment roll to object to the special assessment district previously established.

History: 1978, Act 639, Imd. Eff. Jan. 11, 1979
Mich. Comp. Laws § 333.20552 — MI Code / Chapter 333 / Act Act-368-of-1978 / Section 333.20552
Registration of laboratory, department, or school handling pathogens or doing recombinant deoxyribonucleic acid research; application for and duration of registration number.
Status: in_force

Sec. 20552.

The department shall register a laboratory or a department of a college, university, or school which is responsible for the handling, cultivating, selling, giving away, or shipping of the microorganisms described in section 20551(1) or is engaged in recombinant deoxyribonucleic acid research. The person in charge of the laboratory or department where the pathogens are handled or where recombinant deoxyribonucleic acid research is done shall apply for a registration number. The registration is valid for 1 year and may be renewed upon application.

History: 1978, Act 368, Eff. Sept. 30, 1978
Mich. Comp. Laws § 257.18a — MI Code / Chapter 257 / Act Act-300-of-1949 / Section 257.18a
“Freeway” defined.
Status: in_force

Sec. 18a.

"Freeway" means a divided arterial highway for through traffic with full control of access and with all crossroads separated in grade from pavements for through traffic.

History: Add. 1961, Act 164, Eff. Sept. 8, 1961
Mich. Comp. Laws § 780.768 — MI Code / Chapter 780 / Act Act-87-of-1985 / Section 780.768
Sale of recollections of thoughts and feelings of convicted person; proceeds to be held in escrow; disposition of proceeds.
Status: in_force

Sec. 18.

(1) A person convicted of a crime shall not derive any profit from the sale of any of the following until the victim receives any restitution or compensation ordered for him or her against the defendant, expenses of incarceration are paid under subsection (3), and any balance in the escrow account created under subsection (2) is paid under subsection (4):

(a) The person's recollections of or thoughts or feelings about the offense committed by the person.

(b) Memorabilia related to the offense committed by the person.

(c) The person's property if its value has been enhanced or increased by the person's notoriety.

(2) Upon the conviction of a defendant for a crime involving a victim, and after notice to all interested parties, an attorney for the county in which the conviction occurred or the attorney general may petition the court in which the conviction occurred to order that the defendant forfeit all or any part of proceeds received or to be received by the defendant or the defendant's representatives or assignees from any of the following:

(a) Contracts relating to the depiction of the crime or the defendant's recollections, thoughts, or feelings about the crime, in books, magazines, media entertainment, or live entertainment.

(b) The sale of memorabilia relating to the crime.

(c) The sale of property of the defendant, the value of which has been enhanced or increased by the defendant's notoriety arising from the crime.

(3) Proceeds ordered forfeited under subsection (2) shall be held in an escrow account for a period of not more than 5 years.

(4) During the existence of an escrow account created under subsection (3), proceeds in the account shall be distributed in the following priority to satisfy the following:

(a) An order of restitution entered under section 16.

(b) Any civil judgment in favor of the victim against the defendant.

(c) Any reimbursement ordered under the prisoner reimbursement to the county act, 1984 PA 118, MCL 801.81 to 801.93, or the state correctional facility reimbursement act, 1935 PA 253, MCL 800.401 to 800.406.

(d) Fines, costs, and other assessments ordered against the defendant.

(5) A balance remaining in an escrow account created under subsection (3) at the end of the escrow period shall be paid to the crime victim's rights fund created in section 4 of 1989 PA 196, MCL 780.904.

History: 1985, Act 87, Eff. Oct. 9, 1985; Am. 1996, Act 562, Eff. June 1, 1997; Am. 2005, Act 184, Eff. Jan. 1, 2006
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.41310 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.41310
Property used in criminal violation subject to seizure and forfeiture.
Status: in_force

Sec. 41310.

A vehicle, equipment, or other property used in a criminal violation of this part or a permit issued under this part involving a prohibited species that is an aquatic species is subject to seizure and forfeiture as provided in chapter 47 of the revised judicature act of 1961, 1961 PA 236, MCL 600.4701 to 600.4709.

History: Add. 2014, Act 537, Eff. Apr. 15, 2015
Mich. Comp. Laws § 124.461 — MI Code / Chapter 124 / Act Act-196-of-1986 / Section 124.461
Assumption, transfer, assignment, or conveyance of tax revenues, property, rights, duties, and obligations.
Status: in_force

Sec. 11.

All tax revenue, or real or personal property or property rights, money, authorizations to levy a tax, and all other rights, duties, and obligations of an existing authority that forms a public authority in accordance with section 3 shall be assumed by and transferred to the public authority created under this act without execution or delivery of any document or instrument transferring or assigning them.

A political subdivision forming a public authority under this act, including a political subdivision only a portion of which is part of the public authority pursuant to a decision by the legislative body of the political subdivision, may assign or convey any of its tax revenue, real or personal property or property rights, and all other rights, duties, and obligations involving public transportation service to the public authority formed by the political subdivision. However, a transfer or assignment shall not be made which materially adversely affects the contractual rights of a person having a contract with that political subdivision.

History: 1986, Act 196, Imd. Eff. July 10, 1986
Mich. Comp. Laws § 168.440 — MI Code / Chapter 168 / Act Act-116-of-1954 / Section 168.440
Probate judges; oath of office.
Status: in_force

Sec. 440.

Every person elected to the office of judge of probate, before entering upon the duties of his office, shall take and subscribe to the oath as provided in section 1 of article 11 of the state constitution, and file the same with the county clerk.

History: 1954, Act 116, Eff. June 1, 1955; Am. 1963, 2nd Ex. Sess., Act 58, Imd. Eff. Dec. 27, 1963
Mich. Comp. Laws § 330.1730 — MI Code / Chapter 330 / Act Act-258-of-1974 / Section 330.1730
Money.
Status: in_force

Sec. 730.

The department shall establish policies and procedures designed to ensure that money in the accounts of residents of a state facility are safeguarded against theft, loss, or misappropriation.

A state facility may require that all money that is on the person of a resident, that comes to a resident, or that the facility receives on behalf of the resident under a benefit arrangement or otherwise, be turned over to the facility for safekeeping. The money shall be accounted for in the name of the resident and recorded periodically in the records of the resident. Upon request, money accounted for in the name of a resident shall be turned over to a legal guardian of the resident if the guardian has such authority.

A resident of a state facility is entitled to easy access to the money in his or her account and to spend or otherwise use the money as he or she chooses, except as provided in policies and procedures of the department established under subsection (1). Policies and procedures shall be established in writing for each state facility giving residents easy access to the money in their accounts and enabling residents to spend or otherwise use their money as they choose.

Money accounted for in the name of a resident of a state facility may be deposited with a financial institution. Any earnings attributable to money in an account of a resident shall be credited to that account.

All money, including any earnings, in an account of a resident of a state facility shall be delivered to the resident upon his or her release from the facility.

History: 1974, Act 258, Eff. Aug. 6, 1975; Am. 1995, Act 290, Eff. Mar. 28, 1996
Mich. Comp. Laws § 487.12307 — MI Code / Chapter 487 / Act Act-276-of-1999 / Section 487.12307
Stay of suspension or prohibition; issuance by court.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2307.

Within 10 days after the date a person has been suspended from office or prohibited from participation in the conduct of the affairs of any institution under section 2306(3), the person may apply to the Ingham county circuit court or the circuit court for the county in which the principal office of the institution is located for a stay of the suspension or prohibition pending the completion of the administrative proceedings pursuant to the notice served upon the person under section 2306(1) or (2) and the court shall have jurisdiction to stay the suspension or prohibition.

History: 1999, Act 276, Eff. Mar. 1, 2000
Mich. Comp. Laws § 768.8 — MI Code / Chapter 760 / Act Act-175-of-1927 / Section 768.8
Issues of fact to be tried by jury; waiver of trial by jury.
Status: in_force

Sec. 8.

Issues of fact shall be tried by a jury drawn, returned, examined on voir dire, and empaneled in the manner provided by law for the trial of issues of fact in civil cases. The accused may waive any trial by jury in the manner set forth in section 3 of chapter III.

History: 1927, Act 175, Eff. Sept. 5, 1927; CL 1929, 17301; CL 1948, 768.8; Am. 1988, Act 89, Eff. June 1, 1988
Mich. Comp. Laws § 333.2829 — MI Code / Chapter 333 / Act Act-368-of-1978 / Section 333.2829
Report of adoption; form; contents; report when adoption order amended, annulled, or rescinded; duty of probate register or clerk; requirements of birth certificate issued to adopted individual.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2829.

For each adoption ordered by the probate court in this state, the court shall prepare a report of adoption on a form prescribed and furnished by the state registrar. The report shall:

Include the facts necessary to locate and identify the certificate of live birth of the individual adopted.

Provide information necessary to establish a new certificate of live birth of the individual adopted.

Identify the adoption order.

Be certified by the probate register or clerk.

When an adoption order is amended, annulled, or rescinded, the court shall prepare a report which shall include the facts necessary to identify the original adoption report and the facts amended in the adoption order necessary to properly amend the birth record. The report of a rescission of adoption shall include the current names and addresses of the petitioners.

Not later than the tenth day of the calendar month, the probate register or clerk shall forward:

To the state registrar, reports of adoption orders, and amendments, annulments, and rescissions of the orders, entered during the preceding month for individuals born in this state.

To the appropriate registration authority in another state, the United States department of state, or the United States immigration and naturalization service, reports of adoption orders, and amendments, annulments, and rescissions of the orders, entered during the preceding month for individuals born outside this state.

A birth certificate issued to an adopted individual shall conform to the requirements of sections 67 and 68 of chapter X of Act No. 288 of the Public Acts of 1939, as amended, being sections 710.67 and 710.68 of the Michigan Compiled Laws.

History: 1978, Act 368, Eff. Sept. 30, 1978; Am. 1979, Act 208, Eff. May 14, 1980; Am. 1992, Act 248, Imd. Eff. Nov. 19, 1992
Mich. Comp. Laws § 409.307 — MI Code / Chapter 409 / Act Act-22-of-1984 / Section 409.307
Duration of employment; compensation; use of funds.
Status: in_force

Sec. 7.

(1) The department shall not employ a corpsmember for more than 2 years.

(2) The department shall compensate a corpsmember at not more than twice the minimum wage established by law at the time of employment.

(3) The department may utilize corps funds for mentors, instructors, trainers, crew leaders, and other state workers employed to provide guidance and training to corpsmembers.

History: 1984, Act 22, Imd. Eff. Mar. 7, 1984; Am. 1989, Act 50, Imd. Eff. June 12, 1989; Am. 2012, Act 575, Imd. Eff. Jan. 2, 2013