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Mich. Comp. Laws § 408.1009 — MI Code / Chapter 408 / Act Act-154-of-1974 / Section 408.1009
Legislative declaration.
Status: in_force

Sec. 9.

The safety, health, and general welfare of employees are primary public concerns. The legislature hereby declares that all employees shall be provided safe and healthful work environments free of recognized hazards.

History: 1974, Act 154, Eff. Jan. 1, 1975
Mich. Comp. Laws § 500.5420 — MI Code / Chapter 500 / Act Act-218-of-1956 / Section 500.5420
Mutual life and disability insurers; amendment, adoption, and approval of bylaws.
Status: in_force

Sec. 5420.

Bylaws not inconsistent with the articles of association may be adopted or amended at any meeting of the directors or members of the insurer held after the receipt from the commissioner of a certified copy of the certificate of incorporation. The bylaws or amendments shall not become effective until approved by and filed with the commissioner.

History: 1956, Act 218, Eff. Jan. 1, 1957; Am. 1961, Act 153, Eff. Sept. 8, 1961
Mich. Comp. Laws § 380.1805 — MI Code / Chapter 380 / Act Act-451-of-1976 / Section 380.1805
Acting as agent; receiving gift or reward; penalty.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1805.

A superintendent of public instruction, intermediate superintendent, school officer, superintendent, principal, or teacher of schools shall not act as agent for an author, publisher, or seller of schoolbooks or school apparatus, or receive a gift or reward for his or her influence in recommending the purchase or use of a schoolbook, apparatus, or furniture in this state.

A person who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than $500.00 or imprisonment for not more than 3 months, or both.

History: 1976, Act 451, Imd. Eff. Jan. 13, 1977
Mich. Comp. Laws § 125.922 — MI Code / Chapter 125 / Act Act-250-of-1941 / Section 125.922
Construction of act.
Status: in_force

Sec. 22.

Construction. This act shall be construed liberally to effectuate the purposes hereof, and the enumeration of specific powers in this act shall not operate to restrict the meaning of any general grant of power contained in this act or to exclude other powers comprehended in such general grant.

History: 1941, Act 250, Imd. Eff. June 16, 1941; CL 1948, 125.922
Mich. Comp. Laws § 257.2145 — MI Code / Chapter 257 / Act Act-345-of-2016 / Section 257.2145
Nondiscrimination; accommodation of service animals; services to passenger with physical disability.
Status: in_force

Sec. 45.

(1) A limousine carrier, taxicab carrier, and transportation network company shall adopt a policy of nondiscrimination with respect to passengers and potential passengers and shall notify limousine drivers, taxicab drivers, and transportation network company drivers of the policy adopted under this subsection.

(2) A limousine driver, taxicab driver, and transportation network company driver shall comply with all applicable laws regarding nondiscrimination against a passenger or potential passenger.

(3) A limousine driver, taxicab driver, and transportation network company driver shall comply with all applicable laws regarding accommodation of service animals.

(4) A limousine carrier, taxicab carrier, and transportation network company shall not impose an additional charge for providing services to a passenger with a physical disability because of his or her disability.

History: 2016, Act 345, Eff. Mar. 21, 2017
Mich. Comp. Laws § 484.152 — MI Code / Chapter 484 / Act Act-59-of-1851 / Section 484.152
Telegraph companies; certificate of organization, contents, filing.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

Such persons, under their hands and seals, shall make a certificate which shall specify:

1st. The name assumed to distinguish such association, and to be used in its dealings, and by which it may sue and be sued;

2nd. The general route of the line of telegraph, designating the points to be connected;

3rd. The capital stock of such association, and the number of shares into which the stock shall be divided;

4th. The names and places of residence of the shareholders, and the number of shares held by each of them respectively;

5th. The term of its existence, not to exceed 30 years; which certificate shall be proved or acknowledged, and recorded in the office of the clerk of the county where any office of such association shall be established, and a copy thereof filed in the office of the secretary of state; such acknowledgment may be taken by any officer authorized to take the acknowledgment of deeds of real estate, at the place where such acknowledgment is taken.

History: 1851, Act 59, Imd. Eff. Mar. 20, 1851; CL 1857, 2050; CL 1871, 2626; How. 3694; CL 1897, 6668; CL 1915, 8768; CL 1929, 11664; CL 1948, 484.152
Mich. Comp. Laws § 331.163 — MI Code / Chapter 331 / Act Act-350-of-1913 / Section 331.163
County hospitals; physician's right to treat patients, right to employ physicians or nurse.
Status: in_force

Sec. 13.

All physicians and surgeons licensed under the laws of Michigan shall have the privilege of treating patients in the hospital, subject always to such rules and regulations as shall be established by the board of trustees under the provisions of this act. The patient shall have the right to employ at his own expense his own physician or nurse, and when acting for any patient in such hospital the physician employed by the patient shall have charge of the care and treatment of such patient.

History: 1913, Act 350, Eff. Aug. 14, 1913; CL 1915, 10869; CL 1929, 7074; CL 1948, 331.163; Am. 1958, Act 105, Eff. Sept. 13, 1958
Mich. Comp. Laws § 46.16e — MI Code / Chapter 46 / Act Act-156-of-1851 / Section 46.16e
Coordinating committee; duties generally.
Status: in_force

Sec. 16e.

If a consolidation proposed under sections 16b and 16c is approved, the coordinating committee shall do all of the following:

Prepare and adopt an interim budget for the consolidated township for the period commencing at the time the consolidation is effective and, if the consolidated township is a charter township, ending December 31 of the following calendar year, or, if the consolidated township is a general law township, ending March 31 or June 30 of the following calendar year, as determined by the coordinating committee.

Before July 1 of the year of the election, establish salaries for the officers of the consolidated township for the period from the time the consolidation is effective until the beginning of the first fiscal year that begins after 12 months after the effective date of the consolidation.

Recommend individuals for appointment by the consolidated township board to positions on the boards and commissions of the consolidated township.

Study and make recommendations concerning the coordination, consolidation, repeal, and reenactment of the ordinances, resolutions, rules, and regulations of the former townships for the consolidated township.

History: Add. 1988, Act 37, Imd. Eff. Mar. 4, 1988
Mich. Comp. Laws § 32.778 — MI Code / Chapter 32 / Act Act-150-of-1967 / Section 32.778
Deed of property for erection of armory.
Status: in_force

Sec. 378.

When a site is deeded to this state for the erection of an armory, and thereafter any person or local government or combination of local governments wish to deed to this state another site, and the adjutant general after inspection believes that the new site is superior to the old site, the adjutant general may accept the new site after an examination of the title has been made by the attorney general, and deed the old site to the grantor deeding the new site to the state.

History: 1967, Act 150, Imd. Eff. June 30, 1967; Am. 2013, Act 99, Imd. Eff. July 2, 2013
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.20116 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.20116
Transfer of interest in real property; notice; certification of completed response activity.
Status: in_force

Sec. 20116.

(1) A person who has knowledge or information or is on notice through a recorded instrument that a portion or the entirety of a parcel of that person's property is a facility shall not transfer an interest in that real property unless he or she provides written notice to the purchaser or other person to which the property is transferred disclosing the known general nature and extent of the hazardous substance release and any land or resource use restrictions that are known by the person to apply. A restrictive covenant or notice that contains the required information that is recorded in the deed records for the property satisfies this requirement.

(2) The owner of real property for which a notice required in subsection (1) has been recorded may, upon completion of a response activity under this part for the facility, record with the register of deeds for the appropriate county a certification that the response activity has been completed.

History: 1994, Act 451, Eff. Mar. 30, 1995; Am. 1995, Act 71, Imd. Eff. June 5, 1995; Am. 2014, Act 542, Imd. Eff. Jan. 15, 2015
Mich. Comp. Laws § 46.20 — MI Code / Chapter 46 / Act Act-156-of-1851 / Section 46.20
Money raising; referendum, notice, ballots.
Status: in_force

Sec. 20.

Whenever it shall become necessary, under the provisions of this act, to submit to a vote of the electors of any county, the question of raising any sum of money by loan or by tax, the said board, after having determined the sum necessary to be raised, whether the same shall be made by loan or by tax, shall proceed to give the notice of such determination, and of the time when the question will be submitted to the electors of such county in the several townships, which notice shall be for the same length of time and posted in the same manner as required by the eighteenth section of this act; and the votes shall be taken, canvassed, certified and returned, in the same manner as required by the nineteenth section of this act, except that those voting for such tax or loan shall have written or printed on their ballots the words "for the tax," or "for the loan," as the case may be; and those voting against the tax or loan, shall have written or printed on their ballots, the words "against the tax," or "against the loan," as the case may be.

History: 1851, Act 156, Imd. Eff. Apr. 8, 1851; CL 1857, 354; CL 1871, 486; How. 492; CL 1897, 2493; CL 1915, 2283; CL 1929, 1142; CL 1948, 46.20
Mich. Comp. Laws § 123.637 — MI Code / Chapter 123 / Act Act-200-of-1957 / Section 123.637
Intermunicipal committee; audit.
Status: in_force

Sec. 7.

The intermunicipal committee shall obtain an audit of its financial records, accounts, and procedures not less frequently than biennially as determined by the intermunicipal committee.

The intermunicipal committee shall submit the results of an audit under subsection (1) to the state treasurer.

An audit under subsection (1) shall satisfy all audit requirements set forth in the uniform budgeting and accounting act, 1968 PA 2, MCL 141.421 to 141.440a.

History: Add. 1999, Act 143, Eff. Oct. 22, 1999
Mich. Comp. Laws § 388.1611aa — MI Code / Chapter 388 / Act Act-94-of-1979 / Section 388.1611aa
ASHRAE Level II Energy Efficiency Audits.
Status: in_force

Sec. 11aa.

(1) From the state school aid fund money appropriated under section 11, there is allocated an amount not to exceed $20,000,000.00 for 2022-2023 only for the intermediate district or consortium of intermediate districts receiving funding under section 11y for the purposes of including ASHRAE Level II Energy Efficiency Audits or similar audits to the statewide school facilities study under section 11y. These funds may also be utilized for solar feasibility studies or data collection for solar feasibility.

(2) The recipient of funding under this section must use the funds in coordination with engineers from architectural, engineering, or construction companies based in this state that are familiar with school construction and energy efficiency audits to perform a systematic assessment for school buildings in this state in which pupils in grades K to 12 are educated and that are operated by a district. Where possible, the inclusion of solar feasibility studies or data collection for solar feasibility may be performed as well.

(3) The energy efficiency audit may include, but is not limited to, the following building improvements:

(a) The following energy efficiency measures:

( i ) HVAC upgrades, including geothermal heat pumps.

( ii ) Lighting upgrades, including LED lights and occupancy sensors.

( iii ) Building envelope and weatherization.

( iv ) Appliances and equipment.

( v ) Building management systems.

(b) Solar power systems on or nearby school buildings, school parking lots, and property.

(4) All energy efficiency audits and solar feasibility studies or data collection for solar feasibility performed using these funds must be shared with the appropriate school district in the form of individual building reports.

(5) As part of the assessment described in this section, the engineers must report to the recipient of funding under this section the outcomes of the energy efficiency audits and, where applicable, solar feasibility studies or data collection for solar feasibility.

(6) The recipient of funding under this section must provide a report to the house and senate appropriations subcommittees on school aid, the state budget director, the house and senate fiscal agencies, and the department summarizing the information it receives under this section.

(7) Notwithstanding section 17b, the department must make payments under this section by August 1, 2023.

History: Add. 2023, Act 103, Imd. Eff. July 21, 2023
Mich. Comp. Laws § 333.16326 — MI Code / Chapter 333 / Act Act-368-of-1978 / Section 333.16326
Practice of midwifery; license fees.
Status: in_force

Sec. 16326.

(1) Fees for an individual who is licensed or seeking licensure to engage in the practice of midwifery under part 171 are as follows:

(a) Subject to subsection (2) and section 17116(4), application processing fee $ 450.00 (b) License fee, per year 200.00 (c) Temporary license fee, per year 200.00

(a)

Subject to subsection (2) and section 17116(4), application processing fee

$

450.00

(b)

License fee, per year

200.00

(c)

Temporary license fee, per year

200.00

(2) After the department receives more than a total of $23,000.00 in application processing fees from individuals who are licensed or seeking licensure to engage in the practice of midwifery under part 171, the application processing fee is reduced to $75.00.

History: Add. 2016, Act 417, Eff. Apr. 4, 2017
Mich. Comp. Laws § 207.621 — MI Code / Chapter 207 / Act Act-106-of-1985 / Section 207.621
Short title.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

This act shall be known and may be cited as the "state convention facility development act".

History: 1985, Act 106, Imd. Eff. July 30, 1985
Mich. Comp. Laws § 331.511 — MI Code / Chapter 331 / Act Act-299-of-1947 / Section 331.511
Hospital construction program; minimum standards for maintenance and operation of hospitals receiving federal aid; medical personnel.
Status: in_force

Sec. 11.

Any hospital which shall hereafter receive federal aid under the provisions of Public Law 725, known as the "hospital survey and construction act," enacted by the 79th Congress, shall hereafter comply with the minimum standards of maintenance and operation which the state department of health with the advice of the advisory hospital council, shall promulgate and administer. This section shall not be construed so as to authorize any regulation of medical personnel.

History: 1947, Act 299, Eff. Oct. 11, 1947; Am. 1948, 1st Ex. Sess., Act 14, Imd. Eff. Apr. 28, 1948; CL 1948, 331.511
Mich. Comp. Laws § 206.924 — MI Code / Chapter 206 / Act Act-347-of-2010 / Section 206.924
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 to each county from which a contribution, gift, or donation was received.

History: 2010, Act 347, Imd. Eff. Dec. 21, 2010
Mich. Comp. Laws § 500.2438 — MI Code / Chapter 500 / Act Act-218-of-1956 / Section 500.2438
Rating organizations; subscribers; notice of changes in rules; furnishing of service without discrimination; review; order.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2438.

Subject to rules and regulations which have been approved by the commissioner as reasonable, each rating organization shall permit any insurer, not a member, to be a subscriber to its rating services for any kind of insurance or subdivision thereof for which it is authorized to act as a rating organization. Notice of proposed changes in such rules and regulations shall be given to subscribers. Each rating organization shall furnish its rating services without discrimination to its members and subscribers.

The reasonableness of any rule or regulation in its application to subscribers, or the refusal of any rating organization to admit an insurer as a subscriber, shall, at the request of any subscriber or any such insurer, be reviewed by the commissioner at a hearing held upon at least 10 days' written notice to such rating organization and to such subscriber or insurer. If the commissioner finds that such rule or regulation is unreasonable in its application to subscribers, he shall order that such rule or regulation shall not be applicable to subscribers.

If the rating organization fails to grant or reject an insurer's application for subscribership within 30 days after it was made, the insurer may request a review by the commissioner as if the application had been rejected. If the commissioner finds that the insurer has been refused admittance to the rating organization as a subscriber without justification, he shall order the rating organization to admit the insurer as a subscriber. If he finds that the action of the rating organization was justified, he shall make an order affirming its action.

History: 1956, Act 218, Eff. Jan. 1, 1957
Mich. Comp. Laws § 221.20g — MI Code / Chapter 220 / Act Act-283-of-1909 / Section 221.20g
Improvement of road by township; standards; special assessment; petition; acceptance of public highway; maintenance.
Status: in_force

Sec. 20g.

Any road determined to be a public highway in accordance with this chapter shall be improved by the township to standards determined in writing by the board of county road commissioners of that county. The standards may be less than the standards adopted by that board of county road commissioners for construction of subdivision streets. The township may specially assess all or part of the costs of the improvements against benefited property owners pursuant to Act No. 188 of the Public Acts of 1954, as amended, being sections 41.721 to 41.737 of the Michigan Compiled Laws. The petition required by section 20a may serve as the petition for commencing special assessment proceedings if the petition so states. Upon completion of the improvements to board of county road commissioners standards the public highway shall be accepted by the board of county road commissioners as a county road and made a part of the county road system in accordance with the provisions of section 18 of chapter 4. Between the time that the court enters its order declaring that the road is a public highway and the time that the public highway is accepted by the board of county road commissioners neither the township nor the board of county road commissioners shall be responsible for maintaining the public highway nor be liable for failure to maintain the public highway.

History: Add. 1974, Act 336, Imd. Eff. Dec. 17, 1974
Mich. Comp. Laws § 556.205 — MI Code / Chapter 556 / Act Act-187-of-2023 / Section 556.205
Execution of power of attorney; requirements.
Status: in_force

Sec. 105.

(1) To be effective, a power of attorney created on or after the effective date of this act must be signed by 1 of the following individuals:

(a) The principal.

(b) If signed in the principal's conscious presence, another individual directed by the principal to sign the principal's name.

(2) To be durable, a power of attorney signed under subsection (1)(a) must meet 1 of the following requirements:

(a) Be acknowledged by the principal before a notary public or other individual authorized to take acknowledgments.

(b) Be signed in the presence of 2 witnesses, both of whom also sign the power, subject to both of the following:

( i ) A witness may not be an agent nominated in the power.

( ii ) One of the witnesses may be an individual who also acts, in the principal's execution of the power, as a notary public or other individual authorized to take acknowledgments.

(3) To be durable, a power of attorney signed under subsection (1)(b) must be signed in the presence of 2 witnesses as described in subsection (2)(b), regardless of whether the power is acknowledged.

(4) A signature on a power of attorney is presumed to be genuine if the principal acknowledges the signature before a notary public or other individual authorized by law to take acknowledgments.

(5) A signature on a power of attorney that is witnessed as described in subsection (2)(b) but is not acknowledged by the principal before a notary public or other individual authorized by law to take acknowledgments is not entitled to the presumption of genuineness under subsection (4), and the power is not acknowledged within the meaning of sections 119 and 120.

History: 2023, Act 187, Eff. July 1, 2024
Mich. Comp. Laws § 257.326 — MI Code / Chapter 257 / Act Act-300-of-1949 / Section 257.326
Operation of vehicle in violation of act; owner's permission prohibited.
Status: in_force

Sec. 326.

No person shall knowingly authorize or permit a motor vehicle owned by him or under his control to be driven by any person in violation of any of the provisions of this act.

History: 1949, Act 300, Eff. Sept. 23, 1949
Mich. Comp. Laws § 400.112b — MI Code / Chapter 400 / Act Act-280-of-1939 / Section 400.112b
Definitions.
Status: in_force

Sec. 112b.

As used in this section and sections 112c to 112e:

(a) "Asset disregard" means, with regard to the state's medical assistance program, disregarding any assets or resources in an amount equal to the insurance benefit payments that are made to or on behalf of an individual who is a beneficiary under a qualified long-term care insurance partnership policy.

(b) "Long-term care insurance policy" means a policy described in chapter 39 of the insurance code of 1956, 1956 PA 218, MCL 500.3901 to 500.3955.

(c) "Long-term care partnership program" means a qualified state long-term care insurance partnership as defined in section 1917(b) of the social security act, 42 USC 1396p.

(d) "Long-term care partnership program policy" means a qualified long-term care insurance policy that the commissioner of the office of financial and insurance services certifies as meeting the requirements of section 1917(b) of the social security act, 42 USC 1396p, section 6021 of the federal deficit reduction act of 2005, Public Law 109-171, and any applicable federal regulations or guidelines.

(e) "Medicaid" means the program of medical assistance established by the department of community health under section 105.

History: Add. 1995, Act 85, Imd. Eff. June 20, 1995; Am. 2006, Act 674, Imd. Eff. Jan. 10, 2007
Mich. Comp. Laws § 250.61 — MI Code / Chapter 250 / Act Act-17-of-1925 / Section 250.61
State trunk line highway; expense and liability; relief of local units.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

On and after January 1, 1960, the cost of constructing, improving and maintaining trunk line highways shall be met entirely by the state, and the counties, townships and incorporated cities and villages shall thereafter be relieved of all expenses and legal liabilities in connection therewith as imposed by section 21 of chapter 4 and chapter 22 of Act No. 283 of the Public Acts of 1909, as amended, being section 224.21 and sections 242.1 to 242.8 of the Compiled Laws of 1948.

History: 1925, Act 17, Eff. Aug. 27, 1925; CL 1929, 4425; CL 1948, 250.61; Am. 1959, Act 185, Eff. Mar. 19, 1960