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Mich. Comp. Laws § 730.413 — MI Code / Chapter 730 / Act Act-179-of-1951 / Section 730.413
Charge of jury.
Status: in_force

Sec. 13.

Any deputy sheriff of the county or police officer of the city in which a court drawing a jury by virtue of the provisions of this act is situated, or any duly authorized process server of such court, may be authorized by the justice or judge conducting the trial to have charge of the jury. Before entering upon such duty, the justice or judge shall administer to such officer the same oath that a person having charge of a jury in a jury trial in justice court in this state is or may by law be required to take.

History: 1951, Act 179, Eff. Sept. 28, 1951
Mich. Comp. Laws § 207.1059 — MI Code / Chapter 207 / Act Act-403-of-2000 / Section 207.1059
New or increased amount of bond or cash deposit.
Status: in_force

Sec. 59.

If the department reasonably determines that the amount of an existing bond or cash deposit is insufficient to ensure payment to the state of the tax and any penalty and interest for which the licensee is or may become liable, the licensee shall, upon written demand of the department, file a new bond or increase the amount of the bond or cash deposit. The department shall allow the licensee at least 30 days to secure the increased bond or cash deposit.

The new bond or increased bond or cash deposit shall meet the requirements set forth in this act.

History: 2000, Act 403, Eff. Apr. 1, 2001
Mich. Comp. Laws § 333.5112 — MI Code / Chapter 333 / Act Act-368-of-1978 / Section 333.5112
Pandemic influenza plan; establishment and maintenance; annual review and update; availability to public; report.
Status: in_force

Sec. 5112.

(1) The department shall establish and maintain a pandemic influenza plan. The department shall consult with the United States department of health and human services and the federal centers for disease control and prevention to ensure that the pandemic influenza plan established by this state is consistent with the national preparedness efforts. The department, in consultation with the department of agriculture and the local health departments in this state, shall review and update the pandemic influenza plan at least annually. The department shall make the pandemic influenza plan and any updates to that plan available to the public through its website.

(2) Beginning 1 year after the effective date of this section and annually thereafter, the department shall prepare a report regarding the pandemic influenza plan established under subsection (1), including an assessment of the plan's effectiveness and this state's preparedness for an influenza outbreak, and present that report to the appropriate standing committees and appropriations subcommittees of the senate and house of representatives of the legislature that primarily address public health issues.

History: Add. 2006, Act 163, Imd. Eff. May 26, 2006
Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.2725 — MI Code / Chapter 600 / Act Act-236-of-1961 / Section 600.2725
Notice lis pendens; cancellation; costs.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2725.

If a plaintiff filing the notice before the service of the summons fails to serve the same within the time prescribed in this chapter, or after the action is settled, discontinued or abated, or final judgment is rendered therein against the party filing the notice, and the time to appeal therefrom has expired, the court, upon the application of any person aggrieved and upon such notice as may be directed or approved by it, shall direct that a notice of the pendency of an action be canceled of record by a particular register of deeds, or by all the registers of deeds, with whom it is filed.

If a plaintiff filing the notice unreasonably neglects to proceed in the action, or does not commence or prosecute the action in good faith, the court, in its discretion, upon the application of any person aggrieved and upon such notice as may be directed or approved by it, may direct that a notice of the pendency of an action be canceled of record by a particular register of deeds, or by all the registers of deeds, with whom it is filed.

The cancellation shall be made by a note to that effect, on the margin of the record, referring to the order. A certified copy of the order shall be filed for record with the register of deeds before the notice is canceled.

The court, in its discretion, upon directing cancellation of the notice upon termination of the action, or during the pendency thereof if satisfied that the plaintiff who filed the notice unreasonably neglected to proceed in the action or did not commence or prosecute the same in good faith, may direct the plaintiff to pay all or any of the costs and expenses occasioned by filing the notice and the cancellation of the record, aside from the costs of the action itself.

History: 1961, Act 236, Eff. Jan. 1, 1963
Mich. Comp. Laws § 333.2621 — MI Code / Chapter 333 / Act Act-368-of-1978 / Section 333.2621
Comprehensive policy for conduct and support of research and demonstration activities; conducting and supporting demonstration projects and scientific evaluations.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2621.

The department shall establish a comprehensive policy pursuant to and consistent with section 2611(2) for the conduct and support of research and demonstration activities related to the department's responsibility for the health care needs of the people of this state.

The department shall conduct research and demonstration activities related to the department's responsibility for the environmental, preventive, and personal health needs of the communities and people of this state, including:

The causes, effects, and methods of prevention of illness.

The determinants of health, including behavior related to health.

The accessibility, acceptability, availability, organization, distribution, utilization, quality, and financing of health care, especially those services for the medically needy.

The department may conduct and support demonstration projects to carry out subsection (2).

The department shall conduct or support the conduct of scientific evaluations of the effectiveness, efficiency, and relevance of programs conducted or supported by the department.

History: 1978, Act 368, Eff. Sept. 30, 1978
Mich. Comp. Laws § 333.13817 — MI Code / Chapter 333 / Act Act-368-of-1978 / Section 333.13817
Medical waste management plan; contents; compliance; update; availability.
Status: in_force

Sec. 13817.

The medical waste management plan required in section 13813 shall contain information relating to the handling of all medical waste generated, stored, decontaminated, or incinerated at each producing facility or transported from the producing facility for handling by another facility for storage, decontamination, incineration, or for disposal in a sanitary landfill, cemetery, or other disposal site. A professional corporation may identify and prepare a common medical waste management plan for all producing facilities owned and operated by the corporation. The medical waste management plan shall describe each of the following, to the extent the information is applicable to the producing facility:

The types of medical waste handled.

The segregation, packaging, labeling, and collection procedures used.

The use and methods of on-site or off-site storage.

The use and methods of on-site or off-site decontamination.

The use of on-site or off-site incineration.

The corporate or other legally recognized business name of solid waste haulers who transport medical waste for the producing facility.

The use of sanitary landfills, cemeteries, and other disposal sites.

The measures to minimize exposure of the facility's employees to infectious agents throughout the process of handling and disposing of the medical waste, including, where applicable, the use of protocols, procedures and training, personal protective devices and clothing, physical containment or isolation devices or systems, and prevention or control of aerosols.

The name of the individual responsible for the management of the medical waste.

A medical waste management plan shall comply with the requirements of this act.

A producing facility shall update a medical waste management plan each time there is a change in either of the following, within 30 days after the change occurs:

A person or site named in the plan.

The types of medical waste handled or the methods of handling medical waste at the facility.

Upon request, a producing facility shall make its medical waste management plan available to the department pursuant to a routine or unannounced inspection or the investigation of a complaint.

Upon receipt of 24 hours' advance notice, a producing facility shall make its medical waste management plan available to an employee of the producing facility for inspection on the premises or provide a copy of the medical waste management plan to the employee.

A producing facility shall comply with its medical waste management plan.

History: Add. 1990, Act 18, Eff. May 31, 1990
Mich. Comp. Laws § 117.4k — MI Code / Chapter 117 / Act Act-279-of-1909 / Section 117.4k
Civic, artistic, and cultural activities; public funds.
Status: in_force

Sec. 4k.

Each city in its charter may provide for the appropriation and allocation of public funds to a public or private nonprofit institution engaged within the city in the provision of civic, artistic, and cultural activities, including but not limited to music, theater, dance, visual arts, literature and letters, architecture, architectural landscaping, and allied arts and crafts, to the general public.

History: Add. 1978, Act 499, Imd. Eff. Dec. 11, 1978
Mich. Comp. Laws § 168.866 — MI Code / Chapter 168 / Act Act-116-of-1954 / Section 168.866
Recount petition; filing; deadline.
Status: in_force

Sec. 866.

(1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2), recount petitions, either for an office or ballot question, other than those filed with the secretary of state, must be filed with the clerk of the board of county canvassers that originally conducted the canvass.

(2) For a school district election, recount petitions, either for an office or ballot question, must be filed with the clerk of the board of county canvassers that certified the result of the school district election.

(3) Recount petitions must be filed within 48 hours after the certification of the canvass by the board of county canvassers.

History: 1954, Act 116, Eff. June 1, 1955; Am. 1963, 2nd Ex. Sess., Act 38, Imd. Eff. Dec. 27, 1963; Am. 2010, Act 53, Imd. Eff. Apr. 22, 2010; Am. 2013, Act 51, Imd. Eff. June 11, 2013; Am. 2024, Act 74, Eff. Apr. 2, 2025
Mich. Comp. Laws § 125.1498c — MI Code / Chapter 125 / Act Act-346-of-1966 / Section 125.1498c
Mobile home park association; provisions of partnership agreement, joint venture agreement, trust agreement, or other document of basic organization.
Status: in_force

Sec. 98c.

In addition to other requirements of law, the partnership agreement, joint venture agreement, trust agreement, or other document of basic organization of the mobile home park association shall provide all of the following:

That the mobile home park association has been organized exclusively to provide housing facilities for persons of low and moderate income, or for persons whose income does not exceed limits established in this act, and for social, recreational, commercial, and communal facilities as may be necessary to serve and improve a residential area in which authority-aided or federally-aided housing is located or is planned to be located, thereby enhancing the viability of such housing.

That every member of the mobile home park association shall be deemed, by acceptance of a beneficial interest in the mobile home park association or by executing the document of basic organization, to have agreed that he or she at no time shall receive from the mobile home park association any return in excess of the face value of the investment attributable to his or her respective interest plus cumulative dividend payments at a rate which the authority determines to be reasonable and proper, computed from the initial date on which money was paid or property delivered in consideration for the interest; and that upon the dissolution of the mobile home park association, any surplus in excess of those amounts shall be paid to the authority or to any other regulating governmental body as the authority directs.

That the operations of the mobile home park association may be supervised by the authority or by any other governmental body the authority directs, and that the mobile home park association shall enter into agreements with the authority or with the governmental body as the authority from time to time requires pursuant to rules promulgated under section 22. The agreements shall provide for regulation by the authority or the governmental body of the planning, development, and management of any housing project undertaken by the mobile home park association and the disposition of the property and franchises of the mobile home park association.

History: Add. 1982, Act 534, Imd. Eff. Dec. 31, 1982; Am. 1983, Act 217, Imd. Eff. Nov. 16, 1983; Am. 1984, Act 215, Imd. Eff. July 10, 1984
Mich. Comp. Laws § 113.16 — MI Code / Chapter 81 / Act Act-215-of-1895 / Section 113.16
Vacating incorporation of city; prerequisite, petition, procedure.
Status: in_force

Sec. 16.

Whenever the qualified electors of any incorporated city whose population has decreased since its incorporation to less than 500 inhabitants as shown by the last federal census and the qualified electors of such city show a desire to vacate the incorporation of the same, the city council upon petitions being presented to it at any regular or special meeting, signed by at least 1/4 of the legal voters of such city as shown by the registration list of the last preceding registration held in such city, praying that the incorporation of such city be vacated, shall immediately thereupon order a special meeting of the electors of such city to be held for the purpose of voting upon the question of vacating the incorporation of the same, and shall give 30 days' notice of the time and place of holding such meeting by posting up written or printed notices which shall state the object of such meeting by reciting the substance of such petition, in 6 of the most public places within the limits of such city.

History: Add. 1931, Act 223, Eff. Sept. 18, 1931; CL 1948, 113.16
Mich. Comp. Laws § Article V § 6 — MI Code / Chapter 1 / Act CONSTITUTION-OF-MICHIGAN-OF-1963 / Section Article V § 6
Advice and consent to appointments.
Status: in_force

Sec. 6.

Appointment by and with the advice and consent of the senate when used in this constitution or laws in effect or hereafter enacted means appointment subject to disapproval by a majority vote of the members elected to and serving in the senate if such action is taken within 60 session days after the date of such appointment. Any appointment not disapproved within such period shall stand confirmed.

History: Const. 1963, Art. V, § 6, Eff. Jan. 1, 1964
Mich. Comp. Laws § 457.673 — MI Code / Chapter 457 / Act Act-179-of-1897 / Section 457.673
Articles, constitution, by-laws and resolution; filing; body corporate, powers; taxation.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3.

Said articles of association, together with a copy of the constitution and by-laws of said bund and of the resolution of said bund authorizing the incorporation thereof, said copies being duly certified by the president and secretary of said bund, shall be filed with the secretary of state of the state of Michigan. Thereupon the persons who shall have signed such articles of association, their associates and fellow members composing said bund, shall be a body politic and corporate by the name expressed in such articles of association, capable of taking, holding and disposing of real and personal property, of suing and being sued, of having a common seal which may be altered or changed at their pleasure: Provided, That the value of such real estate shall not exceed 50,000 dollars, which shall be subject to general taxation.

History: 1897, Act 179, Imd. Eff. May 29, 1897; CL 1897, 8137; Am. 1913, Act 66, Eff. Aug. 14, 1913; CL 1915, 10611; CL 1929, 10819; CL 1948, 457.673
Mich. Comp. Laws § 287.285 — MI Code / Chapter 287 / Act Act-339-of-1919 / Section 287.285
Saving clause; disposition of dog fund; expense of dog department in cities, payment.
Status: in_force

Sec. 25.

Any valid claims for loss or damage to live stock which have accrued under any general or local laws, prior to the taking effect of this act, shall not abate by reason of the repeal of such laws by the operation of this act, but all such claims, and all claims arising under this act and all expense incurred in any county in enforcing the provisions of this act shall be paid out of the general fund of the county. At the time this act takes effect, all moneys then in the "dog fund" in the hands of township or city treasurers, derived from the taxation of dogs under existing laws, shall be turned into the county general fund: Provided, In all cities having a well regulated dog department, the reasonable expense of maintaining the same, shall be borne by said county, duly audited by the board of supervisors, and in any county having a board of county auditors, said board of county auditors shall audit said reasonable bills, to be paid out of the general fund of the county.

History: 1919, Act 339, Eff. Aug. 14, 1919; CL 1929, 5269; CL 1948, 287.285
Mich. Comp. Laws § 125.1205 — MI Code / Chapter 125 / Act Act-116-of-1963 / Section 125.1205
Economic expansion department; powers.
Status: in_force

Sec. 5.

The department of economic expansion, in addition to its other powers and duties, may:

Accept, with legislative approval, grants of funds made by the United States or any department or agency thereof or other public or private agency or individual in this state or other states.

Enter into contracts with boards, commissions and agencies, both public and private, and with individuals to carry out the purposes of this act.

Succeed to the rights and carry out the obligations of this state with respect to existing contracts executed on behalf of the state by the department of economic development and execute necessary amendments thereto with the power to carry out the obligations set forth in such amendments.

Act as the state's official liaison agency with federal agencies concerned with economic development and public works programs.

History: 1963, Act 116, Imd. Eff. May 10, 1963
Mich. Comp. Laws § 500.2033 — MI Code / Chapter 500 / Act Act-218-of-1956 / Section 500.2033
Hearing; directing witness to give testimony or produce evidence; immunity; perjury; waiver of immunity or privilege.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2033.

If any natural person shall ask to be excused from attending and testifying or from producing any books, papers, records, correspondence or other documents at any hearing on the ground that the testimony or evidence required of him or her may tend to incriminate him or her or subject him or her to a penalty or forfeiture, and shall notwithstanding be directed to give testimony or produce evidence, he or she must nonetheless comply with the directions, but he or she shall not be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter or thing concerning which he or she may testify or produce evidence pursuant to this section, and no testimony given or evidence produced shall be received against him or her upon any criminal action, investigation or proceeding. No individual testifying shall be exempt under this section from prosecution or punishment for any perjury committed by him or her while so testifying and the testimony or evidence given or produced shall be admissible against him or her upon any criminal action, investigation or proceeding concerning the perjury, nor shall he or she be exempt from the refusal, revocation or suspension of any license, permission or authority conferred, or to be conferred, pursuant to the insurance code. Any individual may execute, acknowledge and file in the office of the commissioner a statement expressly waiving immunity or privilege in respect to any transaction, matter or thing specified in the statement and the testimony of the person or evidence in relation to the transaction, matter or thing may be received or produced before any judge, court, tribunal, grand jury or otherwise, and if so received or produced the individual shall not be entitled to any immunity or privilege on account of any testimony he or she may give or evidence produced.

History: 1956, Act 218, Eff. Jan. 1, 1957; Am. 1991, Act 141, Imd. Eff. Nov. 25, 1991
Mich. Comp. Laws § 780.608 — MI Code / Chapter 780 / Act Act-141-of-1961 / Section 780.608
Agreement on detainers; copies of act, distribution.
Status: in_force

Sec. 8.

Copies of this act, upon its approval, shall be transmitted to the governor of each state and the attorney general and the secretary of state of the United States and to the council of state governments.

History: 1961, Act 141, Eff. Sept. 8, 1961
Mich. Comp. Laws § 257.811o — MI Code / Chapter 257 / Act Act-300-of-1949 / Section 257.811o
American pride; design; transfer and disbursement; proud to be American fund; report.
Status: in_force

Sec. 811o.

(1) A fund-raising plate or collector plate recognizing American pride shall be of a design as determined by the secretary of state and contain the words "proud to be American" and "Michigan". Fund-raising donations for plates recognizing American pride collected under sections 811f and 811g shall be transferred under section 811h by the secretary of state to the state treasurer, who shall disburse the donation money to the proud to be American fund established under this section.

(2) The proud to be American fund is created within the state treasury. The state treasurer may receive money or other assets from any source for deposit into the fund. The state treasurer shall direct the investment of the fund. The state treasurer shall credit to the fund interest and earnings from fund investments.

(3) Money in the fund at the close of the fiscal year shall remain in the fund and shall not lapse to the general fund.

(4) The state treasurer shall disburse money in the fund on a monthly basis as follows:

(a) Fifty percent to the American National Red Cross established under 36 USC 300101 as represented by the Michigan state service council.

(b) Fifty percent to the Salvation Army.

(5) The American National Red Cross and the Salvation Army shall expend the money received under this section for disaster preparedness and disaster relief in the United States of America.

(6) The American National Red Cross and the Salvation Army shall annually report to the department of treasury an accounting of money received and used under this section.

History: Add. 2006, Act 562, Eff. Jan. 1, 2007
Mich. Comp. Laws § 483.11 — MI Code / Chapter 483 / Act Act-16-of-1929 / Section 483.11
Immediate effect.
Status: in_force

Sec. 11.

An emergency is hereby declared, by reason whereof it is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, safety, convenience and welfare that this act take immediate effect.

History: 1929, Act 16, Imd. Eff. Mar. 27, 1929; CL 1929, 11662; CL 1948, 483.11