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Mich. Comp. Laws § 249.1 — MI Code / Chapter 249 / Act Act-99-of-1917 / Section 249.1
Assent to federal aid for construction of rural post road; availability of funds; authority to survey, contract, receive and disburse money.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

The legislature of the state of Michigan hereby assents to the provisions of the act of congress, approved July 11, 1916, 39 Stat. 355, entitled “An act to provide that the United States shall aid the states in the construction of rural post roads, and for other purposes,” and the good faith of the state is hereby pledged under the provisions of this act to make available from time to time sufficient funds to pay the state's portion of the cost of constructing and maintaining federal aided roads. The state transportation department through the director of the state transportation department may make surveys, prepare plans and specifications, and take charge of the building and maintaining of federal aided roads in accordance with the provisions of the act of congress and the rules and regulations of the secretary of agriculture made under that act and amendments to that act as may from time to time be made. The director of the state transportation department may enter into all contracts and agreements with the United States government relating to the construction and maintenance of rural post roads under the provisions of the act of congress, to submit the scheme or program of construction and maintenance as may be required by the secretary of agriculture, and do all other things necessary fully to carry out the cooperation contemplated and provided for by that act. The state treasurer may receive any and all money due the state of Michigan under the provisions of this act, and shall pay out the same under the orders of the director of the state transportation department.

History: 1917, Act 99, Imd. Eff. Apr. 25, 1917; CL 1929, 4398; CL 1948, 249.1; Am. 2002, Act 139, Imd. Eff. Apr. 1, 2002
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.75102 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.75102
Designation as dark sky preserves; prohibition as to establishment in Upper Peninsula.
Status: in_force

Sec. 75102.

(1) The following lands are designated as dark sky preserves:

(a) State-owned land at Lake Hudson, legally described as:

All state-owned land located in Sections 25, 26, 27, 34, 35, and 36, T7S, R1E, and Section 1, T8S, R1E - Lenawee County, Michigan.

(b) The state-owned land comprising Wilderness State Park and the state forestland within Bliss Township, Cross Village Township, and Wawatam in Emmet County.

(c) Those portions of Port Crescent State Park lying north and west of the Pinnebog River in section 9 of Hume Township, Huron County, T18N, R12E.

(d) The state-owned land comprising Rockport State Recreation Area, located in Presque Isle Township, Presque Isle County and Alpena Township, Alpena County.

(e) The state-owned land comprising Negwegon State Park, located in Sanborn Township, Alpena County and Alcona Township, Alcona County.

(f) The state-owned land comprising Thompson's Harbor State Park, located in Krakow Township, Presque Isle County.

(g) The county-owned land comprising Dr. T. K. Lawless Park, located in Porter and Newberg Townships, Cass County.

(h) The county-owned land comprising Headlands International Dark Sky Park, located in Wawatam Township, Emmet County.

(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, a dark sky preserve shall not be established in the Upper Peninsula.

History: Add. 1995, Act 58, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1995; Am. 2012, Act 251, Imd. Eff. July 2, 2012; Am. 2016, Act 11, Eff. May 16, 2016; Am. 2020, Act 74, Imd. Eff. Apr. 2, 2020
Mich. Comp. Laws § 35.991 — MI Code / Chapter 35 / Act Act-71-of-1955 / Section 35.991
Korean veterans' bond redemption fund; creation.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

There is hereby created in the state treasury a special fund to be known as "the Korean veterans bond redemption fund" in which shall be deposited all sums of money appropriated and authorized to be deposited therein by the legislature.

History: 1955, Act 71, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1955
Mich. Comp. Laws § 211.49 — MI Code / Chapter 211 / Act Act-206-of-1893 / Section 211.49
Surplus from sale; contested claim; remedy; treasurer's liability; rule in action.
Status: in_force

Sec. 49.

Whenever a surplus arising from the sale of any property distrained for taxes, shall be claimed by any other than the person for whose tax such property was sold, and such claim shall be contested, either of the contestants may prosecute an action against the other, as for money had and received, and in such action the rights of the parties to such surplus shall be determined. For the purpose of such action the defendant shall be deemed to be in possession of the surplus in the hands of the treasurer, and upon the presentation to said treasurer of a certified copy of the final judgment rendered in such action he shall pay over the same to the party recovering such judgment, and no such treasurer shall be liable to any claimant of such surplus, the right to which is contested as provided in this act, until he shall have refused to pay over such surplus upon the production of a certified copy of the judgment as aforesaid. In any action brought pursuant to this section no other case shall be joined, nor shall any set-off be allowed, and if an execution issue on a judgment so rendered, it shall direct the costs only of such action to be levied by virtue thereof.

History: 1893, Act 206, Eff. June 12, 1893; CL 1897, 3872; CL 1915, 4045; CL 1929, 3440; CL 1948, 211.49
Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.613 — MI Code / Chapter 722 / Act Act-250-of-1982 / Section 722.613
Conditional effective date.
Status: in_force

Sec. 13.

This act shall not take effect unless the following bills of the 81st Legislature are enacted into law:

House Bill No. 5610.

House Bill No. 5609.

History: 1982, Act 250, Imd. Eff. Sept. 29, 1982
Mich. Comp. Laws § 450.5010 — MI Code / Chapter 450 / Act Act-23-of-1993 / Section 450.5010
Maintaining action to restrain by attorney general.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1010.

The attorney general may maintain an action to restrain a foreign limited liability company transacting business in this state, with or without a certificate of authority, from any violation of this act.

History: 1993, Act 23, Eff. June 1, 1993
Mich. Comp. Laws § 552.603a — MI Code / Chapter 552 / Act Act-295-of-1982 / Section 552.603a
Failure to pay support; surcharge; calculation; assessment; collection; enforcement.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3a.

(1) Subject to subsection (6), for a friend of the court case, if the court determines that the payer has failed to pay support under a support order and the failure was willful, the court may order that on January 1 and July 1 of each year, a surcharge be added to support payments that are past due as of those dates. The surcharge shall be calculated at 6-month intervals at an annual rate of interest equal to 1% plus the average interest rate paid at auctions of 5-year United States treasury notes during the 6 months immediately preceding July 1 and January 1, as certified by the state treasurer. The amount of the surcharge shall not compound. The amount shown as due and owing on the records of the friend of the court as of January 1 and July 1 of each year shall be reduced by an amount equal to 1 month's support for purposes of assessing the surcharge. Except as provided in subsection (5), a surcharge ordered by the court applies until abated by the court.

(2) A surcharge ordered under subsection (1) shall be assessed on a semiannual cycle on January 1 and July 1 of each year except as otherwise provided under subsection (3).

(3) A surcharge shall not be assessed for the current semiannual cycle in any of the following circumstances:

(a) Beginning on July 1, 2005, in a case in which the friend of the court is collecting on a current child support obligation and the payer has paid 90% or more of the most recent semiannual obligation during the semiannual cycle.

(b) In a case in which a support order is entered after July 14, 2004, for any period of time a support order did not exist if support is later ordered for that period.

(c) If the surcharge is waived or abated under a court order under section 3d.

(4) A surcharge added under this section shall be collected and enforced by any means authorized under this act, the friend of the court act, or another appropriate federal or state law for the enforcement and collection of child support and paid through the state disbursement unit.

(5) A surcharge ordered under this section in an order entered before the effective date of the amendatory act that added this subsection is terminated on the effective date of the amendatory act that added this subsection. Another surcharge shall not be ordered in the action unless the surcharge is ordered by the court under subsection (1).

(6) After the effective date of the amendatory act that added this subsection, a court shall not order that a surcharge under subsection (1) be added before January 1, 2011.

History: Add. 1995, Act 141, Eff. Jan. 1, 1996; Am. 1996, Act 120, Imd. Eff. Mar. 6, 1996; Am. 2002, Act 572, Eff. Dec. 1, 2002; Am. 2003, Act 276, Eff. Jan. 15, 2004; Am. 2004, Act 208, Imd. Eff. July 14, 2004; Am. 2009, Act 193, Eff. Dec. 31, 2009
Mich. Comp. Laws § 257.22 — MI Code / Chapter 257 / Act Act-300-of-1949 / Section 257.22
“Intersection” defined.
Status: in_force

Sec. 22.

"Intersection" means: (a) The area embraced within the prolongation or connection of the lateral curb lines, or, if none, then the lateral boundary lines of the roadways of 2 highways which join one another at, or approximately at, right angles, or the area within which vehicles traveling upon different highways joining at any other angle may come in conflict.

Where a highway includes 2 roadways 30 feet or more apart, then every crossing of each roadway of such divided highway by an intersecting highway shall be regarded as a separate intersection. In the event such intersecting highway also includes 2 roadways 30 feet or more apart, then every crossing of 2 roadways of such highways shall be regarded as a separate intersection.

History: 1949, Act 300, Eff. Sept. 23, 1949
Mich. Comp. Laws § 750.561 — MI Code / Chapter 750 / Act Act-328-of-1931 / Section 750.561
False weights and measures.
Status: in_force

Sec. 561.

Any person who shall offer or expose for sale, sell, or use or retain in his or her possession a false weight or measure or weighing or measuring device or any weight or measure or weighing or measuring device in the buying or selling of any commodity or thing or for hire or reward; or who shall dispose of any condemned weight, measure or weighing or measuring device contrary to law or remove any tags placed thereon by the sealer of weights and measures; or any person who shall sell or offer or expose for sale less than the quantity he or she represents, or sell or offer or expose for sale any such commodity in any manner contrary to law, or any person who shall sell or offer for sale or have in his or her possession for the purpose of selling any device or instrument to be used to, or calculated to, falsify any weight or measure, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Upon a second or subsequent conviction, he or she shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not more than 1 year or a fine of not less than $100.00 or more than $1,000.00.

History: 1931, Act 328, Eff. Sept. 18, 1931; CL 1948, 750.561; Am. 2002, Act 672, Eff. Mar. 31, 2003
Mich. Comp. Laws § 333.1072 — MI Code / Chapter 333 / Act Act-687-of-2002 / Section 333.1072
Legislative findings.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

The legislature finds all of the following:

The state has a paramount interest in protecting all individuals.

If an abortion results in the live birth of a newborn, the newborn is a legal person for all purposes under the law.

A woman's right to terminate pregnancy ends when the pregnancy is terminated. It is not an infringement on a woman's right to terminate her pregnancy for the state to assert its interest in protecting a newborn whose live birth occurs as the result of an abortion.

History: 2002, Act 687, Eff. Mar. 31, 2003
Mich. Comp. Laws § Article I § 13 — MI Code / Chapter 1 / Act CONSTITUTION-OF-MICHIGAN-OF-1963 / Section Article I § 13
Conduct of suits in person or by counsel.
Status: in_force

Sec. 13.

A suitor in any court of this state has the right to prosecute or defend his suit, either in his own proper person or by an attorney.

History: Const. 1963, Art. I, § 13, Eff. Jan. 1, 1964
Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.817 — MI Code / Chapter 600 / Act Act-236-of-1961 / Section 600.817
Books, printed blanks, and stationery; furniture, equipment, and supplies.
Status: in_force

Sec. 817.

Each county shall provide all books, printed blanks and other stationery necessary for keeping the records in the office of the judge of probate, and all furniture, equipment, and supplies necessary for equipping and maintaining the office.

History: Add. 1978, Act 543, Eff. July 1, 1979
Mich. Comp. Laws § 119.2a — MI Code / Chapter 119 / Act Act-312-of-1929 / Section 119.2a
Metropolitan district elections; administration; conduct; date.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2a.

Notwithstanding any law or charter provision to the contrary, beginning on the effective date of the amendatory act that added this section, all elections in a metropolitan district shall be administered and conducted under the provisions of the Michigan election law, 1954 PA 116, MCL 168.1 to 168.992, and all elections in the metropolitan district shall be held on a regular election date as established under section 641 of the Michigan election law, 1954 PA 116, MCL 168.641.

History: Add. 2012, Act 587, Imd. Eff. Jan. 7, 2013
Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.1162d — MI Code / Chapter 600 / Act Act-236-of-1961 / Section 600.1162d
Salary; forty-sixth circuit.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1162d.

In the forty-sixth circuit, the stenographer shall be paid an annual salary of $12,000.00.

History: Add. 1972, Act 325, Imd. Eff. Jan. 2, 1973; Am. 1975, Act 129, Imd. Eff. July 1, 1975
Mich. Comp. Laws § 63.3 — MI Code / Chapter 61 / Act Act-3-of-1895 / Section 63.3
Village elections as nonpartisan.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3.

Notwithstanding a charter provision or ordinance to the contrary, village elections shall be nonpartisan.

History: Add. 1998, Act 255, Imd. Eff. July 13, 1998; Am. 2003, Act 305, Eff. Jan. 1, 2005
Mich. Comp. Laws § 550.1101 — MI Code / Chapter 550 / Act Act-350-of-1980 / Section 550.1101
Short title.
Status: in_force

Sec. 101.

This act shall be known and may be cited as "the nonprofit health care corporation reform act".

History: 1980, Act 350, Eff. Apr. 3, 1981
Mich. Comp. Laws § 486.254 — MI Code / Chapter 486 / Act Act-238-of-1923 / Section 486.254
Existing corporations; right of condemnation.
Status: in_force

Sec. 4.

Corporations heretofore lawfully organized, among other things, for any of the purposes specified in section 1 hereof; corporations heretofore lawfully organized, or that may hereafter be lawfully organized and duly authorized to carry on the electric or gas business as a public utility in the state of Michigan; and foreign corporations heretofore lawfully organized or that may hereafter be lawfully organized, among other things, for any of the purposes specified in section 1 hereof, and duly authorized to carry on business in the state of Michigan shall have and are hereby given the right to condemn private property in accordance with the provisions of this act and subject to the same conditions and requirements as herein specified.

History: 1923, Act 238, Eff. Aug. 30, 1923; CL 1929, 11874; Am. 1931, Act 98, Eff. Sept. 18, 1931; Am. 1947, Act 356, Eff. Oct. 11, 1947; CL 1948, 486.254
Mich. Comp. Laws § 113.10 — MI Code / Chapter 81 / Act Act-215-of-1895 / Section 113.10
City; definition.
Status: in_force

Sec. 10.

The term "city," whenever used in this act, shall be construed to mean a city incorporated under this act, or made subject to its provisions.

History: 1895, Act 215, Eff. Aug. 30, 1895; CL 1897, 3367; CL 1915, 3290; CL 1929, 2112; CL 1948, 113.10
Mich. Comp. Laws § 400.14f — MI Code / Chapter 400 / Act Act-280-of-1939 / Section 400.14f
Administration of program or performance of duty; contract with private individual or agency.
Status: in_force

Sec. 14f.

Subject to section 5 of article XI of the state constitution of 1963, the family independence agency may contract with a private individual or agency to administer a program created under this act or to perform a duty of the family independence agency under this act.

History: Add. 1995, Act 223, Eff. Mar. 28, 1996
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.442 — MI Code / Chapter 280 / Act Act-40-of-1956 / Section 280.442
Drainage districts; consolidation; surveys.
Status: in_force

Sec. 442.

In any proceeding for the consolidation of 2 or more drainage districts, existing surveys shall be used unless the drain commissioner, in the case of a county drain, or the drainage board, in the case of an intercounty drain, shall make a determination that the existing surveys are inadequate.

History: 1956, Act 40, Imd. Eff. Mar. 28, 1956
Mich. Comp. Laws § 42.5 — MI Code / Chapter 42 / Act Act-359-of-1947 / Section 42.5
Township board; election of members; powers and duties; supervisor as presiding and executive officer; authentication of instruments; president pro tem; clerk; record of proceedings; temporary clerk.
Status: in_force

Sec. 5.

Except as otherwise provided in this act, all legislative authority and powers of each charter township shall be vested in and shall be exercised and determined by a township board of 7 members composed of the supervisor, the township clerk, the township treasurer, and 4 trustees who shall be electors in the township. If the provisions of this act are adopted, the township board as constituted at the time of the adoption of this act shall constitute the township board until the first general election at which township officers are elected after the adoption of this act. All members of the township board shall be elected under the provisions of the Michigan election law, Act No. 116 of the Public Acts of 1954, being sections 168.1 to 168.992 of the Michigan Compiled Laws. If 2 additional trustees are required to be elected, they shall be elected at the next general election. If the next general election is not a regular township election, each additional trustee shall hold office until a successor is elected at the next regular township election and qualifies for office.

The elected township board described in subsection (1) shall be the successor to the prior township board of the township and shall possess the powers and perform the duties of township boards in townships in addition to the powers granted by law to charter townships. As a member of the township board, the supervisor shall be the presiding and executive officer of the board and shall have an equal voice and vote in the proceedings of the board. The supervisor shall authenticate by his or her signature any instruments which the board and the laws of the state or the federal government may require. If the supervisor is absent from a meeting of the township board, the board shall appoint 1 of its members president pro tem for that meeting. The township clerk shall be clerk of the township board and shall keep a full record of all the proceedings of the township board. In the absence of the clerk, the board shall appoint 1 of its members as temporary clerk for that meeting.

History: 1947, Act 359, Eff. Oct. 11, 1947; CL 1948, 42.5; Am. 1949, Act 70, Eff. Sept. 23, 1949; Am. 1953, Act 188, Eff. Oct. 2, 1953; Am. 1954, Act 169, Eff. Aug. 13, 1954; Am. 1964, Act 163, Eff. Aug. 28, 1964; Am. 1986, Act 34, Imd. Eff. Mar. 17, 1986
Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.6306 — MI Code / Chapter 600 / Act Act-236-of-1961 / Section 600.6306
Entering order of judgment; order; judgment amounts; "gross present cash value" defined; reduced judgment amount.
Status: in_force

Sec. 6306.

(1) After a verdict is rendered by a trier of fact in favor of a plaintiff in a personal injury action other than an action for medical malpractice, an order of judgment shall be entered by the court. Subject to section 2959, the order of judgment shall be entered against each defendant, including a third-party defendant, in the following order and in the following judgment amounts:

(a) All past economic damages, less collateral source payments as provided for in section 6303.

(b) All past noneconomic damages.

(c) All future economic damages, less medical and other health care costs and less collateral source payments determined to be collectible under section 6303(5), reduced to gross present cash value.

(d) All future medical and other health care costs reduced to gross present cash value.

(e) All future noneconomic damages reduced to gross present cash value.

(f) All taxable and allowable costs, including interest as permitted by section 6013 or 6455 on the judgment amounts.

(2) As used in this section, "gross present cash value" means the total amount of future damages reduced to present value at a rate of 5% per year, compounded annually, for each year in which those damages will accrue, as found by the trier of fact under section 6305(1)(b).

(3) If the plaintiff was assigned a percentage of fault under section 6304, the total judgment amount shall be reduced, subject to section 2959, by an amount equal to the percentage of plaintiff's fault. When reducing the judgment amount as provided in this subsection, the court shall determine the ratio of total past damages to total future damages and shall allocate the amounts to be deducted proportionally between the past and future damages.

History: Add. 1986, Act 178, Eff. Oct. 1, 1986; Am. 1995, Act 161, Eff. Mar. 28, 1996; Am. 2012, Act 608, Eff. Mar. 28, 2013
Mich. Comp. Laws § 211.89 — MI Code / Chapter 211 / Act Act-206-of-1893 / Section 211.89
Provisions applicable for time period prescribed in subsection (2); applicability of subsection (1).
Status: in_force

Sec. 89.

Notwithstanding sections 59, 60, 74, 87c, and 87d, the following provisions shall apply for the time period prescribed in subsection (2):

To the extent not waived pursuant to section 59(3), there shall be added to all delinquent taxes unpaid after March 1, interest at the rate of 1.25% per month or fraction of a month from the date the taxes originally become delinquent pursuant to this act, together with a county property tax administration fee equal to 4% of the delinquent taxes or $2.00 per payment of delinquent taxes, whichever is greater, which amounts shall be paid to the county treasurer.

In addition to the expenses specified in section 59, delinquent tax sales shall include a county property tax administration fee equal to 4% of the delinquent taxes, and interest computed at a rate of 1.5% per month from the date the taxes originally become delinquent under this act.

The rate of interest to be paid to the treasurer under section 74 shall be computed at the rate of 1.5% per month or fraction of a month.

The rate of interest to be paid to the department of treasury pursuant to section 84 shall be computed at the rate of 1.5% per month or fraction of a month.

Subsection (1) shall apply as follows:

In counties with a population of more than 1,500,000, it shall apply immediately except that it shall not apply to any delinquent taxes that became delinquent before March 1, 1981, or which become delinquent after February 28, 1983.

In all other counties of this state it shall apply only to the 1981 delinquent taxes that become delinquent on or before March 1, 1982.

History: Add. 1981, Act 162, Eff. Dec. 1, 1981; Am. 1982, Act 503, Imd. Eff. Dec. 31, 1982; Am. 2002, Act 166, Imd. Eff. Apr. 11, 2002
Mich. Comp. Laws § 254.319 — MI Code / Chapter 254 / Act Act-214-of-1952 / Section 254.319
Unauthorized indebtedness to state.
Status: in_force

Sec. 9.

Nothing in this act shall be so construed or interpreted as to authorize or permit the incurring of indebtedness of the state of Michigan contrary to the provisions of the constitution of the state.

History: 1952, Act 214, Imd. Eff. Apr. 30, 1952