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Mich. Comp. Laws § 801.262 — MI Code / Chapter 801 / Act Act-7-of-1981 / Section 801.262
Prohibited acts; weapons.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

Unless authorized by the chief administrator of the jail, a person shall not do either of the following:

Bring into a jail or a building appurtenant to a jail, or onto the grounds used for jail purposes, for the use or benefit of a prisoner, any weapon or other item that may be used to injure a prisoner or other person, or used to assist a prisoner in escaping from jail.

Sell or furnish to a prisoner, or dispose of in a manner that allows a prisoner access to the weapon or other item, any weapon or other item which may be used to injure a prisoner or other person, or used to assist a prisoner in escaping from jail.

Unless authorized by the chief administrator of the jail, a prisoner shall not possess or have under his or her control any weapon or other item that may be used to injure a prisoner or other person, or used to assist a prisoner in escaping from jail.

History: 1981, Act 7, Eff. June 1, 1981
Mich. Comp. Laws § 333.17414 — MI Code / Chapter 333 / Act Act-368-of-1978 / Section 333.17414
Permissible conduct; untruthful, misleading, or deceptive statements in advertisement or notice prohibited.
Status: in_force

Sec. 17414.

This part does not prohibit:

An optician from the adjusting, replacing, repairing, or reproducing of previously prepared eyeglasses or any part thereof.

An unlicensed person from selling eyeglasses on prescription from an optometrist or physician.

A person who does not hold himself or herself out as being a licensee under this part from selling eyeglasses as an article of merchandise.

It shall be unlawful for any person licensed under this part, or any individual, firm or corporation engaged in the sale of merchandise of any description who maintains or operates, or who allows to be maintained or operated in connection with said merchandise business, an optometric department, or who rents or subleases to any person or persons for the purpose of engaging in the practice of optometry therein, any part of premises in which such person, persons, firm or corporation is engaged in mercantile business, to publish or circulate, or print or cause to be printed, by any means whatsoever, any advertisement or notice in which said advertisement or notice appears, any untruthful or misleading statement, or anything calculated or intended to mislead or deceive the public or any individual.

History: 1978, Act 368, Eff. Sept. 30, 1978
Mich. Comp. Laws § 37.2802 — MI Code / Chapter 37 / Act Act-453-of-1976 / Section 37.2802
Costs of litigation.
Status: in_force

Sec. 802.

A court, in rendering a judgment in an action brought pursuant to this article, may award all or a portion of the costs of litigation, including reasonable attorney fees and witness fees, to the complainant in the action if the court determines that the award is appropriate.

History: 1976, Act 453, Eff. Mar. 31, 1977
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.63104 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.63104
Mining operations; variance or modification from rules.
Status: in_force

Sec. 63104.

The supervisor of reclamation, on application by the landowner or operator, may modify or permit variance from the rules promulgated under this part if the supervisor of reclamation determines that the modification or variance is not contrary to the public interest.

History: Add. 1995, Act 57, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1995
Mich. Comp. Laws § 107.4 — MI Code / Chapter 81 / Act Act-215-of-1895 / Section 107.4
City lighting plant; borrowing power, limit; manner of payment.
Status: in_force

Sec. 4.

It shall be lawful for any such city to borrow any sum of money not exceeding 5 per cent of the assessed value of the property in said city as shown by the last preceding tax roll, to be used exclusively for the purpose of purchasing or constructing and maintaining such lighting works as provided in the preceding sections of this chapter. The council shall have power to fix the time and place of the payment of the principal and interest of the debt contracted under the provisions of this chapter, and to issue bonds of the city therefor, but the rate of such interest shall not exceed 6 per cent per annum, and such bonds shall not be sold for less than their par value: Provided, That the total amount expended for the purchase or construction of such lighting works shall not exceed the amount of the estimate of expense thereof provided for in section 3 of this chapter.

History: 1895, Act 215, Eff. Aug. 30, 1895; CL 1897, 3261; CL 1915, 3179; CL 1929, 2103; CL 1948, 107.4
Mich. Comp. Laws § 450.2243 — MI Code / Chapter 450 / Act Act-162-of-1982 / Section 450.2243
Resident agent; resignation; notice; appointment of successor; termination of appointment of resigning resident agent; registered office of corporation.
Status: in_force

Sec. 243.

A resident agent of a domestic or foreign corporation may resign by filing a written notice of resignation with the president or a vice president of the corporation and with the administrator. A corporation shall promptly appoint a successor resident agent after its resident agent has resigned. The appointment of a resigning resident agent terminates when a successor is appointed or 30 days after receipt of the notice by the administrator, whichever first occurs. When a resignation becomes effective under this section, the business or residence address of the resigned agent is no longer the registered office of the corporation.

History: 1982, Act 162, Eff. Jan. 1, 1983; Am. 2014, Act 557, Imd. Eff. Jan. 15, 2015
Mich. Comp. Laws § 700.2706 — MI Code / Chapter 700 / Act Act-386-of-1998 / Section 700.2706
Power of appointment; meaning of specific reference requirement.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2706.

If a governing instrument creating a power of appointment expressly requires that the power be exercised by a reference, an express reference, or a specific reference to the power or its source, it is presumed that the donor's intention, in requiring that the donee exercise the power by making reference to the particular power or to the creating instrument, was to prevent an inadvertent exercise of the power.

History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.281 — MI Code / Chapter 280 / Act Act-40-of-1956 / Section 280.281
Special drain assessment; definition of municipal corporation.
Status: in_force

Sec. 281.

Any municipal corporation may contract to pay all or any part of a special drain assessment for drain improvements made by any county agency or drainage district benefiting property of the municipal corporation, but in no event shall such payment exceed its proportionate share of the expenses of the improvements. For the purposes of this section, "municipal corporation" means any county, township, charter township, city, village, metropolitan district, public authority or a drainage district.

History: Add. 1961, Act 41, Imd. Eff. May 18, 1961
Mich. Comp. Laws § 380.1801 — MI Code / Chapter 380 / Act Act-451-of-1976 / Section 380.1801
Neglecting or refusing to make reports or certify taxes; liability; action at law.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1801.

A township clerk who neglects or refuses to make out and transmit the annual report containing the reports of the several school districts of the township, or other report which the law requires, within the time limited therefor shall be liable to pay the full amount lost by the township or any district or districts by the neglect or refusal, with interest thereon, to be recovered in an action at law.

A township or city clerk who neglects or refuses to certify to the proper tax assessing officer taxes that have been reported as required by this act, and a tax assessing officer who wilfully neglects to assess the tax, shall be liable to the school district for the loss, to be recovered by the treasurer in the name of the district in an action at law.

History: 1976, Act 451, Imd. Eff. Jan. 13, 1977
Mich. Comp. Laws § 390.1015 — MI Code / Chapter 390 / Act Act-232-of-1962 / Section 390.1015
Institutions of higher education; statistics included in budget requests.
Status: in_force

Sec. 15.

Institutions of higher education shall furnish actual statistics reflecting full time equated students for each semester or term including summer school for the preceding fiscal year. Each budget request and the budget submitted to the legislature by the governor shall contain the number of on campus and off campus students on a full time equated basis, as defined by a majority of the council of college presidents in the following groups: freshmen and sophomores, juniors and seniors, graduate and professional students. Each budget shall also set forth by term or semester and summer school the total credit hours, the approximate cost and the portion of the total cost contributed by the student for each group, and all other information pertinent to determination of appropriations for the colleges and universities.

History: 1962, Act 232, Imd. Eff. July 12, 1962
Mich. Comp. Laws § 205.52 — MI Code / Chapter 205 / Act Act-167-of-1933 / Section 205.52
Sales tax; rate; additional applicability; separate books required; penalty; tax as personal obligation of taxpayer; exemption.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

Except as provided in section 2a, there is levied upon and there shall be collected from all persons engaged in the business of making sales at retail, by which ownership of tangible personal property is transferred for consideration, an annual tax for the privilege of engaging in that business equal to 6% of the gross proceeds of the business, plus the penalty and interest if applicable as provided by law, less deductions allowed by this act.

The tax under subsection (1) also applies to the following:

The transmission and distribution of electricity, whether the electricity is purchased from the delivering utility or from another provider, if the sale is made to the consumer or user of the electricity for consumption or use rather than for resale.

The sale of a prepaid telephone calling card or a prepaid authorization number for telephone use, rather than for resale, including the reauthorization of a prepaid telephone calling card or a prepaid authorization number.

A conditional sale, installment lease sale, or other transfer of property, if title is retained as security for the purchase but is intended to be transferred later.

Any person engaged in the business of making sales at retail who is at the same time engaged in some other kind of business, occupation, or profession not taxable under this act shall keep books to show separately the transactions used in determining the tax levied by this act. If the person fails to keep separate books, there shall be levied upon him or her the tax provided for in subsection (1) equal to 6% of the entire gross proceeds of both or all of his or her businesses. The taxes levied by this section are a personal obligation of the taxpayer.

A meal provided free of charge or at a reduced rate to an employee during work hours by a food service establishment licensed by the Michigan department of agriculture for the convenience of the employer is not considered transferred for consideration.

History: 1933, Act 167, Imd. Eff. June 28, 1933; CL 1948, 205.52; Am. 1949, Act 272, Eff. July 1, 1949; Am. 1960, 2nd Ex. Sess., Act 1, Eff. Jan. 1, 1961; Am. 1984, Act 228, Imd. Eff. July 30, 1984; Am. 1993, Act 325, Eff. May 1, 1994; Am. 2004, Act 173, Eff. Sept. 1, 2004
Mich. Comp. Laws § 257.12 — MI Code / Chapter 257 / Act Act-300-of-1949 / Section 257.12
“Department” defined.
Status: in_force

Sec. 12.

"Department" means the department of state.

History: 1949, Act 300, Eff. Sept. 23, 1949; Am. 1953, Act 215, Eff. Oct. 2, 1953; Am. 1978, Act 139, Eff. May 1, 1979
Mich. Comp. Laws § 445.1608 — MI Code / Chapter 445 / Act Act-135-of-1977 / Section 445.1608
Violation; investigation; progress report; hearing; report; availability of information.
Status: in_force

Sec. 8.

If in the opinion of the commissioner a credit granting institution is violating or has violated this act, or upon receipt of a written complaint of an alleged violation of this act by a credit granting institution, the commissioner shall investigate the alleged violation by the institution. The investigation shall commence within 15 days after the receipt of a complaint, and the commissioner shall report on the progress of the investigation to the affected parties within 30 days. The investigation shall be completed within 60 days after receipt of the complaint, and the commissioner shall report the findings to the affected parties. The commissioner may conduct a hearing on a complaint pursuant to the administrative procedures act of 1969, Act No. 306 of the Public Acts of 1969, being sections 24.201 to 24.328 of the Michigan Compiled Laws.

The commissioner shall report annually to the house and senate committees overseeing civil rights and housing issues regarding the enforcement of this act. The commissioner shall provide written testimony summarizing activities taken in the previous year to achieve the purposes of this act, and such testimony shall be made available to the public upon request.

The commissioner shall inform the governor, the legislature, and the press annually of the availability of information collected pursuant to the federal home mortgage disclosure act of 1975, title III of Public Law 94-200, 12 U.S.C. 2801 to 2810, including the methods by which both summary information and institution-specific information may be obtained. The commissioner shall maintain either an electronic or hard copy file of the standard metropolitan statistical area summaries of the information described in this subsection and shall ensure the availability of these summaries to the legislature and other persons upon request. The commissioner may impose a reasonable charge for providing the information.

History: 1977, Act 135, Eff. July 1, 1978; Am. 1993, Act 43, Imd. Eff. May 27, 1993
Mich. Comp. Laws § 333.18049 — MI Code / Chapter 333 / Act Act-368-of-1978 / Section 333.18049
Practice agreement; designation of podiatrist; countersigning order or signing official form not required.
Status: in_force

Sec. 18049.

(1) A group of podiatrists practicing other than as sole practitioners may designate 1 or more podiatrists in the group to enter into a practice agreement under section 18047.

(2) Notwithstanding any law or rule to the contrary, a podiatrist is not required to countersign orders written in a patient's clinical record by a physician's assistant with whom the podiatrist has a practice agreement. Notwithstanding any law or rule to the contrary, a podiatrist is not required to sign an official form that lists the podiatrist's signature as the required signatory if that official form is signed by a physician's assistant with whom the podiatrist has a practice agreement.

History: Add. 2006, Act 161, Eff. Nov. 26, 2006; Am. 2011, Act 210, Imd. Eff. Nov. 8, 2011; Am. 2016, Act 379, Eff. Mar. 22, 2017
Mich. Comp. Laws § Article IV § 51 — MI Code / Chapter 1 / Act CONSTITUTION-OF-MICHIGAN-OF-1963 / Section Article IV § 51
Public health and general welfare.
Status: in_force

Sec. 51.

The public health and general welfare of the people of the state are hereby declared to be matters of primary public concern. The legislature shall pass suitable laws for the protection and promotion of the public health.

History: Const. 1963, Art. IV, § 51, Eff. Jan. 1, 1964
Mich. Comp. Laws § 457.6 — MI Code / Chapter 457 / Act Act-134-of-1871 / Section 457.6
Erection of buildings; capital stock, creation, shares.
Status: in_force

Sec. 6.

Any corporations formed in pursuance of this act may erect and own such suitable edifices, buildings or halls as such corporation shall deem necessary, with convenient rooms, for the meeting of said society, and for that purpose may create a capital stock of not more than 60,000 dollars, to be divided into shares of not more than 25 dollars each.

History: 1871, Act 134, Imd. Eff. Apr. 15, 1871; CL 1871, 3251; How. 4525; CL 1897, 7809; CL 1915, 10245; CL 1929, 10526; CL 1948, 457.6
Mich. Comp. Laws § 35.976 — MI Code / Chapter 35 / Act Act-8-of-1955 / Section 35.976
Application for payment by veteran or beneficiary; requirements, endorsement on evidence of service.
Status: in_force

Sec. 6.

Each veteran or his beneficiary entitled to payment shall make application to the adjutant general upon such form as may be prescribed by him: Provided, That if the veteran be incompetent or his beneficiary be incompetent or a minor, application shall be made by his guardian. Each application shall be accompanied by a certified copy of honorable discharge as defined in section 2, or by such evidence of honest and faithful service during the period of service as shall be prescribed by said adjutant general. Each application shall be subscribed and sworn to by the applicant before witnesses in such manner as shall be prescribed by the adjutant general: Provided, That the adjutant general shall provide by regulation for an endorsement on the evidence of service required in section 2 (d) that application for payment has been made.

History: 1955, Act 8, Imd. Eff. Mar. 7, 1955
Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.1493 — MI Code / Chapter 722 / Act Act-366-of-2014 / Section 722.1493
Use of act by title IV-D agency; prohibitions.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3.

(1) Only a title IV-D agency may use this act to establish paternity and support.

(2) This act may not be used to establish the parentage of either of the following:

(a) A child conceived through the use of assisted reproduction that does not involve surrogacy if the parents of the child may be determined under the assisted reproduction and surrogacy parentage act.

(b) A child conceived under a surrogacy agreement that complies with the assisted reproduction and surrogacy parentage act.

History: 2014, Act 366, Eff. Mar. 17, 2015; Am. 2024, Act 30, Eff. Apr. 2, 2025
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.30912 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.30912
Approval of plans and cost estimates; sufficiency of petition; resolution; publication; assessment roll.
Status: in_force

Sec. 30912.

If the lake board passes a resolution in which it determines the project to be practicable, the lake board shall determine to proceed with the project, shall approve the plans and estimate of costs as originally presented or as revised, corrected, amended, or changed, and shall determine the sufficiency of the petition for the improvement. The resolution shall be published once in a newspaper of general circulation in each local unit of government to be affected. After the resolution has been published, the sufficiency of the petition shall not be subject to attack except in an action brought in a court of competent jurisdiction within 30 days after publication. The lake board, after finally accepting the special assessment district, shall prepare an assessment roll based upon the benefits to be derived from the proposed lake improvement, and the lake board shall direct the assessing official of each local unit of government to be affected to join in making an assessment roll in which shall be entered and described all the parcels of land to be assessed, with the names of the respective owners of the parcels of land, if known, and the total amount to be assessed against each parcel of land and against each local unit of government to be affected, which amount shall be such relative portion of the whole sum to be levied against all parcels of land and local units of government in the special assessment district as the benefit to such parcel of land and local unit of government bears to the total benefit to all parcels of land and local units of government in the special assessment district. When the assessment roll has been completed, each assessing official shall affix to the assessment roll his or her certificate stating that it was made pursuant to a resolution of the lake board adopted on a specified date, and that in making the assessment roll he or she has, according to his or her best judgment, conformed in all respects to the directions contained in the resolution and the statutes of the state.

History: Add. 1995, Act 59, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1995
Mich. Comp. Laws § 141.251 — MI Code / Chapter 141 / Act Act-143-of-1943 / Section 141.251
Borrowing money and issuing notes for county road purposes; resolution.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

Boards of county road commissioners are authorized and empowered, upon the adoption of a resolution, to borrow money, the sum of which shall not exceed the amount previously authorized by their respective county board of commissioners, in anticipation of and to pledge for the payment of the borrowed money, future revenues derived from state collected taxes returned to the county for county road purposes pursuant to law and to issue notes for the purpose of purchasing road machinery or equipment, for improvement of county highways, or for other general county road purposes.

Notes issued under this act are subject to the revised municipal finance act, 2001 PA 34, MCL 141.2101 to 141.2821.

History: 1943, Act 143, Eff. July 30, 1943; CL 1948, 141.251; Am. 1951, Act 227, Eff. Sept. 28, 1951; Am. 1983, Act 51, Imd. Eff. May 16, 1983; Am. 2002, Act 194, Imd. Eff. Apr. 29, 2002
Mich. Comp. Laws § 436.1923 — MI Code / Chapter 436 / Act Act-58-of-1998 / Section 436.1923
Warehouse receipts for alcoholic liquor; authority of commission.
Status: in_force

Sec. 923.

The commission has complete power to regulate, limit, and control the sale, transfer, barter, or exchange in this state of warehouse receipts for alcoholic liquor wherever alcoholic liquor is situated.

History: 1998, Act 58, Imd. Eff. Apr. 14, 1998
Mich. Comp. Laws § 4.420 — MI Code / Chapter 4 / Act Act-472-of-1978 / Section 4.420
Accounting of lobbying and expenditures; waiver; violation; penalty.
Status: in_force

Sec. 10.

A lobbyist agent who is compensated, reimbursed, or otherwise employed by a lobbyist, and whose activities and expenditures must be reported by the employing lobbyist pursuant to section 8, shall provide to the employing lobbyist a full accounting of all lobbying and expenditures required to be reported under this act at least 10 days before the employing lobbyist's report is due to be filed. If the lobbyist agent files an authorized report on behalf of the lobbyist, said accounting is waived. A person who violates this subsection is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not more than $1,000.00.

History: 1978, Act 472, Eff. June 16, 1981
Mich. Comp. Laws § 257.1575 — MI Code / Chapter 257 / Act Act-55-of-1997 / Section 257.1575
Electric patrol vehicle; limitation.
Status: in_force

Sec. 5.

An electric patrol vehicle authorized under section 4 shall be limited as follows:

(a) To a street or highway with a posted speed limit of not more than 25 miles per hour.

(b) To crossing a street or highway with a posted speed limit of not more than 50 miles per hour.

(c) To a sidewalk.

History: 1997, Act 55, Imd. Eff. July 1, 1997; Am. 2018, Act 90, Eff. June 24, 2018