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Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.1007 — MI Code / Chapter 600 / Act Act-236-of-1961 / Section 600.1007
Family division of circuit court; county clerk as clerk of the court.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1007.

As with circuit court, the county clerk is the clerk of the court for the family division of the circuit court.

History: Add. 1996, Act 388, Eff. Jan. 1, 1998
Mich. Comp. Laws § 492.112 — MI Code / Chapter 492 / Act Act-27-of-1950-Ex-Sess- / Section 492.112
Installment sale contract; contents; signatures; buyer's copy; notice; form; delivery acknowledgment; payments; applicability.
Status: in_force

Sec. 12.

(1) An installment sale contract must be in writing, contain all of the agreements between the buyer and the seller relating to the installment sale of the motor vehicle sold, and be signed by both the buyer and the seller.

(2) An installment sale contract must be completed as to all essential provisions before the signing of the contract by the buyer and contain other information as the administrator may require.

(3) An exact copy of the installment sale contract must be furnished by the seller to the buyer without charge at the time the buyer signs the contract. The buyer's copy of the contract must contain the signature of the seller identical with the signature on the original contract.

(4) An installment sale contract must contain the following notice printed prominently and in the form indicated in 12-point type or larger directly above the space provided in the contract form for the signature of the buyer:

"Notice to buyer. Do not sign this contract in blank. You are entitled to 1 true copy of the contract you sign without charge. Keep it to protect your legal rights.".

(5) The seller shall obtain from the buyer a written acknowledgment of the delivery of the copy of the contract. The acknowledgment must be printed in 12-point type or larger and, if attached to the contract, it must be printed below the buyer's signature to the contract and independently signed.

(6) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection and section 22, an installment sale contract must provide for weekly, semi-monthly, or monthly payments of the time balance in substantially equal periods and amounts. This subsection does not do either of the following:

(a) Apply to an installment sale contract made between a seller and a buyer who is an employee of the seller.

(b) Prohibit an installment sale contract that extends the time for making installment payments for a period of not to exceed 3 months.

History: 1950, Ex. Sess., Act 27, Eff. Mar. 31, 1951; Am. 1954, Act 132, Imd. Eff. Apr. 23, 1954; Am. 1994, Act 2, Imd. Eff. Feb. 17, 1994; Am. 2024, Act 94, Imd. Eff. July 23, 2024
Mich. Comp. Laws § 780.105 — MI Code / Chapter 780 / Act Act-189-of-1937 / Section 780.105
Fresh pursuit; definition.
Status: in_force

Sec. 5.

The term "fresh pursuit" as used in this act shall include fresh pursuit as defined by the common law, and also the pursuit of a person who has committed a felony or who is reasonably suspected of having committed a felony. It shall also include the pursuit of a person suspected of having committed a supposed felony, though no felony has actually been committed, if there is reasonable ground for believing that a felony has been committed. Fresh pursuit as used herein shall not necessarily imply instant pursuit, but pursuit without unreasonable delay.

History: 1937, Act 189, Imd. Eff. July 14, 1937; CL 1948, 780.105
Mich. Comp. Laws § 211.801 — MI Code / Chapter 211 / Act Act-70-of-1977 / Section 211.801
Reimbursing local units of government for taxes lost due to establishment of certain lands as national parks; formula; statement of payments; review; appropriation.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

To reimburse local units of government for taxes lost due to the establishment of the Sylvania tract purchase in the Ottawa national forest park, Isle Royale national park pursuant to Act No. 8 of the Public Acts of 1938, being section 3.441 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, Pictured Rocks national lakeshore park pursuant to Act No. 168 of the Public Acts of 1967, being sections 3.451 to 3.455 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, and Seney national wildlife refuge park pursuant to Act No. 193 of the Public Acts of 1911, being sections 322.481 to 322.484 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, the department of treasury shall make payments in lieu of taxes for a period not to exceed 10 years after the effective date of this act, in accordance with the following formula: On the tax day first following the effective date of this act, the state treasurer shall determine the current equalized valuation of the lands known as the Sylvania tract purchase in the Ottawa national forest park, Isle Royale national park, Pictured Rocks national lakeshore park, and Seney national wildlife refuge park for each taxing jurisdiction from which the property was transferred and the rate of ad valorem taxation. The state treasurer shall thereupon make payments to each taxing unit in that amount and on each succeeding tax day for 10 years after the first tax day following the effective date of this act, the treasurer shall make further payments to each taxing unit but reduced by 1/10 per year from the amount originally paid. Provided further that any payment to be made to a taxing jurisdiction under this act shall be reduced by the amount of payments made for that land by the federal government within the boundaries of the federally designated parks during the preceding federal fiscal year.

The treasurer or other officer charged with the collection of taxes for the assessing district shall forward a statement of payments due to the state treasurer. The statement shall include a listing of the payments made to the local governments based upon the amount of certain federal lands within the boundaries of such federally designated parks. The treasurer shall review the statement, and if the amount is determined to be due pursuant to this act, shall pay that amount from the state general fund.

There shall be appropriated from the general fund of the state a sufficient sum to meet the expenditures necessary to carry out the requirements of this act.

History: 1977, Act 70, Imd. Eff. July 20, 1977
Mich. Comp. Laws § 450.2310 — MI Code / Chapter 450 / Act Act-162-of-1982 / Section 450.2310
Rescission of subscription under which part of shares issued and in which security interest retained as cancellation of shares.
Status: in_force

Sec. 310.

Rescission by a corporation of a subscription under which a part of the shares subscribed for have been issued and in which the corporation retains a security interest, as provided in section 308(c), effects the cancellation of such shares.

History: 1982, Act 162, Eff. Jan. 1, 1983
Mich. Comp. Laws § 450.1336 — MI Code / Chapter 450 / Act Act-284-of-1972 / Section 450.1336
Issuance or transfer of shares without certificates; statement.
Status: in_force

Sec. 336.

Unless the articles of incorporation or bylaws provide otherwise, the board may authorize the issuance of some or all of the shares of any or all of its classes or series without certificates. The authorization does not affect shares already represented by certificates until the certificates are surrendered to a corporation.

Within a reasonable time after the issuance or transfer of shares without certificates, the corporation shall send the shareholder a written statement of the information required on certificates under section 332 and, if applicable, sections 472 and 488.

History: Add. 1989, Act 121, Eff. Oct. 1, 1989; Am. 1997, Act 118, Imd. Eff. Oct. 24, 1997
Mich. Comp. Laws § 700.5202 — MI Code / Chapter 700 / Act Act-386-of-1998 / Section 700.5202
Parental appointment of guardian for minor.
Status: in_force

Sec. 5202.

(1) The parent of an unmarried minor may appoint a guardian for the minor by will or by another writing signed by the parent and attested by at least 2 witnesses.

(2) Subject to the right of the minor under section 5203, if both parents are dead or have been adjudged to be legally incapacitated or the surviving parent has no parental rights or has been adjudged to be legally incapacitated, a parental appointment becomes effective when the guardian's acceptance is filed in the court in which the will containing the nomination is probated or, if the nomination is contained in a nontestamentary nominating instrument or the testator who made the nomination is not deceased, when the guardian's acceptance is filed in the court at the place where the minor resides or is present. If both parents are dead, an effective appointment by the parent who died later has priority.

(3) A parental appointment effected by filing the guardian's acceptance under a will probated in the state of the testator's domicile is effective in this state.

(4) Upon acceptance of appointment, the guardian shall give written notice of acceptance to the minor and to the person having the minor's care or the minor's nearest adult relative.

History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000; Am. 2000, Act 54, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000; Am. 2005, Act 204, Imd. Eff. Nov. 10, 2005
Mich. Comp. Laws § 125.912a — MI Code / Chapter 125 / Act Act-250-of-1941 / Section 125.912a
Redevelopment corporation; powers and authority.
Status: in_force

Sec. 12a.

Except as otherwise provided in this act, a redevelopment corporation may do all of the following:

Form or incorporate nonprofit corporations under the laws of this state for any purpose not inconsistent with the purposes for which the redevelopment corporation was formed.

Serve as a shareholder or member of a qualified nonprofit corporation organized under the laws of this state.

Authorize, approve, execute, and file with the Michigan department of consumer and industry services those documents that are appropriate to form and continue 1 or more nonprofit corporations.

Form or incorporate for-profit corporations, partnerships, and limited liability companies under the laws of this state for any purpose not inconsistent with the purposes for which the redevelopment corporation was formed.

History: Add. 1998, Act 385, Imd. Eff. Oct. 23, 1998
Mich. Comp. Laws § 125.2475 — MI Code / Chapter 125 / Act Act-173-of-1992 / Section 125.2475
Special assessment; collection; warrant; entering on tax roll.
Status: in_force

Sec. 25.

When a special assessment roll is confirmed, the authority board shall direct the assessments made on the roll to be collected. The secretary of the authority shall then deliver to the township treasurer the special assessment roll, to which he or she shall attach his or her warrant commanding the township treasurer to collect the assessments in accordance with the directions of the authority board. The warrant shall further require the township treasurer on the September 1 following the date when the assessments or any part of the assessments have become due to submit to the authority board a sworn statement setting forth the names of the persons delinquent, if known, a description of the parcels of land upon which there are delinquent assessments, and the amount of the delinquency, including accrued interest and penalties computed to September 1 of that year. Upon receiving the special assessment roll and warrant, the township treasurer shall enter the special assessments directly in a separate column on the next tax roll. The township treasurer shall proceed to collect the several amounts assessed on the roll as those amounts become due.

History: 1992, Act 173, Imd. Eff. July 21, 1992
Mich. Comp. Laws § 500.4436 — MI Code / Chapter 500 / Act Act-218-of-1956 / Section 500.4436
Misstatement of age; provision required.
Status: in_force

Sec. 4436.

There shall be a provision for the equitable adjustment of the premium or the amount of insurance payable in the event of a misstatement of the age of an employee.

History: 1956, Act 218, Eff. Jan. 1, 1957
Mich. Comp. Laws § 440.7507 — MI Code / Chapter 440 / Act Act-174-of-1962 / Section 440.7507
Documents of title; warranties on negotiation or delivery for value.
Status: in_force

Sec. 7507.

If a person negotiates or delivers a document of title for value, otherwise than as a mere intermediary under section 7508, unless otherwise agreed, the transferor, in addition to any warranty made in selling or leasing the goods, warrants to its immediate purchaser only the following:

(a) That the document is genuine.

(b) That the transferor does not have knowledge of any fact that would impair the document's validity or worth.

(c) That the negotiation or delivery is rightful and fully effective with respect to the title to the document and the goods it represents.

History: 1962, Act 174, Eff. Jan. 1, 1964; Am. 2012, Act 87, Eff. July 1, 2013
Mich. Comp. Laws § 457.665 — MI Code / Chapter 457 / Act Act-18-of-1895 / Section 457.665
Filing articles of association with department of commerce; associates, and successors as body politic and corporate; powers; evidence of incorporation.
Status: in_force

Sec. 5.

The articles of any such association shall be filed with the corporation and securities bureau of the department of commerce; and thereupon, the persons so associating therein, their associates and successors, shall be a body politic and corporate, by the name expressed in their respective articles, and by their said name, they and their associates and successors shall have succession and shall be capable of suing and being sued, and shall have a common seal to be altered at pleasure, in such manner as the constitution or laws of the order shall prescribe. Such corporation may take, purchase, receive, hold and enjoy, real, personal and mixed property, not exceeding in amount $100,000.00; and may give, grant, mortgage, sell, lease, devise, and dispose of all or any part of such property at pleasure, but no property of said association, or of any of the subordinate temples of said association, shall be exempt from taxation. A copy of any such articles of association and certificate which is filed with and duly certified by the corporation and securities bureau of the department of commerce shall be prima facie evidence in all courts and tribunals of the due incorporation of such association.

History: 1895, Act 18, Imd. Eff. Mar. 14, 1895; CL 1897, 8132; CL 1915, 10606; CL 1929, 10814; CL 1948, 457.665; Am. 1982, Act 113, Imd. Eff. Apr. 19, 1982
Mich. Comp. Laws § 440.4303 — MI Code / Chapter 440 / Act Act-174-of-1962 / Section 440.4303
Payor bank; items subject to knowledge notice, stop-payment order, legal process, or setoff; order in which times may be handled.
Status: in_force

Sec. 4303.

(1) Any knowledge, notice, or stop-payment order received by, legal process served upon or setoff exercised by a payor bank comes too late to terminate, suspend, or modify the bank's right or duty to pay an item or to charge its customer's account for the item if the knowledge, notice, stop-payment order or legal process is received or served and a reasonable time for the bank to act thereon expires or the setoff is exercised after the earliest of the following:

(a) The bank accepts or certifies the item.

(b) The bank pays the item in cash.

(c) The bank settles for the item without having a right to revoke the settlement under statute, clearing-house rule or agreement.

(d) The bank becomes accountable for the amount of the item under section 4302 dealing with the payor bank's responsibility for late return of items.

(e) With respect to checks, a cutoff hour no earlier than 1 hour after the opening of the next banking day after the banking day on which the bank received the check and no later than the close of that next banking day or, if no cutoff hour is fixed, the close of the next banking day after the banking day on which the bank received the check.

(2) Subject to subsection (1) items may be accepted, paid, certified, or charged to the indicated account of its customer in any order.

History: 1962, Act 174, Eff. Jan. 1, 1964; Am. 1993, Act 130, Eff. Sept. 30, 1993
Mich. Comp. Laws § 380.483a — MI Code / Chapter 380 / Act Act-451-of-1976 / Section 380.483a
Functions of board; transfer of powers and duties.
Status: in_force

Sec. 483a.

This section applies to a first class school district only if the question under section 410 is not approved in the first class school district.

The first class school district board shall perform the following functions:

Central purchasing.

Payroll.

Employment, discharge, assignment, and promotion of teachers and other employees of the district.

Contract negotiations for all employees, subject to 1947 PA 336, MCL 423.201 to 423.217, and subject to bargaining certification and the collective bargaining agreement pertaining to affected employees.

Property management and maintenance and the use of educational facilities.

Bonding.

Special education programs.

Allocation of funds for capital outlay and operations.

Determination of the curriculum and the establishment of educational and testing programs.

Adoption of a budget.

All powers and duties formerly vested in the regional boards are transferred to the first class school district board.

History: Add. 1981, Act 96, Eff. Jan. 1, 1983; Am. 2004, Act 303, Imd. Eff. Aug. 10, 2004
Mich. Comp. Laws § 560.103 — MI Code / Chapter 560 / Act Act-288-of-1967 / Section 560.103
Subdivisions of land; surveys and plats, requirements.
Status: in_force

Sec. 103.

An exempt split is not subject to approval under this act so long as the resulting parcels are accessible. A division is not subject to the platting requirements of this act but subject to the requirements of sections 108 and 109. A subdivision is subject to the platting requirements of this act.

Plats of retracement or boundary surveys made by a department or agency of the United States or of state-owned lands made by a department or agency of the state for the retracement and division of public lands according to the survey instructions issued by the United States department of the interior may be recorded with the register of deeds of the county in which the lands represented on the plats are situated and need not otherwise comply with this act, except that plat size shall be as provided in section 132.

A survey and plat shall be made when any amendment, correction, alteration or revision of a recorded plat is ordered by a circuit court.

Urban renewal plats authorized by the governing body of a municipality as provided in Act No. 344 of the Public Acts of 1945, being sections 125.71 to 125.84 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, shall conform to this act.

History: 1967, Act 288, Eff. Jan. 1, 1968; Am. 1996, Act 591, Eff. Mar. 31, 1997
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.17105 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.17105
Acceptance of lead acid batteries by distributor; quantity; removal from point of collection.
Status: in_force

Sec. 17105.

A distributor shall accept used lead acid batteries from retailers in a quantity at least equal to the number of new lead acid batteries sold by the distributor.

A distributor accepting lead acid batteries from a retailer as required under this section shall remove the lead acid batteries from the point of collection within 90 days of receiving the batteries.

History: 1994, Act 451, Eff. Mar. 30, 1995
Mich. Comp. Laws § 750.376 — MI Code / Chapter 750 / Act Act-328-of-1931 / Section 750.376
Extension and application of chapter.
Status: in_force

Sec. 376.

Except as provided in subsection (2), this chapter shall extend and apply to lotteries owned and carried on in another state.

This chapter shall not apply to the manufacturing and transportation of material in this state in connection with a lottery lawfully conducted in another country or state.

History: 1931, Act 328, Eff. Sept. 18, 1931; CL 1948, 750.376; Am. 1977, Act 318, Imd. Eff. Jan. 9, 1978
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.16705 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.16705
Comprehensive plan.
Status: in_force

Sec. 16705.

In addition to the other powers and duties of the department under this part, by January 1, 1991, the department shall develop and submit to the legislature a comprehensive plan that does all of the following:

Provides for a network of private, state, and local collection facilities on a statewide basis by July 1, 1991 to facilitate compliance with section 16704.

Provides for a publicity program to assure that the public is aware of the requirements of section 16704, the location of collection facilities, and the penalties for violating section 16704.

Provides 1 or more proposed funding mechanisms that the department considers feasible to assure that an operational collection facility network is available statewide by July 1, 1991.

History: 1994, Act 451, Eff. Mar. 30, 1995
Mich. Comp. Laws § 339.1218 — MI Code / Chapter 339 / Act Act-299-of-1980 / Section 339.1218
Cosmetology establishment and school of cosmetology; inspections.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1218.

(1) The department shall regularly inspect each cosmetology establishment and school of cosmetology to determine whether the licensee is conforming to this article and the rules promulgated under this article.

(2) A representative of the department may enter and inspect, during regular business hours, a cosmetology establishment or school of cosmetology for purposes of subsection (1).

(3) A representative of the department, when inspecting a cosmetology establishment or school of cosmetology, may require an individual who is working in the establishment or school to present identification in order to substantiate his or her identity as the holder of a posted license.

History: 1980, Act 299, Imd. Eff. Oct. 21, 1980; Am. 1997, Act 97, Imd. Eff. Aug. 7, 1997; Am. 2020, Act 20, Eff. Apr. 26, 2020
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.8332 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.8332
Hearings.
Status: in_force

Sec. 8332.

A person aggrieved by an order issued pursuant to this part may request a hearing 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.

History: 1994, Act 451, Eff. Mar. 30, 1995
Mich. Comp. Laws § 333.7406 — MI Code / Chapter 333 / Act Act-368-of-1978 / Section 333.7406
Violation of MCL 333.7405; penalty.
Status: in_force

Sec. 7406.

A person who violates section 7405 may be punished by a civil fine of not more than $25,000.00 in a proceeding in the circuit court. However, if the violation is prosecuted by a criminal indictment alleging that the violation was committed knowingly or intentionally, and the trier of the fact specifically finds that the violation was committed knowingly or intentionally, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment for not more than 2 years, or a fine of not more than $25,000.00, or both.

History: 1978, Act 368, Eff. Sept. 30, 1978
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.51302 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.51302
Management and utilization of private forestland and private forest resources; purpose and intent of part.
Status: in_force

Sec. 51302.

(1) This part is intended to stimulate improved management and utilization of private forestland and private forest resources within this state. Economic and community development opportunities based on the private forest resource will be enhanced by ensuring adequate future high-quality timber supplies, increased employment opportunities, a diversified economy, and other economic benefits and the conservation, maintenance, and enhancement of a productive and stable forest resource system for the public benefit of present and future generations.

(2) The primary purpose of this part is to assist private landowners in understanding the value of forest resources and the potential threats to forest resources and to provide management guidance.

(3) The department may enter into cooperative agreements with the federal agencies that have been given authority by act of congress for the management of forestlands to assist landowners in management of their nonindustrial private forestlands.

History: Add. 2013, Act 45, Imd. Eff. June 6, 2013