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Mich. Comp. Laws § 450.2132 — MI Code / Chapter 450 / Act Act-162-of-1982 / Section 450.2132
English language; signatures; contents of documents.
Status: in_force

Sec. 132.

(1) A document filed with the administrator shall be in the English language, except that the corporate name need not be in the English language if written in English letters or Arabic or Roman numerals.

(2) A document required or permitted to be filed under this act that is also required by this act to be executed on behalf of the domestic or foreign corporation shall be signed by an authorized officer or agent of the domestic or foreign corporation. If the board has not yet met, the document shall be signed by the incorporator or a majority of incorporators if there are more than 1. If the domestic or foreign corporation is in the hands of a receiver, trustee, or other court appointed officer, the document shall be signed by the fiduciary or a majority of the fiduciaries, if there are more than 1. The name of a person signing the document and the capacity in which he or she signs shall be stated beneath or opposite his or her signature. The document may, but need not, contain any of the following:

(a) The corporate seal.

(b) An attestation by the secretary or an assistant secretary of the corporation.

(c) An acknowledgment or proof.

History: 1982, Act 162, Eff. Jan. 1, 1983; Am. 2014, Act 557, Imd. Eff. Jan. 15, 2015
Mich. Comp. Laws § 38.35 — MI Code / Chapter 38 / Act Act-240-of-1943 / Section 38.35
Contribution of 3% of employee compensation to funding account; "funding account" defined; refund of amounts contributed under subsection (1).
Status: in_force

Sec. 35.

(1) Beginning with the first pay date after November 1, 2010 and ending no later than the second pay date after the effective date of the amendatory act that added this phrase, each member and each qualified participant shall contribute an amount equal to 3.0% of the member's or qualified participant's compensation to the appropriate funding account established under the public employee retirement health care funding act, 2010 PA 77, MCL 38.2731 to 38.2747. The member and qualified participant contributions shall be deducted by the employer and remitted as employer contributions to the funding account in a manner that the state budget office and the retirement system shall determine. The state budget office and the retirement system shall determine a method of deducting the contributions provided for in this section from the compensation of each member and qualified participant for each payroll and each payroll period. As used in this subsection, "funding account" means the appropriate irrevocable trust created in the public employee retirement health care funding act, 2010 PA 77, MCL 38.2731 to 38.2747, for the deposit of funds and the payment of retirement health care benefits.

(2) On or before the beginning date for member contributions under section 35a(1), the state or the retirement system shall refund to members, former members, qualified participants, and former qualified participants who contributed under subsection (1) all amounts contributed under subsection (1), including any actual interest earned on those contributions while being held by this state or the retirement system. The refund shall be included in a payroll warrant issued to that member or qualified participant, or in a separate check issued to that former member or former qualified participant. The state or the retirement system shall permit each member or qualified participant who contributed under subsection (1) to make an election before the payment of the refund to defer his or her refund to an appropriate tax-deferred account.

History: Add. 2010, Act 185, Imd. Eff. Sept. 30, 2010; Am. 2011, Act 264, Imd. Eff. Dec. 15, 2011
Mich. Comp. Laws § 289.531 — MI Code / Chapter 289 / Act Act-280-of-1996 / Section 289.531
Maple syrup in retail packages; sale, display, or intent to sell; conformance with federal standards.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

A person shall not sell, offer or display for sale, or possess with intent to sell maple syrup in retail packages unless that syrup conforms to the United States standards for table maple sirup prescribed in 7 C.F.R. 52.5961 to 52.5967.

History: 1996, Act 280, Eff. Mar. 31, 1997
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.355 — MI Code / Chapter 280 / Act Act-40-of-1956 / Section 280.355
Dams in drains; supervision of work; governing provisions.
Status: in_force

Sec. 355.

All work done under the provisions of this act shall be under the supervision of the commissioner. All the provisions of this act relative to proceedings after the filing of petition for the determination of the necessity, institution of condemnation proceedings and proceedings had thereon and the construction, operation and maintenance of the improvements mentioned in such petition, and the assessment and review and levy and collection of taxes and all other provisions of said act not inconsistent with the provisions of this act shall be applicable in the construction, operation and maintenance of dams and the better maintenance of such drainage work by embanking, pumping or other mechanical operation or other work under the provisions of this act.

History: 1956, Act 40, Imd. Eff. Mar. 28, 1956
Mich. Comp. Laws § 426.159 — MI Code / Chapter 426 / Act Act-238-of-1879 / Section 426.159
Inapplicability of act.
Status: in_force

Sec. 9.

The provisions of this act shall not apply to the taking and running of logs, authorized by the statutes of this state, nor to unmarked cedar to be used for fence posts, nor to the taking of the possession of the same by virtue of any legal process issued from any of the courts of this state.

History: 1879, Act 238, Eff. Aug. 30, 1879; How. 2057; CL 1897, 5097; CL 1915, 6672; CL 1929, 8766; CL 1948, 426.159
Mich. Comp. Laws § 380.1308c — MI Code / Chapter 380 / Act Act-451-of-1976 / Section 380.1308c
Promulgation of rules for standardized response terminology.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1308c.

(1) By not later than July 1, 2026, the department of state police, in collaboration with the school safety and mental health commission, shall promulgate rules, in compliance with the administrative procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24.201 to 24.328, establishing standardized response terminology and provide the terminology, as established in rule, to public schools, nonpublic schools, and local law enforcement agencies. The standardized response terminology described in this subsection must include, at a minimum, both of the following:

(a) Direction concerning terminology that should be utilized by public schools, nonpublic schools, and local law enforcement agencies in response to certain situations that occur in or at a school building operated by the public school or nonpublic school.

(b) Direction concerning the use of a color-coding system to indicate when the terminology described in subdivision (a) should be in use at a public school or nonpublic school.

(2) As used in this section, "school building" means any of the following:

(a) A building intended to be used to provide instruction for pupils, including an addition to an existing building.

(b) A recreational or athletic structure or field intended to be used by pupils.

History: Add. 2024, Act 271, Eff. Apr. 2, 2025
Mich. Comp. Laws § 380.417a — MI Code / Chapter 380 / Act Act-451-of-1976 / Section 380.417a
Board; interest of member in contract; compensation; per diem allowance; reimbursement; maximum payments.
Status: in_force

Sec. 417a.

A member of the first class school district board shall not be directly or indirectly interested in a contract with the board. Except for the per diem allowance provided in subsection (2), a member of the first class school district board shall not receive compensation for services rendered to the board.

Except as otherwise provided in this subsection and subsection (3), each first class school district board member shall be paid a per diem allowance of $30.00 for each board meeting and subcommittee meeting attended and each authorized duty performed. To be reimbursed for an authorized duty, the duty shall be related directly to the member's responsibility as a board member and shall be authorized in advance by resolution of the board. Compensation shall be provided to a board member for an authorized duty only if that duty and the authority of the board member to perform that duty is specifically enumerated in the resolution authorizing compensation. The payments for meetings, subcommittee meetings, and authorized duties shall not exceed a total of 52 meetings, subcommittee meetings, and authorized duties per year, except that, if the question under section 410 is not approved in the first class school district, this limitation may be removed by majority vote of the board.

If the question under section 410 is approved in the first class school district, the board of the first class school district may by majority vote of the board waive any per diem payment under this section.

History: Add. 1981, Act 96, Eff. Jan. 1, 1983; Am. 1982, Act 71, Eff. Jan. 1, 1983; Am. 1985, Act 86, Imd. Eff. July 5, 1985; Am. 2004, Act 303, Imd. Eff. Aug. 10, 2004
Mich. Comp. Laws § 125.4319 — MI Code / Chapter 125 / Act Act-57-of-2018 / Section 125.4319
Notice to vacate.
Status: in_force

Sec. 319.

A person to be relocated under this part shall be given not less than 90 days' written notice to vacate unless modified by court order for good cause.

History: 2018, Act 57, Eff. Jan. 1, 2019
Mich. Comp. Laws § 36.107 — MI Code / Chapter 36 / Act Act-560-of-2016 / Section 36.107
Determination of public and governmental purpose; exercise of powers as essential governmental function; tax exemption; restrictions on use of bond proceeds.
Status: in_force

Sec. 7.

(1) It is determined that the creation of the authority and the carrying out of its authorized duties is in all respects a public and governmental purpose for the benefit of the people of this state and for the improvement of their health, safety, welfare, comfort, and security, and that these purposes are public purposes and that the authority performs an essential governmental function in the exercise of the powers conferred upon it by this act.

(2) The property, income, and operations of the authority, or those of any nonprofit corporation established by or on behalf of the authority, are exempt from taxation by this state and any political subdivision of this state.

(3) The authority shall prescribe restrictions on the use of the proceeds of any bond for which the interest is intended to be exempt from federal income tax and any related matters that are necessary to assure that exemption. The recipients of the proceeds of a bond described in this subsection shall be bound by those restrictions to the extent the restrictions are made applicable to them. A recipient of the proceeds of a bond bearing interest intended to be exempt from federal income tax, including, without limitation, this state or any political subdivision of this state, is authorized to execute a tax regulatory agreement with the authority and, as to any political subdivision that is a recipient of the proceeds of a bond bearing interest intended to be exempt from federal income, this state. The execution of a tax regulatory agreement may be treated as a condition to receiving any proceeds of a bond issued under this act.

History: 2016, Act 560, Imd. Eff. Jan. 11, 2017; Am. 2018, Act 630, Imd. Eff. Dec. 28, 2018
Mich. Comp. Laws § 710.68a — MI Code / Chapter 701 / Act Act-288-of-1939 / Section 710.68a
Providing information pamphlet, list of adoption support groups, and information about MCL 710.27a, 710.27b, 710.68 and 710.68b; placement of requester's current address in adoption files.
Status: in_force

Sec. 68a.

The department, in cooperation with adoption support groups, shall develop and publish an information pamphlet explaining the release of information from adoption records pursuant to this act.

Within 14 days after it is contacted by an adoptee, adult former sibling, former parent, or adoptive parent, a child placing agency or court or the department shall provide the adoptee, adult former sibling, former parent, or adoptive parent with all of the following:

A copy of the information pamphlet described in subsection (1).

A list of adoption support groups.

Information about the provisions described in this section and sections 27a, 27b, 68, and 68b of this chapter.

If a child placing agency, a court, or the department receives a written request from an adoptee, adult former sibling, former parent, adoptive parent, or any other person biologically related to an adoptee that the requester's current address be placed in its adoption files, the child placing agency, court, or department shall place the information in its adoption files.

History: Add. 1988, Act 505, Eff. Mar. 30, 1989; Am. 1990, Act 175, Imd. Eff. July 2, 1990; Am. 1994, Act 222, Eff. Jan. 1, 1995; 1994, Act 373, Eff. Jan. 1, 1995
Mich. Comp. Laws § 445.2106 — MI Code / Chapter 445 / Act Act-430-of-2000 / Section 445.2106
Performing rights society; prohibited acts.
Status: in_force

Sec. 6.

A performing rights society or any agent, employee, representative, or other person acting on behalf of the performing rights society shall not do any of the following:

Enter onto the premises of a proprietor's business for the purpose of discussing a contract for payment of royalties for the use of copyrighted works by that proprietor, without first identifying himself or herself to the proprietor or to the proprietor's management employees. Such identification includes, but is not limited to, showing a business photo-identification card issued by the performing rights society, disclosing that he or she is acting on behalf of the performing rights society, and disclosing the purpose of the entry.

Collect or attempt to collect a royalty payment or any other fee except as provided in a contract executed pursuant to and in compliance with this act.

Use or attempt to use any act or practice in negotiating with a proprietor, or in retaliation for a proprietor's failure or refusal to negotiate, with respect to a contract for the payment of royalties, that includes any of the following:

Using or attempting to use any unfair or deceptive act or practice in dealing with a proprietor.

Engaging in any coercive act or practice that is disruptive of a proprietor's business.

Commencing or threatening to commence a legal action in connection with an alleged copyright violation unless the performing rights society shall have advised the proprietor that he or she may comply with copyright laws with respect to copyrighted musical works in the repertoire of the performing rights society by doing any of the following:

Obtaining a license from that performing rights society.

Discontinuing all nondramatic public performances of musical works in that performing rights society's repertoire.

Obtaining authorization for nondramatic public performances of musical works directly from the copyright owners who are members of that performing rights society.

This section does not prevent any copyright owner from exercising any exclusive rights granted by the copyright laws.

This section does not prohibit the performing rights society or its agents, employees, or representatives from informing the proprietor of obligations imposed under the copyright laws.

History: 2000, Act 430, Imd. Eff. Jan. 9, 2001
Mich. Comp. Laws § 750.95a — MI Code / Chapter 750 / Act Act-328-of-1931 / Section 750.95a
Person printing checks for financial institution; printing on checks month and year account opened; exceptions; violation as misdemeanor; penalty; civil liability; authorization to furnish information; definitions.
Status: in_force

Sec. 95a.

Except as provided in subsection (2), a person that is requested by a financial institution to print checks for an account maintained by a person at the financial institution shall obtain from the financial institution the month and year in which the account was opened, and the person shall print on the checks for that account the month and year furnished by the financial institution.

A person shall not be required to comply with subsection (1) with regard to checks printed for an account if the person is informed by the financial institution for which the checks are to be printed that the checks are to be used for any of the following:

An account opened before July 1, 1985.

An account maintained by a corporation, partnership, association, or trust, or by an individual or individuals who use the account primarily for a business purpose or who indicate to the financial institution, at the time the account is opened, that the account is intended to be used primarily for a business purpose.

An account maintained by a person who, at the time the account was opened, had maintained another deposit with the same financial institution for a period of 1 year or longer.

Temporary checks to be furnished by the financial institution to a customer at the time an account is opened.

A person that knowingly, wilfully, and intentionally violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not more than $100.00.

A person that violates this section shall not be civilly liable for damages to any other person arising from the violation.

A financial institution is authorized to furnish to a person who prints checks for the financial institution the date and year an account was opened and such information as shall be necessary for the person to determine whether the person is required to comply with subsection (1).

As used in this section:

"Check" means a check, draft, or other instrument that is capable of becoming a negotiable instrument evidencing a written order to a financial institution to pay the stated amount of money from an account maintained with the financial institution.

"Deposit" means an insured account in a bank, savings and loan association, credit union, or other institution the accounts of which are insured by an agency of the federal government.

"Financial institution" means a bank, savings and loan association, credit union, or other institution that is authorized to maintain demand accounts or other accounts where payment is made by a check.

"Person" means an individual, corporation, partnership, association, business trust, or other legal entity.

History: Add. 1984, Act 275, Eff. July 1, 1985
Mich. Comp. Laws § 440.4108 — MI Code / Chapter 440 / Act Act-174-of-1962 / Section 440.4108
Time of receipt of items.
Status: in_force

Sec. 4108.

For the purpose of allowing time to process items, prove balances and make the necessary entries on its books to determine its position for the day, a bank may fix an afternoon hour of 2 P.M. or later as a cut-off hour for the handling of money and items and the making of entries on its books.

An item or deposit of money received on any day after a cut-off hour so fixed or after the close of the banking day may be treated as being received at the opening of the next banking day.

History: 1962, Act 174, Eff. Jan. 1, 1964; Am. 1993, Act 130, Eff. Sept. 30, 1993
Mich. Comp. Laws § 259.106 — MI Code / Chapter 259 / Act Act-327-of-1945 / Section 259.106
Aeronautics commission; charges and rentals, determination.
Status: in_force

Sec. 106.

Charges and rentals. The commission shall have the authority to determine reasonable and uniform charges or rental for the use of any properties and the charges for any service or accommodations, under its control, and the terms and conditions under which such properties may be used: Provided, That in all cases the public is not deprived of its rightful, equal, and uniform use of such property. The state shall have and the commission may enforce liens, as provided by law for liens and the enforcement thereof, for repairs to or improvement or storage or care of any personal property, to enforce the payment of any such charges.

History: 1945, Act 327, Imd. Eff. May 28, 1945; CL 1948, 259.106
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.31302 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.31302
Request for surveys; utilization of reports.
Status: in_force

Sec. 31302.

Any board or group of boards or local unit or units acting singly or in concert may request the department to undertake a survey of the water in a river basin or watershed located or partially located in the county or counties or in the local unit or units of government to determine whether there is surplus water that may be available and, if so, how it may be best impounded, utilized, and conserved. All studies, surveys, and reports made by public and other competent authorities may be utilized by the department in making this determination.

History: Add. 1995, Act 59, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1995
Mich. Comp. Laws § 500.2066 — MI Code / Chapter 500 / Act Act-218-of-1956 / Section 500.2066
Rebates and illegal inducements prohibited; violation; revocation of license or certificate; penalties.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2066.

No insurer, by itself or any other party, and no insurance agent or solicitor, personally or by any other party, transacting any kind of insurance business shall offer, promise, allow, give, set off or pay, directly or indirectly, any rebate of, or part of, the premium payable on the policy or on any policy, or agent's commission thereon, or earnings, profit, dividends or other benefit founded, arising, accruing or to accrue thereon, or therefrom, or any other valuable consideration or inducement to or for insurance, on any risk in this state now or hereafter to be written, which is not specified in the contract of insurance; nor shall any such insurer, agent or solicitor, personally or otherwise, offer, promise, give, sell, or purchase any stocks, bonds, securities or any dividend or profits accruing or to accrue thereon, or other thing of value whatsoever as inducement to insurance or in connection therewith which is not specified in the policy contract.

Upon satisfactory evidence of the violation of this section by any insurer, its officers, solicitors or agents, or any insurance broker, the commissioner shall revoke the license or certificate of authority of such offending insurer, its officers, solicitors or agents, after following the procedures provided for in section 2068; and no license or certificate of authority shall be issued to such insurer, officers, agents, solicitors or brokers, within 1 year from the date of such revocation.

Violations of this section shall also be subject to the penalties provided for in section 2069.

History: 1956, Act 218, Eff. Jan. 1, 1957
Mich. Comp. Laws § 123.42 — MI Code / Chapter 123 / Act Act-199-of-1929 / Section 123.42
Community center; annual tax levy, credit.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

In all villages, or townships adopting the provisions of this act, the legislative body thereof is authorized and empowered to levy an annual tax not exceeding 2 mills on each dollar of the assessed valuation of such village or township as the case may be, for the maintenance, or the purchase and maintenance of property for a community center for the benefit of the public. The said tax shall be levied and collected at the same time and in the same manner as other general taxes of the said village or township are levied and collected. And the taxes thus collected under the provisions of this act shall be deposited in the village or township treasury to the credit of the community fund.

History: 1929, Act 199, Eff. Aug. 28, 1929; CL 1929, 2376; CL 1948, 123.42