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Mich. Comp. Laws § 556.317 — MI Code / Chapter 556 / Act Act-187-of-2023 / Section 556.317
Authority of agent; gifts.
Status: in_force

Sec. 217.

(1) Unless the power of attorney provides otherwise, language in a power granting general authority with respect to gifts authorizes the agent to make outright gifts of the principal's property, including by the exercise of a presently exercisable general power of appointment held by the principal, to, or for the benefit of, a person or persons as the agent determines is consistent with the principal's objectives if actually known by the agent and, to the extent the principal's objectives are unknown, as the agent determines is consistent with the principal's best interest based on all relevant factors, including the following:

(a) The value and nature of the principal's property.

(b) The principal's foreseeable obligations and need for maintenance, including anticipated private-pay nursing or assisted-living care costs incurred in a facility or at home.

(c) The desirability of minimizing taxes, including income, estate, inheritance, generation-skipping transfer, and gift taxes.

(d) Eligibility for a benefit, a program, or assistance under a statute or regulation, including eligibility for assistance with nursing or assisted-living care in a facility or at home.

(e) The principal's personal history of making gifts.

(2) As used in this section, a gift "for the benefit of" a person includes, without limitation, a gift in trust, an account under the Michigan uniform transfers to minors act, 1998 PA 433, MCL 554.521 to 554.552, a tuition savings account or prepaid tuition plan as described under section 529 of the internal revenue code of 1986, 26 USC 529, and an ABLE account as defined under section 529A of the internal revenue code of 1986, 26 USC 529A.

History: 2023, Act 187, Eff. July 1, 2024
Mich. Comp. Laws § 168.636 — MI Code / Chapter 168 / Act Act-116-of-1954 / Section 168.636
Applicability of act to special primary elections.
Status: in_force

Sec. 636.

The provisions of this act relative to primary election ballots shall be applicable to the ballots prepared for use at a special primary election.

History: 1954, Act 116, Eff. June 1, 1955
Mich. Comp. Laws § 38.845 — MI Code / Chapter 38 / Act Act-443-of-1980 / Section 38.845
Effective date.
Status: in_force

Sec. 5.

This act shall take effect September 1, 1981.

History: 1980, Act 443, Eff. Sept. 1, 1981
Mich. Comp. Laws § 700.3709 — MI Code / Chapter 700 / Act Act-386-of-1998 / Section 700.3709
Duty of personal representative; possession of estate.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3709.

Except as otherwise provided by a decedent's will or by this section, a personal representative has a right to, and if necessary for purposes of administration, shall take possession or control of, the decedent's property, except that real property or tangible personal property may be left with or surrendered to the person presumptively entitled to that property unless or until, in the personal representative's judgment, possession of the property will be necessary for purposes of administration. A personal representative's request for delivery of property possessed by an heir or devisee is conclusive evidence, in an action against the heir or devisee for possession of that property, that the possession of the property by the personal representative is necessary for purposes of administration. The personal representative shall pay taxes on, and take all steps reasonably necessary for the management, protection, and preservation of, the estate in the personal representative's possession. The personal representative may maintain an action to recover possession of, or to determine the title to, property.

History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000
Mich. Comp. Laws § 125.2796 — MI Code / Chapter 125 / Act Act-146-of-2000 / Section 125.2796
Exemption after December 31, 2026.
Status: in_force

Sec. 16.

A new exemption shall not be granted under this act after December 31, 2026, but an exemption then in effect shall continue until the expiration of the exemption certificate.

History: 2000, Act 146, Imd. Eff. June 6, 2000; Am. 2010, Act 137, Imd. Eff. Aug. 4, 2010; Am. 2016, Act 222, Imd. Eff. June 23, 2016
Mich. Comp. Laws § 49.52 — MI Code / Chapter 49 / Act Act-393-of-1919 / Section 49.52
Second assistant prosecuting attorneys; tenure, duties, oath of office, compensation.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

Any such assistant prosecuting attorney shall hold his office during the pleasure of the prosecuting attorney appointing him, perform any and all duties pertaining to the office of prosecuting attorney at such time or times as he may be required so to do by the prosecuting attorney and during the absence or disability from any cause of the prosecuting attorney, but he shall be subject to all the legal disqualifications and disabilities of the prosecuting attorney, and shall before entering upon the duties of his office, take and subscribe to oath of office prescribed by the constitution of this state and file the same with the county clerk of his county. Any such assistant prosecuting attorney shall be allowed by the county for his services such reasonable compensation as the board of supervisors shall determine.

History: 1919, Act 393, Eff. Aug. 14, 1919; CL 1929, 1307; CL 1948, 49.52
Mich. Comp. Laws § 168.801 — MI Code / Chapter 168 / Act Act-116-of-1954 / Section 168.801
Canvass of votes by precinct inspectors; public access.
Status: in_force

Sec. 801.

Immediately on closing the polls, the board of inspectors of election in each precinct shall proceed to canvass the vote. Such canvass shall commence by a comparison of the poll lists and a correction of any mistakes that may be found therein until they shall be found or made to agree. Such canvass shall be public and the doors to the polling places and at least 1 door in the building housing the polling places and giving ready access to them shall not be locked during such canvass.

History: 1954, Act 116, Eff. June 1, 1955; Am. 1955, Act 271, Imd. Eff. June 30, 1955; Am. 1963, Act 67, Eff. Sept. 6, 1963
Mich. Comp. Laws § 117.22 — MI Code / Chapter 117 / Act Act-279-of-1909 / Section 117.22
Charter amendment; submission to governor, approval; re-consideration.
Status: in_force

Sec. 22.

Every amendment to a city charter whether passed pursuant to the provisions of this act or heretofore granted or passed by the state legislature for the government of such city, before its submission to the electors, and every charter before the final adjournment of the commission, shall be transmitted to the governor of the state. If he shall approve it, he shall sign it; if not, he shall return the charter to the commission and the amendment to the legislative body of the city, with his objections thereto, which shall be spread at large on the journal of the body receiving them, and if it be an amendment proposed by the legislative body, such body shall re-consider it, and if 2/3 of the members-elect agree to pass it, it shall be submitted to the electors. If it be an amendment proposed by initiatory petition, it shall be submitted to the electors notwithstanding such objections.

History: 1909, Act 279, Eff. Sept. 1, 1909; Am. 1913, Act 5, Imd. Eff. Mar. 11, 1913; CL 1915, 3325; CL 1929, 2258; CL 1948, 117.22
Mich. Comp. Laws § 333.18826 — MI Code / Chapter 333 / Act Act-368-of-1978 / Section 333.18826
Veterinarian or veterinary technician; civil liability for acts or omissions; immunity; applicability; notice.
Status: in_force

Sec. 18826.

A veterinarian or veterinary technician is not liable for civil damages as a result of the acts or omissions described in subsection (2) if both of the following apply:

The animal has been brought to the veterinarian or veterinary technician by a person other than the owner of the animal.

The veterinarian or veterinary technician does not know who owns the animal or is unable to contact the owner of the animal before a decision must be made with respect to emergency treatment or euthanasia.

The immunity granted by this section applies to both of the following:

An injury to an animal or death of an animal that results from acts or omissions by the veterinarian or veterinary technician in providing treatment to the animal.

The euthanasia of a seriously injured or seriously ill animal.

This section does not apply to an act or omission by a veterinarian or veterinary technician amounting to gross negligence or willful and wanton misconduct in providing treatment to an animal.

A veterinarian or veterinary technician shall notify the animal control authority in the county in which the animal is found of the disposition of the treatment rendered to the animal before the end of the first business day following the day treatment is rendered.

History: Add. 2000, Act 23, Imd. Eff. Mar. 13, 2000
Mich. Comp. Laws § 254.240 — MI Code / Chapter 254 / Act Act-99-of-1954 / Section 254.240
Repeal.
Status: in_force

Sec. 20.

The provisions of Act No. 237 of the Public Acts of 1935, as amended, being sections 254.201 to 254.216, inclusive, of the Compiled Laws of 1948, except for the provisions of section 2 thereof, are hereby repealed. All other general or special laws, or parts thereof, inconsistent herewith are hereby declared to be inapplicable to the provisions of this act.

History: 1954, Act 99, Imd. Eff. Apr. 12, 1954
Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.5205 — MI Code / Chapter 600 / Act Act-236-of-1961 / Section 600.5205
Property conveyed; general powers of assignee.
Status: in_force

Sec. 5205.

Such assignment shall be deemed to convey to the assignee all property of the assignor not exempt from execution, and all rights legal or equitable of said assignor. The assignee shall also be trustee of the estate of the debtor for the benefit of his creditors and may recover all property or rights or equities in property which might be recovered by any creditor. When more than 1 assignee is appointed, the debts and property of the assignor may be collected and received by 1 of them and when there are more than 2 assignees, every power and authority of the whole may be exercised by any 2 of them. The survivor or survivors of any assignees shall have all their powers and rights and all property in the hands of any assignee at the time of his death, removal or incapacity, shall be delivered to the remaining assignee or assignees if there be any, or to the successor of the one so dying, removed or incapacitated, who may demand and sue for the same.

History: 1961, Act 236, Eff. Jan. 1, 1963
Mich. Comp. Laws § 37.1201 — MI Code / Chapter 37 / Act Act-220-of-1976 / Section 37.1201
Definitions.
Status: in_force

Sec. 201.

As used in this article:

"Employee" does not include an individual employed in domestic service of any person.

"Employer" means a person who has 1 or more employees or a person who as contractor or subcontractor is furnishing material or performing work for the state or a governmental entity or agency of the state and includes an agent of such a person.

"Employment agency" means a person regularly undertaking with or without compensation to procure employees for an employer or to procure for employees opportunities to work for an employer and includes an agent of such a person.

"Genetic information" means information about a gene, gene product, or inherited characteristic of an individual derived from the individual's family history or a genetic test.

"Genetic test" means the analysis of human DNA, RNA, chromosomes, and those proteins and metabolites used to detect heritable or somatic disease-related genotypes or karyotypes for clinical purposes. A genetic test must be generally accepted in the scientific and medical communities as being specifically determinative for the presence, absence, or mutation of a gene or chromosome in order to qualify under this definition. Genetic test does not include a routine physical examination or a routine analysis including, but not limited to, a chemical analysis of body fluids unless conducted specifically to determine the presence, absence, or mutation of a gene or chromosome.

"Labor organization" includes:

An organization of any kind, an agency or employee representation committee, group, association, or plan in which employees participate and which exists for the purpose, in whole or in part, of dealing with employers concerning grievances, labor disputes, wages, rates of pay, hours, or other terms or conditions of employment.

A conference, general committee, joint or system board, or joint council which is subordinate to a national or international labor organization.

An agent of a labor organization.

History: 1976, Act 220, Eff. Mar. 31, 1977; Am. 1990, Act 121, Imd. Eff. June 25, 1990; Am. 2000, Act 32, Imd. Eff. Mar. 15, 2000
Mich. Comp. Laws § 388.1031 — MI Code / Chapter 388 / Act Act-209-of-1965 / Section 388.1031
State board of education; acceptance and expenditure of federal funds; rules and regulations to improve educational policy.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

The state board of education may take any necessary action consistent with state law to comply with the provisions of Public Law 531 of the 83rd Congress, known as the "cooperative research act" to encourage research and related activities which are of significance to education and with the provisions of Public Law 10 of the 89th Congress, known as the "elementary and secondary education act of 1965". The state board of education may accept and expend federal funds available under such provisions and promulgate rules and regulations for the conduct of research, surveys and demonstrations in the field of education and for the purposes of strengthening and improving educational policy and educational opportunities in elementary and secondary education.

History: 1965, Act 209, Imd. Eff. July 16, 1965
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.2020 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.2020
Recreation improvement account.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2020.

(1) The recreation improvement account is established as an account within the legacy fund.

(2) The recreation improvement account shall consist of both of the following:

(a) All money in the recreation improvement fund, formerly created in section 71105, immediately prior to the effective date of the amendatory act that added this section, which money is hereby transferred to the recreation improvement account.

(b) Revenue from the following sources:

( i ) Two percent of the gasoline sold in this state for consumption in internal combustion engines.

( ii ) Other revenues as provided by law.

(3) Money in the recreation improvement account shall be used only as provided for in part 711 and for the administration of the recreation improvement account.

(4) Money in the recreation improvement account may be expended pursuant to subsection (3) for grants to state colleges and universities to implement programs funded by the recreation improvement account.

History: Add. 2004, Act 587, Eff. Dec. 23, 2006
Mich. Comp. Laws § 287.897 — MI Code / Chapter 287 / Act Act-358-of-1994 / Section 287.897
Quarantine.
Status: in_force

Sec. 7.

The director may declare a quarantine on ferrets in any district or region of this state to control or prevent the spread of an infectious, contagious, or toxicological disease. A person shall not move a ferret that is under quarantine to other premises without permission from the director. A person shall not allow a ferret under quarantine to mingle or have contact with animals that the director has not placed under quarantine without the permission of the director. The director may prescribe procedures for the identification, inventory, separation, mode of handling, treatment, feeding, and caring for the quarantined ferrets to prevent the quarantined ferrets from infecting nonquarantined animals. A person shall not import into this state a ferret from another state or jurisdiction if that ferret is under quarantine in the other state or jurisdiction unless that person obtains prior permission from the director.

A ferret found running at large in violation of a quarantine declaration may be killed by a law enforcement agent or animal control officer. The director may ask for the cooperation of a law enforcement agency or animal control agency to enforce the quarantine.

A law enforcement agent or animal control officer who kills a ferret due to a quarantine under this section is not subject to liability as a result of the killing of the ferret.

History: 1994, Act 358, Imd. Eff. Dec. 22, 1994
Mich. Comp. Laws § 457.627 — MI Code / Chapter 457 / Act Act-39-of-1893 / Section 457.627
Erection of building; capital stock, creation, shares; cemetery.
Status: in_force

Sec. 7.

Any corporation formed in pursuance of this act, may erect and own a suitable edifice, buildings or hall, as to such corporation shall seem proper, with convenient rooms for the meetings of the fraternity of the Knights of the Ancient Essenic Order; and for that purpose may create a capital stock of not more than 50,000 dollars, to be divided into shares of not more than 25 dollars each; and any such corporation may take, purchase, hold and own such suitable lot or parcel of ground as may be convenient for the purpose of a cemetery, and may make all lawful rules and regulations for the disposition of the lots and the burial of the dead therein, as to such corporation may seem proper.

History: 1893, Act 39, Imd. Eff. Apr. 19, 1893; CL 1897, 8113; CL 1915, 10587; CL 1929, 10788; CL 1948, 457.627
Mich. Comp. Laws § 45.628 — MI Code / Chapter 45 / Act Act-518-of-1998 / Section 45.628
Maintenance of block grant account.
Status: in_force

Sec. 8.

A county shall maintain the account for the county juvenile agency's block grant under section 117a of the social welfare act, 1939 PA 280, MCL 400.117a, separately from all other accounts of the county's funds. Expenditures of those funds shall be shown as separate line items or appropriations in the county's budget.

History: 1998, Act 518, Imd. Eff. Jan. 12, 1999
Mich. Comp. Laws § 333.22205 — MI Code / Chapter 333 / Act Act-368-of-1978 / Section 333.22205
Definitions; H to M.
Status: in_force

Sec. 22205.

"Health facility", except as otherwise provided in subsection (2), means:

A hospital licensed under part 215.

A psychiatric hospital or psychiatric unit licensed under the mental health code, 1974 PA 258, MCL 330.1001 to 330.2106.

A nursing home licensed under part 217 or a hospital long-term care unit as defined in section 20106(6).

A freestanding surgical outpatient facility licensed under part 208.

A health maintenance organization issued a license or certificate of authority in this state.

"Health facility" does not include the following:

An institution conducted by and for the adherents of a church or religious denomination for the purpose of providing facilities for the care and treatment of the sick who depend solely upon spiritual means through prayer for healing.

A health facility or agency located in a correctional institution.

A veterans facility operated by the state or federal government.

A facility owned and operated by the department of community health.

"Initiate" means the offering of a covered clinical service that has not been offered in compliance with this part or former part 221 on a regular basis at that location within the 12-month period immediately preceding the date the covered clinical service will be offered.

"Medical equipment" means a single equipment component or a related system of components that is used for clinical purposes.

History: Add. 1988, Act 332, Eff. Oct. 1, 1988; Am. 1993, Act 88, Imd. Eff. July 9, 1993; Am. 2000, Act 253, Imd. Eff. June 29, 2000; Am. 2002, Act 619, Eff. Mar. 31, 2003
Mich. Comp. Laws § 207.821 — MI Code / Chapter 207 / Act Act-593-of-2002 / Section 207.821
Short title.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Michigan next energy authority act".

History: 2002, Act 593, Imd. Eff. Oct. 17, 2002
Mich. Comp. Laws § 450.1271 — MI Code / Chapter 450 / Act Act-284-of-1972 / Section 450.1271
Asserting lack of corporate capacity or power.
Status: in_force

Sec. 271.

An act of a corporation and a transfer of real or personal property to or by a corporation, otherwise lawful, is not invalid because the corporation was without capacity or power to do the act or make or receive the transfer. However the lack of capacity or power may be asserted:

In an action by a shareholder against the corporation to enjoin the doing of an act or the transfer of real or personal property by or to the corporation.

In an action by or in the right of the corporation to procure a judgment in its favor against an incumbent or former officer or director of the corporation for loss or damage due to his unauthorized act.

In an action or special proceeding by the attorney general to dissolve the corporation or to enjoin it from the transacting of unauthorized business.

History: 1972, Act 284, Eff. Jan. 1, 1973
Mich. Comp. Laws § 423.236 — MI Code / Chapter 423 / Act Act-312-of-1969 / Section 423.236
Arbitrator; duties; hearing; intervenors; evidence; record; expenses; actions and rulings.
Status: in_force

Sec. 6.

The arbitrator shall act as chair of the panel of arbitration, call and begin a hearing within 15 days after appointment, and give reasonable notice of the time and place of the hearing. The chair shall preside over the hearing and shall take testimony. Upon application and for good cause shown, and upon terms and conditions that are just, the arbitration panel may grant leave to intervene to a person, labor organization, or governmental unit having a substantial interest in the matter. The arbitration panel may receive into evidence any oral or documentary evidence and other data it considers relevant. The proceedings shall be informal. Technical rules of evidence do not apply and do not impair the competency of the evidence. A verbatim record of the proceedings shall be made, and the arbitrator shall arrange for the necessary recording service. Transcripts may be ordered at the expense of the party ordering them but the transcripts are not necessary for a decision by the arbitration panel. The expense of the proceedings, including a fee to the chair, established in advance by the Michigan employment relations commission shall be borne equally by each of the parties to the dispute. The delegates, if public officers or employees, shall continue on the payroll of the public employer at their usual rate of pay. The hearing conducted by the arbitration panel may be adjourned from time to time, but shall be concluded and any posthearing briefs filed within 180 days after it commences. Its majority actions and rulings shall constitute the actions and rulings of the arbitration panel.

History: 1969, Act 312, Eff. Oct. 1, 1969; Am. 2011, Act 116, Imd. Eff. July 20, 2011
Mich. Comp. Laws § 550.1606 — MI Code / Chapter 550 / Act Act-350-of-1980 / Section 550.1606
Authority of commissioner regarding officers and directors; authority as to dissolution, taking over, or liquidation of corporations; insolvency defined.
Status: in_force

Sec. 606.

The commissioner shall have the same authority regarding the officers and directors of a health care corporation as the commissioner has with respect to the officers and directors of insurers under sections 249 and 250 of the insurance code of 1956, 1956 PA 218, MCL 500.249 and 500.250.

The commissioner shall have the same authority with respect to the dissolution, taking over, or liquidation of corporations formed or doing business under this act as is provided in chapter 81 of the insurance code of 1956, 1956 PA 218, MCL 500.8101 to 500.8159. For purposes of this subsection, a health care corporation shall be considered to be insolvent if its liabilities exceed its assets, unless otherwise defined in chapter 81 of the insurance code of 1956, 1956 PA 218, MCL 500.8101 to 500.8159.

History: 1980, Act 350, Eff. Apr. 3, 1981; Am. 2003, Act 59, Eff. July 23, 2003
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.5205 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.5205
Rules.
Status: in_force

Sec. 5205.

The department may promulgate rules to implement this part.

History: Add. 2002, Act 397, Eff. Nov. 5, 2002