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Mich. Comp. Laws § 500.1238 — MI Code / Chapter 500 / Act Act-218-of-1956 / Section 500.1238
Reporting mailing and electronic mail address of agent, solicitor, counselor, or adjuster; notice of change in address; maintaining address on file; mailing of notice of hearing or process.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1238.

(1) When applying for a license to act as an agent, solicitor, counselor, or adjuster, the applicant shall report his or her mailing and electronic mail address to the commissioner. An agent, solicitor, counselor, or adjuster shall notify the commissioner of any change in his or her mailing or electronic mail address within 30 days after the change. The commissioner shall maintain the mailing and electronic mail address of each agent, solicitor, counselor, or adjuster on file.

(2) A notice of hearing or service of process may be served upon an agent, solicitor, counselor, or adjuster in any action or proceeding for a violation of this act by mailing the notice or process by first class mail to the agent's, solicitor's, counselor's, or adjuster's mailing address reported to the commissioner under subsection (1).

History: Add. 1984, Act 5, Imd. Eff. Feb. 1, 1984; Am. 2012, Act 453, Imd. Eff. Dec. 27, 2012
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.21307 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.21307
Report of release; initial response actions; duties of owner or operator liable under MCL 324.21323a.
Status: in_force

Sec. 21307.

(1) Upon confirmation of a release from an underground storage tank system, the owner or operator that is liable under section 21323a shall report the release to the department within 24 hours after discovery. The department may investigate the release. However, an investigation by the department does not relieve the owner or operator that is liable under section 21323a from any responsibilities related to the release provided for in this part.

(2) After a release has been reported under subsection (1), the owner or operator that is liable under section 21323a shall immediately begin and expeditiously perform all of the following initial actions:

(a) Identify and mitigate immediate fire, explosion hazards, and acute vapor hazards.

(b) Take action to prevent further release of the regulated substance into the environment including removing the regulated substance from the underground storage tank system that is causing the release.

(c) Using the process outlined by RBCA regarding NAPL, take steps necessary and feasible under this part to address unacceptable immediate risks.

(d) Excavate and contain, treat, or dispose of soils above the water table that are visibly contaminated with a regulated substance if the contamination is likely to cause a fire hazard.

(e) Take any other action necessary to abate an immediate threat to public health, safety, or welfare, or the environment.

(3) Immediately following initiation of initial response actions under this section, the owner or operator that is liable under section 21323a shall do all of the following:

(a) Visually inspect the areas of any aboveground releases or exposed areas of belowground releases and prevent further migration of the released substance into surrounding soils, groundwater, and surface water.

(b) Continue to monitor and mitigate any additional immediate fire and safety hazards posed by vapors or NAPL that have migrated from the underground storage tank system excavation zone and entered into subsurface structures.

History: 1994, Act 451, Eff. Mar. 30, 1995; Am. 1995, Act 22, Imd. Eff. Apr. 13, 1995; Am. 2012, Act 108, Imd. Eff. May 1, 2012; Am. 2012, Act 446, Imd. Eff. Dec. 27, 2012
Mich. Comp. Laws § 123.232 — MI Code / Chapter 123 / Act Act-129-of-1943 / Section 123.232
Sewers and sewage disposal; joint contracts.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

Any 2 or more political subdivisions may contract for the joint ownership, use and/or operation of sewers and/or sewage disposal facilities. Any 2 or more political subdivisions may contract relative to the furnishing of sewage disposal services by 1 or more of such political subdivisions to the other political subdivision or subdivisions. Any such contract shall be authorized or approved by the legislative body of each contracting political subdivision and shall be effective for such term as shall be prescribed therein not exceeding 50 years.

History: 1943, Act 129, Imd. Eff. Apr. 13, 1943; CL 1948, 123.232
Mich. Comp. Laws § 333.17742 — MI Code / Chapter 333 / Act Act-368-of-1978 / Section 333.17742
Disclosure; "applicant" defined.
Status: in_force

Sec. 17742.

(1) The board may require an applicant or the holder of a pharmacy, manufacturer's, wholesale distributor's, or wholesale distributor-broker's license to fully disclose the identity of each partner, stockholder, officer, or member of the board of directors of the pharmacy, manufacturer, wholesale distributor, or wholesale distributor-broker, as applicable.

(2) As used in this section and sections 17742a, 17748, 17748a, 17748e, and 17768, "applicant" means a person applying for a pharmacy, manufacturer's, wholesale distributor's, or wholesale distributor-broker's license under this article. Applicant includes only 1 or more of the following:

(a) An individual, if the person applying is an individual.

(b) All partners, including limited partners, if the person applying is a partnership.

(c) All stockholders, officers, and members of the board of directors, if the person applying is a privately held corporation.

History: Add. 1987, Act 250, Imd. Eff. Dec. 28, 1987; Am. 2014, Act 280, Eff. Sept. 30, 2014; Am. 2020, Act 4, Eff. Apr. 26, 2020; Am. 2020, Act 142, Imd. Eff. July 14, 2020
Mich. Comp. Laws § 558.27 — MI Code / Chapter 558 / Act R-S-of-1846 / Section 558.27
Damages upon recovery of dower; against heir alienating land.
Status: in_force

Sec. 27.

When a widow shall recover her dower in any lands alienated by the heir of her husband, she shall be entitled to recover of such heir, in an action on the case, her damages for withholding such dower, from the time of the death of her husband to the time of the alienation by the heir not exceeding 6 years in the whole; and the amount which she shall be entitled to recover from such heir, shall be deducted from the amount she would otherwise be entitled to recover from such grantee, and any amount recovered as damages, from such grantee, shall be deducted from the sum she would otherwise be entitled to recover from such heir.

History: R.S. 1846, Ch. 66; CL 1857, 2798; CL 1871, 4295; How. 5759; CL 1897, 8944; CL 1915, 11676; CL 1929, 13094; CL 1948, 558.27
Mich. Comp. Laws § 333.21702 — MI Code / Chapter 333 / Act Act-368-of-1978 / Section 333.21702
Definitions; D to P.
Status: in_force

Sec. 21702.

"Discharge" means the voluntary or involuntary movement of a patient out of a nursing home regardless of the individual's destination or reason for the movement.

"Full-time" means being usually present in the nursing home or conducting or participating in activities directly related to the nursing home during the normal 40-hour business week.

"Involuntary transfer" means a transfer not agreed to in writing by the patient or, in the case of a plenary guardianship, by the patient's legal guardian.

"Medicaid" means the program for medical assistance established under title XIX of the social security act, chapter 531, 49 Stat. 620, 42 U.S.C. 1396 to 1396f, and 1396i to 1396u, and administered by the department of social services under the social welfare act, Act No. 280 of the Public Acts of 1939, being sections 400.1 to 400.119b of the Michigan Compiled Laws.

"Medical reasons" means a medical justification for either of the following:

The transfer or discharge of a patient in accord with the written orders of the attending physician that is written into the patient's clinical record by the physician in the progress notes.

The transfer or discharge of a patient who is a medicaid recipient due to a change in level of care required by the patient and the fact that the nursing home or nursing care facility is not certified to provide the needed level of care.

"Medicare" means that term as defined in section 2701.

"Modification of a license" means an action by the department to alter the number of beds, the levels of care, the portions of the physical plant that may be operated or maintained by a licensee in a particular nursing home, or to restrict the nursing home from engaging in activity that violates this article or a rule promulgated under this article.

"Negative case action" means an action taken by the department of social services to deny an application for medical assistance, cancel medical assistance, or reduce medical assistance coverage.

"Nonpayment" means:

Failure to collect from the patient or any other source the full amount of the facility charges to a nonmedicaid patient based on a written contract signed on or after that patient's admission to the facility.

Failure to collect a medicaid patient's stipulated contribution toward his or her care.

"Private pay rate" means the amount charged by a nursing home for the care of a patient who is not entitled to state or federal benefits for that patient's nursing home care.

History: Add. 1978, Act 493, Eff. Mar. 30, 1979; Am. 1994, Act 73, Imd. Eff. Apr. 11, 1994
Mich. Comp. Laws § 35.462 — MI Code / Chapter 35 / Act Act-105-of-1909 / Section 35.462
Person in military or naval uniform; discrimination, damages; prima facie evidence.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

Any person who is debarred from such enjoyment contrary to the provisions of section 1 of this act, shall be entitled to recover in an action on the case from any corporation, association or person guilty of such violation, his actual damages and 100 dollars in addition thereto; and evidence that said person debarred was at the time sober, orderly and able and willing to pay for said enjoyment in accordance with the rates fixed therefor for civilians, shall be prima facie evidence in said action that he was debarred on account of his wearing such uniform or of his being in such service.

History: 1909, Act 105, Eff. Sept. 1, 1909; CL 1915, 8419; CL 1929, 909; CL 1948, 35.462
Mich. Comp. Laws § 408.944 — MI Code / Chapter 408 / Act Act-337-of-2018 / Section 408.944
Operation of massage establishment; violation.
Status: in_force

Sec. 14.

An employer operating a massage establishment as defined in section 2 of former 1974 PA 251 that violates this act is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not more than 1 year or a fine of not more than $1,000.00, or both.

History: 2018, Act 337, Eff. Mar. 29, 2019
Mich. Comp. Laws § 380.1812 — MI Code / Chapter 380 / Act Act-451-of-1976 / Section 380.1812
Refusal to give census information; false information; negligence of school census enumerator; penalty.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1812.

A person who refuses to give a school census enumerator the necessary information for the compiling of the census or who intentionally gives the enumerator false information as to the name or age of a school child or as to the names or residence of the parents or guardians of a school child, or a school census enumerator who performs the duties of an enumerator carelessly or negligently or includes in the census list names of school children who are not actually residents of the city or district, is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not less than $5.00 nor more than $50.00, or imprisonment for not more than 20 days, or both.

History: 1976, Act 451, Imd. Eff. Jan. 13, 1977
Mich. Comp. Laws § 500.3915 — MI Code / Chapter 500 / Act Act-218-of-1956 / Section 500.3915
Certain conditions prohibited.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3915.

A long-term care insurance policy sold before, on, or after June 2, 1992 shall not condition benefits on any of the following:

(a) The prior institutionalization of the insured.

(b) Prior receipt of a higher level of institutional care.

History: Add. 1992, Act 84, Imd. Eff. June 2, 1992; Am. 2006, Act 442, Imd. Eff. Oct. 19, 2006
Mich. Comp. Laws § 493.9 — MI Code / Chapter 493 / Act Act-21-of-1939 / Section 493.9
Revocation, suspension, or surrender of license; reinstatement or issuance of new license; transcript of order.
Status: in_force

Sec. 9.

The commissioner, upon 10 days' written notice to the licensee stating the contemplated action and the grounds for the action, and upon reasonable opportunity to be heard, may revoke any license if he or she finds any of the following:

The licensee has failed, after 5 days' written notice of default, to pay the annual operating fee, to maintain the bond required under this act, or to comply with any demand, ruling, or requirement of the commissioner made under this act.

The licensee either knowingly or without the exercise of due care has violated any provision of this act or any rule made by the commissioner under this act.

Any fact or condition that exists which, if it had existed at the time of the original application for the license, would have warranted the commissioner in refusing originally to issue the license.

If the commissioner finds that probable cause for revocation of any license exists and that the enforcement of the act requires immediate suspension of the license pending investigation, he or she may, upon 3 days' written notice and a hearing, suspend any license for a period not exceeding 30 days.

A licensee may surrender its license by delivering to the commissioner written notice that it surrenders the license. The surrender does not affect the licensee's civil or criminal liability for acts committed before the surrender.

A revocation or suspension or surrender of a license does not impair or affect the obligation of any preexisting lawful contract between the licensee and any borrower.

The commissioner shall have authority to reinstate suspended licenses or to issue new licenses to a licensee whose license shall have been revoked if no fact or condition exists that clearly would have warranted the commissioner in refusing originally to issue the license.

If the commissioner revokes or suspends a license, he or she shall file with the office of financial and insurance services a written transcript of the order containing the evidence and the reasons supporting the revocation or suspension, and serve upon the licensee a copy of the transcript.

History: 1939, Act 21, Eff. Sept. 29, 1939; CL 1948, 493.9; Am. 1971, Act 168, Eff. Mar. 30, 1972; Am. 2001, Act 270, Imd. Eff. Jan. 11, 2002
Mich. Comp. Laws § 570.334 — MI Code / Chapter 570 / Act Act-116-of-1911 / Section 570.334
Lien for threshing, pressing or hulling; certified copy as evidence, effect.
Status: in_force

Sec. 4.

A copy of any such statement and notice of lien as aforesaid, certified by the register of deeds, shall be received in evidence in any proceeding taken to enforce the lien herein provided for, but only of the fact that such statement and notice of lien was received and filed according to the endorsement of the register of deeds thereon, and of no other fact.

History: 1911, Act 116, Eff. Aug. 1, 1911; CL 1915, 14875; CL 1929, 5011; Am. 1939, Act 93, Eff. Sept. 29, 1939; CL 1948, 570.334
Mich. Comp. Laws § 752.824 — MI Code / Chapter 752 / Act Act-105-of-1951 / Section 752.824
Violations, penalty.
Status: in_force

Sec. 4.

Any person violating any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than $10.00, nor more than $50.00, and may be committed to the county jail until such fine and costs of the proceedings are paid, not exceeding 30 days; and for a second, or any subsequent conviction, he shall be punished by a fine of not exceeding $100.00, and in addition thereto shall be imprisoned in the county jail for a period of not more than 30 days.

History: 1951, Act 105, Eff. Sept. 28, 1951
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.78112 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.78112
State acceptance of federal program for construction of harbors of refuge.
Status: in_force

Sec. 78112.

In addition to the other matters contained in this part, this part shall constitute prima facie evidence of the acceptance by the state of Michigan of the provisions for state participation in the federal program for construction of certain harbors of refuge within the boundaries of the state of Michigan as provided for in chapter 19, 59 Stat. 10, Public Law 14 of the 79th Congress authorized March 2, 1945, pursuant to House Document No. 446 of the 78th Congress.

History: Add. 1995, Act 58, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1995
Mich. Comp. Laws § 119.6 — MI Code / Chapter 119 / Act Act-312-of-1929 / Section 119.6
Incorporation; procedure; charter commission to prepare budget.
Status: in_force

Sec. 6.

Proceedings for the incorporation of metropolitan districts shall be originated as follows: Any city, village or township may, by a resolution adopted by its legislative body, have prepared a description in general terms of the district proposed to be included in a metropolitan district. Each city, village or township desiring to become a part of said district shall thereupon by appropriate resolution of its legislative body indicate its desire to become a part of same. If a part of a city, village or township shall desire to institute said proceedings or become a part of any proposed district like resolutions may be passed by the legislative body of such city, village or township upon petition to its legislative body signed by not less than 5 per cent of the registered voters in said part of a city, village or township. In said resolution or any subsequent resolution the legislative body of each city, village or township shall designate a person as its representative on a charter commission: Provided, Any city now or hereafter having a population of 50,000 or more inhabitants as determined by the last federal decennial census or by any federal decennial census hereafter taken shall for the first 200,000 population be entitled to an additional charter commissioner for each additional 50,000 population or major fraction thereof, and for all population above 200,000, an additional commissioner for each additional 100,000 population or major fraction thereof. Said commission shall thereupon meet upon written call of any of its members at a time and place to be designated in said notice and elect a president, a vice-president, a secretary and a treasurer and such other officers as it shall deem necessary. The commission shall thereupon prepare a budget of the expenses to be incurred therewith and shall apportion same to each city, village or township upon the basis that the total assessed valuation each city, village or township bears to the whole assessment of said area. Each city, village or township shall pay its representative or representatives the sum of $5.00 per day for each day of actual attendance at meetings of said commission: Provided, The total sum so paid each commissioner shall not exceed the sum of $500.00. The legislative body of any city, village or township may from time to time fill any vacancy existing in its representation on said commission. The members of said commission shall take the constitutional oath of office before the county clerk. A majority shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of all business. The legislative body of any city, village or township may, by resolution, express its desire to be included in said district at any time after the organization of the commission and the commission is authorized to take such action thereon as in its judgment is deemed advisable.

History: 1929, Act 312, Eff. Aug. 28, 1929; CL 1929, 2280; Am. 1945, Act 50, Eff. Sept. 6, 1945; CL 1948, 119.6
Mich. Comp. Laws § 62.11 — MI Code / Chapter 61 / Act Act-3-of-1895 / Section 62.11
Office vacancies.
Status: in_force

Sec. 11.

If any elected officer shall cease to be a resident of the village during his or her term of office, the office shall be thereby vacated. If any officer is alleged to be in default as defined in section 7 of this chapter, the office shall be declared vacated.

History: 1895, Act 3, Imd. Eff. Feb. 19, 1895; CL 1897, 2709; CL 1915, 2579; CL 1929, 1489; CL 1948, 62.11; Am. 1998, Act 255, Imd. Eff. July 13, 1998
Mich. Comp. Laws § 440.2310 — MI Code / Chapter 440 / Act Act-174-of-1962 / Section 440.2310
Open time and place for payment or running of credit; shipment under reservation; inspection.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2310.

Unless otherwise agreed, all of the following apply:

(a) Payment is due at the time and place at which the buyer is to receive the goods even if the place of shipment is the place of delivery.

(b) If the seller is authorized to send the goods, the seller may ship them under reservation, and may tender the documents of title, but the buyer may inspect the goods after their arrival before payment is due unless that inspection is inconsistent with the terms of the contract pursuant to section 2513.

(c) If delivery is authorized and made by way of documents of title otherwise than by subdivision (b), then payment is due regardless of where the goods are to be received at 1 of the following times, as applicable:

( i ) At the time and place at which the buyer is to receive delivery of the tangible documents.

( ii ) At the time the buyer is to receive delivery of the electronic documents and at the seller's place of business or if none, the seller's residence.

(d) If the seller is required or authorized to ship the goods on credit, the credit period runs from the time of shipment but postdating the invoice or delaying its dispatch will correspondingly delay the starting of the credit period.

History: 1962, Act 174, Eff. Jan. 1, 1964; Am. 2012, Act 87, Eff. July 1, 2013
Mich. Comp. Laws § 41.289d — MI Code / Chapter 41 / Act Act-246-of-1931 / Section 41.289d
Relieving district of duty to light streets or highways.
Status: in_force

Sec. 19d.

A district that has been lighting its streets or highways under this act may be relieved of this duty by action of the township board or boards on their own motion or by a petition to the township board or boards as provided in section 19b.

History: Add. 1989, Act 80, Imd. Eff. June 20, 1989
Mich. Comp. Laws § 458.108 — MI Code / Chapter 458 / Act Act-54-of-1899 / Section 458.108
Reincorporation under act; procedure.
Status: in_force

Sec. 8.

Any Baptist church or any Baptist church and society incorporated or organized under the laws of this state, may elect to dissolve their existing corporation and take corporate powers under this act: Provided, The consent of the majority of the members of said church or church and society who may be present at such meeting can be obtained at any regular church or covenant meeting of the church: Provided also, That notice shall be given to said church or church and society to meet with the church at its regular church or covenant meeting for the purpose of dissolving said corporation with a view of organizing under the provisions of this act, said notice to be given on the last 2 Sundays preceding the day on which the act of dissolution shall be taken.

History: 1899, Act 54, Imd. Eff. May 2, 1899; CL 1915, 10949; CL 1929, 10908; CL 1948, 458.108