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Mich. Comp. Laws § 388.1847 — MI Code / Chapter 388 / Act Act-94-of-1979 / Section 388.1847
Michigan reconnect grants.
Status: in_force

Sec. 247.

(1) The funds appropriated in section 236 for Michigan reconnect must be distributed and administered by the department of lifelong education, advancement, and potential pursuant to the Michigan reconnect grant act, 2020 PA 84, MCL 390.1701 to 390.1709, the Michigan reconnect grant recipient act, 2020 PA 68, MCL 390.1711 to 390.1723, and the department's administrative procedures for Michigan reconnect.

(2) For fiscal year 2025-2026 only, the department of lifelong education, advancement, and potential may use the funds appropriated in section 236 for Michigan reconnect to support students who are receiving awards under the temporary "ARP - Michigan reconnect expansion to 21" program described in 2023 PA 119.

History: Add. 2024, Act 120, Eff. Oct. 1, 2024; Am. 2025, Act 15, Imd. Eff. Oct. 7, 2025
Mich. Comp. Laws § 206.1031 — MI Code / Chapter 206 / Act Act-183-of-2016 / Section 206.1031
Short title.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

This act shall be known and may be cited as the "American Red Cross Michigan fund act".

History: 2016, Act 183, Imd. Eff. June 16, 2016
Mich. Comp. Laws § 438.2 — MI Code / Chapter 438 / Act R-S-of-1846 / Section 438.2
Reduction of monetary units to standard units.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

Nothing contained in the preceding section, shall vitiate or affect any account, charge or entry, originally made, or any note, bond, or other instrument expressed in any other money of account; but the same shall be reduced to dollars and parts of a dollar, as hereinbefore directed, in any suit thereupon.

History: R.S. 1846, Ch. 34; CL 1857, 1313; CL 1871, 1631; How. 1593; CL 1897, 4855; CL 1915, 5994; CL 1929, 9236; CL 1948, 438.2
Mich. Comp. Laws § 211.126 — MI Code / Chapter 211 / Act Act-206-of-1893 / Section 211.126
Repeal; saving clause.
Status: in_force

Sec. 126.

That Act No. 200 of the Public Acts of 1891, entitled "An act to provide for the assessment of property and the levy of taxes thereon, and for the collection of taxes heretofore and hereafter levied, and to repeal Act No. 195 of the Session Laws of 1889, except as provided in this act, and all other acts and parts of acts in anywise contravening any of the provisions of this act," approved July 7th, 1891, and all other acts and parts of acts in anywise contravening any of the provisions of this act, be and the same is hereby repealed: Provided, That such repeal shall not destroy or affect any rights which may have accrued or may hereafter accrue under such acts or parts of acts while the same were in force.

History: 1893, Act 206, Eff. June 12, 1893; CL 1915, 4125; CL 1929, 3519; CL 1948, 211.126
Mich. Comp. Laws § 257.677 — MI Code / Chapter 257 / Act Act-300-of-1949 / Section 257.677
Interference with view or control of driver or operation; violation as civil infraction.
Status: in_force

Sec. 677.

A person shall not drive a vehicle when it is loaded, or when there are in the front seat a number of persons, as to obstruct the view of the driver to the front or sides of the vehicle or as to interfere with the driver's control over the driving mechanism of the vehicle.

A passenger in a vehicle or streetcar shall not ride in a position as to interfere with the driver's or operator's view ahead or to the sides, or to interfere with the driver's or operator's control over the driving mechanism of the vehicle or streetcar.

A person who violates this section is responsible for a civil infraction.

History: 1949, Act 300, Eff. Sept. 23, 1949; Am. 1978, Act 510, Eff. Aug. 1, 1979
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.30704 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.30704
Initiating proceeding for determining normal inland lake level and establishing special assessment district; required finding; multicounty lake; joinder permitted.
Status: in_force

Sec. 30704.

If the county board, based on the preliminary study, finds it expedient to have and resolves to have determined and established the normal level of an inland lake, the county board shall direct the prosecuting attorney or other legal counsel of the county to initiate a proceeding by proper petition in the court of that county for determination of the normal level for that inland lake and for establishing a special assessment district if the county board determines by resolution that one is necessary as provided in section 30711.

If the waters of an inland lake are located in 2 or more counties, the normal level of the lake may be determined in the same manner if the county boards of all counties involved, by resolution, direct the prosecuting attorney or other legal counsel of 1 or more of the counties to institute proceedings. All counties may make a single preliminary study.

The department may join a proceeding initiated under this section.

History: Add. 1995, Act 59, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1995
Mich. Comp. Laws § 257.701 — MI Code / Chapter 257 / Act Act-300-of-1949 / Section 257.701
Single-beam road-lighting equipment; intensity.
Status: in_force

Sec. 701.

Head lamps arranged to provide a single distribution of light not supplemented by auxiliary driving lamps shall be permitted on motor vehicles manufactured and sold prior to the effective date of this act in lieu of multiple-beam road-lighting equipment herein specified if the single distribution of light complies with the following requirements and limitations:

The head lamps shall be so aimed that when the vehicle is not loaded none of the high-intensity portion of the light shall at a distance of 25 feet ahead project higher than a level of 5 inches below the level of the center of the lamp from which it comes, and in no case higher than 42 inches above the level on which the vehicle stands at a distance of 75 feet ahead.

The intensity shall be sufficient to reveal persons and vehicles at a distance of at least 200 feet.

History: 1949, Act 300, Eff. Sept. 23, 1949
Mich. Comp. Laws § 400.1234 — MI Code / Chapter 400 / Act Act-615-of-2012 / Section 400.1234
Low-income energy assistance fund; use.
Status: in_force

Sec. 4.

The department shall only use money from the low-income energy assistance fund for energy assistance.

History: 2012, Act 615, Eff. Mar. 28, 2013; Am. 2024, Act 170, Eff. Apr. 2, 2025
Mich. Comp. Laws § 773.22 — MI Code / Chapter 760 / Act Act-175-of-1927 / Section 773.22
Violation of chapter; misdemeanor, penalty.
Status: in_force

Sec. 22.

Any persons who shall fail to comply with the provisions of this chapter shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be sentenced to pay a fine not to exceed 100 dollars or to be imprisoned in the county jail for a period not to exceed 90 days or both.

History: 1927, Act 175, Eff. Sept. 5, 1927; CL 1929, 17424; CL 1948, 773.22
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.31301 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.31301
Definitions.
Status: in_force

Sec. 31301.

As used in this part:

"Board" means the county board of commissioners.

"Dams" means dams, embankments, dikes, pumps, weirs, locks, gates, tubes, ditches, or any other devices or construction to impound or release water.

"Local unit" means any city, village, township, or soil conservation district acting through its governing body.

"Optimum flow" means that rate and quantity of flow in any stream as determined in accordance with this part.

"Plan" means a plan adopted by the board or boards and approved by an order of the department for the best development, utilization, and conservation of the surplus water of the state.

"Surplus water" means water that may be impounded without decreasing the flow of a river or stream below its optimum flow.

History: Add. 1995, Act 59, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1995
Mich. Comp. Laws § 435.361 — MI Code / Chapter 435 / Act Act-48-of-2005 / Section 435.361
Sojourner Truth Day.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

The legislature recognizes the fundamental contribution Sojourner Truth made to the abolition of slavery, to the establishment of equal rights for women, and to several other significant social reform and human justice movements in the nineteenth century. Truth toured the nation for more than 40 years as a forceful and passionate advocate for the dispossessed, using her quick wit and fearless tongue to deliver her message of equality and justice. She lived in Battle Creek, Michigan, from 1857 until her death on November 26, 1883. Empowered by her religious faith, the former slave worked tirelessly for many years to transform national attitudes and institutions. According to Nell Painter, Princeton professor and Truth biographer, "No other woman who had been through the ordeal of slavery managed to survive with sufficient strength, poise, and self-confidence to become a public presence over the long term". Designating Sojourner Truth Day in this state not only acknowledges the importance of this national figure in the antislavery and human justice movements, but it also recognizes her strong ties to this state during her 26 years of Michigan residence. In recognition of this great woman, the legislature declares that November 26 of each year shall be known as "Sojourner Truth Day".

History: 2005, Act 48, Imd. Eff. June 17, 2005; Am. 2023, Act 216, Eff. Feb. 13, 2024
Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.112c — MI Code / Chapter 722 / Act Act-116-of-1973 / Section 722.112c
Emergency safety intervention; use in child caring institution contracting with community mental health services program or prepaid inpatient health plan; compliance with rules.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2c.

If a child caring institution contracts with and receives payment from a community mental health services program or prepaid inpatient health plan for the care, treatment, maintenance, and supervision of a minor child in a child caring institution, the child caring institution must comply with the rules for child caring institutions. Emergency safety intervention in the form of physical management is allowed but must comply with the mental health code, 1974 PA 258, MCL 330.1001 to 330.2106, and associated administrative rules.

History: Add. 2004, Act 531, Imd. Eff. Jan. 3, 2005; Am. 2017, Act 257, Eff. Mar. 28, 2018; Am. 2024, Act 50, Imd. Eff. June 6, 2024
Mich. Comp. Laws § 257.201 — MI Code / Chapter 257 / Act Act-300-of-1949 / Section 257.201
Reference to “division”.
Status: in_force

Sec. 201.

When a reference is made in this act to "division", the reference is to the secretary of state or an authorized representative of the secretary of state.

History: 1949, Act 300, Eff. Sept. 23, 1949; Am. 1953, Act 215, Eff. Oct. 2, 1953; Am. 1978, Act 139, Eff. May 1, 1979
Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.6098 — MI Code / Chapter 600 / Act Act-236-of-1961 / Section 600.6098
Review of verdict in action alleging medical malpractice or personal injury action; duties of judge; reinstatement of original verdict; affirming orders and judgments granting additur or remittitur.
Status: in_force

Sec. 6098.

A judge presiding over an action alleging medical malpractice shall review each verdict to determine if the limitation on noneconomic damages provided for in section 1483 applies. If the limitation applies, the court shall set aside any amount of noneconomic damages in excess of the amount specified in section 1483.

A judge presiding over a personal injury action shall review each verdict returned by the jury and shall do 1 of the following:

Concur with the award.

Upon motion by any party, within 21 days of entry of the judgment of the court, grant a new trial to all or some of the parties, on all or some issues, whenever their substantial rights are materially affected, for any of the following reasons:

Irregularity in the proceedings of the court, jury, or prevailing party.

An order of the court or abuse of discretion which denied the moving party a fair trial.

Misconduct of the jury or the prevailing party.

Excessive or inadequate damages appearing to have been influenced by passion or prejudice.

A verdict clearly or grossly inadequate or excessive.

A verdict or decision against the great weight of the evidence or contrary to law.

Material evidence, newly discovered, which could not with reasonable diligence have been discovered and produced at trial.

Error of law occurring in the proceedings or mistake of fact by the court.

Other grounds as may be provided for by court rule.

Within 21 days after entry of a judgment, the court on its own initiative may order a new trial for any of the reasons set forth in subdivision (b). The order shall specify the grounds on which the order is based.

If the court finds that the only error in the trial is the inadequacy or excessiveness of the verdict, the court may grant a new trial unless, within 14 days, the nonmoving party consents in writing to the entry of judgment in an amount found by the court to be the lowest or highest amount the evidence will support.

If the moving party appeals, the written consent entered under subsection (2)(d) in no way prejudices the nonmoving party's argument on appeal that the original verdict was correct. If the nonmoving party prevails on appeal, the original verdict may be reinstated by the appellate court.

All orders and judgments of the circuit court granting additur or remittitur shall be affirmed on appeal unless the trial judge committed an abuse of discretion.

History: Add. 1986, Act 178, Eff. Oct. 1, 1986
Mich. Comp. Laws § 418.561 — MI Code / Chapter 418 / Act Act-317-of-1969 / Section 418.561
Application for self-insurance; agreement as to insolvency.
Status: in_force

Sec. 561.

The application for self-insurance by a private employer shall contain an agreement that in case of insolvency the employer shall make its records available to an agent of the self-insurers' security fund or the private employer group self-insurers security fund, as applicable, to help defend the fund and shall disclose the employer's inability to pay the injured employee.

History: Add. 1971, Act 149, Imd. Eff. Nov. 16, 1971; Am. 2014, Act 235, Imd. Eff. June 27, 2014
Mich. Comp. Laws § 333.29313 — MI Code / Chapter 333 / Act Act-220-of-2020 / Section 333.29313
Sale of industrial hemp to processor.
Status: in_force

Sec. 313.

A grower may sell industrial hemp to a processor that is licensed under the medical marihuana facilities licensing act, 2016 PA 281, MCL 333.27101 to 333.27801.

History: 2020, Act 220, Imd. Eff. Oct. 16, 2020
Mich. Comp. Laws § 445.75 — MI Code / Chapter 445 / Act Act-452-of-2004 / Section 445.75
Repeal of MCL 750.285.
Status: in_force

Sec. 15.

Section 285 of the Michigan penal code, 1931 PA 328, MCL 750.285, is repealed.

History: 2004, Act 452, Eff. Mar. 1, 2005
Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.642a — MI Code / Chapter 722 / Act Act-31-of-1915 / Section 722.642a
Selling cigarette separately prohibited; exception; violation as misdemeanor; penalty.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2a.

Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2), a person who sells tobacco products at retail shall not sell a cigarette separately from its package.

Subsection (1) does not apply to a person who sells tobacco products at retail in a tobacco specialty retail store or other retail store that deals exclusively in the sale of tobacco products and smoking paraphernalia.

A person who violates subsection (1) is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not more than $500.00 for each offense.

History: Add. 1992, Act 272, Imd. Eff. Dec. 16, 1992
Mich. Comp. Laws § 500.3411 — MI Code / Chapter 500 / Act Act-218-of-1956 / Section 500.3411
Reinstatement; provision required.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3411.

(1) Subject to subsection (2), an insurer shall include the following provision in a disability insurance policy other than a health insurance policy:

REINSTATEMENT: If any renewal premium is not paid within the time granted the insured for payment, a subsequent acceptance of premium by the insurer or by an agent duly authorized by the insurer to accept the premium, without requiring in connection with the acceptance of the premium an application for reinstatement, is a reinstatement of the policy. However, if the insurer or its agent requires an application for reinstatement and issues a conditional receipt for the premium tendered, the policy is reinstated upon approval of the application by the insurer or, if not approved by the insurer, on the forty-fifth day after the date of the conditional receipt unless the insurer has previously notified the insured in writing of its disapproval of the application. Under the reinstated policy, the insurer will cover only loss resulting from accidental injury that is sustained after the date of reinstatement and loss due to sickness that begins more than 10 days after that date. In all other respects, the insured and insurer have the same rights under the policy as they had under the policy immediately before the due date of the defaulted premium, subject to any provisions endorsed on the policy or attached to the policy in connection with the reinstatement. The insurer will apply any premium accepted in connection with a reinstatement to a period for which premium has not been previously paid, but not to any period more than 60 days before the date of reinstatement.

(2) An insurer may omit the last sentence of the provision required under subsection (1) from a policy that the insured has the right to continue in force subject to its terms by the timely payment of premium until at least age 50 or, for a policy issued after age 44, for at least 5 years after its date of issue.

History: 1956, Act 218, Eff. Jan. 1, 1957; Am. 2016, Act 276, Imd. Eff. July 1, 2016
Mich. Comp. Laws § 388.1618d — MI Code / Chapter 388 / Act Act-94-of-1979 / Section 388.1618d
Educator compensation increases.
Status: in_force

Sec. 18d.

It is the intent of the legislature that, in any fiscal year that the target foundation allowance in section 20 is increased, a district use a portion of the increase to make permanent increases to the compensation of educators and staff within the district, with priority given to increasing starting salaries.

History: Add. 2025, Act 15, Imd. Eff. Oct. 7, 2025
Mich. Comp. Laws § 388.1010 — MI Code / Chapter 388 / Act Act-287-of-1964 / Section 388.1010
Additional powers and duties.
Status: in_force

Sec. 10.

The state board of education shall have the following powers and duties:

Jurisdiction and control of the Michigan school for the deaf at Flint, the Michigan school for the blind at Lansing, and the Michigan rehabilitation institute for veterans and disabled adults at Pine lake, including power to make rules for the schools necessary to enforce discipline, preserve health, and provide for proper physical, intellectual, and moral training of their pupils.

Regulation of school bus transportation, review of the annexation or attachment of nonoperating school districts to operating school districts, and the hearing of appeals from decisions on alterations of boundaries of school districts as may be provided by law. The board may appoint a hearing officer to hear the appeals from decisions on alterations of boundaries of school districts who shall prepare a written report for consideration of the board. A copy of the written report shall be furnished to the designated appellant and appellee, who within 20 days may file written objections to the report with the state board of education for its consideration. After considering the report of the hearing officer and any objections filed by interested parties, the board may determine the appeal or order a hearing by it of the appeal from the decision on alterations of boundaries of school districts.

Inspection of educational corporations as may be provided by law.

The appointment of the members of the state board for public community and junior colleges, as provided by law.

History: 1964, Act 287, Eff. Aug. 28, 1964; Am. 1965, Act 382, Imd. Eff. Aug. 18, 1965; Am. 1969, Act 229, Eff. July 1, 1971; Am. 1976, Act 374, Eff. Jan. 13, 1977
Mich. Comp. Laws § 700.2302 — MI Code / Chapter 700 / Act Act-386-of-1998 / Section 700.2302
Omitted children.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2302.

Except as provided in subsection (2), if a testator fails to provide in his or her will for a child of the testator born or adopted after the execution of the will, the omitted after-born or after-adopted child receives a share in the estate as provided in 1 of the following:

If the testator had no child living when he or she executed the will, an omitted after-born or after-adopted child receives a share in the estate equal in value to that which the child would have received had the testator died intestate, unless the will devised all or substantially all of the estate to the other parent of the omitted child and that other parent survives the testator and is entitled to take under the will.

If the testator had 1 or more children living when he or she executed the will, and the will devised property or an interest in property to 1 or more of the then-living children, an omitted after-born or after-adopted child is entitled to share in the testator's estate subject to all of the following:

The portion of the testator's estate in which the omitted after-born or after-adopted child is entitled to share is limited to devises made to the testator's then-living children under the will.

The omitted after-born or after-adopted child is entitled to receive the share of the testator's estate, as limited in subparagraph ( i ), that the child would have received had the testator included all omitted after-born and after-adopted children with the children to whom devises were made under the will and had given an equal share of the estate to each child.

To the extent feasible, the interest granted an omitted after-born or after-adopted child under this section must be of the same character, whether equitable or legal, present or future, as that devised to the testator's then-living children under the will.

In satisfying a share provided by this subdivision, devises to the testator's children who were living when the will was executed abate ratably. In abating the devises of the then-living children, the court shall preserve to the maximum extent possible the character of the testamentary plan adopted by the testator.

Subsection (1) does not apply if either of the following applies:

It appears from the will that the omission was intentional.

The testator provided for the omitted after-born or after-adopted child by transfer outside the will and the intent that the transfer be a substitute for a testamentary provision is shown by the testator's statements or is reasonably inferred from the amount of the transfer or other evidence.

If at the time of execution of the will the testator fails to provide in his or her will for a living child solely because he or she believes the child to be dead, the child is entitled to share in the estate as if the child were an omitted after-born or after-adopted child.

In satisfying a share provided by subsection (1)(a), devises made by the will abate under section 3902.

History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000
Mich. Comp. Laws § 441.110 — MI Code / Chapter 441 / Act Act-239-of-1959 / Section 441.110
Construction of act.
Status: in_force

Sec. 10.

This act shall be so construed as to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law of those states which enact it.

History: 1959, Act 239, Eff. Mar. 19, 1960
Mich. Comp. Laws § 286.681 — MI Code / Chapter 286 / Act Act-94-of-2018 / Section 286.681
Short title.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

This act shall be known and may be cited as the "seed potato act".

History: 2018, Act 94, Eff. June 24, 2018