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Mich. Comp. Laws § 38.2406 — MI Code / Chapter 38 / Act Act-234-of-1992 / Section 38.2406
Retirant authorized by supreme court to perform judicial duties for limited period or specific assignment; retirant elected or appointed by governor as judge or state official.
Status: in_force

Sec. 406.

If a retirant is authorized by the supreme court to perform judicial duties for a limited period or a specific assignment pursuant to section 23 of article VI of the state constitution of 1963, the retirement system shall continue payment of his or her retirement allowance without change in amount or conditions. A retirant is not a member during the period he or she performs judicial duties for a limited period or a specific assignment as authorized by the supreme court pursuant to section 23 of article VI of the state constitution of 1963.

If a retirant is elected or appointed by the governor as a judge or state official, the retirement system shall suspend payment of the retirant's retirement allowance during the period he or she remains in office. The retirement system shall base the suspension of benefits on 1/12 of the annual retirement benefit for each month the retirant serves in the office to which he or she was elected or appointed. A retirant who is again elected as a judge or state official is a member pursuant to section 401. The retirement system shall recalculate the retirement allowance of a retirant who again becomes a member under this subsection if the member leaves office due to disability or death, or if the member again retires after serving 1 full term or more in office. A retirement allowance recalculated pursuant to this subsection is subject to section 503. The retirement system shall begin payment of the recalculated retirement allowance under this subsection to a person who again retires effective the first of the month following the month in which the person leaves office. If a retirant again becomes a member under this subsection but is not entitled to have his or her retirement allowance recalculated under this subsection, the retirement system shall begin payment of his or her retirement allowance without change in amount or conditions effective the first of the month following the month in which the person leaves office.

History: 1992, Act 234, Eff. Mar. 31, 1993
Mich. Comp. Laws § 390.397 — MI Code / Chapter 390 / Act Act-26-of-1969 / Section 390.397
Repeal.
Status: in_force

Sec. 7.

Section 12 of Act No. 70 of the Public Acts of 1885, as amended, being section 390.362 of the Compiled Laws of 1948, is repealed.

History: 1969, Act 26, Eff. Jan. 1, 1970
Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.2929 — MI Code / Chapter 600 / Act Act-236-of-1961 / Section 600.2929
Lands held in trust; sale by fiduciary, orders of court.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2929.

Actions for equitable relief by any fiduciary seeking authority to sell any lands, tenements, or hereditaments which he is holding in trust for others may be brought in the circuit courts. If it appears to the best interest of the person for whom the lands, tenements, and hereditaments are held in trust the court may order, direct, and authorize the fiduciary to sell, grant, and convey the lands, tenements, and hereditaments at public or private sale. When approved by the circuit court, a sale made pursuant to this section passes title to the lands, tenements, and hereditaments to the purchaser.

The court shall make all proper orders and directions from time to time for the management, investment, and disposition of the moneys received from the sale, and the interest and income therefrom.

History: 1961, Act 236, Eff. Jan. 1, 1963
Mich. Comp. Laws § 32.1134a — MI Code / Chapter 32 / Act Act-523-of-1980 / Section 32.1134a
Drunk and disorderly conduct; punishment.
Status: in_force

Sec. 134a.

An individual subject to this code who is drunk and disorderly and, under the circumstances, the conduct is to the prejudice of good order and discipline in the Armed Forces of the United States or of the state military forces, or of a nature to bring discredit upon the Armed Forces of the United States or the state military forces, must be punished as a court-martial directs.

History: Add. 2024, Act 77, Imd. Eff. July 8, 2024
Mich. Comp. Laws § 322.124 — MI Code / Chapter 322 / Act Act-12-of-1843 / Section 322.124
Other evidences of title; recording.
Status: in_force

Sec. 4.

All other evidences of title, by which this state holds any lands shall be in like manner recorded in the office of the secretary of state, so that his office shall contain the whole collection of all the land titles of the state of Michigan.

History: 1843, Act 12, Eff. Mar. 4, 1843; CL 1857, 149; CL 1871, 214; How. 5215; CL 1897, 1275; CL 1915, 414; CL 1929, 5803; CL 1948, 322.124
Mich. Comp. Laws § 123.142 — MI Code / Chapter 123 / Act Act-34-of-1917 / Section 123.142
Sale of water; authority to contract with persons; construction of mains, payment.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

Such corporations may contract with persons, natural or artificial, for the furnishing of water in townships, villages and cities and may construct and maintain water mains through the public highways thereof, with the consent of the proper local authorities having jurisdiction over such highways. Such mains shall in all cases be the property of the corporation. Such contracts may specify such terms of payment for such mains as shall be just and equitable in the judgment of the corporation, and may in its discretion provide for a rebate of a just proportion of the cost thereof to the persons originally paying the same, whenever additional connections are made and additional service rendered therefrom.

History: 1917, Act 34, Imd. Eff. Apr. 5, 1917; CL 1929, 2446; CL 1948, 123.142
Mich. Comp. Laws § 441.107 — MI Code / Chapter 441 / Act Act-239-of-1959 / Section 441.107
Fiduciary security transfers; third persons, nonliability.
Status: in_force

Sec. 7.

No person who participates in the acquisition, disposition, assignment or transfer of a security by or to a fiduciary, including a person who guarantees the signature of the fiduciary, is liable for participation in any breach of fiduciary duty by reason of failure to inquire whether the transaction involves a breach unless it is shown that he acted with actual knowledge that the proceeds of the transaction were being or were to be used wrongfully for the individual benefit of the fiduciary or that the transaction was otherwise in breach of duty.

If a corporation or transfer agent makes a transfer pursuant to an assignment by a fiduciary, a person who guaranteed the signature of the fiduciary is not liable on the guarantee to any person to whom the corporation or transfer agent by reason of this act incurs no liability.

This section does not impose any liability upon the corporation or its transfer agent.

History: 1959, Act 239, Eff. Mar. 19, 1960
Mich. Comp. Laws § 443.54 — MI Code / Chapter 443 / Act Act-303-of-1909 / Section 443.54
Warehouse receipts; delivery of goods without obtaining, penalty.
Status: in_force

Sec. 54.

A warehouseman, or any officer, agent or servant of a warehouseman, who delivers goods out of the possession of such warehouseman, knowing that a negotiable receipt, the negotiation of which would transfer the right to the possession of such goods, is outstanding and uncanceled, without obtaining the possession of such receipt at or before the time of such delivery, shall, except in the cases provided for in sections 14 and 36, be found guilty of a crime, and upon conviction shall be punished for each offense by imprisonment not exceeding 1 year, or by a fine not exceeding 1,000 dollars, or by both.

History: 1909, Act 303, Eff. Sept. 1, 1909; CL 1915, 6616; CL 1929, 9617; CL 1948, 443.54
Mich. Comp. Laws § 78.22a — MI Code / Chapter 78 / Act Act-278-of-1909 / Section 78.22a
District court or municipal court; hearing and determining cases.
Status: in_force

Sec. 22a.

The district court or municipal court in the judicial district in which a village is located shall hear and determine all cases that occur within the village's boundaries and come within the jurisdiction and authority of the district court or municipal court in the judicial district in which the village is located.

History: Add. 1964, Act 57, Eff. Aug. 28, 1964; Am. 1978, Act 190, Imd. Eff. June 4, 1978; Am. 1987, Act 239, Imd. Eff. Dec. 28, 1987
Mich. Comp. Laws § 257.1115 — MI Code / Chapter 257 / Act Act-198-of-1965 / Section 257.1115
Death or injury by stolen vehicle; action against secretary of state.
Status: in_force

Sec. 15.

When the death of or personal injury or property damage to any person or property is occasioned in this state by a motor vehicle at a time when the motor vehicle was without the owner's consent in the possession of some person other than the owner and the identity of the person in possession of the motor vehicle cannot be established, any person who would have a cause of action against the person in possession of the motor vehicle in respect of the death or injury or property damage may bring an action against the secretary.

History: 1965, Act 198, Eff. Nov. 1, 1965
Mich. Comp. Laws § 550.7 — MI Code / Chapter 550 / Act Act-66-of-1933 / Section 550.7
Duration of emergency; proclamations.
Status: in_force

Sec. 7.

The emergency referred to in section 1 hereof shall be deemed to continue until March 30, 1935, unless the legislature of this state, if in session, or the governor of this state, if the legislature be not in session, shall by resolution or proclamation officially declare such emergency to have sooner terminated; and as to any other such emergency hereafter occurring, the provisions of this act shall not be effective unless and until the governor of the state shall by proclamation have declared the same to exist and invoke therein the provisions of this act. In any such case, the governor by proclamation shall have the power to declare such emergency terminated at such date certain as he may determine.

History: 1933, Act 66, Imd. Eff. Apr. 28, 1933; CL 1948, 550.7
Mich. Comp. Laws § 729.206 — MI Code / Chapter 729 / Act Act-17-of-1953 / Section 729.206
Duty of clerk of court.
Status: in_force

Sec. 6.

The clerk of said court shall write the name and address of each person named on such lists on a separate slip of paper. Each slip shall then be placed in a separate receptacle so designed as to conceal the information contained on the slip, and all the receptacles containing the slips shall then be placed in a box to be kept for that purpose, which shall be kept locked when not being used to draw a panel of jurors. The clerk of the court shall be the custodian of the slips, receptacles, box, lock and key.

History: 1953, Act 17, Imd. Eff. Apr. 3, 1953
Mich. Comp. Laws § 445.618b — MI Code / Chapter 445 / Act Act-155-of-1981 / Section 445.618b
Sale of die, mold, or form; conditions.
Status: in_force

Sec. 8b.

If the molder has not been paid the amount due within 90 days after the notice has been received by the customer provided in section 8a, the molder may sell the die, mold, or form at a public auction if both of the following occur:

The die, mold, or form is still in the molder's possession.

The molder complies with section 8c.

History: Add. 1986, Act 103, Imd. Eff. May 16, 1986
Mich. Comp. Laws § 37.2209 — MI Code / Chapter 37 / Act Act-453-of-1976 / Section 37.2209
Covenants.
Status: in_force

Sec. 209.

A contract to which this state, a political subdivision, or an agency of this state or of a political subdivision is a party must contain a covenant by the contractor and the contractor's subcontractors not to discriminate against an employee or applicant for employment with respect to hire, tenure, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, or a matter directly or indirectly related to employment, because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, height, weight, or marital status. Breach of this covenant may be regarded as a material breach of the contract.

History: 1976, Act 453, Eff. Mar. 31, 1977; Am. 2023, Act 6, Eff. Feb. 13, 2024
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.36109b — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.36109b
Farmland; conservation easement; development rights agreement; agricultural conservation easement; credit under MCL 324.36109; limitation.
Status: in_force

Sec. 36109b.

The owner of farmland and related buildings subject to a conservation easement described in section 2141 and to a development rights agreement under section 36104, a purchase of development rights or agricultural conservation easement under section 36111b, or an agricultural conservation easement under section 36206 may claim a credit under section 36109 if the conservation easement described in section 2141 and the development rights agreement, purchase of development rights, or agricultural conservation easement were executed before January 1, 2025.

History: Add. 2025, Act 68, Imd. Eff. Dec. 23, 2025
Mich. Comp. Laws § 400.1152 — MI Code / Chapter 400 / Act Act-35-of-1984 / Section 400.1152
Meanings of words and phrases.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

For purposes of this act, the words and phrases defined in sections 3 and 4 have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections.

History: 1984, Act 35, Eff. Apr. 12, 1984
Mich. Comp. Laws § 333.20176a — MI Code / Chapter 333 / Act Act-368-of-1978 / Section 333.20176a
Health facility or agency; prohibited conduct; violation; fine.
Status: in_force

Sec. 20176a.

(1) A health facility or agency shall not discharge or discipline, threaten to discharge or discipline, or otherwise discriminate against an employee regarding the employee's compensation, terms, conditions, location, or privileges of employment because the employee or an individual acting on behalf of the employee does either or both of the following:

(a) In good faith reports or intends to report, verbally or in writing, the malpractice of a health professional or a violation of this article, article 7, article 8, or article 15 or a rule promulgated under this article, article 7, article 8, or article 15.

(b) Acts as an expert witness in a civil action involving medical malpractice or in an administrative action.

(2) In addition to the sanctions set forth in section 20165, a health facility or agency that violates subsection (1) is subject to an administrative fine of not more than $10,000.00 for each violation.

History: Add. 1993, Act 79, Eff. Apr. 1, 1994; Am. 1994, Act 52, Imd. Eff. Mar. 31, 1994; Am. 2013, Act 268, Imd. Eff. Dec. 30, 2013
Mich. Comp. Laws § 780.52 — MI Code / Chapter 780 / Act Act-191-of-1965 / Section 780.52
Construction of act.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

This act shall not be construed as granting any authority to regulate or control the erection, maintenance or destruction of any structure in, on or over such waters as may be covered by state law, or to grant a power to alter any federal or state law, rule or regulation pertaining to navigation, hunting or fishing.

History: 1965, Act 191, Imd. Eff. July 15, 1965
Mich. Comp. Laws § 32.241 — MI Code / Chapter 32 / Act Act-28-of-1934-1st-Ex-Sess- / Section 32.241
Hanson Reservation; transfer of lands and hunting, oil, and mineral rights to state military board.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

The director of conservation is hereby authorized and directed to transfer to the state military board such lands under his control as the state administrative board shall by resolution direct, which lands shall form a part of the Hanson military reservation and shall be supervised and controlled as provided in Act No. 172 of the Public Acts of 1913, except that hunting shall not be prohibited on said lands. The state military board is hereby authorized to exchange any of the lands transferred to it under the provisions of this act for any other lands, oil and mineral rights excepted, whether privately owned or owned by the United States government, within the external boundaries of the Hanson military reservation as hereby enlarged, and is hereby authorized to make all necessary conveyances to effect any such exchanges.

History: 1934, 1st Ex. Sess., Act 28, Imd. Eff. Mar. 28, 1934; CL 1948, 32.241
Mich. Comp. Laws § 290.703 — MI Code / Chapter 290 / Act Act-344-of-1972 / Section 290.703
Administration and implementation of act; rules.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3.

(1) The department shall administer this act.

(2) Services for implementing this act shall be provided by the department from appropriations made by the legislature.

(3) The department may promulgate rules necessary for the administration of this act in accordance with and subject to the administrative procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24.201 to 24.328.

History: 1972, Act 344, Eff. Mar. 30, 1973; Am. 1980, Act 195, Imd. Eff. July 8, 1980; Am. 2012, Act 119, Imd. Eff. May 2, 2012
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.4 — MI Code / Chapter 280 / Act Act-40-of-1956 / Section 280.4
“Commissioner,”“drain commissioner,” or “county drain commissioner” defined.
Status: in_force

Sec. 4.

As used in this act, "commissioner", "drain commissioner", or "county drain commissioner" means the elected county drain commissioner or the person or persons designated to perform the duties of the elected county drain commissioner as provided in sections 21 and 21a.

History: 1956, Act 40, Imd. Eff. Mar. 28, 1956; Am. 1989, Act 134, Imd. Eff. June 29, 1989
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.1603 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.1603
Confiscation of seized property; jurisdiction; venue.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1603.

The following courts have jurisdiction to determine whether seized property shall be confiscated as provided in section 1604:

The district court, if the property is seized within this state, other than in a city having a municipal court or in a village served by a municipal court, and if the property is not appraised by the officer seizing the property at more than $25,000.00 in value.

A municipal court, if the property is seized in a city having a municipal court or in a village served by a municipal court and if the property is not appraised by the officer seizing the property at more than $1,500.00 in value or $3,000.00 in value if the city in which the municipal court is located has increased the jurisdictional amount under section 22 of the Michigan uniform municipal court act, 1956 PA 5, MCL 730.522.

The circuit court, if the property is seized within this state and if the property exceeds the value specified in subdivision (a) or (b) as appraised by the officer seizing the property.

If the circuit court has jurisdiction under subsection (1), the proceeding shall be commenced in the county in which the property is seized.

If the district court has jurisdiction under subsection (1), venue for a proceeding shall be as follows:

In the county in which the property is seized, if the property is seized in a district of the first class.

In the district in which the property is seized, if the property is seized in a district of the second or third class.

History: Add. 1995, Act 60, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1995; Am. 1999, Act 13, Eff. June 1, 1999
Mich. Comp. Laws § 440.4105 — MI Code / Chapter 440 / Act Act-174-of-1962 / Section 440.4105
Additional definitions.
Status: in_force

Sec. 4105.

As used in this article unless the context otherwise requires:

"Bank" means a person engaged in the business of banking, including a saving bank, saving and loan association, credit union, or trust company.

"Depositary bank" means the first bank to take an item even though it is also the payor bank, unless the item is presented for immediate payment over the counter.

"Payor bank" means a bank that is the drawee of a draft.

"Intermediary bank" means a bank to which an item is transferred in course of collection except the depositary or payor bank.

"Collecting bank" means a bank handling the item for collection except the payor bank.

"Presenting bank" means a bank presenting an item except a payor bank.

History: 1962, Act 174, Eff. Jan. 1, 1964; Am. 1993, Act 130, Eff. Sept. 30, 1993
Mich. Comp. Laws § 333.2850 — MI Code / Chapter 333 / Act Act-368-of-1978 / Section 333.2850
Interment or other disposition of dead body or fetus; duty of individual in charge of premises; record of final disposition.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2850.

An individual in charge of premises in which interments or other disposition of dead bodies is made shall not inter or allow interment or other disposition of a dead body or fetus unless it is accompanied by an authorization for final disposition. An individual in charge of a place for final disposition shall keep a record of a final disposition made in the premises under his or her charge. The record shall state the name of the deceased, date and place of death, date of final disposition, and the name and address of the funeral director or person acting as a funeral director.

History: 1978, Act 368, Eff. Sept. 30, 1978
Mich. Comp. Laws § 206.996 — MI Code / Chapter 206 / Act Act-160-of-2015 / Section 206.996
Tax exemption.
Status: in_force

Sec. 16.

(1) Contributions to and interest earned on an ABLE savings account are exempt from taxation as provided in section 30 of the income tax act of 1967, 1967 PA 281, MCL 206.30.

(2) Withdrawals made from ABLE savings accounts are taxable as provided in section 30 of the income tax act of 1967, 1967 PA 281, MCL 206.30.

History: 2015, Act 160, Eff. Jan. 26, 2016
Mich. Comp. Laws § 15.365 — MI Code / Chapter 15 / Act Act-469-of-1980 / Section 15.365
Violation; civil fine.
Status: in_force

Sec. 5.

A person who violates this act shall be liable for a civil fine of not more than $500.00.

A civil fine which is ordered pursuant to this act shall be submitted to the state treasurer for deposit in the general fund.

History: 1980, Act 469, Eff. Mar. 31, 1981
Mich. Comp. Laws § 207.1109 — MI Code / Chapter 207 / Act Act-403-of-2000 / Section 207.1109
Reliance by person issuing shipping paper on certain representations; tax liability.
Status: in_force

Sec. 109.

A person who issues a shipping paper, including but not limited to a supplier, a terminal operator, or a bulk plant operator may rely on the following representations of a transporter, shipper, or the shipper's agent:

A statement identifying the transporter's or shipper's intended destination state for the motor fuel.

A statement that the motor fuel shall be used for a tax-exempt purpose.

An importer, transporter, shipper, and the shipper's agent, and any purchaser, not the supplier or terminal operator, are jointly and severally liable for any tax otherwise due to the state as a result of a diversion of the motor fuel from the represented destination state.

A terminal operator may rely on the representation of a licensed supplier concerning the supplier's obligation to collect tax.

History: 2000, Act 403, Eff. Apr. 1, 2001