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Mich. Comp. Laws § 141.14 — MI Code / Chapter 141 / Act Act-42-of-1913 / Section 141.14
Board of sinking fund commissioners; annual meeting; transaction of business; rules; quorum; payment of outstanding debt; investment of money; presiding officer; clerk; record; conducting business at public meeting; notice of meeting; availability of certain writings to public.
Status: in_force

Sec. 4.

The annual meeting of the board of sinking fund commissioners shall be held on the first Tuesday in September of each year. The board of sinking fund commissioners may meet from time to time for the transaction of business, and may adopt rules of proceeding for its meeting. A majority of the whole board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, but shall not purchase or pay the outstanding debt of the county or invest money belonging to the sinking fund as provided in this act, except under a resolution for that purpose passed and approved by a 2/3 vote of the whole board by ayes and nays to be entered on the record at a regular meeting or a special meeting called for that purpose. The chairperson of the county board of commissioners, or in case of his or her absence, some member to be designated by those present, shall preside at the meeting of the board. The county clerk shall be the clerk of the board of sinking fund commissioners, and it shall be the clerks duty to keep a true record of all meetings of the board. The record shall be kept on file in and be a part of the records of the office of the county clerk.

The business which the board of sinking fund commissioners may perform shall be conducted at a public meeting of the board held in compliance with Act No. 267 of the Public Acts of 1976, being sections 15.261 to 15.275 of the Michigan Compiled Laws. Public notice of the time, date and place of the meeting shall be given in the manner required by Act No. 267 of the Public Acts of 1976.

A writing prepared, owned, used, in the possession of, or retained by the board of sinking fund commissioners in the performance of an official function shall be made available to the public in compliance with Act No. 442 of the Public Acts of 1976, being sections 15.231 to 15.246 of the Michigan Compiled Laws.

History: 1913, Act 42, Eff. Aug. 14, 1913; CL 1915, 2389; CL 1929, 1238; CL 1948, 141.14; Am. 1977, Act 194, Imd. Eff. Nov. 17, 1977
Mich. Comp. Laws § 333.13722 — MI Code / Chapter 333 / Act Act-368-of-1978 / Section 333.13722
Manifest; duties of authority accepting waste at disposal site.
Status: in_force

Sec. 13722.

The authority or any other person shall not accept delivery of waste unless the waste is accompanied by a manifest certified by each generator, carrier, processor, or collector who possessed the waste and who is authorized to possess waste under this part, and the location of acceptance is the destination indicated on the manifest.

When the authority accepts waste at the disposal site, the authority shall do all of the following:

Keep permanent records as required by the department.

Compile an annual report pertaining to the operation of the disposal site, the volume and type of waste placed in the disposal unit, and any other information required by the department.

Make manifest copies, certificates of disposal, and reports available for review and inspection at reasonable times by the department or a peace officer.

Certify on the manifest receipt of the waste and furnish a copy of the manifest to the generator within 10 days after receipt of the waste.

Within 30 days of receipt of waste, notify the generator whether the manifest was properly completed.

History: Add. 1987, Act 203, Imd. Eff. Dec. 22, 1987
Mich. Comp. Laws § 207.914 — MI Code / Chapter 207 / Act Act-236-of-2022 / Section 207.914
Status report by local government.
Status: in_force

Sec. 14.

Not later than June 15 each year, each qualified local governmental unit granting a certificate shall report to the commission on the status of each exemption. The report must include the current taxable value of the property to which the exemption pertains.

History: 2022, Act 236, Imd. Eff. Dec. 13, 2022
Mich. Comp. Laws § 35.481 — MI Code / Chapter 35 / Act Act-323-of-1939 / Section 35.481
Conventions of congressionally chartered veterans' organizations; appropriations by counties or cities.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

The boards of supervisors of the several counties and the legislative bodies of the several cities within the state of Michigan, or any of them, are hereby authorized and empowered to appropriate moneys out of the general fund of said counties or cities to an amount not exceeding $1,000.00 in any 1 year for the purpose of contributing towards the expenses of conventions to be held within the county or city, during the year, by the several congressionally chartered organizations of veterans who have served the United States of America during the time when the United States of America was at war: Provided, That in counties or cities now or hereafter having a population of 50,000 or over, as determined by the last federal decennial census or by any federal decennial census hereafter taken, the boards of supervisors of such counties and/or the legislative bodies of such cities, or any of them, are hereby authorized and empowered to appropriate moneys out of the general fund of such counties or cities, to an amount not exceeding $5,000.00 in any 1 year for such purposes: Provided further, That in counties or cities now or hereafter having a population of 500,000 or over, as determined by the last federal decennial census or by any federal decennial census hereafter taken, the boards of supervisors of such counties and/or the legislative bodies of such cities, or any of them, may appropriate not to exceed $25,000.00 for national conventions of said veterans' organizations.

History: 1939, Act 323, Eff. Sept. 29, 1939; Am. 1941, Act 298, Eff. Jan. 10, 1942; Am. 1945, Act 39, Eff. Sept. 6, 1945; CL 1948, 35.481; Am. 1952, Act 115, Eff. Sept. 18, 1952
Mich. Comp. Laws § 128.45 — MI Code / Chapter 128 / Act Act-164-of-1871 / Section 128.45
Price of lots repaid.
Status: in_force

Sec. 5.

In all cases where the title to the land vacated shall revert to such city or village, such city or village shall on demand and upon the conveyance of said lot (where conveyance may be necessary) to said city or village, repay to any owner the price he may have paid for his lot.

History: 1871, Act 164, Eff. July 18, 1871; CL 1871, 3427; How. 4794; CL 1897, 3489; CL 1915, 3485; CL 1929, 2667; CL 1948, 128.45
Mich. Comp. Laws § 458.408 — MI Code / Chapter 458 / Act Act-82-of-1899 / Section 458.408
Reincorporation under act; saving clause.
Status: in_force

Sec. 8.

The trustees of every church, congregation or society that have heretofore been incorporated by virtue of the provisions of chapter 173, volume 1, Howell's annotated statutes of Michigan, providing for the incorporation of Reformed Protestant Dutch churches, and that are now operating thereunder, are hereby reincorporated under the provisions of this act, and shall be governed by all of the provisions thereof, the same as if they had been originally incorporated under this act, and all such corporations reincorporated under and made subject to the provisions of this act shall succeed to and be vested with all the property, real and personal, moneys, rights, credits and effects, and all the records, files, books and papers belonging to such corporations as formerly incorporated, and no rights or liabilities, either in favor of or against such former corporation, existing at the time of its reincorporation under and subject to the provisions of this act, and no suit or prosecution of any kind shall be in any manner affected by such change, but the same shall stand or progress as if no such change had been made, and all debts and liabilities of the former corporation shall be deemed debts and liabilities of the new corporation, and all the officers of any such corporation elected or appointed under the provisions of the former act incorporating such corporation and in office at the time of such reincorporation under this act shall continue to exercise their respective functions under the provisions of this act of reincorporation for the full term for which they were so elected or appointed, and until their successors shall have qualified and entered upon the duties of their office.

History: 1899, Act 82, Imd. Eff. May 25, 1899; CL 1915, 10961; CL 1929, 10973; CL 1948, 458.408
Mich. Comp. Laws § 333.2852 — MI Code / Chapter 333 / Act Act-368-of-1978 / Section 333.2852
Weather conditions requiring storage of dead body; authorization for delayed interment; disinterment and reinterment permit not required.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2852.

When weather conditions prevent an immediate interment of a dead body and storage is necessary, the individual in charge of a cemetery shall obtain written authorization for delayed interment signed by the next of kin or authorized agent. The authorization shall specify the approximate hour and date of interment and place of temporary storage. This storage is not considered interment and a disinterment and reinterment permit is not required.

History: 1978, Act 368, Eff. Sept. 30, 1978
Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.8313 — MI Code / Chapter 600 / Act Act-236-of-1961 / Section 600.8313
Prosecution of violations; exception.
Status: in_force

Sec. 8313.

A violation of state criminal law shall be prosecuted in the district court by the prosecuting attorney. A violation of an ordinance of a political subdivision that is a misdemeanor or that is not designated as a civil infraction shall be prosecuted in the district court by the attorney for the political subdivision whose ordinance was violated. If the violation is a civil infraction, the prosecuting attorney or attorney for the political subdivision shall appear in court only in those civil infraction actions that are contested before a judge of the district court in a formal hearing as provided in any of the following, as applicable:

Section 8721.

Section 8821.

Section 747 of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.747.

This section does not apply to an ordinance violation designated a blight violation by a political subdivision that establishes an administrative hearings bureau pursuant to statute to adjudicate and impose sanctions for blight violations.

History: Add. 1968, Act 154, Imd. Eff. June 17, 1968; Am. 1978, Act 511, Eff. Aug. 1, 1979; Am. 1994, Act 12, Eff. May 1, 1994; Am. 1995, Act 54, Eff. Jan. 1, 1996; Am. 2003, Act 319, Imd. Eff. Jan. 12, 2004
Mich. Comp. Laws § 460.1009 — MI Code / Chapter 460 / Act Act-295-of-2008 / Section 460.1009
Definitions; N to P.
Status: in_force

Sec. 9.

As used in this act:

(a) "Natural gas provider" means an investor-owned business engaged in the sale and distribution at retail of natural gas within this state whose rates are regulated by the commission.

(b) "Pet coke" means a solid carbonaceous residue produced from a coker after cracking and distillation from petroleum refining operations.

(c) "Provider" means an electric provider or a natural gas provider.

(d) "PURPA" means the public utility regulatory policies act of 1978, Public Law 95-617.

History: 2008, Act 295, Imd. Eff. Oct. 6, 2008; Am. 2016, Act 342, Eff. Apr. 20, 2017; Am. 2023, Act 235, Eff. Feb. 27, 2024
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.6532 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.6532
Protection of public from fraud and abuse; quality assurance; evaluation of cost; effectiveness and benefits of inspection program; report.
Status: in_force

Sec. 6532.

The department shall institute procedures and mechanisms to protect the public from fraud and abuse by inspectors, mechanics, and others involved in the inspection and maintenance program. These procedures and mechanisms shall include a challenge mechanism by which a vehicle owner can contest the results of an inspection. It shall include mechanisms for protecting whistleblowers and following up on complaints by the public or others involved in the process. It shall include a program to assist owners in obtaining warranty covered repairs for eligible vehicles that fail a test.

The department shall provide quality assurance for the inspection and maintenance program established under this part through certification of competency by a third party to ensure proper and accurate emission inspection results. The third party each year shall certify the testing equipment and the emission inspectors employed by a testing station.

The department shall compile data and undertake studies necessary to evaluate the cost, effectiveness, and benefits of the motor vehicle inspection program. The department shall compile data on failure rate, compliance rate, the number of certificates issued, and other similar matters in accordance with 40 C.F.R. 51.365 and 51.366. The department shall make an annual report on the operation of the motor vehicle inspection program to the standing committees of the legislature that primarily address issues pertaining to public health or protection of the environment by January 1, 1995, and each year thereafter.

History: Add. 1995, Act 60, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1995
Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.925a — MI Code / Chapter 722 / Act Act-204-of-1994 / Section 722.925a
Child advocate; powers.
Status: in_force

Sec. 5a.

The child advocate is authorized to do all of the following:

(a) Pursue all necessary action, including, but not limited to, legal action, to protect the rights and welfare of a child under the jurisdiction, control, or supervision of the department, the Michigan children's institute, the family division of circuit court under section 2(a)(1) of chapter XIIA of the probate code of 1939, 1939 PA 288, MCL 712A.2, a child caring institution, a child placing agency, or a residential facility or a child who is the victim in a child protective services maltreatment in care investigation. A court's placement decision is not subject to the child advocate's authority.

(b) Pursue legislative advocacy in the best interests of children.

(c) Review policies and procedures relating to the department's or a residential facility's involvement with children and make recommendations for improvement.

(d) Subject to an appropriation of funds, commence and conduct investigations into alleged violations of the foster parent's bill of rights law.

(e) Mediate issues and educate the public regarding complaints dealing with certain county and private agencies serving children, maltreatment in care investigations, and investigations of lack of or insufficient services regarding a residential facility.

History: Add. 2004, Act 560, Imd. Eff. Jan. 3, 2005; Am. 2013, Act 38, Imd. Eff. June 4, 2013; Am. 2014, Act 455, Eff. Apr. 1, 2015; Am. 2023, Act 303, Eff. Feb. 13, 2024
Mich. Comp. Laws § 119.59 — MI Code / Chapter 119 / Act Act-147-of-1939 / Section 119.59
Property, purchase, gift or devise; condemnation, procedure.
Status: in_force

Sec. 9.

For the purposes of the authority as herein defined, the commissioners may purchase, accept by gift or devise or condemn private property. If by condemnation, the provisions of Act No. 149 of the Public Acts of 1911, as amended, being sections 3763 to 3783, inclusive, of the Compiled Laws of 1929, or such other appropriate provisions therefor as exist or shall be made by law, may be adopted and used for the purpose of instituting and prosecuting such condemnation proceedings.

History: 1939, Act 147, Eff. Jan. 10, 1942; CL 1948, 119.59
Mich. Comp. Laws § 257.512a — MI Code / Chapter 257 / Act Act-300-of-1949 / Section 257.512a
Nonpayment of judgment; finding as to insurer, effect.
Status: in_force

Sec. 512a.

No license, registration or nonresident's operating privilege of any person shall be suspended under the provisions of this chapter if the secretary of state finds that an insurer was obligated to pay the judgment upon which the suspension is based, at least to the extent and for the amounts required in this chapter, but has not paid the judgment for any reason. A finding by the secretary of state that an insurer is obligated to pay a judgment is not binding upon the insurer and shall have no legal effect whatever except for the purpose of administering this section. Whenever in any judicial proceedings it is determined by any final judgment, decree or order that an insurer is not obligated to pay any judgment, the secretary of state, notwithstanding any contrary finding theretofore made by him, shall forthwith suspend as provided in section 512 the license and registration and any nonresident's operating privilege of any person against whom the judgment was rendered.

History: Add. 1964, Act 140, Eff. Aug. 28, 1964
Mich. Comp. Laws § 120.115 — MI Code / Chapter 120 / Act Act-639-of-1978 / Section 120.115
Revenue bonds; form; date; denomination; place of payment; redemption; validity of signature or facsimile; issuance in coupon or registered form; registration, reconversion, and interchange of bonds.
Status: in_force

Sec. 15.

An authority shall determine the form of the bonds of each series issued pursuant to section 14, including any interest coupons to be attached thereto, the date of the bonds, the denomination of the bonds, and the place of payment of principal and interest, which may be at any bank or trust company within or without the state. The bonds of each series may be made redeemable before their maturity or maturities at the option of the authority, at a price and under the terms and conditions as may be fixed by the authority before issuance of the bonds. If an officer whose signature or a facsimile of whose signature appears on any bonds or coupons ceases to be an officer before delivery of the bonds, the signature or facsimile shall nevertheless be valid and sufficient for all purposes the same as if the officer had remained in office until the delivery. The bonds may be issued in coupon or in registered form, or both, as the authority may determine, and provision may be made for the registration of any coupon bonds as to principal alone and also as to both principal and interest, for the reconversion into coupon bonds of any bonds registered as to both principal and interest, and for the interchange of coupon and registered bonds.

History: 1978, Act 639, Imd. Eff. Jan. 11, 1979
Mich. Comp. Laws § 554.45 — MI Code / Chapter 554 / Act R-S-of-1846 / Section 554.45
Land conveyance; exceptions to preceding section.
Status: in_force

Sec. 45.

The preceding section shall not apply to mortgages, nor to devises or grants made in trust, or made to executors, or to husband and wife.

History: R.S. 1846, Ch. 62; CL 1857, 2629; CL 1871, 4112; How. 5561; CL 1897, 8827; CL 1915, 11563; CL 1929, 12965; CL 1948, 554.45
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.32202 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.32202
Great Lakes commission; membership; oath; expenses; voting rights.
Status: in_force

Sec. 32202.

For purposes of this section through section 32206, "commission" means the Great Lakes commission established in the compact entered into by this part.

In pursuance of article IV of the compact, there shall be 5 commissioners on the Great Lakes commission from this state. Each commissioner shall have all of the powers conferred on a commissioner by the compact or which shall be necessary or incidental to the performance of his or her functions as a commissioner. For this state, the governor, or the governor's designee, the attorney general, or the attorney general's designee, an appointee of the majority leader of the senate, and an appointee of the speaker of the house of representatives shall be members of the Michigan representation. In addition, the governor shall appoint, with the advice and consent of the senate, the remaining 1 member who shall come from groups or organizations interested in or affected by the Great Lakes, which member shall serve at the governor's pleasure. The appointees of the governor, the majority leader of the senate, and of the speaker of the house of representatives, before entering upon the performance of their office, shall take and subscribe to the constitutional oath of office. Each commissioner shall receive necessary expenses incurred in the performance of his or her duties. Each commissioner shall have the right to cast 3/5 of a vote whenever a vote is required by the terms of the compact.

History: Add. 1995, Act 59, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1995
Mich. Comp. Laws § 490.387 — MI Code / Chapter 490 / Act Act-215-of-2003 / Section 490.387
Insurance of member share and deposit accounts.
Status: in_force

Sec. 387.

A domestic credit union that is not a corporate credit union shall apply for and maintain insurance of member share accounts and member deposit accounts from an agency of the federal government that provides that insurance.

A credit union that is denied a commitment for insurance of its share and deposit accounts by the insuring federal agency or that is given notice by the insuring federal agency of the agency's intent to terminate insurance of the credit union's shares and deposits shall either dissolve, merge with another credit union that is insured by an agency of the federal government, or apply in writing to the commissioner within 30 days after the denial or notice for additional time to obtain an insurance commitment.

The commissioner shall grant a credit union described in subsection (2) 1 or more additional periods of time to obtain or reinstate an insurance commitment if the commissioner receives satisfactory evidence that the credit union has made or is making a substantial effort to meet the conditions required by the insuring federal agency for issuance of an insurance commitment.

A credit union may contract with an insurance carrier licensed to do business in this state for insurance of the balances of its accounts that exceed the amount insured by the insuring federal agency.

History: 2003, Act 215, Eff. June 1, 2004
Mich. Comp. Laws § 550.356 — MI Code / Chapter 550 / Act Act-125-of-1963 / Section 550.356
Contracts; statement to insurance commissioner; contents, examination.
Status: in_force

Sec. 6.

Before a corporation shall enter into or solicit contracts to provide dental services at the expense of such corporation to persons who shall become subscribers, it shall file a statement with the commissioner of insurance showing in full detail:

The plan on which it proposes to transact business.

A copy of its bylaws.

A copy of the contract to be issued to subscribers.

A copy of its prospectus and advertising proposed to be used in the solicitation of contracts and subscribers.

The commissioner shall examine the statements and the documents so filed with him, and may conduct any investigation he deems necessary, and examine under oath any persons interested in or connected with the proposed corporation. If in the opinion of the commissioner the incorporation or solicitation of contracts would work a fraud upon the persons so solicited, he may refuse to license the corporation.

History: 1963, Act 125, Eff. Sept. 6, 1963
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.6509 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.6509
Renewal of registration; issuance of certificate of compliance or certificate of waiver required; validity of certificate.
Status: in_force

Sec. 6509.

The department of state shall not renew the registration of a motor vehicle subject to this part unless the vehicle has been inspected as provided in this part and a certificate of compliance or a certificate of waiver has been issued.

Certificates of compliance and certificates of waiver issued under this part are valid for 1 test cycle.

If not exempted by this part or rules promulgated under this part, a person shall not drive a motor vehicle registered in an area required to have a vehicle emission and maintenance program without a valid certificate of compliance or certificate of waiver.

History: Add. 1995, Act 60, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1995