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Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.1469 — MI Code / Chapter 722 / Act Act-365-of-2014 / Section 722.1469
Establishment of paternity by genetic testing; initial custody of child to mother; basis for court-ordered child support, custody, or parenting time; status, rights, and duties of child.
Status: in_force

Sec. 9.

(1) Genetic testing that determines a man is the biological father of a child under this act establishes paternity. If genetic testing establishes paternity as described in this subsection, the mother is granted initial custody of the child, without prejudice to the determination of either parent's custodial rights, until otherwise determined by the court or otherwise agreed upon by the parties in writing and acknowledged by the court. This grant of initial custody to the mother does not, by itself, affect the rights of either parent in a proceeding to seek a court order for custody or parenting time.

(2) Genetic testing that determines the man is the biological father of a child under this act may be the basis for court-ordered child support, custody, or parenting time without further adjudication under the paternity act. The child who is the subject of the genetic testing has the same relationship to the mother and the man determined to be the biological father under this act as a child born or conceived during a marriage and has identical status, rights, and duties of a child born in lawful wedlock effective from birth.

History: 2014, Act 365, Eff. Mar. 17, 2015
Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.2959 — MI Code / Chapter 600 / Act Act-236-of-1961 / Section 600.2959
Comparative fault; reduced damages.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2959.

In an action based on tort or another legal theory seeking damages for personal injury, property damage, or wrongful death, the court shall reduce the damages by the percentage of comparative fault of the person upon whose injury or death the damages are based as provided in section 6306 or 6306a, as applicable. If that person's percentage of fault is greater than the aggregate fault of the other person or persons, whether or not parties to the action, the court shall reduce economic damages by the percentage of comparative fault of the person upon whose injury or death the damages are based as provided in section 6306 or 6306a, as applicable, and noneconomic damages shall not be awarded.

History: Add. 1995, Act 161, Eff. Mar. 28, 1996; Am. 2012, Act 608, Eff. Mar. 28, 2013
Mich. Comp. Laws § 66.3a — MI Code / Chapter 61 / Act Act-3-of-1895 / Section 66.3a
Codification of ordinances.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3a.

A village may codify, recodify, and continue in code the village's ordinances, in whole or in part, without the necessity of publishing the entire code in full. The ordinance adopting the code and ordinances repealing, amending, continuing, or adding to the code shall be published as required by section 4 of this chapter. The publication shall state where a copy of the entire code can be reviewed and obtained. The ordinance adopting the code may amend, repeal, revise, or rearrange ordinances or parts of ordinances by references to the title only.

History: Add. 1979, Act 18, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1979; Am. 1998, Act 255, Imd. Eff. July 13, 1998
Mich. Comp. Laws § 168.631 — MI Code / Chapter 168 / Act Act-116-of-1954 / Section 168.631
Special primary election; time.
Status: in_force

Sec. 631.

If a special election is called to fill a vacancy in any office, the candidates for which are regularly nominated in accordance with the provisions of this act relating to primary nominations, a special primary for all political parties must be held in the county, district, or city in which the vacancy occurs on a day as may, subject to section 641(3), be fixed by the official or legislative body calling the special election, but not less than 45 days before the date of the special election. The official or legislative body calling a special primary shall, in the call for the special primary, fix the time within which candidates may file nominating petitions.

History: 1954, Act 116, Eff. June 1, 1955; Am. 2018, Act 120, Eff. Dec. 31, 2018
Mich. Comp. Laws § 487.13302 — MI Code / Chapter 487 / Act Act-276-of-1999 / Section 487.13302
Bank in dissolution as body corporate.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3302.

A bank that begins dissolution under section 3301 shall continue to be a body corporate until the commissioner certifies and files the certificate of termination under section 3301(9) for all of the following:

Prosecuting and defending actions for or against the bank.

Disposing of and conveying the bank's property.

Dividing the bank's assets.

Gradually settling and closing its affairs.

Subject to section 3401, a bank in dissolution shall not continue to be a body corporate for the purpose of continuing the business for which it was organized.

An action, suit, or proceeding commenced by or against the bank in dissolution must be commenced before the filing of the certificate of termination under section 3301(9).

If the number of directors of a bank in dissolution is less than the full number of directors required or authorized by statute or by the bylaws of the bank, a majority of the remaining directors or the sole remaining director shall possess the same powers in acting for the bank in dissolution under this act as the duly authorized board of directors of the bank possessed before the commencement of dissolution.

History: 1999, Act 276, Eff. Mar. 1, 2000
Mich. Comp. Laws § 752.541 — MI Code / Chapter 752 / Act Act-302-of-1968 / Section 752.541
Riot.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

It is unlawful and constitutes the crime of riot for 5 or more persons, acting in concert, to wrongfully engage in violent conduct and thereby intentionally or recklessly cause or create a serious risk of causing public terror or alarm.

History: 1968, Act 302, Imd. Eff. July 1, 1968
Mich. Comp. Laws § 400.226 — MI Code / Chapter 400 / Act E-R-O-No-2004-4 / Section 400.226
Family independence agency renamed to department of human services.
Status: in_force

WHEREAS, Section 1 of Article V of the Michigan Constitution of 1963 vests the executive power of the State of Michigan in the Governor;

WHEREAS, Section 2 of Article V of the Michigan Constitution of 1963 empowers the Governor to make changes in the organization of the Executive Branch or in the assignment of functions among its units that the Governor considers necessary for efficient administration;

WHEREAS, the Department of Social Services was created as a principal department of state government by Section 450 of the Executive Organization Act of 1965, 1965 PA 380, MCL 16.550;

WHEREAS, the Department of Social Services was renamed the Family Independence Agency by 1995 PA 223, MCL 400.1;

WHEREAS, the Family Independence Agency is the state's public assistance, child, and family welfare agency focused on protecting children and vulnerable adults, delivering juvenile justice services, and providing support to strengthen families and individuals;

WHEREAS, renaming the Family Independence Agency will more effectively communicate its status as a principal department and its mission focused on the provision of social services for families, children, and other Michigan residents in need;

WHEREAS, it is necessary in the interests of efficient administration and effective government to make changes in the organization of the Executive Branch of state government;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Jennifer M. Granholm, Governor of the State of Michigan, by virtue of the power and authority vested in the Governor by the Michigan Constitution of 1963 and Michigan law, order:

A. The Family Independence Agency is renamed the Department of Human Services.

B. Any and all statutory references to the Family Independence Agency or the Department of Social Services shall be deemed references to the Department of Human Services.

History: 2004, E.R.O. No. 2004-4, Eff. Mar. 15, 2005
Mich. Comp. Laws § 286.651 — MI Code / Chapter 286 / Act Act-234-of-1966 / Section 286.651
Emigrant agents; definition.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

As used in this act:

"Person" means an individual, partnership, association, corporation, legal representative, trustee, trustee in bankruptcy or receiver.

"Emigrant agent" means a person engaged in recruiting, hiring, soliciting or enticing laborers by any means whatsoever in this state to be employed beyond the limits of this state in farm labor.

"Employer" means a person employing or seeking to employ an employee for farm labor.

"Farm labor" means cultivation and tillage of the soil, dairying, the production, cultivation, growing and harvesting of any agricultural or horticultural commodity, the raising of livestock, bees, furbearing animals or poultry, any practices performed on the farm as an incident to or in conjunction with such farming operations, including preparation for market, delivery to storage or to market or to carriers for transportation to market or any forestry or lumbering operations, and first processing of any agricultural or horticultural commodity during seasonal operations.

"Director" means the director of labor or any person authorized to act in his behalf.

History: 1966, Act 234, Imd. Eff. July 11, 1966
Mich. Comp. Laws § 205.427a — MI Code / Chapter 205 / Act Act-327-of-1993 / Section 205.427a
Imposition of tax on consumer; intent of act.
Status: in_force

Sec. 7a.

It is the intent of this act to impose the tax levied under this act upon the consumer of the tobacco products by requiring the consumer to pay the tax at the specified rate.

History: Add. 1997, Act 187, Imd. Eff. Dec. 30, 1997
Mich. Comp. Laws § 730.267 — MI Code / Chapter 730 / Act Act-288-of-1929 / Section 730.267
Drawing of jury; challenges.
Status: in_force

Sec. 17.

As the cases shall be called for trial during each jury term, each jury shall consist of 6 persons and shall be drawn from the list of jurors impaneled for the term in the manner provided by the general laws of the state for drawing juries in the circuit court, as near as may be, and no person so drawn shall be excused from serving except for causes recognized in the trial of cases in the circuit court; except that the plaintiff and defendant in each civil action may respectively challenge peremptorily not more than 2 jurors, and in each criminal action and action for violation of ordinances, the attorney representing the people may challenge peremptorily not more than 2 jurors and the defendant may challenge peremptorily not more than 4 jurors. No jurors shall be disqualified by reason of having sat as juror on any number of cases during any 1 term for the trial of jury cases.

History: 1929, Act 288, Eff. Aug. 28, 1929; CL 1929, 16513; CL 1948, 730.267
Mich. Comp. Laws § 24.205 — MI Code / Chapter 24 / Act Act-306-of-1969 / Section 24.205
Definitions; L to R.
Status: in_force

Sec. 5.

As used in this act:

(a) "License" includes the whole or part of an agency permit, certificate, approval, registration, charter, or similar form of permission required by law. License does not include a license required solely for revenue purposes or a license or registration issued under the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.1 to 257.923.

(b) "Licensing" includes agency activity involving the grant, denial, renewal, suspension, revocation, annulment, withdrawal, recall, cancellation, or amendment of a license.

(c) "Michigan register" means the publication described in section 8.

(d) "Notice" means a written or electronic record that informs a person of past or future action of the person generating the record.

(e) "Notice of objection" means the record adopted by the committee that indicates the committee's formal objection to a proposed rule.

(f) "Office" means, unless expressly stated otherwise, the office of performance and transformation.

(g) "Office of regulatory reform", "state office of administrative hearings and rules", and "office of regulatory reinvention" mean the office.

(h) "Party" means a person or agency named, admitted, or properly seeking and entitled of right to be admitted, as a party in a contested case. In a contested case regarding an application for a license, party includes the applicant for the license.

(i) "Person" means an individual, partnership, association, corporation, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, governmental subdivision, or public or private organization of any kind other than the agency engaged in the particular processing of a rule, declaratory ruling, or contested case.

(j) "Processing of a rule" means the action required or authorized by this act regarding a rule that is to be promulgated, including the rule's adoption, and ending with the rule's promulgation.

(k) "Promulgation of a rule" means that step in the processing of a rule consisting of the filing of the rule with the secretary of state.

( l ) "Record" means information that is inscribed on a paper or electronic medium.

History: 1969, Act 306, Eff. July 1, 1970; Am. 1982, Act 413, Eff. Jan. 1, 1984; Am. 1999, Act 262, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000; Am. 2004, Act 23, Imd. Eff. Mar. 10, 2004; Am. 2006, Act 460, Imd. Eff. Dec. 20, 2006; Am. 2016, Act 513, Imd. Eff. Jan. 9, 2017
Mich. Comp. Laws § 28.212 — MI Code / Chapter 28 / Act Act-163-of-1974 / Section 28.212
Criminal justice information policy council; creation; membership; terms.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

(1) The criminal justice information policy council is created in the department of state police. The council is composed of the following members:

(a) The attorney general or his or her designee.

(b) The secretary of state or his or her designee.

(c) The director of the department of corrections or his or her designee.

(d) The chief of the Detroit police department or his or her designee.

(e) The director of the department of state police or his or her designee.

(f) Three representatives of the department of state police appointed by the director of the department of state police.

(g) Three representatives of the Michigan association of chiefs of police appointed by that association.

(h) Four representatives of the Michigan sheriffs' association appointed by that association.

(i) Three representatives of the prosecuting attorneys association of Michigan appointed by that association.

(j) A representative of the Michigan district judges association appointed by that association.

(k) A representative of the Michigan judges association appointed by that association.

( l ) The state court administrator or his or her designee.

(m) An individual appointed by and serving at the pleasure of the governor who is employed in or engaged in the private security business.

(n) An individual appointed by and serving at the pleasure of the governor who represents human services concerns in this state.

(o) The director of the department of information technology or his or her designee.

(2) The appointed members of the council shall serve 2-year terms and may be reappointed.

History: 1974, Act 163, Eff. Apr. 1, 1975; Am. 2005, Act 309, Eff. Feb. 1, 2006
Mich. Comp. Laws § 457.353 — MI Code / Chapter 457 / Act Act-17-of-1877 / Section 457.353
Grand lodge; filing articles, charter, and constitution; body politic and corporate; powers.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3.

A copy of said articles of association, together with a copy of the charter and constitution of said grand lodge, shall be filed with the corporation and securities bureau of the department of commerce, and thereupon the persons who shall have signed such articles of association, their associates and successors shall be a body politic and corporate by the name expressed in such articles of association, and by that name they and their successors shall have succession, and shall be persons in the law, capable to purchase, take, receive, hold, and enjoy, to them and their successors, estates real and personal, of suing and being sued, and to have a common seal, which may be altered or changed at their pleasure. They and their successors shall have power to give, grant, sell, lease, demise, and dispose of said real and personal estate, or part thereof, at their will and pleasure, and the proceeds, rents and incomes shall be devoted exclusively to the charitable and benevolent purposes of the grand lodge of Knights of Pythias. Said corporation shall have full power to make and establish rules, regulations, and bylaws for regulating and governing all the affairs and business of said corporation not repugnant to the constitution and laws of this state or of the United States, and to designate, elect, or appoint from its members such officers, under such name and style as shall be in accordance with the constitution of the supreme lodge of the world.

History: 1877, Act 17, Imd. Eff. Mar. 1, 1877; How. 4553; CL 1897, 8003; CL 1915, 10464; Am. 1929, Act 18, Eff. Aug. 28, 1929; CL 1929, 10667; CL 1948, 457.353; Am. 1982, Act 536, Eff. Mar. 30, 1983
Mich. Comp. Laws § 559.221 — MI Code / Chapter 559 / Act Act-59-of-1978 / Section 559.221
Mobile home condominium project; establishment, operation, and regulation; compliance.
Status: in_force

Sec. 121.

The establishment, operation, and regulation of mobile home condominium projects shall comply with this act, rules promulgated under this act, and with the following:

A mobile home located on a mobile home condominium site shall be contained entirely within that site. The mobile home condominium master deed shall set forth the minimum and maximum size of a mobile home that may be located on the mobile home condominium site.

The association of co-owners may remove a mobile home from a mobile home condominium site if the mobile home does not conform to the reasonable standards set forth by the association of co-owners in the bylaws.

Upon completion of foreclosure of a lien of the association of co-owners for nonpayment of assessments on a condominium unit pursuant to section 108, the association of co-owners may remove a mobile home and other personal property from the condominium unit and cause the mobile home and other personal property to be stored at the expense of the co-owner of the mobile home.

Except as provided in section 127, the mobile home commission shall not act for the purpose of regulating mobile home condominiums that are not located within a mobile home park, except as relates to the business, sales, and service practices of mobile home dealers, and the business of mobile home installers and repairers, or the setup and installation of mobile homes, as provided in the mobile home commission act, Act No. 419 of the Public Acts of 1976.

History: 1978, Act 59, Eff. July 1, 1978; Am. 1982, Act 538, Imd. Eff. Jan. 17, 1983
Mich. Comp. Laws § 440.9321 — MI Code / Chapter 440 / Act Act-174-of-1962 / Section 440.9321
Licensee of general intangible and lessee of goods in ordinary course of business.
Status: in_force

Sec. 9321.

As used in this section, "licensee in ordinary course of business" means a person that becomes a licensee of a general intangible in good faith, without knowledge that the license violates the rights of another person in the general intangible, and in the ordinary course from a person in the business of licensing general intangibles of that kind. A person becomes a licensee in the ordinary course if the license to the person comports with the usual or customary practices in the kind of business in which the licensor is engaged or with the licensor's own usual or customary practices.

A licensee in ordinary course of business takes its rights under a nonexclusive license free of a security interest in the general intangible created by the licensor, even if the security interest is perfected and the licensee knows of its existence.

A lessee in ordinary course of business takes its leasehold interest free of a security interest in the goods created by the lessor, even if the security interest is perfected and the lessee knows of its existence.

History: Add. 2000, Act 348, Eff. July 1, 2001
Mich. Comp. Laws § 500.4222 — MI Code / Chapter 500 / Act Act-218-of-1956 / Section 500.4222
Table of nonforfeiture benefits.
Status: in_force

Sec. 4222.

There shall be a table showing in figures the nonforfeiture benefits available under the policy every year upon default in payment of premiums during at least the first 20 years of the policy, and a provision that the company will furnish upon request an extension of such table beyond the year shown in the policy.

History: 1956, Act 218, Eff. Jan. 1, 1957
Mich. Comp. Laws § 445.2532 — MI Code / Chapter 445 / Act Act-229-of-2013 / Section 445.2532
Release of protected consumer's credit report, information, or record; duration of security freeze.
Status: in_force

Sec. 22.

(1) If a security freeze is in place, a consumer reporting agency may not release a protected consumer's credit report, any information derived from the protected consumer's credit report, or any record created for the protected consumer.

(2) A security freeze for a protected consumer shall remain in effect until 1 of the following is met:

(a) The protected consumer or the protected consumer's representative requests the consumer reporting agency to remove the security freeze under section 23.

(b) The security freeze is removed under section 25.

History: 2013, Act 229, Eff. Jan. 1, 2014
Mich. Comp. Laws § 45.94 — MI Code / Chapter 45 / Act Act-307-of-1917 / Section 45.94
Purchasing agent and clerks; appropriation for compensation; personal use of county supplies, penalty.
Status: in_force

Sec. 14.

Such sum of money as may be necessary is hereby appropriated out of the general fund in the county treasury, to pay the salary of the purchasing agent and the clerks aforesaid and contingent expenses for the first 2 years after the enactment and taking effect of this act: Provided, That no officer or employe created by this act shall ever use or receive for their own use any provisions, clothing, merchandise or other articles furnished by the county, but that the salaries herein fixed shall be their only compensation, and any person who violates this provision shall, upon conviction, be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for a term of not less than 2 nor more than 10 months.

History: 1917, Act 307, Eff. Aug. 10, 1917; CL 1929, 1442; CL 1948, 45.94
Mich. Comp. Laws § 250.1062 — MI Code / Chapter 250 / Act Act-142-of-2001 / Section 250.1062
“James G. O'Hara Freeway.”
Status: in_force

Sec. 62.

The portion of highway I-94 lying within Macomb and St. Clair counties shall be known as the "James G. O'Hara Freeway".

History: 2001, Act 142, Imd. Eff. Oct. 26, 2001
Mich. Comp. Laws § 38.382 — MI Code / Chapter 38 / Act Act-156-of-1967 / Section 38.382
Definitions.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

As used in this act:

"Optional retirement program" means a system of retirement benefits established as a part of the plan of compensation for eligible teaching and administrative personnel.

"Retirement system" means the Michigan public school employees' retirement system created by the public school employees retirement act of 1979, Act No. 300 of the Public Acts of 1980, being sections 38.1301 to 38.1408 of the Michigan Compiled Laws.

"Eligible employees" means the members of the faculty and administrative staff of state supported institutions of higher education on a full-time basis whose positions require the performance of professional services in the discharge of the educational or administrative functions of the institution.

"State supported institution of higher education" means any of the following:

Western Michigan university.

Eastern Michigan university.

Northern Michigan university.

Central Michigan university.

Michigan technological university.

Ferris state university.

Lake Superior state university.

A community or junior college established pursuant to section 7 of article VIII of the state constitution of 1963.

A community or junior college established pursuant to part 25 of the school code of 1976, Act No. 451 of the Public Acts of 1976, being sections 380.1601 to 380.1607 of the Michigan Compiled Laws.

"Board of control" means the board charged with policy direction of a state supported institution of higher education.

History: 1967, Act 156, Imd. Eff. June 30, 1967; Am. 1968, Act 185, Imd. Eff. June 20, 1968; Am. 1994, Act 296, Eff. Oct. 1, 1994