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Mich. Comp. Laws § 333.17770 — MI Code / Chapter 333 / Act Act-368-of-1978 / Section 333.17770
Exceptions.
Status: in_force

Sec. 17770.

Except as to the labeling of poisonous or deleterious drugs and to adulterating, misbranding, and substituting, this part shall not apply:

To the sale of paris green, white hellebore, and other insecticides.

To the sale of any substance for use in the arts.

To the retailing of non-narcotic, or nonprescription medicine or drug which is prepackaged, fully prepared by the manufacturer or producer for use by the consumer, and labeled in accordance with the requirements of the state and federal act.

To the sale by merchants of ammonia, sulphur, any nonpoisonous flavoring essences or extracts, salt, bicarbonate of soda, or other prepackaged common household remedies or any food or food product which may also be found in any of the official compendiums and is not also considered as a poisonous, deleterious, or habit forming drug.

To surgical or dental instruments and accessories, hearing aids, gases, oxygen tents, gas pressure reducing regulators, x-ray apparatus, therapeutic lamps, splints, and stethoscopes, and their component parts and accessories, or to equipment, instruments, apparatus, and contrivances used to render the articles effective in medical, surgical, or dental treatment; or to articles intended for external use.

To articles or substances intended for generally recognized mechanical, agricultural, horticultural, or industrial consumption or use or photographic chemicals for home use.

History: 1978, Act 368, Eff. Sept. 30, 1978
Mich. Comp. Laws § 552.2313 — MI Code / Chapter 552 / Act Act-255-of-2015 / Section 552.2313
Fees, costs, or expenses.
Status: in_force

Sec. 313.

(1) The petitioner may not be required to pay a filing fee or other costs.

(2) If an obligee prevails, a responding tribunal of this state may assess against an obligor filing fees, reasonable attorney's fees, other costs, and necessary travel and other reasonable expenses incurred by the obligee and the obligee's witnesses. The tribunal may not assess fees, costs, or expenses against the obligee or the support enforcement agency of either the initiating or the responding state or foreign country, except as provided by other law. Attorney's fees may be taxed as costs, and may be ordered paid directly to the attorney, who may enforce the order in the attorney's own name. Payment of support owed to the obligee has priority over fees, costs, and expenses.

(3) The tribunal shall order the payment of costs and reasonable attorney's fees if it determines that a hearing was requested primarily for delay. In a proceeding under article 6, a hearing is presumed to have been requested primarily for delay if a registered support order is confirmed or enforced without change.

History: 2015, Act 255, Eff. Jan. 1, 2016
Mich. Comp. Laws § 6.1 — MI Code / Chapter 6 / Act Act-62-of-1872 / Section 6.1
Impeachment of civil officers; power of house, suspension; vacancies.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

That the house of representatives shall have the sole power of impeaching civil officers for corrupt conduct in office, or for crimes and misdemeanors, but a majority of the members elected shall be necessary to direct an impeachment. Every officer impeached may by the governor be suspended in the exercise of his office until his acquittal, and the governor may make a provisional appointment to a vacancy occasioned by the suspension of an officer until he shall be acquitted, or until after the election and qualification of a successor.

History: 1872, Act 62, Imd. Eff. Mar. 30, 1872; How. 50; CL 1897, 18; CL 1915, 32; CL 1929, 59; CL 1948, 6.1
Mich. Comp. Laws § 500.7310 — MI Code / Chapter 500 / Act Act-218-of-1956 / Section 500.7310
Rating organizations; formation; operation.
Status: in_force

Sec. 7310.

Rating organizations for title insurance may be formed and may operate pursuant to the applicable provisions of chapter 24.

History: Add. 1966, Act 221, Imd. Eff. July 11, 1966
Mich. Comp. Laws § 168.509bb — MI Code / Chapter 168 / Act Act-116-of-1954 / Section 168.509bb
Failure to vote; cancellation of registration prohibited.
Status: in_force

Sec. 509bb.

A clerk shall not cancel or cause the cancellation of the registration of a voter from the registration record of the city or township based solely upon that registered voter's failure to vote.

History: Add. 1994, Act 441, Imd. Eff. Jan. 10, 1995
Mich. Comp. Laws § 774.1a — MI Code / Chapter 760 / Act Act-175-of-1927 / Section 774.1a
Arraignment of accused charged with misdemeanor or ordinance violation; reading charge to accused; entering plea in court's minutes.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1a.

At the arraignment of an accused charged with a misdemeanor or an ordinance violation, the magistrate shall read to the accused the charge as stated in the warrant or complaint. The accused shall plead to the charge, and the plea shall be entered in the court's minutes. If the accused refuses to plead, the magistrate shall order that a plea of not guilty be entered on behalf of the accused.

History: Add. 1980, Act 506, Imd. Eff. Jan. 22, 1981
Mich. Comp. Laws § 129.101 — MI Code / Chapter 129 / Act Act-32-of-1956 / Section 129.101
Deposited public funds; facsimile signatures on checks or orders for payment of money.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

Moneys on deposit in any duly designated depository to the credit of any account of the state of Michigan, when so authorized by resolution of the state administrative board, of any county, when so authorized by resolution of its board of supervisors or board of county auditors in those counties in which there is a board of county auditors, of any township, when so authorized by resolution of its township board, of any school district, when so authorized by resolution of its district board or board of education, of any city or village, when so authorized by resolution of its legislative body, or of any other municipal or public corporation within this state, when so authorized by resolution of its governing board, may be drawn upon by checks, drafts or other orders for the payment of money bearing, or purporting to bear, the facsimile signature or signatures of the person or persons required to sign the same; and when the drawing upon any such moneys in such manner is so authorized, such depository shall be entitled to honor and to charge the appropriate account for such checks, drafts and other orders regardless of by whom or by what means any such actual or purported facsimile signature may have been affixed thereto if, in the exercise of ordinary care, such signature would be honored by a bank as being the facsimile signature duly certified to the depository.

History: 1956, Act 32, Imd. Eff. Mar. 28, 1956; Am. 1958, Act 20, Eff. Sept. 13, 1958
Mich. Comp. Laws § 550.2001 — MI Code / Chapter 550 / Act Act-499-of-2000 / Section 550.2001
Short title; intent; establishment.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

This act shall be known and may be cited as the "elder prescription insurance coverage act".

It is the intent of the legislature that the EPIC program defray the cost of obtaining medically necessary prescription drugs by elderly Michigan residents under the conditions specified in this act.

The elder prescription insurance coverage program is established within the department of community health.

History: 2000, Act 499, Eff. Oct. 1, 2001
Mich. Comp. Laws § 257.35 — MI Code / Chapter 257 / Act Act-300-of-1949 / Section 257.35
“Nonresident operating privilege” defined.
Status: in_force

Sec. 35.

"Nonresident operating privilege" means the privilege conferred upon a nonresident by the laws of this state pertaining to the operation by him of a motor vehicle, or the use of a motor vehicle owned by him, in this state.

History: 1949, Act 300, Eff. Sept. 23, 1949
Mich. Comp. Laws § 45.552 — MI Code / Chapter 45 / Act Act-139-of-1973 / Section 45.552
Optional unified form of county government; alternate A; alternate B.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

An optional unified form of county government shall include either:

An appointed county manager, who shall comply with the qualifications and exercise the responsibilities detailed in sections 7 and 8. This form of county government shall be known as alternate A.

An elected county executive, who shall comply with the qualifications and exercise the responsibilities detailed in sections 8, 9, 10, and 11. This form of county government shall be known as alternate B.

A provision of this act not specifically designated as applicable to alternate A or alternate B is applicable to the unified form of county government adopted.

History: 1973, Act 139, Eff. Mar. 29, 1974
Mich. Comp. Laws § 552.38 — MI Code / Chapter 552 / Act R-S-of-1846 / Section 552.38
Marriage annulment; ground of force or fraud; custody and maintenance of issue.
Status: in_force

Sec. 38.

If there shall be any issue of a marriage, annulled on the ground of force or fraud, the court shall decree their custody to the innocent parent, and may also decree a provision for their education and maintenance out of the estate and property of the guilty party.

History: R.S. 1846, Ch. 84; CL 1857, 3259; CL 1871, 4770; How. 6258; CL 1897, 8650; CL 1915, 11426; CL 1929, 12757; CL 1948, 552.38
Mich. Comp. Laws § Article IX § 31 — MI Code / Chapter 1 / Act CONSTITUTION-OF-MICHIGAN-OF-1963 / Section Article IX § 31
Levying tax or increasing rate of existing tax; maximum tax rate on new base; increase in assessed valuation of property; exceptions to limitations.
Status: in_force

Sec. 31.

Units of Local Government are hereby prohibited from levying any tax not authorized by law or charter when this section is ratified or from increasing the rate of an existing tax above that rate authorized by law or charter when this section is ratified, without the approval of a majority of the qualified electors of that unit of Local Government voting thereon. If the definition of the base of an existing tax is broadened, the maximum authorized rate of taxation on the new base in each unit of Local Government shall be reduced to yield the same estimated gross revenue as on the prior base. If the assessed valuation of property as finally equalized, excluding the value of new construction and improvements, increases by a larger percentage than the increase in the General Price Level from the previous year, the maximum authorized rate applied thereto in each unit of Local Government shall be reduced to yield the same gross revenue from existing property, adjusted for changes in the General Price Level, as could have been collected at the existing authorized rate on the prior assessed value.

The limitations of this section shall not apply to taxes imposed for the payment of principal and interest on bonds or other evidence of indebtedness or for the payment of assessments on contract obligations in anticipation of which bonds are issued which were authorized prior to the effective date of this amendment.

History: Add. Initiated Law, approved Nov. 7, 1978, Eff. Dec. 23, 1978
Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.6045 — MI Code / Chapter 600 / Act Act-236-of-1961 / Section 600.6045
Execution; refusal of highest bidder to take property; effect.
Status: in_force

Sec. 6045.

If the highest bidder for any property at any sale on execution refuses to take and pay for it, he is liable for any loss on resale.

In such case the officer shall sell the property again at the same time, or thereafter, giving notice of the second sale.

The officer conducting the sale may sue to enforce the liability under subsection (1), and may recover in the action the expenses of the second sale, and may tax reasonable attorney fees as costs.

The officer shall account for what he receives on the second sale and for any damages recovered under subsection (1) as for so much received on the execution.

History: 1961, Act 236, Eff. Jan. 1, 1963
Mich. Comp. Laws § 440.8504 — MI Code / Chapter 440 / Act Act-174-of-1962 / Section 440.8504
Maintenance of financial asset by securities intermediary; quantity; manner; limitation; duties; applicability to clearing corporation.
Status: in_force

Sec. 8504.

A securities intermediary shall promptly obtain and thereafter maintain a financial asset in a quantity corresponding to the aggregate of all security entitlements it has established in favor of its entitlement holders with respect to that financial asset. The securities intermediary may maintain those financial assets directly or through 1 or more other securities intermediaries.

Except to the extent otherwise agreed by its entitlement holder, a securities intermediary may not grant any security interests in a financial asset it is obligated to maintain pursuant to subsection (1).

A securities intermediary satisfies the duty in subsection (1) if the securities intermediary does either of the following:

Acts with respect to the duty as agreed upon by the entitlement holder and the securities intermediary.

In the absence of agreement, exercises due care in accordance with reasonable commercial standards to obtain and maintain the financial asset.

This section does not apply to a clearing corporation that is itself the obligor of an option or similar obligation to which its entitlement holders have security entitlements.

History: Add. 1998, Act 278, Imd. Eff. July 27, 1998
Mich. Comp. Laws § 64.8a — MI Code / Chapter 61 / Act Act-3-of-1895 / Section 64.8a
Functions subject to ordinance.
Status: in_force

Sec. 8a.

The functions of the village clerk are subject to an ordinance adopted under section 8 of chapter V.

History: Add. 1985, Act 173, Imd. Eff. Dec. 2, 1985
Mich. Comp. Laws § 390.761 — MI Code / Chapter 390 / Act Territorial-Laws-of-1833-Vol-III / Section 390.761
Expulsion; suspension.
Status: in_force

Sec. 11.

A person may be expelled or suspended from the privileges of Kalamazoo college if in the judgment of the president of the college, the board of trustees, or any other person or committee designated by the board of trustees, it is considered in the best interest of the college.

History: Add. 1985, Act 203, Eff. Mar. 31, 1986
Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.3328 — MI Code / Chapter 600 / Act Act-236-of-1961 / Section 600.3328
Partition against state; service of papers; appearance.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3328.

Partition proceedings may be brought in the circuit courts against the state of Michigan whenever any lands are held jointly or as tenants in common by individuals and the state of Michigan.

All papers required to be served on the people of this state as defendants in a partition proceeding shall be served on the attorney general, who shall appear in behalf of the state and attend to its interests. The proceedings shall be conducted in the same manner as if they were against individuals and like orders and decrees shall be had. The proportion of the costs and expenses which are adjudged to be paid by the people of this state shall be certified by the attorney general and paid out of the state treasury on warrant of the state treasurer.

History: 1961, Act 236, Eff. Jan. 1, 1963
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.4911 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.4911
Total priority points; computation; tied projects; assignment of priority.
Status: in_force

Sec. 4911.

Total priority points for a collecting sewer project shall be the sum of the points assigned for water pollution control needs.

If 2 or more projects receive the same priority point totals, the department shall assign priorities to the tied projects after considering factors such as waters affected, extent of public interests involved, relative magnitude of pollution injury, and other factors as the department considers appropriate.

History: 1994, Act 451, Eff. Mar. 30, 1995
Mich. Comp. Laws § 32.1138 — MI Code / Chapter 32 / Act Act-523-of-1980 / Section 32.1138
Complaint to superior officer concerning commanding officer; forwarding complaint to officer exercising general court-martial jurisdiction; examination; redress; transmitting true statement of complaint with proceedings, to adjutant general.
Status: in_force

Sec. 138.

A member of the state military forces who believes that he or she was wronged by the member's commanding officer, or who, upon due application to the commander, is refused redress, may complain to a superior officer who shall forward the complaint, in writing, to the officer exercising general court-martial jurisdiction over the officer against whom the complaint is made. That officer shall examine the complaint and take proper measures for redressing the wrong complained of, and the officer, as soon as possible, shall transmit to the adjutant general a true statement of the complaint, with the proceedings had on the complaint.

History: 1980, Act 523, Eff. Mar. 31, 1981
Mich. Comp. Laws § 691.1102 — MI Code / Chapter 691 / Act Act-105-of-1964 / Section 691.1102
Register of deeds; reproductions; duplication; storage; display.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

The register of deeds of a county, if so instructed by a resolution of the county board of commissioners, may reproduce pursuant to the records media act a deed, mortgage, map, instrument, or writing recorded in his or her office and a record or index required by law to be kept by him or her. The register of deeds shall make reproductions in duplicate and store 1 reproduction in a building separate from his or her office. The register of deeds shall retain the other reproduction in his or her office with suitable equipment for displaying the record at not less than its original size or for preparing copies for persons entitled to copies.

History: 1964, Act 105, Eff. Aug. 28, 1964; Am. 1992, Act 187, Imd. Eff. Oct. 5, 1992
Mich. Comp. Laws § 750.75 — MI Code / Chapter 750 / Act Act-328-of-1931 / Section 750.75
Fourth degree arson.
Status: in_force

Sec. 75.

(1) Except as provided in sections 72, 73, and 74, a person who does any of the following is guilty of fourth degree arson:

(a) Willfully and maliciously burns, damages, or destroys by fire or explosive any of the following or its contents:

( i ) Any personal property having a value of $1,000.00 or more, but less than $20,000.00.

( ii ) Any personal property having a value of $200.00 or more if the person has 1 or more prior convictions.

(b) Willfully or negligently sets fire to a woods, prairie, or grounds of another person or permits fire to pass from his or her own woods, prairie, or grounds to another person's property causing damage or destruction to that other property.

(2) Subsection (1)(a) applies regardless of whether the person owns the personal property.

(3) Fourth degree arson is a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than 5 years or a fine of not more than $10,000.00 or 3 times the value of the property damaged or destroyed, whichever is greater, or both imprisonment and a fine.

History: 1931, Act 328, Eff. Sept. 18, 1931; CL 1948, 750.75; Am. 2012, Act 532, Eff. Apr. 3, 2013
Mich. Comp. Laws § 397.492 — MI Code / Chapter 397 / Act Act-127-of-1959 / Section 397.492
State library for blind; administration, rules and regulations.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

The state board for libraries shall have full power to administer this library, determine standards of operation, and make rules and regulations that will best serve both Braille and talking book readers.

History: 1959, Act 127, Eff. Mar. 19, 1960
Mich. Comp. Laws § 750.18 — MI Code / Chapter 750 / Act Act-328-of-1931 / Section 750.18
Mixing drug or medicine; injuriously affecting quality or potency; violations; penalties; “serious impairment of body function” defined; other violations committed.
Status: in_force

Sec. 18.

(1) Except for the purpose of compounding in the necessary preparation of medicine, a person shall not knowingly or recklessly mix, color, stain, or powder, or order or permit another person to mix, color, stain, or powder, a drug or medicine with an ingredient or material so as to injuriously affect the quality or potency of the drug or medicine.

(2) A person shall not sell, offer for sale, possess for sale, cause to be sold, or manufacture for sale a drug or medicine mixed, colored, stained, or powdered in the manner proscribed in subsection (1).

(3) Except as otherwise provided in this section, a person who violates subsection (1) or (2) is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than 2 years or a fine of not more than $1,000.00, or both.

(4) A person who commits a violation of subsection (1) or (2) that results in personal injury is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than 4 years or a fine of not more than $4,000.00, or both.

(5) A person who commits a violation of subsection (1) or (2) that results in serious impairment of a body function is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than 5 years or a fine of not more than $5,000.00, or both.

(6) A person who commits a violation of subsection (1) or (2) that results in death is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than 15 years or a fine of not more than $20,000.00, or both.

(7) Except as provided in sections 25 and 25a of chapter IX of the code of criminal procedure, 1927 PA 175, MCL 769.25 and 769.25a, a person who commits a violation of subsection (1) or (2) with the intent to kill or to cause serious impairment of a body function of 2 or more individuals that results in death is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for life without possibility of parole or life without possibility of parole and a fine of not more than $40,000.00. It is not a defense to a charge under this subsection that the person did not intend to kill a specific individual or did not intend to cause serious impairment of a body function of 2 or more specific individuals.

(8) As used in this section, "serious impairment of a body function" means that phrase as defined in section 58c of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.58c.

(9) This section does not prohibit an individual from being charged with, convicted of, or punished for any other violation of law that is committed by that individual while violating this section.

History: 1931, Act 328, Eff. Sept. 18, 1931; CL 1948, 750.18; Am. 2004, Act 213, Eff. Oct. 12, 2004; Am. 2014, Act 23, Imd. Eff. Mar. 4, 2014
Mich. Comp. Laws § 500.2050 — MI Code / Chapter 500 / Act Act-218-of-1956 / Section 500.2050
Construction of chapter.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2050.

The enumeration in this uniform trade practices act of powers vested in the commissioner or of specific unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts and practices in the business of insurance is not exclusive or restrictive or intended to limit the powers of the commissioner or any court of review but the provisions of such act are in all respects cumulative of and supplemental to the insurance code and all other applicable Michigan statutes or common law.

History: 1956, Act 218, Eff. Jan. 1, 1957
Mich. Comp. Laws § 124.512 — MI Code / Chapter 124 / Act Act-7-of-1967-Ex-Sess- / Section 124.512
Appropriation of funds by public agency; sale, lease, or gift of personnel, services, facilities; receipt of grants-in-aid.
Status: in_force

Sec. 12.

A public agency entering into an interlocal agreement may appropriate funds and may sell, lease, give, or otherwise supply any party designated to operate the joint or cooperative undertaking any personnel, services, facilities, property, franchises, or funds for the undertaking that may be within its legal power to furnish.

A public agency entering into an interlocal agreement may receive grants-in-aid or other assistance funds from the United States government, this state, or Canada for use in carrying out the purposes of the interlocal agreement.

History: 1967, Ex. Sess., Act 7, Eff. Mar. 22, 1968; Am. 2002, Act 439, Imd. Eff. June 13, 2002