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Mich. Comp. Laws § 445.954 — MI Code / Chapter 445 / Act Act-424-of-1984 / Section 445.954
Amount necessary to acquire ownership; amount applied toward purchase price.
Status: in_force

Sec. 4.

The amount to be paid by the lessee to acquire ownership as disclosed in section 3(j) shall not be greater than the cash price as disclosed under section 3(k) minus an amount equal to 45% of all periodic rental payments made by the lessee.

If at any time an amount equal to 45% of the total periodic rental payments paid by the lessee to the lessor equals the cash purchase price disclosed under section 3(k), then the lessee shall acquire ownership of the rental property.

This section shall not prohibit a lessor from offering a rental purchase agreement which provides that an amount equal to 45% or more of the periodic rental payments is applied toward the purchase price disclosed in section 3(k).

History: 1984, Act 424, Eff. Mar. 29, 1985
Mich. Comp. Laws § 141.19 — MI Code / Chapter 141 / Act Act-42-of-1913 / Section 141.19
Commissioner's rules.
Status: in_force

Sec. 9.

Said board of sinking fund commissioners is authorized to adopt rules not in conflict herewith for the government of its actions, and shall be authorized for the purpose of enforcing the collection of any bonds or securities taken by it to bring suit in the name of the county board of sinking fund commissioners.

History: 1913, Act 42, Eff. Aug. 14, 1913; CL 1915, 2394; CL 1929, 1243; CL 1948, 141.19
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.134 — MI Code / Chapter 280 / Act Act-40-of-1956 / Section 280.134
Intercounty drain; venue of actions; appointment of outside circuit judge.
Status: in_force

Sec. 134.

Any action involving intercounty drains, except such actions as may be brought directly in the supreme court, may be brought in the circuit court of any county in which any part of the intercounty drain is located: Provided, That on request by any party to said action made prior to the time said action is instituted, or within 30 days after receipt of process, the presiding circuit judge of Michigan shall appoint a circuit judge of any judicial circuit not wholly or partially located within any county in which any part of the intercounty drain is located to hear said action.

History: 1956, Act 40, Imd. Eff. Mar. 28, 1956
Mich. Comp. Laws § 51.221 — MI Code / Chapter 51 / Act Act-2-of-1867 / Section 51.221
Sheriff, undersheriff, or deputy sheriff; powers and duties; fees.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

A sheriff, undersheriff, or deputy sheriff of a county of this state may serve or execute civil or criminal process issued by a court of this state, and have and exercise all the powers and duties of constables. Except where other fees are expressly provided, they shall be entitled to the same fees for these services as are allowed by law to constables in like cases.

History: 1867, Act 2, Imd. Eff. Jan. 31, 1867; CL 1871, 568; Am. 1881, Act 12, Imd. Eff. Feb. 23, 1881; How. 596; CL 1897, 2595; CL 1915, 2455; CL 1929, 1337; CL 1948, 51.221; Am. 1981, Act 148, Imd. Eff. Nov. 10, 1981
Mich. Comp. Laws § 141.1011 — MI Code / Chapter 141 / Act Act-80-of-1981 / Section 141.1011
Conditional effective date.
Status: in_force

Sec. 11.

This act shall not take effect unless House Bill No. 4563 of the 81st Legislature is enacted into law.

History: 1981, Act 80, Eff. July 15, 1981
Mich. Comp. Laws § 458.206 — MI Code / Chapter 458 / Act Act-265-of-1909 / Section 458.206
Trustees; qualifications; election; term.
Status: in_force

Sec. 6.

The trustees aforesaid, and as well their successors in office, shall be adult citizens of the United States, shall be chosen by ballot, or as provided in the articles of association, and shall hold office for a length of time, and upon conditions, as shall be provided in the articles.

History: 1909, Act 265, Eff. Sept. 1, 1909; CL 1915, 11092; CL 1929, 10929; CL 1948, 458.206; Am. 1976, Act 274, Imd. Eff. Oct. 14, 1976
Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.3201 — MI Code / Chapter 600 / Act Act-236-of-1961 / Section 600.3201
Foreclosure by advertisement of mortgage containing power of sale; exception.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3201.

Every mortgage of real estate, which contains a power of sale, upon default being made in any condition of such mortgage, may be foreclosed by advertisement, in the cases and in the manner specified in this chapter. However, the procedures set forth in this chapter shall not apply to mortgages of real estate held by the Michigan state housing development authority.

History: 1961, Act 236, Eff. Jan. 1, 1963; Am. 1981, Act 172, Imd. Eff. Dec. 10, 1981
Mich. Comp. Laws § 440.7303 — MI Code / Chapter 440 / Act Act-174-of-1962 / Section 440.7303
Diversion; reconsignment; change of instructions.
Status: in_force

Sec. 7303.

(1) Unless the bill of lading otherwise provides, a carrier may deliver the goods to a person or destination other than that stated in the bill or may otherwise dispose of the goods, without liability for misdelivery, on instructions from any of the following:

(a) The holder of a negotiable bill.

(b) The consignor on a nonnegotiable bill, even if the consignee has given contrary instructions.

(c) The consignee on a nonnegotiable bill in the absence of contrary instructions from the consignor, if the goods have arrived at the billed destination or if the consignee is in possession of the tangible bill or in control of the electronic bill.

(d) The consignee on a nonnegotiable bill, if the consignee is entitled as against the consignor to dispose of the goods.

(2) Unless instructions described in subsection (1) are included in a negotiable bill of lading, a person to which the bill is duly negotiated may hold the bailee according to the original terms.

History: 1962, Act 174, Eff. Jan. 1, 1964; Am. 2012, Act 87, Eff. July 1, 2013
Mich. Comp. Laws § 500.261 — MI Code / Chapter 500 / Act Act-218-of-1956 / Section 500.261
Internet website; publication of changes and rights regarding automobile insurance in this state; reporting of fraud and unfair practices.
Status: in_force

Sec. 261.

(1) The department shall maintain on its internet website a page that does all of the following:

(a) Advises that the department may be able to assist a person who believes that an automobile insurer is not paying benefits, not making timely payments, or otherwise not performing as it is obligated to do under an insurance policy.

(b) Advises the person of selected important rights that the person has under chapter 20 that specifically relate to automobile insurers and the payment of benefits by automobile insurers.

(c) Allows the person to submit an explanation of the facts of the person's problems with the automobile insurer.

(d) Allows the person to submit electronically, or instructs the person how to provide paper copies of, any documentation to support the facts submitted under subdivision (c).

(e) Explains to the person the steps that the department will take and that may be taken after information is submitted under this section.

(2) The department shall maintain on its internet website a page that advises consumers about the changes to automobile insurance in this state that were made by the amendatory act that added this section, including, among any other information that the director determines to be important, ways to shop for insurance.

(3) The department shall maintain on its internet website a page or pages that allow a person to report fraud and unfair settlement and claims practices.

History: Add. 2019, Act 21, Imd. Eff. June 11, 2019
Mich. Comp. Laws § 16.357 — MI Code / Chapter 16 / Act Act-380-of-1965 / Section 16.357
Water resources commission; transfer.
Status: in_force

Sec. 257.

The water resources commission created under section 1 of Act No. 245 of the Public Acts of 1929, as amended, being section 323.1 of the Compiled Laws of 1948, is transferred by a type I transfer to the department of natural resources.

History: 1965, Act 380, Imd. Eff. July 23, 1965; Am. 1968, Act 353, Eff. Nov. 15, 1968
Mich. Comp. Laws § 330.1786 — MI Code / Chapter 330 / Act Act-258-of-1974 / Section 330.1786
Notice of decision; appeal.
Status: in_force

Sec. 786.

Within 45 days after receiving written notice of the decision of an appeals committee under section 784(5), the appellant may file a written appeal with the department. The appeal shall be based on the record established in the previous appeal, and on the allegation that the investigative findings of the local office of recipient rights are not consistent with the facts or with law, rules, policies, or guidelines.

Upon receipt of an appeal under subsection (1), the department shall give written notice of receipt of the appeal to the appellant, respondent, local office of recipient rights holding the record of the complaint, and the responsible mental health agency. The respondent, local office of recipient rights holding the record of the complaint, and the responsible mental health agency shall ensure that the department has access to all necessary documentation and other evidence cited in the complaint.

The department shall review the record based on the allegation described in subsection (1). The department shall not consider additional evidence or information that was not available during the appeal under section 784, although the department may return the matter to the board or the governing body of the licensed hospital requesting an additional investigation.

Within 30 days after receiving the appeal, the department shall review the appeal and do 1 of the following:

Affirm the decision of the appeals committee.

Return the matter to the board or the governing body of the licensed hospital with instruction for additional investigation and consideration.

The department shall provide copies of its action to the respondent, appellant, recipient if different than the appellant, the recipient's guardian if a guardian has been appointed, the board of the community mental health services program or the governing body of the licensed hospital, and the local office of recipient rights holding the record.

History: Add. 1995, Act 290, Eff. Mar. 28, 1996
Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.1111 — MI Code / Chapter 722 / Act Act-195-of-2001 / Section 722.1111
Testimony.
Status: in_force

Sec. 111.

In addition to other procedures available to a party, a party to a child-custody proceeding may offer testimony of witnesses who are located in another state, including testimony of the parties and the child, by deposition or other means allowable in this state for testimony taken in another state. The court on its own motion may order that the testimony of a person be taken in another state and may prescribe the manner in which and the terms upon which the testimony is taken.

A court of this state may permit an individual residing in another state to be deposed or to testify by telephone, audiovisual means, or other electronic means before a designated court or at another location in that state. A court of this state shall cooperate with courts of other states in designating an appropriate location for a deposition or testimony.

Documentary evidence transmitted from another state to a court of this state by technological means that do not produce an original writing may not be excluded from evidence on an objection based on the means of transmission.

History: 2001, Act 195, Eff. Apr. 1, 2002
Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.1352 — MI Code / Chapter 600 / Act Act-236-of-1961 / Section 600.1352
Trial by jury of 6 in civil cases; verdict.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1352.

In civil cases commenced in a court governed by this chapter, when a trial by jury is requested in accordance with rules of the supreme court, the trial shall be by a jury of 6. Except in cases involving the possible commitment of a person to a mental, correctional or training institution, a verdict in any civil case including condemnation and grade separation cases shall be received when 5 jurors agree. In civil cases involving the possible commitment to a mental, correctional or training institution, the court shall receive only a unanimous verdict.

History: Add. 1968, Act 326, Eff. Nov. 15, 1968; Am. 1970, Act 118, Imd. Eff. July 23, 1970; Am. 1972, Act 69, Imd. Eff. Mar. 3, 1972
Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.6470 — MI Code / Chapter 600 / Act Act-236-of-1961 / Section 600.6470
Court of claims; fraud in connection with claim; forfeiture.
Status: in_force

Sec. 6470.

Any person who corruptly practices, or attempts to practice, any fraud against the state of Michigan, in the proof, statement, establishment, or allowance of any claim or of any part of a claim, against the state, shall thereby forfeit the same to the state and it shall be the duty of the court of claims in such case to find specifically that such fraud was practiced, or attempted to be practiced, and thereupon to give judgment that such claim is forfeited to the state and that the claimant be forever barred from prosecuting the same.

History: 1961, Act 236, Eff. Jan. 1, 1963
Mich. Comp. Laws § 450.5008 — MI Code / Chapter 450 / Act Act-23-of-1993 / Section 450.5008
Activities not considered to be transacting business in state; applicability of section to other state laws.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1008.

Without excluding other activities that may not constitute transacting business in this state, a foreign limited liability company is not considered to be transacting business in this state, for the purposes of this act, because it is carrying on in this state any 1 or more of the following activities:

Maintaining, defending, or settling any proceeding.

Holding meetings of its members or carrying on any other activities concerning its internal affairs.

Maintaining bank accounts.

Maintaining offices or agencies for the transfer, exchange, and registration of the foreign limited liability company's own securities or maintaining trustees or depositaries with respect to those securities.

Selling through independent contractors.

Soliciting or obtaining orders, whether by mail or through employees or agents or otherwise, if the orders require acceptance outside this state before they become contracts.

Creating or acquiring indebtedness, mortgages, and security interests in real or personal property.

Securing or collecting debts or enforcing mortgages and security interests in property securing the debts.

Owning, without more, real or personal property.

Conducting an isolated transaction that is completed within 30 days and that is not 1 in the course of repeated transactions of a like nature.

Transacting business in interstate commerce.

This section does not apply in determining the contacts or activities that may subject a foreign limited liability company to service of process or taxation in this state or to regulation under any other law of this state.

History: 1993, Act 23, Eff. June 1, 1993
Mich. Comp. Laws § 8.3v — MI Code / Chapter 8 / Act R-S-of-1846 / Section 8.3v
Population.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3v.

The population of the state or any political subdivision thereof shall be determined, unless otherwise specifically provided, on the basis of the latest federal decennial census preceding the time as of which the population is to be determined.

History: Add. 1959, Act 189, Imd. Eff. July 22, 1959
Mich. Comp. Laws § 559.181 — MI Code / Chapter 559 / Act Act-59-of-1978 / Section 559.181
Service of process.
Status: in_force

Sec. 81.

When a person, including a nonresident of this state, files a notice under section 71, records a master deed, or engages in conduct prohibited or made actionable by this act or a rule promulgated or order issued under this act and personal jurisdiction over the person cannot otherwise be obtained in this state, that conduct shall be considered equivalent to the person's appointment of the administrator as his or her attorney to receive service of process in any noncriminal action or proceeding against the person or the person's successor, personal representative, or administrator which grows out of that conduct and which is brought under this act or any rule promulgated or order issued under this act, with the same force and validity as if served on the person personally.

Service under subsection (1) may be made by filing a copy of the process in the office of the administrator together with a $25.00 fee. Service is not effective unless the plaintiff, which may be the administrator in an action or proceeding instituted by it, immediately sends notice of the service and a copy of the process by registered or certified mail to the defendant or respondent at the person's last known address, or takes other steps which are reasonably calculated to give actual notice and unless the plaintiff's affidavit of compliance with this section is filed in the case on or before the return day of the process, if any, or within such further time as the court allows.

History: 1978, Act 59, Eff. July 1, 1978; Am. 1982, Act 538, Imd. Eff. Jan. 17, 1983
Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.3348 — MI Code / Chapter 600 / Act Act-236-of-1961 / Section 600.3348
Receiver; appointment; protection from waste, trespass, or injury.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3348.

Whenever it appears that to do so would benefit any part owner of the premises of which partition is sought, the court may appoint a receiver having such authority as is necessary to lease the premises; or protect them from waste, trespass, or injury; or for any other purpose.

History: 1961, Act 236, Eff. Jan. 1, 1963
Mich. Comp. Laws § 125.4613 — MI Code / Chapter 125 / Act Act-57-of-2018 / Section 125.4613
Acquisition of private property; transfer to authority; use.
Status: in_force

Sec. 613.

A municipality may acquire private property under 1911 PA 149, MCL 213.21 to 213.25, for the purpose of transfer to the authority, and may transfer the property to the authority for use in an approved development, on terms and conditions it considers appropriate, and the taking, transfer, and use shall be considered necessary for public purposes and for the benefit of the public.

History: 2018, Act 57, Eff. Jan. 1, 2019
Mich. Comp. Laws § 123.956 — MI Code / Chapter 123 / Act Act-31-of-1948-1st-Ex-Sess- / Section 123.956
Articles of incorporation; publication; statement; filing; effective date; presumption.
Status: in_force

Sec. 6.

The officer designated in the articles of incorporation shall cause a copy of the articles of incorporation or a summary of the articles to be published once in a newspaper designated in the articles of incorporation and circulating within the incorporating units accompanied by a statement that the right exists to question the incorporation in court as provided in this section. The officer shall file with the county clerk of the county designated under section 5(1)(h) and the secretary of state a certified copy of the articles of incorporation with a certificate of the date and newspaper of publication. The officer shall file with the recording officer of the authority, when selected, the original articles of incorporation with a certificate of the date and newspaper of publication.

The authority shall become effective at the time provided in the articles of incorporation.

The validity of the incorporation shall be conclusively presumed unless questioned in a court of competent jurisdiction within 60 days after the filing of the certified copies with the secretary of state and the county clerk.

History: 1948, 1st Ex. Sess., Act 31, Imd. Eff. May 10, 1948; CL 1948, 123.956; Am. 1973, Act 110, Imd. Eff. Aug. 19, 1973; Am. 1995, Act 147, Imd. Eff. July 11, 1995
Mich. Comp. Laws § 290.359 — MI Code / Chapter 290 / Act Act-227-of-1915 / Section 290.359
Tests, accounts, publication; expenses; unexpended balance.
Status: in_force

Sec. 9.

The secretary of the state board of agriculture shall publish in his annual report a correct statement of all tests made under this act, together with a statement of all moneys received from fees and the amount of the same expended in making such tests. All expenses incurred by said board under the provisions of this act shall be paid from the funds arising from the fees provided in section 5 of this act, and any surplus from the total of such fees remaining on hand at the close of the fiscal year shall be placed to the credit of the experimental funds of the board.

History: 1915, Act 227, Eff. Jan. 1, 1916; CL 1915, 2239; CL 1929, 1097; CL 1948, 290.359
Mich. Comp. Laws § 449.309 — MI Code / Chapter 449 / Act Act-191-of-1877 / Section 449.309
Partnership associations; dissolution, distribution of property.
Status: in_force

Sec. 9.

When any such partnership association shall be dissolved by the voluntary action thereof, its property shall be applied and distributed as follows:

First, To the payment of all debts for wages of labor;

Second, To the satisfaction of its other liabilities and indebtedness;

Third, After payment thereof, the same shall be distributed to and among the members thereof, in proportion to their respective interests, in the following manner:

Fourth, 3 liquidating trustees shall be elected by the members of the association, who shall have full power and authority to wind up the concern, and distribute the net assets thereof among the members, under the direction of the circuit court of the proper county.

History: 1877, Act 191, Eff. Aug. 21, 1877; How. 2373; CL 1897, 6087; CL 1915, 7958; CL 1929, 9917; CL 1948, 449.309