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Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.35702 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.35702
Petition for designation; hearing; notice; resolution.
Status: in_force

Sec. 35702.

Twenty-five or more freeholders of a township may apply by petition to the board for the county in which that township is located for designation of a county local road or portion of a county local road as a natural beauty road. Twenty-five or more freeholders of a city may petition the legislative body of the city for designation of a city street or a portion of a city street as a natural beauty street. Twenty-five or more freeholders of a village may petition the legislative body of the village for designation of a village street or a portion of a village street as a natural beauty street.

Within 6 months after a petition is received, the board or the legislative body of the city or village shall hold a public hearing to consider designating the road or street described in the petition as a natural beauty road or natural beauty street, respectively. The hearing shall be held at a suitable place within the township in which the proposed natural beauty road is located or the city or village in which the proposed natural beauty street is located. At the hearing, a party or interested person may support or object to the proposed designation. The board, the legislative body of the city, or the legislative body of the village shall give notice of the hearing by publication at least once each week for 2 successive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the county, city, or village, respectively, and by posting 5 notices within the limits of the portion of the road or street to be designated, in public and conspicuous places. The posting shall be done and at least 1 publication in the newspaper shall be made not less than 10 days before the hearing.

Within 30 days after the hearing, if the board, the legislative body of the city, or the legislative body of the village considers the designation desirable, it shall file with the county clerk, city clerk, or village clerk, respectively, a true copy of its resolution designating the portion of the county local road as a natural beauty road, the portion of the city street as a natural beauty street, or the portion of the village street as a natural beauty street, respectively.

History: Add. 1995, Act 59, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1995
Mich. Comp. Laws § 257.2147 — MI Code / Chapter 257 / Act Act-345-of-2016 / Section 257.2147
Lease of limousine or taxicab; informing person of act requirements.
Status: in_force

Sec. 47.

A lessor shall be required to inform any person leasing any limousine or taxicab for the transportation of passengers for hire of the requirements of this act on a motor vehicle lease agreement.

History: 2016, Act 345, Eff. Mar. 21, 2017
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.19305 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.19305
Duties of secretary of state.
Status: in_force

Sec. 19305.

The secretary of state shall perform all acts necessary to properly submit the question prescribed by section 19304 to the electors of this state qualified to vote on the question at the general November election following September 9, 1988, the effective date of former Act No. 326 of the Public Acts of 1988.

History: Add. 1995, Act 60, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1995
Mich. Comp. Laws § 141.652 — MI Code / Chapter 141 / Act Act-284-of-1964 / Section 141.652
Tax withheld; payments or persons excepted.
Status: in_force

Sec. 52.

Employers shall not withhold any tax from the following payments or persons:

Compensation paid to domestic help.

Compensation paid to a person who is not an employee, including an independent contractor.

An amount allowed and paid to an employee as reimbursement for expenses necessarily and actually incurred by the employee in the actual performance of his or her services, and that is deductible by the employer.

A qualified taxpayer. "Qualified taxpayer" means that term as defined in section 35(12)(c)( i ).

History: 1964, Act 284, Imd. Eff. June 12, 1964; Am. 1996, Act 442, Imd. Eff. Dec. 19, 1996
Mich. Comp. Laws § 554.632 — MI Code / Chapter 554 / Act Act-454-of-1978 / Section 554.632
Definitions.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

As used in this act:

"Rental agreement" means a written agreement embodying the terms and conditions concerning the use and occupancy of residential premises, but does not include an agreement the terms of which are limited to 1 or more of the following: the identity of the parties, a description of the premises, the rental period, the total rental amount due, the amount of rental payments, and the times at which payments are due.

"Residential premises" means a house, building, structure, shelter, or mobile home, or portion thereof, used as a dwelling, home, residence, or living place by 1 or more human beings. "Residential premises" includes an apartment unit, a boardinghouse, a rooming house, a mobile home, a mobile home space, and a single or multiple family dwelling, but does not include a hotel, a motel, motor home, or other tourist accommodation, when used as a temporary accommodation for guests or tourists, or premises used as the principal place of residence of the owner and rented occasionally during temporary absences including vacation or sabbatical leave.

History: 1978, Act 454, Eff. July 1, 1979
Mich. Comp. Laws § 570.522 — MI Code / Chapter 570 / Act Act-148-of-1985 / Section 570.522
Definitions.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

As used in this act:

(a) "Active duty" means active duty pursuant to an executive order of the president of the United States, an act of congress, or an order of the governor.

(b) "Armed forces" means that term as defined in section 2 of the veteran right to employment services act, 1994 PA 39, MCL 35.1092.

(c) "Last known address" means the street address, post office box, or electronic mail address provided by the tenant in the latest rental agreement or in a subsequent written notice of change of address by hand delivery, first-class mail, or electronic mail.

(d) "Michigan national guard" means that term as defined in section 105 of the Michigan military act, 1967 PA 150, MCL 32.505.

(e) "Owner" means the owner, operator, lessor, or sublessor of a self-service storage facility or self-contained storage unit or his or her agent or any other person authorized by him or her to manage the facility or to receive rent from a tenant under a rental agreement.

(f) "Rental agreement" means an agreement or lease that establishes or modifies terms, conditions, rules, or any other provision concerning the use and occupancy of a self-service storage facility or use of a self-contained storage unit.

(g) "Self-contained storage unit" means a unit not less than 500 cubic feet in size, including, but not limited to, a trailer, box, or other shipping container, that is leased by a tenant primarily for use as storage space whether the unit is located at a facility owned or operated by the owner or at another location designated by the tenant.

(h) "Self-service storage facility" or "facility" means any real property designed or used for the purpose of renting or leasing individual storage space to tenants who are to have access to that space for the purpose of storing and removing personal property.

(i) "Service member" means a member of the armed forces, a reserve branch of the armed forces, or the Michigan national guard.

(j) "Tenant" means a person or the person's sublessee, successor, or assign entitled to the use of storage space to the exclusion of others at a self-service storage facility or in a self-contained storage unit under a rental agreement.

History: 1985, Act 148, Eff. Mar. 31, 1986; Am. 2000, Act 443, Imd. Eff. Jan. 9, 2001; Am. 2009, Act 177, Imd. Eff. Dec. 15, 2009
Mich. Comp. Laws § 431.253 — MI Code / Chapter 431 / Act Act-90-of-1951 / Section 431.253
Cashed winning tickets; delivery to racing commissioner.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3.

A licensee who pays a winning ticket subsequent to the last day of a race meeting shall preserve the cashed winning ticket and deliver it to the racing commissioner.

History: 1951, Act 90, Imd. Eff. May 31, 1951; Am. 1959, Act 130, Imd. Eff. July 8, 1959; Am. 1998, Act 505, Imd. Eff. Jan. 8, 1999
Mich. Comp. Laws § 93.2 — MI Code / Chapter 81 / Act Act-215-of-1895 / Section 93.2
Prisoners; hard labor.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

All persons sentenced to confinement in the city prison, and all persons imprisoned therein on execution or commitment for the non-payment of fines for violations of the ordinances of the city, may be kept at hard labor during the term of their imprisonment, either within or without the prison, under such regulations as the council may prescribe.

History: 1895, Act 215, Eff. Aug. 30, 1895; CL 1897, 3123; CL 1915, 3037; CL 1929, 1961; CL 1948, 93.2
Mich. Comp. Laws § 400.18a — MI Code / Chapter 400 / Act Act-280-of-1939 / Section 400.18a
Friend of the court incentive payment program; establishment; activities; subsection (1) inapplicable to certain judicial circuits; annual appropriation.
Status: in_force

Sec. 18a.

A friend of the court incentive payment program is established in the state department. Except as provided in subsection (2), the program shall consist of the following activities:

An annual determination of the gross amount of child support payments collected by each office of the friend of the court for families receiving aid to families with dependent children, which amount is collected under the friend of the court act, Act No. 294 of the Public Acts of 1982, being sections 552.501 to 552.535 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, or the support and parenting time enforcement act, Act No. 295 of the Public Acts of 1982, being sections 552.601 to 552.650 of the Michigan Compiled Laws.

The remitting of 3% of the amount determined under subdivision (a) for an office, to the county treasurer for the appropriate county or counties for deposit in the friend of the court fund created in section 2530 of the revised judicature act of 1961, Act No. 236 of the Public Acts of 1961, being section 600.2530 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, if the county board of commissioners makes appropriations in accordance with that section.

Subsection (1) does not apply to any judicial circuit in which the employees serving in the circuit court are employees of the state judicial council.

The legislature annually shall appropriate to the state department an amount equal to the amount required to be remitted under subsection (1)(b).

History: Add. 1982, Act 298, Eff. July 1, 1983; Am. 1996, Act 12, Eff. June 1, 1996
Mich. Comp. Laws § 41.288b — MI Code / Chapter 41 / Act Act-246-of-1931 / Section 41.288b
Public street cleaning vehicles and snow removal equipment.
Status: in_force

Sec. 18b.

The township board of a township, by a majority vote at a regular meeting or a special meeting called for that purpose, may authorize the purchase of a public street cleaning vehicle or vehicles and snow removal equipment, and may provide for the maintenance and operation of the vehicles and equipment, payable from the funds of the township. The written approval of the board of county road commissioners shall first be obtained.

History: Add. 1989, Act 80, Imd. Eff. June 20, 1989
Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.3336 — MI Code / Chapter 600 / Act Act-236-of-1961 / Section 600.3336
Owelty; adjustment of equities.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3336.

When it appears to the court ordering partition that partition cannot be made equally between the parties without prejudice to the rights and interests of some of the parties the court may adjudge that 1 party compensate another in such a way as to equalize the partition according to the equities of the case.

When partitioning the premises or dividing the money received from a sale of the premises among the parties the court may take into consideration the equities of the situation, such as the value of the use of the premises by a party or the benefits which a party has conferred upon the premises.

History: 1961, Act 236, Eff. Jan. 1, 1963
Mich. Comp. Laws § 28.605 — MI Code / Chapter 28 / Act Act-203-of-1965 / Section 28.605
Commission; officers; terms; oath not required; disqualification from public office or employment.
Status: in_force

Sec. 5.

(1) The commission shall elect from among its members a chairperson and a vice-chairperson who shall serve for 1-year terms and who may be reelected.

(2) Membership on the commission does not constitute holding a public office, and members of the commission are not required to take and file oaths of office before serving on the commission.

(3) A member of the commission is not disqualified from holding any public office or employment by reason of his or her appointment or membership on the commission and shall not forfeit any public office or employment because of his or her appointment to the commission, notwithstanding any general, special, or local law, ordinance, or city charter.

History: 1965, Act 203, Eff. Jan. 1, 1966; Am. 1998, Act 237, Imd. Eff. July 3, 1998; Am. 2016, Act 289, Eff. Jan. 2, 2017
Mich. Comp. Laws § 35.1002 — MI Code / Chapter 35 / Act Act-106-of-1974 / Section 35.1002
Bonds.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

The state shall borrow not more than $205,000,000.00, pledge its faith and credit, and issue its serial notes or serial bonds therefor, with maturities as fixed by law for the purpose of paying to or for the benefit of veterans and their beneficiaries as provided in section 3.

History: 1974, Act 106, Eff. Nov. 5, 1974
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.71305 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.71305
Duties of secretary of state.
Status: in_force

Sec. 71305.

The secretary of state shall perform all acts necessary to properly submit the question prescribed by section 71304 to the electors of this state qualified to vote on the question at the next general November election following September 9, 1988.

History: Add. 1995, Act 58, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1995
Mich. Comp. Laws § 285.268 — MI Code / Chapter 285 / Act Act-220-of-1982 / Section 285.268
Purchase and cancellation of notes or bonds by authority; price.
Status: in_force

Sec. 18.

The authority, subject to the agreements with noteholders or bondholders as may then exist, shall have power out of any funds available therefor to purchase notes or bonds of the authority, which shall thereupon be canceled, at a price not exceeding (a) the redemption price then applicable plus accrued interest to the next interest payment date thereon, if the notes or bonds are then redeemable, or (b) the redemption price applicable on the first date after the purchase upon which the notes or bonds become subject to redemption plus accrued interest to that date, if the notes or bonds are not redeemable.

History: 1982, Act 220, Imd. Eff. July 10, 1982
Mich. Comp. Laws § 211.1a — MI Code / Chapter 211 / Act Act-206-of-1893 / Section 211.1a
Short title; general property tax act.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1a.

This act shall be known and may be cited as "The general property tax act".

History: Add. 1943, Act 231, Imd. Eff. Apr. 20, 1943; CL 1948, 211.1a
Mich. Comp. Laws § 3.254 — MI Code / Chapter 3 / Act Act-201-of-1986 / Section 3.254
Notice of proposed acquisition.
Status: in_force

Sec. 4.

Not less than 120 days before the United States proposes to acquire property rights in this state, it shall give written notice simultaneously to the board of each county and each city, village, and township, in which the property rights to be acquired are located and to the Michigan department of natural resources. The written notice shall contain all of the following:

A complete legal description of any real property or water area in which property rights are to be acquired.

The reason for the proposed acquisition.

The name of the county or counties in which the real property or water area is located.

The intended use of the real property or water area.

History: 1986, Act 201, Imd. Eff. July 25, 1986
Mich. Comp. Laws § 429.206 — MI Code / Chapter 429 / Act Act-19-of-1923 / Section 429.206
Violation of act; penalty.
Status: in_force

Sec. 6.

Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this act shall be punished by a fine of not more than 50 dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not more than 90 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.

History: 1923, Act 19, Eff. Aug. 30, 1923; CL 1929, 8826; CL 1948, 429.206
Mich. Comp. Laws § 455.282 — MI Code / Chapter 455 / Act Act-55-of-1911 / Section 455.282
Reorganized corporations; rights, obligations.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

Upon the filing of such duplicate certificates in said public offices, such corporation shall be deemed reorganized and its term renewed, continued and extended as of the time of the expiration of the former term thereof, and such reorganized and renewed corporation and as well the stockholders thereof shall have all the rights, powers, privileges and franchises and be seized and possessed of all of the property and of the same estate and interest therein, which said corporation and its stockholders or their assigns had or were seized or possessed of before the expiration of said corporate term, and as well all property acquired by or in the name of such corporation since the expiration of said corporate term in all respects without change, diminution or prejudice by reason of the expiration of said corporate term or lapse of time thereafter, as fully and absolutely as if said corporate term had not expired; and said reorganized and renewed corporation shall be subject to and liable for all of the debts, obligations and liabilities of such corporation in all respects as if said corporate term had not expired.

History: 1911, Act 55, Eff. Aug. 1, 1911; CL 1915, 10058; CL 1929, 10386; CL 1948, 455.282
Mich. Comp. Laws § 399.301 — MI Code / Chapter 399 / Act Act-325-of-1990 / Section 399.301
Short title.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Michigan museum act".

History: 1990, Act 325, Imd. Eff. Dec. 21, 1990
Mich. Comp. Laws § 71.1 — MI Code / Chapter 61 / Act Act-3-of-1895 / Section 71.1
Water works; establishment; maintenance.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

Any village may purchase or construct and may maintain water works to provide the village with pure water.

History: 1895, Act 3, Imd. Eff. Feb. 19, 1895; CL 1897, 2890; CL 1915, 2764; Am. 1917, Act 43, Eff. Aug. 10, 1917; Am. 1917, Act 94, Imd. Eff. Apr. 17, 1917; CL 1929, 1673; Am. 1937, Act 349, Imd. Eff. Aug. 5, 1937; CL 1948, 71.1; Am. 1998, Act 254, Imd. Eff. July 13, 1998
Mich. Comp. Laws § 691.1751 — MI Code / Chapter 691 / Act Act-343-of-2016 / Section 691.1751
Short title.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

This act shall be known and may be cited as the "wrongful imprisonment compensation act".

History: 2016, Act 343, Eff. Mar. 29, 2017
Mich. Comp. Laws § 18.1487 — MI Code / Chapter 18 / Act Act-431-of-1984 / Section 18.1487
Internal auditor; reports; plan to correct problems, abuses, or deficiencies; public disclosure of information.
Status: in_force

Sec. 487.

(1) Each internal auditor and department management shall report immediately to the department head if the internal auditor or management becomes aware of particularly serious or flagrant problems, abuses, or deficiencies relating to the administration of programs or operations of that principal department or its state agencies. If criminal activity is suspected, the department head shall immediately submit a report to the governor, attorney general, and the auditor general in accordance with reporting requirements established pursuant to section 484. Departments shall establish incident reporting protocols, reviewed and approved by the principal department director, to fulfill the reporting of all suspected serious problems by either internal audit or department management. Incidences warranting reporting under these provisions shall include those perpetrated by state employees or external entities with whom departments come into contact.

(2) Within 60 days after the receipt of a report filed pursuant to subsection (1), the department head shall submit a plan to correct the problems, abuses, or deficiencies to the state budget director. Within 30 days after the receipt of the plan to correct, the state budget director shall submit copies of the plan to correct to the auditor general and the senate and house appropriations committees.

(3) This section shall not be construed to authorize the public disclosure of information which is part of an ongoing criminal investigation or which is specifically prohibited from public disclosure by any other provision of law.

History: Add. 1986, Act 272, Imd. Eff. Dec. 19, 1986; Am. 2018, Act 389, Imd. Eff. Dec. 19, 2018
Mich. Comp. Laws § 4.1130 — MI Code / Chapter 4 / Act Act-268-of-1986 / Section 4.1130
Application and construction of chapter; uniformity.
Status: in_force

Sec. 130.

In applying and construing this chapter, states that enact a statute on uniform electronic legal material as provided for in this chapter shall consider the need to promote uniformity of the law with respect to its subject matter.

History: Add. 2018, Act 488, Imd. Eff. Dec. 27, 2018
Mich. Comp. Laws § 333.16105 — MI Code / Chapter 333 / Act Act-368-of-1978 / Section 333.16105
Definitions; H.
Status: in_force

Sec. 16105.

"Health occupation" means a health related vocation, calling, occupation, or employment performed by an individual whether or not the individual is licensed or registered under this article.

"Health profession" means a vocation, calling, occupation, or employment performed by an individual acting pursuant to a license or registration issued under this article.

"Health profession specialty field" means an area of practice established under this article that is within the scope of activities, functions, and duties of a licensed health profession and that requires advanced education and training beyond that required for initial licensure.

"Health profession specialty field license" means an authorization to use a title issued to a licensee who has met qualifications established by the Michigan board of dentistry for registration in a health profession specialty field. An individual who holds a dental specialty certification on the effective date of the amendatory act that added this subsection is considered to hold a health profession specialty field license in that speciality and may obtain renewal of the health profession specialty field license in that speciality on the expiration date of the specialty certification. The health profession specialty field license is not a license as that term is defined in section 16106(2).

"Health profession subfield" means an area of practice established under this article which is within the scope of the activities, functions, and duties of a licensed health profession, and requires less comprehensive knowledge and skill than is required to practice the full scope of the health profession.

History: 1978, Act 368, Eff. Sept. 30, 1978; Am. 2002, Act 643, Imd. Eff. Dec. 23, 2002
Mich. Comp. Laws § 454.71 — MI Code / Chapter 454 / Act Act-13-of-1897 / Section 454.71
Labor associations; incorporation.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

That labor associations may be incorporated under the provisions of this act.

History: 1897, Act 13, Imd. Eff. Feb. 18, 1897; CL 1897, 7434; CL 1915, 9806; CL 1929, 10277; CL 1948, 454.71