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Mich. Comp. Laws § 124.711 — MI Code / Chapter 124 / Act Act-292-of-1989 / Section 124.711
Metropolitan region council; powers and duties.
Status: in_force

Sec. 61.

A metropolitan region council may do 1 or more of the following:

Adopt bylaws for the administration of the council.

Acquire and hold, by purchase, lease, grant, gift, devise, land contract, installment purchase contract, bequest, condemnation, or other legal means, real and personal property within or without the participating qualified counties and qualified cities. The property may include franchises, easements, or rights-of-way on, under, or above any property. The metropolitan region council may pay for the property from, or pledge for the payment of the property, revenue of the council. A council shall not condemn public property.

Apply for and accept grants, loans, or contributions from the federal government or any of its agencies, this state, or other public or private agencies to be used for any of the purposes of this act.

Sell or lease property acquired for the purposes of this act but not needed for those purposes.

Hire employees, attorneys, accountants, and consultants.

A metropolitan region council shall do all of the following:

Prepare budgets and appropriations acts in the manner required of local units under the uniform budgeting and accounting act, 1968 PA 2, MCL 141.421 to 141.440a.

If ending a fiscal year with a deficit, file a financial plan to correct the deficit in the same manner as provided in section 21 of the state revenue sharing act of 1971, 1971 PA 140, MCL 141.921.

History: Add. 1998, Act 375, Imd. Eff. Oct. 20, 1998
Mich. Comp. Laws § 559.151 — MI Code / Chapter 559 / Act Act-59-of-1978 / Section 559.151
Termination of condominium project by agreement of developer and unaffiliated co-owners.
Status: in_force

Sec. 51.

If there is a co-owner other than the developer, then the condominium project shall be terminated only by the agreement of the developer and unaffiliated co-owners of condominium units to which 4/5 of the votes in the association of co-owners appertain, or a larger majority as the condominium documents may specify.

If none of the condominium units in the condominium project are restricted exclusively to residential use, then the condominium documents may specify voting majorities less than the minimums specified by subsection (1).

Agreement of the required majority of co-owners to termination of the condominium shall be evidenced by their execution of the termination agreement or of ratifications thereof, and the termination shall become effective only when the agreement is so evidenced of record.

Upon recordation of an instrument terminating a condominium project the property constituting the condominium project shall be owned by the co-owners as tenants in common in proportion to their respective undivided interests in the common elements immediately before recordation. As long as the tenancy in common lasts, each co-owner or the heirs, successors, or assigns thereof shall have an exclusive right of occupancy of that portion of the property which formerly constituted the condominium unit.

Upon recordation of an instrument terminating a condominium project, any rights the co-owners may have to the assets of the association of co-owners shall be in proportion to their respective undivided interests in the common elements immediately before recordation, except that common profits shall be distributed in accordance with the condominium documents and this act.

History: 1978, Act 59, Eff. July 1, 1978
Mich. Comp. Laws § 339.5705 — MI Code / Chapter 339 / Act Act-407-of-2016 / Section 339.5705
Electrical administrative board; creation; membership; ex officio member; chairperson; vice-chairperson.
Status: in_force

Sec. 705.

(1) The electrical administrative board created in section 2 of former 1956 PA 217 shall continue in existence and is designated as the board for purposes of this article.

(2) The board shall consist of 10 members, as follows:

(a) The state fire marshal or his or her representative.

(b) Nine members, who are residents of this state and appointed by the governor, including each of the following:

( i ) One member who is a representative of an insurance inspection bureau that operates in this state.

( ii ) One member who is a representative of an electrical energy supply agency that operates in this state.

( iii ) One member who is an electrical contractor that operates in this state.

( iv ) One member who is a master electrician who serves as a supervisor.

( v ) One member who is an electrical journeyman.

( vi ) One member who is a chief electrical inspector of a municipality.

( vii ) One member who is a representative of distributors of electrical apparatus and supplies.

( viii ) One member who is a representative of manufacturers primarily and actively engaged in producing material fittings, devices, appliances, fixtures, apparatus, and similar products, used as a part of, or in connection with, an electrical installation.

( ix ) One member who is a representative of the general public.

(3) The director of the department, or the authorized representative of the director, is an ex officio member of the board without vote.

(4) The governor shall designate a member of the board to serve as its chairperson at the pleasure of the governor and the members of the board may annually elect a vice-chairperson.

History: 2016, Act 407, Eff. Apr. 4, 2017
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.50154 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.50154
Severance and service fees; collection and disposition; responsibility for payment of severance fee; stumpage values and units of measurement; remittance; reports; records.
Status: in_force

Sec. 50154.

The board shall develop the necessary administrative procedures to collect the fees and shall deposit the revenue collected in the district forest management fund.

The person responsible for payment of the severance fee is the timber owner before harvest. The department shall provide technical assistance to a district to develop appropriate methods of establishing stumpage values and units of proper measurement.

The fees shall be remitted to a district, by check or money order, with reports as may be required by the board.

The timber owner, for a period of 3 years, shall maintain and make available to the board the records the board may require to verify proper reporting and payment of the severance fee and service fees due a district.

History: Add. 1995, Act 57, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1995
Mich. Comp. Laws § 338.2203 — MI Code / Chapter 338 / Act Act-152-of-1979 / Section 338.2203
Licensing and regulation fund; creation; requirements.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3.

The licensing and regulation fund is created in the state treasury. All of the following apply to the licensing and regulation fund:

(a) Except as otherwise provided in sections 11, 37, 38, and 39, the fees collected under this act shall be deposited into the fund.

(b) Money in the fund shall be used only to offset the cost of operating the department.

(c) The state treasurer shall direct the investment of the fund and shall credit to the fund interest and earnings from fund investments.

(d) Money in the fund at the close of the fiscal year shall remain in the fund and shall not lapse to the general fund.

(e) The department is the administrator of the fund for auditing purposes.

History: 1979, Act 152, Eff. Jan. 1, 1980; Am. 1988, Act 461, Eff. Sept. 1, 1989; Am. 1990, Act 268, Imd. Eff. Oct. 17, 1990; Am. 1993, Act 139, Imd. Eff. Aug. 2, 1993; Am. 2006, Act 645, Imd. Eff. Jan. 5, 2007; Am. 2007, Act 77, Imd. Eff. Sept. 30, 2007; Am. 2012, Act 308, Imd. Eff. Oct. 1, 2012
Mich. Comp. Laws § 339.5817 — MI Code / Chapter 339 / Act Act-407-of-2016 / Section 339.5817
Mechanical contractor performing work in municipality; registration of license with enforcing agency.
Status: in_force

Sec. 817.

A mechanical contractor that is licensed under this article and performs work in a municipality shall register his or her license with the enforcing agency that issues permits and provides inspection services of mechanical contractor's work for that municipality. A registration under this section is valid until the expiration date of the mechanical contractor's license. A municipality shall grant registration to a mechanical contractor under this section if the mechanical contractor is licensed under this act and pays a fee established by the municipality in an amount that does not exceed $15.00.

History: 2016, Act 407, Eff. Apr. 4, 2017
Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.202 — MI Code / Chapter 600 / Act Act-236-of-1961 / Section 600.202
Chief justice; selection, resignation.
Status: in_force

Sec. 202.

A chief justice shall be chosen by the supreme court justices from their own number as provided by the rules of the court. The chief justice may resign without resigning from his office as justice.

History: 1961, Act 236, Eff. Jan. 1, 1963; Am. 1963, 2nd Ex. Sess., Act 18, Eff. Mar. 24, 1964
Mich. Comp. Laws § Article IV § 18 — MI Code / Chapter 1 / Act CONSTITUTION-OF-MICHIGAN-OF-1963 / Section Article IV § 18
Journal of proceedings; record of votes, dissents.
Status: in_force

Sec. 18.

Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and publish the same unless the public security otherwise requires. The record of the vote and name of the members of either house voting on any question shall be entered in the journal at the request of one-fifth of the members present. Any member of either house may dissent from and protest against any act, proceeding or resolution which he deems injurious to any person or the public, and have the reason for his dissent entered in the journal.

History: Const. 1963, Art. IV, § 18, Eff. Jan. 1, 1964
Mich. Comp. Laws § 700.3406 — MI Code / Chapter 700 / Act Act-386-of-1998 / Section 700.3406
Formal testacy proceedings; contested cases; testimony of attesting witnesses.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3406.

If evidence concerning execution of an attested will that is not self-proved is necessary in a contested case, the testimony of at least 1 of the attesting witnesses, if within the state and if competent and able to testify, is required. Due execution of an attested or unattested will may be proved by other evidence.

If a will is self-proved, compliance with signature requirements for execution is conclusively presumed and other requirements of execution are presumed subject to rebuttal without the testimony of any witness upon filing the will and the acknowledgment and sworn statements annexed or attached to the will, unless there is proof of fraud or forgery affecting the acknowledgment or a sworn statement.

If a witness is competent at the time he or she signs the will, the witness's subsequent incompetency from whatever cause does not prevent admission of the will to probate, if it is otherwise satisfactorily proved.

History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000
Mich. Comp. Laws § 750.7 — MI Code / Chapter 750 / Act Act-328-of-1931 / Section 750.7
Felony; definition.
Status: in_force

Sec. 7.

Felony-The term "felony" when used in this act, shall be construed to mean an offense for which the offender, on conviction may be punished by death, or by imprisonment in state prison.

History: 1931, Act 328, Eff. Sept. 18, 1931; CL 1948, 750.7
Mich. Comp. Laws § 125.1424e — MI Code / Chapter 125 / Act Act-346-of-1966 / Section 125.1424e
Rehabilitation fund; use of moneys; allocations or pledges to holders of bonds.
Status: in_force

Sec. 24e.

The authority may use moneys in the rehabilitation fund either separately or in conjunction with other moneys available to the authority to make, purchase, or otherwise participate in loans, grants, or deferred payment loans authorized pursuant to section 44a.

The authority may use the moneys in the rehabilitation fund to make loans or grants to local communities in amounts the authority determines are necessary for planning for or implementing programs of residential rehabilitation involving loans, grants, or deferred payment loans to persons and families of low and moderate income.

The authority may use money in the rehabilitation fund to pay for costs incurred by the authority in planning for or implementing a program of residential rehabilitation.

Money in the rehabilitation fund and money received in repayment of loans, grants, and deferred payment loans made from the rehabilitation fund may be allocated or pledged to the holders of bonds and notes issued in connection with a rehabilitation loan program of the authority.

History: Add. 1977, Act 130, Imd. Eff. Oct. 25, 1977; Am. 1978, Act 192, Imd. Eff. June 4, 1978
Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.954 — MI Code / Chapter 722 / Act Act-203-of-1994 / Section 722.954
Licensure as foster parent; orientation as condition to certification; written information to be provided foster parents before placement; confidentiality.
Status: in_force

Sec. 4.

Before certifying an individual for licensure as a foster parent, a child placing agency shall conduct an orientation designed to ensure the individual's understanding of the purposes of foster care, including the temporary nature of foster care and the ultimate goal of returning the child to his or her permanent family or preparing the child for adoption.

Before placing a child with foster parents, a child placing agency shall provide the foster parents with written information including all of the following:

Any history of abuse or neglect of the child.

All known emotional and psychological problems of the child.

All behavior problems of the child that might present any risk to the foster family.

Any other information necessary to enable the foster family to provide a stable, safe, and healthy environment for the foster child and for other members of the foster family.

The child placing agency shall explain to the foster parents that the information provided under subsection (2) about the child and the child's family is confidential.

History: 1994, Act 203, Eff. Jan. 1, 1995
Mich. Comp. Laws § 259.465 — MI Code / Chapter 259 / Act Act-23-of-1950-Ex-Sess- / Section 259.465
Powers and duties of contiguous political subdivision in adjoining state as to airports, landing fields, and other aeronautical facilities.
Status: in_force

Sec. 35.

The governing body of a contiguous political subdivision in an adjoining state whose laws permit may acquire, establish, construct, enlarge, own, control, lease, equip, improve, maintain, and operate airports, landing fields, and other aeronautical facilities in this state with a political subdivision thereof, subject to the laws and rules of this state applicable to its political subdivisions in aeronautical projects and subject to the laws of the other state in matters relating to financing the projects. A political subdivision of an adjoining state shall have the same privileges, rights, and duties of a like political subdivision of this state. This section shall not apply unless the laws of the adjoining state permit political subdivisions of this state to acquire, establish, construct, enlarge, own, control, lease, equip, improve, maintain, operate, and otherwise control airports, landing fields, and other aeronautical facilities in the adjoining state with all privileges, rights, and duties applicable to the other political subdivisions of that state in aeronautical projects.

History: Add. 1976, Act 158, Imd. Eff. June 17, 1976
Mich. Comp. Laws § 211.981 — MI Code / Chapter 211 / Act Act-512-of-2014 / Section 211.981
Short title.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

This act shall be known and may be cited as the "eligible hydroponics and eligible aquaculture production facilities specific tax act".

History: 2014, Act 512, Imd. Eff. Jan. 14, 2015
Mich. Comp. Laws § 486.4 — MI Code / Chapter 486 / Act Act-232-of-1863 / Section 486.4
Membership in association; procedure, rights.
Status: in_force

Sec. 4.

Any person owning any interest in the canal and water-power under the control of such association, may become a member thereof at any time by subscribing his name to the articles of association. And any person or persons who shall purchase an interest in said water-power of any member of this association shall become a member of said association without other act and shall succeed to all his grantor's rights and privileges in the same as a member thereof to the extent of the interest so purchased.

History: 1863, Act 232, Eff. June 22, 1863; Am. 1871, Act 90, Imd. Eff. Apr. 12, 1871; CL 1871, 2748; How. 3877; CL 1897, 6770; CL 1915, 8870; CL 1929, 11805; CL 1948, 486.4
Mich. Comp. Laws § 38.428 — MI Code / Chapter 38 / Act Act-370-of-1941 / Section 38.428
Civil service commission; determination of employee status on consolidation of governmental units with county department; subsequent change.
Status: in_force

Sec. 28.

Any other provisions of this act to the contrary notwithstanding, in the event of the consolidation of functions or departments of another governmental unit with a county department now, or which may hereafter be established, the civil service commission of the county shall make equitable rules and regulations governing the employment, status and all other terms and conditions of employment of employees of the other governmental unit in order to effect an orderly transfer of the employees to the county service and to provide, as near as may be practicable, the same conditions of employment as other county employees in like categories. The rules shall provide that the initial county status and county classification of the employees shall be based upon the status, duties and responsibilities exercised immediately preceding the date of consolidation. Any subsequent changes in status or classification shall be made in accordance with the rules of the county civil service commission.

History: Add. 1959, Act 265, Imd. Eff. Sept. 4, 1959
Mich. Comp. Laws § 434.184 — MI Code / Chapter 434 / Act Act-214-of-1979 / Section 434.184
Filing claim for property after sale; proof; payment to owner; time limitation; liability of law enforcement agency.
Status: in_force

Sec. 4.

(1) If, within 6 months after the sale under section 2(4), the owner of the property files with the county board of commissioners, city or village council, or township board of trustees a claim for the property and proves a right to the property, the county board of commissioners, city or village council, or township board of trustees shall direct the treasurer who received the proceeds of the sale of that property to pay the owner the amount of proceeds or the face value of money not subject to the public sale provision contained in this act. The county board of commissioners, city or village council, or township board of trustees shall not approve any claims filed more than 6 months after the sale.

(2) A law enforcement agency disposing of property as provided in this act is not liable to the owner of that property.

History: 1979, Act 214, Imd. Eff. Jan. 15, 1980; Am. 1984, Act 258, Imd. Eff. Nov. 30, 1984; Am. 2018, Act 546, Eff. Mar. 28, 2019
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.8903 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.8903
Causing litter or object to fall or be thrown into path of or to hit vehicle; violation as misdemeanor; penalty.
Status: in_force

Sec. 8903.

A person shall not knowingly cause litter or any object to fall or to be thrown into the path of or to hit a vehicle traveling upon a highway.

A person who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment for not more than 1 year or a fine of not more than $500.00, or both.

History: 1994, Act 451, Eff. Mar. 30, 1995
Mich. Comp. Laws § 408.684 — MI Code / Chapter 408 / Act Act-16-of-1997 / Section 408.684
Public playground equipment; standards.
Status: in_force

Sec. 4.

A person who for compensation manufactures or assembles public playground equipment that fails to comply with the following standards is subject to a state civil infraction under this act:

The "handbook for public playground safety" published for the U.S. consumer products safety commission, which is incorporated by reference and is based upon recommendations provided to the commission by the COMSIS corporation in March 1990 in "development of human factors criteria for playground equipment safety" by Donna Rattle, Melanie Morrison, and Neil Lerner.

The "standard consumer safety performance specification for playground equipment for public use, ASTM F1487-01", published by the American society for testing and materials, which is incorporated by reference.

History: 1997, Act 16, Eff. May 1, 1998; Am. 1998, Act 137, Imd. Eff. June 24, 1998; Am. 2002, Act 419, Imd. Eff. June 5, 2002
Mich. Comp. Laws § 123.362 — MI Code / Chapter 123 / Act Act-266-of-1951 / Section 123.362
Garbage disposal equipment system; city or village may provide; garbage disposal equipment, definition; garbage grinders.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

Any city or village may by ordinance provide for a garbage disposal equipment system to acquire, purchase, lease, install, replace or repair garbage disposal equipment. The term "garbage disposal equipment," whenever used in this act, except when otherwise indicated by the context, shall be construed to mean all equipment or machinery of any nature whatsoever and all appurtenances thereto used or useful in treating and reducing garbage and similar waste materials prior to introduction into the sewer system of the city or village, including but not limited to garbage grinders: Provided, That when garbage grinders are installed for such disposal, the city or village shall have a sanitary sewage disposal plant into which the refuse from such garbage grinders is deposited for treatment.

History: 1951, Act 266, Eff. Sept. 28, 1951
Mich. Comp. Laws § 801.252 — MI Code / Chapter 801 / Act Act-60-of-1962 / Section 801.252
Employed prisoner; collection of wages; garnishment.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

The sheriff, or friend of the court in alimony or nonsupport cases, shall collect the wages or salary of an employed prisoner, or require him to turn over his wages or salary in full when received. The officer shall deposit the same in a trust checking account and keep a ledger showing the status of the account of each prisoner. The wages or salary are not subject to garnishment in the hands of the employer or the officer during the prisoner's term.

History: 1962, Act 60, Eff. Mar. 28, 1963
Mich. Comp. Laws § 123.1289 — MI Code / Chapter 123 / Act Act-392-of-2012 / Section 123.1289
Acquisition of property.
Status: in_force

Sec. 29.

An authority may acquire property for a lighting system by purchase, construction, lease, gift, or devise, either within or outside its corporate limits. The authority may hold, manage, control, sell, exchange, or lease the property, except that if the property at issue was purchased, constructed, gifted, devised, leased, or otherwise came into the authority's ownership or control from the local government, the authority may not sell, exchange, or otherwise dispose of the property unless the other party to the transaction is the local government that previously owned the property so that the property will return to the ownership of the local government that owned the property before the transfer to the authority.

History: 2012, Act 392, Imd. Eff. Dec. 19, 2012
Mich. Comp. Laws § 388.715 — MI Code / Chapter 388 / Act Act-239-of-1967 / Section 388.715
Need for immediate reorganization; report and recommendations.
Status: in_force

Sec. 5.

Upon a finding by the state committee that conditions in a school district warrant immediate reorganization, the state committee shall transmit its report with recommendations to the state board of education.

History: 1967, Act 239, Imd. Eff. July 12, 1967