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Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.8702 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.8702
Definitions; A to D.
Status: in_force

Sec. 8702.

(1) "Activity plan" means a plan for a specific location that identifies all environmental risks and includes a time frame for implementation of conservation practices to address the environmental risks.

(2) "Agronomic rate" means either of the following:

(a) For pesticides, the application of pesticide contaminated materials in such a manner as not to exceed legal labeled rates.

(b) For fertilizers, the application of fertilizer contaminated materials at rates not to exceed those recommended by the Michigan State University Extension, taking all available sources of nutrients into account.

(3) "Analyte" or "analytes" means the material or materials that an analysis is designed to detect either qualitatively or quantitatively.

(4) "Conservation plan" means that term as it is defined in part 82.

(5) "Conservation practices" means that term as it is defined in part 82.

(6) "Confirmation mechanism" means a scientific process for the verification of detection of analytes in groundwater utilizing at least 2 separate water samples collected at time intervals of greater than 14 days from the same groundwater sampling point and analyzed by peer reviewed and authenticated laboratory methodologies.

(7) "Contaminant" means any pesticide or fertilizer originated chemical, radionuclide, ion, synthetic organic compound, microorganism, or other waste that does not occur naturally or that naturally occurs at a lower concentration than detected.

(8) "Contamination" means the direct or indirect introduction into the environment of any contaminant caused in whole or in part by human activity.

(9) "Council" means the environmental assurance advisory council created in section 8708.

(10) "Demonstration project" means a project designed to illustrate the implementation and impact of alternate conservation practices.

(11) "Department" means the department of agriculture and rural development.

(12) "Director" means the director of the department or his or her designee.

History: 1994, Act 451, Eff. Mar. 30, 1995; Am. 2011, Act 2, Imd. Eff. Mar. 9, 2011; Am. 2015, Act 118, Eff. Oct. 1, 2015
Mich. Comp. Laws § 18.1701 — MI Code / Chapter 18 / Act Act-183-of-1987 / Section 18.1701
Definitions.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

As used in this act:

"Local unit of government" means a county, city, village, or township.

"Processed fish" means fish that have been treated, preserved, or processed in some manner beyond mere cleaning.

"State agency" means a state department, board, commission, office, agency, institution, or other unit of state government.

History: 1987, Act 183, Imd. Eff. Nov. 30, 1987
Mich. Comp. Laws § 445.1641 — MI Code / Chapter 445 / Act Act-660-of-2002 / Section 445.1641
Unintentional and bona fide error.
Status: in_force

Sec. 11.

A person is not liable for a violation under section 10 if the person shows that the violation was an unintentional and bona fide error notwithstanding the maintenance of procedures reasonably adopted to avoid the error. Examples of a bona fide error include clerical, calculation, computer malfunction, programming, or printing errors. An error in legal judgment with respect to a person's obligations under this act is not a bona fide error.

A person is not liable for a violation under section 10 if, within 60 days after discovery of the violation and before the institution of an action under section 10, the person notifies the borrower or buyer of the violation and corrects the violation in a manner that, to the extent it is reasonably possible to do so, restores the borrower or buyer to the position in which the borrower or buyer would have been if the violation had not occurred.

The person alleged to have violated this act has the burden of proving that he or she is not liable as provided under this section.

History: 2002, Act 660, Imd. Eff. Dec. 23, 2002
Mich. Comp. Laws § 333.22113 — MI Code / Chapter 333 / Act Act-368-of-1978 / Section 333.22113
Desk review of citations.
Status: in_force

Sec. 22113.

On the receipt of a request from a nursing home, the department shall conduct a desk review of a citation if the circumstances meet the requirements established by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for a desk review instead of an on-site revisit for a standard or abbreviated survey. If the department determines that the nursing home is not eligible for a desk review, the department shall notify the nursing home, in writing, with an explanation of why a desk review could not be conducted.

History: Add. 2022, Act 187, Imd. Eff. July 25, 2022
Mich. Comp. Laws § 388.801 — MI Code / Chapter 388 / Act Act-16-of-1942-1st-Ex-Sess- / Section 388.801
Federal grants to schools; superintendent of public instruction, sole agent to administer and receive.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

Whenever the federal government or any agency thereof shall provide grants of general federal aid for the use and benefit of the public schools of the state, the superintendent of public instruction is hereby designated as the sole state agency to apply to and receive from the federal government, or any agency thereof, such grants which may now or hereafter be available to the state of Michigan or any school district therein: Provided, however, That funds made available through the provisions of Act No. 149 of the Public Acts of 1919, and Act No. 211 of the Public Acts of 1921 are excepted: Provided further, That the superintendent of public instruction shall enter into no agreement with any agency of the federal government whereby any such agency shall directly or indirectly control the administration of the state public schools or the courses of study therein.

History: 1942, 1st Ex. Sess., Act 16, Imd. Eff. Jan. 28, 1942; CL 1948, 388.801; Am. 1949, Act 233, Eff. Sept. 23, 1949
Mich. Comp. Laws § 252.51 — MI Code / Chapter 252 / Act Act-205-of-1941 / Section 252.51
Limited access highways; definition.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

For the purposes of this act, limited access highways are defined as highways specially designed for through traffic, and over, from or to which owners or occupants of abutting land have no easement or right of light, air or access by reason of such abuttal. Such highways may be parkways, with or without landscaped roadsides, from which trucks, buses and other commercial vehicles are excluded; or they may be motorways open to use by all common forms of highway traffic.

History: 1941, Act 205, Eff. Jan. 10, 1942; CL 1948, 252.51
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.551 — MI Code / Chapter 280 / Act Act-40-of-1956 / Section 280.551
Water management; definitions.
Status: in_force

Sec. 551.

Whenever used in this chapter, except when otherwise indicated by the context:

The term "state" shall be deemed to mean the state of Michigan.

The term "public corporation" shall be deemed to include the state of Michigan, counties, cities, villages, townships, metropolitan districts and authorities created by or pursuant to state statutes.

The term "agencies" shall be deemed to include those officers, boards, commissions and other bodies created by public corporations or by the federal government, which are authorized to act in their own names.

The term "director of agriculture" shall be deemed to mean the director of agriculture of the state of Michigan.

The term "project" shall be deemed to mean any flood control or drainage project petitioned for or undertaken under the provisions of this chapter in any water management district or subdistrict. The term shall be deemed to include any alteration of streams, rivers, drains, lakes, reservoirs, ponds, swamps, marshes, or any other waters, and any of the watersheds thereof. The term shall also include any dike, dam, reservoir, pumping station or other works involved in such alteration.

The term "water management district" shall be deemed to mean the area comprising all or part of 3 or more contiguous counties within a single drainage basin in which a project is petitioned for or undertaken under the provisions of this chapter, and shall include such counties and all public corporations within such area as shall be subject to assessment for the cost of such project.

The term "subdistrict" shall be deemed to mean the area comprising that portion of a water management district in which a project is petitioned for under the provisions of this chapter, which project benefits only 1 or more public corporations within the water management district. The term shall include only the public corporations or corporations so specially benefited by the project.

The term "commission" shall be deemed to mean the water management commission of a water management district.

The term "board" shall be deemed to mean the water management board of a water management district.

The term "benefit" or "benefits" shall be deemed to mean advantages resulting from a project to public corporations, the inhabitants of public corporations, and property within public corporations. The term shall be limited to benefits which result from the drainage and control of water, and shall include such factors as: elimination of flood damage; elimination of water conditions which jeopardize the public health or safety; increase of the value or use of lands and property arising from improved drainage and elimination of floods; and the advantageous use to which water may be directed as a result of the project, and incidental thereto, for agricultural, conservation and recreational purposes.

History: 1956, Act 40, Imd. Eff. Mar. 28, 1956
Mich. Comp. Laws § 125.4208 — MI Code / Chapter 125 / Act Act-57-of-2018 / Section 125.4208
Board serving as planning commission; agenda.
Status: in_force

Sec. 208.

If a board created under this part serves as the planning commission under the Michigan planning enabling act, 2008 PA 33, MCL 125.3801 to 125.3885, the board shall include planning commission business in its agenda.

History: 2018, Act 57, Eff. Jan. 1, 2019
Mich. Comp. Laws § 67.23 — MI Code / Chapter 61 / Act Act-3-of-1895 / Section 67.23
Public streets; regulations; enforcement; council; powers.
Status: in_force

Sec. 23.

The council may regulate the use of public highways, streets, avenues, and alleys of the village, subject to the right of travel and passage therein. The council may prescribe the stands for all vehicles kept for hire, or used for the transportation of persons or property for hire; designate the places where loads of wood, coal, hay, and other articles may stand for sale; regulate traffic and sales in the streets and upon sidewalks; regulate or prohibit the display, use, or placing of signs, advertisements, banners, awnings, posts, poles, or lamps in or over the streets; regulate or prohibit sports, amusement proceedings, and gatherings of crowds in the streets that may interfere with the lawful use thereof, or render travel or passage therein inconvenient or unsafe; prohibit and prevent the running at large of animals in the streets or elsewhere in the village, and impose sanctions upon the owners or keepers responsible; cleanse and purify the streets; prohibit, prevent, remove, and abate all nuisances in the streets, require a person creating or maintaining a nuisance to remove or abate it, sanction the person for the creation or maintenance of the nuisance, and generally prescribe and enforce regulations concerning the public streets as may be necessary to secure good order and safety to persons and property in their lawful use and to promote the general welfare. In addition, the council shall have the same authority and powers over and in respect to the public streets of the village as are conferred by law upon the board of county road commissioners.

History: 1895, Act 3, Imd. Eff. Feb. 19, 1895; CL 1897, 2791; CL 1915, 2662; CL 1929, 1571; CL 1948, 67.23; Am. 1998, Act 255, Imd. Eff. July 13, 1998
Mich. Comp. Laws § 380.1288 — MI Code / Chapter 380 / Act Act-451-of-1976 / Section 380.1288
Course requiring wearing of industrial quality personal protective devices.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1288.

If participating in a course or visiting a course would result in a pupil, teacher, or visitor being exposed to danger of physical harm, each pupil and teacher participating in the course and each visitor to the course shall wear industrial quality personal protective devices, which have been sanitized prior to use, while participating in or visiting the course or participating in or visiting safety training required for the course. The board of a school district or intermediate school district or board of directors of a public school academy shall furnish the protective devices for pupils, teachers, and visitors to the classrooms, laboratories, and field sites used for the course or training.

History: 1976, Act 451, Imd. Eff. Jan. 13, 1977; Am. 2016, Act 532, Eff. Apr. 9, 2017
Mich. Comp. Laws § 700.5205 — MI Code / Chapter 700 / Act Act-386-of-1998 / Section 700.5205
Court appointment of limited guardian; requirements.
Status: in_force

Sec. 5205.

The court may appoint a limited guardian for an unmarried minor upon the petition of the minor's parent or parents if all of the following requirements are met:

The parents with custody of the minor consent or, in the case of only 1 parent having custody of the minor, the sole parent consents to the appointment of a limited guardian.

The parent or parents voluntarily consent to the suspension of their parental rights.

The court approves a limited guardianship placement plan agreed to by both of the following parties:

The parents with custody of the minor or, in the case of only 1 parent having custody of the minor, the sole parent who has custody of the minor.

The person or persons whom the court will appoint as the minor's limited guardian.

A minor's parent or parents who desire to have the court appoint a limited guardian for that minor and the person or persons who desire to be appointed limited guardian for that minor must develop a limited guardianship placement plan. The parties must use a limited guardianship placement plan form prescribed by the state court administrator. A limited guardianship placement plan form must include a notice that informs a parent who is a party to the plan that substantial failure to comply with the plan without good cause may result in the termination of the parent's parental rights under chapter XIIA of 1939 PA 288, MCL 712A.1 to 712A.32. The proposed limited guardianship placement plan shall be attached to the petition requesting the court to appoint a limited guardian. The limited guardianship placement plan shall include provisions concerning all of the following:

The reason the parent or parents are requesting the court to appoint a limited guardian for the minor.

Parenting time and contact with the minor by his or her parent or parents sufficient to maintain a parent and child relationship.

The duration of the limited guardianship.

Financial support for the minor.

Any other provisions that the parties agree to include in the plan.

History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000
Mich. Comp. Laws § 457.625 — MI Code / Chapter 457 / Act Act-39-of-1893 / Section 457.625
Subordinate senates; chartering; existing senates; regulation.
Status: in_force

Sec. 5.

Such corporation when duly formed, shall have power to institute and charter subordinate senates within the state and from time to time to make, ordain, constitute, and establish such constitution, laws and by-laws, ordinances and regulations, as the supreme senate shall judge proper for the regulation and government of such subordinate senates, not repugnant to the laws of this state: Provided, That the existing subordinate senates, heretofore duly chartered by the supreme senate, shall be subject to the control of the supreme senate, under this act as heretofore, and in the same manner and to the same extent, as those that may be hereafter instituted and chartered under this act: Provided, further, That in case the corporators or persons, associating in the first instance, shall by death, resignation or for other cause, under the rules of the supreme senate, become ineligible to act in such capacity their successors may, from time to time, be appointed by the supreme senate.

History: 1893, Act 39, Imd. Eff. Apr. 19, 1893; CL 1897, 8111; CL 1915, 10585; CL 1929, 10786; CL 1948, 457.625
Mich. Comp. Laws § 257.811ee — MI Code / Chapter 257 / Act Act-300-of-1949 / Section 257.811ee
Fund-raising plate recognizing Detroit Lions.
Status: in_force

Sec. 811ee.

(1) No later than August 1, 2019, the secretary of state shall develop under section 811e and issue under section 811f a fund-raising plate or collector plate recognizing the Detroit Lions. The fund-raising plate or collector plate authorized in this section shall bear an appropriate logo, the design of which the Detroit Lions shall submit to the secretary of state.

(2) The Detroit Lions fund is created within the state treasury. The state treasurer may receive money or other assets from any source for deposit into the fund. The state treasurer shall direct the investment of the fund. The state treasurer shall credit to the fund interest and earnings from fund investments. Money in the fund at the close of the fiscal year shall remain in the fund and shall not lapse to the general fund.

(3) The secretary of state shall transfer the donation money from the sale of fund-raising plates recognizing the Detroit Lions to the state treasurer, who shall credit the donation money to the Detroit Lions fund established under subsection (2).

(4) The state treasurer shall disburse money in the fund established under subsection (2) on a quarterly basis to the Detroit Lions Charities.

(5) The state treasurer shall be the administrator of the fund created in subsection (2) for auditing purposes.

(6) Money disbursed to the Detroit Lions Charities under this section shall be distributed to eligible nonprofit organizations that are exempt from taxation under section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code, 26 USC 501.

History: Add. 2018, Act 326, Eff. Sept. 30, 2018
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.76502 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.76502
Mackinac Island state park; establishment.
Status: in_force

Sec. 76502.

Pursuant to the turning over to the state of Michigan, for use as a state park, and for no other purpose, the military reservation, lands and buildings of the national park on Mackinac Island, subject to a reversion to the United States whenever the state ceases to use the lands for the purpose described in this section, by the secretary of war, under the authorization of an act of congress, the lands and buildings shall be used as a state park and shall be known as the Mackinac Island state park.

History: Add. 1995, Act 58, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1995
Mich. Comp. Laws § 750.488 — MI Code / Chapter 750 / Act Act-328-of-1931 / Section 750.488
Retention of fees by state officers and employees on salary.
Status: in_force

Sec. 488.

Retention of fees by state officers and employees on salary-Any officer or employe of the state government, having a salary fixed by law who shall retain any fees received for performance of his official duties, or who shall not promptly turn over to the state treasurer or credit to the proper funds such fees when collected, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment in the state prison not more than 2 years or by a fine of not more than 1,000 dollars. Any one convicted under the provisions of this section shall be promptly removed from office.

History: 1931, Act 328, Eff. Sept. 18, 1931; CL 1948, 750.488
Mich. Comp. Laws § 14.308 — MI Code / Chapter 14 / Act Act-298-of-1992 / Section 14.308
Service of process.
Status: in_force

Sec. 8.

An organization or professional fund-raiser which does not maintain an office within this state shall be subject to service of process by service upon its resident agent, or, if there is no resident agent, by service upon the person who has custody of the financial records as designated on the registration form.

If service cannot be made as provided in subsection (1), then service may be made as provided by law or court rule.

After service is effected by either subsection (1) or (2), a copy of the process shall be mailed to the last known address of the organization or professional fund-raiser.

History: 1992, Act 298, Imd. Eff. Dec. 18, 1992
Mich. Comp. Laws § 750.131a — MI Code / Chapter 750 / Act Act-328-of-1931 / Section 750.131a
Check, draft, or order for payment of money; making, drawing, uttering, or delivering without account, credit, or sufficient funds with intent to defraud; violation as felony; penalties.
Status: in_force

Sec. 131a.

A person shall not, with intent to defraud, make, draw, utter, or deliver any check, draft, or order for the payment of money, to apply on an account or otherwise, upon any bank or other depository, if at the time of making, drawing, uttering, or delivering the check, draft, or order he or she does not have an account in or credit with the bank or other depository for the payment of the check, draft, or order upon presentation. A person who violates this subsection is guilty of a felony, punishable by imprisonment for not more than 2 years, or by a fine of not more than $500.00, or both.

A person shall not, with intent to defraud, make, draw, utter, or deliver, within a period of not more than 10 days, 3 or more checks, drafts, or orders for the payment of money, to apply on account or otherwise, upon any bank or other depository, knowing at the time of making, drawing, uttering, or delivering each of the checks, drafts, or orders that the maker or drawer does not have sufficient funds or credit with the bank or other depository for the payment of the check, draft, or order in full upon its presentation. A person who violates this subsection is guilty of a felony, punishable by imprisonment for not more than 2 years, or by a fine of not more than $500.00, or both.

History: Add. 1941, Act 200, Eff. Jan. 10, 1942; CL 1948, 750.131a; Am. 1984, Act 277, Eff. Mar. 29, 1985
Mich. Comp. Laws § 750.527 — MI Code / Chapter 750 / Act Act-328-of-1931 / Section 750.527
Riots and unlawful assemblies; death ensuing from efforts to disperse.
Status: in_force

Sec. 527.

Death ensuing from efforts to disperse unlawful assemblies or riots-If, by reason of any of the efforts made by any 2 or more of the said magistrates or officers, or by their direction, to disperse such unlawful, riotous or tumultuous assembly, or to seize and secure the persons composing the same, who have refused to disperse though the number remaining may be less than 12, any such person, or any other person there present as spectators or otherwise, shall be killed or wounded, the said magistrates and officers and all persons assisting by their order, or under their direction, shall be held guiltless and fully justified in law; and if any of the said magistrates or officers, or any person acting by their order, or under their direction, shall be killed or wounded, all the persons so unlawfully, riotously or tumultuously assembled, and all other persons who, when commanded or required, shall have refused to aid or assist the said magistrates or officers, shall be held answerable therefor.

History: 1931, Act 328, Eff. Sept. 18, 1931; CL 1948, 750.527