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Mich. Comp. Laws § 445.2125 — MI Code / Chapter 445 / Act Act-50-of-2025 / Section 445.2125
Prohibited use of bot.
Status: in_force

Sec. 5.

A person shall not use or create a bot to do any of the following:

(a) Purchase an amount of tickets for an entertainment event in excess of the ticket purchasing limit.

(b) Use multiple internet protocol addresses, purchaser accounts, or email addresses to purchase an amount of tickets for an entertainment event in excess of the ticket purchasing limit.

(c) Circumvent or disable an electronic queue, waiting period, presale code, or other sales volume limitation system associated with an online ticket sale.

(d) Circumvent or disable a security measure, access control system, or other control or measure that is used to validate that a ticket is not fraudulent.

History: 2025, Act 50, Eff. Mar. 24, 2026
Mich. Comp. Laws § 330.1717 — MI Code / Chapter 330 / Act Act-258-of-1974 / Section 330.1717
Electroconvulsive therapy or other procedure; consent.
Status: in_force

Sec. 717.

A recipient shall not be the subject of electroconvulsive therapy or a procedure intended to produce convulsions or coma unless consent is obtained from the following:

The recipient, if he or she is 18 years of age or older and does not have a guardian for medical purposes.

The recipient's parent who has legal and physical custody of the recipient, if the recipient is less than 18 years of age.

The recipient's guardian, if the guardian has power to execute a consent to procedures described in this section.

The recipient's designated representative, if a durable power of attorney or other advance directive grants the representative authority to consent to procedures described in this section.

If a guardian consents to a procedure described in this section, the procedure shall not be initiated until 2 psychiatrists have examined the recipient and documented in the recipient's medical record their concurrence with the decision to administer the procedure.

If a parent or guardian of a minor consents to a procedure described in this section, the procedure shall not be initiated until 2 child and adolescent psychiatrists, neither of whom may be the treating psychiatrist, have examined the minor and documented in the minor's medical record their concurrence with the decision to administer the procedure.

A minor or an advocate designated by the minor may object to the administration of a procedure described in this section. The objection shall be made either orally or in writing to the probate court. The procedure shall not be initiated before a court hearing on the minor's or advocate's objection.

At least 72 hours, excluding Sundays or holidays, before the initiation of a procedure described in this section, a minor shall be informed that he or she has a right to object to the procedure.

If a procedure described in this section is considered advisable for a recipient and an individual eligible to give consent for the procedure is not located after diligent effort, a probate court may, upon petition and after a hearing, consent to administration of the procedure in lieu of the individual eligible to give consent.

History: Add. 1995, Act 290, Eff. Mar. 28, 1996
Mich. Comp. Laws § 328.233 — MI Code / Chapter 328 / Act Act-255-of-1986 / Section 328.233
Noncompliance with investment and depositing requirements; petition for appointment of receiver; notice; hearing; liquidation.
Status: in_force

Sec. 23.

If the department determines that a registrant has not complied with the investment and depositing requirements of this act and that insufficient funds are available in trust or escrow accounts to meet the obligations of prepaid contracts, the department may petition the circuit court of the county of the registrant's principal place of business or the county of Ingham for appointment of a receiver. After notice to the registrant and a hearing and upon its concurrence in the findings of the department, the court shall appoint a qualified person as a receiver. A receiver appointed under this section has all the powers, authority, and remedies of an assignee for the benefit of creditors under chapter 52 of the revised judicature act of 1961, 1961 PA 236, MCL 600.5201 to 600.5265. Any remaining funds held in escrow pursuant to this act shall be regarded as belonging to contract buyers or contract beneficiaries according to their interests and shall be distributed to these entities pro rata on the basis of the amount of funds paid by the contract buyers and shall not be available to general creditors of the estate. Under appropriate circumstances, the receiver may file for protection under the bankruptcy code.

History: 1986, Act 255, Eff. July 1, 1987; Am. 2004, Act 21, Eff. Jan. 1, 2005
Mich. Comp. Laws § 45.324 — MI Code / Chapter 45 / Act R-S-of-1846 / Section 45.324
County officers; commencement of terms.
Status: in_force

Sec. 124.

The regular terms of office of the several county officers elected at the general election shall commence on the first day of January succeeding their election, but those elected at the general election, or at a special election, to fill vacancies, may qualify and enter upon the execution of their offices immediately after being notified of their election.

History: R.S. 1846, Ch. 14; CL 1857, 472; CL 1871, 614; How. 644; Am. 1889, Act 32, Eff. Oct. 2, 1889; CL 1897, 2647; CL 1915, 2511; CL 1929, 1423; CL 1948, 45.324
Mich. Comp. Laws § 484.2318 — MI Code / Chapter 484 / Act Act-179-of-1991 / Section 484.2318
Payphone service; discrimination prohibited; compliance with nonstructural safeguards.
Status: in_force

Sec. 318.

A provider of basic local exchange service shall not discriminate in favor of its or an affiliate's payphone service over similar services offered by another provider.

A provider of payphone service shall comply with all nonstructural safeguards adopted by the federal communications commission for payphone service.

History: Add. 1995, Act 216, Imd. Eff. Nov. 30, 1995
Mich. Comp. Laws § 120.6 — MI Code / Chapter 120 / Act Act-234-of-1925 / Section 120.6
Formation of district comprising more than 1 county; limitation; lesser port districts.
Status: in_force

Sec. 6.

A port district may be comprised of more than 1 whole county if the electors in such counties so elect, and the same procedure shall be followed as is prescribed in this act for the formation of a port district coextensive with a county, except that the board of county supervisors of the respective counties composing the proposed district shall each act in the submission of the proposition and have charge of the elections in their respective counties. No lesser port district shall ever be created within the limits in whole or in part of any port district. No port district shall consist of more than 5 whole contiguous counties.

History: 1925, Act 234, Eff. Aug. 27, 1925; CL 1929, 2295; CL 1948, 120.6; Am. 1958, Act 178, Imd. Eff. Apr. 18, 1958
Mich. Comp. Laws § 766.16 — MI Code / Chapter 760 / Act Act-175-of-1927 / Section 766.16
Default of recognizance; record; procedure.
Status: in_force

Sec. 16.

If the person recognized according to the provisions of this chapter shall not appear before the magistrate at the time appointed for his further examination, the magistrate shall record the default, and shall certify the recognizance, with the record of such default, to the court to which the accused might otherwise have been held for trial, and the like proceedings shall be had thereon as upon the breach of the condition of a recognizance for appearance before such court.

History: 1927, Act 175, Eff. Sept. 5, 1927; CL 1929, 17208; CL 1948, 766.16
Mich. Comp. Laws § 339.730 — MI Code / Chapter 339 / Act Act-299-of-1980 / Section 339.730
Contingent fee.
Status: in_force

Sec. 730.

Except as otherwise provided in this section, a certified public accountant may charge or receive a contingent fee.

A licensee shall not charge or receive a contingent fee from a client during the period in which a licensee or a licensee's firm is engaged to perform for the client 1 or more of the following services or during the period of time covered by any of such client's historical financial statements involved in those services:

An audit or review of a financial statement.

A compilation of a financial statement when the licensee expects, or may reasonably expect, that a third party will use the financial statement and that the compilation report does not disclose a lack of independence.

An examination of prospective financial information.

A licensee shall not charge or receive a contingent fee for the preparation of an original or amended tax return or claim for a tax refund.

As used in this section, "contingent fee" means a fee established for the performance of a service pursuant to an arrangement in which no fee will be charged unless a specified finding or result is attained or in an arrangement where the amount of the fee is dependent upon a finding or result of the service. Contingent fee does not include a fee fixed by a court or other public authority and, in tax matters, a fee determined based upon the results of judicial proceedings or the findings of a governmental agency.

History: Add. 1997, Act 10, Imd. Eff. May 16, 1997
Mich. Comp. Laws § 445.1642 — MI Code / Chapter 445 / Act Act-660-of-2002 / Section 445.1642
Enforcement not limited.
Status: in_force

Sec. 12.

This act does not limit the authority of the commissioner, the attorney general, or a county prosecutor to enforce any law under which a person is chartered, organized, licensed, registered, regulated, or otherwise authorized to do business in this state.

History: 2002, Act 660, Imd. Eff. Dec. 23, 2002
Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.4706a — MI Code / Chapter 600 / Act Act-236-of-1961 / Section 600.4706a
Notice that property returned or lien discharged.
Status: in_force

Sec. 4706a.

Within 7 days after personal property is returned to the owner, or a lien filed against real property or a motor vehicle is discharged pursuant to section 4706, the seizing agency, or if the property is real property, the attorney general, the prosecuting attorney, or the city or township attorney who gave notice of the seizure of the property and the intent to forfeit and dispose of the property pursuant to section 4704, shall give notice to the persons who received notice pursuant to section 4704 that the property has been returned to the owner or that the lien has been discharged pursuant to section 4706.

The notice required under subsection (1) shall be a written notice delivered to the person or sent to the person by certified mail. If the name and address of the person are not reasonably ascertainable or delivery of the notice cannot reasonably be accomplished, the notice shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the personal property was seized or the real property is located for 10 successive publishing days.

History: Add. 1988, Act 104, Eff. June 1, 1988
Mich. Comp. Laws § 331.1407 — MI Code / Chapter 331 / Act Act-230-of-1987 / Section 331.1407
Refunding corporation obligations.
Status: in_force

Sec. 407.

To protect the rights of the holders of bonds or other obligations to be refunded, the proceeds of corporation obligations issued for refunding purposes and any other funds set aside for such purposes, and the investment earnings and profits, to the extent required to be held for future retirement of bonds or other obligations to be refunded, for interest or premiums thereon, or for expenses relating to the refunding, shall be held in trust by a qualified bank or savings and loan association organized under the laws of the United States or any state or the state treasurer pursuant to a trust agreement with the corporation or subsidiary corporation issuing the refunding corporation obligation. This subsection shall not apply if the instruments governing the bonds or other obligation to be refunded require a different disposition of such funds, in which case the terms of the instruments shall apply.

Proceeds of refunding corporation obligations not immediately required for the purposes set forth in subsection (1) may be invested pursuant to the trust agreement in direct obligations of the United States, or in obligations, the principal and interest of which are guaranteed by the United States. If, however, the instruments governing the bonds or other obligations to be refunded provide for defeasance of security upon issuance of the refunding corporation obligation or contain different requirements for the investment of funds, the funds shall be deposited and invested in accordance with the requirements of the instruments.

History: 1987, Act 230, Eff. Feb. 27, 1988
Mich. Comp. Laws § 257.791c — MI Code / Chapter 257 / Act Act-300-of-1949 / Section 257.791c
Animals, other than service or qualified animals prohibited on or in streetcar or station; violation as civil infraction; definitions.
Status: in_force

Sec. 791c.

(1) A person shall not bring, carry, or transport an animal other than a service animal or qualified animal on a streetcar or in any area of a station used by a street railway system.

(2) A person who violates this section is responsible for a civil infraction.

(3) As used in this section:

(a) "Qualified animal" means an animal that is not more than 25 pounds and is controlled in a cage.

(b) "Service animal" means that term as defined in section 502c of the Michigan penal code, 1931 PA 328, MCL 750.502c.

History: Add. 2021, Act 43, Imd. Eff. July 1, 2021
Mich. Comp. Laws § 4.1850 — MI Code / Chapter 4 / Act Act-268-of-1986 / Section 4.1850
Definitions.
Status: in_force

Sec. 850.

As used in this chapter:

(a) "Michigan opioid healing and recovery fund" means the Michigan opioid healing and recovery fund created in section 3 of the Michigan trust fund act, 2000 PA 489, MCL 12.253.

(b) "Opioid advisory commission" means the opioid advisory commission created in section 851.

History: Add. 2022, Act 84, Imd. Eff. May 19, 2022
Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.1027b — MI Code / Chapter 722 / Act Act-525-of-2008 / Section 722.1027b
Fostering futures scholarship; eligibility.
Status: in_force

Sec. 7b.

A foster care student is eligible for a fostering futures scholarship if all of the following apply:

(a) Due to child abuse or child neglect, the foster care student was in foster care after his or her thirteenth birthday.

(b) The foster care student is attending an institution of higher education in this state as determined by the department.

(c) The foster care student has an unmet financial education need.

(d) The foster care student has completed the application and provided the department with the required documentation.

(e) The foster care student maintains satisfactory academic progress as determined by the department.

History: Add. 2014, Act 530, Imd. Eff. Jan. 14, 2015
Mich. Comp. Laws § 333.20722 — MI Code / Chapter 333 / Act Act-368-of-1978 / Section 333.20722
Limitations on departmental requirements.
Status: in_force

Sec. 20722.

(1) The department shall not require a freestanding birth center to do any of the following:

(a) Maintain a collaborative agreement with another health facility or agency or with a health care provider who is not employed by or under contract with a freestanding birth center.

(b) Provide care other than midwifery care.

(2) Subsection (1) does not limit a freestanding birth center from maintaining a collaborative agreement or providing care other than midwifery care as described under subsection (1).

History: Add. 2024, Act 252, Eff. Apr. 2, 2025
Mich. Comp. Laws § 485.121 — MI Code / Chapter 485 / Act Act-149-of-1869 / Section 485.121
Log jam; power to break, lien for cost.
Status: in_force

Sec. 21.

If any person or persons shall put, or cause to be put, into said stream or waters, any logs, timber, or lumber, and shall not make adequate provisions and put on sufficient force for breaking jams of such logs, timber or lumber in or upon such stream or waters, or for running, rafting or driving the same, and thereby obstruct the floatage, or navigation, it shall be lawful for such company, to cause such jams to be broken, and such logs, lumber or timbers to be run, driven, boomed, rafted or secured, at the charge and expense of the person or persons owning said logs, timber or lumber; and said company shall have a lien upon such logs, timber or lumber, as shall be sufficient to pay and satisfy all just and reasonable charges therefor, and expense and cost thereof, and shall be entitled to take and retain possession of such logs, timber or lumber, or so much thereof as may be necessary to satisfy the amount of such charges, for breaking such jams, and for driving, booming, rafting, and running of said logs, timber or lumber, and expenses and costs thereon, until the same be satisfied and paid; and such corporation shall proceed to collect such charges, costs and expenses, in the manner hereinafter prescribed.

History: 1869, Act 149, Imd. Eff. Apr. 5, 1869; CL 1871, 2736; How. 3865; CL 1897, 6741; CL 1915, 8842; CL 1929, 11777; CL 1948, 485.121
Mich. Comp. Laws § 129.123 — MI Code / Chapter 129 / Act Act-56-of-1962 / Section 129.123
Cremation or disintegration of public obligations or interest coupons.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3.

Subject to the provisions of this act, the governing body of any public corporation may authorize the cremation or disintegration of obligations or interest coupons. As an alternative, subject to the provisions of this act, any public corporation may enter into an agreement with a paying agent for the cremation or disintegration of its obligations and interest coupons, which agreement shall be approved and its execution authorized by the governing body.

History: 1962, Act 56, Eff. Mar. 28, 1963; Am. 1963, Act 130, Eff. Sept. 6, 1963; Am. 1972, Act 146, Imd. Eff. May 26, 1972
Mich. Comp. Laws § 168.204 — MI Code / Chapter 168 / Act Act-116-of-1954 / Section 168.204
County officers; oath of office, bond, deposit.
Status: in_force

Sec. 204.

Every person elected to an office named in section 200 of this act, before entering upon the duties of his office, shall take and subscribe to the oath as provided in section 1 of article 11 of the state constitution and, with the exception of the prosecuting attorney, shall give bond in the amount and manner prescribed by law and shall deposit said oath with the county clerk and said bond with the county treasurer. The county treasurer shall file his bond with the county clerk.

History: 1954, Act 116, Eff. June 1, 1955; Am. 1963, 2nd Ex. Sess., Act 35, Eff. Mar. 24, 1964
Mich. Comp. Laws § 445.1665 — MI Code / Chapter 445 / Act Act-173-of-1987 / Section 445.1665
Summary suspension of license or registration; order; affidavit; dissolution of summary suspension order; record.
Status: in_force

Sec. 15.

After an investigation has been conducted pursuant to section 13, the commissioner may issue an order summarily suspending a license or registration pursuant to section 92 of the administrative procedures act of 1969, Act No. 306 of the Public Acts of 1969, being section 24.292 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, based on an affidavit by a person familiar with the facts set forth in the affidavit or, if appropriate, based upon an affidavit, on information and belief, that an imminent threat of financial loss or imminent threat to the public welfare exists.

Pursuant to a proceeding commenced under section 92 of Act No. 306 of the Public Acts of 1969, an administrative law hearings examiner shall grant a request to dissolve a summary suspension order unless the examiner finds that an imminent threat of financial loss or imminent threat to the public welfare exists which requires emergency action and continuation of the summary suspension order.

The record created at the hearing of the summary suspension shall become part of the record on the complaint at a subsequent hearing in a contested case.

History: 1987, Act 173, Imd. Eff. Nov. 18, 1987
Mich. Comp. Laws § 419.104 — MI Code / Chapter 419 / Act Act-329-of-1937 / Section 419.104
Persons included and excluded from act; “peace officer” defined.
Status: in_force

Sec. 4.

This act applies only to a peace officer who suffers disability and to the surviving spouse, and dependents, elective or appointive, of a peace officer of this state, or of any political subdivision thereof, who is killed as the result of active duty in the enforcement of the laws of this state, or of an adjoining state.

Any such peace officer, or the surviving spouse or dependents of the peace officer, who shall receive any insurance or benefit maintained for such peace officer, or his or her dependents, by any political subdivision of this state shall not come under the provisions of this act if the amount received by the peace officer, the surviving spouse or dependents is equivalent to the amount provided for by this act. If the amount is less than provided by this act, then the difference shall be paid from the appropriation provided therefor.

As used in this section, "peace officer" includes the estate of the peace officer.

This act does not apply to the Michigan state police, their spouses, or dependents.

History: 1937, Act 329, Imd. Eff. July 24, 1937; Am. 1939, Act 164, Imd. Eff. June 6, 1939; Am. 1943, Act 130, Imd. Eff. Apr. 13, 1943; CL 1948, 419.104; Am. 1955, Act 248, Eff. Oct. 14, 1955; Am. 1983, Act 210, Imd. Eff. Nov. 10, 1983
Mich. Comp. Laws § 399.261 — MI Code / Chapter 399 / Act Act-489-of-2004 / Section 399.261
Short title.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Ronald Wilson Reagan memorial monument fund commission act".

History: 2004, Act 489, Imd. Eff. Dec. 28, 2004
Mich. Comp. Laws § 18.424a — MI Code / Chapter 18 / Act Act-302-of-1982 / Section 18.424a
Printed materials; statement.
Status: in_force

Sec. 4a.

Any material printed from funds distributed under this act shall contain a statement that Michigan justice training funds were used to print that material.

History: Add. 1989, Act 158, Imd. Eff. July 28, 1989
Mich. Comp. Laws § 460.574 — MI Code / Chapter 460 / Act Act-30-of-1995 / Section 460.574
Rules.
Status: in_force

Sec. 14.

The commission may promulgate rules to implement this act pursuant to the administrative procedures act of 1969, Act No. 306 of the Public Acts of 1969, being sections 24.201 to 24.328 of the Michigan Compiled Laws. The rules may contain standards to determine a proposed major transmission line's health and safety aspects, including but not limited to standards for permissible additions to electric and magnetic fields produced by the transmission line.

Until rules are promulgated pursuant to subsection (1), the commission shall consider and determine any health or safety issue a party raises in a proceeding concerning a certificate application.

History: 1995, Act 30, Imd. Eff. May 17, 1995
Mich. Comp. Laws § 700.2516 — MI Code / Chapter 700 / Act Act-386-of-1998 / Section 700.2516
Delivery of will or codicil by custodian.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2516.

A custodian of a will or codicil or person having possession or care of a will or codicil shall forward it to the court having jurisdiction with reasonable promptness after the death of the testator either by delivering it personally or by sending it properly addressed by registered mail. A person who neglects to perform this duty without reasonable cause is liable for damages that are sustained by the neglect. A person who willfully refuses or fails to deliver a will or codicil after being ordered by the court in a proceeding brought for the purpose of compelling delivery is guilty of contempt of court and subject to the penalty for contempt.

History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000