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Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.47326 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.47326
Report of fish in possession by commercial fishermen; contents; inspection; prohibited possession.
Status: in_force

Sec. 47326.

Every person licensed to take fish under this part, at the close of the 24-hour period immediately following the close of the respective open seasons provided for by this part, shall report to the department, on forms provided by the department, the kinds of fish and number or weight of fish possessed at the close of the 24-hour period. Any subsequent shipment or sale, or both, of such fish shall be reported immediately to the department, on forms furnished by the department, showing the amount and kinds of fish shipped or sold, the date of the shipment or sale, and the name and address of the person or persons to whom the fish were shipped or sold. All fish in possession upon which the season is closed shall be made available for inspection at any reasonable time upon the demand of the department. A person shall not possess or ship, transport, or sell any fish upon which the season is closed and which have not been reported as provided in this section.

History: Add. 1995, Act 57, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1995
Mich. Comp. Laws § 462.20 — MI Code / Chapter 462 / Act Act-300-of-1909 / Section 462.20
Failure to report unlawful.
Status: in_force

Sec. 20.

It shall be unlawful for any officer, agent or employe of any common carrier to willfully fail or refuse to fill out and return any blank or make any report as required by this act, or to willfully fail or refuse to answer any questions therein propounded, or to knowingly or willfully give a false answer to any such question or to evade the answer to any such question where the fact inquired of is within his knowledge, or to, upon proper demand, willfully fail or refuse to exhibit to any commissioner or any commissioners, or any person authorized to examine the same, any book, paper or account of such common carrier which is in his possession or under his control.

History: 1909, Act 300, Eff. Sept. 1, 1909; CL 1915, 8128; CL 1929, 11036; CL 1948, 462.20
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.81142 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.81142
Operation of ORV after right suspended as misdemeanor; penalty.
Status: in_force

Sec. 81142.

A person whose right to operate an ORV has been suspended pursuant to this part and who operates an ORV is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment for not more than 90 days, or a fine of not more than $1,000.00, or both.

History: Add. 1995, Act 58, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1995
Mich. Comp. Laws § 487.3507 — MI Code / Chapter 487 / Act Act-354-of-1996 / Section 487.3507
Regulation and prescription of terms, conditions, bylaws, and rules by board of directors.
Status: in_force

Sec. 507.

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the board of directors of a savings bank, with the approval of the commissioner, may regulate and prescribe the terms, conditions, bylaws, and rules under which deposits, other funds and assets may be received, conserved, paid out, withdrawn, or otherwise disposed of whenever in the opinion of the commissioner an emergency exists in the affairs of a savings bank and the action is advisable to conserve, safeguard, and protect depositors, borrowers, deposits, moneys, funds, assets, and the business of the savings bank and all parties in interest, including the public.

History: 1996, Act 354, Imd. Eff. July 1, 1996
Mich. Comp. Laws § 440.8502 — MI Code / Chapter 440 / Act Act-174-of-1962 / Section 440.8502
Action based on adverse claim.
Status: in_force

Sec. 8502.

An action based on an adverse claim to a financial asset, whether framed in conversion, replevin, constructive trust, equitable lien, or other theory, may not be asserted against a person who acquires a security entitlement under section 8501 for value and without notice of the adverse claim.

History: Add. 1998, Act 278, Imd. Eff. July 27, 1998
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.50103 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.50103
Definitions; F to P.
Status: in_force

Sec. 50103.

"Fish and wildlife habitat improvements" means measures designed to protect, maintain, or enhance fish and wildlife habitats.

"Follow-up work" means forest practices to promote the survival of seeds or seedlings planted or the protection or enhancement of other work previously undertaken under this part.

"Forest improvement project" or "project" means each of the following:

Production, processing, handling, storage, marketing, or transportation of forest resources, conducted in carrying out the purposes of this part, including sawmills, hardboard mills, power stations, warehouses, air and water pollution control equipment, and solid waste disposal facilities.

Forest practice or follow-up work.

Study, planning, or other work intended to improve forest lands or forest resources or to demonstrate means of improving forest lands or forest resources.

"Forest land" means a tract of land or the timber rights in that land owned or occupied by a member, which land is at least 10% occupied by forest tree species with a growth potential of 50 cubic feet per acre per year and consists of 40 acres or more. Forest land includes land from which forest tree species have been removed and have not been restocked, but does not include land converted to uses other than the growing of forest tree species or land currently zoned for uses incompatible with forest practices.

"Forest management plan" means a forest and land management plan submitted to a district pursuant to subpart 5.

"Forest practice" includes, but is not limited to, the following:

The preparation of management plans for forest land.

The improvement of forest tree species.

Reforestation.

The harvesting of forest tree species.

Road construction associated with the improvement or harvesting of forest tree species or reforestation.

Use of chemicals or fertilizers for the purpose of growing or managing forest tree species.

The management of slashings resulting from other forest practices.

Any other actions intended to improve forest land or forest resources.

"Forest resources" means those products, uses, and values associated with forest land, including recreation and aesthetics, fish, forage, soil, timber, watershed, wilderness, and wildlife.

"Gross territorial boundary" means the jurisdictional limit of the area of the district within which landowners are eligible for membership in the district.

"Proposed gross territorial boundary" means the proposed jurisdictional limit of the area of the district within which owners or occupiers of land are eligible for membership in the district.

History: Add. 1995, Act 57, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1995
Mich. Comp. Laws § 567.259 — MI Code / Chapter 567 / Act Act-29-of-1995 / Section 567.259
Administrator as successor to state board of escheats.
Status: in_force

Sec. 39.

The administrator is the successor to the state board of escheats created by former Act No. 329 of the Public Acts of 1947. A reference to the state board of escheats in any other provision of law is considered a reference to the administrator under this act.

History: 1995, Act 29, Eff. Mar. 28, 1996
Mich. Comp. Laws § 554.541 — MI Code / Chapter 554 / Act Act-433-of-1998 / Section 554.541
Responsibility of third person.
Status: in_force

Sec. 21.

A third person in good faith and without court order may act on the instructions of or otherwise deal with any person purporting to make a transfer or purporting to act in the capacity of a custodian and, in the absence of knowledge, is not responsible for determining any of the following:

The validity of the purported custodian's designation.

The propriety of, or the authority under this act for, an act of the purported custodian.

The validity or propriety under this act of an instrument executed or given either by the person purporting to make a transfer or by the purported custodian.

The propriety of the application of property of the minor delivered to the purported custodian.

History: 1998, Act 433, Imd. Eff. Dec. 30, 1998
Mich. Comp. Laws § 37.1213 — MI Code / Chapter 37 / Act Act-220-of-1976 / Section 37.1213
Article not in conflict with civil rights act.
Status: in_force

Sec. 213.

Nothing in this article shall be construed to conflict with the Elliott-Larsen civil rights act, Act No. 453 of the Public Acts of 1976, being sections 37.2101 to 37.2804 of the Michigan Compiled Laws.

History: Add. 1990, Act 121, Imd. Eff. June 25, 1990
Mich. Comp. Laws § 333.12708 — MI Code / Chapter 333 / Act Act-368-of-1978 / Section 333.12708
Entering and inspecting installation.
Status: in_force

Sec. 12708.

The department or local health department may enter and inspect, at reasonable hours, an installation on public or private property for the development or abandonment of ground water supplies.

History: 1978, Act 368, Eff. Sept. 30, 1978
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.54 — MI Code / Chapter 280 / Act Act-40-of-1956 / Section 280.54
Order designating county drainage district; contents; notice of filing; amendment of name or number of drain; procedure.
Status: in_force

Sec. 54.

The commissioner shall prepare and file in his office his order designating a drainage district and give it a name or number and describe therein the boundaries of the district by streets or highways or parcels of land for each of the several tracts or parcels of land included therein and the counties, townships, cities, villages and state trunk line highways which would be benefited by the construction of the drains and would be liable to assessment therefor, also a description of the drains as determined by him, showing the beginning, route, terminus, type of the proposed construction and the estimated cost of such proposed construction. The commissioner shall give notice of filing the order designating a drainage district by publishing a notice in a newspaper of general circulation in the county, or a newspaper of general circulation in the area where the drainage district boundaries are located, which notice shall give a general description of the route of the proposed drain or drains and of the drainage district as shown by the order.

At any time after the order designating a drainage district and giving it a name or number has been filed in the office of the drain commissioner, the order may be amended as to the name or number of the drain at any time by presenting to the drain commissioner of the county a petition signed by no less than 5 land owners whose land is traversed by the drain, which petition shall state the then present name or number of the drain and the change or changes to be made in the name or number. Upon receipt of such petition, and if in the drain commissioner's opinion it is to the best interest of all concerned that the name or number be changed, he shall make his order amending the name or number, and thereafter the drainage district shall be known by such name or number. The drain commissioner shall forthwith post such signs upon the drain as he may deem advisable for public notice of the new name or number.

History: 1956, Act 40, Imd. Eff. Mar. 28, 1956; Am. 1961, Act 212, Imd. Eff. June 6, 1961
Mich. Comp. Laws § 458.263 — MI Code / Chapter 458 / Act Act-40-of-1899 / Section 458.263
Cathedral; ex-officio rector.
Status: in_force

Sec. 13.

Should it be desirable to use the church building and any other buildings or property of any Protestant Episcopal church heretofore or hereafter organized and existing in this state, as and for a cathedral, it shall be lawful for such church, at its first meeting, or at any annual meeting, or at a special meeting duly called for that purpose, to adopt a plan not inconsistent with this act, nor with the constitutions and canons, doctrine, discipline and worship of the Protestant Episcopal church, by which it may adapt itself and its property to such use; which plan may provide for a dean or other officer, who shall be elected with the advice and consent of the bishop of the diocese in which such church may be located, in accordance with the canons of said diocese, and who shall be ex-officio rector.

History: Add. 1909, Act 87, Eff. Sept. 1, 1909; CL 1915, 10940; CL 1929, 10948; CL 1948, 458.263
Mich. Comp. Laws § 390.1160 — MI Code / Chapter 390 / Act Act-222-of-1975 / Section 390.1160
Pledge by authority; lien of pledge; recording not required.
Status: in_force

Sec. 10.

A pledge made by the authority shall be valid and binding from the time the pledge is made. The moneys or property pledged and thereafter received by the authority shall immediately be subject to the lien of the pledge without physical delivery or further act. The lien of the pledge shall be valid and binding against all parties having a claim in tort, contract, or otherwise against the authority, irrespective of whether the parties have notice of the claim. Neither the resolution nor another instrument by which a pledge is created need be recorded.

History: 1975, Act 222, Eff. Oct. 1, 1975
Mich. Comp. Laws § 14.111 — MI Code / Chapter 14 / Act Act-153-of-1897 / Section 14.111
Appearance of attorney general in cases for state; expenses; authorization.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

In all cases in which the state is a party or interested, in which the attorney general participates, whenever it becomes necessary to subpoena witnesses or to defray other necessary expenses of that litigation, the attorney general is hereby authorized to pay the amount that he or she considers necessary out of funds appropriated.

History: 1897, Act 153, Imd. Eff. May 21, 1897; CL 1897, 11300; CL 1915, 14612; CL 1929, 189; CL 1948, 14.111; Am. 2002, Act 384, Imd. Eff. May 30, 2002
Mich. Comp. Laws § 388.1882 — MI Code / Chapter 388 / Act Act-94-of-1979 / Section 388.1882
Institutions receiving funds under MCL 388.1878, 388.1879, or 388.1881; providing unobligated and unexpended funds; plan to expend remaining funds; direct or indirect financial aid; prohibition.
Status: in_force

Sec. 282.

(1) Each institution receiving funds for fiscal year 2025-2026 under section 278, 279, or 281 shall provide to the department of labor and economic opportunity by April 15, 2026 the unobligated and unexpended funds as of March 31, 2026 and a plan to expend the remaining funds by the end of the fiscal year. Notwithstanding the award limitations in sections 278 and 279, the amount of funding reported as not being expended will be reallocated to the institutions that intend to expend all funding received under section 278, 279, or 281.

(2) Funds received for the purpose of administering programs under sections 278, 279, and 281 must not be used for direct financial aid or indirect financial aid. However, a public university may provide academic incentives to motivate participating students as approved by the department. As used in this subsection:

(a) "Direct financial aid" includes, but is not limited to, scholarships, payment of tuition, stipends, and work-studies.

(b) "Indirect financial aid" includes, but is not limited to, transportation, textbook allowances, child care support, and assistance with medical premiums or expenses.

History: Add. 2011, Act 62, Eff. Oct. 1, 2011; Am. 2012, Act 201, Eff. Oct. 1, 2012; Am. 2013, Act 60, Eff. Oct. 1, 2013; Am. 2014, Act 196, Eff. Oct. 1, 2014; Am. 2015, Act 85, Eff. Oct. 1, 2015; Am. 2016, Act 249, Eff. Oct. 1, 2016; Am. 2017, Act 108, Eff. Oct. 1, 2017; Am. 2018, Act 265, Eff. Oct. 1, 2018; Am. 2019, Act 62, Eff. Oct. 1, 2019; Am. 2020, Act 165, Eff. Oct. 1, 2020; Am. 2021, Act 86, Eff. Oct. 1, 2021; Am. 2022, Act 144, Eff. Oct. 1, 2022; Am. 2023, Act 103, Eff. Oct. 1, 2023; Am. 2024, Act 120, Eff. Oct. 1, 2024; Am. 2025, Act 15, Imd. Eff. Oct. 7, 2025
Mich. Comp. Laws § 125.2257 — MI Code / Chapter 125 / Act Act-296-of-2003 / Section 125.2257
Annual report.
Status: in_force

Sec. 27.

(1) The Michigan early stage venture investment corporation shall publish and make available on the Internet an annual report not more than 3 months after the close of the Michigan early stage venture investment corporation's fiscal year that includes all of the following:

(a) An enumeration of all investment and related activities for the fiscal year.

(b) Documentation and analysis of the implementation and status of the Michigan early stage venture investment corporation's investment plan and the economic impact of the plan on this state, including, but not limited to, the following:

( i ) The number of jobs represented by the investments made in qualified businesses in this state.

( ii ) Return on investment generated by investment, the types of activities in which investment was made, and the impact of that investment on the economic base of this state.

(c) Return through the fiscal year from investments made by each Michigan early stage venture investment fund in venture capital companies.

(d) The number of seed or early stage businesses that have been funded by venture capital companies.

(e) The aggregate net distributions made to each fund by the venture capital companies that have entered into agreements with each Michigan early stage venture investment fund through the end of the fiscal year and since the inception of each Michigan early stage venture investment fund.

(f) The total amount invested by each Michigan early stage venture investment fund in venture capital companies.

(g) Any upcoming use of tax vouchers that is certain and the timing of that use.

(h) An estimate of the potential use of tax vouchers over the 5-year period following the end of the fiscal year.

(2) Each year, the Michigan early stage venture investment corporation shall provide a copy of the annual report described in subsection (1) to the chairpersons of the house and senate appropriations committees upon its publication.

History: 2003, Act 296, Imd. Eff. Jan. 8, 2004; Am. 2015, Act 192, Imd. Eff. Nov. 16, 2015
Mich. Comp. Laws § 791.251 — MI Code / Chapter 791 / Act Act-232-of-1953 / Section 791.251
Hearings division; creation; appointment and duties of hearing administrator; duties of hearings division; supervision and qualifications of hearing officer.
Status: in_force

Sec. 51.

There is created within the department a hearings division. The division is under the direction and supervision of the hearings administrator who is appointed by the director of the department.

Except as otherwise provided in this section, the hearings division is responsible for each prisoner hearing the department conducts that may result in the loss by a prisoner of a right, including but not limited to any 1 or more of the following matters:

An infraction of a prison rule that may result in punitive segregation, loss of disciplinary credits, or the loss of good time.

A security classification that may result in the placement of a prisoner in administrative segregation.

A special designation that permanently excludes, by department policy or rule, a person under the jurisdiction of the department from community placement.

Visitor restrictions.

High or very high assaultive risk classifications.

Except as otherwise provided in this section, the hearings division is responsible for each prisoner hearing that may result in the accumulation of disciplinary time.

The hearings division is not responsible for a prisoner hearing that is conducted for prisoners transferred under section 11a to an institution of another state pursuant to the interstate corrections compact.

The hearings division is not responsible for a prisoner hearing that is conducted as a result of a minor misconduct charge that would not cause a loss of good time or disciplinary credits, or result in placement in punitive segregation.

Each hearings officer of the department is under the direction and supervision of the hearings division. Each hearings officer hired by the department after October 1, 1979, shall be an attorney.

History: Add. 1979, Act 140, Imd. Eff. Nov. 7, 1979; Am. 1983, Act 155, Eff. Oct. 1, 1983; Am. 1994, Act 217, Eff. Dec. 15, 1998; Am. 1998, Act 204, Imd. Eff. June 30, 1998; Am. 1998, Act 269, Imd. Eff. July 17, 1998
Mich. Comp. Laws § 800.454 — MI Code / Chapter 800 / Act Act-16-of-1978 / Section 800.454
Prisoners escaping, not returning, or violating parole; apprehension; reimbursing costs of holding in county jail; exception; monthly submission of itemized costs; determination of reasonableness; payment.
Status: in_force

Sec. 4.

When a state committed prisoner who was incarcerated in a state correctional facility has escaped, not returned pursuant to agreement, or violated the terms of his or her parole and has been apprehended pursuant to an order of the department of corrections and is held in a county jail awaiting disposition of his or her case, the department of corrections shall reimburse the county holding the prisoner for the actual and reasonable daily costs, not to exceed $35.00 per day, incurred by the county in holding the prisoner. This section shall not apply to the holding of prisoners awaiting prosecution on new felony charges.

Each county shall submit monthly its itemized costs as described in this section to the department of corrections. After determination of reasonableness of the amount to be paid, payment shall be made in accordance with the accounting laws of the state. The determination of reasonableness by the department of corrections shall be conclusive.

History: 1978, Act 16, Imd. Eff. Feb. 12, 1978; Am. 1987, Act 272, Eff. Apr. 1, 1988