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Mich. Comp. Laws § 168.509v — MI Code / Chapter 168 / Act Act-116-of-1954 / Section 168.509v
Registration to vote at certain locations, by mail, or online.
Status: in_force

Sec. 509v.

(1) A person who is not registered to vote at the address where he or she resides may apply to register to vote by submitting an application at any of the following locations:

(a) The office of the clerk of a county or the office of the clerk of the city or township in which the applicant resides, during regular office hours of that clerk.

(b) A department of state office.

(c) A designated voter registration agency when submitting an application, recertification, renewal, or change of address at the voter registration agency.

(2) A person who is not registered to vote at the address where he or she resides may apply for registration by submitting a completed mail registration application. A person may request a mail registration application from and submit the application to any of the following:

(a) The secretary of state.

(b) The clerk of the county, city, or township in which the applicant resides.

(c) A designated voter registration agency.

(3) A person who is not registered to vote at the address where he or she resides may apply to register to vote by submitting an electronic voter registration application as provided in section 509ii.

History: Add. 1994, Act 441, Imd. Eff. Jan. 10, 1995; Am. 2018, Act 352, Eff. Feb. 13, 2019
Mich. Comp. Laws § 449.36 — MI Code / Chapter 449 / Act Act-72-of-1917 / Section 449.36
Dissolution; effect as to partner's existing liability.
Status: in_force

Sec. 36.

(Effect of dissolution on partner's existing liability).

The dissolution of the partnership does not discharge the existing liability of any partner.

A partner is discharged from existing liability upon dissolution of the partnership by an agreement to that effect between the partner, the partnership creditor, and the person or partnership continuing the business. An agreement may be inferred from the course of dealing between the creditor having knowledge of the dissolution and the person or partnership continuing the business.

If a person agrees to assume the existing obligations of a dissolved partnership, the partners whose obligations have been assumed shall be discharged from liability to any creditor of the partnership who, knowing of the agreement, consents to a material alteration in the nature or time of payment of the obligations.

Except as provided in section 46, the individual property of a deceased partner shall be liable for those obligations of the partnership incurred while he or she was a partner but subject to the prior payment of his or her separate debts.

History: 1917, Act 72, Eff. Aug. 10, 1917; CL 1929, 9876; CL 1948, 449.36; Am. 1994, Act 323, Imd. Eff. Oct. 12, 1994
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.50148 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.50148
Cost-share payments, loans, or annual incentive payments; eligibility; conditions; guidelines.
Status: in_force

Sec. 50148.

The following conditions shall be met for a member to be eligible for cost-share payments, a loan, or an annual incentive payment:

The member shall make application for financial assistance for forest practices to each federal program specified by the board. The board shall not make any determination as to whether and how much assistance a member will receive until the application is approved or disapproved by the governmental agency administering the federal program.

The member shall submit an application for financial assistance in a form prescribed by the board.

Before receiving assistance under this subpart, the member shall agree not to develop the land for a use incompatible with timber production within 10 years after the receipt of a cost-sharing payment agreement pursuant to section 50145, the making of a loan under section 50146, or the receipt of an annual incentive payment under section 50147. A district shall record the agreement in the office of the register of deeds in each county in which the forest land is located. Once recorded, the contract shall be binding upon each person to whom the parcel of land is sold, assigned, devised, or otherwise transferred by agreement or operation of law.

The member shall submit a forest management plan for approval by the board. This plan shall also fulfill the notification requirements of subpart 5. If the proposed forest practices include preparation of a management plan, the plan need not be completed at the time of application. Assistance under this subpart for other forest practices on forest land within the same ownership shall not be made until the management plan has been approved.

The board shall prepare guidelines specifying the factors to be considered and information which should be included in management plans submitted pursuant to this subpart and subpart 5.

History: Add. 1995, Act 57, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1995
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.1 — MI Code / Chapter 280 / Act Act-40-of-1956 / Section 280.1
Drain code of 1956; short title.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

This act shall be known and may be cited as "the drain code of 1956".

History: 1956, Act 40, Imd. Eff. Mar. 28, 1956
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.11708 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.11708
Disposal of septage waste at receiving facility; fee; order prohibiting operation of wastewater treatment plant.
Status: in_force

Sec. 11708.

(1) Subject to subsection (2), if a person is engaged in servicing in a receiving facility service area, that person shall dispose of the septage waste at that receiving facility or any other receiving facility within whose service area the person is engaged in servicing.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person engaged in servicing who owns a storage facility with a capacity of 50,000 gallons or more if the storage facility was constructed, or authorized by the department to be constructed, before the location where the person is engaged in servicing was included in a receiving facility service area under an operating plan approved under section 11715b.

(3) A receiving facility may charge a fee for receiving septage waste. The fee shall not exceed the actual costs of operating the receiving facility including the reasonable cost of doing business as defined by common accounting practices.

(4) The department may issue an order prohibiting the operation of a wastewater treatment plant or structure as a receiving facility because of excessive hydraulic or organic loading, odor problems, or other environmental or public health concerns.

(5) A person shall not dispose of septage waste at a wastewater treatment plant or structure if the operation of that wastewater treatment plant or structure as a receiving facility is prohibited by an order issued under subsection (4) or section 11715b.

History: 1994, Act 451, Eff. Mar. 30, 1995; Am. 2004, Act 381, Imd. Eff. Oct. 12, 2004; Am. 2014, Act 546, Eff. Apr. 16, 2015
Mich. Comp. Laws § 41.413 — MI Code / Chapter 41 / Act Act-116-of-1923 / Section 41.413
Cost of proposed improvement or service; special assessment bonds; special assessment taxes; proceedings; insufficiency of special assessment fund; advancement of township funds; reimbursement.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3.

Before commencing an improvement or service authorized by section 1, the township board shall obtain from competent sources maps, plans, and estimates of the proposed improvement or service, shall determine by resolution the cost of the proposed improvement or service, and shall provide for the making of a special assessment upon each parcel of land in the special assessment district by benefits and for the issuing and sale of special assessment bonds in anticipation of the collection of the special assessment taxes. The special assessment bonds shall not be issued before the final confirmation of the assessment roll by the township board. A proceeding relating to the making, levying, and collection of a special assessment authorized by this section and to issuing bonds in anticipation of the collection of the special assessment shall conform, as near as may be, to a proceeding for levying a special assessment and issuing special assessment bonds by a village for a similar improvement or service, as set forth in Act No. 3 of the Public Acts of 1895, as amended, being sections 61.1 to 74.22 of the Michigan Compiled Laws. If the special assessment fund is insufficient to pay the bonds and interest on the bonds when due and the bonds were issued subsequent to April 21, 1927, the township board may advance the amount necessary to pay the bonds and shall be reimbursed from the assessments when collected or by reassessment of the deficiency if necessary. However, as to bonds issued subsequent to July 1, 1951, the township board may, at the time of issuance, pledge the full faith and credit of the township for the payment of the bonds, and if the special assessment fund is insufficient to pay the bonds and interest on the bonds when due, the township board shall advance the amount necessary to pay the bonds and shall be reimbursed from the assessments when collected or by reassessment of the deficiency against the special assessment district, if necessary.

History: 1923, Act 116, Eff. Aug. 30, 1923; Am. 1927, Act 58, Imd. Eff. Apr. 21, 1927; CL 1929, 2387; Am. 1934, 1st Ex. Sess., Act 24, Imd. Eff. Mar. 28, 1934; CL 1948, 41.413; Am. 1951, Act 32, Imd. Eff. May 3, 1951; Am. 1989, Act 82, Imd. Eff. June 20, 1989
Mich. Comp. Laws § 125.602 — MI Code / Chapter 125 / Act Act-293-of-1937 / Section 125.602
Declaration of necessity.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

Finding and declaration of necessity. It is hereby found and declared that there exist in the state unsafe and insanitary housing conditions and a shortage of safe and sanitary dwelling accommodations for persons of low income; that these conditions necessitate excessive and disproportionate expenditures of public funds for crime prevention and punishment, public health and safety, fire and accident protection, and other public services and facilities; and that the public interest requires the remedying of these conditions. It is hereby found and declared that the assistance herein provided for the remedying of these conditions constitutes a public use and purpose and an essential governmental function for which public moneys may be spent, and other aid given; that it is a proper public purpose for any state public body to aid any housing commission or housing authority operating within its boundaries or jurisdiction or any housing project located therein, as the state public body derives immediate benefits and advantages from such housing commission or housing authority or project; and that the provisions hereinafter enacted are necessary in the public interest.

History: 1937, Act 293, Eff. Oct. 29, 1937; CL 1948, 125.602
Mich. Comp. Laws § 484.3110 — MI Code / Chapter 484 / Act Act-48-of-2002 / Section 484.3110
Fee-sharing payments.
Status: in_force

Sec. 10.

Except as reduced by the amount provided for under subsection (2), the authority shall allocate the annual maintenance fees collected under this act to fund the fee-sharing mechanism under section 11.

To the extent that fees exceed $30,000,000.00 in any year and are from fees for linear feet of rights-of-way in which telecommunication facilities are constructed by a provider after the effective date of this act, the authority shall allocate that amount to fund the fee-sharing mechanism under section 12.

To be eligible to receive fee-sharing payments under this act, a municipality shall comply with this act. For the purpose of the distribution under sections 11 and 12, a municipality is considered to be in compliance with this act unless the authority finds to the contrary in a proceeding against the municipality affording due process initiated by a provider, the commission, or the attorney general. If a municipality is found not to be in compliance, fee-sharing payments shall be held by the authority in escrow until the municipality returns to compliance. A municipality is not ineligible to receive fee-sharing payments for any matter found to be a good faith dispute or matters of first impression under this act or other applicable law.

The amount received under sections 11 and 12 shall be used by the municipality solely for rights-of-way related purposes. Rights-of-way purposes does not include constructing or utilizing telecommunication facilities to serve residential or commercial customers.

A municipality receiving funds under sections 11 and 12 with a population of less than 10,000 may file and a municipality receiving funds under sections 11 and 12 with a population of 10,000 or more shall file an annual report with the authority on the use and disposition of the funds. The authority shall prescribe the form of the report to be filed under this subsection, which report shall be in a simplified format.

History: 2002, Act 48, Eff. Nov. 1, 2002
Mich. Comp. Laws § 254.365 — MI Code / Chapter 254 / Act Act-13-of-1966 / Section 254.365
Refunding bonds; execution, officers, manner.
Status: in_force

Sec. 5.

The refunding bonds shall be executed for and on behalf of the state by the state treasurer and the secretary of state or their respective deputies. The right of a deputy to so act shall not be limited by any other statute specifying the circumstances under which he may act for his principal. Interest coupons may be executed by affixing thereto the facsimile signature of the official designated to execute them. If an officer whose signature appears on the refunding bonds or attached coupons ceases to be such officer before delivery of the refunding bonds, his signature shall nevertheless be valid and sufficient for all purposes the same as if he had remained in office until delivery.

History: 1966, Act 13, Imd. Eff. Apr. 6, 1966
Mich. Comp. Laws § 440.4607 — MI Code / Chapter 440 / Act Act-174-of-1962 / Section 440.4607
Regulations of federal reserve system as superseding article.
Status: in_force

Sec. 4A107.

Regulations of the board of governors of the federal reserve system and operating circulars of the federal reserve banks supersede any inconsistent provision of this article to the extent of the inconsistency.

History: Add. 1992, Act 100, Imd. Eff. June 25, 1992
Mich. Comp. Laws § 460.116 — MI Code / Chapter 460 / Act Act-299-of-1972 / Section 460.116
Objections to assessments; notice; hearing; findings; payment of assessments; interest on unpaid assessments; action by attorney general.
Status: in_force

Sec. 6.

Within 15 days after the receipt of any statement of amount assessed under this act, the public utility may file with the commission objections setting forth in detail the grounds upon which the assessment is claimed to be excessive, erroneous, unlawful or invalid. The commission, after notice to the utility shall hold a hearing on the objections. If, after hearing, the commission finds the assessment is not excessive, erroneous, unlawful or invalid in whole or in part, it shall record its findings and transmit them to the public utility and again mail or serve a copy of the assessment upon the utility. Statements of assessment to which objections have not been filed, and statements of assessment and amended statements of assessment mailed or served after a hearing upon objections shall be paid not later than 30 days after their receipt. Assessments not paid when due shall bear interest at the rate of 1% per month. Statements of unpaid assessments together with interest thereon shall be recovered by the attorney general by appropriate action.

History: 1972, Act 299, Imd. Eff. Dec. 19, 1972
Mich. Comp. Laws § 247.470 — MI Code / Chapter 247 / Act Act-59-of-1915 / Section 247.470
Faulty proceedings; collection of tax; new proceedings.
Status: in_force

Sec. 70.

The collection of no tax levied, or ordered to be levied for the payment of the improvement or construction of any highway laid out under this act shall be perpetually enjoined, or declared absolutely void in consequence of any error or informality appearing in the record of the proceedings under which any highway shall have been constructed or improved, nor on account of any irregularity or informality in the condemnation of the right of way, nor for want of any record thereof, but the court in which any action may be brought to recover any tax or assessment paid, or to declare void the highway proceedings, or to enjoin any tax or assessment levied or ordered to be levied for the payment of the labor and expenses of the improvement thereof, shall, if there be manifest error in the proceedings, allow the county road commissioners, or the state highway commissioner, to begin their proceedings anew at the stage prior to which the error occurred.

History: 1915, Act 59, Eff. Aug. 24, 1915; CL 1915, 4740; Am. 1917, Act 125, Imd. Eff. Apr. 25, 1917; CL 1929, 4385; CL 1948, 247.470
Mich. Comp. Laws § 457.366 — MI Code / Chapter 457 / Act Act-85-of-1905 / Section 457.366
Shares of stock; by-laws.
Status: in_force

Sec. 6.

Every such corporation shall have full power and authority to provide by its by-laws for the issuing of its certificates and shares of stock and for the manner in which said shares of stock shall be held and represented.

History: 1905, Act 85, Imd. Eff. May 3, 1905; CL 1915, 10476; CL 1929, 10679; CL 1948, 457.366
Mich. Comp. Laws § 123.774 — MI Code / Chapter 123 / Act Act-185-of-1957 / Section 123.774
Petition; court order for hearing.
Status: in_force

Sec. 44.

Upon filing of the petition the court shall make an order fixing a day for hearing on such petition which shall be not less than 25 days thereafter. The order shall recite the purpose of the petition and the description of the property to be taken and the names of the persons mentioned in the petition as parties interested therein. It shall order the persons to appear before the court at the time fixed therein for the hearing and show cause, if any they have, why the prayer in the petition should not be granted. If any person named in such petition shall be a minor or an insane or incompetent person who has no general guardian, then the court shall appoint a guardian ad litem for him.

History: 1957, Act 185, Imd. Eff. June 4, 1957
Mich. Comp. Laws § 559.174 — MI Code / Chapter 559 / Act Act-59-of-1978 / Section 559.174
Delivery and retention of condominium subdivision plan; recordation of consolidating master deed.
Status: in_force

Sec. 74.

The condominium subdivision plan of a size as provided by rule of the administrator shall be delivered to and retained by the local register of deeds office.

A consolidating master deed shall be recorded at the register of deeds office. The register of deeds shall not deny recording of a consolidating master deed because the property taxes and special assessments are not paid in full.

History: 1978, Act 59, Eff. July 1, 1978; Am. 1982, Act 538, Imd. Eff. Jan. 17, 1983
Mich. Comp. Laws § 168.734 — MI Code / Chapter 168 / Act Act-116-of-1954 / Section 168.734
Challengers; preventing presence, penalty.
Status: in_force

Sec. 734.

Any officer or election board who shall prevent the presence of any such challenger as above provided, or shall refuse or fail to provide such challenger with conveniences for the performance of the duties expected of him, shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine not exceeding $1,000.00, or by imprisonment in the state prison not exceeding 2 years, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.

History: 1954, Act 116, Eff. June 1, 1955
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.80108a — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.80108a
Operation of airboat within certain distance of residence; limitation; exceptions.
Status: in_force

Sec. 80108a.

(1) A person shall not operate an airboat on the waters of this state within 450 feet of a residence between the hours of 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. at a speed in excess of the minimum speed required to maintain forward movement.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to any of the following:

(a) The operation of an airboat in an emergency when necessary to protect public safety.

(b) The operation of an airboat so as to free the airboat when it has run aground.

(c) The operation of an airboat for a governmental purpose if the airboat is clearly marked and identified as being used for a governmental purpose.

History: Add. 2008, Act 152, Imd. Eff. June 5, 2008
Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.6023a — MI Code / Chapter 600 / Act Act-236-of-1961 / Section 600.6023a
Property held jointly by husband and wife; exemption under judgment entered against 1 spouse.
Status: in_force

Sec. 6023a.

Property described in section 1 of 1927 PA 212, MCL 557.151, or real property, held jointly by a husband and wife as a tenancy by the entirety is exempt from execution under a judgment entered against only 1 spouse.

History: Add. 2004, Act 575, Imd. Eff. Jan. 3, 2005
Mich. Comp. Laws § 400.725 — MI Code / Chapter 400 / Act Act-218-of-1979 / Section 400.725
Contested case hearing; judicial review.
Status: in_force

Sec. 25.

A party aggrieved by the decision of the director following a contested case hearing under section 22 may seek judicial review in accordance with chapter 6 of the administrative procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24.301 to 24.306.

History: 1979, Act 218, Eff. Mar. 27, 1980; Am. 2018, Act 558, Eff. Mar. 28, 2019
Mich. Comp. Laws § 450.186 — MI Code / Chapter 450 / Act Act-327-of-1931 / Section 450.186
Ecclesiastical corporations; Sunday school, religious society; incorporation.
Status: in_force

Sec. 186.

Same; Sunday school or religious societies. Any 3 or more persons may incorporate a Sunday school society, or other special religious society or union, not being a church, but having for its object the teaching of religious principles, or the associating together for religious work. The incorporators shall subscribe articles similar to those prescribed for non-profit corporations generally, which articles shall also contain any special conditions or distinguishing principles upon which such corporation is founded, and, if connected with some organized church, the name of the church and a statement of the extent to which such church may exercise superintendence over the affairs of or discipline of the members of such Sunday school or other corporation. The corporations referred to in this section as Sunday schools or special religious societies, shall have all the rights, privileges, immunities and powers granted by this act to non-profit corporations generally in their secular affairs; and in their religious affairs they shall be governed solely by their articles and by-laws, and the system of discipline therein adopted.

History: 1931, Act 327, Eff. Sept. 18, 1931; CL 1948, 450.186
Mich. Comp. Laws § 123.36 — MI Code / Chapter 123 / Act Act-123-of-1949 / Section 123.36
Territory annexed to city or village; exemption.
Status: in_force

Sec. 6.

The provisions of this act shall not apply to territory which has been annexed to an incorporated city under the provisions of Act No. 279 of the Public Acts of 1909, as amended, being sections 117.1 to 117.38, inclusive, of the Compiled Laws of 1948, or Act No. 215 of the Public Acts of 1895, as amended, being sections 81.1 to 113.20, inclusive, of the Compiled Laws of 1948, or to territory which has been annexed to villages under the provisions of Act No. 278 of the Public Acts of 1909, as amended, being sections 78.1 to 78.27, inclusive, of the Compiled Laws of 1948, or Act No. 3 of the Public Acts of 1895, as amended, being sections 61.1 to 75.12, inclusive, of the Compiled Laws of 1948.

History: 1949, Act 123, Eff. Sept. 23, 1949