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Mich. Comp. Laws § 750.307 — MI Code / Chapter 750 / Act Act-328-of-1931 / Section 750.307
Gambling; prima facie evidence.
Status: in_force

Sec. 307.

Prima facie evidence-In a prosecution or proceeding relative to lotteries, policy lotteries or policy, buying and selling pools or registering bets, any words, figures or characters, written, printed or exposed upon a blackboard, placard or otherwise in a place alleged to be used or occupied for such business, purporting or appearing to be a name of a horse or jockey, or a description of or reference to a trial or contest of skill, speed or endurance of man, beast, bird or machine, or game, competition, political nomination, appointment or election, or other act or event, or any odds, bet, combination bet or other stake or wager, or any code, cipher or substitute therefor, shall be prima facie evidence of the existence of the race, game, contest or other act or event so purporting or appearing to be referred to, and that such place is kept or occupied for gaming; and in all cases a copy or oral description thereof shall be competent evidence of the same.

History: 1931, Act 328, Eff. Sept. 18, 1931; CL 1948, 750.307
Mich. Comp. Laws § 125.4220 — MI Code / Chapter 125 / Act Act-57-of-2018 / Section 125.4220
Notice to vacate.
Status: in_force

Sec. 220.

A person to be relocated under this part shall be given not less than 90 days' written notice to vacate unless modified by court order for good cause.

History: 2018, Act 57, Eff. Jan. 1, 2019
Mich. Comp. Laws § 750.66 — MI Code / Chapter 750 / Act Act-328-of-1931 / Section 750.66
Person responsible for dog or wolf-dog cross that has bitten another person; information to be provided; violation as misdemeanor; exception; definitions.
Status: in_force

Sec. 66.

(1) If a person 18 years of age or older is responsible for controlling the actions of a dog or wolf-dog cross and the person knows or has reason to know that the dog or wolf-dog cross has bitten another person, the person shall immediately provide the person who was bitten with all of the following information:

(a) His or her name and address and, if that person does not own the dog or wolf-dog cross, the name and address of the dog's or wolf-dog cross's owner.

(b) Information, if known by that person, as to whether the dog or wolf-dog cross is current on all legally required vaccinations.

(2) A person who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not more than 93 days or a fine of not more than $500.00, or both.

(3) This section does not apply if the person is bitten by a police dog. As used in this subsection, "police dog" means that term as defined in section 50c.

(4) As used in this section, "dog" and "wolf-dog cross" mean those terms as defined in section 2 of the wolf-dog cross act, 2000 PA 246, MCL 287.1002.

History: Add. 2008, Act 205, Eff. Jan. 1, 2009
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.2136 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.2136
Construction of subpart.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2136.

This subpart does not limit the authority of the department to exchange land as provided in subpart 3.

History: Add. 1995, Act 60, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1995; Am. 2018, Act 238, Eff. Sept. 25, 2018
Mich. Comp. Laws § 41.101 — MI Code / Chapter 41 / Act R-S-of-1846 / Section 41.101
Exclusion of person from public meeting; refusal to withdraw as misdemeanor; penalty.
Status: in_force

Sec. 101.

A person shall not be excluded from a public meeting except for a breach of the peace actually committed at the meeting. A person who refuses to withdraw from a public meeting, on being ordered by the moderator to do so, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not exceeding $50.00.

History: R.S. 1846, Ch. 16; CL 1857, 593; CL 1871, 747; How. 780; CL 1897, 2380; CL 1915, 2160; CL 1929, 1036; CL 1948, 41.101; Am. 1989, Act 77, Imd. Eff. June 20, 1989
Mich. Comp. Laws § 125.1449q — MI Code / Chapter 125 / Act Act-346-of-1966 / Section 125.1449q
Recording affidavits; presumptive evidence of facts.
Status: in_force

Sec. 49q.

Such affidavits shall be recorded at length by the register of deeds of the county in which the premises are situated, in a book kept for the record of deeds; and such original affidavits, the record thereof, and certified copies of such record, shall be presumptive evidence of the facts therein contained.

History: Add. 1981, Act 173, Imd. Eff. Dec. 10, 1981
Mich. Comp. Laws § 460.4 — MI Code / Chapter 460 / Act Act-3-of-1939 / Section 460.4
Michigan public service commission; rights, privileges, and jurisdiction; meaning of certain references; review of order or decree.
Status: in_force

Sec. 4.

The Michigan public service commission shall have and exercise all rights, privileges, and the jurisdiction in all respects as has been conferred by law and exercised by the Michigan public utilities commission. Where reference is or has been made in any law to the "commission", the "Michigan public utilities commission", the "Michigan railroad commission", that reference shall be construed to mean the Michigan public service commission except that with respect to railroad, bridge, and tunnel companies, that reference shall be construed to mean the state transportation department. Any order or decree of the Michigan public service commission shall be subject to review in the manner provided for in section 26 of Act No. 300 of the Public Acts of 1909, being section 462.26 of the Michigan Compiled Laws.

History: 1939, Act 3, Imd. Eff. Feb. 15, 1939; CL 1948, 460.4; Am. 1972, Act 300, Imd. Eff. Dec. 19, 1972; Am. 1987, Act 4, Eff. Apr. 1, 1987; Am. 1993, Act 355, Imd. Eff. Jan. 14, 1994
Mich. Comp. Laws § 168.796a — MI Code / Chapter 168 / Act Act-116-of-1954 / Section 168.796a
Electronic voting system; preparation for election; equipment and supplies; voting stations.
Status: in_force

Sec. 796a.

Before an election at which an electronic voting system is used, the board of election commissioners of the county, city, village, township, or school district shall have the system prepared for the election. The board shall provide the election board of each voting precinct with the necessary equipment and supplies.

Before an election, the board of election commissioners of a county, city, village, township, or school district shall provide a sufficient number of voting stations needed to ensure the orderly conduct of the election taking into consideration the projected turnout, the length of the ballot, and the number of voters the voting system can process per hour as determined under section 795a. As a minimum for each election, the board of election commissioners shall provide at least 1 voting station for each 400 registered voters in each precinct through August 31, 1998 and at least 1 voting station for each 300 registered voters on and after September 1, 1998. If counting centers are used, the board of election commissioners of the county, city, village, township, or school district shall establish 1 or more counting centers as needed before the election.

History: Add. 1967, Act 155, Imd. Eff. June 30, 1967; Am. 1987, Act 21, Imd. Eff. Apr. 24, 1987; Am. 1990, Act 109, Imd. Eff. June 18, 1990; Am. 1996, Act 583, Eff. Mar. 31, 1997; Am. 1998, Act 215, Imd. Eff. July 1, 1998
Mich. Comp. Laws § 400.81 — MI Code / Chapter 400 / Act Act-280-of-1939 / Section 400.81
County board; seal; publication of rules and regulations; records and papers as evidence; body corporate, powers.
Status: in_force

Sec. 81.

The board may devise a seal, and the rules and regulations of the board may be published over the seal of the board. Copies of all records and papers in the office of the county department, certified by a duly authorized agent of the board shall be evidence in all cases equally, and with the like effect, as the originals. The board shall be a body corporate, and is hereby authorized to lease any lands under its jurisdiction and to do any other act or thing necessary in carrying out the provisions of this act.

History: 1939, Act 280, Imd. Eff. June 16, 1939; CL 1948, 400.81
Mich. Comp. Laws § 206.949 — MI Code / Chapter 206 / Act Act-155-of-2012 / Section 206.949
Appropriation.
Status: in_force

Sec. 9.

The money in the fund that is available for distribution shall be appropriated each year. Money granted or received as a gift or donation to the fund is available for distribution upon appropriation.

History: 2012, Act 155, Imd. Eff. June 5, 2012
Mich. Comp. Laws § 259.5 — MI Code / Chapter 259 / Act Act-327-of-1945 / Section 259.5
Definitions; H, I.
Status: in_force

Sec. 5.

As used in this act:

"Hazards to air navigation" means any obstruction of whatever character, object of natural growth, or use of land, upon or surrounding or adjacent to an airport, landing field, or other aeronautical facility, that prevents the safe use of the facilities for the take-off or landing of aircraft.

"Heliport" means an area of land, water, or a fixed structure used or intended to be used for the landing and takeoff of helicopters or other rotary wing aircraft.

"Heliport approach surface" means an imaginary plane beginning at the end of the heliport landing area with the same width as the landing area and extending outward and upward for a horizontal distance of 4,000 feet where its width is 500 feet. The slope of the approach surface is 8 to 1.

"Historic aircraft" means an aircraft that is over 30 years old and that is owned solely as a collector's item or for participation in club activities, exhibitions, tours, parades, or similar uses, but that is not used for general transportation.

"Hospital" means that term as defined in section 20106 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333.20106.

"Hospital heliport" means a heliport limited to serving helicopters engaged in air ambulance or other hospital-related functions.

"Hospital helistop" means a minimally developed facility for the boarding and discharging of helicopter crew and passengers and the loading and unloading of helicopter cargo solely for an air ambulance or other hospital-related functions.

"In-flight" is that time from the beginning of an aircraft's take off run to the end of the landing run.

History: 1945, Act 327, Imd. Eff. May 28, 1945; CL 1948, 259.5; Am. 1996, Act 370, Imd. Eff. July 3, 1996; Am. 2002, Act 35, Eff. May 15, 2002
Mich. Comp. Laws § 720.653 — MI Code / Chapter 720 / Act Act-214-of-1963 / Section 720.653
Board of trustees; powers.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3.

A regional facility created under this act shall be governed by a board of trustees which shall be a body corporate with powers to buy, sell, and dispose of property, real and personal, to erect and maintain buildings and facilities, and to employ all necessary personnel. The board of trustees shall consist of a judge of the family division of the circuit court in each judicial circuit that includes a participating county, 1 member appointed by the county board of commissioners from each of the participating counties, and 1 member appointed from the electors residing in each of the participating counties by the other members of the board of trustees. The board of trustees has the authority to adopt mutually agreeable procedures, rules, and regulations as to administration, financial support, and other necessary regulations. The board of trustees may accept on behalf of, and for the use of, the body corporate any gifts, grants, or bequests given or devised to the facility.

History: 1963, Act 214, Imd. Eff. May 17, 1963; Am. 1996, Act 414, Eff. Jan. 1, 1998
Mich. Comp. Laws § 552.517d — MI Code / Chapter 552 / Act Act-294-of-1982 / Section 552.517d
Motion for modification of parenting time order.
Status: in_force

Sec. 17d.

After a final judgment containing a parenting time order is entered in a domestic relations matter for which there is an open friend of the court case, if there is an unresolved dispute as to parenting time, the office may file a motion with the court for a modification of the parenting time order. The office shall send each party to the parenting time order notice of the filing of the motion. With a motion filed and each notice sent under this subsection, the office shall include the following:

Subject to subsection (2), a written report and recommendation.

Either as a separate document or in the motion document under a separate heading, a notice, in not less than 12-point, boldfaced type, that states substantially the following:

"A party may object to the office of the friend of the court's recommendation for modification of the parenting time order. If a party does not object to the recommendation within 21 days after this notice was sent to the party, the office of the friend of the court may submit to the court a parenting time order that incorporates the recommendation.".

The office shall prepare a written report and recommendation required for subsection (1) after making an evaluation that is commensurate with the scope of the unresolved dispute as to parenting time.

If, within 21 days after the notice under subsection (1) is sent to each party, no party objects to the recommendation for modification of the parenting time order, the office may submit an order, incorporating the recommendation, to the court for the court's adoption. If a party objects within the 21 days, the motion for modification of the parenting time order shall be noticed for a hearing before a judge or referee.

At a hearing on a motion filed under this section, the judge or referee may admit a statement of fact in the office's report or recommendation as evidence to prove a fact relevant to the proceeding, but only if all parties stipulate to or no party objects to the admission of the statement of fact and no other evidence is presented concerning the fact to be proved.

History: Add. 1994, Act 37, Imd. Eff. Mar. 7, 1994; Am. 1996, Act 144, Imd. Eff. Mar. 25, 1996; Am. 2002, Act 569, Eff. Dec. 1, 2002
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.82135 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.82135
Failure to stop on signal of uniformed officer; penalty; identification of official vehicle.
Status: in_force

Sec. 82135.

An operator of a snowmobile who is given by hand, voice, emergency light, or siren a visual or audible signal by a peace, police, or conservation officer acting in the lawful performance of his or her duty, directing the operator to bring his or her snowmobile to a stop, and who willfully fails to obey the direction by increasing his or her speed or extinguishing his or her lights, or who otherwise attempts to flee or elude the officer, is guilty of a misdemeanor. The officer giving the signal shall be in uniform. A vehicle or snowmobile which is used by an officer at night for purposes of enforcing this part shall be identified as an official law enforcement vehicle or snowmobile.

History: Add. 1995, Act 58, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1995
Mich. Comp. Laws § 168.736 — MI Code / Chapter 168 / Act Act-116-of-1954 / Section 168.736
Voting; ballots, delivery to electors by numbers; assistance by election inspectors.
Status: in_force

Sec. 736.

When an elector applying to vote shall not be challenged, or, having been challenged, if the answers to questions asked him while under oath as to his qualifications shall show that he is a qualified elector at that poll, he shall be permitted to vote. The inspector having charge of the ballots shall deliver to said elector 1 of each kind of said ballots to be voted at the election. All the ballots so given to an elector applying to vote shall bear the same number, beginning, for the first elector to whom ballots are given, with the lowest numbered ballots, the next higher number for the second such elector, and so on. On request of the elector, an inspector may give explanation of the manner of voting, and if by the board deemed necessary, an interpreter may be called, but the elector shall not be otherwise assisted in the marking of his ballot, except as provided in this act for assisted electors.

History: 1954, Act 116, Eff. June 1, 1955; Am. 1956, Act 37, Imd. Eff. Mar. 28, 1956; Am. 1963, 2nd Ex. Sess., Act 56, Eff. Mar. 24, 1964
Mich. Comp. Laws § 462.14 — MI Code / Chapter 462 / Act Act-300-of-1909 / Section 462.14
Sidetracks, spurs and branches; control by commission; abandonment or removal, procedure.
Status: in_force

Sec. 14.

The commission shall have control and jurisdiction over all sidetracks, spurs and branches insofar as the same are used or operated by common carriers. No change or discontinuance in the service from, to or on such sidetracks, spurs and branches or abandonment or removal of said sidetracks, spurs or branches, except sidetracks or spurs solely required for the convenient operation of its engines and trains and private industrial sidetracks, shall be made except after 10 days' notice to the commission and to the public published as aforesaid, which shall plainly state the change or discontinuance proposed to be made in such service or the sidetrack, spur or branch proposed to be abandoned or removed and the time when such change, discontinuance or abandonment or removal will go into effect; and the proposed change, discontinuance or abandonment or removal shall be shown by printing and filing new tariffs or notice thereof or by showing such change, discontinuance or abandonment or removal by issuing and filing supplements or notice in the regular manner now provided and keeping same open to public inspection: Provided, That the commission may allow changes upon less time than the notice herein specified or modify the requirements in this section in respect to publishing and posting of tariffs either in particular instances or by a general order applicable to special or peculiar circumstances or conditions: Provided further, That it shall be lawful for the said commission and it is hereby authorized, acting upon its own initiative or upon complaint, to postpone the date when such change, discontinuance or abandonment or removal shall become effective to such time not to exceed in all 45 days as shall give the said commission opportunity to investigate the reasonableness of such proposed change, discontinuance or abandonment or removal, and it shall thereupon be lawful for such commission, and it is hereby authorized to proceed with all convenient speed with an investigation upon at least 5 days' notice to said common carrier, either upon its own initiative or upon complaint as to the reasonableness of said change, discontinuance or abandonment or removal, and shall follow the proceedings as near as may be and make its orders thereon either approving or refusing such change, discontinuance or abandonment or removal or prescribing the terms and conditions upon which such change, discontinuance or abandonment or removal shall be made, in the manner hereinafter provided in section 22 of this act, such investigation to take precedence of all matters of a different nature pending before the commission, except investigations as to change or discontinuance of rates, fares or charges or joint rates, fares or charges then pending before said commission.

History: 1909, Act 300, Eff. Sept. 1, 1909; Am. 1911, Act 139, Imd. Eff. Apr. 25, 1911; CL 1915, 8122; CL 1929, 11030; CL 1948, 462.14
Mich. Comp. Laws § 432.416 — MI Code / Chapter 432 / Act Act-149-of-2019 / Section 432.416
Internet sports betting fund.
Status: in_force

Sec. 16.

(1) The internet sports betting fund is created in the state treasury.

(2) The state treasurer may receive money or other assets required to be paid into the fund under this act or from any other 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.

(3) The board is the administrator of the fund for auditing purposes.

(4) The board shall expend money from the fund, on appropriation, for all of the following:

(a) The board's costs of regulating and enforcing internet sports betting under this act.

(b) After the expenditure under subdivision (a), each year, $1,000,000.00 to the compulsive gaming prevention fund created in section 3 of the compulsive gaming prevention act, 1997 PA 70, MCL 432.253.

(c) After the expenditures under subdivisions (a) and (b), each year, $2,000,000.00 to the Christopher R. Slezak first responder presumed coverage fund created in section 405 of the worker's disability compensation act of 1969, 1969 PA 317, MCL 418.405.

(d) All money remaining in the fund after the expenditures under subdivisions (a) to (c) must be deposited into the state school aid fund established under section 11 of article IX of the state constitution of 1963.

History: 2019, Act 149, Imd. Eff. Dec. 20, 2019; Am. 2024, Act 141, Eff. Apr. 2, 2025
Mich. Comp. Laws § 78.25a — MI Code / Chapter 78 / Act Act-278-of-1909 / Section 78.25a
Ordinance; designation of violation as civil infraction; civil fine; act or omission constituting crime.
Status: in_force

Sec. 25a.

Consistent with any of the following statutes and whether or not authorized by the village charter, the village council may adopt an ordinance that designates a violation of the ordinance as a civil infraction and provides a civil fine for that violation:

The Michigan vehicle code, Act No. 300 of the Public Acts of 1949, being sections 257.1 to 257.923 of the Michigan Compiled Laws.

Act No. 235 of the Public Acts of 1969, being sections 257.941 to 257.943 of the Michigan Compiled Laws.

Act No. 62 of the Public Acts of 1956, being sections 257.951 to 257.954 of the Michigan Compiled Laws.

Whether or not authorized by the village charter, the village council may adopt an ordinance that designates a violation of the ordinance as a municipal civil infraction and provides a civil fine for that violation. An ordinance may not designate a violation as a municipal civil infraction if that violation may be designated as a civil infraction under subsection (1). A statute may provide that a violation of a specific type of ordinance is a municipal civil infraction whether or not the ordinance designates the violation as a municipal civil infraction.

An ordinance shall not make an act or omission a municipal civil infraction if that act or omission constitutes a crime under any of the following:

Article 7 or section 17766a of the public health code, Act No. 368 of the Public Acts of 1978, being sections 333.7101 to 333.7545 and 333.17766a of the Michigan Compiled Laws.

The Michigan penal code, Act No. 328 of the Public Acts of 1931, being sections 750.1 to 750.568 of the Michigan Compiled Laws.

Act No. 300 of the Public Acts of 1949, being sections 257.1 to 257.923 of the Michigan Compiled Laws.

The Michigan liquor control act, Act No. 8 of the Public Acts of the Extra Session of 1933, being sections 436.1 to 436.58 of the Michigan Compiled Laws.

Part 801 (marine safety) of the natural resources and environmental protection act, Act No. 451 of the Public Acts of 1994, being sections 324.80101 to 324.80199 of the Michigan Compiled Laws.

The aeronautics code of the state of Michigan, Act No. 327 of the Public Acts of 1945, being sections 259.1 to 259.208 of the Michigan Compiled Laws.

Part 821 (snowmobiles) of Act No. 451 of the Public Acts of 1994, being sections 324.82101 to 324.82159 of the Michigan Compiled Laws.

Part 811 (off-road recreation vehicles) of Act No. 451 of the Public Acts of 1994, being sections 324.81101 to 324.81150 of the Michigan Compiled Laws.

Sections 351 to 365 of the railroad code of 1993, Act No. 354 of the Public Acts of 1993, being sections 462.351 to 462.365 of the Michigan Compiled Laws.

Any law of this state under which the act or omission is punishable by imprisonment for more than 90 days.

History: Add. 1994, Act 15, Eff. May 1, 1994; Am. 1996, Act 42, Imd. Eff. Feb. 26, 1996