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Mich. Comp. Laws § 168.720c — MI Code / Chapter 168 / Act Act-116-of-1954 / Section 168.720c
Secretary of state implementation and duties; early voting requirements; guidance and instruction to election officials.
Status: in_force

Sec. 720c.

(1) The secretary of state shall supervise the implementation and conduct of early voting required under section 4(1)(m) of article II of the state constitution of 1963 to provide each elector an opportunity to cast a ballot in person before each statewide or federal election.

(2) For early voting required under section 4(1)(m) of article II of the state constitution of 1963, the secretary of state shall do all of the following:

(a) Issue instructions and procedures to county and municipal election officials on the administration and conduct of early voting.

(b) Advise and direct county and municipal election officials on conducting early voting.

(c) Develop, acquire, or approve new technology for the early voting poll book to efficiently and securely implement, administer, and conduct early voting.

(d) Create a model municipal agreement template and model county agreement template, and ensure that each template can be completed online by a county or municipality.

(e) Create model early voting plan templates for municipalities to complete, and ensure that each template can be electronically transmitted to the bureau of elections.

(f) Create model countywide early voting plan templates for county clerks to complete, and ensure that each template can be electronically transmitted to the bureau of elections.

(g) Evaluate new voting system technology that produces ballots on demand or that may be used to cast and tabulate early voting ballots, and, if appropriate, submit new technology to the board of state canvassers for approval under section 795a.

(3) The secretary of state shall provide resources to county and municipal election officials that prevent an elector from intentionally or inadvertently casting more than 1 ballot at an election, including, but not limited to, an elector casting more than 1 ballot at 1 or more early voting sites or an elector casting an absent voter ballot and a ballot at an early voting site. The resources required may be technological, procedural, or a combination of both technological and procedural.

(4) The secretary of state shall provide guidance to county and municipal election officials regarding the process for securing equipment and ballots at the conclusion of each day of early voting.

(5) The secretary of state shall issue instructions regarding ballots produced by an on-demand ballot printing system and that are subject to challenge.

History: Add. 2023, Act 81, Eff. Feb. 13, 2024
Mich. Comp. Laws § 119.3 — MI Code / Chapter 119 / Act Act-312-of-1929 / Section 119.3
Mandatory charter provisions.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3.

Any district incorporated under the provisions of this act shall in its charter provide:

(a) For the election or appointment of all district officers, including the term of office for all district officers.

(b) For the duties and compensation of its officers; for the keeping in the English language a written or printed journal of every session of the legislative body, which records shall be public; for publication of ordinances before they become effective; for adopting, continuing, amending, or repealing of ordinances; for a system of accounts which conforms to any uniform system required by law; for the levy, collection, and return of taxes for district purposes; and for the annual appropriation of money for district purposes. All taxes and appropriations shall be levied, collected, and returned through the proper assessing and taxation officer or officers of each city, village, or township or parts of same comprising the metropolitan district in the same manner as near as may be that other city, village, or township taxes are levied, collected, and returned. The district legislative body or other officer or officers charged with the duty shall ascertain the total taxes or appropriation required for any year and shall certify to the proper assessing officer or officers of the city, village, or township or parts of same comprising the district its proportionate share thereof based upon the ratio that the total assessed valuation of each respective city, village, or township, or parts of same, bears to the total assessed value of all property real and personal in the entire district according to the last assessment in each of the respective units. The sum certified shall be a direct obligation of each city, village, or township or part of same and shall be paid to the metropolitan district on or before the next tax payment period. The sum shall be levied, collected, and returned by each city, village, or township in the same manner as other general taxes.

(c) For a sinking fund as provided by any general law applicable to cities.

(d) That the subjects of taxation for district purposes shall be the same as for state, county, and school purposes under the general law. However, the provisions of this section as to taxes and the levy, collection, and return of the taxes shall not apply to or be required in the charter of any metropolitan district incorporated for the purpose of the purchase, acquisition, or construction of any project or projects, or improving, enlarging, extending, or repairing thereof, authorized under the provisions of the revenue bond act of 1933, 1933 PA 94, MCL 141.101 to 141.140, but the charter shall contain provisions relative to the issuance of revenue bonds as in the act provided.

History: 1929, Act 312, Eff. Aug. 28, 1929; CL 1929, 2277; Am. 1935, Act 56, Imd. Eff. May 13, 1935; CL 1948, 119.3; Am. 2012, Act 587, Imd. Eff. Jan. 7, 2013
Mich. Comp. Laws § 103.4 — MI Code / Chapter 81 / Act Act-215-of-1895 / Section 103.4
Sidewalks; upkeep, failure of owner; work at owner's expense; assessment; suit.
Status: in_force

Sec. 4.

If the owner or occupant of any lot or premises shall fail to build, rebuild or maintain any particular sidewalk as mentioned and prescribed in the last 2 sections, or shall fail to keep the same in repair, or remove the snow, ice and filth therefrom, or to remove and keep the same free from obstructions, encroachments, encumbrances or other nuisances, or shall fail to perform any other duty required by the council or board of public works in respect to such sidewalks, within such time and such manner as the council shall require, the council may cause the same to be done, and such sidewalk to be built, rebuilt or repaired, and the expense, or such part thereof as the council shall have determined, shall be charged to such owner or occupant, and the council may cause the amount of such expenses incurred thereby, for which such owner or occupant shall have become liable, together with a penalty of 10 per cent in addition thereto, to be reported to the board of special assessors, to be levied by them as a special tax or assessment upon the lot or premises adjacent to and abutting upon such sidewalk, which special assessment shall be subject to review, after proper notice is given as in all other cases of special assessments provided for by this act, and such tax when confirmed shall be a lien upon such lot or premises the same as other special assessments, and the council shall order the supervisors of the ward in which such lot or premises are situated, to spread said amount, together with such penalty upon his roll as a special assessment upon such lot or premises, and the same shall be collected in the same manner as other city taxes; or the city may collect such amount, together with the penalty aforesaid, from the owner or occupant of such premises in an action of assumpsit, together with costs of suit.

History: 1895, Act 215, Eff. Aug. 30, 1895; CL 1897, 3190; CL 1915, 3104; CL 1929, 2028; CL 1948, 103.4
Mich. Comp. Laws § 206.114 — MI Code / Chapter 206 / Act Act-281-of-1967 / Section 206.114
Patent and copyright royalties; allocation.
Status: in_force

Sec. 114.

Patent and copyright royalties are allocable to this state:

If and to the extent that the patent or copyright is utilized by the payer in this state; or

If and to the extent that the patent or copyright is utilized by the payer in a state in which the taxpayer is not taxable and the taxpayer is a resident partnership, estate or trust or individual of this state or has a commercial domicile in this state.

A patent is utilized in a state to the extent that it is employed in production, fabrication, manufacturing or other processing in the state or to the extent that a patented product is produced in the state. If the basis of receipts from patent royalties does not permit allocation to states or if the accounting procedures do not reflect states of utilization, the patent is utilized in this state if the taxpayer is a resident partnership, estate or trust or individual or has a commercial domicile in this state.

A copyright is utilized in a state to the extent that printing or other publication originates in the state. If the basis of receipts from copyright royalties does not permit allocation to states or if the accounting procedures do not reflect states of utilization, the copyright is utilized in this state if the taxpayer is a resident partnership, estate or trust or individual or has a commercial domicile in this state.

History: 1967, Act 281, Eff. Oct. 1, 1967; Am. 1969, Act 332, Imd. Eff. Nov. 4, 1969
Mich. Comp. Laws § 286.947 — MI Code / Chapter 286 / Act Act-411-of-2012 / Section 286.947
Expenditures; requests for project proposals; determinations; prohibited expenditures; matching funds.
Status: in_force

Sec. 7.

(1) Money in the fund shall be expended, upon legislative appropriation, for all of the following:

(a) Grants, loans, and loan guarantees to fund projects identified under subsection (3).

(b) Administrative expenses of the department in implementing this act.

(c) Not more than $250,000.00 of the revenue received during each state fiscal year may be transferred to the nonferrous metallic mineral surveillance fund created in section 63217 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324.63217.

(2) The department shall solicit requests for project proposals to be funded with money from the fund from individuals, organizations, businesses, local units of government, federally recognized tribes, and educational institutions.

(3) The department, with the advice of the board, shall determine which projects should be funded with money from the fund, based on the criteria established by the board under section 6. However, money from the fund shall not be expended for any of the following:

(a) Projects that include telecommunication facilities owned or operated by an educational institution or an affiliate, a local unit of government, or any other governmental entity.

(b) The construction of telecommunication facilities or wireless telecommunication facilities in areas where broadband service of at least 3 mbps downstream and 768 kbps upstream is available.

(4) Grants from the fund may be used to provide matching funds for other available grants, as allowed by law.

History: 2012, Act 411, Imd. Eff. Dec. 20, 2012
Mich. Comp. Laws § 129.117 — MI Code / Chapter 129 / Act Act-367-of-1982 / Section 129.117
Default in payment of principal, interest, or other income; remedies of depository.
Status: in_force

Sec. 7.

If a default occurs in the payment of principal, interest, or other income of an investment pool, the depository shall pursue all remedies available to it at law or in equity.

History: 1982, Act 367, Eff. Mar. 30, 1983
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.36107 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.36107
Notice of owners' intentions regarding extension or expiration of agreement or easement; notice of lien.
Status: in_force

Sec. 36107.

All participants owning land contained under a development rights agreement or easement shall notify, on a form provided by the state land use agency for informational purposes only, the state or the local governing body holding the development rights, 6 months before the natural termination date of the development rights agreement or easement, of the owners' intentions regarding whether the agreement or easement should be extended or allowed to expire.

The state land use agency shall notify the landowner via first-class mail at least 7 years before the expiration of a development rights agreement or easement that a lien may be placed at the time of expiration on the enrolled land in accordance with section 36111(8) if the landowner does not extend the agreement or easement and shall indicate to the landowner the option of not claiming credits during all or a portion of the next 7 years.

History: Add. 1995, Act 59, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1995; Am. 1996, Act 233, Imd. Eff. June 5, 1996
Mich. Comp. Laws § 28.763 — MI Code / Chapter 28 / Act Act-713-of-2002 / Section 28.763
Information to be broadcast.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3.

The information to be broadcast by a radio or television station under section 2 includes all of the information provided by the Michigan state police.

History: 2002, Act 713, Imd. Eff. Dec. 30, 2002
Mich. Comp. Laws § 399.603 — MI Code / Chapter 399 / Act Act-24-of-1992 / Section 399.603
Property loaned to museum on or after January 1, 1993; duties.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3.

For each item of property loaned to a museum on or after January 1, 1993, the museum shall do all of the following at the time of the loan:

Make and retain a written record containing at least all of the following information:

The owner's name, address, and telephone number.

The name, address, and telephone number of a person designated by the owner for the museum to contact in the event that the owner cannot be located.

A description of the property loaned.

The beginning date of the loan.

The duration of the loan.

Provide the lender a signed receipt or loan agreement containing at least the record set forth in subdivision (a).

Inform the lender of the existence of this act and provide the lender with a copy of this act upon the lender's request.

History: 1992, Act 24, Imd. Eff. Mar. 23, 1992
Mich. Comp. Laws § 97.4 — MI Code / Chapter 81 / Act Act-215-of-1895 / Section 97.4
Authority of council; preservation of water purity; use of harbor; ordinances and regulations.
Status: in_force

Sec. 4.

The council may provide by ordinance for the preservation of the purity of a body of water within the city, and within 1/2 mile from the corporate boundaries of the city; prohibit and impose sanctions for the depositing of filth, logs, floating matter, or any injurious thing in such a body of water; control and regulate the anchorage, moorage, and management of watercraft and floats within the jurisdiction of the city; prescribe the mode and speed of entering and leaving the harbor, if any, and of coming to and departing from the docks, wharves, and landings, by watercraft and floats; regulate and prescribe, by ordinances or through a harbormaster or other officer, the location for a watercraft or float, and the changes of station in and use of the harbor required to promote order in the harbor and the safety and convenience of watercraft and floats; and enact and enforce ordinances and regulations that in the opinion of the council are most conducive to the orderly, safe, and convenient use and occupancy of the navigable waters, wharves, docks, piers, and landing places within the city.

History: 1895, Act 215, Eff. Aug. 30, 1895; CL 1897, 3146; CL 1915, 3060; CL 1929, 1984; CL 1948, 97.4; Am. 1994, Act 19, Eff. May 1, 1994
Mich. Comp. Laws § 551.251 — MI Code / Chapter 551 / Act Act-160-of-1919 / Section 551.251
Legal marriage of minor; parental and marital rights and duties; guardian ad litem.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

(1) For a marriage entered into in this state before the effective date of the amendatory act that added subsection (2), the legal marriage of a minor releases that minor from parental control. The husband or wife of a minor, so released, is entitled to the same rights, benefits, and privileges, and the minor is subject to the same duties, liabilities, and responsibilities, as the husband or wife, as if the minor husband or wife were of legal age at the time of the marriage.

(2) It is unnecessary in any divorce action commenced by or against a legally married minor to have a next friend or guardian ad litem appointed for that minor unless the judge requires it. A minor is entitled to prosecute or defend the action in the same manner and with the same effect as if he or she were of legal age.

History: 1919, Act 160, Eff. Aug. 14, 1919; CL 1929, 12722; Am. 1945, Act 215, Eff. Sept. 6, 1945; CL 1948, 551.251; Am. 2023, Act 123, Imd. Eff. Sept. 19, 2023
Mich. Comp. Laws § 290.671 — MI Code / Chapter 290 / Act Act-232-of-1965 / Section 290.671
Referendum; requirements; exception; time period.
Status: in_force

Sec. 21.

Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2), all marketing programs established under this act shall be resubmitted to a referendum of the producers during each fifth year of operation.

A producer referendum under subsection (1) is not required for a marketing program if all the following circumstances exist:

The agricultural commodity or agricultural commodity input subject to the marketing program is involved in a commodity checkoff program established pursuant to federal law.

The federal commodity checkoff program involving the agricultural commodity provides for a mechanism for a producer referendum.

The marketing program involving the agricultural commodity or agricultural commodity input is entirely financed by that federal commodity checkoff program.

If the federal commodity checkoff is suspended or terminated, a marketing program established under this act shall conduct a referendum of the producers within 18 months after the suspension or termination.

History: 1965, Act 232, Eff. Mar. 31, 1966; Am. 1996, Act 216, Imd. Eff. May 28, 1996; Am. 2002, Act 601, Imd. Eff. Dec. 20, 2002
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.41331 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.41331
Registration to sell or possess nonnative aquatic species; application; issuance.
Status: in_force

Sec. 41331.

To register under section 41329, a person shall submit an application to the department of natural resources. The application shall state the name and address of the applicant and include the description of the premises where the aquatic species are to be sold or offered for sale, together with any relevant additional information required by the department of natural resources. The department shall issue a registration certificate to a registrant.

History: Add. 2018, Act 451, Eff. Mar. 21, 2019
Mich. Comp. Laws § 450.2491a — MI Code / Chapter 450 / Act Act-162-of-1982 / Section 450.2491a
Definitions.
Status: in_force

Sec. 491a.

As used in this section and sections 492a to 497:

(a) "Derivative proceeding" means a civil suit in the right of a domestic corporation or a foreign corporation that is authorized to or does conduct affairs in this state.

(b) "Director" includes an individual who was serving on the board of a corporation organized on a directorship basis at the time of the act or omission complained of and an individual who becomes a member of the board of that corporation after the act or omission.

(c) "Disinterested director" means an individual who is currently serving on the board of a corporation and is not a party to a derivative proceeding, or an individual who is currently serving on the board of a corporation and is a party to a derivative proceeding if the corporation demonstrates that the claim asserted against the director is frivolous or insubstantial.

(d) "Member" means a record or beneficial owner of a membership in a corporation that is organized on a membership basis and includes a beneficial owner whose membership is held in a voting trust or held by a nominee on the owner's behalf.

(e) "Shareholder" means a record or beneficial owner of shares of a corporation that is organized on a stock basis and includes a beneficial owner whose shares are held in a voting trust or held by a nominee on the owner's behalf.

History: Add. 2014, Act 557, Imd. Eff. Jan. 15, 2015
Mich. Comp. Laws § 15.151 — MI Code / Chapter 15 / Act Act-22-of-1951 / Section 15.151
Constitutional oath of office; employees and persons in service of state.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

All persons now employed, or who may be employed by the state of Michigan or any governmental agency thereof, and all other persons in the service of the state or any governmental agency, shall, as a condition of their employment, take and subscribe to the oath or affirmation required of members of the legislature and other public officers by section 2 of article 16 of the constitution of 1908 of the state of Michigan.

History: 1951, Act 22, Imd. Eff. Apr. 5, 1951
Mich. Comp. Laws § 15.184 — MI Code / Chapter 15 / Act Act-566-of-1978 / Section 15.184
Injunction or other judicial relief or remedy.
Status: in_force

Sec. 4.

The attorney general or a prosecuting attorney may apply to the circuit court for Ingham county or to the circuit court for the county in which the alleged act or practice in violation of this act is alleged to have occurred or in which a party to the alleged violative act or practice resides, for injunctive or other appropriate judicial relief or remedy. However, this act shall not create a private cause of action.

History: 1978, Act 566, Imd. Eff. Dec. 29, 1978
Mich. Comp. Laws § 460.1301 — MI Code / Chapter 460 / Act Act-365-of-2018 / Section 460.1301
Short title; purpose of act.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

(1) This act shall be known and may be cited as the "small wireless communications facilities deployment act".

(2) The purpose of the act is to do all of the following:

(a) Increase investment in wireless networks that will benefit the citizens of this state by providing better access to emergency services, advanced technology, and information.

(b) Increase investment in wireless networks that will enhance the competitiveness of this state in the global economy.

(c) Encourage the deployment of advanced wireless services by streamlining the process for the permitting, construction, modification, maintenance, and operation of wireless facilities in the public rights-of-way.

(d) Allow wireless services providers and wireless infrastructure providers access to the public rights-of-way and the ability to attach to poles and structures in the public rights-of-way to enhance their networks and provide next generation services.

(e) Ensure the reasonable and fair control and management of public rights-of-way by governmental authorities within this state.

(f) Address the timely design, engineering, permitting, construction, modification, maintenance, and operation of wireless facilities as matters of statewide concern and interest.

(g) Provide for the management of public rights-of-way in a safe and reliable manner that does all of the following:

( i ) Supports new technology.

( ii ) Avoids interference with right-of-way use by existing public utilities and cable communications providers.

( iii ) Allows for a level playing field for competitive communications service providers.

( iv ) Protects public health, safety, and welfare.

(h) Increase the connectivity for autonomous and connected vehicles through the deployment of small cell wireless facilities with full access and compatibility for connected and autonomous vehicles as determined and approved by the state transportation department, county road commissions, and authorities.

(i) Prioritize, as provided in this act, the use of existing utility poles and wireless support structures for collocation over the installation of new utility poles or wireless support structures.

History: 2018, Act 365, Eff. Mar. 12, 2019