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Mich. Comp. Laws § 28.458 — MI Code / Chapter 28 / Act Act-256-of-2011 / Section 28.458
Fireworks safety fee; imposition; payment; deposit in fireworks safety fund; failure to comply; civil fine.
Status: in_force

Sec. 8.

(1) A user fee, known as the fireworks safety fee, is imposed on retail transactions made in this state for consumer fireworks and low-impact fireworks as provided in section 9.

(2) A person that acquires consumer fireworks or low-impact fireworks in a retail transaction is liable for the fireworks safety fee on the transaction and, except as otherwise provided in this act, shall pay the fireworks safety fee to the retailer as a separate added amount to the consideration in the transaction. The retailer shall collect the fireworks safety fee as an agent for the state.

(3) The fireworks safety fee shall be deposited in the fireworks safety fund.

(4) A person that fails to collect a fireworks safety fee as required under this section is responsible for a civil fine as follows:

(a) For a first violation, not more than $5,000.00. If the person is a retailer of low-impact fireworks and, within 30 days of receiving a notice of violation, the person remits to the department the estimated equivalent of the amount the person should have collected under this section, the department shall waive the civil fine described in this subdivision.

(b) For a second violation, not more than $20,000.00.

(c) For a third or subsequent violation, not more than $40,000.00.

History: 2011, Act 256, Eff. Jan. 1, 2012; Am. 2012, Act 257, Imd. Eff. July 2, 2012; Am. 2018, Act 634, Imd. Eff. Dec. 28, 2018
Mich. Comp. Laws § 487.13604 — MI Code / Chapter 487 / Act Act-276-of-1999 / Section 487.13604
Provisions applicable to voting stock.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3604.

If a vote of the holders of shares of stock is required in this act, those provisions shall apply only to the voting stock in the bank, out-of-state bank, national bank, association, or savings bank, voting by classes.

History: 1999, Act 276, Eff. Mar. 1, 2000
Mich. Comp. Laws § 290.161 — MI Code / Chapter 290 / Act Act-220-of-1929 / Section 290.161
Person, definition; liability for violation by employe.
Status: in_force

Sec. 11.

The word "person" as used herein, shall be construed to include any grower, dealer, shipper, corporation, society, association or their agent or representative. The act, omission or failure to act of any official or employe of any person, when such official or employe is acting within the scope of his employment of office, shall in every case be deemed also the act, omission, or failure to act of the person as well as the official or employe.

History: 1929, Act 220, Eff. Aug. 28, 1929; CL 1929, 5613; CL 1948, 290.161
Mich. Comp. Laws § 450.3133 — MI Code / Chapter 450 / Act Act-162-of-1982 / Section 450.3133
Classification.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1133.

If a cooperative has classes of members pursuant to section 304, classification shall be based only on 1 or more of the following number of members, number of persons served, type of patronage, level of patronage, or whether or not members are patrons. In a consumer cooperative, classification of consumers by level of patronage shall not be used.

History: Add. 1984, Act 209, Eff. Nov. 1, 1985
Mich. Comp. Laws § 333.17611 — MI Code / Chapter 333 / Act Act-368-of-1978 / Section 333.17611
Applicant from another state.
Status: in_force

Sec. 17611.

The department may issue a license by endorsement to an applicant from another state that has licensure requirements substantially equivalent to this part, as determined by the board.

History: Add. 2008, Act 524, Imd. Eff. Jan. 13, 2009
Mich. Comp. Laws § 290.753 — MI Code / Chapter 290 / Act Act-184-of-1994 / Section 290.753
Definitions.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3.

As used in this act:

"Buy" means to purchase, trade, or barter, or to offer to purchase, trade, or barter.

"Collect" means the harvest of wild ginseng.

"Collector" means a person who collects wild ginseng.

"Cultivated ginseng" means ginseng growing or grown in managed beds under artificial or natural shade and cultivated according to recognized ginseng horticultural practices. Cultivated ginseng includes woodsgrown ginseng.

"Dealer" means a person who buys, collects, or otherwise acquires ginseng roots in this state for resale or trade.

"Dealer license" means a license issued by the director authorizing a dealer to buy, collect, or otherwise acquire ginseng roots for resale or export from this state.

"Department" means the department of agriculture.

"Director" means the director of the department of agriculture or an authorized representative of the director.

"Dry weight" means the weight in pounds and ounces of harvested or collected ginseng root that is dried and is no longer viable.

"Ginseng" means Panax quinquefolius L., also known as Panax quinquefolium L., commonly known as American ginseng, either wild or cultivated, and includes plants and plant parts.

"Ginseng certificate" means a document issued by the department or other official agency authorized by the director that verifies the origin, quantity by weight, type, and condition of ginseng offered for inspection.

"Green weight" means the weight in pounds and ounces of freshly harvested or collected ginseng root that is not dried and is still viable.

"Grower" means a person who grows cultivated ginseng.

"Grower license" means a license issued by the director authorizing a grower to sell cultivated ginseng that the grower has produced.

"Harvest" means to cut, pick, dig, root up, or gather ginseng.

"Natural habitat" means the environment where a species exists as a natural population.

"Person" means an individual, sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, association, governmental entity, or other legal entity.

"Purchaser" means a person who buys or otherwise acquires ginseng from a grower, collector, or other purchaser for resale or trade.

"Sell" means to sell, trade, or barter, or to offer to sell, trade, or barter.

"Wild ginseng" means ginseng growing or grown in an uncultivated state or harvested from its natural habitat. Wild ginseng includes ginseng that was introduced to or propagated in its natural habitat by sowing ginseng seed or transplanting ginseng plants from other areas and performing no other standard ginseng horticultural practices.

"Woodsgrown ginseng" means ginseng growing or grown in managed beds under natural shade.

History: 1994, Act 184, Eff. Mar. 30, 1995
Mich. Comp. Laws § 213.23a — MI Code / Chapter 213 / Act Act-149-of-1911 / Section 213.23a
Scope of act; rights conferred by act.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3a.

The provisions of this act shall be deemed to extend to and include the right to acquire and take the fee to property; to acquire property adjacent to that required for public highway purposes for the purpose of exchanging it for the property required or for the purpose of replatting or re-arranging the property abutting on the highway after the taking so as to conform with the plan or arrangement in effect before the taking; and to acquire and to take the fee to a whole of a particular parcel of land whenever the acquisition of the portion thereof actually needed would destroy the practical value or utility of the remainder of such parcel, and the question as to whether or not such land is so taken shall be determined by the jury and incorporated in its findings: Provided, however, That before any proceedings are taken under this act involving the taking of any property or property rights in any city or village for the changing, altering, opening or widening of any street or highway, the consent of the village or city council by resolution shall be first obtained.

History: Add. 1945, Act 288, Imd. Eff. May 25, 1945; CL 1948, 213.23a
Mich. Comp. Laws § 446.169 — MI Code / Chapter 446 / Act Act-550-of-2016 / Section 446.169
Powers of attorney general relating to unlawful practice; action by target or affiliated person aggrieved by violation; remedies to plaintiff; bond.
Status: in_force

Sec. 9.

(1) The attorney general may do all of the following related to unlawful practice under this act:

(a) Conduct a civil investigation as provided in section 9a.

(b) Enter into an assurance of discontinuance under section 9b.

(c) Bring a civil action as provided in section 9c.

(d) Promulgate rules under the administrative procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24.201 to 24.328.

(2) A target or an affiliated person aggrieved by a violation of this act may bring an action in the circuit court. The court may award the following remedies to a plaintiff that prevails in an action brought under this subsection:

(a) An injunction prohibiting any further written communication related to the unlawful practice giving rise to the action.

(b) Actual damages.

(c) Costs and fees, including reasonable attorney fees.

(d) Exemplary damages in an amount equal to 3 times the actual damages.

(3) On a motion by the plaintiff and a finding by the court that there is a reasonable likelihood that the defendant in an action under subsection (2) violated this act, the court may require the defendant to post a bond in an amount equal to a good-faith estimate of the plaintiff's costs to litigate the claim and an amount reasonably likely to be awarded under subsection (2), conditioned on payment of any amount finally determined to be due to the plaintiff. The court shall not order a bond to be posted under this subsection that exceeds $250,000.00. A court may waive the bond requirement under this subsection if it finds the defendant has available assets equal to the amount of the proposed bond or for other good cause shown.

History: 2016, Act 550, Eff. Oct. 1, 2017
Mich. Comp. Laws § 390.759 — MI Code / Chapter 390 / Act Territorial-Laws-of-1833,-Vol-III / Section 390.759
Honors and degrees; earned degrees.
Status: in_force

Sec. 9.

The board of trustees shall have the power to confer the honors and degrees usually granted by collegiate institutions. Earned degrees shall be conferred only on persons who shall have passed through a course of studies deemed by the board to be equivalent to that prescribed by the regents of the university of Michigan for candidates for degrees and who have been recommended by the faculty of Kalamazoo college as being worthy thereof.
Mich. Comp. Laws § 767.36 — MI Code / Chapter 760 / Act Act-175-of-1927 / Section 767.36
Witness; subpoena by prosecution; necessity of fee.
Status: in_force

Sec. 36.

It shall not be necessary to pay or tender any fees whatever to any witness subpoenaed on the part of the people of this state in support of any prosecution, but such witness shall be bound to attend as if the fees allowed by law to witnesses in civil actions had been duly paid to him.

History: 1927, Act 175, Eff. Sept. 5, 1927; CL 1929, 17250; CL 1948, 767.36
Mich. Comp. Laws § 123.411 — MI Code / Chapter 123 / Act Act-226-of-1988 / Section 123.411
"Local governmental unit" defined; rent control prohibited; management and control of residential property; incentive to increase supply of certain residential property.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

(1) As used in this section, "local governmental unit" means a political subdivision of this state including, but not limited to, a county, city, village, or township, if the political subdivision provides local government services for residents in a geographically limited area of this state as its primary purpose and has the power to act primarily on behalf of that area.

(2) Subject to subsections (3) and (4), a local governmental unit shall not enact, maintain, or enforce an ordinance or resolution that would have the effect of controlling the amount of rent charged for leasing private residential property.

(3) This section does not impair the right of any local governmental unit to manage and control residential property in which the local governmental unit has a property interest.

(4) This section does not limit the power of a local governmental unit to adopt an ordinance or resolution to implement a plan to use voluntary incentives and agreements to increase the supply of moderate- or low-cost private residential property available for lease.

History: 1988, Act 226, Imd. Eff. July 5, 1988; Am. 2018, Act 585, Eff. Mar. 28, 2019
Mich. Comp. Laws § 445.1204 — MI Code / Chapter 445 / Act Act-332-of-1965 / Section 445.1204
Home improvement installment contract; delivery of copy to buyer; acknowledgment, form.
Status: in_force

Sec. 204.

The contractor shall deliver to the buyer at the time the contract is executed a copy thereof completed in accordance with the provisions of this act. Until the contractor does so, the buyer shall not be obligated to pay. Any acknowledgment by the buyer of the delivery of a copy of the contract shall be printed or written in a size equal to at least 10-point bold type and, if contained in the contract, shall also appear directly above the space reserved for the buyer's signature. The buyer's written acknowledgment, conforming to the requirements of this section of delivery of a copy of a contract, shall be evidence of such delivery and of compliance with this section in any action or proceeding by or against an assignee of the contract without knowledge to the contrary when he purchases the contract.

History: 1965, Act 332, Eff. Jan. 1, 1966
Mich. Comp. Laws § 247.171 — MI Code / Chapter 247 / Act Act-368-of-1925 / Section 247.171
Encroachments; removal order, service; temporary permit.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

In every case where a public highway has been or shall be encroached upon by any fence, building, or other encroachment, the commissioner or commissioners having jurisdiction over the road may make an order under his or their hand requiring the owner or occupant of the land through or by which such highway runs, and of which such fence, building, or other encroachment forms a part of the enclosure, to remove such encroachment from such highway within 30 days. A copy of such order shall be served upon such owner or occupant, and every such order shall specify the width of the road, the nature of the encroachment and its location with relation to the center line of the road, and the township, section and fraction thereof in which it may be: Provided, The commissioner or commissioners having the matter in charge may issue temporary permits for fences for the protection of improvements on the adjacent land.

History: 1925, Act 368, Eff. Aug. 27, 1925; CL 1929, 4041; CL 1948, 247.171
Mich. Comp. Laws § 38.1502 — MI Code / Chapter 38 / Act Act-427-of-1984 / Section 38.1502
Meanings of words and phrases.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

For the purposes of this act, the words and phrases defined in sections 2a to 2c have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections.

History: 1984, Act 427, Imd. Eff. Jan. 2, 1985
Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.6525 — MI Code / Chapter 600 / Act Act-236-of-1961 / Section 600.6525
Municipal court; verdict in civil action.
Status: in_force

Sec. 6525.

In every municipal court retained after the establishment of the district court pursuant to sections 9928 and 9930, a verdict in a civil action tried by a jury of 6 shall be received when 5 jurors agree.

History: Add. 1974, Act 297, Eff. Apr. 1, 1975
Mich. Comp. Laws § 18.1720 — MI Code / Chapter 18 / Act Act-625-of-2012 / Section 18.1720
Fees charged by department; limitation.
Status: in_force

Sec. 10.

The department may charge fees, not to exceed the lesser of $500,000.00 adjusted annually, beginning after calendar year 2014, by the consumer price index or up to 2% of the total cost of the energy performance contract project, for any administrative support and resources or other services provided by the department under this section from the governmental units that use its technical support services. A governmental unit may add the costs of these fees to the total cost of an energy performance contract.

History: 2012, Act 625, Eff. Mar. 28, 2013
Mich. Comp. Laws § 338.1070 — MI Code / Chapter 338 / Act Act-330-of-1968 / Section 338.1070
Confidentiality of information; false reports, penalty.
Status: in_force

Sec. 20.

Any person who is or has been an employee of a licensee shall not divulge to anyone other than his employer or former employer, or as the employer shall direct, except as he may be required by law, any information acquired by him during his employment in respect to any of the work to which he shall have been assigned by the employer. Any employee violating the provisions of this section and any employee who wilfully makes a false report to his employer in respect to any work is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Any manager, executive or employee of a licensee who wilfully sells, divulges or otherwise discloses information to other than clients, except as he may be required by law, any information acquired by him or them during employment by the client is guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be subjected to immediate suspension of license by the department and revocation of license upon satisfactory proof of the offense to the department.

History: 1968, Act 330, Imd. Eff. July 12, 1968
Mich. Comp. Laws § 247.428 — MI Code / Chapter 247 / Act Act-59-of-1915 / Section 247.428
Certification of sums to be paid.
Status: in_force

Sec. 28.

The county road commissioners or the state highway commissioner shall certify to the county treasurer of the county, the various sums to be paid by the county at large, townships at large, and lands benefited in each township, and shall also certify to the treasurer of any city assessed at large the amount to be paid by such city.

History: 1915, Act 59, Eff. Aug. 24, 1915; CL 1915, 4698; Am. 1917, Act 125, Imd. Eff. Apr. 25, 1917; Am. 1919, Act 107, Eff. Aug. 14, 1919; CL 1929, 4343; CL 1948, 247.428
Mich. Comp. Laws § 408.422 — MI Code / Chapter 408 / Act Act-138-of-2014 / Section 408.422
Discharge of employees within 10 weeks of employment; violation.
Status: in_force

Sec. 12.

Any employer that consistently discharges employees within 10 weeks of their employment and replaces the discharged employees without work stoppage is presumed to have discharged them to evade payment of the wage rates established in this act and is guilty of a misdemeanor.

History: 2014, Act 138, Imd. Eff. May 27, 2014
Mich. Comp. Laws § 333.26331 — MI Code / Chapter 333 / Act Act-522-of-1996 / Section 333.26331
Short title.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

This act shall be known and may be cited as "the Michigan biologic products institute transfer act".

History: 1996, Act 522, Imd. Eff. Jan. 13, 1997
Mich. Comp. Laws § 570.1101 — MI Code / Chapter 570 / Act Act-497-of-1980 / Section 570.1101
Short title.
Status: in_force

Sec. 101.

This act shall be known and may be cited as the "construction lien act".

History: 1980, Act 497, Eff. Jan. 1, 1982
Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.921 — MI Code / Chapter 722 / Act Act-204-of-1994 / Section 722.921
Short title.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

This act may be cited as the "office of the child advocate act".

History: 1994, Act 204, Eff. Jan. 1, 1995; Am. 2023, Act 303, Eff. Feb. 13, 2024
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.20104 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.20104
Coordination of activities; rules; guideline, bulletin, interpretive statement, or operational memorandum not binding on person; damages; use of nonuse valuation methods; applicability of provisions to certain bankruptcy actions or claims.
Status: in_force

Sec. 20104.

(1) The department shall coordinate all activities required under this part and may promulgate rules necessary to implement this part.

(2) A guideline, bulletin, interpretive statement, or operational memorandum under this part shall not be given the force and effect of law. A guideline, bulletin, interpretive statement, or operational memorandum under this part is not legally binding on any person.

(3) Claims for natural resource damages may be pursued only in accordance with principles of scientific and economic validity and reliability. Contingent nonuse valuation methods or similar nonuse valuation methods shall not be utilized and damages shall not be recovered for nonuse values unless and until rules are promulgated that establish an appropriate means of determining such damages.

(4) A contingent nonuse valuation method or similar nonuse valuation method shall not be utilized for natural resource damage calculations unless a determination is made by the department that such a method satisfies principles of scientific and economic validity and reliability and rules for utilizing a contingent nonuse valuation method or a similar nonuse valuation method are subsequently promulgated.

(5) The provisions in this section related to natural resource damages as added by 1995 PA 71 do not apply to any judicial or administrative action or claim in bankruptcy initiated on or before March 1, 1995.

History: 1994, Act 451, Eff. Mar. 30, 1995; Am. 1995, Act 71, Imd. Eff. June 5, 1995; Am. 2010, Act 229, Imd. Eff. Dec. 14, 2010; Am. 2012, Act 446, Imd. Eff. Dec. 27, 2012
Mich. Comp. Laws § 752.385 — MI Code / Chapter 752 / Act Act-11-of-2025 / Section 752.385
Defenses to cause of actions.
Status: in_force

Sec. 5.

(1) It is not a defense to an action under section 3 that the depicted individual consented to the creation or possession of the deep fake or to the voluntary private or public transmission of the deep fake unless both of the following apply:

(a) The consent is contained in an agreement written in plain language signed knowingly and voluntarily by the depicted individual.

(b) The consent includes a general description of the intimate digital depiction and, if applicable, the audiovisual work into which it will be incorporated.

(2) It is a defense to an action under section 3 that 1 or more of the following apply:

(a) The creation or dissemination was made for the purpose of a criminal investigation or prosecution that is otherwise lawful.

(b) The creation or dissemination was for the purpose of, or in connection with, the reporting of unlawful conduct.

(c) The creation or dissemination was made in the course of seeking or receiving medical or mental health treatment, and the image is protected from further dissemination.

(d) The deep fake related to a matter of public interest, the creation or dissemination served a lawful public purpose, the person creating or disseminating the deep fake as a matter of public interest clearly identified that the video recording, motion-picture film, sound recording, electronic image, photograph, or other item was a deep fake, and the person acted in good faith to prevent further dissemination of the deep fake.

(e) The creation or dissemination was made for legal proceedings and was consistent with common practice in civil proceedings necessary for the proper functioning of the civil justice system, or protected by court order that prohibited any further dissemination.

History: 2025, Act 11, Imd. Eff. Aug. 26, 2025
Mich. Comp. Laws § 247.452 — MI Code / Chapter 247 / Act Act-59-of-1915 / Section 247.452
Assessment rolls; spread and collection; delayed report of rolls, subsequent installments.
Status: in_force

Sec. 52.

All the assessment rolls under this act, reported to the board of supervisors at the annual meeting thereof, shall be ordered spread and collected by the board and they shall order any rolls reported to them, while they are in session, spread and collected. Rolls not reported before the final adjournment of such boards at their annual October meeting, shall stand over until the following year, notwithstanding they may have been ordered collected by the county road commissioners the prior year. Where the contract is let prior to the annual meeting of the board of supervisors in October, and by reason of delay occurring from appeals to review the apportionment of benefits taken, so that the assessment roll, as finally determined, cannot be laid before the meetings of the board of supervisors, such delay shall not affect the collection of the second installment of the assessment, but both the first and second installments shall be collected the next year.

History: 1915, Act 59, Eff. Aug. 24, 1915; CL 1915, 4722; Am. 1917, Act 125, Imd. Eff. Apr. 25, 1917; Am. 1919, Act 107, Eff. Aug. 14, 1919; CL 1929, 4367; CL 1948, 247.452