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Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.50129 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.50129
Petition for discontinuance; filing; form; notice.
Status: in_force

Sec. 50129.

A petition for discontinuance of membership in, for deletion of member forest land within, and for including additional territory within an existing district shall be filed with the board. The board shall prescribe the form for the petition. The board annually shall notify the department of any changes in membership or land ownership status changes.

History: Add. 1995, Act 57, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1995
Mich. Comp. Laws § 397.16 — MI Code / Chapter 397 / Act Act-540-of-1982 / Section 397.16
State librarian; duties; coordination of library activities with department director; qualifications of state librarian and assistant state librarian.
Status: in_force

Sec. 6.

(1) The state librarian shall have care and charge of the library and the administrative functions of the library. The director of the department and the state librarian shall coordinate the activities of the library with the department.

The state librarian shall be a graduate with a master's degree in library science and shall have not less than 4 years' experience in library work in an administrative capacity. Each assistant state librarian shall be a graduate with a master's degree in library science.

History: 1982, Act 540, Eff. Mar. 30, 1983; Am. 1983, Act 114, Imd. Eff. July 12, 1983; Am. 1995, Act 190, Imd. Eff. Nov. 6, 1995; Am. 2001, Act 62, Eff. Oct. 1, 2001
Mich. Comp. Laws § 500.2211 — MI Code / Chapter 500 / Act Act-218-of-1956 / Section 500.2211
Consent of insured.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2211.

Any individual who has an insurable interest in the life of another human being shall not insure that other human being's life for the individual's benefit unless the human being whose life is to be insured consents to be insured in writing. That person's signature on the application for insurance constitutes consent.

This section applies to life insurance policies and certificates of $10,000.00 or more delivered or issued for delivery in this state on and after 30 days after the effective date of this section. This section does not apply if the human being whose life is to be insured is less than 18 years of age.

History: Add. 1998, Act 91, Imd. Eff. May 14, 1998
Mich. Comp. Laws § 484.3205 — MI Code / Chapter 484 / Act Act-49-of-2002 / Section 484.3205
Administrative functions; performance under direction and supervision of state treasurer.
Status: in_force

Sec. 5.

The authority shall exercise its duties independently of the state treasurer. The budgeting, procurement, and related administrative functions of the authority shall be performed under the direction and supervision of the state treasurer.

History: 2002, Act 49, Imd. Eff. Mar. 14, 2002
Mich. Comp. Laws § 32.1056 — MI Code / Chapter 32 / Act Act-523-of-1980 / Section 32.1056
Punishment and sentence; limits.
Status: in_force

Sec. 56.

The punishment which a court-martial may direct for an offense shall not exceed the limits prescribed by this code. If a sentence exceeds the limits prescribed by this code, the part of the sentence in excess of the limits shall have no force and effect and the sentence shall automatically be reduced to the limits prescribed by this code and shall not be changed as to form of punishment.

History: 1980, Act 523, Eff. Mar. 31, 1981
Mich. Comp. Laws § 436.1235 — MI Code / Chapter 436 / Act Act-58-of-1998 / Section 436.1235
Search warrant; seizure of property.
Status: in_force

Sec. 235.

A search warrant may be issued in accordance with the code of criminal procedure, 1927 PA 175, MCL 760.1 to 776.21. Under such a search warrant the officer may seize any alcoholic liquor, containers, implements, or conveyances used in connection with the violation of this act or any rule promulgated under this act. A property right does not exist in any alcoholic liquor had, kept, transported, or possessed contrary to law or in any receptacle or container of any kind in which the alcoholic liquor is found, and all such are hereby declared contraband and forfeited to the state and shall be seized. All alcoholic liquor, containers, implements, or conveyances seized under any such search warrant shall be turned over to the commission by direction of the court or magistrate and shall be disposed of in accordance with the rules promulgated under this act, which shall guarantee the return of such property, or payment of money received for the sale of that property, to the owner unless the owner is charged and convicted of the alleged offense or offenses in connection with which the search and seizure was made.

History: 1998, Act 58, Imd. Eff. Apr. 14, 1998
Mich. Comp. Laws § 123.53 — MI Code / Chapter 123 / Act Act-156-of-1917 / Section 123.53
Public recreation system; operation.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3.

Any city, village, county, township or school district may operate such a system independently or they may cooperate in its conduct in any manner in which they may mutually agree; or they may delegate the operation of the system to a recreation board created by any or all of them, and appropriate money, voted for this purpose, to such board.

History: 1917, Act 156, Eff. Aug. 10, 1917; CL 1929, 2391; CL 1948, 123.53
Mich. Comp. Laws § 168.363 — MI Code / Chapter 168 / Act Act-116-of-1954 / Section 168.363
Township officers; oath of office.
Status: in_force

Sec. 363.

All township officers shall, before entering upon the duties of their offices, take and subscribe the oath as provided in section 1 of article 11 of the state constitution before the township clerk or other officer authorized to administer oaths, and file the same with the township clerk who shall record the same; and such oath shall be administered without reward and certified by the officer before whom the same was taken, with the date of taking the same.

History: 1954, Act 116, Eff. June 1, 1955; Am. 1967, Act 215, Imd. Eff. Nov. 2, 1967
Mich. Comp. Laws § 442.367 — MI Code / Chapter 442 / Act Act-40-of-1987 / Section 442.367
Conditional effective date.
Status: in_force

Sec. 17.

This act shall not take effect unless all of the following bills of the 84th Legislature are enacted into law:

Senate Bill No. 55.

Senate Bill No. 56.

History: 1987, Act 40, Eff. Dec. 9, 1987
Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.2114a — MI Code / Chapter 600 / Act Act-236-of-1961 / Section 600.2114a
Issues of foreign law; notice; evidence; duties of court; review on appeal.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2114a.

A party who intends to raise an issue concerning the law of any jurisdiction or governmental unit thereof outside this state shall give notice in his pleadings or other reasonable written notice. In determining the law of any jurisdiction or governmental unit thereof outside this state, the court may consider any relevant material or source, including testimony, whether or not submitted by a party or admissible under the rules of evidence. The court, not jury, shall determine the law of any governmental unit outside this state. Its determination is subject to review on appeal as a ruling on a question of law.

History: Add. 1967, Act 178, Eff. Nov. 2, 1967
Mich. Comp. Laws § 750.492a — MI Code / Chapter 750 / Act Act-328-of-1931 / Section 750.492a
Placing misleading or inaccurate information in medical records or charts; alteration or destruction of medical records or charts; penalties; applicability of subsections (1) and (2); basis for civil action for damages not created.
Status: in_force

Sec. 492a.

Except as otherwise provided in subsection (3), a health care provider or other person, knowing that the information is misleading or inaccurate, shall not intentionally, willfully, or recklessly place or direct another to place in a patient's medical record or chart misleading or inaccurate information regarding the diagnosis, treatment, or cause of a patient's condition. A violation of this subsection is punishable as follows:

A health care provider who intentionally or willfully violates this subsection is guilty of a felony.

A health care provider who recklessly violates this subsection is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment for not more than 1 year, or a fine of not more than $1,000.00, or both.

A person other than a health care provider who intentionally or willfully violates this subsection is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment for not more than 1 year, or a fine of not more than $1,000.00, or both.

A person other than a health care provider who recklessly violates this subsection is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Except as otherwise provided in subsection (3), a health care provider or other person shall not intentionally or willfully alter or destroy or direct another to alter or destroy a patient's medical records or charts for the purpose of concealing his or her responsibility for the patient's injury, sickness, or death. A health care provider who violates this subsection is guilty of a felony. A person other than a health care provider who violates this subsection is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not more than 1 year, or a fine of not more than $1,000.00, or both.

Subsections (1) and (2) do not apply to either of the following:

Destruction of a patient's original medical record or chart if all of the information contained in or on the medical record or chart is otherwise retained by means of mechanical or electronic recording, chemical reproduction, or other equivalent techniques that accurately reproduce all of the information contained in or on the original or by reproduction pursuant to the records media act that accurately reproduces all of the information contained in or on the original.

Supplementation of information or correction of an error in a patient's medical record or chart in a manner that reasonably discloses that the supplementation or correction was performed and that does not conceal or alter prior entries.

This section does not create or provide a basis for a civil cause of action for damages.

History: Add. 1986, Act 184, Eff. Mar. 31, 1987; Am. 1992, Act 210, Imd. Eff. Oct. 5, 1992
Mich. Comp. Laws § 111.11 — MI Code / Chapter 81 / Act Act-215-of-1895 / Section 111.11
Ward supervisors; duties as to tax levy.
Status: in_force

Sec. 11.

Each supervisor, shall, where the taxes are levied and collected on 1 tax roll, at the time of levying state and county taxes in his ward for the year, levy in the same roll upon all the taxable property in the ward, the amounts certified to him by the clerk of the board of supervisors as provided in section 9 of this chapter, to be raised for city, school and library purposes placing the city taxes in 1 column; and the school, library and schoolhouse taxes in another column, and he shall also levy, in the same roll, upon the lands, property, and persons chargeable therewith, all special assessments and sums reported to him by the city clerk, as provided in section 10 of this chapter, or in chapter 30 of this act, for assessment or re-assessment, in street districts, main or special sewer districts, or for other special assessments, placing all such special assessments in separate columns, and shall place the state and county taxes in other columns: Provided, That where the council has decided to have the taxes levied and collected in 2 installments, each supervisor shall, in the month of June in each year, levy in the July roll upon all taxable property in the ward, the amounts certified to him by the city clerk to be raised for city taxes, and special assessments, and he shall, at the time fixed in the general tax law, levy in the December roll, all sums to be raised for school, library and schoolhouse taxes, and all such taxes as were not paid on the fifteenth day of November next following the levy of such city taxes, and special assessments, together with interest thereon, from July first to December first, at 10 per cent per annum, placing said interest in a separate column headed "Penalty," and said penalty shall, thereafter be treated in all respects as an item of taxes. Such item of taxes, and each special assessment shall be entered in a separate column in such rolls, and the total taxes shall be entered in the last column of said roll.

History: 1895, Act 215, Eff. Aug. 30, 1895; Am. 1897, Act 239, Imd. Eff. June 2, 1897; CL 1897, 3328; CL 1915, 3252; CL 1929, 2174; CL 1948, 111.11
Mich. Comp. Laws § 440.9104 — MI Code / Chapter 440 / Act Act-174-of-1962 / Section 440.9104
Control of deposit account.
Status: in_force

Sec. 9104.

A secured party has control of a deposit account if 1 or more of the following apply:

The secured party is the bank with which the deposit account is maintained.

The debtor, secured party, and bank have agreed in an authenticated record that the bank will comply with instructions originated by the secured party directing disposition of the funds in the deposit account without further consent by the debtor.

The secured party becomes the bank's customer with respect to the deposit account.

A secured party that has satisfied subsection (1) has control, even if the debtor retains the right to direct the disposition of funds from the deposit account.

History: 1962, Act 174, Eff. Jan. 1, 1964; Am. 1978, Act 369, Eff. Jan. 1, 1979; Am. 1998, Act 488, Imd. Eff. Jan. 4, 1999; Am. 2000, Act 348, Eff. July 1, 2001
Mich. Comp. Laws § 125.2197 — MI Code / Chapter 125 / Act Act-393-of-2014 / Section 125.2197
Appointment after September 30, 2016 prohibited.
Status: in_force

Sec. 7.

The president of the strategic fund shall not appoint an entrepreneur-in-residence under this act after September 30, 2016.

History: 2014, Act 393, Eff. Mar. 23, 2015
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.2155 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.2155
“Damages” defined.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2155.

As used in this subpart, "damages" means the fair market value on the stump or at the mill, whichever is greater of a forest product cut or removed, or the fair and actual value of any other property removed or damaged in trespass, plus any other damages caused before, during, or after the cutting or removal.

History: Add. 1995, Act 60, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1995
Mich. Comp. Laws § 29.5p — MI Code / Chapter 29 / Act Act-207-of-1941 / Section 29.5p
Information regarding hazardous chemicals in workplace; request; list; material safety data sheet; description of quantity and location of hazardous chemical; time extension; availability of information; rules; update of information; limitation.
Status: in_force

Sec. 5p.

(1) A person who is an employer under the Michigan occupational safety and health act, 1974 PA 154, MCL 408.1001 to 408.1094, shall provide the information described in this section upon written request by the fire chief for the jurisdiction where the person is located.

(2) A person subject to this section shall, subject to subsection (1), provide a copy of a list required to be developed by the standard incorporated by reference in section 14a of the Michigan occupational safety and health act, 1974 PA 154, MCL 408.1014a, and a material safety data sheet for each hazardous chemical identified on the list within 10 working days after receipt of the request.

(3) Except as provided in subsection (4), a person subject to this section shall provide a description of the quantity and location of any hazardous chemical specified by the fire chief for the jurisdiction where the person is located within 10 working days after receipt of a written request made by the fire chief after review of a list provided under subsection (2). Upon request, the fire chief may extend the time to provide the information described in this subsection by 5 working days. The information obtained by a fire chief under this subsection may be made available to a public official, agency, or employee, but is exempt from disclosure under the freedom of information act, 1976 PA 442, MCL 15.231 to 15.246.

(4) The department of environmental quality may promulgate rules to exempt from the application of subsection (3) de minimis and portable quantities of hazardous chemicals.

(5) A person subject to this section shall provide to the fire chief for the jurisdiction where the person is located a written update of information required by this section when there is a significant change relating to fire hazards in the quantity, location, or presence of hazardous chemicals in the person's workplace.

(6) An ordinance, law, rule, regulation, policy, or practice of a city, township, village, county, governmental authority created by statute, or other political subdivision of the state shall not require that a person who is an employer under the Michigan occupational safety and health act, 1974 PA 154, MCL 408.1001 to 408.1094, provide to a fire chief information regarding hazardous chemicals in the workplace in any other manner or to any greater extent than is required by this section or rules authorized by this section.

History: Add. 1986, Act 67, Eff. Apr. 7, 1986; Am. 2006, Act 189, Imd. Eff. June 19, 2006
Mich. Comp. Laws § Article IX § 32 — MI Code / Chapter 1 / Act CONSTITUTION-OF-MICHIGAN-OF-1963 / Section Article IX § 32
Suit to enforce sections 25 to 31.
Status: in_force

Sec. 32.

Any taxpayer of the state shall have standing to bring suit in the Michigan State Court of Appeals to enforce the provisions of Sections 25 through 31, inclusive, of this Article and, if the suit is sustained, shall receive from the applicable unit of government his costs incurred in maintaining such suit.

History: Add. Initiated Law, approved Nov. 7, 1978, Eff. Dec. 23, 1978
Mich. Comp. Laws § 423.252 — MI Code / Chapter 423 / Act Act-150-of-1962 / Section 423.252
Strikes or lockouts; strikebreakers, acceptance of employment prohibited.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

No person who customarily and repeatedly offers himself for employment in place of employees involved in a strike or lockout shall take or offer to take the place in employment of employees involved in a strike or lockout.

History: 1962, Act 150, Eff. Mar. 28, 1963
Mich. Comp. Laws § 168.841 — MI Code / Chapter 168 / Act Act-116-of-1954 / Section 168.841
Board of state canvassers; duties.
Status: in_force

Sec. 841.

(1) The board of state canvassers shall canvass the returns and determine the result of all elections for electors of president and vice president of the United States, state officers, United States senators, representatives in congress, circuit judges, state senators and representatives elected by a district that is located in more than 1 county, and other officers as required by law. The board of state canvassers shall also determine the result of an election on a proposed amendment to the constitution or on any other ballot question that has been submitted, pursuant to law, to the qualified and registered electors of this state at large for ratification or rejection. The board of state canvassers shall canvass the returns and determine the result of an election on a ballot question submitted to the qualified and registered electors of more than 1 county under the regional transit authority act, 2012 PA 387, MCL 124.541 to 124.558. Upon making the determination, the board of state canvassers shall immediately prepare a certificate of determination and deliver the properly certified certificate of determination to the secretary of state.

(2) Upon receipt of a properly certified certificate of determination from a board of county canvassers pursuant to section 826, the board of state canvassers, at its next meeting, shall record the results of the county canvass contained in the certificate.

History: 1954, Act 116, Eff. June 1, 1955; Am. 1995, Act 261, Eff. Mar. 28, 1996; Am. 2015, Act 197, Imd. Eff. Nov. 24, 2015
Mich. Comp. Laws § 257.811hh — MI Code / Chapter 257 / Act Act-300-of-1949 / Section 257.811hh
Fund-raising plate; recognizing sickle cell anemia education and treatment; sickle cell anemia awareness fund.
Status: in_force

Sec. 811hh.

(1) The secretary of state shall develop under section 811e and issue under section 811f a fund-raising plate recognizing sickle cell anemia education and treatment. The secretary of state, in conjunction with the Sickle Cell Disease Association of America, Inc., Michigan Chapter, shall design the fund-raising plate authorized in this section.

(2) The sickle cell anemia awareness fund is created within the state treasury. The state treasurer may receive money or other assets from any 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. Money in the fund at the close of the fiscal year must remain in the fund and must not lapse to the general fund. The state treasurer shall be the administrator of the fund for auditing purposes.

(3) The secretary of state shall transfer the donation money from the sale of fund-raising plates recognizing sickle cell anemia education and treatment to the state treasurer, who shall credit the donation money to the fund established under subsection (2).

(4) The state treasurer shall disburse money in the fund established under subsection (2) on a quarterly basis to the Sickle Cell Disease Association of America, Inc., Michigan Chapter.

History: Add. 2024, Act 81, Eff. Apr. 2, 2025
Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.3409 — MI Code / Chapter 600 / Act Act-236-of-1961 / Section 600.3409
Considerations for partition in kind.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3409.

(1) In determining whether partition in kind would result in great prejudice to the cotenants as a group under section 3408, the court must consider all of the following:

(a) Whether it is practicable to divide the heirs property among the cotenants.

(b) Whether partition in kind would apportion the property in a way that the aggregate fair market value of the parcels resulting from the division would be materially less than the value of the property if it were sold as a whole, taking into account the condition under which a court-ordered sale would likely occur.

(c) Evidence of the collective duration of ownership or possession of the property by a cotenant and 1 or more predecessors in title or predecessors in possession to the cotenant who are or were relatives of the cotenant or each other.

(d) A cotenant's sentimental attachment to the property, including any attachment arising because the property has ancestral or other unique or special value to the cotenant.

(e) The lawful use being made of the property by a cotenant and the degree to which the cotenant would be harmed if the cotenant could not continue the same use of the property.

(f) The degree to which the cotenants have contributed their pro rata share of the property taxes, insurance, and other expenses associated with maintaining ownership of the property or have contributed to the physical improvement, maintenance, or upkeep of the property.

(g) Any other relevant factor.

(2) The court shall not consider any 1 factor in subsection (1) to be dispositive without weighing the totality of all relevant factors and circumstances.

History: Add. 2024, Act 215, Eff. Apr. 2, 2025