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Mich. Comp. Laws § 221.20a — MI Code / Chapter 220 / Act Act-283-of-1909 / Section 221.20a
Declaration of road as public highway; consent; petition; action in circuit court; order; purchase or condemnation.
Status: in_force

Sec. 20a.

A township with the prior written consent of the board of county road commissioners and upon petition to the township board by 51% of the property owners whose frontage abuts a road may commence an action in circuit court to have the road determined to be a public highway and to determine the length and boundaries of the road. If the court finds that there has been public use of the road for at least 10 years and that public authorities have expended public money on the road, it shall enter an order that the road has become a public highway setting forth the length and boundaries of that public highway. If the court finds that the road has not become a public highway, the township may in the same action acquire by purchase or condemnation in accordance with section 20h of this chapter the property rights of those owners who in the action claim that the road is not a public highway and the court shall enter its order that the road is a public highway and set forth the length and boundaries of that public highway.

History: Add. 1974, Act 336, Imd. Eff. Dec. 17, 1974; Am. 1978, Act 233, Eff. Mar. 30, 1979
Mich. Comp. Laws § 333.2301 — MI Code / Chapter 333 / Act Act-368-of-1978 / Section 333.2301
Identification of priority health problems; preparation and basis of proposed list of basic health services.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2301.

The department, utilizing broad participation of, and providing ample opportunity for the submission of recommendations by, the individuals and organizations described in section 2302, annually shall identify the priority health problems of this state utilizing state health plans and an assessment procedure based on data and statistics consistent with or provided for in sections 2616 and 2617. Identification of priority health problems related to mental health shall be made with the consultation and advice of the department of mental health. From these priorities, the department annually shall prepare a proposed list of basic preventive, personal, and environmental health services to be made available and accessible to all residents in need of the services in this state without regard for place of residence, marital status, sex, age, race, or inability to pay.

The list of proposed basic health services shall be based upon the capabilities of the health related arts and sciences and upon criteria related to health needs, resources, and performance and shall take into account the services provided by private practitioners and private providers of health services. To the extent that the proposed list of basic health services includes mental health services for which responsibility has been vested in state or local mental health agencies by Act No. 258 of the Public Acts of 1974, as amended, being sections 330.1001 to 330.2106 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, or rules promulgated pursuant to that act, the inclusion of those services in the proposed list shall be subject to the approval of the department of mental health.

History: 1978, Act 368, Eff. Sept. 30, 1978
Mich. Comp. Laws § 550.1436 — MI Code / Chapter 550 / Act Act-350-of-1980 / Section 550.1436
Michigan caring programs for children; creation; contribution requirements; rating methodologies; supersedure of inconsistent provisions.
Status: in_force

Sec. 436.

There may be created within each health care corporation a Michigan caring program for children. The program shall provide primary health care coverage for children as set forth in section 438 and shall be administered by the health care corporation. Each program shall be described in a certificate that sets forth the benefits provided. A certificate and the contribution to be charged shall be subject to the commissioner's approval. Contribution requirements shall be established in accordance with rating methodologies approved by the commissioner which, over time, shall not result in either gain or loss to the corporation. The rating methodology for a program shall not include any factors otherwise includable pursuant to other sections of this act that are intended to provide for subsidies, surcharges, or administrative costs. Any other provisions of this act that would otherwise apply to a program but which are inconsistent with the provisions of this section and sections 437 to 439 are superseded.

History: Add. 1991, Act 60, Imd. Eff. June 27, 1991
Mich. Comp. Laws § 257.1573 — MI Code / Chapter 257 / Act Act-55-of-1997 / Section 257.1573
Electric patrol vehicle; operation; prohibition.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3.

Except as provided in section 4, an electric patrol vehicle shall not be operated on a street or highway of this state.

History: 1997, Act 55, Imd. Eff. July 1, 1997
Mich. Comp. Laws § 453.2 — MI Code / Chapter 453 / Act Act-68-of-1875 / Section 453.2
State granges; incorporators; articles of association, contents.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

Any 13 or more persons, residents of this state, and of lawful age, and members of a state grange of the patrons of husbandry of the state of Michigan, and appointed for that purpose by the executive committee of said state grange, may, under the direction of said executive committee, for the purpose of incorporating a state grange of the order of the patrons of husbandry, make and execute articles of association under their hands and seals, which articles shall be acknowledged before some officer having authority to take the acknowledgment of deeds, and shall set forth:

First, The names of the persons so associating in the first instance, and their places of residence;

Second, The corporate name by which such association shall be known in the law, and the place or places which shall be deemed to be the place of its business office;

Third, The object and purpose of such corporation, which shall be to advance the social, moral, intellectual, and material interests of the members of the corporation;

Fourth, The period of the existence of the corporation, which shall not exceed 30 years.

History: 1875, Act 68, Imd. Eff. Apr. 8, 1875; How. 2333; CL 1897, 6002; CL 1915, 7910; CL 1929, 10194; CL 1948, 453.2
Mich. Comp. Laws § 500.1011 — MI Code / Chapter 500 / Act Act-218-of-1956 / Section 500.1011
Audited consolidated or combined financial statements; application for filing; work sheet.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1011.

An insurer may make written application to the commissioner for approval to file audited consolidated or combined financial statements in lieu of separate annual audited financial statements if the insurer is part of a group of affiliates that uses a pooling or 100% reinsurance agreement that affects the solvency and integrity of the insurer's reserves and the insurer cedes all of its direct and assumed business to the pool. If approval is given, a columnar consolidating or combining work sheet shall be filed with the report, as follows:

Amounts shown on the consolidated or combined audited financial report shall be shown on the work sheet.

Amounts for each insurer subject to this section shall be stated separately.

Noninsurance operations may be shown on the work sheet on a combined or individual basis.

Explanations of consolidating and eliminating entries shall be included.

Any differences between the amounts shown in the individual insurer columns of the work sheet and comparable amounts shown on the annual statements of the insurers shall be reconciled.

History: Add. 1992, Act 182, Imd. Eff. Oct. 1, 1992; Am. 1994, Act 226, Imd. Eff. June 27, 1994
Mich. Comp. Laws § 35.1032 — MI Code / Chapter 35 / Act Act-370-of-1974 / Section 35.1032
Person not disqualified by eligibility or application for other benefits.
Status: in_force

Sec. 12.

A person making claim for receiving benefits provided by Act No. 12 of the Public Acts of 1947, as amended, being sections 35.921 to 35.932 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, or who may be eligible for benefits under the Korean veterans' military pay act of 1955, being Act No. 8 of the Public Acts of 1955, as amended, being sections 35.971 to 35.984 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, is not disqualified from receiving benefits under this act by reason of accepting benefit payment as provided by Act No. 12 of the Public Acts of 1947, as amended, or Act No. 8 of the Public Acts of 1955, as amended.

History: 1974, Act 370, Imd. Eff. Dec. 23, 1974
Mich. Comp. Laws § 123.1017 — MI Code / Chapter 123 / Act Act-191-of-1968 / Section 123.1017
Corporate status of municipalities; submission of revised charter to electors; effect of unfavorable vote; termination of proceedings.
Status: in_force

Sec. 17.

(1) The corporate status of the cities and villages proposed for consolidation shall not be changed or in any way affected until the charter takes effect.

(2) If the charter first submitted for adoption is not approved on the first vote taken by the electors, the charter commission may reconvene and prepare a new charter or prepare modifications or amendments to the first charter as they consider necessary, and shall submit the revised charter to the electors in the same manner and on a date to be fixed as in the first instance.

(3) If on submission of the second charter a favorable vote by a majority of the electors voting separately in the municipalities proposed for consolidation is not obtained, the consolidation proceedings shall end and the charter commission shall have no further authority to act or to submit another charter to the electors.

(4) If a charter has not been adopted within 3 years following the date the commission's order became final, or if within the 3-year period the charter commission does not reconvene within 90 days after the election at which the first proposed charter was defeated, the consolidation proceedings shall end.

History: 1968, Act 191, Eff. Nov. 15, 1968; Am. 1972, Act 362, Imd. Eff. Jan. 9, 1973; Am. 2008, Act 419, Imd. Eff. Jan. 6, 2009
Mich. Comp. Laws § 440.4501 — MI Code / Chapter 440 / Act Act-174-of-1962 / Section 440.4501
Documentary draft; presentment, notice of dishonor.
Status: in_force

Sec. 4501.

A bank which takes a documentary draft for collection must present or send the draft and accompanying documents for presentment and upon learning that the draft has not been paid or accepted in due course must seasonably notify its customer of such fact even though it may have discounted or bought the draft or extended credit available for withdrawal as of right.

History: 1962, Act 174, Eff. Jan. 1, 1964
Mich. Comp. Laws § 38.2402 — MI Code / Chapter 38 / Act Act-234-of-1992 / Section 38.2402
Retirement board; determining service credits; forfeiture; reinstatement; service credit for limited period or specific assignment.
Status: in_force

Sec. 402.

The retirement board shall credit each member with the number of years and months of service for which the member performed service as a judge or state official. The retirement board shall credit service for the month in which the member's retirement becomes effective if the member retires from service before the end of the month and the member terminates his or her service after the fifteenth of the month. Except as provided in subsection (4), the retirement board shall not credit service for any month for which a member receives less than 1 month's salary. The retirement board shall not credit more than 1/12 of a year of service for all service rendered in a 30-consecutive day period. After a member who is a judge attains age 70, the retirement board shall not credit service after the end of the term in which the judge attains age 70.

A member's credited service is forfeited at the time his or her membership terminates, except upon becoming a retirant or as provided in section 502.

The retirement system shall reinstate credited service forfeited because of a break in membership in the member's service account if all of the following conditions are satisfied:

The person, upon return to membership, acquires 6 months or more of credited service performed as a member of this retirement system subsequent to the break in service that caused the forfeiture.

The member pays to the retirement system all accumulated contributions previously paid to the member, plus interest from the date of payment to the member to the date of repayment to the retirement system.

Except as provided in this subsection and subject to the requirements of this subsection, the retirement system shall grant credited service to the same extent as provided in subsection (1) to a member who is serving as a judge for a limited period or a specific assignment as authorized by the supreme court pursuant to section 23 of article VI of the state constitution of 1963. The retirement system shall grant 1/12 of a year of credited service for a 30-consecutive day period in which a member described in this subsection performs service and receives a salary under the following circumstances:

The member performs service for at least 20 days in the 30-consecutive day period.

The member receives a salary that is not less than the pro rata of the state base salary for the court in which the service is performed.

History: 1992, Act 234, Eff. Mar. 31, 1993
Mich. Comp. Laws § 400.1502 — MI Code / Chapter 400 / Act Act-389-of-1978 / Section 400.1502
Domestic and sexual violence prevention and treatment board; creation; appointment, qualifications, and terms of members; vacancy; chairperson; quorum; compensation and expenses.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

(1) The domestic and sexual violence prevention and treatment board created under Executive Order No. 2012-17 consists of 7 members, all of whom must have experience in an area related to the problems of domestic or sexual violence. The members must be appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate.

(2) Members of the board shall serve for terms of 3 years except that of the members first appointed 2 shall serve for a term of 1 year, 2 shall serve for a term of 2 years, and 1 shall serve for a term of 3 years. A member appointed to fill a vacancy occurring other than by expiration of a term must be appointed for the remainder of the unexpired term.

(3) The governor shall designate 1 member of the board to serve as chairperson. A majority of the members of the board constitute a quorum.

(4) The per diem compensation of the board and the schedule for reimbursement of expenses will be established annually by the legislature.

History: 1978, Act 389, Eff. Oct. 1, 1978; Am. 1979, Act 127, Imd. Eff. Oct. 26, 1979; Am. 2018, Act 281, Eff. Sept. 27, 2018
Mich. Comp. Laws § 333.20904 — MI Code / Chapter 333 / Act Act-368-of-1978 / Section 333.20904
Definitions; E.
Status: in_force

Sec. 20904.

(1) "Education program sponsor" means a person, other than an individual, that meets the standards of the department to conduct training at the following levels:

(a) Medical first responder.

(b) Emergency medical technician.

(c) Emergency medical technician specialist.

(d) Paramedic.

(e) Emergency medical services instructor-coordinator.

(2) "Emergency" means a condition or situation in which an individual declares a need for immediate medical attention for any individual, or where that need is declared by emergency medical services personnel or a public safety official.

(3) "Emergency medical services instructor-coordinator" means an individual licensed under this part to conduct and instruct emergency medical services education programs.

(4) "Emergency medical services" means the emergency medical services personnel, ambulances, nontransport prehospital life support vehicles, aircraft transport vehicles, medical first response vehicles, and equipment required for transport or treatment of an individual requiring medical first response life support, basic life support, limited advanced life support, or advanced life support.

(5) "Emergency medical services personnel" means a medical first responder, emergency medical technician, emergency medical technician specialist, paramedic, or emergency medical services instructor-coordinator.

(6) "Emergency medical services system" means a comprehensive and integrated arrangement of the personnel, facilities, equipment, services, communications, medical control, and organizations necessary to provide emergency medical services and trauma care within a particular geographic region.

(7) "Emergency medical technician" means an individual who is licensed by the department to provide basic life support.

(8) "Emergency medical technician specialist" means an individual who is licensed by the department to provide limited advanced life support.

(9) "Emergency patient" means an individual with a physical or mental condition that manifests itself by acute symptoms of sufficient severity, including, but not limited to, pain such that a prudent layperson, possessing average knowledge of health and medicine, could reasonably expect to result in 1 or all of the following:

(a) Placing the health of the individual or, in the case of a pregnant woman, the health of the patient or the unborn child, or both, in serious jeopardy.

(b) Serious impairment of bodily function.

(c) Serious dysfunction of a body organ or part.

History: Add. 1990, Act 179, Imd. Eff. July 2, 1990; Am. 2000, Act 375, Imd. Eff. Jan. 2, 2001; Am. 2024, Act 48, Eff. Apr. 2, 2025
Mich. Comp. Laws § 559.204a — MI Code / Chapter 559 / Act Act-59-of-1978 / Section 559.204a
Terminating tenancy of certain persons without cause prohibited; criteria; notice.
Status: in_force

Sec. 104a.

The tenancy of a person who meets all of the following criteria on the date a master deed is filed for the conversion of a building to a condominium, shall not be terminated without cause within 1 year after receipt of notice required under section 104(2):

The person is 65 years of age or older or paraplegic, quadriplegic, hemiplegic, or blind as that term is defined in section 504 of the state income tax act of 1967, Act No. 281 of the Public Acts of 1967, as amended, being section 206.504 of the Michigan Compiled Laws.

The person is a resident of the building.

The person does not qualify for an extended lease arrangement under section 104b.

History: Add. 1980, Act 283, Imd. Eff. Oct. 10, 1980; Am. 1980, Act 513, Imd. Eff. Jan. 26, 1981; Am. 1982, Act 538, Imd. Eff. Jan. 17, 1983
Mich. Comp. Laws § 257.248a — MI Code / Chapter 257 / Act Act-300-of-1949 / Section 257.248a
Vehicle dealer; prohibited advertising or representations; designated business hours.
Status: in_force

Sec. 248a.

(1) A motor vehicle dealer shall not advertise or represent a motor vehicle to be a demonstrator, executive or manufacturer's vehicle, leased vehicle, new motor vehicle, or used or secondhand vehicle unless the vehicle so described is as defined in this act.

(2) A motor vehicle dealer shall maintain and adhere to designated business hours that are filed with the secretary of state.

History: Add. 1975, Act 314, Imd. Eff. Dec. 22, 1975; Am. 2012, Act 498, Eff. Mar. 28, 2013
Mich. Comp. Laws § 768.17 — MI Code / Chapter 760 / Act Act-175-of-1927 / Section 768.17
Jurors; medical attendance; use of newspapers and letters.
Status: in_force

Sec. 17.

The trial judge may order, in case of illness of any jurors mentioned in the preceding section, that such juror may receive medical attendance, and may be removed to his home or some other place agreeable to the judge during the continuance of his illness; and that any of the jurors may receive such newspapers and letters as make no mention of the trial then in progress, or of any facts connected therewith, which shall first be inspected by the said judge.

History: 1927, Act 175, Eff. Sept. 5, 1927; CL 1929, 17310; CL 1948, 768.17
Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.1704 — MI Code / Chapter 722 / Act Act-24-of-2024 / Section 722.1704
Establishment of parent-child relationship.
Status: in_force

Sec. 104.

A parent-child relationship is established between an individual and a child if 1 of the following occurs:

(a) The individual gives birth to the child, except as provided in part 3.

(b) The individual's parentage of a child is established under part 2.

(c) The individual's parentage of a child is established under part 3.

History: 2024, Act 24, Eff. Apr. 2, 2025
Mich. Comp. Laws § 123.831 — MI Code / Chapter 123 / Act Act-327-of-1965 / Section 123.831
Fire departments in cities of 70,000; minimum standards.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

In each city, township or village which has or shall hereafter attain a population of 70,000 or more according to the last decennial census, the fire department shall meet the minimum standards set by the Michigan inspection bureau to qualify for class 6 fire classification.

History: 1965, Act 327, Imd. Eff. July 23, 1965
Mich. Comp. Laws § 400.236 — MI Code / Chapter 400 / Act Act-174-of-1971 / Section 400.236
State disbursement unit; establishment; processes and procedures; collection; electronic disbursement.
Status: in_force

Sec. 6.

(1) The state disbursement unit is established as the direct responsibility of the office. The SDU shall use automated procedures, electronic processes, and computer-driven technology to the maximum extent feasible, efficient, and economical to receive and disburse support and fees.

(2) The SDU is the single location to which a payer or source of income subject to this section shall send a support or fee payment. The SDU shall disburse a support payment to the recipient of support within 2 business days after the SDU receives the support payment. Not less than twice each calendar month, the SDU shall disburse fees that it receives to the appropriate county treasurer or office of the friend of the court.

(3) If a payer or source of income attempts to make a support or fee payment to the SDU and the payment transaction fails due to nonsufficient funds, the SDU may take actions to collect from the payer or source of income the support or fee payment amount, plus an amount for the expense of those actions.

(4) By not later than 1 year after the effective date of the amendatory act that added this subsection, the SDU shall disburse support electronically, in not fewer than 3 counties in this state, to either the recipient of support's account in a financial institution or to a special account that may be accessed by the recipient of support by an electronic access card. By not later than 2 years after the effective date of the amendatory act that added this subsection, the SDU shall disburse support electronically either to the recipient of support's account in a financial institution or to a special account that may be accessed by the recipient of support by an electronic access card. This subsection does not apply under any of the following circumstances:

(a) If electronic transfer is not feasible to meet federal requirements on the disbursement of child support payments.

(b) If the support payment is from a source that is nonrecurring or that is not expected to continue in a 12-month period.

(c) The recipient of support is a person with a mental or physical disability that imposes a hardship in accessing an electronically transferred payment.

(d) The recipient of support is a person with a language or literacy barrier that imposes a hardship in accessing an electronically transferred payment.

(e) The recipient of support's home and work addresses are more than 30 miles from an automated teller machine and more than 30 miles from a financial institution where funds in the recipient's account may be accessed.

History: Add. 1999, Act 161, Imd. Eff. Nov. 3, 1999; Am. 2004, Act 548, Imd. Eff. Jan. 3, 2005