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Mich. Comp. Laws § 18.1263 — MI Code / Chapter 18 / Act Act-431-of-1984 / Section 18.1263
Purchase of supplies and materials by state agency to maintain inventories; authorization; limitation; charging appropriation accounts; periodic inventories; obsolescence, damage, or spoilage; fee for purchasing services assistance; cooperative bulk purchasing program for schools and school districts.
Status: in_force

Sec. 263.

(1) The director may authorize a state agency to purchase supplies and materials for the purpose of maintaining inventories. The director shall place a dollar or quantity limitation to insure inventories are maintained at acceptable levels. Appropriation accounts shall be charged upon the basis of actual usage. Any state agency so authorized shall conduct periodic inventories as directed by the director of all supplies and materials under their control. Obsolete, damaged, or spoiled supplies and materials shall be charged to the proper appropriation account during the fiscal year it is determined that obsolescence, damage, or spoilage has occurred.

(2) The department shall provide assistance to any city, village, county, township, school district, intermediate school district, nonprofit hospital, institution of higher education, or community or junior college for purchasing services on a fee basis. Fees collected for the provision of that assistance are appropriated for the additional expenses incurred.

(3) The department shall create and operate a cooperative bulk purchasing program for school districts, public school academies, nonpublic schools, and intermediate school districts on a fee basis to reduce the costs of purchasing goods and services. Fees collected under this subsection shall not exceed the cost of purchasing goods and services and reasonable administrative expenses, and are appropriated for the expenses incurred.

History: 1984, Act 431, Eff. Mar. 29, 1985; 2004, Act 589, Imd. Eff. Jan. 4, 2005
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.511 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.511
Fees for department of natural resources magazine, publications, and related materials; disposition and use of fees; retained earnings; disposition of unexpended fees and excess collections; annual allocation to magazine account; accounting records.
Status: in_force

Sec. 511.

The department may establish and collect fees for the department of natural resources magazine, publications, and related materials. Fees collected shall be credited to a separate fund of the state treasury and shall be available for appropriation to the department and used to pay all direct and indirect operating costs of the magazine and for the purchase of other related publications and materials. The retained earnings balance of the magazine at the end of the fiscal year shall not fall below the retained earnings balance at the end of the prior fiscal year. Any unexpended fees collected pursuant to this section, along with any excess collections from prior fiscal years, shall be carried over into subsequent fiscal years and shall be available for appropriation for the purposes described in this section. The magazine account shall receive an annual allocation of interest earned by the state treasurer's common cash fund on cash balances of the magazine pursuant to procedures established by the state treasurer. Accounting records of the magazine shall be maintained on an accrual basis consistent with generally accepted accounting principles, including the establishment of separate asset, liability, and equity accounts for the magazine.

History: 1994, Act 451, Eff. Mar. 30, 1995; Am. 2018, Act 237, Eff. Sept. 25, 2018
Mich. Comp. Laws § 487.3205 — MI Code / Chapter 487 / Act Act-354-of-1996 / Section 487.3205
Appointment of examiners and employees; payment of compensation, travel, and expenses.
Status: in_force

Sec. 205.

The commissioner may appoint examiners and other employees for the carrying out of this act. The compensation, travel, and other expenses of the commissioner, deputy commissioners, examiners, and employees shall be paid in the manner provided by law for other state officers and employees, within the appropriations made by the legislature.

History: 1996, Act 354, Imd. Eff. July 1, 1996
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.71307 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.71307
Majority vote of electors required.
Status: in_force

Sec. 71307.

Bonds shall not be issued unless the question set forth in section 71304 is approved by a majority vote of the qualified electors voting on the question.

History: Add. 1995, Act 58, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1995
Mich. Comp. Laws § 35.73 — MI Code / Chapter 35 / Act Act-321-of-1937 / Section 35.73
Administrator of veterans' affairs; interested party in proceedings for appointment of guardian; notice, hearing; limitation on number of wards.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3.

Administrator of veterans affairs, party in interest. The administrator of veterans affairs, or his successor, is and shall be a party in interest in any proceedings brought under any law of this state for the appointment of a guardian of a veteran of any war or other beneficiary on whose account benefits of compensation, adjusted compensation, pension or insurance or other benefits are payable by the veterans administration, and the said administrator or his successor is and shall be an interested party in the administration of the estate of any such ward on whose account such benefits are payable or whose estate includes assets derived from benefits paid by the veterans administration, its predecessor or successor, and written notice shall be given by (registered) mail unless waived in writing to the office of the veterans administration having jurisdiction over the area in which the court is located, of the time and place for hearing on any petition or pleading or in connection with any proceeding pertaining to or affecting in any manner the administration of the estate of any beneficiary of the veterans administration. Said notice shall be deposited in the mails not less than 14 days or such other period as the court may order prior to the date of such hearings or other proceedings: Provided, That in case of any proceeding or hearing notice of which is not required by the statutes in such case made and provided to be given to the interested parties thereto, either by personal service, mailing or advertisement, notice thereof need not be given to said office of the veterans administration.

Limitation on number of wards. Except as hereinafter provided, it shall be unlawful for any person to accept appointment as guardian of any ward if such proposed guardian shall at that time be acting as guardian for 10 wards. In any case, upon presentation of a petition by an attorney of the veterans administration under this section alleging that a guardian is acting in a fiduciary capacity for more than 10 wards and requesting his discharge for that reason, the court, if it determines that such guardian is acting in a fiduciary capacity for more than 10 wards, shall require a final accounting forthwith from such guardian and shall discharge such guardian in said case.

The limitations of this section shall not apply where the guardian is a bank or trust company. An individual may be guardian of more than 10 wards if they are all members of the same immediate family. For the purposes of this section, such appointments in the same immediate family shall be counted as 1 appointment only.

History: 1937, Act 321, Imd. Eff. July 27, 1937; CL 1948, 35.73
Mich. Comp. Laws § 458.66 — MI Code / Chapter 458 / Act Act-26-of-1907 / Section 458.66
Secular affairs; management; board of trustees, election, term.
Status: in_force

Sec. 6.

The secular affairs of said church shall be managed by a board of trustees, consisting of not less than 3, nor more than 9 members of the association, elected and organized according to the provisions of the discipline of the Methodist Protestant church, who shall hold office until their successors have been elected and entered upon the duties of the office.

History: 1907, Act 26, Imd. Eff. Mar. 20, 1907; CL 1915, 11064; CL 1929, 10879; CL 1948, 458.66
Mich. Comp. Laws § 24.244 — MI Code / Chapter 24 / Act Act-306-of-1969 / Section 24.244
Notice of public hearings on rules; exceptions to requirements; applicability of MCL 24.241 and 24.242 to rules promulgated under Michigan occupational safety and health act or determination under MCL 24.245c(3); "substantially similar" defined.
Status: in_force

Sec. 44.

(1) Sections 41 and 42 do not apply to an amendment or rescission of a rule that is obsolete or superseded, or that is required to make obviously needed corrections to make the rule conform to an amended or new statute or to accomplish any other solely formal purpose, if a statement to that effect is included in the legislative service bureau certificate of approval of the rule.

(2) Sections 41 and 42 do not apply to a rule that is promulgated under the Michigan occupational safety and health act, 1974 PA 154, MCL 408.1001 to 408.1094, that is substantially similar to an existing federal standard that has been adopted or promulgated under the occupational safety and health act of 1970, Public Law 91-596. However, notice of the proposed rule must be published in the Michigan Register not less than 35 days before the rule is filed with the secretary of state under section 46(1). A reasonable period, not to exceed 21 days, must be provided for the submission of written or electronic comments and views following publication in the Michigan Register.

(3) Sections 41 and 42 do not apply to a change to a proposed rule by an agency during processing of the rule if the office determines under section 45c(3) that the regulatory impact and impact on small businesses of the changed proposed rule are not more burdensome than the regulatory impact and impact on small businesses of the original proposed rule.

(4) For purposes of subsection (2), "substantially similar" means identical, with the exception of style or format differences needed to conform to this or other state laws, as determined by the office.

History: 1969, Act 306, Eff. July 1, 1970; Am. 1993, Act 141, Imd. Eff. Aug. 4, 1993; Am. 1999, Act 262, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000; Am. 2004, Act 23, Imd. Eff. Mar. 10, 2004; Am. 2016, Act 513, Imd. Eff. Jan. 9, 2017; Am. 2018, Act 267, Imd. Eff. June 29, 2018; Am. 2024, Act 9, Eff. Apr. 2, 2025
Mich. Comp. Laws § 257.521 — MI Code / Chapter 257 / Act Act-300-of-1949 / Section 257.521
Motor vehicle liability policy; notice of termination.
Status: in_force

Sec. 521.

When an insurance carrier has certified a motor-vehicle liability policy under section 518 or section 519, the insurance so certified shall not be cancelled or terminated until at least 10 days after a notice of cancellation or termination of the insurance so certified shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state, except that such a policy subsequently procured and certified shall, on the effective date of its certification, terminate the insurance previously certified with respect to any motor vehicle designated in both certificates.

History: 1949, Act 300, Eff. Sept. 23, 1949
Mich. Comp. Laws § 483.105 — MI Code / Chapter 483 / Act Act-9-of-1929 / Section 483.105
Regulations of public utilities commission.
Status: in_force

Sec. 5.

The commission is hereby empowered and it is made its duty to make regulations for the equitable purchasing, taking and collecting of all such gas, for the metering and delivery of the same and for providing adequate facilities for service demanded, which regulations shall apply to all persons affected thereby in like manner; and it shall have authority to relieve any such common purchaser, after due application, notice and hearing, from the obligation of purchasing gas of an inferior quality or grade or from purchasing gas from wells which for economic reasons are not at the time a practicable source of supply.

History: 1929, Act 9, Imd. Eff. Mar. 19, 1929; CL 1929, 11636; CL 1948, 483.105
Mich. Comp. Laws § 52.144 — MI Code / Chapter 52 / Act Act-143-of-1945 / Section 52.144
County health officer and deputies; payment of compensation.
Status: in_force

Sec. 4.

The salaries provided for in this act shall be fixed and paid as and when other county salaries are fixed and paid and if any compensation is provided on a fee basis such fees shall be audited as other claims against the county are audited and paid.

History: 1945, Act 143, Eff. Sept. 6, 1945; CL 1948, 52.144
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.158 — MI Code / Chapter 280 / Act Act-40-of-1956 / Section 280.158
Appeal cost and expenses; liability on bond.
Status: in_force

Sec. 158.

In case the apportionment of the commissioner shall be sustained by such board of review the appellant shall pay the whole costs and expenses of such appeal. Such costs and expenses shall be ascertained and determined by the judge of probate, and if not paid the appellant shall be liable on his bond for the full amount of such costs in an action at law, to be brought by the commissioner on the bond before any court having competent jurisdiction.

History: 1956, Act 40, Imd. Eff. Mar. 28, 1956
Mich. Comp. Laws § 500.2925 — MI Code / Chapter 500 / Act Act-218-of-1956 / Section 500.2925
Application to pool for basic property insurance; form; findings; issuance of policy; reinsuring policies; statement required if risk found not acceptable; term of policy; renewal of policy; waiver of inspection; issuance and term of binders.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2925.

Any person who has an insurable interest in real or tangible personal property at fixed locations may apply to the pool for basic property insurance. The form of the application shall be prescribed by the commissioner.

If the pool finds that: (a) the property has been inspected by the inspection bureau within the preceding 6 months; (b) the applicant made a good faith, diligent effort to obtain the same type of insurance through established channels in the insurance market provided by authorized insurers in this state appropriate to the nature, character, and value of the property; (c) there is no unpaid premium with respect to prior insurance on the property; and (d) the property constitutes qualified property and is an acceptable risk under the standards of the pool, then the pool in its own name, or a servicing facility in its own name, upon receipt of the premium, shall issue a policy for the applied for insurance. Policies issued in the name of a servicing facility may be reinsured by the pool.

If the pool finds that the property is not an acceptable risk, the applicant shall be entitled to a written statement setting forth the features of the property or conditions which prevent it from constituting an acceptable risk and the measures which must be taken in order to make the property an acceptable risk.

Policies issued by the pool or a servicing facility shall have a term of 1 year.

Policies issued by the pool or a servicing facility may be renewed upon property otherwise meeting the conditions of this chapter for 2 consecutive successive terms without additional inspection, if the pool waives the inspection.

The pool, upon receipt of an appropriate premium, may cause the issuance of binders for the applied for insurance for a period not exceeding 60 days upon property which at the time of issuance of the binders has not complied with all the applicable conditions of this chapter.

History: Add. 1968, Act 262, Eff. Aug. 1, 1968; Am. 1971, Act 74, Eff. Aug. 1, 1971; Am. 1979, Act 145, Eff. Mar. 1, 1980
Mich. Comp. Laws § 780.314 — MI Code / Chapter 780 / Act Act-85-of-2017 / Section 780.314
Audio and video recording recorded by law enforcement officer with body-worn camera; individuals requesting copy.
Status: in_force

Sec. 4.

Except for an audio and video recording exempted from disclosure under section 13 of the freedom of information act, 1976 PA 442, MCL 15.243, and section 3(1) or 5, any of the following individuals may request a copy of an audio and video recording recorded by a law enforcement officer with a body-worn camera in a private place:

(a) An individual who is the subject of the audio and video recording.

(b) An individual whose property has been seized or damaged in relation to a crime to which the audio and video recording is related.

(c) A parent of an individual who is less than 18 years of age described in subdivision (a) or (b).

(d) A legal guardian of an individual described in subdivision (a) or (b).

(e) An attorney who represents an individual described in subdivision (a) or (b).

History: 2017, Act 85, Eff. Jan. 8, 2018
Mich. Comp. Laws § 257.59 — MI Code / Chapter 257 / Act Act-300-of-1949 / Section 257.59
“Semi-trailer” defined.
Status: in_force

Sec. 59.

"Semi-trailer" means every vehicle with or without motive power, other than a pole-trailer, designed for carrying persons or property and for being drawn by a motor vehicle and so constructed that some part of its weight and that of its load rests upon or is carried by another vehicle. Semi-trailer does not include any implement of husbandry.

History: 1949, Act 300, Eff. Sept. 23, 1949; Am. 2012, Act 589, Eff. Mar. 28, 2013
Mich. Comp. Laws § 125.2691 — MI Code / Chapter 125 / Act Act-376-of-1996 / Section 125.2691
Application form.
Status: in_force

Sec. 11.

The form of the application for a renaissance zone designation shall be as specified by the Michigan strategic fund. After the form of the application is specified by the Michigan strategic fund, the Michigan strategic fund shall file a copy of the application with each house of the legislature. The board may request any information from an applicant, in addition to that contained in an application, as may be needed to permit the board to discharge its responsibilities under this act.

History: 1996, Act 376, Imd. Eff. July 17, 1996; Am. 2006, Act 440, Imd. Eff. Oct. 5, 2006
Mich. Comp. Laws § 400.87 — MI Code / Chapter 400 / Act Act-280-of-1939 / Section 400.87
Veterans' relief act not repealed.
Status: in_force

Sec. 87.

The provisions of this act shall not be construed to repeal or supersede the provisions of Act No. 214 of the Public Acts of 1899, as amended, being sections 35.21 to 35.27 of the Compiled Laws of 1948.

History: 1939, Act 280, Imd. Eff. June 16, 1939; CL 1948, 400.87; Am. 1957, Act 95, Eff. Sept. 27, 1957
Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.2184 — MI Code / Chapter 600 / Act Act-236-of-1961 / Section 600.2184
Unsworn declaration; effect same as sworn declaration.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2184.

(1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2), if a law of this state requires or permits use of a sworn declaration, an unsworn declaration meeting the requirements of this chapter has the same effect as a sworn declaration.

(2) This chapter does not apply to any of the following:

(a) A deposition.

(b) An oath of office.

(c) An oath required to be given before a specified official other than a notary public.

(d) A declaration to be recorded with a register of deeds.

(e) An oath required by section 2504 of the estates and protected individuals code, 1998 PA 386, MCL 700.2504.

(f) A declaration in a document filed with the court in the course of administering the estate of a decedent.

History: Add. 2012, Act 361, Eff. Apr. 1, 2013
Mich. Comp. Laws § 207.1141 — MI Code / Chapter 207 / Act Act-403-of-2000 / Section 207.1141
Tax belonging to state; failure to make payment or to defraud as embezzlement; penalty.
Status: in_force

Sec. 141.

The tax imposed by this act belongs to the state. The tax shall be held in trust for the state and for payment to the department as provided in this act. A person who fails or refuses to pay over to the department the tax collected on motor fuel at the time required in this act, or a person who with intent to defraud withholds or appropriates any portion of the tax belonging to the state, is guilty of embezzlement, and shall be punished as provided in section 174 of the Michigan penal code, 1931 PA 328, MCL 750.174.

History: 2000, Act 403, Eff. Apr. 1, 2001
Mich. Comp. Laws § 250.1025 — MI Code / Chapter 250 / Act Act-142-of-2001 / Section 250.1025
“Olds Freeway.”
Status: in_force

Sec. 25.

That portion of highway I-496 that is within the city limits of the city of Lansing shall be known as the "Olds Freeway".

History: 2001, Act 142, Imd. Eff. Oct. 26, 2001
Mich. Comp. Laws § 3.260 — MI Code / Chapter 3 / Act Act-201-of-1986 / Section 3.260
Real property or water to which act inapplicable.
Status: in_force

Sec. 10.

This act does not apply to any of the following:

Real property or water areas within the national and state forests pursuant to Act No. 312 of the Public Acts of 1923, being sections 3.401 to 3.402 of the Michigan Compiled Laws.

Real property or water under section 404 of the federal water pollution control act, 33 U.S.C. 1344.

Real property or water under the Goemaere-Anderson wetland protection act, Act No. 203 of the Public Acts of 1979, being sections 281.701 to 281.722 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, unless the real property or water is intended for inclusion in or expansion of a national park or national lakeshore.

Real property acquired for forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings and defense projects pursuant to Act No. 3 of the Public Acts of the First Extra Session of 1942, being sections 3.201 to 3.203 of the Michigan Compiled Laws.

History: 1986, Act 201, Imd. Eff. July 25, 1986
Mich. Comp. Laws § 440.4207 — MI Code / Chapter 440 / Act Act-174-of-1962 / Section 440.4207
Warranties of customer and collecting bank on transfer of items; accrual of cause of action.
Status: in_force

Sec. 4207.

(1) A customer or collecting bank that transfers an item and receives a settlement or other consideration warrants to the transferee and to any subsequent collecting bank all of the following:

(a) That the warrantor is a person entitled to enforce the item.

(b) That all signatures on the item are authentic and authorized.

(c) That the item has not been altered.

(d) That the item is not subject to a defense or claim in recoupment under section 3305(1) of any party that can be asserted against the warrantor.

(e) That the warrantor has no knowledge of any insolvency proceeding commenced with respect to the maker or acceptor or, in the case of an unaccepted draft, the drawer.

(f) With respect to any remotely created consumer item, that the person on whose account the item is drawn authorized the issuance of the item in the amount for which the item is drawn.

(2) If an item is dishonored, a customer or collecting bank transferring the item and receiving settlement or other consideration is obliged to pay the amount due on the item ( i ) according to the terms of the item at the time it was transferred, or ( ii ) if the transfer was of an incomplete item, according to its terms when completed as stated in sections 3115 and 3407. The obligation of a transferor is owed to the transferee and to any subsequent collecting bank that takes the item in good faith. A transferor cannot disclaim its obligation under this subsection by an endorsement stating that it is made "without recourse" or otherwise disclaiming liability.

(3) A person to whom the warranties under subsection (1) are made and who took the item in good faith may recover from the warrantor as damages for breach of warranty an amount equal to the loss suffered as a result of the breach, but not more than the amount of the item plus expenses and loss of interest incurred as a result of the breach.

(4) The warranties stated in subsection (1) cannot be disclaimed with respect to checks. Unless notice of a claim for breach of warranty is given to the warrantor within 30 days after the claimant has reason to know of the breach and the identity of the warrantor, the warrantor is discharged to the extent of any loss caused by the delay in giving notice of the claim.

(5) A cause of action for breach of warranty under this section accrues when the claimant has reason to know of the breach.

History: 1962, Act 174, Eff. Jan. 1, 1964; Am. 1993, Act 130, Eff. Sept. 30, 1993; Am. 2014, Act 103, Imd. Eff. Apr. 10, 2014