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Mich. Comp. Laws § 434.26 — MI Code / Chapter 434 / Act Act-273-of-1987 / Section 434.26
Disposition of collectible currency, currency, perishable property, and property of major value; keeping, classifying, and disposing of property located in abandoned vehicle.
Status: in_force

Sec. 6.

Collectible currency, currency, perishable property, and property of major value that is not claimed as provided under section 5(2) shall be disposed of by the law enforcement agency as follows:

Unless the finder of the property cannot be located or does not want the property, return the property to the finder.

If the finder of the property cannot be located or does not want the property, do 1 of the following:

Retain the property for use by the law enforcement agency.

Sell the property at a public sale and deposit the money from the sale in the general fund of the governmental unit of the law enforcement agency.

Release the property to a charitable organization as defined in section 2 of the charitable organizations and solicitations act, Act No. 169 of the Public Acts of 1975, being section 400.272 of the Michigan Compiled Laws.

Property located in an abandoned vehicle shall be kept in a place of safekeeping. If the legal owner of the property is not located when the vehicle has been disposed of under the provisions regarding abandoned vehicles under the Michigan vehicle code, Act No. 300 of the Public Acts of 1949, being sections 257.1 to 257.923 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, the property shall be classified under section 2(2) and the property may be disposed of pursuant to section 5 and subsection (1).

History: 1987, Act 273, Imd. Eff. Jan. 6, 1988
Mich. Comp. Laws § 380.1289 — MI Code / Chapter 380 / Act Act-451-of-1976 / Section 380.1289
Participation of female pupils in interscholastic athletic activities.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1289.

Female pupils shall be permitted to compete for a position in all interscholastic athletic activities. If a school has a girls' team in an interscholastic athletic activity, a female shall be permitted to compete for a position on any other team for that activity. This subsection shall not be construed to prevent or interfere with the selection of competing teams solely on the basis of athletic ability.

History: 1976, Act 451, Imd. Eff. Jan. 13, 1977; Am. 1994, Act 416, Eff. Mar. 30, 1995; Am. 1995, Act 289, Eff. July 1, 1996
Mich. Comp. Laws § 454.11 — MI Code / Chapter 454 / Act Act-188-of-1857 / Section 454.11
Mechanics' associations; libraries, maintenance and regulation.
Status: in_force

Sec. 11.

All societies or associations organized as aforesaid, shall have the right to keep and maintain libraries and make all needful by-laws for the good government and regulation of the same.

History: 1857, Act 188, Imd. Eff. Feb. 17, 1857; CL 1857, 1798; CL 1871, 2805; How. 3934; CL 1897, 7433; CL 1915, 9805; CL 1929, 10272; CL 1948, 454.11
Mich. Comp. Laws § 169.204 — MI Code / Chapter 169 / Act Act-388-of-1976 / Section 169.204
"Contribution" defined.
Status: in_force

Sec. 4.

(1) "Contribution" means a payment, gift, subscription, assessment, expenditure, contract, payment for services, dues, advance, forbearance, loan, or donation of money or anything of ascertainable monetary value, or a transfer of anything of ascertainable monetary value to a person, made for the purpose of influencing the nomination or election of a candidate, for the qualification, passage, or defeat of a ballot question, or for the qualification of a new political party.

(2) Contribution includes the full purchase price of tickets or payment of an attendance fee for events such as dinners, luncheons, rallies, testimonials, and other fund-raising events; an individual's own money or property other than the individual's homestead used on behalf of that individual's candidacy; the granting of discounts or rebates not available to the general public; or the granting of discounts or rebates by broadcast media and newspapers not extended on an equal basis to all candidates for the same office; and the endorsing or guaranteeing of a loan for the amount the endorser or guarantor is liable. Except for the purposes of section 57, contribution does not include a contribution to a federal candidate or a federal committee.

(3) Contribution does not include any of the following:

(a) Volunteer personal services provided without compensation, or payments of costs incurred of less than $500.00 in a calendar year by an individual for personal travel expenses if the costs are voluntarily incurred without any understanding or agreement that the costs shall be, directly or indirectly, repaid.

(b) Food and beverages, not to exceed $1,000.00 in value during a calendar year, that are donated by an individual and for which reimbursement is not given.

(c) An offer or tender of a contribution if expressly and unconditionally rejected, returned, or refunded in whole or in part within 30 business days after receipt.

(d) A contribution or expenditure for the establishment or administration of, or solicitation, collection, or transfer of contributions to, a separate segregated fund, including through a payroll deduction plan, or for mailing or shipping of an item or prize purchased under section 55(8).

(e) An independent expenditure.

History: 1976, Act 388, Imd. Eff. Dec. 30, 1976; Am. 1989, Act 95, Imd. Eff. June 21, 1989; Am. 2012, Act 31, Imd. Eff. Feb. 28, 2012; Am. 2012, Act 273, Eff. Dec. 30, 2012; Am. 2013, Act 252, Imd. Eff. Dec. 27, 2013; Am. 2015, Act 269, Imd. Eff. Jan. 6, 2016; Am. 2017, Act 119, Imd. Eff. Sept. 20, 2017; Am. 2019, Act 93, Imd. Eff. Oct. 10, 2019; Am. 2023, Act 244, Eff. Feb. 13, 2024
Mich. Comp. Laws § 700.2719 — MI Code / Chapter 700 / Act Act-386-of-1998 / Section 700.2719
Worthier-title doctrine abolished.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2719.

The doctrine of worthier title is abolished as a rule of law and as a rule of construction. Language in a governing instrument describing the beneficiaries of a disposition as the transferor's "heirs", "heirs at law", "next of kin", "distributees", "relatives", or "family", or language of similar import, does not create or presumptively create a reversionary interest in the transferor.

History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.43557 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.43557
License application lists, information, and publications; sale; price; disposition of proceeds.
Status: in_force

Sec. 43557.

The department may sell, or contract for the sale of, license application lists or information filed with the department pursuant to this part and related publications of the department. The department shall establish the price for the lists, information, and publications, and the proceeds of all sales pursuant to this section shall be credited to the game and fish protection account in the manner prescribed in section 43553.

History: Add. 1995, Act 57, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1995; Am. 2004, Act 587, Eff. Dec. 23, 2006
Mich. Comp. Laws § 259.601 — MI Code / Chapter 259 / Act Act-296-of-1931 / Section 259.601
Lease of lands to Lansing for airport; state administrative board authority, term, description of lands.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

The state administrative board is hereby authorized to lease to the city of Lansing for a period of 25 years the tract of land now under the jurisdiction and held by the boys' vocational school and now being used for airport purposes and described as, the southwest 1/4 of section 31; west 1/2 of the southeast 1/4 of section 31; the south 1/2 of northwest 1/4 of section 31; the southwest 1/4 of the northeast 1/4 of section 31 of Dewitt township, T5N, R2W, except the right-of-way of the Pere Marquette railroad and the land south of said right-of-way being 338 acres more or less.

History: 1931, Act 296, Imd. Eff. June 8, 1931; CL 1948, 259.601
Mich. Comp. Laws § 487.13505 — MI Code / Chapter 487 / Act Act-276-of-1999 / Section 487.13505
Removal of director.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3505.

The shareholders may remove 1 or more directors with or without cause unless the articles provide that directors may be removed only for cause. The vote for removal shall be by a majority of shares entitled to vote at an election of directors, except that the articles may require a higher vote for removal without cause. This section shall not invalidate any bylaw adopted before the effective date of this act that applies to removal without cause.

In the case of a bank having cumulative voting, if less than the entire board is to be removed, a director shall not be removed if the votes cast against his or her removal would be sufficient to elect him or her if then cumulatively voted at an election of the entire board of directors, or, if there are classes of directors, at an election of the class of directors of which he or she is a part.

If holders of a class or series of stock are entitled by the articles to elect 1 or more directors, this section applies, with respect to removal of a director so elected, to the vote of the holders of the outstanding shares of that class or series of stock.

History: 1999, Act 276, Eff. Mar. 1, 2000
Mich. Comp. Laws § 333.26313 — MI Code / Chapter 333 / Act Act-23-of-2006 / Section 333.26313
Emergency service.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3.

(1) A person, including, but not limited to, a health club owner, operator, or employee, does not have a duty to render emergency service to an individual using an AED that a health club has on the premises.

(2) This act does not limit the applicability of 1963 PA 17, MCL 691.1501 to 691.1507.

History: 2006, Act 23, Imd. Eff. Feb. 16, 2006
Mich. Comp. Laws § 120.125 — MI Code / Chapter 120 / Act Act-639-of-1978 / Section 120.125
Surplus of unencumbered funds; disposition.
Status: in_force

Sec. 25.

If at the end of a fiscal year a surplus of unencumbered funds remains after providing for the operating expenses of an authority, the authority may pay that surplus into the general funds of the state and of its constituent units in the same proportion which the appropriations made by each to the authority bear to each other.

History: 1978, Act 639, Imd. Eff. Jan. 11, 1979
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.61527 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.61527
Applicability of part.
Status: in_force

Sec. 61527.

This part does not apply to drill holes for the exploration for and the extraction of iron, copper, or brine; to water wells; to mine and quarry drill and blast holes; to coal test holes; or to seismograph or other geophysical exploration test holes.

History: Add. 1995, Act 57, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1995
Mich. Comp. Laws § Article VI § 5 — MI Code / Chapter 1 / Act CONSTITUTION-OF-MICHIGAN-OF-1963 / Section Article VI § 5
Court rules; distinctions between law and equity; master in chancery.
Status: in_force

Sec. 5.

The supreme court shall by general rules establish, modify, amend and simplify the practice and procedure in all courts of this state. The distinctions between law and equity proceedings shall, as far as practicable, be abolished. The office of master in chancery is prohibited.

History: Const. 1963, Art VI § 5, Eff. Jan. 1, 1964
Mich. Comp. Laws § 30.412 — MI Code / Chapter 30 / Act Act-390-of-1976 / Section 30.412
Disaster or emergency occurring in county or municipality; procedure; ordinances or rules.
Status: in_force

Sec. 12.

If a disaster or an emergency occurs in a county or municipality and is beyond the control of local public or private agencies, the chief executive official of the county or municipality may request the governor to declare that a state of disaster or state of emergency exists in the county or municipality, utilizing the procedure set forth in section 14. The director may order the disaster relief forces of a county or municipality to aid the community. The chief executive official of the municipality or the governing body of the county shall comply with the order of the director and cooperate with the director in matters of emergency management.

A county, municipality, or other agency designated or appointed by the governor may make, amend, and rescind ordinances or rules necessary for emergency management purposes and supplementary to a rule, order, or directive issued by the governor or a state agency exercising a power delegated to it by the governor. The ordinance or rule shall be temporary and, upon the governor's declaration that a state of disaster or state of emergency is terminated, shall no longer be in effect.

History: 1976, Act 390, Imd. Eff. Dec. 30, 1976; Am. 1990, Act 50, Imd. Eff. Apr. 6, 1990
Mich. Comp. Laws § 15.214 — MI Code / Chapter 15 / Act Act-357-of-1968 / Section 15.214
Assistance from state agencies.
Status: in_force

Sec. 4.

The commission may call upon the services and personnel of any agency of the state for assistance.

History: 1968, Act 357, Eff. Sept. 20, 1968
Mich. Comp. Laws § 450.4515 — MI Code / Chapter 450 / Act Act-23-of-1993 / Section 450.4515
Action in circuit court; grounds; order or grant of relief; “willfully unfair and oppressive conduct” defined.
Status: in_force

Sec. 515.

(1) A member of a limited liability company may bring an action in the circuit court of the county in which the limited liability company's principal place of business or registered office is located to establish that acts of the managers or members in control of the limited liability company are illegal or fraudulent or constitute willfully unfair and oppressive conduct toward the limited liability company or the member. If the member establishes grounds for relief, the circuit court may issue an order or grant relief as it considers appropriate, including, but not limited to, an order providing for any of the following:

(a) The dissolution and liquidation of the assets and business of the limited liability company.

(b) The cancellation or alteration of a provision in the articles of organization or in an operating agreement.

(c) The direction, alteration, or prohibition of an act of the limited liability company or its members or managers.

(d) The purchase at fair value of the member's interest in the limited liability company, either by the company or by any members responsible for the wrongful acts.

(e) An award of damages to the limited liability company or to the member. An action seeking an award of damages must be commenced within 3 years after the cause of action under this section has accrued or within 2 years after the member discovers or reasonably should have discovered the cause of action under this section, whichever occurs first.

(2) As used in this section, "willfully unfair and oppressive conduct" means a continuing course of conduct or a significant action or series of actions that substantially interferes with the interests of the member as a member. Willfully unfair and oppressive conduct may include the termination of employment or limitations on employment benefits to the extent that the actions interfere with distributions or other member interests disproportionately as to the affected member. The term does not include conduct or actions that are permitted by the articles of organization, an operating agreement, another agreement to which the member is a party, or a consistently applied written company policy or procedure.

History: Add. 1997, Act 52, Imd. Eff. July 1, 1997; Am. 2002, Act 686, Imd. Eff. Dec. 30, 2002; Am. 2010, Act 290, Imd. Eff. Dec. 16, 2010
Mich. Comp. Laws § 558.52 — MI Code / Chapter 558 / Act Act-63-of-1847 / Section 558.52
Dower claimed by two or more widows; liability of land to claims after discharge of dower.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

Where dower in any lands may be claimed by 2 or more widows, the 1 whose husband was first seized therein, shall be first entitled thereto, and in all cases where dower in any land shall have been assigned, or where it shall appear that the owner or owners, or person or persons having an interest therein, shall have made full satisfaction to, and has obtained a discharge from the person recovering or having a prior right to dower therein by reason of the prior seizen of her husband, the said land shall not be subject to any other claim for dower during the lifetime of the person so recovering or who has received satisfaction and given a discharge as aforesaid.

History: 1847, Act 63, Imd. Eff. Mar. 16, 1847; CL 1857, 2802; CL 1871, 4299; How. 5769; CL 1897, 8954; CL 1915, 11687; CL 1929, 13097; CL 1948, 558.52
Mich. Comp. Laws § 247.668m — MI Code / Chapter 247 / Act Act-51-of-1951 / Section 247.668m
Borrowing from a state infrastructure bank program.
Status: in_force

Sec. 18m.

(1) A local road agency or a public transportation system may borrow money from a state infrastructure bank program administered by the department in accordance with regulations of the state infrastructure bank program of the United States Department of Transportation.

(2) As used in this section:

(a) "Local road agency" means that term as defined in section 9a.

(b) "Public transportation system" means that term as defined in section 2 of the regional transit authority act, 2012 PA 387, MCL 124.542.

History: Add. 2018, Act 507, Eff. Mar. 29, 2019
Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.1970 — MI Code / Chapter 600 / Act Act-236-of-1961 / Section 600.1970
Service of papers; delivery to attorney; party; mailing.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1970.

Service upon the attorney shall be made by delivering a copy to him or by mailing a copy to him at his last known business address or, if he has no business address, then to his last known residence address. Service upon a party shall be made by delivering a copy to him or by mailing a copy to him at his address as stated in his pleadings.

Delivery of a copy to an attorney means:

handing it to the attorney personally; or

leaving it at his office with his clerk or with some person in charge or, if no one is in charge or present, by leaving it in some conspicuous place therein; or

if the office is closed or the attorney has no office, by leaving it at his usual place of abode with some person of suitable age and discretion residing therein.

Delivery of a copy to a party means:

handing it to the party personally; or

leaving it at his usual place of abode with some person of suitable age and discretion residing therein.

Mailing of a copy means enclosing it in a sealed envelope with first class postage fully prepaid addressed to the person to be served and depositing the envelope and its contents in the United States government mail. Service by mailing is complete upon mailing.

History: 1961, Act 236, Eff. Jan. 1, 1963
Mich. Comp. Laws § 450.2444 — MI Code / Chapter 450 / Act Act-162-of-1982 / Section 450.2444
Voting by corporation or business corporation; voting of pledged shares.
Status: in_force

Sec. 444.

(1) Shares or memberships that are held by another domestic corporation, domestic business corporation, foreign corporation, or foreign business corporation, whether or not the corporation or business corporation is subject to this act, may be voted by an officer or agent, or by a proxy that is appointed by an officer or agent or by some other person, who by action of its board or under its bylaws is appointed to vote the shares or membership.

(2) A shareholder whose shares are pledged is entitled to vote the shares until they are transferred into the name of the pledgee or a nominee of the pledgee.

History: 1982, Act 162, Eff. Jan. 1, 1983; Am. 2014, Act 557, Imd. Eff. Jan. 15, 2015
Mich. Comp. Laws § 125.2076 — MI Code / Chapter 125 / Act Act-270-of-1984 / Section 125.2076
Scope of succession to rights, properties, obligations, and duties of Michigan economic development authority; payments in research center fund.
Status: in_force

Sec. 76.

The succession of the fund to all rights, properties, obligations, and duties of the Michigan economic development authority pursuant to section 21 shall include succession to the ownership and operation of the research center fund, of all distributions pursuant to the heritage trust act of 1982, Act No. 327 of the Public Acts of 1982, being sections 318.421 to 318.434 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, to the Michigan economic development authority for deposit in the research center fund, and of all obligations, promises, covenants, commitments, and other requirements relating to the research center fund that were made by the Michigan economic development authority. Payments into the research center fund pursuant to Act No. 327 of the Public Acts of 1982 shall continue to be made as provided by that act upon and after the fund succeeds to ownership and operation of the research center fund.

History: 1984, Act 270, Eff. Mar. 29, 1985
Mich. Comp. Laws § 123.991 — MI Code / Chapter 123 / Act Act-285-of-1968 / Section 123.991
Reapportioning wards or districts; cities nominating or electing governing bodies not required to reapportion.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

No city which nominates or elects all or part of its governing body from wards or districts shall be required to reapportion its wards or districts based on census data earlier than that contained in the 1970 decennial census.

History: 1968, Act 285, Imd. Eff. July 1, 1968
Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.3413 — MI Code / Chapter 600 / Act Act-236-of-1961 / Section 600.3413
Effect of federal law
Status: in_force

Sec. 3413.

This chapter modifies, limits, or supersedes the federal electronic signatures in global and national commerce act, 15 USC 7001 to 7006, but does not modify, limit, or supersede section 7001(c), or authorize electronic delivery of any of the notices described in section 7003(b) of the federal electronic signatures in global and national commerce act, 15 USC 7001 and 7003.

History: Add. 2024, Act 215, Eff. Apr. 2, 2025
Mich. Comp. Laws § 550.843 — MI Code / Chapter 550 / Act Act-11-of-2022 / Section 550.843
Retention schedule; records, books, papers, and other data; destruction or disposal of certain documents prohibited.
Status: in_force

Sec. 33.

(1) The director shall establish a retention schedule for all records, books, papers, and other data on file with the department related to the enforcement of this act.

(2) The director shall not order the destruction or other disposal of a record, book, paper, or other data that is any of the following:

(a) Required by law to be filed or kept on file with the department until 10 years have passed.

(b) Filed during the director's administration or administrations.

History: 2022, Act 11, Eff. Jan. 1, 2024
Mich. Comp. Laws § 765.5 — MI Code / Chapter 760 / Act Act-175-of-1927 / Section 765.5
Admission to bail; persons not entitled.
Status: in_force

Sec. 5.

No person charged with treason or murder shall be admitted to bail if the proof of his guilt is evident or the presumption great.

History: 1927, Act 175, Eff. Sept. 5, 1927; CL 1929, 17167; CL 1948, 765.5
Mich. Comp. Laws § 380.1615 — MI Code / Chapter 380 / Act Act-451-of-1976 / Section 380.1615
Summer property tax levy; compliance presumed; imposition of interest.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1615.

For the 1983 tax year only, a summer property tax levy of a school district or intermediate school district collected by a village or township shall be presumed to be in compliance with sections 1612, 1613, and 1614. Interest shall not be imposed on a summer property tax levy of a school district or intermediate school district collected by a village before March 1, 1984 for the 1983 tax year.

History: Add. 1984, Act 50, Imd. Eff. Apr. 12, 1984
Mich. Comp. Laws § 250.1044 — MI Code / Chapter 250 / Act Act-142-of-2001 / Section 250.1044
“Walter P. Chrysler Freeway.”
Status: in_force

Sec. 44.

The portion of highway I-75 that is within Wayne and Oakland counties shall be known as the "Walter P. Chrysler Freeway".

History: 2001, Act 142, Imd. Eff. Oct. 26, 2001