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Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.78113 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.78113
Public boating access site advisory committee.
Status: in_force

Sec. 78113.

Within 30 days after the effective date of this section, the department shall establish a public boating access site advisory committee to advise the department and the legislature on the state's method of acquiring public boating access sites. The advisory committee shall consist of not more than 20 members representing the boating industry, recreational users, riparian owners, local public officials who have public boating access sites within their local unit of government, experts from Michigan institutions of higher education, and other interested parties as appointed by the department. At least 2 members of the advisory committee shall be representatives of the general public. The advisory committee shall review and make recommendations regarding the current method of acquiring and operating public boating access sites. Additionally, the committee shall make recommendations on all of the following:

The protection of the ecological integrity of lakes from degradation.

The protection of the boating public and other lake users, including, but not limited to, riparian owners, from overly intense use of lakes.

The provision of recreational boating opportunities for members of the general public.

Other issues the advisory committee considers relevant.

A meeting of the advisory committee shall be held in compliance with the open meetings act, 1976 PA 267, MCL 15.261 to 15.275.

Within 6 months after the advisory committee is established under subsection (1), the advisory committee shall deliver a report to the department, the commission, and the legislature on administrative and any legislative changes that the state should consider in acquiring and operating public boating access sites.

Not later than 1 year after the advisory committee is established under subsection (1), the advisory committee shall be disbanded.

History: Add. 1998, Act 210, Imd. Eff. July 1, 1998
Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.2922b — MI Code / Chapter 600 / Act Act-236-of-1961 / Section 600.2922b
Use of deadly force or other than deadly force by individual in self-defense; immunity from civil liability.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2922b.

An individual who uses deadly force or force other than deadly force in self-defense or in defense of another individual in compliance with section 2 of the self-defense act is immune from civil liability for damages caused to either of the following by the use of that deadly force or force other than deadly force:

(a) The individual against whom the use of deadly force or force other than deadly force is authorized.

(b) Any individual claiming damages arising out of injury to or the death of the individual described in subdivision (a), based upon his or her relationship to that individual.

History: Add. 2006, Act 314, Eff. Oct. 1, 2006
Mich. Comp. Laws § 565.601 — MI Code / Chapter 565 / Act Act-21-of-1861 / Section 565.601
Deed executed according to law of place of execution; validity.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

That all deeds of lands situated within this state, heretofore or hereafter made without this state, and executed according to the laws of the place where made, and acknowledged to be the free act of the grantor or grantors therein named, before any person authorized to take the acknowledgment of deeds by the laws of the place where executed, or of the laws of the territory or state of Michigan, in force at the date of such acknowledgment, shall be deemed between the parties thereto, and all persons claiming under or through them, as valid and effectual to convey the legal estate of the premises therein described, as if the said deed had been in all respects legally executed.

History: 1861, Act 21, Imd. Eff. Feb. 2, 1861; CL 1871, 4250; How. 5724; CL 1897, 9048; CL 1915, 11781; CL 1929, 13383; CL 1948, 565.601
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.8807 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.8807
Clean water fund.
Status: in_force

Sec. 8807.

(1) The clean water fund is created within the state treasury.

(2) 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.

(3) Money in the fund at the close of the fiscal year shall remain in the fund and shall not lapse to the general fund.

(4) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the department, in consultation with the department of agriculture and rural development, shall expend money in the fund, upon appropriation, for any of the following:

(a) To implement the programs described in the department's document entitled "A Strategic Environmental Quality Monitoring Program for Michigan's Surface Waters", dated January 1997. In implementing these programs, the department may contract with any person.

(b) Not more than $100,000.00 of the total annual appropriations from the fund to monitor and benchmark the effectiveness of conservation practices and MAEAP standards in cooperation with participating farmers.

(c) Promotion of MAEAP and activities to encourage more MAEAP-verified farms.

(d) Water pollution control activities.

(e) Wellhead protection activities.

(f) Storm water treatment projects and activities.

(5) Money in the fund shall not be expended for combined sewer overflow corrections.

(6) Money in the fund shall not be expended until rules are promulgated under section 8808.

History: Add. 1998, Act 287, Eff. Dec. 1, 1998; Am. 2011, Act 1, Imd. Eff. Mar. 9, 2011; Am. 2015, Act 118, Eff. Oct. 1, 2015
Mich. Comp. Laws § 207.1079 — MI Code / Chapter 207 / Act Act-403-of-2000 / Section 207.1079
Diversions into state of imported motor fuel; tax reporting and payment; agreement permitting supplier to assume importer's liability.
Status: in_force

Sec. 79.

Unless otherwise provided in section 81, a licensed importer shall report and pay tax on diversions into this state of imported motor fuel under section 78 or 80 in accordance with the requirements of this act applicable to any importer.

For purposes of this section, a licensed importer who has purchased motor fuel from a licensed supplier may enter into an agreement with the supplier to permit the supplier to assume the importer's liability and adjust the importer's taxes payable to the supplier. The supplier shall submit documentation reasonably required by the department with the report filed under section 70.

History: 2000, Act 403, Eff. Apr. 1, 2001
Mich. Comp. Laws § 390.157 — MI Code / Chapter 390 / Act Act-35-of-1970 / Section 390.157
Bonds, notes or other obligations; purchase by state prohibited.
Status: in_force

Sec. 7.

Bonds, notes or other obligations issued under the provisions of this act shall not be purchased by the state of Michigan.

History: 1970, Act 35, Imd. Eff. July 1, 1970
Mich. Comp. Laws § 207.571 — MI Code / Chapter 207 / Act Act-198-of-1974 / Section 207.571
Transfer and assignment of industrial facilities exemption certificate.
Status: in_force

Sec. 21.

An industrial facilities exemption certificate may be transferred and assigned by the holder of the industrial facilities exemption certificate to a new owner or lessee of the facility but only with the approval of the local governmental unit and the commission after application by the new owner or lessee, and notice and hearing in the same manner as provided in section 5 for the application for a certificate.

If the owner or lessee of a facility for which an industrial facilities exemption certificate is in effect relocates that facility outside of the industrial development district or plant rehabilitation district during the period in which the industrial facilities exemption certificate is in effect, the owner or lessee is liable to the local governmental unit from which it is leaving, upon relocating, for an amount equal to the difference between the industrial facilities tax to be paid by the owner or lessee of that facility for that facility for the tax years remaining under the industrial facilities exemption certificate that is in effect and the general ad valorem property tax that the owner or lessee would have paid if the owner or lessee of that facility did not have an industrial facilities exemption certificate in effect for those years. If the local governmental unit determines that it is in its best interest, the local governmental unit may forgive the liability of the owner or lessee under this subsection. The payment provided in this subsection shall be distributed in the same manner as the industrial facilities tax is distributed.

History: 1974, Act 198, Imd. Eff. July 9, 1974; Am. 1999, Act 140, Imd. Eff. Oct. 18, 1999
Mich. Comp. Laws § 125.4301a — MI Code / Chapter 125 / Act Act-57-of-2018 / Section 125.4301a
Short title of part.
Status: in_force

Sec. 301a.

This part shall be known and may be cited as "the tax increment finance authority part".

History: 2018, Act 57, Eff. Jan. 1, 2019
Mich. Comp. Laws § 750.495a — MI Code / Chapter 750 / Act Act-328-of-1931 / Section 750.495a
Damage to saws or wood manufacturing or processing equipment.
Status: in_force

Sec. 495a.

A person who drives or places in or on any tree or wood product, without the prior consent of the owner, any iron, steel, or other substance sufficiently hard to damage saws or wood manufacturing or processing equipment with the intent to cause inconvenience, annoyance, or alarm to any other person is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment for not more than 90 days, or by a fine of not more than $500.00, or both.

A person who drives or places in or on any tree or wood product, without the prior consent of the owner, any iron, steel, or other substance sufficiently hard to damage saws or wood manufacturing or processing equipment with the intent to cause inconvenience, annoyance, or alarm to any other person, and who, by doing so, causes injury to a person, is guilty of a felony, punishable by imprisonment for not more than 4 years, or by a fine of not more than $2,500.00, or both.

A person who drives or places in or on any tree or wood product, without the prior consent of the owner, any iron, steel, or other substance sufficiently hard to damage saws or wood manufacturing or processing equipment with the intent to cause inconvenience, annoyance, or alarm to any other person, and who, by doing so, causes death to a person, is guilty of a felony, punishable by imprisonment for not more than 15 years, or by a fine of not more than $7,500.00, or both.

This section does not prohibit an individual from being charged with, convicted of, or punished for any other violation of law that is committed by that individual while violating this section.

This section does not prohibit a landowner from attaching an alarm system to a tree, or authorizing an individual to attach an alarm system to a tree, on the landowner's property.

History: Add. 1996, Act 100, Eff. May 1, 1996
Mich. Comp. Laws § 61.1d — MI Code / Chapter 61 / Act Act-3-of-1895 / Section 61.1d
Minimum staffing requirement; adoption of village charter or ordinance prohibited.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1d.

Beginning on the effective date of the amendatory act that added this section, a village shall not adopt a village charter or ordinance that includes any minimum staffing requirement for village employees. Except as otherwise provided in this section, any provision in a village charter or ordinance adopted on or after the effective date of the amendatory act that added this section that contains a minimum staffing requirement for village employees is void and unenforceable.

History: Add. 2011, Act 140, Imd. Eff. Sept. 13, 2011
Mich. Comp. Laws § 333.5745 — MI Code / Chapter 333 / Act Act-368-of-1978 / Section 333.5745
Agent orange information resource center; creation; membership; duties.
Status: in_force

Sec. 5745.

There is created an agent orange information resource center within the department.

The information resource center shall have members with expertise in human medicine, toxicology, epidemiology and data management and analysis.

The information resource center, with appropriate extramural consultation, shall develop the survey questionnaires, data base management system, and the medical analysis system for the registry required under subsection (5).

The information resource center annually shall request local veterans' organizations and health agencies to evaluate the operation of the information resource center program from their perspective.

The information resource center shall perform searches of technical documents and published scientific literature. A registry of all known ongoing agent orange related research shall be maintained. These information resources shall be utilized in the annual analysis of data on Vietnam-era veterans and in providing the annual reports required under section 5713.

The information resource center shall solicit state and local media organizations to inform Vietnam-era veterans of their rights under this part, and to encourage Vietnam-era veterans to submit health information, and other relevant information, to the department, commission, and information resource center as required under this part.

The information resource center shall provide local health and veteran's facilities with a comprehensive and annually updated list of tertiary medical care facilities as defined in section 22108, specializing in areas appropriate for the clinical laboratory evaluation of veterans to determine if a Vietnam-era veteran has suffered physical damage as a result of substantial exposure to agent orange or a chemical agent.

The department, through the information resource center or otherwise, shall refer Vietnam-era veterans to appropriate state and federal agencies for the purpose of filing claims to seek remedies for medical and financial problems caused by the Vietnam-era veterans' exposure to agent orange or chemical agents.

History: Add. 1987, Act 49, Imd. Eff. June 11, 1987
Mich. Comp. Laws § 259.76 — MI Code / Chapter 259 / Act Act-327-of-1945 / Section 259.76
Registration of aircraft generally.
Status: in_force

Sec. 76.

An aircraft tied down, moored, hangared, or based within this state and the number assigned to that aircraft by the federal aviation administration shall be registered annually with the commission and a registration fee paid. An aircraft shall not be issued a state registration certificate when it does not have a valid and effective registration certificate as issued by the federal aviation administration or a foreign government.

An aircraft shall be subject to the registration provisions of this act except when it is 1 of the following:

An aircraft engaged in scheduled passenger service flying in interstate or foreign commerce or in that part of interstate or foreign commerce which is intrastate in character, and operating exclusively under the provisions of a federal certificate issued under 14 CFR Part 121.

An aircraft owned by the United States government.

An aircraft of a resident of another state or an aircraft of a resident of this state that is tied down, moored, hangared, or based within another state, having complied with the registration requirements of that state, and operating within this state for a period of not more than 90 days in a calendar year. This aircraft shall not engage in intrastate commercial activity within this state.

Aircraft owned by or registered to the United States, aircraft of the civil air patrol, or aircraft licensed by a foreign country with which the United States has reciprocal relations. This aircraft shall not engage in commercial activity within this state.

An aircraft which, in the opinion of the commission, is in a condition that would reasonably preclude its operation during the registration period.

History: 1945, Act 327, Imd. Eff. May 28, 1945; CL 1948, 259.76; Am. 1962, Act 193, Eff. Mar. 28, 1963; Am. 1976, Act 191, Imd. Eff. July 8, 1976; Am. 1988, Act 391, Imd. Eff. Dec. 22, 1988
Mich. Comp. Laws § 21.282 — MI Code / Chapter 21 / Act Act-72-of-1979 / Section 21.282
Reporting estimate of revenue foregone from exemptions under MCL 207.101 et seq.
Status: in_force

Sec. 12.

The governor shall report an estimate of revenue foregone from exemptions granted pursuant to Act No. 150 of the Public Acts of 1927, as amended, being sections 207.101 to 207.202 of the Michigan Compiled Laws. The estimate shall include revenue foregone by any deductions or credits granted under the act.

History: 1979, Act 72, Imd. Eff. July 31, 1979; Am. 1983, Act 7, Imd. Eff. Mar. 16, 1983
Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.910 — MI Code / Chapter 600 / Act Act-236-of-1961 / Section 600.910
Admission to bar; discipline; venue.
Status: in_force

Sec. 910.

The supreme court and each circuit court has jurisdiction to admit individuals who possess the required qualifications to the bar of this state, to disbar or suspend members of the bar for misconduct, and to reinstate licenses to practice law. Each court of appeals judicial district has jurisdiction to admit individuals who possess the required qualifications to the bar of this state. All of the matters and proceedings described in this section are civil in nature, and the venue of the matters and proceedings is subject to regulation by the supreme court.

History: 1961, Act 236, Eff. Jan. 1, 1963; Am. 2024, Act 217, Eff. Apr. 2, 2025
Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.1439 — MI Code / Chapter 722 / Act Act-159-of-2012 / Section 722.1439
Motion to set aside determination.
Status: in_force

Sec. 9.

(1) If a child has an affiliated father and paternity was determined based on the affiliated father's failure to participate in the court proceedings, the mother, an alleged father, or the affiliated father may file a motion with the court that made the determination to set aside the determination.

(2) A motion under this section must be filed within 3 years after the child's birth or within 1 year after the date of the order of filiation, whichever is later. The requirement that an action be filed within 3 years after the child's birth or within 1 year after the date of the order of filiation does not apply to an action filed on or before 1 year after the effective date of this act.

(3) If the court determines that a motion under this section should be denied and the order of filiation not be set aside, the court shall order the person who filed the motion to pay the reasonable attorney fees and costs incurred by any other party because of the motion.

History: 2012, Act 159, Imd. Eff. June 12, 2012; Am. 2024, Act 29, Eff. Apr. 2, 2025
Mich. Comp. Laws § 750.289 — MI Code / Chapter 750 / Act Act-328-of-1931 / Section 750.289
Common carrier; false billing of goods.
Status: in_force

Sec. 289.

False billing of goods to common carrier-Any person offering goods, property or effects to any common carrier within this state for the purpose of transportation shall furnish to such carrier a true description of the goods, property or effects so offered, and any person who shall knowingly offer any goods, property or effects to any common carrier for transportation within this state with a false description of the same, or who shall offer any such goods, property or effects under a false billing, false classification or false weight and thereby procure or attempt to procure the transportation of any such goods, property or effects at a less cost than would be due under a true description, true billing, true classification or true weight, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

History: 1931, Act 328, Eff. Sept. 18, 1931; CL 1948, 750.289
Mich. Comp. Laws § 211.641 — MI Code / Chapter 211 / Act Act-107-of-1951 / Section 211.641
Sale and conveyance of certain tax lands; deposit of funds.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

Whenever the title to any land, heretofore conveyed, under section 7 or section 8 of Act No. 155 of the Public Acts of 1937, as amended, being sections 211.357 and 211.358 of the Compiled Laws of 1948, to a municipality for public use, revests in the state of Michigan for the reason that the proposed public use has been abandoned or terminated and such land constitutes highway frontage or impairs the right of ingress and egress to land sold and deeded by the state of Michigan through the state land office board or the department of conservation as having such frontage or ingress and egress, the director of conservation on behalf of the state of Michigan shall be empowered to issue a deed on such land, which deed shall convey all rights revested in the state of Michigan to the original purchaser of the land affected or to his grantee or successor in the regular chain of title for a consideration to be determined and approved by the conservation commission. All moneys received by the director of conservation upon the sale of said lands shall be deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the several assessing units in proportion to the delinquent taxes and special assessments of such units cancelled against any description of land sold under the provisions of this act.

History: 1951, Act 107, Eff. Sept. 28, 1951
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.80130l — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.80130l
Abandoned vessel, ORV, and snowmobile fund.
Status: in_force

Sec. 80130 l .

(1) The abandoned vessel, ORV, and snowmobile fund is created within the state treasury.

(2) 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 other earnings from fund investments.

(3) Money in the fund at the close of the fiscal year shall remain in the fund and shall not lapse to the general fund.

(4) The department of state shall be the administrator of the fund for auditing purposes.

(5) The department of state shall expend money from the fund, upon appropriation, to administer sections 80130f to 80130p, 81151, and 82161 and other provisions of this act relating to abandoned vessels, ORVs and snowmobiles.

History: Add. 2014, Act 549, Eff. Apr. 16, 2015
Mich. Comp. Laws § 250.251 — MI Code / Chapter 250 / Act Act-282-of-1929 / Section 250.251
Contracts and instruments to Rogers and Seeley legalized.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

All contracts, deeds or other instruments conveying to the state, through Frank F. Rogers and Thad D. Seeley, trustees, certain lands for state trunk line highways, are hereby approved and declared to be legal transfers of such lands to the state.

History: 1929, Act 282, Imd. Eff. May 22, 1929; CL 1929, 4464; CL 1948, 250.251
Mich. Comp. Laws § 767.74 — MI Code / Chapter 760 / Act Act-175-of-1927 / Section 767.74
Indictment; motion to quash; dilatory plea; proof.
Status: in_force

Sec. 74.

No motion to quash, plea in abatement or other dilatory plea to the indictment, shall be received by any court unless the party offering such plea shall prove the truth thereof by affidavit, or by some other sworn evidence.

History: 1927, Act 175, Eff. Sept. 5, 1927; CL 1929, 17288; CL 1948, 767.74
Mich. Comp. Laws § 500.4030 — MI Code / Chapter 500 / Act Act-218-of-1956 / Section 500.4030
Settlement of claim upon death of insured; provision required.
Status: in_force

Sec. 4030.

There shall be a provision that when a policy shall become a claim by the death of the insured, settlement shall be made upon receipt of due proof of death, or not later than 2 months after receipt of such proof.

History: 1956, Act 218, Eff. Jan. 1, 1957