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Mich. Comp. Laws § 500.5804 — MI Code / Chapter 500 / Act Act-218-of-1956 / Section 500.5804
Domestic mutual insurers; incorporation.
Status: in_force

Sec. 5804.

Any number of persons, not less than 20, a majority of whom shall be bona fide residents of this state, by complying with the provisions of this chapter, may become together with others who may hereafter be associated with them or their successors, a body corporate, for the purpose of carrying on the business of mutual insurance as herein provided.

Any persons proposing to form any such insurer shall subscribe and acknowledge articles of incorporation in accordance with chapter 50.

History: 1956, Act 218, Eff. Jan. 1, 1957
Mich. Comp. Laws § 286.342 — MI Code / Chapter 286 / Act Act-137-of-1935 / Section 286.342
Chemical laboratories; voluntary submission of samples; fee; certificate.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

Growers of fruit may submit to any temporary chemical laboratory samples of fruit for analyses for spray residue in order to determine the conditions that prevail as a result of spraying practices, upon the payment of a reasonable fee for each sample submitted. The results of the analyses of such samples from individuals, corporations or firms shall be reported direct to the grower or parties submitting the samples but in no case shall a certificate be issued on a lot of fruit as a result of the submission of informative samples by individuals.

History: 1935, Act 137, Imd. Eff. June 4, 1935; CL 1948, 286.342
Mich. Comp. Laws § 380.1851a — MI Code / Chapter 380 / Act Act-451-of-1976 / Section 380.1851a
Rules prohibited; condition.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1851a.

If the Michigan supreme court rules that sections 45 and 46 of the administrative procedures act of 1969, Act No. 306 of the Public Acts of 1969, being sections 24.245 and 24.246 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, are unconstitutional, and a statute requiring legislative review of administrative rules is not enacted within 90 days after the Michigan supreme court ruling, the state board or the department shall not promulgate rules under this act.

History: Add. 1995, Act 289, Eff. July 1, 1996
Mich. Comp. Laws § 801.202 — MI Code / Chapter 801 / Act Act-78-of-1917 / Section 801.202
Non-partisan commission for management; election, membership, number, term, vacancies, eligibility, oath.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

The management and direction of such work farms, factories or shops and of the convicted persons sentenced thereto, subject to the periodical visitations of the state authorities at their discretion, shall be under the authority of a non-partisan commission to be elected for that purpose by the board of supervisors of such county. Said board of commissioners shall consist of 3 members. The first 3 members shall be elected by the board of supervisors, at any meeting at which a majority of the members-elect shall decide to operate under this act, as follows: One member for 1 year from and after January first, following this election, 1 for 2 years, 1 for 3 years, after said January first; and annually thereafter at the regular January meeting 1 member shall be elected for the full term of 3 years. Vacancies shall be filled by said board of supervisors. The first commissioners shall assume their duties immediately on election. The commissioners shall be residents of the county which they serve, but no member of the board of supervisors shall be eligible during the term for which he was elected supervisor. The commissioners shall make and subscribe the constitutional oath of office and file the same with the county clerk before assuming their duties.

History: 1917, Act 78, Imd. Eff. Apr. 17, 1917; CL 1929, 17721; CL 1948, 801.202
Mich. Comp. Laws § 440.2509 — MI Code / Chapter 440 / Act Act-174-of-1962 / Section 440.2509
Risk of loss; absence of breach.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2509.

(1) The following apply if a contract requires or authorizes the seller to ship goods by carrier:

(a) If the contract does not require the seller to deliver the goods at a particular destination, the risk of loss passes to the buyer when the goods are duly delivered to the carrier even if the shipment is under reservation under section 2505.

(b) If the contract does require the seller to deliver the goods at a particular destination and the goods are tendered to the buyer at that destination while in the possession of the carrier, the risk of loss passes to the buyer when the goods are tendered at that destination in a manner that enables the buyer to take delivery.

(2) If goods are held by a bailee to be delivered without being moved, the risk of loss passes to the buyer when 1 of the following occurs:

(a) The buyer receives possession or control of a negotiable document of title covering the goods.

(b) The bailee provides acknowledgment of the buyer's right to possession of the goods.

(c) The buyer receives possession or control of a nonnegotiable document of title or other direction to deliver in a record, as provided in section 2503(4)(b).

(3) If subsection (1) or (2) does not apply, the risk of loss passes to the buyer on the buyer's receipt of the goods if the seller is a merchant. Otherwise, the risk of loss passes to the buyer on tender of delivery.

(4) The provisions of this section are subject to contrary agreement of the parties and to the provisions of section 2327 on sale on approval and section 2510 on effect of breach on risk of loss.

History: 1962, Act 174, Eff. Jan. 1, 1964; Am. 2012, Act 87, Eff. July 1, 2013
Mich. Comp. Laws § 445.1713 — MI Code / Chapter 445 / Act Act-378-of-1988 / Section 445.1713
Exceptions.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3.

A record or information described in section 2 may be disclosed only in 1 or more of the following circumstances:

(a) With the written permission of the customer.

(b) Pursuant to a warrant or court order.

(c) To the extent reasonably necessary to collect payment for the materials or the rental of the materials, if the customer has received written notice that the payment is due and has failed to pay or arrange for payment within a reasonable time after notice.

(d) To any person if the disclosure is incident to the ordinary course of business of the person that is disclosing the record or information. This subdivision only applies to a record or information that is created or obtained after the effective date of the amendatory act that added this subdivision.

(e) If the disclosure is for the purpose of marketing goods and services to customers. All of the following apply for purposes of this subdivision:

( i ) The person that is disclosing the information shall inform the customer by written notice that the customer may remove his or her name at any time and shall specify the manner or manners by which the customer may remove his or her name. Unless the person's method of communication with customers is by electronic means, the written notice shall include a nonelectronic method that the customer may use to opt out of disclosure. Any of the following methods of notice satisfy the written notice requirements of this subparagraph:

(A) Written notice included in or with any materials sold, rented, or lent to the customer under section 2.

(B) Written notice provided to the customer at the time he or she orders any of the materials described in section 2 or otherwise provided to the customer in connection with the transaction between the person and customer for the sale, rental, or loan of the materials to the customer.

(C) Notice that is included and clearly and conspicuously disclosed in an online privacy policy or similar communication that is posted on the Internet, is maintained by the person that is disclosing the information, and is available to customers or the general public.

( ii ) A customer may provide notice to the person that is disclosing information under this subdivision that the customer does not want his or her name disclosed.

( iii ) Beginning 30 days after the person receives the customer's notice, the person shall not knowingly disclose the customer's name to any other person for marketing goods and services.

(f) Pursuant to a search warrant issued by a state or federal court or a grand jury subpoena.

History: 1988, Act 378, Eff. Mar. 30, 1989; Am. 2016, Act 92, Eff. July 31, 2016
Mich. Comp. Laws § 32.772a — MI Code / Chapter 32 / Act Act-150-of-1967 / Section 32.772a
Property used for military purposes.
Status: in_force

Sec. 372a.

If the governor declares military property or any part of military property to be a vital resource of the state, the adjutant general may limit access to and from property used for military purposes if necessary for the protection of military personnel, installations, property, or vital resources or if necessary to protect the public health, safety, and welfare of the citizens of this state.

History: Add. 2002, Act 133, Eff. May 1, 2002
Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.1603 — MI Code / Chapter 722 / Act Act-108-of-2022 / Section 722.1603
Definitions.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3.

As used in this act:

(a) "Department" means the department of education.

(b) "Family child care network" or "network" means the networks created under section 5.

(c) "Provider" means a home-based group child care home or family child care home licensed under 1973 PA 116, MCL 722.111 to 722.128.

(d) "Region" means 1 of at least 4 areas of the state as determined by the department to provide technical assistance to child care providers.

History: 2022, Act 108, Imd. Eff. June 23, 2022
Mich. Comp. Laws § 380.1175 — MI Code / Chapter 380 / Act Act-451-of-1976 / Section 380.1175
Public holidays; salaries not affected; commemorative exercises.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1175.

January 1, New Year's day; the last Monday of May, Memorial or Decoration day; July 4; the first Monday in September, Labor day; the fourth Thursday of November, Thanksgiving day, and December 25, Christmas day, shall be public holidays in the public schools of this state. If 1 of these days falls on Sunday, the Monday following shall be a public holiday in the public schools. A school session shall not be held on the public holidays described in this subsection in a public school in this state. The salary of a school officer or a teacher shall not be affected by reason of the dismissal of school on the days described in this subsection.

On the third Monday in January in conjunction with the federal holiday, Martin Luther King, Jr. day; February 12, Lincoln's birthday; the third Monday of February, Washington's birthday; September 17, the date of the adoption of the federal constitution; the second Monday in October, Columbus day; and November 11, Veteran's day, a school officer or teacher shall have each school under the officer's or teacher's control observe the day by a proper and appropriate commemorative exercise. A commemorative exercise may include or involve the assignment of schoolwork to teach the significance of the days described in this subsection, which shall not be considered as legal holidays for schools.

History: 1976, Act 451, Imd. Eff. Jan. 13, 1977; Am. 1977, Act 43, Imd. Eff. June 29, 1977; Am. 1984, Act 389, Eff. Mar. 29, 1985; Am. 1995, Act 289, Eff. July 1, 1996
Mich. Comp. Laws § 211.7y — MI Code / Chapter 211 / Act Act-206-of-1893 / Section 211.7y
Landing area; description of approach clear zones and transitional surface areas in statement; standards; certification.
Status: in_force

Sec. 7y.

A landing area for which a fee was paid pursuant to section 86 of Act No. 327 of the Public Acts of 1945, as amended, being section 259.86 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, is exempt from taxation under this act.

For the purposes of this section, "landing area" means that portion of a privately owned public use airport properly cleared, regularly maintained and made available to the public without charge, for use by aircraft and includes runways, taxi-ways, stopways, sites upon which are situated landing or navigational aids, and aprons. A landing area shall also include land underlying approach clear zones and land underlying transitional surface areas that comply with all of the following:

The land is properly cleared and regularly maintained for the primary purposes of the landing, taking off, and taxiing of aircraft; but that portion of the land that contains facilities for shelter, servicing, or repair of aircraft, or for receiving or discharging passengers or cargo shall not be included as a landing area.

The land is part of the airport property.

The land is not used for commercial, residential, or agricultural purposes.

The land is available to the public without charge for the purposes permitted by subdivision (a).

Approach clear zones and transitional surface areas for each airport for which the exemption provided by this section may apply, shall be described by a statement certified by the director of the Michigan aeronautics commission. This statement shall be included as part of the annual certification of the landing field under section 86 of Act No. 327 of the Public Acts of 1945, as amended. Standards for describing approach clear zones and transitional surface areas shall be uniform according to type of runway and shall conform with regularly accepted definitions and usage in the aeronautics field.

History: Add. 1980, Act 142, Imd. Eff. June 2, 1980; Am. 1982, Act 347, Eff. Mar. 30, 1983
Mich. Comp. Laws § 730.509 — MI Code / Chapter 730 / Act Act-5-of-1956 / Section 730.509
Files, records and dockets.
Status: in_force

Sec. 9.

All files, records and dockets belonging to or appertaining to the office of the justices of the peace in office in any city affected by the provisions of this act shall be filed and safely kept in the office of the clerk of the municipal court of such city, and such files, records and dockets shall in all respects and for all purposes constitute records of the municipal court of such city.

History: 1956, Act 5, Eff. Aug. 11, 1956
Mich. Comp. Laws § 29.5o — MI Code / Chapter 29 / Act Act-207-of-1941 / Section 29.5o
Additional safety equipment and procedures required by director of department of environmental quality; requesting variation of requirements; local ordinances.
Status: in_force

Sec. 5o.

(1) The director of the department of environmental quality may, at the request of the organized fire department having jurisdiction over a terminal, require additional safety equipment and procedures when the public safety is endangered.

(2) A person may request a variation of the requirements of section 5j, 5k, 5 l , 5m, or 5n, or subsection (1), under the procedures provided in section 3c.

(3) A local unit of government shall not enact an ordinance or ordinances more restrictive than the requirements included in sections 5j to 5n.

History: Add. 1981, Act 186, Imd. Eff. Dec. 23, 1981; Am. 2006, Act 189, Imd. Eff. June 19, 2006
Mich. Comp. Laws § 28.651 — MI Code / Chapter 28 / Act Act-340-of-1976 / Section 28.651
Definitions.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

As used in this act:

"Board" means the municipal fire service classification board created by section 2.

"Fire service classification scale" means the criteria by which a fire service delivery system is evaluated.

"Fire service delivery system" means all the equipment, personnel, procedures, and resources which are utilized in the prevention and suppression of fire.

"Grade" means the fire protection level which a fire service delivery system achieves on the fire service classification scale.

"Municipality" means a city, village, township, or county.

"Organized fire department" means an organization or department which provides a fire service delivery system within a municipality and is a fire department of a municipality or is a fire service delivery system designated by a municipality pursuant to a contract with that municipality. Organized fire department includes a department of county employees who are responsible for providing a fire service delivery system for an airport operated by the county or an agency of the county.

History: 1976, Act 340, Imd. Eff. Dec. 15, 1976; Am. 1982, Act 494, Eff. Mar. 30, 1983
Mich. Comp. Laws § 487.3306 — MI Code / Chapter 487 / Act Act-354-of-1996 / Section 487.3306
Authorization to commence business; conditions; verification; certificate with official seal; application deemed abandoned and no effect; first meeting.
Status: in_force

Sec. 306.

Within 30 days after the approval and filing of its articles of incorporation, or such later time not to exceed 1 year as approved by the commissioner, the savings bank shall notify the commissioner that all of its capital and surplus has been fully paid in and that it has complied with all the provisions of this act required to be complied with before a savings bank shall be authorized to commence business.

The commissioner shall make such examinations as he or she deems necessary to verify the same and if it appears that the savings bank is lawfully entitled to commence business, the commissioner, within 30 days after receiving the notice under this section, shall give to the savings bank a certificate under the official seal of the bureau that the savings bank has complied with all of the required provisions and is authorized to commence business.

The application shall be deemed abandoned and of no further effect if the savings bank fails to furnish the notice required by this section within the specified time or fails to comply with the required provisions within such period of time as the commissioner determines.

The first meeting of every savings bank shall be called by a notice signed by any incorporator designating the time and place of the meeting and stating the purpose for which the meeting is called. The notice shall be served on all the incorporators at least 5 days before the date set for the meeting. If all the incorporators are present at the meeting or in writing waive notice, then no notice shall be required for the first meeting.

History: 1996, Act 354, Imd. Eff. July 1, 1996
Mich. Comp. Laws § 550.2 — MI Code / Chapter 550 / Act Act-66-of-1933 / Section 550.2
Insurance company disbursement limitations.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

The provisions of any law of this state to the contrary notwithstanding, during any period of public calamity resulting in abnormal financial losses to and unforeseen and excessive disbursements by any insurance company, fraternal benefit society or association (herein referred to as "company" or "companies") doing business in this state, and during any financial emergency, including the emergency referred to in the governor's proclamation of February 14, 1933, and the president's proclamation of March 6, 1933, and other similar emergencies, occurring as the result of financial disturbances in business generally, threatened or actual disaster to the banking and other financial institutions of the United States or of this state, and disruption of business and orderly business process resulting in such unusual demands upon the cash or other assets of insurance companies doing business in this state as to endanger the solvency of or threaten insolvency to any such companies and the consequences thereof, the commissioner of insurance may, by general regulations applicable to all such companies, or by special regulations applicable to any class of insurance companies, prescribe such limits or restrictions upon the disbursements, loans, investment of funds or other disposition of assets of any such companies as in his judgment is or may be necessary for the preservation of the rights of all of the policy-holders, beneficiaries or assignees, or other claimants or creditors of such companies, for the purpose of preventing such undue preferential payments to certain policyholders, beneficiaries, claimants and creditors as may or will imperil or prejudice the rights of other policyholders, beneficiaries, claimants and creditors, and for the promotion and maintenance of sound insurance practices. Provided, That no such rules or regulations shall be made in any case to relieve the company from making any loan applied for by the policyholder against the legal reserves on his or her policy for the purpose of paying his or her premium on his or her policy of insurance in such company.

History: 1933, Act 66, Imd. Eff. Apr. 28, 1933; CL 1948, 550.2
Mich. Comp. Laws § 500.8216 — MI Code / Chapter 500 / Act Act-218-of-1956 / Section 500.8216
Reorganization; order; disposition of assets.
Status: in_force

Sec. 8216.

The commissioner shall make such order and disposition of the assets of any such society as in his judgment may be just and equitable.

History: 1956, Act 218, Eff. Jan. 1, 1957
Mich. Comp. Laws § 460.806 — MI Code / Chapter 460 / Act Act-448-of-1976 / Section 460.806
Definitions; P to R.
Status: in_force

Sec. 6.

(1) "Person" means an individual, corporation, association, partnership, governmental entity, or any other legal entity.

(2) "Power utility" means any person engaged or that may engage, inside or outside the state, in generating, transmitting, or distributing or furnishing electricity.

(3) "Power utility bond" means electric utility bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness of a municipality, including refunding bonds issued to underwrite projects authorized by this act.

(4) "Revenues" means all fees, charges, moneys, profits, payment of principal of, or interest on, municipal or power utility bonds, or other gifts, grants, contributions and appropriations.

History: 1976, Act 448, Imd. Eff. Jan. 13, 1977; Am. 2008, Act 21, Imd. Eff. Mar. 7, 2008
Mich. Comp. Laws § 319.103 — MI Code / Chapter 319 / Act Act-178-of-1941 / Section 319.103
Procedure; bill of complaint in circuit court in chancery.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3.

The owners of such majority in interest desiring to lease said lands or their oil and gas mineral rights therein for oil and gas purposes, or desiring to explore, drill, develop or operate said lands for oil and gas and to remove oil and gas therefrom, may file a bill of complaint in the circuit court in chancery of the county in which such lands, or some part thereof, are located, to obtain a decree of the court authorizing them to explore, drill, mine, develop and operate said lands for oil and gas mining purposes, and remove and transport the oil and gas therefrom, or store the same thereon, and sell and dispose of said minerals for the use and benefit of all of the owners thereof. Such bill of complaint shall set forth the relevant facts and the interests therein of all persons, so far as the same are known, to such plaintiffs.

History: 1941, Act 178, Eff. Jan. 10, 1942; CL 1948, 319.103
Mich. Comp. Laws § 450.160 — MI Code / Chapter 450 / Act Act-327-of-1931 / Section 450.160
Church trustee corporations; trustees, vacancy, filling.
Status: in_force

Sec. 160.

Same; vacancy among trustees, filling. Elections of trustees of church trustee corporations to fill the places of those whose terms of office expire shall take place at the last regular meeting of such presbytery, synod, conference, diocesan convention or other representative body occurring prior to the expiration of the term of their predecessors. Vacancies in any such board of trustees caused by death, resignation, removal, declination to serve, or otherwise, may be filled by the appointing body at any regular meeting thereof, or at any special meeting called for that purpose, or for that and other purposes, pursuant to the rules of such body.

History: 1931, Act 327, Eff. Sept. 18, 1931; CL 1948, 450.160
Mich. Comp. Laws § 250.2081 — MI Code / Chapter 250 / Act Act-142-of-2001 / Section 250.2081
"Staff Sergeant Duane J. Dreasky Memorial Highway."
Status: in_force

Sec. 1081.

The portion of highway M-5 between the intersection with 13 Mile Road and the intersection with 14 Mile Road in the city of Novi shall be known as the "Staff Sergeant Duane J. Dreasky Memorial Highway".

History: Add. 2018, Act 547, Eff. Mar. 28, 2019