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Mich. Comp. Laws § 397.354 — MI Code / Chapter 397 / Act Act-165-of-1927 / Section 397.354
Referendum; meeting to pass joint resolution; consolidation.
Status: in_force

Sec. 4.

If the proposition shall be carried by a majority of those voting at the election, in each township, and the respective election boards shall so certify, the respective township boards shall meet together in the township casting the largest vote at such election and shall pass a joint resolution, which shall be recorded in the minutes of the clerk of each board, canvassing the returns of the elections, and shall formally consolidate the township libraries of the 2 townships.

History: 1927, Act 165, Eff. Sept. 5, 1927; CL 1929, 8097; CL 1948, 397.354
Mich. Comp. Laws § 333.2703 — MI Code / Chapter 333 / Act Act-368-of-1978 / Section 333.2703
Michigan essential health provider recruitment strategy; creation; purpose; duties of department.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2703.

The Michigan essential health provider recruitment strategy is created in the department to facilitate the placement and retention of designated professionals in health resource shortage areas.

In operating the Michigan essential health provider recruitment strategy, the department shall do all of the following:

Recruit and place designated professionals in health resource shortage areas, as provided in this part.

Coordinate with the national health service corps activities in this state.

Provide consultation to communities and health resource shortage areas in securing, placing, and retaining designated professionals.

Perform other duties as set forth in this part.

Engage in other activities appropriate to the purposes of the program.

History: Add. 1990, Act 16, Eff. Oct. 1, 1990
Mich. Comp. Laws § 36.111 — MI Code / Chapter 36 / Act Act-560-of-2016 / Section 36.111
Construction of act.
Status: in_force

Sec. 11.

This act and all powers granted hereby shall be liberally construed to effectuate its intent and their purposes, without implied limitations on the powers of the authority, the state budget director, and the state treasurer. This act shall constitute full, complete, and additional authority for all things that are contemplated in this act to be done. All rights and powers granted in this act shall be cumulative with those derived from other sources and shall not, except as expressly stated in this act, be construed in limitation of those rights and powers. Insofar as the provisions of this act are inconsistent with the provisions of any other act, general or special, the provisions of this act shall be controlling. If any clause, paragraph, section, or part of this act is adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, that judgment shall not affect, impair, or invalidate the remainder of the clause, paragraph, section, or part but shall be applied in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, section, or part directly involved in the controversy in which the judgment shall have been rendered.

History: 2016, Act 560, Imd. Eff. Jan. 11, 2017
Mich. Comp. Laws § 488.7 — MI Code / Chapter 488 / Act Act-322-of-1978 / Section 488.7
Funds transfer facility on merchant's premises; establishment, ownership, or operation; access to, connection to, or use of facility; reasonable fees; nondiscrimination; additional facilities; equality of fees.
Status: in_force

Sec. 7.

This act shall not be construed or interpreted to prevent a merchant from establishing, owning, or operating 1 or more funds transfer facilities located on its own premises. If a merchant establishes, owns, or operates a funds transfer facility on the merchant's premises and allows access to the facility by a financial institution, group of financial institutions, or their customers for a function or service, this act shall not be construed or interpreted to require the merchant to accept an access or connection to or use of the facility on its premises for any other function, service, or purpose.

This act shall not be construed or interpreted to require a merchant to accept an access or connection to or use of a funds transfer facility on the merchant's premises for a function, service, or purpose that does not access a deposit account of a customer of a financial institution or group of financial institutions.

If a merchant establishes, owns, or operates a funds transfer facility on the merchant's premises and allows access or connection to or use of the facility by a financial institution, group of financial institutions, or their customers for any purpose, service, or function, this act or a law governing the financial institution shall not apply to the merchant other than those sections of this act, other law, or rules directly related to the particular function or service performed by the facility on the merchant's premises for a financial institution or group of financial institutions.

An agreement between a merchant and a financial institution or group of financial institutions for the use of a funds transfer facility shall provide for commercially reasonable fees. The fees shall be negotiated on a fair and equitable basis between each party and the parties shall not conspire to set a fee with the purpose of destroying or preventing competition.

A merchant shall be allowed access to essential funds transfer facilities on a fair and equitable basis that is not unfairly discriminatory and upon an agreement to pay commercially reasonable fees. Fees shall be negotiated on a fair and equitable basis between each party and the parties shall not conspire to set a fee with the purpose of destroying or preventing competition. For the purposes of this section, it shall not be necessary to do any of the following:

Unreasonably add additional facilities, if existing facilities have reached their effective capacity.

Have equal transaction fees.

Have equal initial entry fees.

History: 1978, Act 322, Eff. Jan. 1, 1979
Mich. Comp. Laws § 211.7m — MI Code / Chapter 211 / Act Act-206-of-1893 / Section 211.7m
Property owned or being acquired by county, township, city, village, school district, or political subdivision; parks.
Status: in_force

Sec. 7m.

Property owned by, or being acquired pursuant to, an installment purchase agreement by a county, township, city, village, or school district used for public purposes and property owned or being acquired by an agency, authority, instrumentality, nonprofit corporation, commission, or other separate legal entity comprised solely of, or which is wholly owned by, or whose members consist solely of a political subdivision, a combination of political subdivisions, or a combination of political subdivisions and the state and is used to carry out a public purpose itself or on behalf of a political subdivision or a combination is exempt from taxation under this act. Parks shall be open to the public generally. This exemption shall not apply to property acquired after July 19, 1966, unless a deed or other memorandum of conveyance is recorded in the county where the property is located before December 31 of the year of acquisition, or the local assessing officer is notified by registered mail of the acquisition before December 31 of the year of acquisition.

History: Add. 1980, Act 142, Imd. Eff. June 2, 1980
Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.405 — MI Code / Chapter 600 / Act Act-236-of-1961 / Section 600.405
Plan of concurrent jurisdiction; adoption; options.
Status: in_force

Sec. 405.

Sections 406, 407, and 408 provide options for adoption of a plan of concurrent jurisdiction in the counties of Genesee, Ingham, Kent, Macomb, Oakland, Washtenaw, and Wayne, which have district court districts of the third class.

History: Add. 2002, Act 678, Eff. Apr. 1, 2003
Mich. Comp. Laws § 500.134 — MI Code / Chapter 500 / Act Act-218-of-1956 / Section 500.134
Validity of certificate of authority or license in force prior to January 1, 1957; validity of plan of operation and premium or assessment; association or facility not state agency and money thereof not state money; records exempt from disclosure; premium or assessment not burden under MCL 500.476a; “association or facility” defined.
Status: in_force

Sec. 134.

Every certificate of authority or license in force immediately prior to January 1, 1957 and existing under any act repealed by this act is valid until its original expiration date, unless earlier terminated in accordance with this act.

Any plan of operation adopted by an association or facility, and any premium or assessment levied against an insurer member of that association or facility, is hereby validated retroactively to the date of its original adoption or levy and shall continue in force and effect according to the terms of the plan of operation, premium, or assessment until otherwise changed by the commissioner or the board of directors of the association or facility pursuant to this act.

An association or facility or the board of directors of the association or facility is not a state agency and the money of an association or facility is not state money.

A record of an association or facility shall be exempted from disclosure pursuant to section 13 of the freedom of information act, Act No. 442 of the Public Acts of 1976, being section 15.243 of the Michigan Compiled Laws.

Any premium or assessment levied by an association or facility, or any premium or assessment of a similar association or facility formed under a law in force outside this state, is not a burden or special burden for purposes of a calculation under section 476a, and any premium or assessment paid to an association or facility shall not be included in determining the aggregate amount a foreign insurer pays to the commissioner under section 476a.

As used in this section, "association or facility" means an association of insurers created under this act and any other association or facility formed under this act as a nonprofit organization of insurer members, including, but not limited to, the following:

The Michigan worker's compensation placement facility created under chapter 23.

The Michigan basic property insurance association created under section 29.

The catastrophic claims association created under chapter 31.

The Michigan automobile insurance placement facility created under chapter 33.

The Michigan life and health insurance guaranty association created under chapter 77.

The property and casualty guaranty association created under chapter 79.

The assigned claims facility created under section 3171.

History: 1956, Act 218, Eff. Jan. 1, 1957; Am. 1988, Act 349, Imd. Eff. Nov. 15, 1988; Am. 1990, Act 256, Imd. Eff. Oct. 15, 1990
Mich. Comp. Laws § 380.1140 — MI Code / Chapter 380 / Act Act-451-of-1976 / Section 380.1140
Skilled trades training and apprenticeship programs; access to representatives of associations to provide information.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1140.

If a school district, intermediate school district, or public school academy allows institutions of higher education access to school facilities or activities to provide information to pupils about educational, vocational, or apprenticeship opportunities, the board of the school district or intermediate school district or board of directors of the public school academy shall allow the same access to representatives of associations to provide information about skilled trades training and apprenticeship programs.

History: Add 2003, Act 264, Imd. Eff. Jan. 5, 2004
Mich. Comp. Laws § 457.22 — MI Code / Chapter 457 / Act Act-41-of-1877 / Section 457.22
Articles of association; execution, contents.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

Any 10 or more persons, residents of this state, being of Scottish birth or their descendants as aforesaid, desiring to become incorporated, may make and execute articles of association, under their hands and seals, which said articles of association shall be acknowledged before some officer of this state having authority to take acknowledgments of deeds, and shall set forth.

First, The names of persons associating and their places of residence;

Second, The location of the association of which they are members;

Third, The corporate name by which such association shall be known in the law: Provided, That each association incorporated under this act shall be known as "The St. Andrew's Society of (the name of the city or township where such association is located, and if more than 1 association is located in the same city or township the same shall be designated by numbers);

Fourth, The object and purpose of such association, shall be to provide for and relieve poor natives of Scotland and children and grand-children of natives of Scotland.

The period for which such association shall be incorporated shall not exceed 30 years.

History: 1877, Act 41, Imd. Eff. Mar. 30, 1877; How. 4528; CL 1897, 7812; CL 1915, 10248; CL 1929, 10538; CL 1948, 457.22
Mich. Comp. Laws § 730.522 — MI Code / Chapter 730 / Act Act-5-of-1956 / Section 730.522
Concurrent jurisdiction; replevin; jurisdictional amount.
Status: in_force

Sec. 22.

In addition to all the general jurisdiction of former justices of the peace, every municipal court affected by this act shall have concurrent jurisdiction in all civil actions when the amount in controversy does not exceed the amount in subsection (2) and in all actions of replevin when the value of the property involved does not exceed the amount in subsection (2). This section applies notwithstanding any jurisdictional limitations contained in any charter or statute under which a municipal court was created and established.

The jurisdictional amount for purposes of this section is $1,500.00, unless the city in which the municipal court is located increases the jurisdictional amount for that municipal court to $3,000.00 by resolution of the city's legislative body. A resolution under this subsection shall be submitted to the state court administrative office, and the increase in the jurisdictional amount shall take effect January 1 of the year immediately following the year in which the resolution is received by the state court administrative office.

History: 1956, Act 5, Eff. Aug. 11, 1956; Am. 1961, Act 196, Eff. Sept. 8, 1961; Am. 1965, Act 147, Imd. Eff. July 12, 1965; Am. 1998, Act 367, Imd. Eff. Oct. 20, 1998
Mich. Comp. Laws § 247.656 — MI Code / Chapter 247 / Act Act-51-of-1951 / Section 247.656
Tentative system of streets; selection and certification; approval.
Status: in_force

Sec. 6.

Within 6 months from the effective date of this act, a tentative system of major streets shall be selected in each incorporated city and village of the state and certified to the state highway commissioner for his approval. Such tentative system of major streets shall be selected in each incorporated city and village under the direction of the governing body thereof on the basis of greatest general importance to such municipality and shall not include any of the trunk line highways or county roads within the limits of such municipality. Each such tentative system of major streets certified to the state highway commissioner shall be checked and reviewed under his direction. Within 6 months after receipt by him of each such certification the state highway commissioner shall approve such part of that tentative system of major streets as complies with the uniform standards and specifications adopted and established as hereinbefore provided and shall reject and delete any part that does not so comply and shall certify to that city or village the approved portion of the tentative system and any deletions therefrom. So much of the tentative system of major streets of any city or village as is approved by the state highway commissioner shall constitute the major street system of that municipality for all purposes, and shall be known officially as the major street system of that city or village as the case may be.

History: 1951, Act 51, Eff. June 1, 1951
Mich. Comp. Laws § 462.36 — MI Code / Chapter 462 / Act Act-300-of-1909 / Section 462.36
Equipment and structures; authority of commission.
Status: in_force

Sec. 36.

Authority is hereby given to the said commission, and it shall be its duty, if it shall deem it advisable, to prescribe the use of such modern generally approved system of protection for the safe operation of trains or cars at all crossings and junctions of railroads in this state, and at all crossings of draw bridges, upon which trains or cars are operated by steam, electricity or other power, such as will secure safety in the operation of trains or cars at such crossings, junctions and draw bridges, and to apportion the cost of construction, operation and maintenance of such system of protection among the several companies in such proportion as to the commission shall seem just. The commission, having determined such form of protection, shall immediately cause a description thereof over its official signature to be delivered to an officer of the railroad affected thereby, with notice that the same must be adopted and put into practical force within a reasonable time to be fixed by the commission.

History: 1909, Act 300, Eff. Sept. 1, 1909; CL 1915, 8144; CL 1929, 11052; CL 1948, 462.36
Mich. Comp. Laws § 395.101a — MI Code / Chapter 395 / Act Act-148-of-1943 / Section 395.101a
Short title; definitions.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1a.

(1) This act shall be known and may be cited as the "proprietary schools act".

(2) As used in this act:

(a) "Department" means the department of labor and economic opportunity.

(b) "Person" means an individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, association, organization, or other legal entity.

(c) "Proprietary school" means a school that uses a certain plan or method to teach a trade, occupation, or vocation for a consideration, reward, or promise of any kind. Proprietary school includes, but is not limited to, a private business, trade, or home study school. Proprietary school does not include any of the following:

( i ) A school or college possessing authority to grant degrees.

( ii ) A school licensed by law through another board or department of this state.

( iii ) A school maintained or a program conducted, without profit, by a person for that person's employees.

( iv ) A school or program within a school that exclusively provides yoga instruction, yoga teacher training, or both.

( v ) A school that exclusively offers 1 or both of the following:

(A) Apprenticeship programs registered under the national apprenticeship act, 29 USC 50 to 50c, and approved through the Office of Apprenticeship in the United States Department of Labor.

(B) Pre-apprenticeship or apprentice readiness programs administered by a registered apprenticeship program under the national apprenticeship act, 29 USC 50 to 50c, and approved through the Office of Apprenticeship in the United States Department of Labor.

History: Add. 1983, Act 60, Imd. Eff. May 20, 1983; Am. 2009, Act 212, Imd. Eff. Jan. 4, 2010; Am. 2016, Act 146, Imd. Eff. June 7, 2016; Am. 2021, Act 32, Eff. Mar. 30, 2022
Mich. Comp. Laws § 257.817 — MI Code / Chapter 257 / Act Act-300-of-1949 / Section 257.817
Liability.
Status: in_force

Sec. 817.

A manufacturer of automated technology is immune from civil liability for damages that arise out of any modification made by another person to a motor vehicle or an automated motor vehicle, or to any automated technology, as provided in section 2949b of the revised judicature act of 1961, 1961 PA 236, MCL 600.2949b.

History: Add. 2013, Act 231, Eff. Mar. 27, 2014
Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.3364 — MI Code / Chapter 600 / Act Act-236-of-1961 / Section 600.3364
Division of property among cestuis que trust in lieu of sale; procedure when all parties do not consent.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3364.

In all cases except where all the parties to be benefited by the distribution of the proceeds of the sale of the trust estate give their consent in writing to the division and distribution of the trust estate as above provided, the proceedings to obtain the authority of the court as aforesaid to divide and distribute said estate, may be instituted by the trustee or any person interested in such division and distribution, and shall conform to the provisions of this chapter relating to partition of lands, and the division and distribution, if authorized by the court, shall be effected in the manner provided by this chapter for partitioning the undivided interests of persons in real estate generally.

History: 1961, Act 236, Eff. Jan. 1, 1963
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.3112b — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.3112b
Discharge from combined sewer system; issuance or renewal of permit; disconnection of eaves troughs and downspouts as condition; exception; “combined sewer system” defined.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3112b.

When a permit for a discharge from a combined sewer system is issued or renewed under this part, the department shall require as a condition of the permit that eaves troughs and roof downspouts for the collection of storm water throughout the tributary service area are not directly connected to the sewer system. The department may allow the permittee up to 1 year to comply with this provision for residential property and up to 5 years for commercial and industrial properties.

Subsection (1) does not apply if the permittee demonstrates to the satisfaction of the department that the disconnection of downspouts and eaves troughs is not a cost-effective means of reducing the frequency or duration of combined sewer overflows or of maintaining compliance with discharge requirements.

As used in this section, "combined sewer system" means a sewer designed and used to convey both storm water runoff and sanitary sewage, and which contains lawfully installed regulators and control devices that allow for delivery of sanitary flow to treatment during dry weather periods and divert storm water and sanitary sewage to surface waters during storm flow periods.

History: Add. 1998, Act 4, Imd. Eff. Jan. 30, 1998
Mich. Comp. Laws § 570.1113 — MI Code / Chapter 570 / Act Act-497-of-1980 / Section 570.1113
Making available to lien claimant copy of contract and statement of amount due and unpaid; liability of owner or lessee; providing to owner, lessee, or designee statement of labor and material furnished; liability of lien claimant failing to provide statement; honoring request for payment by lien claimant.
Status: in_force

Sec. 113.

An owner or lessee who contracts for an improvement, upon receipt of a written demand by a lien claimant, shall make available for inspection and copying to the lien claimant, within 10 days after receipt of the written demand, a copy of the contract for the improvement between the owner or lessee and the contractor, and a written statement of the amount due and unpaid on that date on the contract. Any owner or lessee who fails to make available for inspection and copying a copy of the contract and the written statement of the amount due and unpaid, within 10 days after receipt of a written demand, shall be liable to the lien claimant for all actual damages sustained by the lien claimant due to the failure.

Each lien claimant, upon receipt of a written demand by an owner, lessee, designee, or contractor, shall provide to the owner, lessee, designee, or contractor, within 10 days after receipt of the written demand, a written statement of the amount of labor and material furnished to the date of the statement in connection with the improvement for which a construction lien is claimed, any amount remaining due for the labor and material furnished, and the contractual amount of any work remaining to be performed. A lien claimant who fails to provide a statement within 10 days after receipt of a written demand shall be liable to the owner, lessee, or contractor for actual damages sustained by the owner, lessee, or contractor due to the failure. In addition, the owner, lessee, or contractor, after the expiration of the 10-day period without receipt of the requested statement, shall not be required to honor a request for payment by the lien claimant until the statement has been received by the person who requested it.

History: 1980, Act 497, Eff. Jan. 1, 1982; Am. 1982, Act 17, Eff. Mar. 1, 1982