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Mich. Comp. Laws § 421.71 — MI Code / Chapter 421 / Act Act-1-of-1936-Ex-Sess- / Section 421.71
Effective dates of Act 535 of 1982.
Status: in_force

Sec. 71.

Except as otherwise provided in this section, the 1982 amendatory act which added this section shall take effect January 2, 1983.

The amendments to sections 5(3), 10, 17(c), 20, and 26 shall be effective January 2, 1983.

The amendments to sections 19 and 44 and section 19a shall be effective for calendar years after 1982.

The amendments to section 27(b) shall be effective for benefit years beginning on or after January 2, 1983. The repeal of section 68 shall be effective on January 2, 1983. Benefit rates established under section 68 shall not be recomputed or changed as a result of the amendment of section 27(b)(1).

The amendment to section 28(1)(a)(2) shall be effective for weeks of unemployment beginning on or after January 2, 1983.

The amendments to section 29(1)(a), (1)(b), (3), and (4) shall be effective for separations occurring on or after January 2, 1983. The amendment to section 29(9) shall be effective January 2, 1983. The repeal of section 69 shall be effective January 2, 1983.

The amendments to sections 46 and 50 shall be effective for benefit years established on or after January 2, 1983. Section 46a shall be effective for benefit years established on or after January 2, 1983.

History: Add. 1982, Act 535, Eff. Jan. 2, 1983
Mich. Comp. Laws § 750.74 — MI Code / Chapter 750 / Act Act-328-of-1931 / Section 750.74
Third degree arson.
Status: in_force

Sec. 74.

(1) Except as provided in sections 72 and 73, a person who does any of the following is guilty of third degree arson:

(a) Willfully or maliciously burns, damages, or destroys by fire or explosive any building or structure, or its contents, regardless of whether it is occupied, unoccupied, or vacant at the time of the fire or explosion.

(b) Willfully and maliciously burns, damages, or destroys by fire or explosive any of the following or its contents:

( i ) Any personal property having a value of $20,000.00 or more.

( ii ) Any personal property having a value of $1,000.00 or more if the person has 1 or more prior convictions.

(2) Subsection (1) applies regardless of whether the person owns the building, structure, other real property or its contents, or the personal property.

(3) Third degree arson is a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than 10 years or a fine of not more than $20,000.00 or 3 times the value of the property damaged or destroyed, whichever is greater, or both imprisonment and a fine.

History: 1931, Act 328, Eff. Sept. 18, 1931; Am. 1945, Act 260, Eff. Sept. 6, 1945; CL 1948, 750.74; Am. 1998, Act 312, Eff. Jan. 1, 1999; Am. 2012, Act 532, Eff. Apr. 3, 2013
Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.612 — MI Code / Chapter 722 / Act Act-250-of-1982 / Section 722.612
Review of functions, responsibilities, and performance of state board; transmittal; notice.
Status: in_force

Sec. 12.

A thorough, written review of the functions, responsibilities, and performance of the state board shall be completed by the auditor general each 3 years after the effective date of this act. The review shall be transmitted and notice given in the same manner as provided in section 6(1)(b).

History: 1982, Act 250, Imd. Eff. Sept. 29, 1982
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.76101 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.76101
Definitions.
Status: in_force

Sec. 76101.

As used in this part:

"Abandoned property" means an aircraft; a watercraft, including a ship, boat, canoe, skiff, raft, or barge; the rigging, gear, fittings, trappings, and equipment of an aircraft or watercraft; the personal property of the officers, crew, and passengers of an aircraft or watercraft; and the cargo of an aircraft or watercraft, which have been deserted, relinquished, cast away, or left behind and for which attempts at reclamation have been abandoned by owners and insurers. Abandoned property also means materials resulting from activities of historic and prehistoric Native Americans.

"Bottomlands" means the unpatented lake bottomlands of the Great Lakes.

"Committee" means the underwater salvage and preserve committee created in section 76103.

"Great Lakes" means lakes Erie, Huron, Michigan, St. Clair, and Superior.

"Great Lakes bottomlands preserve" means an area located on the bottomlands of the Great Lakes and extending upward to and including the surface of the water, which is delineated and set aside by rule for special protection of abandoned property of historical value, or ecological, educational, geological, or scenic features or formations having recreational, educational, or scientific value. A preserve may encompass a single object, feature, or formation, or a collection of several objects, features, or formations.

"Historical value" means value relating to, or illustrative of, Michigan history, including the statehood, territorial, colonial, and historic, and prehistoric native American periods.

"Mechanical or other assistance" means all humanmade devices, including pry bars, wrenches and other hand or power tools, cutting torches, explosives, winches, flotation bags, lines to surface, extra divers buoyancy devices, and other buoyance devices, used to raise or remove artifacts.

"Recreational value" means value relating to an activity that the public engages in, or may engage in, for recreation or sport, including scuba diving and fishing.

History: Add. 1995, Act 58, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1995
Mich. Comp. Laws § 720.601 — MI Code / Chapter 720 / Act Act-84-of-1949 / Section 720.601
Transfer of juveniles from one state institution or agency to another.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

A person who has been committed by the probate court before January 1, 1998, or the family division of circuit court on or after January 1, 1998 or a court of general criminal jurisdiction to an institution or agency of the state which is authorized to receive juveniles under the direction of the former department of mental health, the department of community health, the department of corrections, the former department of social services, or the family independence agency for the purpose of treatment, or training, or both, may be transferred from that institution to any other institution or agency of the state, if it appears to the satisfaction of the superintendent of the institution to which the person has been committed that the person will substantially benefit from the care and training in the other institution or facility and that the interests of the person and of the state will be best served thereby.

History: 1949, Act 84, Eff. Sept. 23, 1949; Am. 1988, Act 74, Eff. Oct. 1, 1988; Am. 1996, Act 413, Eff. Jan. 1, 1998
Mich. Comp. Laws § 247.951 — MI Code / Chapter 247 / Act Act-69-of-1993 / Section 247.951
Definitions.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

As used in this act:

(a) "Commission" means the state transportation commission.

(b) "Department" means the state transportation department.

(c) "Historic" means buildings, structures, interpreted sites, objects, or historic districts that are significant to the history, archaeology, architecture, engineering, or culture of this state.

(d) "Pure Michigan byway" means a state highway that is designated in the manner provided in this act as a scenic, recreational, or historic route that is representative of Michigan's natural and cultural heritage.

(e) "Recreational" means facilities normally associated with leisure-time activities, including, but not limited to, parks, public access sites, wildlife refuges, forest areas, marinas, swimming areas, hiking trails, and sightseeing areas.

(f) "Scenic" means an area of outstanding natural beauty whose features include, but are not limited to, significant natural features such as vegetation, land form, water, and open areas with exceptional vistas and views, that singly or in combination make that area unique and distinct in character.

(g) "State trunk line highway system" means the system described in section 1 of 1951 PA 51, MCL 247.651.

History: 1993, Act 69, Imd. Eff. June 22, 1993; Am. 2014, Act 445, Imd. Eff. Dec. 30, 2014
Mich. Comp. Laws § 257.1337 — MI Code / Chapter 257 / Act Act-300-of-1974 / Section 257.1337
Mechanic or mechanic trainee as agent; joint and several liability; right to contribution.
Status: in_force

Sec. 37.

If a mechanic or mechanic trainee is employed by, or enters into a contract with, a motor vehicle repair facility, that mechanic or mechanic trainee for the purposes of a civil action brought pursuant to this act shall be considered to be an agent of the motor vehicle repair facility and the methods, acts, and practices of the mechanic or mechanic trainee shall be construed as the methods, acts, and practices of the motor vehicle repair facility.

A person who directly or indirectly controls a motor vehicle repair facility or its employees, as well as a general partner, officer, or director of the facility shall be jointly and severally liable among themselves for a violation of this act, unless that person can demonstrate that he did not know, and in the exercise of reasonable care could not have known, of the existence of the facts by reason of which the violation occurred. There is a right to contribution as in cases of contract among persons so liable.

History: 1974, Act 300, Eff. Apr. 1, 1975
Mich. Comp. Laws § 288.731 — MI Code / Chapter 288 / Act Act-267-of-2001 / Section 288.731
Manufacturing or processing cheese; pasteurization temperature and time standards; equipment.
Status: in_force

Sec. 171.

A person that manufactures or processes cheese shall pasteurize milk to be used for making cheese or cheese culture by subjecting every particle of the milk to a minimum temperature of 161°F (72°C) for not less than 15 seconds or to other pasteurization temperature and time standards listed in section 137, except as provided for in section 138. A person that manufactures or processes cheese shall equip high temperature short-time pasteurization units with the proper controls and equipment to assure pasteurization. Milk held more than 2 hours between time of receipt or pasteurization and culturing shall be cooled to 45°F (7°C) or lower, until the time of culturing.

A person that manufactures or processes cheese and engages in vat pasteurization shall use only equipment meeting the requirements of sanitary standards.

History: 2001, Act 267, Eff. Feb. 8, 2002
Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.8807 — MI Code / Chapter 600 / Act Act-236-of-1961 / Section 600.8807
Issuance of citation by law enforcement officer.
Status: in_force

Sec. 8807.

A law enforcement officer who witnesses a person violating state law, the violation of which is a state civil infraction, may stop the person, detain the person temporarily for the purpose of issuing a citation, and prepare and subscribe, as soon as possible and as completely as possible, an original and 3 copies of a citation.

A law enforcement officer may issue a citation to a person if, based upon personal investigation, the officer has reasonable cause to believe that the person is responsible for a state civil infraction in connection with an accident.

Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2), a law enforcement officer may issue a citation to a person if, based upon the officer's personal investigation of a complaint by someone who witnessed the person violating state law, the violation of which is a state civil infraction, the officer has reasonable cause to believe that the person is responsible for a state civil infraction and if the prosecuting attorney approves in writing the issuance of the citation.

The law enforcement officer shall personally serve the third copy of the citation upon the alleged violator.

History: Add. 1995, Act 54, Eff. Jan. 1, 1996
Mich. Comp. Laws § 390.1251 — MI Code / Chapter 390 / Act Act-174-of-1976 / Section 390.1251
Waiver of tuition for North American Indians; qualifications; participation of federal tribally controlled community college; eligibility for reimbursement.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

A Michigan public community college or public university or a federal tribally controlled community college described in subsection (2) shall waive tuition for any North American Indian who qualifies for admission as a full-time, part-time, or summer school student, and is a legal resident of the state for not less than 12 consecutive months.

A federal tribally controlled community college may participate in the tuition waiver program under this act and be eligible for reimbursement under section 2a if it meets all of the following:

Is recognized under the tribally controlled community college assistance act of 1978, Public Law 95-471, 92 Stat. 1325.

Is determined by the department of education to meet the requirements for accreditation by a recognized regional accrediting body.

History: 1976, Act 174, Eff. Aug. 1, 1976; Am. 1978, Act 505, Imd. Eff. Dec. 13, 1978; Am. 1993, Act 106, Imd. Eff. July 15, 1993
Mich. Comp. Laws § 449.1705 — MI Code / Chapter 449 / Act Act-213-of-1982 / Section 449.1705
Effect of death or adjudication of disability of individual partner; non-individual partner; effect of dissolution or termination of corporation, trust, or other entity as partner.
Status: in_force

Sec. 705.

If a partner who is an individual dies or a court of competent jurisdiction adjudges the partner to be unable to manage his or her property or incompetent to manage his or her person or property, the partner's personal representative, executor, administrator, guardian, conservator, or other legal representative may exercise all the partner's rights for the purpose of settling the partner's estate or administering his or her property, including any power the partner had to give an assignee the right to become a limited partner. If a partner is a corporation, trust, or other entity, and is dissolved or terminated, the powers of that partner may be exercised by its legal representative or successor.

History: 1982, Act 213, Eff. Jan. 1, 1983
Mich. Comp. Laws § 35.603a — MI Code / Chapter 35 / Act Act-9-of-1946-1st-Ex-Sess- / Section 35.603a
Conducting business at public meeting; exception; notice; availability of writings to public; “emergent need” defined.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3a.

Except as provided in this section, the business which the Michigan veterans' trust fund board of trustees or a county or district committee may perform shall be conducted at a public meeting of the board or committee held in compliance with Act No. 267 of the Public Acts of 1976, as amended, being sections 15.261 to 15.275 of the Michigan Compiled Laws. Public notice of the time, date, and place of the meeting shall be given in the manner required by Act No. 267 of the Public Acts of 1976, as amended.

A writing prepared, owned, used, in the possession of, or retained by the Michigan veterans' trust fund board of trustees or a county or district committee in the performance of an official function shall be made available to the public in compliance with Act No. 442 of the Public Acts of 1976, as amended, being sections 15.231 to 15.246 of the Michigan Compiled Laws.

Act No. 267 of the Public Acts of 1976, as amended, shall not apply to the Michigan veterans' trust fund board of trustees or a county or district committee when the board of trustees or county or district committee is deliberating the merits of an emergent need. "Emergent need" means a situation which the board of trustees, by rules promulgated pursuant to Act No. 306 of the Public Acts of 1969, as amended, being sections 24.201 to 24.315 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, determines requires immediate action.

History: Add. 1978, Act 158, Imd. Eff. May 22, 1978; Am. 1981, Act 160, Imd. Eff. Nov. 30, 1981
Mich. Comp. Laws § 333.21767 — MI Code / Chapter 333 / Act Act-368-of-1978 / Section 333.21767
Guardian, trustee, conservator, patient's representative, or protective payee for patient; receipt for money or property of patient; statement of funds.
Status: in_force

Sec. 21767.

A nursing home, or an owner, administrator, employee, or representative of a nursing home shall not act as guardian, trustee, conservator, patient's representative, or protective payee for a patient, except as provided in subsection (2).

Subject to the bonding requirements of section 21721, money or other property belonging or due a patient which is received by a nursing home shall be received as trust funds or property, shall be kept separate from the funds and property of the nursing home and other patients, and shall be disbursed only as directed by the patient. A written receipt shall be given to a patient whose money or other property is received by a nursing home. Upon request, but not less than once every 3 months, the nursing home shall furnish the patient a complete and verified statement of the funds or other property received by the nursing home. The statement shall contain the amounts and items received, the sources, the disposition, and the date of each transaction. The nursing home shall furnish a final statement not later than 10 days after the discharge of a patient.

History: Add. 1978, Act 493, Eff. Mar. 30, 1979
Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.1419 — MI Code / Chapter 600 / Act Act-236-of-1961 / Section 600.1419
Continuances and postponements to assure adequate representation; “nonmeeting day” defined.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1419.

In order to assure adequate representation for the people of this state, when the court knows that a party in a civil action is a member of the legislature of this state, and the legislature is in session, the action shall be continued to a nonmeeting day.

In order to assure adequate representation for the people of this state, when the court knows that a party in a civil action is a member of the legislature of this state who serves on a legislative committee, subcommittee, commission, or council that is scheduled to meet during the legislative session while the legislature is temporarily adjourned, or that is meeting during the interim between legislative sessions after the legislature has adjourned sine die, or when the partisan caucus of which the legislator is a member is scheduled to meet, the action shall be continued to a nonmeeting day.

In order to assure adequate representation for the people of this state, when the court knows that a witness in a civil action is a member of the legislature of this state, and the legislature is in session, or when the member is serving on a legislative committee, subcommittee, commission, or council that is scheduled to meet during the legislative session while the legislature is temporarily adjourned or during the interim between legislative sessions after the legislature has adjourned sine die, or when the partisan caucus of which the witness is a member is scheduled to meet, the action need not be continued, but the taking of the legislator's testimony, as a witness, shall be postponed to the earliest practicable nonmeeting day.

As used in this section, "nonmeeting day" means a day on which there is not a scheduled meeting of the house of which the party or witness is a member nor a legislative committee meeting or public hearing scheduled by a committee, subcommittee, commission, or council of which he or she is a member, nor a scheduled partisan caucus of the members of the house of which he or she is a member.

History: Add. 1984, Act 29, Imd. Eff. Mar. 12, 1984
Mich. Comp. Laws § 456.112 — MI Code / Chapter 456 / Act Act-12-of-1869 / Section 456.112
Burial rights; transfer, rights of surviving spouse and next of kin.
Status: in_force

Sec. 12.

All rights of burial granted by such corporation shall be transferable and as fully alienable as any other personal property in this state, subject only to such conditions in reference thereto as shall be prescribed by the board of directors and subject to rights of the surviving spouse and next of kin now existing at law or in equity as to any individual burial space or grave in which there is an actual interment.

History: 1869, Act 12, Imd. Eff. Feb. 19, 1869; CL 1871, 3419; How. 4774; CL 1897, 8410; CL 1915, 11171; CL 1929, 10451; CL 1948, 456.112; Am. 1956, Act 207, Eff. Aug. 11, 1956
Mich. Comp. Laws § 28.634 — MI Code / Chapter 28 / Act Act-46-of-2004 / Section 28.634
Death or disability of public safety officer; benefit; amount; additional benefit.
Status: in_force

Sec. 4.

(1) If a public safety officer dies or is permanently and totally disabled as the direct and proximate result of a personal injury sustained in the line of duty, this state shall pay a benefit of $25,000.00 for all claims paid before October 1, 2024, and $50,000.00 for all claims paid on or after October 1, 2024, to 1 of the following:

(a) If the deceased public safety officer leaves a surviving spouse, to that surviving spouse.

(b) If the deceased public safety officer does not leave a surviving spouse, to the deceased public safety officer's dependents.

(c) If the public safety officer does not leave a surviving spouse or any surviving dependents, payment must be made to the estate of the deceased public safety officer.

(d) If the public safety officer is permanently and totally disabled, to the spouse, but if there is no spouse, to the dependents, and if there are no dependents, then to the entity providing care to the permanently and totally disabled public safety officer.

(2) The benefit must be paid in addition to any other benefit that the beneficiary receives due to the death of the public safety officer.

History: 2004, Act 46, Eff. Oct. 1, 2003; Am. 2024, Act 128, Imd. Eff. Oct. 3, 2024
Mich. Comp. Laws § 750.44 — MI Code / Chapter 750 / Act Act-328-of-1931 / Section 750.44
Trick or acrobatic flying.
Status: in_force

Sec. 44.

An aeronaut or passenger who, while in flight over a thickly inhabited area or over a public gathering engages in trick or acrobatic flying or in any acrobatic feat or, except while in landing or taking off, flies at such a low level as to endanger the persons on the surface beneath, or drop or release any object or thing that may endanger life or injure property except when necessary to the personal safety of the aeronaut or passenger, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not more than 1 year or a fine of not more than $1,000.00.

History: 1931, Act 328, Eff. Sept. 18, 1931; Am. 1937, Act 67, Eff. Oct. 29, 1937; CL 1948, 750.44; Am. 2002, Act 672, Eff. Mar. 31, 2003
Mich. Comp. Laws § 397.135 — MI Code / Chapter 397 / Act Act-371-of-1972 / Section 397.135
Application for inclusion in network.
Status: in_force

Sec. 5.

A library meeting the requirements specified for inclusion in the network shall apply to the state board of education, indicating its compliance with the provisions of this act.

History: 1972, Act 371, Imd. Eff. Jan. 9, 1973
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.11121 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.11121
Effect of local ordinance, permit requirement, or other requirement.
Status: in_force

Sec. 11121.

A local ordinance, permit requirement, or other requirement does not prohibit the construction of a treatment, storage, or disposal facility, except as otherwise provided in section 11123.

History: 1994, Act 451, Eff. Mar. 30, 1995; Am. 2010, Act 357, Imd. Eff. Dec. 22, 2010
Mich. Comp. Laws § 500.7911a — MI Code / Chapter 500 / Act Act-218-of-1956 / Section 500.7911a
Life or disability insurer not to be member of association.
Status: in_force

Sec. 7911a.

Notwithstanding section 7911, a life or disability insurer shall not be a member of the association.

History: Add. 1982, Act 501, Imd. Eff. Dec. 31, 1982; Am. 1996, Act 548, Imd. Eff. Jan. 15, 1997
Mich. Comp. Laws § 32.732 — MI Code / Chapter 32 / Act Act-150-of-1967 / Section 32.732
Reports of survey for lost, damaged or destroyed federal property.
Status: in_force

Sec. 332.

The adjutant general shall be responsible for the processing of reports of survey, for lost, damaged or destroyed federal property loaned to this state for the use of the military establishment.

History: 1967, Act 150, Imd. Eff. June 30, 1967