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Mich. Comp. Laws § 500.1920 — MI Code / Chapter 500 / Act Act-218-of-1956 / Section 500.1920
Recognition as eligible surplus lines insurer; application; recommendations; conditions; information; examination; removal of insurer from list.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1920.

A licensee shall offer surplus lines insurance only to insurers that are in a stable and unimpaired financial condition. An insurer recognized by the commissioner as an eligible surplus lines insurer pursuant to subsection (2) shall be considered to meet the requirements of this subsection. Recognition as an eligible surplus lines insurer shall be conditioned upon the insurer's continued compliance with this chapter and rules promulgated under this chapter.

An unauthorized insurer may apply for recognition as an eligible surplus lines insurer by filing an application in the form and with the information as reasonably required by the commissioner regarding the insurer's financial stability, reputation, and integrity. The commissioner may delegate to an association the power to process and to make recommendations on applications for recognition as an eligible surplus lines insurer. Notwithstanding a delegation by the commissioner, an applicant may file an application for recognition directly with the commissioner.

The commissioner shall recognize an insurer making an application in accordance with subsection (2) as an eligible surplus lines insurer if he or she is satisfied that the insurer is in a stable and unimpaired financial condition and that the insurer is qualified to provide coverage in compliance with this chapter. If filed with full supporting documentation before July 1 of any year, an application submitted under subsection (2) shall be acted upon by the commissioner before December 31 of the year of submission.

The commissioner shall not recognize an insurer as an eligible surplus lines insurer unless the insurer continuously maintains capital and surplus of at least $1,500,000.00, and is safe, reliable, and entitled to public confidence. This subsection shall not be construed to require an alien insurer to file financial statements in the form required of authorized insurers under section 438. However, each alien applicant shall have current financial data filed with the national association of insurance commissioners.

If the commissioner considers it necessary, he or she may request information about or examine the affairs of any eligible unauthorized insurer, at the expense of the insurer except as provided in sections 1905 and 1951, to determine whether the insurer should continue to remain on the list of eligible surplus lines insurers. If the commissioner finds that it is in the public interest to remove an insurer from the list because the insurer no longer meets the requirements of this chapter or is no longer qualified to provide coverage under this chapter, the commissioner shall do so without the necessity of a hearing.

History: Add. 1980, Act 341, Eff. June 23, 1981; Am. 1994, Act 228, Imd. Eff. June 30, 1994
Mich. Comp. Laws § 123.331 — MI Code / Chapter 123 / Act Act-235-of-1947 / Section 123.331
Public corporation; definition.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

The term "public corporation" as used herein shall be deemed to mean any county, metropolitan district, city, village or township in this state.

History: 1947, Act 235, Eff. Oct. 11, 1947; CL 1948, 123.331
Mich. Comp. Laws § 51.242 — MI Code / Chapter 51 / Act Act-180-of-1919 / Section 51.242
Undersheriffs and deputies in counties over 400,000; appointment; compensation.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

In counties having a population of more than 400,000, the sheriff shall appoint an undersheriff, who shall also be the chief deputy sheriff, and such number of deputy sheriffs, and other clerks and employees as may be fixed by the board of supervisors. The annual salary of the undersheriff inclusive of his duties as chief deputy sheriff, and the number of deputies, clerks and employees, and their annual salaries, shall be fixed by resolution of the board of supervisors, to be payable monthly in lieu of all fees or other compensation. The board of supervisors may provide that deputy sheriffs solely engaged in the service of civil process shall receive as compensation, fees for such service, in lieu of salary.

History: 1919, Act 180, Eff. Aug. 14, 1919; CL 1929, 1339; Am. 1935, Act 115, Eff. Sept. 21, 1935; CL 1948, 51.242; Am. 1961, Act 204, Eff. Sept. 8, 1961
Mich. Comp. Laws § 500.1377 — MI Code / Chapter 500 / Act Act-218-of-1956 / Section 500.1377
Liquidation or rehabilitation; recovery of certain distributions or payments.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1377.

If an order for liquidation or rehabilitation of a domestic insurer has been entered, the receiver appointed under the order shall have a right to recover on behalf of the insurer both of the following:

From any parent corporation, holding company, or person who otherwise controls the insurer, the amount of distributions, other than distributions of shares of the same class of stock, paid by the insurer on its capital stock if made at any time during the 3 years preceding the petition for liquidation, conservation, or rehabilitation.

Any payment in the form of an extraordinary bonus, termination settlement, or lump sum salary adjustment made by the insurer or its subsidiary to a director, officer, or employee if made at any time during the 3 years preceding the petition for liquidation, conservation, or rehabilitation.

A distribution or payment shall not be recoverable under this section if the parent or affiliate or the director, officer, or employee shows that when paid the distribution was lawful and reasonable and that the insurer did not know and could not reasonably have known that the distribution or payment might adversely affect the ability of the insurer to fulfill its contractual obligations. If payments were made to more than 1 director, officer, or employee, this subsection shall apply to the aggregate of those payments.

A person who was a parent corporation, holding company, or a person who otherwise controlled the insurer or affiliate at the time the distribution was paid shall be liable up to the amount of distributions or payments under subsection (1) that the person received. A person who otherwise controlled the insurer at the time the distribution was declared shall be liable up to the amount of distributions he or she would have received if they had been paid immediately. If 2 or more persons are liable with respect to the same distribution, they are jointly and severally liable.

The maximum amount recoverable under this section shall be the amount needed in excess of all other available assets of the impaired or insolvent insurer to pay the contractual obligations of the impaired or insolvent insurer and to reimburse any guaranty funds.

To the extent that any person liable under subsection (3) is insolvent or otherwise fails to pay claims due from it pursuant to subsection (3), its parent corporation, holding company, or person who otherwise controlled it at the time the distribution was paid, is jointly and severally liable for any resulting deficiency in the amount recovered from that person.

History: Add. 1992, Act 182, Imd. Eff. Oct. 1, 1992
Mich. Comp. Laws § 141.931 — MI Code / Chapter 141 / Act Act-243-of-1980 / Section 141.931
Definitions.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

As used in this act:

(a) "Board" means the local emergency financial assistance loan board created under section 2.

(b) "Fiscal year" means, unless otherwise provided in this act, the fiscal year of the municipality applying for a loan under this act.

(c) "Income tax collections" means the total collection of a municipality under the city income tax act, 1964 PA 284, MCL 141.501 to 141.787, in any calendar year.

(d) "Income tax revenue growth rate" means the quotient of the following:

( i ) The numerator is the income tax collections of the municipality for the calendar year immediately preceding the municipality's application for a loan under this act.

( ii ) The denominator is the income tax collections for the municipality for the calendar year preceding the calendar year used in determining the numerator.

(e) "Municipality" means a county, city, village, or township in this state. For the period beginning on October 1, 2011 and ending on September 30, 2018, municipality also includes a school district in this state.

(f) "Local tax base growth rate" for a municipality means the state equalized valuation of the real and personal property of the municipality for the most recent year for which data is available divided by the state equalized valuation of real and personal property of the municipality for the fifth year preceding the most recent year for which data is available.

(g) "Statewide tax base growth rate" means the total state equalized valuation for real and personal property for the most recent year for which data is available divided by the total state equalized valuation for the fifth year preceding the most recent year for which data is available.

(h) "State equalized valuation of real and personal property of the municipality" means the valuation determined under 1911 PA 44, MCL 209.1 to 209.8, of real and personal property within the municipality plus an amount equal to the state equalized valuation equivalent of certain revenues of the municipality as determined under this subdivision. The state equalized valuation equivalent shall be calculated by dividing the sum of the following amounts by the municipality's millage rate for the fiscal year:

( i ) The amount levied by the municipality for its own use during the municipality's fiscal year from the specific tax levied under 1974 PA 198, MCL 207.551 to 207.572.

( ii ) The amount levied by the municipality for its own use during the municipality's fiscal year from the specific tax levied under the commercial redevelopment act, 1978 PA 255, MCL 207.651 to 207.668.

History: 1980, Act 243, Imd. Eff. July 24, 1980; Am. 1987, Act 282, Eff. Apr. 11, 1988; Am. 2007, Act 178, Imd. Eff. Dec. 21, 2007; Am. 2012, Act 284, Imd. Eff. Aug. 1, 2012
Mich. Comp. Laws § 427.205 — MI Code / Chapter 427 / Act Act-145-of-1897 / Section 427.205
Sale of unclaimed property; balance, when paid to county treasurer; affidavit.
Status: in_force

Sec. 5.

In case such balance shall not be demanded and paid as specified in the last section within said 10 days, then within 5 days thereafter said keeper of a hotel, inn, boarding house, lodging house, or furnished apartment shall pay said balance to the treasurer of the county in which such hotel, inn, boarding house, lodging house, or furnished apartment shall be situated, and shall at the same time file with said treasurer an affidavit made by him, in which shall be stated the name and place of residence, so far as they are known to him, of the guest, boarder or person, whose goods, baggage or chattel articles were sold, the articles sold and the price at which they were sold, the name and residence of the auctioneer making the sale, and a copy of the notice published and how served, whether by personal service or by mailing, and if not so served and the reason thereof.

History: 1897, Act 145, Eff. Aug. 30, 1897; CL 1897, 5321; CL 1915, 6951; CL 1929, 8795; Am. 1931, Act 95, Eff. Sept. 18, 1931; CL 1948, 427.205
Mich. Comp. Laws § 570.194 — MI Code / Chapter 570 / Act R-S-of-1846 / Section 570.194
Labor lien on property of iron or copper mining corporation; precedence, enforcement.
Status: in_force

Sec. 44.

Every person who shall furnish or perform any labor for any corporation, organized for the purpose of mining, smelting or manufacturing iron, copper, silver, or other ores or minerals, in the upper peninsula of this state, and every bona fide holder of any draft or order for the payment of money due for any such labor, issued or drawn by any officer, clerk or agent of any such corporation, shall have a lien for the amount due thereon or therefor, upon all the real and personal property of such corporation, lying and being in the said upper peninsula, which said lien shall take precedence of all other debts, judgments or decrees, liens or mortgages, against such corporation, except liens accruing to this state for taxes, fines or penalties; and every such lien may be proceeded on, enforced and collected out of such real and personal property, or either of the same, in the same manner and under the same regulations, limitations and conditions, as near as may be, as are herein provided for the enforcement and collection of other liens on real or personal property, as the case may be: Provided, That in the enforcement of any lien provided for in this section, it shall not be necessary to file, prove or produce any written contract relative to the labor on which such lien is based.

History: Add. 1867, Act 201, Eff. June 27, 1867; CL 1871, 6832; How. 8408; CL 1897, 10755; CL 1915, 14840; CL 1929, 13195; CL 1948, 570.194
Mich. Comp. Laws § 290.620 — MI Code / Chapter 290 / Act Act-283-of-1964 / Section 290.620
Joint county and city weights and measures jurisdiction; powers.
Status: in_force

Sec. 20.

A county and 1 or more cities situated therein, with the consent of the director, may establish a joint weights and measures jurisdiction with 1 sealer and such deputy sealers, supervising inspectors, and city or county inspectors as may be required, under an agreement between the board of county supervisors and the city or cities involved. The sealer of the joint jurisdiction, and his deputy sealers, supervising inspectors, and city or county inspectors when acting under his instructions and at his direction, shall have the same powers and shall perform the same duties within the joint jurisdiction for which appointed as are granted to and imposed upon the director by this act.

History: 1964, Act 283, Eff. Aug. 28, 1964
Mich. Comp. Laws § 440.4204 — MI Code / Chapter 440 / Act Act-174-of-1962 / Section 440.4204
Collecting bank; methods of sending items; presentment.
Status: in_force

Sec. 4204.

A collecting bank shall send items by a reasonably prompt method, taking into consideration relevant instructions, the nature of the item, the number of those items on hand, the cost of collection involved, and the method generally used by it or others to present those items.

A collecting bank may send:

An item directly to the payor bank.

An item to a nonbank payor if authorized by its transferor.

An item other than documentary drafts to a nonbank payor, if authorized by federal reserve regulation or operating circular, clearing-house rule, or the like.

Presentment may be made by a presenting bank at a place where the payor bank or other payor has requested that presentment be made.

History: 1962, Act 174, Eff. Jan. 1, 1964; Am. 1964, Act 250, Eff. Aug. 28, 1964; Am. 1993, Act 130, Eff. Sept. 30, 1993
Mich. Comp. Laws § 125.2959 — MI Code / Chapter 125 / Act Act-275-of-2010 / Section 125.2959
Construction and interpretation of act.
Status: in_force

Sec. 9.

This act shall be construed liberally to effectuate the legislative intent and purposes of this act as found and stated in section 2. This act constitutes complete and independent authority for the performance of each and every act and thing authorized by this act, and all powers granted by this act shall be broadly interpreted to include any power reasonable and convenient to effectuate the intent and purposes of this act, and the language used in this act shall be read as grants of authority and not as limitations of powers to those expressed or necessarily implied.

History: 2010, Act 275, Imd. Eff. Dec. 15, 2010
Mich. Comp. Laws § 449.1304 — MI Code / Chapter 449 / Act Act-213-of-1982 / Section 449.1304
Liability of person erroneously but in good faith believing he or she is limited partner.
Status: in_force

Sec. 304.

Except as provided in subsection (b), a person who makes a contribution to a business enterprise and erroneously but in good faith believes that he or she has become a limited partner in the enterprise is not a general partner in the enterprise and is not bound by its obligations by reason of making the contribution, receiving distributions from the enterprise, or exercising any rights of a limited partner, if, on ascertaining the mistake, the person does either of the following:

Causes an appropriate certificate of limited partnership, certificate of amendment, or restated certificate of limited partnership to be executed and filed.

Withdraws from future equity participation in the enterprise. With respect to any limited partnership for which a certificate of limited partnership has been filed, the withdrawal may be accomplished by executing and filing with the office of the administrator a certificate declaring withdrawal under this section.

A person who makes a contribution of the kind described in subsection (a) is liable as a general partner to any third party who transacts business with the enterprise: ( i ) before the person withdraws and an appropriate certificate is filed to show withdrawal or ( ii ) before an appropriate certificate is filed to show the person's status as a limited partner and, in the case of an amendment, after expiration of the 60-day period for filing an amendment relating to the person as a limited partner under section 202, but in either case only if the third party actually believed in good faith that the person was a general partner at the time of the transaction.

History: 1982, Act 213, Eff. Jan. 1, 1983; Am. 1986, Act 100, Eff. July 1, 1986
Mich. Comp. Laws § 125.4517 — MI Code / Chapter 125 / Act Act-57-of-2018 / Section 125.4517
Street or highway grades; conformance by company; alteration or change; consent required; manner of laying and maintaining track.
Status: in_force

Sec. 517.

(1) In constructing a street railway system, a street railway shall conform to grades established by a road authority for a public street or highway traversed by the street railway.

(2) A street railway shall not alter or change the grade or line of any public street or highway, without the consent of the road authority with public jurisdiction over the public street or highway.

(3) A street railway shall lay and maintain the track of a street railway system in a manner and with the type of track to keep the track and the pavement of the public street or highway adjacent to the track in a state of condition and repair as prescribed by the road authority with jurisdiction over the public street or highway.

History: 2018, Act 57, Eff. Jan. 1, 2019
Mich. Comp. Laws § 129.210 — MI Code / Chapter 129 / Act Act-213-of-1963 / Section 129.210
Application of statute.
Status: in_force

Sec. 10.

This act shall not apply to any contract awarded pursuant to an invitation for bids issued on or before the effective date hereof, or to any person or bonds in respect to any such contract. The rights, duties, and obligations of parties arising under, or incidental to, bonds executed prior to the effective date of this act shall continue to be governed by the statutes heretofore applicable to such bonds.

History: 1963, Act 213, Eff. Sept. 6, 1963
Mich. Comp. Laws § 333.16145 — MI Code / Chapter 333 / Act Act-368-of-1978 / Section 333.16145
Board or task force; official seal; rules.
Status: in_force

Sec. 16145.

(1) A board may adopt and have an official seal.

(2) A board or task force may promulgate rules necessary or appropriate to fulfill its functions under this article.

(3) Except as provided in a specific part of this article, only a board or task force shall promulgate rules to specify requirements for licenses, registrations, renewals, examinations, and required passing scores.

History: 1978, Act 368, Eff. Sept. 30, 1978; Am. 1986, Act 174, Imd. Eff. July 7, 1986; Am. 1993, Act 80, Eff. Apr. 1, 1994; Am. 2024, Act 39, Eff. Apr. 2, 2025
Mich. Comp. Laws § 322.101 — MI Code / Chapter 322 / Act Act-37-of-1848 / Section 322.101
Approval of selections of lands; recording by secretary of state.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

That the certificates of the secretary of the treasury of the United States, of his approval, or the certificates and letters of the commissioner of the general land office of the United States of the approval by the secretary of the treasury of the selection of any lands heretofore granted, or which hereafter may be granted by the congress of the United States to this state, and which certificates and letters have been or hereafter may be received by the secretary of state, shall, together with their accompanying lists or descriptions of land be recorded by him in a book kept for that purpose.

History: 1848, Act 37, Imd. Eff. Feb. 11, 1848; CL 1857, 152; CL 1871, 217; How. 5218; CL 1897, 1269; CL 1915, 408; CL 1929, 5797; CL 1948, 322.101
Mich. Comp. Laws § 500.540 — MI Code / Chapter 500 / Act Act-218-of-1956 / Section 500.540
Use or disclosure of nonpublic personal financial information by certain associations or facilities.
Status: in_force

Sec. 540.

The Michigan life and health guaranty association, the property and casualty guaranty association, the Michigan automobile insurance placement facility, the Michigan worker's compensation placement facility, and the assigned claims facility created under section 3171 shall not disclose or use nonpublic personal financial information except as provided in section 537(1)(a) to (e) or section 539(a) to (o).

History: Add. 2001, Act 24, Imd. Eff. June 18, 2001
Mich. Comp. Laws § 67.11 — MI Code / Chapter 61 / Act Act-3-of-1895 / Section 67.11
Sidewalks; regulation of things on, over and under.
Status: in_force

Sec. 11.

The council shall have power to regulate and prohibit the placing of signs, awnings, awning posts and other things upon or over sidewalks, and to regulate or prohibit the construction and use of openings in the sidewalks, and of all vaults, structures and excavations under the same.

History: 1895, Act 3, Imd. Eff. Feb. 19, 1895; CL 1897, 2779; CL 1915, 2650; CL 1929, 1559; CL 1948, 67.11
Mich. Comp. Laws § 53.94 — MI Code / Chapter 53 / Act R-S-of-1846 / Section 53.94
Register of deeds; records, form, binding.
Status: in_force

Sec. 94.

The board of supervisors of each county shall, from time to time, provide suitable books, at the expense of the county, for the entering and recording of all deeds and matters required by law to be entered and recorded by the register of deeds. Such books may be of detachable leaves in a binder which admits of its being kept locked so that it shall be impossible for any leaves to be removed therefrom or inserted therein except by or under the direction of the register of deeds, and all the pages thereof, shall be consecutively numbered before any record is made thereon. Such record may be made wholly or partly with a typewriter if ink of a permanent character is used therewith. When the number of leaves in any binder shall constitute a book of a proper and convenient size they shall be permanently bound in some manner, but may be retained in the original binder or placed in a transfer binder if the mechanism thereof permits of so securing such leaves therein that they cannot be removed therefrom with or without a key.

History: R.S. 1846, Ch. 14; CL 1857, 442; CL 1871, 584; How. 612; CL 1897, 2615; Am. 1915, Act 77, Eff. Aug. 24, 1915; CL 1915, 2477; CL 1929, 1378; CL 1948, 53.94