FrankGoortani/open-us-law huggingface dataset:
Mich. Comp. Laws § 15.262 — MI Code / Chapter 15 / Act Act-267-of-1976 / Section 15.262
Definitions.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

As used in this act:

"Public body" means any state or local legislative or governing body, including a board, commission, committee, subcommittee, authority, or council, that is empowered by state constitution, statute, charter, ordinance, resolution, or rule to exercise governmental or proprietary authority or perform a governmental or proprietary function; a lessee of such a body performing an essential public purpose and function pursuant to the lease agreement; or the board of a nonprofit corporation formed by a city under section 4o of the home rule city act, 1909 PA 279, MCL 117.4o.

"Meeting" means the convening of a public body at which a quorum is present for the purpose of deliberating toward or rendering a decision on a public policy, or any meeting of the board of a nonprofit corporation formed by a city under section 4o of the home rule city act, 1909 PA 279, MCL 117.4o.

"Closed session" means a meeting or part of a meeting of a public body that is closed to the public.

"Decision" means a determination, action, vote, or disposition upon a motion, proposal, recommendation, resolution, order, ordinance, bill, or measure on which a vote by members of a public body is required and by which a public body effectuates or formulates public policy.

History: 1976, Act 267, Eff. Mar. 31, 1977; Am. 2001, Act 38, Imd. Eff. July 11, 2001
Mich. Comp. Laws § 339.5529 — MI Code / Chapter 339 / Act Act-407-of-2016 / Section 339.5529
Petition; writing; reasons.
Status: in_force

Sec. 529.

A petition submitted under section 527 shall be in writing and shall set forth the reasons the petitioner believes that the department should issue the license or permit.

History: 2016, Act 407, Eff. Apr. 4, 2017
Mich. Comp. Laws § 450.3125 — MI Code / Chapter 450 / Act Act-162-of-1982 / Section 450.3125
Adoption of initial bylaws; ratification or amendment; contents of bylaws.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1125.

Notwithstanding section 231, the initial bylaws of a cooperative may be adopted by the incorporators, the board, or the members. If initial bylaws are adopted by the incorporators or the board, at the first meeting of members the bylaws shall be submitted to the members for ratification or amendment.

Bylaws may contain provisions for educational programs for directors, members, employees, patrons, prospective members, and the community and provisions for cooperative relations with cooperatives and unincorporated cooperatives.

History: Add. 1984, Act 209, Eff. Nov. 1, 1985
Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.1494 — MI Code / Chapter 600 / Act Act-236-of-1961 / Section 600.1494
Applicability of MCL 600.1490 to 600.1493; exception.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1494.

Sections 1490 to 1493 do not apply to official court stenographers, recorders, reporters, or stenomask reporters appointed under chapter 8, 11, or 86 while in the performance of their official duties or to a court stenographer, recorder, or reporter appointed to serve in a municipal court while in the performance of his or her official duties.

History: Add. 1998, Act 249, Imd. Eff. July 10, 1998
Mich. Comp. Laws § 37.272 — MI Code / Chapter 37 / Act Act-478-of-2012 / Section 37.272
Definitions.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

As used in this act:

(a) "Access information" means user name, password, login information, or other security information that protects access to a personal internet account.

(b) "Educational institution" means a public or private educational institution or a separate school or department of a public or private educational institution, and includes an academy; elementary or secondary school; extension course; kindergarten; nursery school; school system; school district; intermediate school district; business, nursing, professional, secretarial, technical, or vocational school; public or private educational testing service or administrator; and an agent of an educational institution. Educational institution shall be construed broadly to include public and private institutions of higher education to the greatest extent consistent with constitutional limitations.

(c) "Employer" means a person, including a unit of state or local government, engaged in a business, industry, profession, trade, or other enterprise in this state and includes an agent, representative, or designee of the employer.

(d) "Personal internet account" means an account created via a bounded system established by an internet-based service that requires a user to input or store access information via an electronic device to view, create, utilize, or edit the user's account information, profile, display, communications, or stored data.

History: 2012, Act 478, Imd. Eff. Dec. 28, 2012
Mich. Comp. Laws § 32.1131c — MI Code / Chapter 32 / Act Act-523-of-1980 / Section 32.1131c
Obstruction of justice; adverse administrative proceeding; punishment.
Status: in_force

Sec. 131c.

An individual subject to this code who, having reason to believe that an adverse administrative proceeding is pending against another individual subject to this code, wrongfully acts with the intent to influence, impede, or obstruct the conduct of the proceeding, or otherwise to obstruct the due administration of justice, must be punished as a court-martial directs.

History: Add. 2024, Act 77, Imd. Eff. July 8, 2024
Mich. Comp. Laws § 484.1605 — MI Code / Chapter 484 / Act Act-32-of-1986 / Section 484.1605
Prohibited use of emergency 9-1-1 service; violation; penalty; exception.
Status: in_force

Sec. 605.

(1) A person shall not use an emergency 9-1-1 service authorized by this act for any reason other than to call for an emergency response service from a primary public safety answering point.

(2) A person who knowingly uses or attempts to use an emergency 9-1-1 service for a purpose other than authorized in subsection (1) is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not more than 180 days or a fine of not more than $5,000.00, or both.

(3) A person who violates subsection (2) and has 1 or more prior convictions under this section is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than 2 years or a fine of not more than $10,000.00, or both.

(4) This section does not apply to a person who calls a public safety answering point to report a crime or seek assistance that is not an emergency unless the call is repeated after the person is told to call a different number.

History: Add. 1999, Act 80, Eff. Oct. 27, 1999; Am. 2007, Act 165, Imd. Eff. Dec. 21, 2007
Mich. Comp. Laws § 207.717 — MI Code / Chapter 207 / Act Act-385-of-1984 / Section 207.717
Analyses of costs and benefits.
Status: in_force

Sec. 17.

After this act has been in effect for 4 years, the departments of commerce and of treasury shall jointly prepare and submit to the respective committees of the senate and house of representatives having jurisdiction over matters concerning taxes, economic development, and corporations an in-depth analysis of the costs and benefits of this act in the communities where it has been utilized.

History: 1984, Act 385, Imd. Eff. Dec. 28, 1984
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.5007 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.5007
Training needs; multi-asset management system.
Status: in_force

Sec. 5007.

(1) The water asset management council shall identify training needs to develop proficiency in using a multi-asset management system for asset owners, and training to identify asset system conditions based on a statewide asset condition measure.

(2) The water asset management council shall coordinate and collaborate with the transportation asset management council on planning, reporting, and training. The water asset management council shall collaborate with the transportation asset management council created in section 9a of 1951 PA 51, MCL 247.659a, on potential coordination in the submission of asset management plans.

History: Add. 2018, Act 324, Imd. Eff. July 2, 2018
Mich. Comp. Laws § 247.445 — MI Code / Chapter 247 / Act Act-59-of-1915 / Section 247.445
Costs of appeals.
Status: in_force

Sec. 45.

In case the assessment of the county road commissioners, or the state highway commissioner, shall be sustained by such board of review, the appellant shall pay the whole cost and expense of the appeal. Such cost and expense shall be ascertained and determined by the judge of probate; and the amount so determined by said judge, or by the court on appeal therefrom, shall be paid by the county, city, or township appealing, to the county treasurer of said county, and placed to the credit of the road district. If the apportionment of the county road commissioners, or the state highway commissioner, is not sustained, the road district shall pay the cost of such appeal.

History: 1915, Act 59, Eff. Aug. 24, 1915; CL 1915, 4715; Am. 1917, Act 125, Imd. Eff. Apr. 25, 1917; Am. 1919, Act 107, Eff. Aug. 14, 1919; CL 1929, 4360; CL 1948, 247.445
Mich. Comp. Laws § 450.1763 — MI Code / Chapter 450 / Act Act-284-of-1972 / Section 450.1763
Rights of partial dissenter; assertion of dissenters' rights by beneficial shareholder.
Status: in_force

Sec. 763.

A record shareholder may assert dissenters' rights as to fewer than all the shares registered in his or her name only if he or she dissents with respect to all shares beneficially owned by any 1 person and notifies the corporation in writing of the name and address of each person on whose behalf he or she asserts dissenters' rights. The rights of a partial dissenter under this subsection are determined as if the shares as to which he or she dissents and his or her other shares were registered in the names of different shareholders.

A beneficial shareholder may assert dissenters' rights as to shares held on his or her behalf only if all of the following apply:

He or she submits to the corporation the record shareholder's written consent to the dissent not later than the time the beneficial shareholder asserts dissenters' rights.

He or she does so with respect to all shares of which he or she is the beneficial shareholder or over which he or she has power to direct the vote.

History: 1972, Act 284, Eff. Jan. 1, 1973; Am. 1989, Act 121, Eff. Oct. 1, 1989
Mich. Comp. Laws § 333.21562 — MI Code / Chapter 333 / Act Act-368-of-1978 / Section 333.21562
Rural community hospital as limited service hospital; delivery of basic acute care services; rules implementing part; agreement to participate in medicaid program; definition; participation in federal medicare program; appointment, membership, and purpose of ad hoc advisory committee; transfer agreement.
Status: in_force

Sec. 21562.

A hospital designated as a rural community hospital under section 21561 shall be a limited service hospital directed toward the delivery of not more than basic acute care services in order to assure appropriate access in the rural area.

The rules promulgated to implement this part shall require that a hospital designated as a rural community hospital under section 21561 shall provide no more than the following services:

Emergency care.

Stabilization care for transfer to another facility.

Inpatient care.

Radiology and laboratory services.

Ambulatory care.

Obstetrical services.

Outpatient services.

Other services determined as appropriate by the ad hoc advisory committee created in subsection (5).

A rural community hospital shall enter into an agreement with the department of social services to participate in the medicaid program. As used in this subsection, "medicaid" means that term as defined in section 22207.

A rural community hospital shall meet the conditions for participation in the federal medicare program under title XVIII of the social security act.

Not later than 3 months after the effective date of this section, the director shall appoint an ad hoc advisory committee to develop recommendations for rules to designate the maximum number of beds and the services to be provided by a rural community hospital. In developing recommendations under this subsection, the ad hoc advisory committee shall review the provisions of the code pertaining to hospital licensure in order to determine those provisions that should apply to rural community hospitals. The director shall direct the committee to report its recommendations to the department within 12 months after the committee is appointed. The ad hoc advisory committee shall be appointed as follows:

Twenty-five percent of the members shall be representatives from hospitals with fewer than 100 licensed beds.

Twenty-five percent of the members shall be representatives from health care provider organizations other than hospitals.

Twenty-five percent of the members shall be representatives from organizations whose membership includes consumers of rural health care services or members of local governmental units located in rural areas.

Twenty-five percent of the members shall be representatives from purchasers or payers of rural health care services.

A hospital designated as a rural community hospital under section 21561 shall develop and implement a transfer agreement between the rural community hospital and 1 or more appropriate referral hospitals.

History: Add. 1990, Act 252, Imd. Eff. Oct. 12, 1990
Mich. Comp. Laws § 552.14 — MI Code / Chapter 552 / Act R-S-of-1846 / Section 552.14
Action for annulment, divorce, or separate maintenance; entering personal protection order.
Status: in_force

Sec. 14.

On the motion of a party at any time after the filing of a complaint in an action to annul a marriage or for a divorce or separate maintenance, the court may at any time during the pendency of the action prohibit a party from imposing any restraint on the moving party's personal liberty by entering a personal protection order under section 2950 or 2950a of the revised judicature act of 1961, Act No. 236 of the Public Acts of 1961, being sections 600.2950 and 600.2950a of the Michigan Compiled Laws.

On the motion of a party, before or at the time of a judgment of divorce, order for separate maintenance, or decree of annulment, regardless of whether a personal protection order has been issued under subsection (1), the court may enter a personal protection order under section 2950 or 2950a of the revised judicature act of 1961, Act No. 236 of the Public Acts of 1961, being sections 600.2950 and 600.2950a of the Michigan Compiled Laws.

History: R.S. 1846, Ch. 84; CL 1857, 3235; CL 1871, 4746; How. 6236; CL 1897, 8629; CL 1915, 11405; CL 1929, 12736; CL 1948, 552.14; Am. 1978, Act 318, Imd. Eff. July 10, 1978; Am. 1983, Act 229, Imd. Eff. Nov. 28, 1983; Am. 1994, Act 57, Eff. July 1, 1994; Am. 1994, Act 342, Eff. Apr. 1, 1996; Am. 1994, Act 417, Eff. Apr. 1, 1995
Mich. Comp. Laws § 125.2459 — MI Code / Chapter 125 / Act Act-173-of-1992 / Section 125.2459
Authority board; term of office; appointment or election of successors; conduct of election; list of record owners; votes cast by record owners.
Status: in_force

Sec. 9.

Except as provided in section 8 for the first authority board and as may be provided in a contract entered into pursuant to section 38, the term of office of a member of the authority board is 6 years.

Except as may be provided in a contract entered into pursuant to section 38, the county board of commissioners or the township board, as the case may be, that nominated a member of the first authority board appointed under section 8(4)(b)( iv ), (c)( iv ), (d)( iv ), or (d)( v ) shall appoint that member's successors. The state treasurer shall appoint the successors of a member of the first authority board appointed under section 8(4)(a)( ii ), (a)( iii ), (b)( ii ), (b)( iii ), (c)( ii ), (c)( iii ), (d)( ii ), or (d)( iii ). However, on or after the later of the date on which no indebtedness of the authority issued pursuant to this act is outstanding or 6 years after the date on which the authority was established, successors of a member of the first authority board appointed under section 8(4)(a)( ii ), (a)( iii ), (b)( ii ), (b)( iii ), (c)( ii ), (c)( iii ), (d)( ii ), or (d)( iii ) shall be elected by the record owners of real property located within the authority district as provided in subsections (4) and (5)(b).

The successors to a member of the authority board appointed pursuant to section 8(4)(a)( i ), (b)( i ), (c)( i ), or (d)( i ) shall be elected by the record owners of real property located within the authority district as provided in subsections (4) and (5).

An election under subsection (2) or (3) shall be conducted at the annual meeting of the authority board under section 12 immediately preceding the expiration of the term of the member of the authority board whose successor is to be elected. The authority board may provide by resolution for the manner of conducting an election of a member of the authority board.

At the request of the authority board for the purpose of conducting an election, the county register of deeds shall prepare and submit to the authority board a certified list of the names and mailing addresses of the record owners of real property located within the authority district. For each record owner of 1 or more acres, the list shall specify the number of acres owned. In an election, each record owner of real property located within the authority district may cast the following number of votes:

At an election other than an election described in subdivision (b), 1 vote. However, a record owner of 1 or more acres may instead cast 1 vote for each acre, or portion of an acre, owned by the record owner.

At an election conducted on or after the later of the date on which no indebtedness of the authority issued pursuant to this act is outstanding or 6 years after the date on which the authority was established, 1 vote.

History: 1992, Act 173, Imd. Eff. July 21, 1992
Mich. Comp. Laws § 380.1255a — MI Code / Chapter 380 / Act Act-451-of-1976 / Section 380.1255a
Medical benefit plan for 100 or more public employees; contract provisions; medical benefit plan for fewer than 100 employees; effect of subsection (1); "medical benefit plan" defined.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1255a.

(1) If a school district, intermediate school district, or public school academy has 100 or more employees in a medical benefit plan, or participates in an arrangement or letter of intent described in section 15(2) of the public employees health benefit act, 2007 PA 106, MCL 124.85, for a medical benefit plan for 100 or more public employees, the board of the school district or intermediate school district or board of directors of the public school academy shall not enter into a contract for that medical benefit plan unless the contract provides for 1 of the following:

(a) That the school district, intermediate school district, or public school academy is a policyholder for the medical benefit plan and, at all times during the period of the contract, the school district, intermediate school district, or public school academy will have access by electronic means to at least all of the claims utilization and cost information described in section 15 of the public employees health benefit act, 2007 PA 106, MCL 124.85.

(b) That, within 10 business days after making a written request, the school district, intermediate school district, or public school academy will be given access by electronic means to at least all of the claims utilization and cost information described in section 15 of the public employees health benefit act, 2007 PA 106, MCL 124.85.

(2) For a medical benefit plan provided by a school district, intermediate school district, or public school academy for fewer than 100 employees, subsection (1) does not affect the ability of the school district, intermediate school district, or public school academy to be a policyholder for the medical benefit plan.

(3) As used in this section, "medical benefit plan" means that term as defined in section 3 of the public employees health benefit act, 2007 PA 106, MCL 124.73.

History: Add. 2011, Act 95, Imd. Eff. July 15, 2011
Mich. Comp. Laws § 570.589 — MI Code / Chapter 570 / Act Act-201-of-2010 / Section 570.589
Written demand on behalf of owner of commercial real estate; service.
Status: in_force

Sec. 9.

A written demand on behalf of the owner of commercial real estate may be served on a person claiming a commercial real estate broker's lien, demanding that an action be commenced to enforce the lien or that an answer be filed in an action pending between the owner and the lien claimant. If the action is not commenced or the answer is not filed within 30 days after service of the demand, the lien is extinguished without further action. Service of the demand may be by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, or by personal service.

History: 2010, Act 201, Imd. Eff. Oct. 5, 2010
Mich. Comp. Laws § 257.722a — MI Code / Chapter 257 / Act Act-300-of-1949 / Section 257.722a
Transporting flammable liquid; violation as misdemeanor; penalty; enforcement; “in bulk” defined; vehicles transporting hazardous materials.
Status: in_force

Sec. 722a.

A truck pulling a trailer, a truck tractor pulling a semitrailer and trailer combination, or a truck tractor pulling 2 semitrailers shall not transport a flammable liquid, in bulk, which has a flash point at or below 70 degrees Fahrenheit within this state.

A truck pulling a trailer, a truck tractor pulling a semitrailer and trailer combination, or a truck tractor pulling 2 semitrailers shall not transport a flammable gas or a compressed flammable gas, in bulk, as defined by 49 C.F.R. parts 100 to 180, within this state.

A truck or a truck tractor pulling a semitrailer shall not transport a flammable liquid, in bulk, which has a flash point at or below 70 degrees Fahrenheit in this state, unless the truck or the semitrailer has a water capacity of less than 13,800 gallons. This subsection does not apply to those vehicles registered with the motor carrier division of the department of state police on or before January 1, 1986.

A truck or truck tractor pulling a semitrailer shall not transport a flammable liquid, in bulk, which has a flash point at or below 70 degrees Fahrenheit in a quantity of more than 13,400 gallons.

The owner or driver of a vehicle that transports, or a shipper who loads a vehicle with a flammable liquid, flammable gas, or compressed flammable gas in violation of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not more than $3,000.00, or imprisonment for not more than 90 days, or both.

This section shall be enforced only by a police officer.

For the purposes of this section, "in bulk" means an amount of product or material of 3,500 water gallons or more in a single containment system. Commercial motor vehicles transporting hazardous materials shall comply with the motor carrier safety act, Act No. 181 of the Public Acts of 1963, being sections 480.11 to 480.21 of the Michigan Compiled Laws.

History: Add. 1984, Act 74, Imd. Eff. Apr. 18, 1984; Am. 1985, Act 141, Imd. Eff. Oct. 31, 1985; Am. 1993, Act 249, Imd. Eff. Nov. 22, 1993; Am. 1995, Act 248, Imd. Eff. Dec. 27, 1995
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.63103a — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.63103a
Mining of ferrous minerals; permit required.
Status: in_force

Sec. 63103a.

A ferrous mineral operator shall not engage in the mining of ferrous minerals except as authorized by a permit issued by the department pursuant to part 13. The department shall not issue a permit unless the applicant has submitted to the department, in addition to the permit application, a mining and reclamation plan for the proposed ferrous mining activity as prescribed by section 63103b.

History: Add. 1997, Act 149, Imd. Eff. Dec. 2, 1997; Am. 2004, Act 325, Imd. Eff. Sept. 10, 2004; Am. 2011, Act 214, Imd. Eff. Nov. 8, 2011