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Mich. Comp. Laws § 500.4501 — MI Code / Chapter 500 / Act Act-218-of-1956 / Section 500.4501
Definitions.
Status: in_force

Sec. 4501.

As used in this chapter:

(a) "Authorized agency" means the department of state police; a city, village, or township police department; a county sheriff's department; a United States criminal investigative department or agency; the prosecuting authority of a city, village, township, county, or state or of the United States; the office of financial and insurance regulation; or the department of state.

(b) "Financial loss" includes, but is not limited to, loss of earnings, out-of-pocket and other expenses, repair and replacement costs, investigative costs, and claims payments.

(c) "Insurance policy" or "policy" means an insurance policy, benefit contract of a self-funded plan, health maintenance organization contract, nonprofit dental care corporation certificate, or health care corporation certificate.

(d) "Insurer" means a property-casualty insurer, life insurer, third party administrator, self-funded plan, health insurer, health maintenance organization, nonprofit dental care corporation, health care corporation, reinsurer, or any other entity regulated by the insurance laws of this state and providing any form of insurance.

(e) "Organization" means an organization or internal department of an insurer established to detect and prevent insurance fraud.

(f) "Person" includes an individual, insurer, company, association, organization, Lloyds, society, reciprocal or inter-insurance exchange, partnership, syndicate, business trust, corporation, and any other legal entity.

(g) "Practitioner" means a licensee of this state authorized to practice medicine and surgery, psychology, chiropractic, or law, any other licensee of the state, or an unlicensed health care provider whose services are compensated, directly or indirectly, by insurance proceeds, or a licensee similarly licensed in other states and nations, or the practitioner of any nonmedical treatment rendered in accordance with a recognized religious method of healing.

(h) "Runner", "capper", or "steerer" means a person who receives a pecuniary or other benefit from a practitioner, whether directly or indirectly, for procuring or attempting to procure a client, patient, or customer at the direction or request of, or in cooperation with, a practitioner whose intent is to obtain benefits under a contract of insurance or to assert a claim against an insured or an insurer for providing services to the client, patient, or customer. Runner, capper, or steerer does not include a practitioner who procures clients, patients, or customers through the use of public media.

(i) "Statement" includes, but is not limited to, any notice statement, proof of loss, bill of lading, receipt for payment, invoice, account, estimate of property damages, bill for services, claim form, diagnosis, prescription, hospital or doctor record, X-rays, test result, or other evidence of loss, injury, or expense.

History: Add. 1995, Act 276, Eff. Mar. 28, 1996; Am. 2012, Act 39, Imd. Eff. Mar. 6, 2012
Mich. Comp. Laws § 400.1215 — MI Code / Chapter 400 / Act Act-34-of-1984 / Section 400.1215
Energy refunds or credits; application.
Status: in_force

Sec. 15.

Any pipeline or purchase gas adjustments or other energy refunds or credits to assisted households enrolled in the program shall be applied by the provider utility to the assisted household's preenrollment arrearage. Refunds or credits in excess of preenrollment arrearages shall be refunded by the provider utility to the state general fund.

History: 1984, Act 34, Eff. Apr. 12, 1984
Mich. Comp. Laws § Article VII § 34 — MI Code / Chapter 1 / Act CONSTITUTION-OF-MICHIGAN-OF-1963 / Section Article VII § 34
Construction of constitution and law concerning counties, townships, cities, villages.
Status: in_force

Sec. 34.

The provisions of this constitution and law concerning counties, townships, cities and villages shall be liberally construed in their favor. Powers granted to counties and townships by this constitution and by law shall include those fairly implied and not prohibited by this constitution.

History: Const. 1963, Art. VII, § 34, Eff. Jan. 1, 1964
Mich. Comp. Laws § 390.314 — MI Code / Chapter 390 / Act Act-9-of-1955-1st-Ex-Sess- / Section 390.314
Highway traffic safety center; appropriations, loans, donations.
Status: in_force

Sec. 4.

There is hereby authorized to be appropriated from time to time such sums as may be necessary for the purposes of this act, and the state board of agriculture may utilize for the purposes of this act any loans, donations or gifts of material or money as may be made available to it.

History: 1955, 1st Ex. Sess., Act 9, Imd. Eff. Nov. 10, 1955
Mich. Comp. Laws § 21.211 — MI Code / Chapter 21 / Act Act-143-of-1859 / Section 21.211
University interest fund; interest credited; payment to university treasurer.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

That the state treasurer shall credit to the university interest fund interest on the entire amount received by the state for university lands sold or contracted, the state treasurer shall pay that amount to the treasurer of the university upon his or her application, from time to time, as the interest may accrue and be required for the use of the university.

History: 1859, Act 143, Eff. May 18, 1859; CL 1871, 3888; How. 5360; CL 1897, 1196; CL 1915, 297; CL 1929, 357; CL 1948, 21.211; Am. 2002, Act 169, Imd. Eff. Apr. 23, 2002
Mich. Comp. Laws § 69.24 — MI Code / Chapter 61 / Act Act-3-of-1895 / Section 69.24
Disbursements; procedures.
Status: in_force

Sec. 24.

Disbursements may be made from the treasury under either of the following procedures:

Upon appropriation by the council and the warrant of the clerk, countersigned by the president. The warrant shall specify the fund from which the money is payable, and shall be paid from no other fund. A warrant shall not be drawn upon the treasury after the fund from which it should be paid has been exhausted, and such a warrant is void.

Pursuant to an ordinance or resolution under section 5 of chapter V.

History: 1895, Act 3, Imd. Eff. Feb. 19, 1895; CL 1897, 2875; CL 1915, 2749; CL 1929, 1658; CL 1948, 69.24; Am. 1998, Act 254, Imd. Eff. July 13, 1998
Mich. Comp. Laws § 390.1471 — MI Code / Chapter 390 / Act Act-161-of-2000 / Section 390.1471
Short title.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Michigan education savings program act".

History: 2000, Act 161, Imd. Eff. June 16, 2000
Mich. Comp. Laws § 388.1807c — MI Code / Chapter 388 / Act Act-94-of-1979 / Section 388.1807c
Allocation to community colleges described in MCL 125.2692.
Status: in_force

Sec. 207c.

All of the following apply to the allocation of the appropriations described in section 201(6) to community colleges described in section 12(3) of the Michigan renaissance zone act, 1996 PA 376, MCL 125.2692:

(a) The amount allocated to each community college under section 201(6) for fiscal year 2025-2026 must be based on that community college's proportion of total revenue lost by community colleges as a result of the exemption of property taxes levied in 2025 under the Michigan renaissance zone act, 1996 PA 376, MCL 125.2681 to 125.2696.

(b) The appropriations described in section 201(6) must be made to each eligible community college within 60 days after the department of treasury certifies to the state budget director that it has received all necessary information to properly determine the amounts payable to each eligible community college under section 12 of the Michigan renaissance zone act, 1996 PA 376, MCL 125.2692.

History: Add. 2014, Act 196, Eff. Oct. 1, 2014; Am. 2015, Act 85, Eff. Oct. 1, 2015; Am. 2016, Act 249, Eff. Oct. 1, 2016; Am. 2017, Act 108, Eff. Oct. 1, 2017; Am. 2018, Act 265, Eff. Oct. 1, 2018; Am. 2019, Act 52, Eff. Oct. 1, 2019; Am. 2020, Act 165, Eff. Oct. 1, 2020; Am. 2021, Act 86, Eff. Oct. 1, 2021; Am. 2022, Act 144, Eff. Oct. 1, 2022; Am. 2023, Act 103, Eff. Oct. 1, 2023; Am. 2024, Act 120, Eff. Oct. 1, 2024; Am. 2025, Act 15, Imd. Eff. Oct. 7, 2025
Mich. Comp. Laws § 390.977 — MI Code / Chapter 390 / Act Act-208-of-1964 / Section 390.977
Choice of institution or course of study; exception; accepting or continuing enrollment; notice; reports.
Status: in_force

Sec. 7.

(1) An applicant awarded a first-year scholarship or a renewal scholarship is not restricted in the choice of the institution in this state that the applicant desires to attend if the institution is an eligible postsecondary institution under rules promulgated by the department, except that a student shall not use a scholarship award at an institution whose primary purpose is to prepare students for ordination or appointment as a member of the clergy of a church, denomination, or religious association, order, or sect. An applicant awarded a first-year scholarship or a renewal scholarship is not restricted in the choice of the course of study the applicant wishes to pursue.

(2) An eligible postsecondary institution chosen by the applicant is not required to accept the applicant for enrollment, or once having admitted the applicant, to continue the applicant's enrollment. The eligible postsecondary institution accepting the enrollment of a state competitive scholarship award winner shall notify the department of the recipient's enrollment and shall submit annually to the department reports that are required and necessary to administer this act.

History: 1964, Act 208, Imd. Eff. May 22, 1964; Am. 1965, Act 153, Imd. Eff. July 12, 1965; Am. 1979, Act 48, Imd. Eff. July 7, 1979; Am. 1980, Act 500, Eff. July 1, 1981; Am. 2004, Act 181, Imd. Eff. July 1, 2004; Am. 2024, Act 233, Eff. Apr. 2, 2025
Mich. Comp. Laws § 205.707 — MI Code / Chapter 205 / Act Act-186-of-1973 / Section 205.707
Provisions effective.
Status: in_force

Sec. 7.

The provisions of this act are effective nothwithstanding the provisions of any statute, charter, or law to the contrary.

History: 1973, Act 186, Eff. July 1, 1974
Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.953b — MI Code / Chapter 722 / Act Act-203-of-1994 / Section 722.953b
Family finding engagement services.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3b.

(1) Upon appropriation and by not later than October 1, 2022, the department must work in conjunction with entities that perform family finding and engagement services to help foster youth who are separated from their family to connect to family and friends who may assist in the foster youth's care.

(2) By December 31, 2022, the department must make efforts in family finding and engagement services on behalf of all foster youth currently in the foster care program. The department must incorporate family finding and engagement services in all current and future child abuse and child neglect investigations.

History: Add. 2022, Act 204, Imd. Eff. Oct. 7, 2022
Mich. Comp. Laws § 250.1060 — MI Code / Chapter 250 / Act Act-142-of-2001 / Section 250.1060
“Bernie Borden Memorial Overpass.”
Status: in_force

Sec. 60.

The overpass located at the intersection of highway I-75 and highway M-57 in Genesee county shall be known as the "Bernie Borden Memorial Overpass".

History: 2001, Act 142, Imd. Eff. Oct. 26, 2001
Mich. Comp. Laws § 400.117e — MI Code / Chapter 400 / Act Act-280-of-1939 / Section 400.117e
Annual basic grant of state money; eligibility; use of basic grant; criteria and conditions for basic grant; money for early intervention to treat problems of delinquency and neglect.
Status: in_force

Sec. 117e.

A county having a population of less than 75,000 is eligible to receive an annual basic grant of state money of $15,000.00.

To be eligible to receive state financial support under subsection (1), a county shall meet the requirements of this act. A county shall not be required to contribute matching funds to receive state financial support under subsection (1).

A basic grant may be used only to supplement added juvenile justice service costs and shall not be used to replace county money currently being expended on juvenile justice services.

The office shall establish qualifying criteria for awarding the basic grants and may specify conditions for each grant.

To provide for early intervention to treat problems of delinquency and neglect within the child's home and to expedite a child's return to his or her home, the office may expend money from the child care fund or from other sources authorized in legislative appropriations for new or expanded programs, if the office determines that the programs are alternatives to out-of-home institutional or foster care. The office shall establish criteria for the approval of expenditures made under this subsection. The office shall submit to the legislature and the governor a report summarizing and evaluating the implementation of this subsection and containing recommendations for its future use.

History: Add. 1978, Act 87, Eff. Apr. 1, 1978; Am. 1983, Act 222, Imd. Eff. Nov. 28, 1983; Am. 2004, Act 193, Imd. Eff. July 8, 2004
Mich. Comp. Laws § 141.433 — MI Code / Chapter 141 / Act Act-2-of-1968 / Section 141.433
Scope of examiner's authority; production of records; divulging confidential information.
Status: in_force

Sec. 13.

Notwithstanding the confidentiality provisions of any tax laws, any authorized employee of the state treasurer, certified public accountant or firm of certified public accountants conducting an audit under this act shall have access to and authority to examine all books, accounts, reports, vouchers, correspondence files and other records, bank accounts and moneys or other property of any local unit excepting any records which were obtained from the United States internal revenue service under the federal state cooperative exchange agreement.

An officer of a local unit upon demand of persons authorized under this act, shall produce all books, accounts, reports, vouchers, correspondence files and other records, bank accounts and moneys or other property of the local unit under audit or investigation and shall truthfully answer all questions related thereto.

The liabilities and penalties provided by all specific confidentiality statutes for divulging confidential information shall be applicable to all persons authorized to make an audit under this act.

History: 1968, Act 2, Imd. Eff. Feb. 20, 1968; Am. 1971, Act 91, Eff. Mar. 30, 1972
Mich. Comp. Laws § 331.8h — MI Code / Chapter 331 / Act Act-47-of-1945 / Section 331.8h
Bonds; deposit or investment of sale proceeds; use of moneys received from sale; cancellation of bonds acquired by purchase; payment of capitalized interest.
Status: in_force

Sec. 8h.

The hospital authority shall require the proceeds of the sale of bonds issued under this act to be deposited in an account separate from other moneys of the hospital authority in 1 or more banks or savings and loan associations each having unimpaired capital and surplus amounting to at least $2,000,000.00 or which is insured by the federal deposit insurance corporation or the federal savings and loan insurance corporation. However, the proceeds may be invested in whole or in part in the manner provided in this act if the investment is authorized in the resolution authorizing the bonds or approved by the department of treasury.

All moneys received from the sale of bonds shall be used solely for the purpose for which the bonds were authorized including any engineering, legal, and other expenses incidental thereto, and including the payment of interest on the bonds during a period not to exceed the first 3 years following the date of the bonds and the amount required for operation and maintenance prior to the receipt of the first revenues. An unexpended balance of the proceeds from the sale of the bonds remaining after completion of the project for which issued, may, to the extent of 15% of the amount of the issue, be used for the improvement or enlargement of hospitals of the hospital authority or may be used to defray the cost of additional hospitals of the hospital authority, if approved by the department of treasury. A remaining balance shall be paid immediately into the bond and interest redemption fund and used only for the redemption or purchase, at no more than the fair market value, of outstanding bonds the issue from which the proceeds were derived. Any bonds so acquired by purchase shall be canceled and shall not be reissued. A resolution authorizing bonds shall state the period for which interest is to be capitalized, and upon receipt of the proceeds of the bonds there shall be set aside therefrom in the bond and interest redemption fund the amount of interest which will accrue during such period at the interest rate or rates specified in the bonds. Moneys so set aside, except for the temporary investment thereof, shall be used solely for the payment of such capitalized interest.

History: Add. 1973, Act 161, Imd. Eff. Dec. 14, 1973; Am. 1983, Act 78, Imd. Eff. June 6, 1983
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.80203 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.80203
Administration of part.
Status: in_force

Sec. 80203.

Except as otherwise provided in this part, the department is responsible for the administration of this part.

History: Add. 2000, Act 229, Imd. Eff. June 27, 2000
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.11714 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.11714
Prohibited disposition of septage waste into certain bodies of water.
Status: in_force

Sec. 11714.

A person shall not dispose of septage waste directly or indirectly in a lake, pond, stream, river, or other body of water.

History: 1994, Act 451, Eff. Mar. 30, 1995; Am. 2004, Act 381, Imd. Eff. Oct. 12, 2004
Mich. Comp. Laws § 28.608 — MI Code / Chapter 28 / Act Act-203-of-1965 / Section 28.608
Commission members; compensation; expenses.
Status: in_force

Sec. 8.

The members of the commission shall serve without compensation. The members of the commission are entitled to their actual expenses in attending meetings and in the performance of their official duties.

History: 1965, Act 203, Eff. Jan. 1, 1966; Am. 1998, Act 237, Imd. Eff. July 3, 1998
Mich. Comp. Laws § 559.234 — MI Code / Chapter 559 / Act Act-59-of-1978 / Section 559.234
Recreational facilities and other amenities; compliance.
Status: in_force

Sec. 134.

Recreational facilities and other amenities, whether on condominium property or on adjacent property with respect to which the condominium has an obligation of support, shall comply with requirements prescribed by the administrator, to assure equitable treatment of all users.

History: 1978, Act 59, Eff. July 1, 1978; Am. 1982, Act 538, Imd. Eff. Jan. 17, 1983
Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.8345 — MI Code / Chapter 600 / Act Act-236-of-1961 / Section 600.8345
Causes transferred from abolished courts.
Status: in_force

Sec. 8345.

All causes of action transferred to the district court by the provisions of this act from any court abolished by the provisions of this act shall be as valid and subsisting as they were in the court from which they were transferred.

History: Add. 1968, Act 154, Imd. Eff. June 17, 1968
Mich. Comp. Laws § 3.811 — MI Code / Chapter 3 / Act Act-26-of-1987 / Section 3.811
Short title.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Michigan superconducting super collider act".

History: 1987, Act 26, Imd. Eff. May 12, 1987
Mich. Comp. Laws § 450.3132 — MI Code / Chapter 450 / Act Act-162-of-1982 / Section 450.3132
Membership; notice of qualifications.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1132.

Subject to section 304(7), membership in a consumer cooperative subject to this act shall be available to all patrons of the cooperative who are consumers. The bylaws may make membership available to other patrons. For any other cooperative, 50% or more of the patronage shall be with members or, subject to section 304(7), membership shall be available to all patrons. All cooperatives shall give all patrons reasonable notice of the qualifications for membership.

History: Add. 1984, Act 209, Eff. Nov. 1, 1985
Mich. Comp. Laws § 339.2514 — MI Code / Chapter 339 / Act Act-299-of-1980 / Section 339.2514
Real estate broker or real estate salesperson; nonresident applicant; consent to service of process; application; disposition of process or pleading.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2514.

A nonresident of this state may become a real estate broker or a real estate salesperson by conforming to the requirements of this article. A nonresident applicant shall file an irrevocable consent that an action may be commenced against the applicant in the proper court of a county of this state in which a cause of action may arise in which the plaintiff may reside, by the service of process or pleading authorized by the laws of this state on the department, the consent stipulating and agreeing that service of process or pleadings on the department shall be taken and held in court to be as valid and binding as if due service had been made upon the applicant in this state. An instrument containing a consent shall be authenticated by a seal, if a corporation, or by the acknowledged signature of a member or officer of the corporation, if otherwise. An application, except from an individual, shall be accompanied by the certified copy of the resolution of the proper officer or managing board authorizing the proper officer to execute the application. If a process or pleading mentioned in this article is served upon the department it shall be by duplicate copies, 1 of which shall be filed in the department and the other immediately forwarded by registered mail to the main office of the applicant against which the process or pleading is directed.

History: 1980, Act 299, Imd. Eff. Oct. 21, 1980
Mich. Comp. Laws § 388.1902 — MI Code / Chapter 388 / Act Act-258-of-2000 / Section 388.1902
Purpose of act.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

The purpose of this act is to provide a wider variety of options to high school pupils by encouraging and enabling qualified pupils to enroll in courses or programs in career and technical preparation programs at eligible postsecondary educational institutions.

History: 2000, Act 258, Eff. Apr. 1, 2001
Mich. Comp. Laws § 8.6a — MI Code / Chapter 8 / Act R-S-of-1846 / Section 8.6a
Auditor general; access to records.
Status: in_force

Sec. 6a.

Any statutory provision that explicitly allows the auditor general to access records must not be used to interpret any other statute without that explicit allowance as preventing the auditor general from accessing records.

History: Add. 2019, Act 155, Imd. Eff. Dec. 20, 2019
Mich. Comp. Laws § 554.608 — MI Code / Chapter 554 / Act Act-348-of-1972 / Section 554.608
Inventory checklists.
Status: in_force

Sec. 8.

The landlord shall make use of inventory checklists both at the commencement and termination of occupancy for each rental unit which detail the condition of the rental unit for which a security deposit is required.

At the commencement of the lease, the landlord shall furnish the tenant 2 blank copies of a commencement inventory checklist, which form shall be identical to the form used for the termination inventory checklist. The checklist shall include all items in the rental unit owned by the landlord including, but not limited to, carpeting, draperies, appliances, windows, furniture, walls, closets, shelves, paint, doors, plumbing fixtures and electrical fixtures.

Unless the landlord and tenant agree to complete their inventory checklist within a shorter period, the tenant shall review the checklist, note the condition of the property and return 1 copy of the checklist to the landlord within 7 days after receiving possession of the premises.

The checklist shall contain the following notice in 12 point boldface type at the top of the first page: "You should complete this checklist, noting the condition of the rental property, and return it to the landlord within 7 days after obtaining possession of the rental unit. You are also entitled to request and receive a copy of the last termination inventory checklist which shows what claims were chargeable to the last prior tenants.".

At the termination of the occupancy, the landlord shall complete a termination inventory checklist listing all the damages he claims were caused by the tenant.

History: 1972, Act 348, Eff. Apr. 1, 1973