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Mich. Comp. Laws § 247.663a — MI Code / Chapter 247 / Act Act-51-of-1951 / Section 247.663a
Acquisition of private property within right of way of highway project; expenditure of revenue.
Status: in_force

Sec. 13a.

The state transportation commission, the county road commissions, and the cities and villages of the state, acting individually or jointly in accordance with a contract, may acquire by purchase or condemnation, in advance of actual construction programming, private property situated within the right of way of a highway project planned for future construction by the governmental unit, and may expend for the advance acquisition of right of way money received by the governmental unit from the Michigan transportation fund. Revenue received from a rental or lease of property so acquired or from the disposition of an improvement on that property or the proceeds of the sale of excess parcels of property so acquired shall be expended by the governmental unit for highway purposes in accordance with this act.

History: Add. 1957, Act 262, Eff. July 1, 1957; Am. 1978, Act 444, Imd. Eff. Oct. 10, 1978
Mich. Comp. Laws § 484.171 — MI Code / Chapter 484 / Act Act-59-of-1851 / Section 484.171
Appraisal of damages; contiguous lands of same person.
Status: in_force

Sec. 21.

Whenever any person shall apply to any circuit court for the appointment of commissioners to appraise the damages to any lands owned or occupied by him, under the provisions of this act, and it shall appear to said court that such person owns or occupies other lands contiguous thereto, whether in the county where said court is held or otherwise, it shall be the duty of said circuit court to authorize and require said commissioners to appraise the damages to such applicants upon all [the] contiguous lands of such person, in whatever county they may lie, unless said association shall otherwise consent in writing.

History: Add. 1863, Act 240, Eff. June 22, 1863; CL 1871, 2644; How. 3712; CL 1897, 6686; CL 1915, 8786; CL 1929, 11682; CL 1948, 484.171
Mich. Comp. Laws § 18.1714 — MI Code / Chapter 18 / Act Act-625-of-2012 / Section 18.1714
Definitions; E to O.
Status: in_force

Sec. 4.

(1) "Energy performance contract" means a contract between a governmental unit and a qualified energy service provider for evaluation, recommendation, and implementation of 1 or more cost-savings measures. An energy performance contract may be structured as either a guaranteed energy savings contract or an energy savings performance contract.

(2) "Energy savings performance contract" means a contract under which the rate of payments is based upon energy and operational cost savings and a stipulated maximum energy consumption level over the life of the contract.

(3) "Governmental unit" means a department, state agency, or state authority.

(4) "Guaranteed energy savings contract" means a contract that includes all of the following:

(a) The design and installation of equipment.

(b) If applicable, operation and maintenance of any of the measures implemented.

(c) Guaranteed annual savings from reduced energy consumption and operating costs or increased operating efficiency that meet or exceed the total annual contract payments made by the governmental unit for the contract, including financing charges to be incurred by the governmental unit over the life of the contract.

(5) "Investment grade audit" means a study by the qualified energy service provider selected for a particular energy performance contract project that includes detailed descriptions of the improvements recommended for the project, the estimated costs of the improvements, and the operations and maintenance cost savings and utility cost savings projected to result from the recommended improvements.

(6) "Operation and maintenance cost savings" means a quantifiable and governmental unit approved decrease in operation and maintenance costs or future replacement expenditures that is a direct result of the implementation of 1 or more utility cost-savings measures. Operation and maintenance cost savings shall be calculated in comparison with an established baseline of operation and maintenance costs.

History: 2012, Act 625, Eff. Mar. 28, 2013
Mich. Comp. Laws § 141.1436 — MI Code / Chapter 141 / Act Act-254-of-2010 / Section 141.1436
Assessment revenues; deposit; disbursement; mailing audited financial statements and report; failure of bureau to provide copies within certain time limit; penalty.
Status: in_force

Sec. 6.

(1) The assessment revenues collected pursuant to this act shall not be state funds. The money shall be deposited in a bank or other depository in this state, in the name of the bureau, and disbursed only for the expenses properly incurred by the bureau with respect to the marketing programs developed by the bureau under this act.

(2) The financial statements of the bureau shall be audited at least annually by a certified public accountant. A copy of the audited financial statements shall be mailed to each owner not more than 150 days after the close of the bureau's fiscal year. The financial statements shall include a statement of all assessment revenues received by the bureau during the fiscal year in question and include the amount of wages and benefits for each full-time employee of the bureau and shall be accompanied by a detailed report, certified as correct by the chief operating officer of the bureau, describing the marketing programs implemented or, to the extent then known, to be implemented by the bureau.

(3) Copies of the audited financial statements and the certified report shall simultaneously be mailed to the director, who shall make it available to the public on the internet. If the bureau fails to submit copies of the audited financial statements and the certified report to the director as provided in this subsection, the director shall mail a demand letter to the bureau requesting copies of the audited financial statements and the certified report with a copy of that demand letter forwarded to the attorney general. If the director does not receive copies of the audited financial statement and the certified report described in this subsection within 90 days of the demand letter, upon notice by the director or the attorney general, for the period of noncompliance with this subsection, the bureau shall not expend any portion of the assessment collected during the period of noncompliance with this subsection. The attorney general may assist the director in enforcing the provisions of this act.

(4) If the bureau fails to provide the copies of the audited financial statement and the certified report within 90 days of the demand letter as provided in subsection (3), the bureau is responsible for a state civil infraction and may be ordered to pay a civil fine of not more than $10,000.00 and, in addition, the attorney general may bring action to dissolve the bureau as provided by law.

History: 2010, Act 254, Imd. Eff. Dec. 14, 2010
Mich. Comp. Laws § 554.5 — MI Code / Chapter 554 / Act R-S-of-1846 / Section 554.5
Freehold estates; chattels real; chattel interests.
Status: in_force

Sec. 5.

Estates of inheritance and for life shall be denominated estates of freehold; estates for years shall be denominated chattels real; and estates at will or by sufferance shall be chattel interests, but shall not be liable as such to sale on executions.

History: R.S. 1846, Ch. 62; CL 1857, 2589; CL 1871, 4072; How. 5521; CL 1897, 8787; CL 1915, 11523; CL 1929, 12925; CL 1948, 554.5
Mich. Comp. Laws § 330.1824 — MI Code / Chapter 330 / Act Act-258-of-1974 / Section 330.1824
Undue financial burden prohibited.
Status: in_force

Sec. 824.

No determination of ability to pay that is made by the department or community mental health services program shall impose an undue financial burden on the individual or the individual's family members.

In an instance where through no fault of the individual or the individual's family members the department or community mental health services program has not billed for services in a timely manner, an undue financial burden has been created. The department or community mental health services program shall only obligate an individual or the individual's family to pay for services based on their ability to pay when the initial bill for services is presented within 2 years from the date the services were provided.

History: 1974, Act 258, Eff. Nov. 6, 1974; Am. 1995, Act 290, Eff. Mar. 28, 1996
Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.1802 — MI Code / Chapter 722 / Act Act-24-of-2024 / Section 722.1802
Requirements for consent to assisted reproduction.
Status: in_force

Sec. 202.

(1) The consent described in section 201 must be either of the following:

(a) In a record signed before, on, or after the birth of the child by the individual who gave birth to the child and by an individual who intends to be a parent of the child. An acknowledgment of parentage under the acknowledgment of parentage act, 1996 PA 305, MCL 722.1001 to 722.1013, is a record within the meaning of this subdivision.

(b) In an agreement entered into before conception that the individual who gave birth to the child and the individual who intends to be a parent of the child intended they both would be parents of the child.

(2) Failure to consent as required by subsection (1) does not preclude a court from finding consent to parent if the individual for the first 2 years of the child's life, including any period of temporary absence, resided in the same household with the child and openly held out the child as the individual's child.

History: 2024, Act 24, Eff. Apr. 2, 2025
Mich. Comp. Laws § 18.1454 — MI Code / Chapter 18 / Act Act-431-of-1984 / Section 18.1454
Appropriation of full-time equated positions; basis; report on status of FTE positions; report containing fiscal year summary of information required in subsection (2).
Status: in_force

Sec. 454.

Each budget act shall appropriate full-time equated positions based on 2,088 hours for 1.0 FTE position.

Before the end of each quarter, the department of civil service shall provide a report to the department, the appropriations committees, and the fiscal agencies regarding the status of FTE positions for the preceding quarter. The quarterly report shall include, but shall not be limited to, the following information:

The number of FTE positions, by department, on the last payroll for the preceding quarter.

The increase or decrease in FTE positions, by department, compared to the last quarterly report.

The difference between the appropriated FTE positions, and the actual number of FTE positions, by department, for that quarter.

Summary totals for the information listed in subdivisions (a), (b), and (c).

The department of civil service shall provide a report to the appropriations committees and the fiscal agencies by December 1 of each year, which shall include a fiscal year summary of the information required in subsection (2) for the most recently completed fiscal year.

History: Add. 1988, Act 504, Imd. Eff. Dec. 29, 1988; Am. 1999, Act 8, Imd. Eff. Mar. 22, 1999
Mich. Comp. Laws § 418.846 — MI Code / Chapter 418 / Act Act-317-of-1969 / Section 418.846
Worker's compensation benefits received under law of another state for same personal injury; credit.
Status: in_force

Sec. 846.

If an employee or the employee's dependents receive worker's compensation benefits from an employer, a carrier, a principal, or a subcontractor under the law of another state for the same personal injury for which benefits are payable under this act, the amount recovered under the law of the other state, whether paid or to be paid in future installments, shall be credited against the benefits payable under this act.

History: Add. 1981, Act 202, Eff. Jan. 1, 1982
Mich. Comp. Laws § 432.402 — MI Code / Chapter 432 / Act Act-149-of-2019 / Section 432.402
Legislative findings and declaration.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

The legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(a) Operating, conducting, and offering for play sports betting on the internet, including through mobile application, involves gaming activity that already occurs in this state illegally.

(b) This act is consistent and complies with the unlawful internet gambling enforcement act of 2006, 31 USC 5361 to 5367, and with 18 USC 1084, and permits the use of the internet, including through mobile application, to place, receive, or otherwise knowingly transmit a sports bet or wager if that use complies with this act and rules promulgated under this act.

(c) This act is consistent and complies with the state constitution of 1963 by ensuring that internet sports betting may only be offered by licensed sports betting operators who are lawfully operating casinos in this state.

(d) In order to protect residents of this state who wager on sports through the internet, including through mobile application, and to capture revenues generated from such sports betting, it is in the best interest of this state and its citizens to regulate this activity establishing a secure, responsible, fair, and legal system of internet sports betting.

History: 2019, Act 149, Imd. Eff. Dec. 20, 2019
Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.1855 — MI Code / Chapter 600 / Act Act-236-of-1961 / Section 600.1855
Service of process; public bodies, duties of officers.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1855.

Service of process on municipal and public corporations and other public bodies shall be made as prescribed by rule of the supreme court. The officer upon whom such service is made shall inform the public body of such service at or before its next meeting. The council, board, commission, corporation, or other public body may appear and answer or plead in such proceedings in such manner as it may direct.

History: 1961, Act 236, Eff. Jan. 1, 1963
Mich. Comp. Laws § 3.64 — MI Code / Chapter 3 / Act Act-221-of-1999 / Section 3.64
Severability provision.
Status: in_force

Sec. 4.

If any portion of this act or the application of this act to any person or circumstances is found to be invalid by a court, the invalidity shall not affect the remaining portions or applications of the act which can be given effect without the invalid portion or application. The provisions of this act are severable.

History: 1999, Act 221, Eff. Mar. 10, 2000
Mich. Comp. Laws § 213.364 — MI Code / Chapter 213 / Act Act-295-of-1966 / Section 213.364
Property; payments; source, warrants.
Status: in_force

Sec. 4.

Property acquired shall be paid for by the petitioner out of any funds under its control and available for that purpose. Any payment or deposit of money under this act may be made in the form of a warrant drawn on the city, village, county or state treasury.

History: 1966, Act 295, Imd. Eff. July 14, 1966; Am. 1967, Act 206, Imd. Eff. July 10, 1967
Mich. Comp. Laws § 453.307 — MI Code / Chapter 453 / Act Act-125-of-1871 / Section 453.307
Local pomological and horticultural associations; annual reports to state association, contents.
Status: in_force

Sec. 7.

District or county, town, city, or village associations organized under this act are hereby required to report through their secretary, in the month of November in each year, to the secretary of the state association, the proceedings of said society during the year, giving a statement of the facts elicited and of the experience gained during the preceding year; such reports from district, county, town, city, or village societies to be used as correspondence in compiling the report of the state association provided for in section 6.

History: 1871, Act 125, Imd. Eff. Apr. 15, 1871; CL 1871, 3176; How. 2321; CL 1897, 5982; CL 1915, 7884; CL 1929, 10242; CL 1948, 453.307
Mich. Comp. Laws § 456.119 — MI Code / Chapter 456 / Act Act-12-of-1869 / Section 456.119
List of corporations; compilation; forwarding to corporation and securities commission.
Status: in_force

Sec. 19.

Upon instructions from the corporation and securities commission, every county clerk shall forthwith compile a list of corporations whose articles have been filed in his office in accordance with the provisions of this act, and shall forthwith forward such list, together with the last known address of the corporations, to the corporation and securities commission, which shall forthwith notify every such corporation of the provisions and requirements of this act, as amended, by mailing such notice addressed to the corporation at its last known address as given by the county clerk.

History: Add. 1953, Act 167, Eff. Oct. 2, 1953
Mich. Comp. Laws § 436.1526 — MI Code / Chapter 436 / Act Act-58-of-1998 / Section 436.1526
Beer festival; issuance of special license; limitation; buying directly from licensed brewpub; showcasing beer; serving age requirement; "beer festival" defined.
Status: in_force

Sec. 526.

(1) The commission may issue a special license under this section to an organization conducting a beer festival. The application must conform to the following:

(a) Be submitted by a nonprofit entity composed primarily of brewers, micro brewers, and brewpubs, as determined by the commission.

(b) Involve an event having for its primary purpose the showcasing of beer and its production.

(c) Be accompanied by a fee of $25.00 per day of the event.

(2) The special license must not allow more than 6 events per calendar year conforming to the requirements of subsection (1). For purposes of this subsection, a beer festival that spans 2 or more consecutive days is considered 1 event.

(3) A holder of a special license issued under this section may buy a quantity of beer directly from any licensed brewpub or wholesaler or directly from a micro brewer eligible to self-distribute to the beer festival for consumption only at the licensed event.

(4) Notwithstanding anything in this act to the contrary, beer that is dispensed to consumers for showcasing beer at a beer festival is considered a sample. A holder of a special license issued under this section may offer beer described in this subsection without consideration.

(5) A member, who is 18 years of age or older, of an organization that holds a special license issued under this section may serve beer at the event.

(6) As used in this section and section 413, "beer festival" means an event at which the various types and kinds of beer and the production of that beer are showcased to the general public and at which the general public can purchase and sample the beer being showcased for consumption on the licensed premises.

History: Add. 2008, Act 258, Imd. Eff. Aug. 4, 2008; Am. 2020, Act 111, Imd. Eff. July 1, 2020; Am. 2025, Act 65, Imd. Eff. Dec. 23, 2025
Mich. Comp. Laws § 257.1 — MI Code / Chapter 257 / Act Act-300-of-1949 / Section 257.1
Michigan vehicle code; words and phrases defined.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

The following words and phrases as defined in this chapter and as herein enumerated when used in this act shall, for the purpose of this act, have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this chapter.

History: 1949, Act 300, Eff. Sept. 23, 1949
Mich. Comp. Laws § 380.902 — MI Code / Chapter 380 / Act Act-451-of-1976 / Section 380.902
Notice of annexation.
Status: in_force

Sec. 902.

Within 15 days after the effective date of an annexation the secretary of the board of the annexing school district shall give written notice of the annexation to the intermediate superintendent of each of the intermediate school districts in which the territory of the combined school district is situated and to the state board.

History: 1976, Act 451, Imd. Eff. Jan. 13, 1977
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.34116 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.34116
Proceedings upon petition for establishment of irrigation districts; meetings; filing and examination of petition; report; expenses and compensation.
Status: in_force

Sec. 34116.

Upon receipt of a petition for the establishment of an irrigation district, the county drain commissioner shall call the first meeting of the irrigation board. A copy of the petition and duplicates of all maps and other papers filed with the petition shall be filed with the department at least 4 weeks before the date set for the public hearing on the petition. The department shall examine the petition, maps, and other papers and, if it considers it necessary, examine the proposed district, the irrigation works proposed to be constructed, or the location of the irrigation works to be constructed, and prepare a report covering those features of the proposed irrigation project that relate to section 34101 and other matters as the department considers advisable. The department shall submit the report to the irrigation board at the meeting set for the hearing of the petition. All reasonable and necessary expenses incurred by the department in making the report shall be paid for by the persons signing the petition.

Any additional compensation for services rendered on behalf of an irrigation district by members of the irrigation board in addition to official duties of the members shall be provided by the respective governmental agencies from which the original compensation for other various duties and services rendered are received.

History: Add. 1995, Act 59, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1995
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.41501 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.41501
Saginaw bay; public shooting and hunting ground.
Status: in_force

Sec. 41501.

All of the lands belonging to the state and being in township 16 north, range 9 east, in Wild Fowl bay, in the county of Huron, in this state, commonly known as the "middle ground," lying between Maison island, in Saginaw bay, and the main land, are set apart and dedicated for a public shooting or hunting ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people of this state.

History: Add. 1995, Act 57, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1995
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.11907 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.11907
Exercise of powers conferred on municipality.
Status: in_force

Sec. 11907.

A municipality may exercise the powers conferred by this part regardless of the requirements, including the competitive bidding requirement, of its municipal charter.

History: Add. 1995, Act 60, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1995
Mich. Comp. Laws § 333.17955 — MI Code / Chapter 333 / Act Act-368-of-1978 / Section 333.17955
Michigan board of massage therapy; creation; membership; qualifications; terms; appointment; vacancy.
Status: in_force

Sec. 17955.

(1) The Michigan board of massage therapy is created in the department and consists of the following 11 members appointed by the governor who meet the requirements of part 161:

(a) Seven individuals who meet the requirements of section 16135(2).

(b) Four public members.

(2) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, the terms of office of individual members of the board created under subsection (1) expire 4 years after appointment on December 31 of the year in which the term will expire. Of the members first appointed to the board under subsection (1), 4 shall be appointed for terms of 4 years, 4 shall be appointed for terms of 3 years, and 3 shall be appointed for terms of 2 years. The term of office of an individual appointed to fill a vacancy expires at the end of the term of the vacancy being filled.

History: Add. 2008, Act 471, Imd. Eff. Jan. 9, 2009
Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.6001 — MI Code / Chapter 600 / Act Act-236-of-1961 / Section 600.6001
Persons to whom execution issued.
Status: in_force

Sec. 6001.

Whenever a judgment is rendered in any court, execution to collect the same may be issued to the sheriff, bailiff, or other proper officer of any county, district, court district or municipality of this state.

History: 1961, Act 236, Eff. Jan. 1, 1963; Am. 1974, Act 297, Eff. Apr. 1, 1975