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Mich. Comp. Laws § 322.455 — MI Code / Chapter 322 / Act Act-197-of-1883 / Section 322.455
Sale of residue of lands; public auction; minimum price.
Status: in_force

Sec. 5.

All lands embraced within the provisions of this act and not disposed of at the expiration of 7 months from the date this act shall take effect, shall be offered for sale at public auction by the commissioner of the state land office at the minimum price of 1 dollar and 25 cents per acre.

History: 1883, Act 197, Eff. Sept. 8, 1883; How. 5466e; CL 1897, 1426; CL 1915, 640; CL 1929, 5989; CL 1948, 322.455
Mich. Comp. Laws § 772.13a — MI Code / Chapter 760 / Act Act-175-of-1927 / Section 772.13a
Violation of recognizance; arrest by peace officer.
Status: in_force

Sec. 13a.

If a peace officer has reason to believe that the conditions of a recognizance required under this chapter are being violated in his or her presence or were violated, the peace officer shall arrest the person and hold him or her for presentation to the court on the next day.

History: Add. 1994, Act 71, Eff. July 1, 1994
Mich. Comp. Laws § 141.62 — MI Code / Chapter 141 / Act Act-118-of-1923 / Section 141.62
Board's resolution; contents; referendum.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

The resolution of the board of supervisors shall contain a proviso that it shall not become effective or binding upon the county until it shall be approved by a majority of the electors voting at an election to be designated. The board of supervisors may submit the question of the issue and sale of said bonds at any regular election held under the general laws of the state of Michigan at which the electors of the entire county vote, or it may designate a special election to be called by the county clerk by direction of said board of supervisors for the purpose of submitting to the electors the question of issuing said bonds. The board of supervisors may call a special election for the purposes of this act upon a date coincident with any local or municipal election or primary election for any portion of the county.

History: 1923, Act 118, Eff. Aug. 30, 1923; CL 1929, 2348; CL 1948, 141.62
Mich. Comp. Laws § 29.18 — MI Code / Chapter 29 / Act Act-207-of-1941 / Section 29.18
Service of order or process; return of service.
Status: in_force

Sec. 18.

An officer of the department may serve an order or process of court issued under the authority of this act, and the officer may make return of service under his certificate in the same manner as is provided by law for return of service of process by the sheriff of a county.

History: 1941, Act 207, Imd. Eff. June 16, 1941; CL 1948, 29.18; Am. 1973, Act 199, Imd. Eff. Jan. 11, 1974
Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.5735 — MI Code / Chapter 600 / Act Act-236-of-1961 / Section 600.5735
Summons; hearing.
Status: in_force

Sec. 5735.

The court in which a summary proceeding is commenced shall issue a summons, which may be served on the defendant by any officer or person authorized to serve process of the court. The summons shall command the defendant to appear for trial in accordance with the provisions of subsection (2) unless by local court rule the provisions of subsection (4) have been made applicable.

A summons issued under this section shall command the defendant to appear for trial as follows:

Within 30 days of the issuance date of the summons in proceedings under section 5726, in which event the summons shall be served not less than 10 days before the date set for trial.

Within 10 days of the issuance date of the summons in all other proceedings, in which event the summons shall be served not less than 3 days before the date set for trial.

If a summons issued under this section is not served within the time provided by subsection (2), additional summons shall be issued at the plaintiff's request in the same manner and with the same effect as the original summons.

Instead of the provisions of subsection (2), a court by local rule may provide for the application of this subsection to summary proceedings commenced in the court, in which event the summons shall command the defendant to appear as follows:

Within 10 days after service of the summons upon the defendant in proceedings under section 5726.

Within 5 days after service of the summons upon the defendant in all other proceedings.

A summons issued under subsection (4) remains in effect until served or quashed or until the action is dismissed, but additional summons as needed for service may be issued at any time at the plaintiff's request.

Except as otherwise provided by court rule, a summary proceeding shall be heard within 7 days after the defendant's appearance or trial date and shall not be adjourned beyond that time other than by stipulation of the parties either in writing or on the record.

An action to which section 5714(1)(b) applies shall be heard at the time of the defendant's appearance or trial date and shall not be adjourned beyond that time except for extraordinary reasons.

History: Add. 1972, Act 120, Eff. July 1, 1972; Am. 2001, Act 162, Imd. Eff. Nov. 7, 2001; Am. 2004, Act 105, Eff. Sept. 1, 2004
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.63306 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.63306
Suits by lessees.
Status: in_force

Sec. 63306.

If a person or persons holding not less than a 3/4 interest in the land has or have executed a mineral lease or leases to any person, the lessee or lessees may institute and maintain or defend any suit provided for by this part, either in the name of the lessee or in the name of his or her lessor.

History: Add. 1995, Act 57, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1995
Mich. Comp. Laws § 124.768 — MI Code / Chapter 124 / Act Act-258-of-2003 / Section 124.768
Land bank fast track fund; creation; receipt of money or other assets; transfer of money in urban land assembly loan fund; loan repayments; money remaining in fund; expenditures; disposition of proceeds.
Status: in_force

Sec. 18.

(1) The land bank fast track fund is created under the jurisdiction and control of the state authority and may be administered to secure any notes and bonds of the state authority.

(2) The state authority may receive money or other assets from any source for deposit into the fund. The state treasurer shall transfer all money in the urban land assembly loan fund created under former 1981 PA 171 to the fund, and close the urban land assembly loan fund. Any loan repayments that would otherwise be made to the urban land assembly loan fund shall be made to the fund.

(3) The state authority shall credit to the fund interest and earnings from fund investments.

(4) Money in the fund at the close of the fiscal year shall remain in the fund and shall not lapse to any other fund.

(5) The state authority shall expend money from the fund only for 1 or more of the following:

(a) Costs to clear or quiet title to property held by the state authority.

(b) To repay a loan made to the state authority under section 2f of 1855 PA 105, MCL 21.142f.

(c) Any other purposes provided in this act.

(6) The state authority shall deposit into the fund all money it receives from the sale or transfer of property under this act, subject to section 8. The state authority shall credit to the fund the proceeds of the sale of notes or bonds to the extent provided for in the authorizing resolution of the state authority, and any other money made available to the state authority for the purposes of the fund.

History: 2003, Act 258, Imd. Eff. Jan. 5, 2004; Am. 2016, Act 116, Eff. Aug. 8, 2016
Mich. Comp. Laws § 700.7902 — MI Code / Chapter 700 / Act Act-386-of-1998 / Section 700.7902
Breach of trust; liability; damages.
Status: in_force

Sec. 7902.

A trustee who commits a breach of trust is liable to the trust beneficiaries affected for whichever of the following is larger:

(a) The amount required to restore the value of the trust property and trust distributions to what they would have been had the breach not occurred.

(b) The profit the trustee made by reason of the breach.

History: Add. 2009, Act 46, Eff. Apr. 1, 2010
Mich. Comp. Laws § 4.262 — MI Code / Chapter 4 / Act Act-463-of-1996 / Section 4.262
Jurisdiction of supreme court to decide cases or controversies involving redistricting plan; procedures for review of legislative redistricting plan; modification of plan; remand to special master.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

The supreme court shall have original and exclusive state jurisdiction to hear and decide all cases or controversies in Michigan's 1 court of justice involving a redistricting plan under this act. A case or controversy in Michigan's 1 court of justice involving a redistricting plan shall not be commenced in or heard by the state court of appeals or any state trial court.

If a case or controversy involves a legislative redistricting plan but an application or petition for review has not been filed under subsection (3) or section 3, the supreme court may, but is not required to, undertake all or a portion of the procedures described in section 4.

Upon the application of an elector filed not later than 60 days after the adoption of the enactment of a redistricting plan, the supreme court, exercising original state jurisdiction provided under section 6 of article IV of the state constitution of 1963, may review any plan enacted by the legislature, and may modify that plan or remand that plan to a special master for further action if the plan fails to comply with section 1 or 1a.

History: 1996, Act 463, Eff. Mar. 31, 1997; Am. 1999, Act 223, Eff. Mar. 10, 2000
Mich. Comp. Laws § 791.271 — MI Code / Chapter 791 / Act Act-232-of-1953 / Section 791.271
Bureau of prison industries; supervision of industrial plants.
Status: in_force

Sec. 71.

The assistant director of the bureau of prison industries is hereby vested with the control, management, coordination and supervision of the industrial plants connected with the several penal institutions, and subject to the approval of the director shall appoint all bureau personnel as may be necessary.

History: 1953, Act 232, Eff. Oct. 2, 1953
Mich. Comp. Laws § 769.11a — MI Code / Chapter 760 / Act Act-175-of-1927 / Section 769.11a
Void sentence; trial judge to credit time served.
Status: in_force

Sec. 11a.

Whenever any person has been heretofore or hereafter convicted of any crime within this state and has served any time upon a void sentence, the trial court, in imposing sentence upon conviction or acceptance of a plea of guilty based upon facts arising out of the earlier void conviction, shall in imposing the sentence specifically grant or allow the defendant credit against and by reduction of the statutory maximum by the time already served by such defendant on the sentence imposed for the prior erroneous conviction. Failure of the corrections commission to carry out the terms of said sentence shall be cause for the issuance of a writ of habeas corpus to have the prisoner brought before the court for the taking of such further action as the court may again determine.

History: Add. 1954, Act 205, Eff. Aug. 13, 1954; Am. 1965, Act 67, Imd. Eff. June 22, 1965
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.5908 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.5908
State tax commission; rules; administration of part.
Status: in_force

Sec. 5908.

The state tax commission may adopt rules as it considers necessary for the administration of this part. These rules shall not abridge the authority of the department to determine whether or not air pollution control exists within the meaning of this part.

History: Add. 1995, Act 60, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1995
Mich. Comp. Laws § 15.343 — MI Code / Chapter 15 / Act Act-196-of-1973 / Section 15.343
Board of ethics; creation; function.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3.

There is hereby created within the executive office of the governor a board of ethics.

The function of the board shall be advisory and investigatory and the board is not empowered to take direct action against any person or agency.

History: 1973, Act 196, Imd. Eff. Jan. 8, 1974
Mich. Comp. Laws § 257.811d — MI Code / Chapter 257 / Act Act-300-of-1949 / Section 257.811d
Definitions; fund-raising registration plate; requirements; design or logo by university or other person; written agreement.
Status: in_force

Sec. 811d.

(1) As used in this chapter:

(a) "Fund-raising plate" means a registration plate authorized to raise funds for a specified goal.

(b) "Collector plate" means a collector plate that matches any registration plate developed and issued under this act.

(c) "Nonprofit" means that which is exempt from taxation under section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code, 26 USC 501.

(d) "Transportation administration collection fund" means the fund created under section 810b.

(2) A fund-raising plate shall contain all of the following as prescribed or approved by the secretary of state:

(a) The same generic background.

(b) Letters and numbers.

(c) The word "Michigan" and any other unique identifier specified by the secretary of state.

(d) A design or logo.

(3) If the design or logo of a fund-raising plate uses 1 or more designs, trade names, trademarks, service marks, emblems, symbols, or other images that are owned by a Michigan university or other person, the Michigan university or other person shall grant to or obtain for the secretary of state both of the following pursuant to a written agreement between the parties:

(a) A nonexclusive worldwide license to use those designs, trade names, trademarks, service marks, emblems, symbols, or other images on and in conjunction with the marketing, promotion, sale, or copyrighting of the registration plate or image of the fund-raising plate.

(b) The authority to merchandise the fund-raising plate or an image of the fund-raising plate.

(4) In using or employing a design, trade name, trademark, service mark, emblem, symbol, logo, or other image on and in conjunction with the marketing, promotion, sale, copyrighting, or merchandising of a fund-raising plate or image of the fund-raising plate, the secretary of state may alter the size of the design, trade name, trademark, service mark, emblem, symbol, logo, or other image but shall not change the color or design of the design, trade name, trademark, service mark, emblem, symbol, logo, or other image without the prior written consent of the respective Michigan university or other person. The secretary of state shall not use or employ a design, trade name, trademark, service mark, emblem, symbol, logo, or other image on and in conjunction with the marketing, promotion, sale, copyrighting, or merchandising of a fund-raising plate or an image of the fund-raising plate in any manner that is offensive to the Michigan university or other person that owns the design, trade name, trademark, service mark, emblem, symbol, logo, or other image that is the subject of a written agreement under subsection (3).

History: Add. 2000, Act 77, Eff. Oct. 1, 2000; Am. 2005, Act 317, Imd. Eff. Dec. 27, 2005; Am. 2006, Act 562, Eff. Jan. 1, 2007
Mich. Comp. Laws § 750.462e — MI Code / Chapter 750 / Act Act-328-of-1931 / Section 750.462e
Forced labor or services; prohibited conduct as it relates to age of minor.
Status: in_force

Sec. 462e.

A person shall not do any of the following, regardless of whether the person knows the age of the minor:

(a) Recruit, entice, harbor, transport, provide, or obtain by any means a minor for commercial sexual activity.

(b) Recruit, entice, harbor, transport, provide, or obtain by any means a minor for forced labor or services.

History: Add. 2006, Act 162, Eff. Aug. 24, 2006; Am. 2014, Act 329, Eff. Jan. 14, 2015
Mich. Comp. Laws § 700.2608 — MI Code / Chapter 700 / Act Act-386-of-1998 / Section 700.2608
Ademption by satisfaction.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2608.

Property a testator gave in his or her lifetime to a person is treated as a satisfaction of a devise in whole or in part only if any of the following are true:

The will provides for a deduction of the gift.

The testator declared in a contemporaneous writing that the gift is in satisfaction of the devise or that its value is to be deducted from the value of the devise.

The devisee acknowledges in writing that the gift is in satisfaction of the devise or that its value is to be deducted from the value of the devise.

For purposes of partial satisfaction, property given during the testator's lifetime is valued as of the time the devisee came into possession or enjoyment of the property or at the testator's death, whichever occurs first.

If the devisee fails to survive the testator, the gift is treated as a full or partial satisfaction of the devise, as appropriate, in applying sections 2603 and 2604, unless the testator's contemporaneous writing provides otherwise.

History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000
Mich. Comp. Laws § 141.1008 — MI Code / Chapter 141 / Act Act-80-of-1981 / Section 141.1008
Issuing bonds or obligations as limited tax bonds or obligations; resolution without vote of electors and publication of notice; submitting question to electors; approval or disapproval; prior actions.
Status: in_force

Sec. 8.

The bonds or obligations may be issued as limited tax bonds or obligations by resolution of the legislative body of the city or county without vote of the electors and without publication of a notice of intent to issue bonds or obligations as required by section 5(g) of the home rule city act, 1909 PA 279, MCL 117.5. The legislative body of a city or county may submit to the electors of the city or county the question of issuing the bonds or obligations authorized by this act. If the question is approved, the bonds or obligations may be issued as unlimited tax bonds or obligations. If the question is not submitted to or approved by the electors, the bonds or obligations may be issued as limited tax bonds or obligations, as bonds or obligations payable solely from a specified source or sources of revenues lawfully available to the city or county, or as a combination of limited tax bonds or obligations and bonds or obligations payable solely from those specified revenue sources. Any actions taken before July 15, 1981 to submit to the electors of a city the question of issuing bonds or obligations similar to the bonds or obligations authorized by this act or the question of pledging the city's unlimited taxing power to bonds or obligations described in this act are ratified and confirmed and are effective with respect to bonds or obligations issued pursuant to this act.

History: 1981, Act 80, Eff. July 15, 1981; Am. 1987, Act 279, Eff. Apr. 11, 1988; Am. 2010, Act 4, Imd. Eff. Feb. 5, 2010
Mich. Comp. Laws § 287.279 — MI Code / Chapter 287 / Act Act-339-of-1919 / Section 287.279
Killing of dog pursuing, worrying, or wounding livestock or poultry, or attacking person; damages for trespass; effect of license tag.
Status: in_force

Sec. 19.

Any person including a law enforcement officer may kill any dog which he sees in the act of pursuing, worrying, or wounding any livestock or poultry or attacking persons, and there shall be no liability on such person in damages or otherwise, for such killing. Any dog that enters any field or enclosure which is owned by or leased by a person producing livestock or poultry, outside of a city, unaccompanied by his owner or his owner's agent, shall constitute a trespass, and the owner shall be liable in damages. Except as provided in this section, it shall be unlawful for any person, other than a law enforcement officer, to kill or injure or attempt to kill or injure any dog which bears a license tag for the current year.

History: 1919, Act 339, Eff. Aug. 14, 1919; CL 1929, 5263; CL 1948, 287.279; Am. 1959, Act 42, Eff. Mar. 19, 1960; Am. 1973, Act 32, Imd. Eff. June 14, 1973
Mich. Comp. Laws § 16.329 — MI Code / Chapter 16 / Act Act-380-of-1965 / Section 16.329
Department of insurance and office of commissioner; transfer.
Status: in_force

Sec. 229.

The department of insurance and the office of the commissioner of insurance created under sections 200 and 202 of Act No. 218 of the Public Acts of 1956, being sections 500.200 and 500.202 of the Compiled Laws of 1948, are transferred by a type I transfer to the department of commerce.

History: 1965, Act 380, Imd. Eff. July 23, 1965
Mich. Comp. Laws § 431.334 — MI Code / Chapter 431 / Act Act-279-of-1995 / Section 431.334
Additional penalties.
Status: in_force

Sec. 34.

In addition to the penalties provided in sections 29, 30, 31, 32, and 33, the holder of a license who violates section 29, 30, 31, 32, or 33 is subject to penalties prescribed by the racing commissioner that may include the suspension or revocation of the person's license.

History: 1995, Act 279, Imd. Eff. Jan. 9, 1996
Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.2305 — MI Code / Chapter 600 / Act Act-236-of-1961 / Section 600.2305
Answer to amended pleading.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2305.

If such amendment is made to any pleading in matter of substance, the adverse party shall be allowed an opportunity, according to the course and practice of the court, to answer the pleading so amended.

History: 1961, Act 236, Eff. Jan. 1, 1963
Mich. Comp. Laws § 780.153a — MI Code / Chapter 780 / Act Act-8-of-1952 / Section 780.153a
Definitions; C to O.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3a.

"Court" means the appropriate circuit court of this state and, when the context requires, means the appropriate court of any other state as defined in a substantially similar reciprocal law.

"Duty of support" means any duty of support owed to an obligee whether imposed or imposable by law or by order, decree, or judgment of any court, whether temporary or final or whether incidental to an action for divorce, separation, separate maintenance, or otherwise and includes the duty to pay arrearages of support past due and unpaid. "Duty of support" also includes the duty to reimburse a state or political subdivision for support furnished to an obligee.

"Foreign support order" means a support order issued by a state other than Michigan.

"Governor" means any person performing the functions of governor or the executive authority of any state covered by this or a substantially reciprocal law.

"Initiating court" means the court in which a proceeding is commenced.

"Initiating state" means a state in which a proceeding pursuant to this or a substantially similar reciprocal law is commenced.

"Interstate central registry" means the entity in a state that is established pursuant to federal regulation and that is responsible for receiving, reviewing, forwarding, and responding to inquiries about interstate child support actions.

"Law" means both common and statutory law.

"Obligee" means a person, including a state or political subdivision, to whom a duty of support is owed or a person, including a state or political subdivision, who has commenced a proceeding for enforcement of an alleged duty of support or for registration of a support order. It is immaterial if the person to whom a duty of support is owed is a recipient of public assistance.

"Obligor" means any person owing a duty of support or against whom a proceeding for the enforcement of a duty of support or registration of a support order is commenced.

"Office of the friend of the court" means the agency created in section 3 of Act No. 294 of the Public Acts of 1982, being section 552.503 of the Michigan Compiled Laws.

History: Add. 1985, Act 172, Eff. Mar. 1, 1986; Am. 1990, Act 241, Imd. Eff. Oct. 10, 1990