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Mich. Comp. Laws § 436.1201 — MI Code / Chapter 436 / Act Act-58-of-1998 / Section 436.1201
Alcoholic liquor; manufacture, sale, possession, or transportation lawful; terms, conditions, limitations, and restrictions; right, power, and duty of commission to control alcoholic beverage traffic and traffic in other alcoholic liquor; unreasonable discrimination against Michigan manufacturers prohibited; enforcement of act and rules; willful neglect or refusal of officer to perform duties as misdemeanor; penalty.
Status: in_force

Sec. 201.

On and after December 15, 1933, it shall be lawful to manufacture for sale, sell, offer for sale, keep for sale, possess, or transport any alcoholic liquor, as defined in this act, including alcoholic liquor used for medicinal, mechanical, chemical, or scientific purposes and wine used for sacramental purposes, subject to the terms, conditions, limitations, and restrictions contained in this act, and only as provided for in this act.

Except as otherwise provided in this act, the commission shall have the sole right, power, and duty to control the alcoholic beverage traffic and traffic in other alcoholic liquor within this state, including the manufacture, importation, possession, transportation and sale thereof.

A rule, regulation, or order made by the commission shall not unreasonably discriminate against Michigan manufacturers of alcoholic liquor.

A peace officer or law enforcement officer of this state or a county, township, city, village, state university, or community college or an inspector of the commission is authorized, and it is the duty of each of them, to enforce the provisions of this act and the rules promulgated by the commission within his or her respective jurisdiction. It is the special duty of an officer described in this section to use his or her utmost efforts to repress and prevent crime and the violation of any of the provisions of this act. An officer described in this section who willfully neglects or refuses to perform the duties imposed upon him or her by this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not more than $500.00 or imprisoned in the county jail not more than 90 days, or both.

History: 1998, Act 58, Imd. Eff. Apr. 14, 1998
Mich. Comp. Laws § 168.797b — MI Code / Chapter 168 / Act Act-116-of-1954 / Section 168.797b
Rules.
Status: in_force

Sec. 797b.

The secretary of state shall promulgate rules pursuant to the administrative procedures act of 1969, Act No. 306 of the Public Acts of 1969, being sections 24.201 to 24.328 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, governing the tabulation of ballots, certification of results, delivery of ballots and certified results, and sealing of devices and ballot boxes after the polls are closed.

History: Add. 1967, Act 155, Imd. Eff. June 30, 1967; Am. 1990, Act 109, Imd. Eff. June 18, 1990
Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.2930 — MI Code / Chapter 600 / Act Act-236-of-1961 / Section 600.2930
Life estate; sale on order of court; bond; confirmation; effect of conveyance, will, or order of court; proceedings.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2930.

Circuit courts may order any lands, tenements, or hereditaments which are held for life, with or without power of appointment by will or sale, or held in trust, without power of sale, sold under the direction of the court, whenever it satisfactorily appears that the rights of the interested parties will otherwise be jeopardized.

Upon making the order of sale the court may order that a bond be given with penalty and sureties, in the form the court directs. This bond shall run to the clerk of the court for the use and benefit of any person who is or may become interested in the lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or their proceeds, conditioned for the investment of and accounting for the proceeds of the lands, tenements, and hereditaments, and for the observance of all orders of the court in relation to the lands, tenements, and hereditaments, and their proceeds.

After the confirmation of the sale, the proceeds of the sale shall stand in lieu of the property sold, and the court shall make such orders as to the investment of the proceeds as may be necessary. From time to time thereafter, the court may make such further orders as the circumstances may require.

No sale or conveyance of any kind shall be made of any property, under the authority of this provision, contrary to any specific provisions contained in the deed of conveyance, or in the will, under which the petitioner holds the property.

Every conveyance made in accordance with an order of court entered in an action brought under this section shall be good and effectual in law and shall convey the same title as if it were made by a person seized of the title in fee.

Proceedings under this section are equitable in nature.

History: 1961, Act 236, Eff. Jan. 1, 1963
Mich. Comp. Laws § 488.24 — MI Code / Chapter 488 / Act Act-322-of-1978 / Section 488.24
Unauthorized transactions prohibited.
Status: in_force

Sec. 24.

A funds transfer facility shall not be used to facilitate or effect a transaction with a financial institution, which transaction the financial institution is not otherwise authorized by law to transact.

History: 1978, Act 322, Eff. Jan. 1, 1979
Mich. Comp. Laws § 123.1183 — MI Code / Chapter 123 / Act Act-49-of-2008 / Section 123.1183
Annual audit; preparation of budgets and appropriations acts; immunities; filing financial plan to correct deficit condition; investment or deposit of funds.
Status: in_force

Sec. 23.

(1) A board shall obtain an annual audit of the authority, and report on the audit and auditing procedures, in the manner provided by sections 6 to 13 of the uniform budgeting and accounting act, 1968 PA 2, MCL 141.426 to 141.433. The audit shall also be in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards as promulgated by the United States general accounting office and shall satisfy federal regulations relating to federal grant compliance audit requirements.

(2) An authority shall prepare budgets and appropriations acts in the manner provided by sections 14 to 19 of the uniform budgeting and accounting act, 1968 PA 2, MCL 141.434 to 141.439.

(3) The state treasurer, the attorney general, a prosecuting attorney, bank, certified public accountant, certified public accounting firm, or other person shall have the same powers, duties, and immunities with respect to the authority as provided for local units in sections 6 to 20 of the uniform budgeting and accounting act, 1968 PA 2, MCL 141.426 to 141.440.

(4) If an authority ends a fiscal year in a deficit condition, the authority shall file a financial plan to correct the deficit condition in the same manner as provided in section 21(2) of the Glenn Steil state revenue sharing act of 1971, 1971 PA 140, MCL 141.921.

(5) The board may authorize funds of the authority to be invested or deposited in any investment or depository authorized under section 1 of 1943 PA 20, MCL 129.91.

History: 2008, Act 49, Imd. Eff. Mar. 27, 2008
Mich. Comp. Laws § 436.1231 — MI Code / Chapter 436 / Act Act-58-of-1998 / Section 436.1231
Liquor control commission; handling of alcoholic liquor; gross profit; leasing and purchasing power.
Status: in_force

Sec. 231.

The commission may buy, possess, and sell in its own name all alcoholic liquor for distribution as provided in sections 227 and 229. The commission shall supply such types of alcoholic liquor as are demanded by the public. However, if a brand so demanded is not manufactured within the United States or is not readily obtainable within the United States, then an order for that brand shall be filled by the commission at the entire expense of the person placing that order subject to any gross profit or discounts, or both, provided for in section 233. The commission may lease or occupy any building or land required for its operation, and may purchase any warehouse required for its operation, subject to the approval of the state administrative board.

History: 1998, Act 58, Imd. Eff. Apr. 14, 1998
Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.2135 — MI Code / Chapter 600 / Act Act-236-of-1961 / Section 600.2135
Breed of horses; evidence.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2135.

Whenever it becomes necessary to show the breeding of any horse in any action at law or in equity, the same may be shown by Wallace's year book, Wallace's American trotting register, the American Percheron horse breeders' and importers' association, Percheron society of America, the American Percheron horse breeders' association or the Percheron stud book of America; and whenever a horse is registered in any of the registers aforesaid, or with said society or either of said associations, the record of such registration or the society's or association's certificate of such registration under its corporate seal shall be prima facie evidence of the breeding of such horse.

History: 1961, Act 236, Eff. Jan. 1, 1963
Mich. Comp. Laws § 445.1759 — MI Code / Chapter 445 / Act Act-257-of-1989 / Section 445.1759
Termination of owner's rights to article; circumstances; business as owner of article; disposition of article.
Status: in_force

Sec. 9.

On or after the effective date of this act, the owner's rights to an article shall immediately terminate if any of the following circumstances exists:

The article was delivered to the business for the purpose of cleaning or repair services and has been in the possession of that business for more than 1 year after the date of delivery to that business.

The article was delivered to the business for the purpose of storage and has been in the possession of that business for more than 1 year after the date the storage agreement terminated or expired.

Upon the loss of the owner's rights to an article as provided for by this act, the business shall become the owner of the article.

A business may sell, donate, or otherwise dispose of an article upon the loss of the owner's rights to an article.

History: 1989, Act 257, Imd. Eff. Dec. 26, 1989
Mich. Comp. Laws § 484.2103 — MI Code / Chapter 484 / Act Act-179-of-1991 / Section 484.2103
Construction of act; database of licensed providers; submission of information.
Status: in_force

Sec. 103.

(1) Except as otherwise provided in this act, this act shall not be construed to prevent any person from providing telecommunication services in competition with another telecommunication provider.

(2) The commission shall maintain a publicly available database of providers in each exchange that are licensed to or otherwise provide toll and local exchange service in this state.

(3) A provider shall submit to the commission all information requested by the commission necessary for the preparation and maintenance of the database under this section.

History: 1991, Act 179, Eff. Jan. 1, 1992; Am. 2000, Act 295, Imd. Eff. July 17, 2000; Am. 2005, Act 235, Imd. Eff. Nov. 22, 2005; Am. 2011, Act 58, Imd. Eff. June 14, 2011; Am. 2014, Act 52, Imd. Eff. Mar. 25, 2014
Mich. Comp. Laws § 125.2958 — MI Code / Chapter 125 / Act Act-275-of-2010 / Section 125.2958
Dissolution or termination; validity of incentives previously granted.
Status: in_force

Sec. 8.

In the event that a next Michigan development corporation dissolves or is terminated, all incentives previously granted by the next Michigan development corporation shall be unaffected by the dissolution and shall remain valid and in full force and effect in accordance with their respective terms. Incentives previously granted by the next Michigan development corporation shall be administered by the city, village, township, or charter township in which the eligible business to which the incentives were granted is located unless otherwise provided in the interlocal agreement.

History: 2010, Act 275, Imd. Eff. Dec. 15, 2010
Mich. Comp. Laws § 450.1342a — MI Code / Chapter 450 / Act Act-284-of-1972 / Section 450.1342a
Rights, options, or warrants.
Status: in_force

Sec. 342a.

A corporation may issue rights, options, or warrants for the purchase of shares or other securities of the corporation. The board shall determine the terms upon which the rights, options, or warrants are issued, their form and content, and the consideration for which the shares are to be issued.

The terms and conditions of any right, option, or warrant issued under subsection (1), including those outstanding on the effective date of the amendatory act that added this subsection, may include, without limitation, restrictions or conditions that preclude or limit the exercise, transfer, or receipt of the right, option, or warrant by any person owning or offering to acquire a specified number or percentage of the outstanding common shares or other securities of a corporation, or any transferee or transferees of that person, or that invalidate or void the right, option, or warrant held by a person or his or her transferee.

History: Add. 1989, Act 121, Eff. Oct. 1, 1989; Am. 2001, Act 57, Imd. Eff. July 23, 2001
Mich. Comp. Laws § 752.822 — MI Code / Chapter 752 / Act Act-105-of-1951 / Section 752.822
Prosecutions.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

All prosecutions under this act shall be in the name of the people of the state of Michigan, and shall be brought before the district or municipal court of the judicial district or municipality in which the offense was committed, and within 1 year from the time the offense charged was committed.

History: 1951, Act 105, Eff. Sept. 28, 1951; Am. 1991, Act 154, Imd. Eff. Nov. 25, 1991
Mich. Comp. Laws § 38.1427 — MI Code / Chapter 38 / Act Act-300-of-1980 / Section 38.1427
Investment; direction by qualified participant, former qualified participant, and refund beneficiary; applicability of limitations; annuity options.
Status: in_force

Sec. 127.

(1) Each qualified participant, former qualified participant, and refund beneficiary shall direct the investment of the individual's accumulated employer and employee contributions and earnings to 1 or more investment choices within available categories of investment provided by the department. The limitations on the percentage of total assets for investments provided in the public employee retirement system investment act, 1965 PA 314, MCL 38.1132 to 38.1141, do not apply to Tier 2.

(2) In addition to the categories of investment provided by the department under subsection (1), the retirement system shall offer access to 1 or more fixed annuity options and 1 or more variable annuity options.

History: Add. 2010, Act 75, Imd. Eff. May 19, 2010; Am. 2017, Act 92, Imd. Eff. July 13, 2017
Mich. Comp. Laws § 38.1431a — MI Code / Chapter 38 / Act Act-300-of-1980 / Section 38.1431a
Tier 2 accounts; terms and conditions.
Status: in_force

Sec. 131a.

Tier 2 accounts are subject to the following terms and conditions:

(a) On or before January 1, 2013, the retirement system shall design an automatic enrollment feature that provides that unless a qualified participant who makes contributions under this act elects to contribute a lesser amount, the qualified participant shall contribute the amount required to qualify for all eligible matching contributions under this act. The retirement system shall implement this automatic enrollment feature on or after January 1, 2013, as determined by the retirement system.

(b) Employer matching contributions do not have to be made to the same plan or account to which the elective employee contributions were contributed as the basis for the matching contributions.

(c) Elective employee contributions shall not be used as the basis for more than an equivalent amount of employer matching contributions or, in the case of matching contributions under section 131(2), 50% of the employer matching contributions.

(d) The retirement system shall design and implement a method to determine the proper allocation of employer matching contributions based on elective employee contributions as provided in this section.

History: Add. 2012, Act 300, Imd. Eff. Sept. 4, 2012; Am. 2017, Act 92, Imd. Eff. July 13, 2017
Mich. Comp. Laws § 445.107 — MI Code / Chapter 445 / Act Act-271-of-1941 / Section 445.107
Unlawful trade practices; circuit court injunction; compensatory costs; sales tax, collection.
Status: in_force

Sec. 7.

The circuit court of the county where any unlawful trade practice is committed shall have jurisdiction and power, on petition of any person, and on a showing that the commission of such unlawful trade practice has caused damage or threatens to cause damage to the petitioner or those represented by petitioner, to enjoin the commission of such unlawful trade practice or practices. Upon the granting of an injunction, the plaintiff or plaintiffs, in addition to regular taxable costs, shall be awarded compensatory costs, which shall include all sums reasonably expended to prepare and present the cause including all reasonable attorney fees incurred: Provided, however, That such compensatory costs may be denied if the trial judge rules that a meritorious, even though unsuccessful, defense was presented. The court may, in any case where such injunction is sought or issued, require and order the defendant or defendants in such proceeding to pay to the state board of tax administration any sum which the court finds should have been paid, but was not paid as a sales tax (pursuant to the provisions of Act No. 167 of the Public Acts of 1933, as amended or hereafter amended, being sections 205.51 to 205.78, inclusive, of the Compiled Laws of 1948) in connection with any sale or sales consummated in the course of the unlawful trade practice or practices complained of.

History: 1941, Act 271, Eff. Jan. 10, 1942; CL 1948, 445.107; Am. 1956, Act 214, Eff. Aug. 11, 1956
Mich. Comp. Laws § 429.33 — MI Code / Chapter 429 / Act Act-242-of-1969 / Section 429.33
Application for registration of mark; form; contents; signature, verification, and oath; specimens; fee; service of process.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3.

Subject to the limitations set forth in this act, a person who adopts and uses a mark in this state may file with the administrator, on a form to be furnished by the administrator, an application for registration of that mark which contains all of the following information:

The name, business name, if any, and business address of the person applying for registration, and, if a corporation, the state of incorporation.

The goods or services in connection with which the mark is used, the mode or manner in which the mark is used in connection with the goods or services, and the class in which the goods or services fall.

The date when and the place where the mark was first used anywhere, and the date when the mark was first used in this state by the applicant or the applicant's predecessor in title.

A statement that the applicant is the owner of the mark and that no other person has the right to use the mark in this state either in the identical form or in a form which so nearly resembles the mark as to be likely to deceive or to be mistaken for the mark.

Other information relating to the registration of a mark as requested by the administrator.

The application shall be signed, verified, and sworn to by the applicant, if an individual; by a member of the firm; by an officer of the corporation, association, or union; or by a member of the partnership applying.

The application shall be accompanied by 2 specimens or facsimiles of the mark as used at the time of applying for registration of the mark.

The application for registration shall be accompanied by a filing fee of $50.00, payable to the state of Michigan.

The application shall include an appointment of the administrator as the applicant's agent for service of process only in actions relating to the registration of a mark for which an application has been submitted or a registered mark. Service of process may be issued under this subsection if the applicant is or becomes a nonresident individual, partnership, or association; if the applicant is or becomes a foreign corporation without a certificate to do business in this state; or if the applicant cannot be found in this state. Service of process shall be made by mailing a summons and a copy of the complaint to the administrator who shall keep a record of each process received. This service shall be sufficient upon the nonresident applicant provided notice of the service and a copy of the complaint are served upon the applicant by certified mail sent by the plaintiff.

History: 1969, Act 242, Eff. Jan. 1, 1970; Am. 1980, Act 63, Imd. Eff. Apr. 2, 1980; Am. 1984, Act 203, Eff. Oct. 1, 1984
Mich. Comp. Laws § Article VII § 5 — MI Code / Chapter 1 / Act CONSTITUTION-OF-MICHIGAN-OF-1963 / Section Article VII § 5
Offices at county seat.
Status: in_force

Sec. 5.

The sheriff, county clerk, county treasurer and register of deeds shall hold their principal offices at the county seat.

History: Const. 1963, Art. VII, § 5, Eff. Jan. 1, 1964
Mich. Comp. Laws § 451.2505 — MI Code / Chapter 451 / Act Act-551-of-2008 / Section 451.2505
Misleading filings.
Status: in_force

Sec. 505.

A person shall not make or cause to be made, in a record that is used in an action or proceeding or filed under this act, a statement that, at the time and in the light of the circumstances under which it is made, is false or misleading in a material respect, or, in connection with the statement, omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statement made, in the light of the circumstances under which it was made, not false or misleading.

History: 2008, Act 551, Eff. Oct. 1, 2009
Mich. Comp. Laws § 287.339 — MI Code / Chapter 287 / Act Act-287-of-1969 / Section 287.339
Person breeding his or her own animals or person subject to MCL 287.381 to 287.395; applicability of act.
Status: in_force

Sec. 9.

(1) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, the licensing and registration requirements of this act do not apply to a person who breeds his or her own animals or to a person subject to 1969 PA 224, MCL 287.381 to 287.395. The licensing and registration requirements of this act apply to a large-scale dog breeding kennel.

(2) Subsection (1) does not create an exemption from vaccination and licensing requirements under the dog law of 1919, 1919 PA 339, MCL 287.261 to 287.290, or from vaccination and handling requirements under 1994 PA 358, MCL 287.891 to 287.901.

(3) This act does not require the alteration of a dog, cat, or ferret being reclaimed from an animal control shelter or animal protection shelter by its owner unless a local government ordinance requires the alteration.

History: 1969, Act 287, Eff. Mar. 20, 1970; Am. 1997, Act 7, Eff. Jan. 1, 1998; Am. 2016, Act 392, Eff. Mar. 29, 2017
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.31523 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.31523
Emergency action plans; submissions; review; consistency with other plans; contents of plans.
Status: in_force

Sec. 31523.

An owner shall prepare, and keep current, emergency action plans for all high and significant hazard potential dams owned by that person.

Emergency action plans shall be submitted to the department.

The applicable county or local emergency management coordinators shall review for consistency emergency action plans with the county or local emergency operations plan prior to submission of those plans to the department.

An emergency action plan shall be consistent with the applicable provisions of the affected county or local emergency operations plans and the Michigan emergency preparedness plan as developed pursuant to the emergency preparedness act, Act No. 390 of the Public Acts of 1976, being sections 30.401 to 30.420 of the Michigan Compiled Laws.

Emergency action plans shall include, but not be limited to, the name, address, and telephone number of the person, and of an alternate person, responsible for operation of the dam; the name and telephone number of local emergency management coordinators; and a listing of occupied facilities, buildings, and residences that may be threatened with flooding due to a failure of the dam.

History: Add. 1995, Act 59, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1995