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Mich. Comp. Laws § 460.312 — MI Code / Chapter 460 / Act Act-149-of-1996 / Section 460.312
Jurisdiction of commission over stocks, bonds, or other evidences of indebtedness.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

Notwithstanding the repeal of former Act No. 144 of the Public Acts of 1909, being sections 460.301 to 460.303 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, the Michigan public service commission shall continue to have jurisdiction over any stocks, bonds, or other evidences of indebtedness that were issued pursuant to an order of the commission under former Act No. 144 of the Public Acts of 1909.

History: 1996, Act 149, Imd. Eff. Mar. 25, 1996
Mich. Comp. Laws § 168.869 — MI Code / Chapter 168 / Act Act-116-of-1954 / Section 168.869
Commencement of recount; delay; expenses of local recount.
Status: in_force

Sec. 869.

A recount must not be commenced until the board of county canvassers determines, by communicating with the secretary of state in a form and manner as provided by the secretary of state, that a petition has not been filed requesting a recount by the board of state canvassers of ballots cast in the same district. If the board of county canvassers is advised by the secretary of state that a petition has been filed with the secretary of state praying for a recount by the board of state canvassers of the ballots cast in the same county or district, then no action must be taken on the recount until the board of county canvassers receives instructions from the board of state canvassers. Nothing contained in this section shall act to delay any recount of the ballots cast at any city, ward, township, or village election if the ballots cast at that election are not sealed in the same ballot containers with the state and county offices. For any recount of ballots cast in any city, ward, township, village, school, or district election, the board of county canvassers shall charge the appropriate local unit the actual and necessary expenses of conducting the recount, and the local unit shall pay those charges to the county treasurer.

History: 1954, Act 116, Eff. June 1, 1955; Am. 1963, 2nd Ex. Sess., Act 38, Imd. Eff. Dec. 27, 1963; Am. 2024, Act 74, Eff. Apr. 2, 2025
Mich. Comp. Laws § 554.1032 — MI Code / Chapter 554 / Act Act-16-of-2018 / Section 554.1032
Removal of receiver; replacement; discharge; termination.
Status: in_force

Sec. 22.

(1) The court may remove a receiver for cause.

(2) The court shall replace a receiver that dies, resigns, or is removed.

(3) If the court finds that a receiver that resigns or is removed, or the representative of a receiver that is deceased, has accounted fully for and turned over to the successor receiver all receivership property and has filed a report of all receipts and disbursements during the service of the replaced receiver, the replaced receiver is discharged.

(4) The court may discharge a receiver and terminate the court's administration of the receivership property if the court finds that appointment of the receiver was improvident or that the circumstances no longer warrant continuation of the receivership. If the court finds that the appointment was sought wrongfully or in bad faith, the court may assess both of the following against the person that sought the appointment:

(a) The fees and expenses of the receivership, including reasonable attorney fees and costs.

(b) Actual damages caused by the appointment, including reasonable attorney fees and costs.

History: 2018, Act 16, Eff. May 7, 2018
Mich. Comp. Laws § 254.64 — MI Code / Chapter 254 / Act Act-398-of-1919 / Section 254.64
Recovery of damages; plaintiffs; actions within year.
Status: in_force

Sec. 14.

In the event of any owner of property or property rights abutting upon or adjoining said highway, or any township, village or municipality adjoining said stream, being damaged or injured in his or its property or property rights, or the value thereof by reason of the erection of said bridge, the person or persons, township, village or municipality so damaged or injured shall be entitled to recover the money value of such injury or damage suffered, from the county in which said bridge is constructed. Action for the recovery of damages shall be instituted by the person or persons, township, village or municipality injured or damaged, in the circuit court for the county in which said bridge is constructed, and such action shall be commenced within 1 year from the time when said bridge shall be fully completed.

History: 1919, Act 398, Imd. Eff. May 13, 1919; CL 1929, 4567; CL 1948, 254.64
Mich. Comp. Laws § 207.273 — MI Code / Chapter 207 / Act Act-68-of-1963 / Section 207.273
Specific taxation of underground beneficiated iron ore; computation of tax prior to completion of agglomerating or beneficiating facility.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3.

Prior to the first full calendar year following the completion of an ore property, the underground ore from which will be agglomerated or beneficiated, or both, in such amounts as to bring the property within the provisions of subdivisions (a), (b), (c) or (d) of subsection 1 of section 2 of this act, the ore property, together with the agglomerating or beneficiating facilities, as may be constructed in connection therewith, shall be subject to a specific tax equal to the rated annual capacity of the ore property multiplied by 1% of the mine value of base grade ore f.o.b. the ore property, multiplied by the per cent completion of the ore property and the agglomerating or beneficiating facilities.

An agglomerating facility or a beneficiating facility constructed or being constructed for the purpose of treating underground ore from an ore property which is being assessed on the ad valorem tax roll shall not be subject to ad valorem tax assessment prior to the first full calendar year following the completion of the facility and prior to the time the ore property comes within the provisions of section 2 of this act.

History: 1963, Act 68, Eff. Sept. 6, 1963
Mich. Comp. Laws § 207.754 — MI Code / Chapter 207 / Act Act-180-of-1991 / Section 207.754
Administration and collection of excise tax; agreement with state treasurer; remittance to municipality; ordinance provisions; confidentiality of taxpayer information; violation; penalties.
Status: in_force

Sec. 4.

The chief executive officer and the state treasurer may enter into an agreement providing that the tax imposed pursuant to this act be administered and collected by the revenue division under Act No. 122 of the Public Acts of 1941, being sections 205.1 to 205.31 of the Michigan Compiled Laws. If there is agreement, the department of treasury shall administer and collect the tax imposed by this act on behalf of the eligible municipality, and the ordinance shall provide for the administration and collection of the tax imposed by this act in the same manner as state taxes are administered and collected under Act No. 122 of the Public Acts of 1941, being sections 205.1 to 205.31 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, except for procedures for the appeal of any assessment as provided by the ordinance. Not more than 15 days after their due date, taxes, interest, and penalties collected by the revenue division of the department of treasury pursuant to that agreement shall be remitted to the eligible municipality that imposed the tax. Any remittance to the eligible municipality by the department of treasury after that date shall include interest earned on the gross collections after that deadline and before transmittal to the eligible county, calculated on the basis of the rate of interest accrued for this period on the common cash fund of the state.

The ordinance may provide for 1 or more of the following:

The adoption and enforcement of rules by the eligible municipality to apply, interpret, and effectuate the provision and purposes of the tax.

The prescribing and furnishing to taxpayers of forms, instructions, manuals, and other materials necessary or convenient for the administration of the tax.

The requiring of taxpayers to file returns, provide information, and maintain records that are reasonable for enforcement of the tax and auditing of the returns.

The examination of the books and records of a taxpayer for purposes of determining the correctness of a tax return or information filed, or for the determination of any further tax liability.

Information obtained pursuant to a provision in the ordinance authorized under subsection (2)(d) or through any return, investigation hearing, or verification required or authorized by the ordinance is confidential, except for official purposes in connection with the administration of the ordinance and except pursuant to a proper judicial order. A person who divulges this confidential information, except for official purposes, is guilty of a violation of the ordinance punishable by a fine of not more than $5,000.00, or imprisonment for not more than 5 years, or both. Additionally, if the offense is committed by an employee of the eligible municipality or the state, the person shall be dismissed from office or discharged from employment upon conviction.

History: 1991, Act 180, Imd. Eff. Dec. 26, 1991
Mich. Comp. Laws § 500.7080 — MI Code / Chapter 500 / Act Act-218-of-1956 / Section 500.7080
Multiple employer welfare arrangement security fund; creation; administration; use; appointment, qualifications, terms, and compensation of board of trustees; powers of board of trustees; payment of and accounting for expenses.
Status: in_force

Sec. 7080.

A multiple employer welfare arrangement security fund is created within the state treasury. The fund shall be administered by a board of trustees and shall be used solely to pay and discharge covered claims against insolvent MEWAs authorized to do business in this state.

The board of trustees of the fund shall consist of 3 members. The commissioner shall be an ex officio member and the remaining 2 members shall be representatives of authorized MEWAs, who shall be appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate. The 2 appointive members shall serve terms of 4 years and shall serve without compensation, except for actual and necessary expenses.

The board may:

If a MEWA becomes insolvent, appoint a person to act as a fund administrator. The fund administrator shall:

Supervise disbursements for covered claims of the insolvent MEWA.

Request payments from the fund for covered claims.

Perform such other duties as are designated by the board.

Authorize payments from the fund for covered claims upon request to the fund administrator by a covered employee or dependent who is a Michigan resident and who is receiving or is entitled to receive benefits from an insolvent MEWA that is unable to continue paying benefits. All payments from the fund shall be determined by the board and made upon an order signed by a trustee.

Promulgate rules as it deems necessary to carry out the purposes of the fund 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.

Maintain records, institute systems and procedures, and take any other administrative action as it deems necessary to carry out the purposes of the fund.

Secure legal advice and be represented by the attorney general or any assistant designated by him or her in any matter involving the affairs of the fund.

All expenses authorized by the board for the proper administration of the fund, including, but not limited to, the salary and expenses of the fund administrator and the investigation, determination, and defense of claims against the fund shall be borne by and paid from the assets of the fund. All expenses incurred and charged to the fund shall be accounted for on a fiscal year basis.

History: Add. 1986, Act 121, Eff. July 1, 1986
Mich. Comp. Laws § 333.18033 — MI Code / Chapter 333 / Act Act-368-of-1978 / Section 333.18033
Renewal of license; evidence required; completion of hours or courses in pain and symptom management as continuing education; rules.
Status: in_force

Sec. 18033.

Notwithstanding the requirements of part 161, the board may require a licensee seeking renewal of a license to furnish the board with satisfactory evidence that during the 3 years immediately preceding application for renewal the licensee has attended continuing education courses or programs approved by the board and totaling not less than 150 hours in subjects related to the practice of podiatric medicine and surgery and designed to further educate licensees.

As required under section 16204, the board shall promulgate rules requiring each applicant for license renewal to complete as part of the continuing education requirement of subsection (1) an appropriate number of hours or courses in pain and symptom management.

History: 1978, Act 368, Eff. Sept. 30, 1978; Am. 1978, Act 625, Imd. Eff. Jan. 6, 1979; Am. 1986, Act 290, Imd. Eff. Dec. 22, 1986; Am. 1994, Act 234, Imd. Eff. June 30, 1994
Mich. Comp. Laws § 211.38 — MI Code / Chapter 211 / Act Act-206-of-1893 / Section 211.38
Duplicate apportionment certificates; failure to certify, official notice.
Status: in_force

Sec. 38.

The clerk of the board of supervisors shall, immediately after the said apportionment, make out 2 certificates showing the millages apportioned to each township for state, county and the various township purposes, each tax being kept distinct, 1 of which he shall deliver to the county treasurer, and the other to the supervisor of the proper township: Provided, That if said clerk fail to make such certificate, the supervisor shall take official notice of all certificates, statements, papers and records in the office of the township and county clerk relating to the levy of taxes in his township, and of the action of the board of supervisors thereon.

History: 1893, Act 206, Eff. June 12, 1893; CL 1897, 3861; CL 1915, 4033; CL 1929, 3427; CL 1948, 211.38; Am. 1968, Act 347, Eff. Nov. 15, 1968
Mich. Comp. Laws § 552.642a — MI Code / Chapter 552 / Act Act-295-of-1982 / Section 552.642a
Joint meeting.
Status: in_force

Sec. 42a.

A joint meeting scheduled by the office of the friend of the court under section 41 of this act or section 17 of the friend of the court act, MCL 552.517, and procedures following a joint meeting are governed by this section.

A joint meeting may take place in person or by means of telecommunications equipment.

Only an individual who completes the training program described in section 19(3)(b) of the friend of the court act, MCL 552.519, shall conduct a joint meeting. At the beginning of a joint meeting, the individual conducting the joint meeting shall do the following:

Advise the parties that the purpose of the meeting is for the parties to reach an accommodation.

Advise the parties that the individual may recommend an order that the court may issue to resolve the dispute.

At the conclusion of a joint meeting, the individual conducting the joint meeting shall do 1 of the following:

If the parties reach an accommodation, record the accommodation in writing and provide a copy to each party.

Submit an order to the court stating the individual's recommendation for resolving the dispute.

If the individual conducting a joint meeting submits a recommended order to the court under subsection (4), the individual shall send a notice to each party who participated in the joint meeting that includes all of the following:

A copy of the recommended order.

Notice that the court may issue the recommended order resolving the dispute unless a party objects to the order within 21 days after the notice is sent.

The place where and time when a written objection can be submitted.

Notice that a party may waive the 21-day objection period by returning a signed copy of the recommendation.

If a party files a written objection within the 21-day limit, the office shall set a court hearing, before a judge or referee, to resolve the dispute. If a party fails to file a written objection within the 21-day limit, the office shall submit the proposed order to the court for entry if the court approves it.

If a hearing under subsection (6) is held before a referee, either party is entitled to a de novo hearing before a judge as provided in section 7 of the friend of the court act, MCL 552.507.

History: Add. 2002, Act 568, Eff. Dec. 1, 2002; Am. 2004, Act 206, Eff. Feb. 28, 2005
Mich. Comp. Laws § 801.10 — MI Code / Chapter 801 / Act R-S-of-1846 / Section 801.10
Prisoners; work on public highways, streets, alleys, roads, or railroad crossings; work in quarry, pit, or yard; performance of work for nonprofit charitable organizations or other labor; duty of sheriff; use of prisoner labor for private benefit or financial gain prohibited; violation of subsection (2) as civil infraction; penalty; sheriff deriving private benefit or financial gain from provision of food to prisoners as civil infraction; penalty.
Status: in_force

Sec. 10.

The county board of commissioners of any county, by resolution passed at any regular or special session, may order that prisoners over the age of 18 years under a sentence of imprisonment in the county jail, capable of performing manual labor, shall be required to work upon the public highways, streets, alleys, public roads, or railroad crossings in the county, or in any quarry, pit, or yard in the preparation or construction of materials for public highways, streets, alleys, roads, or railroad crossings in the county, to perform work for nonprofit charitable organizations including, but not limited to, churches and synagogues, or to perform any other lawful labor for the benefit of the county. When a resolution under this section is passed, the sheriff shall cause the prisoners to be put at work in the manner provided in the resolution of the county board of commissioners. The board of county road commissioners and the village or city authorities of any village or city in the county or the authorities in charge of any county institution may make application to have the prisoners work in any township, city, village, or institution in a manner prescribed by the county board of commissioners, and the county board of commissioners shall determine in which township, city, or village the prisoners shall work.

A person, including a public official or public employee, shall not sell, hire, lease, loan, contract for, or otherwise use the labor of prisoners for his or her own private benefit or financial gain. A person who violates this subsection is responsible for a state civil infraction and may be ordered to pay a civil fine of not more than $500.00.

A sheriff shall not derive any private benefit or financial gain from the provision of food to prisoners in the jail, whether by retaining the difference between money budgeted for food and money expended for food, or by any other method. This subsection does not prevent a sheriff from receiving a salary for duties that include supervising the operation of the jail. A sheriff who violates this subsection is responsible for a state civil infraction and may be ordered to pay a civil fine of not more than $500.00.

History: R.S. 1846, Ch. 171; CL 1857, 6138; Am. 1861, Act 141, Eff. June 15, 1861; CL 1871, 8027; How. 9643; CL 1897, 2659; Am. 1909, Act 10, Eff. Sept. 1, 1909; Am. 1915, Act 132, Eff. Aug. 24, 1915; CL 1915, 2531; CL 1929, 17677; CL 1948, 801.10; Am. 1960, Act 71, Eff. Aug. 17, 1960; Am. 1984, Act 41, Imd. Eff. Mar. 26, 1984; Am. 1988, Act 402, Imd. Eff. Dec. 27, 1988; Am. 1996, Act 178, Imd. Eff. Apr. 18, 1996
Mich. Comp. Laws § 333.16642 — MI Code / Chapter 333 / Act Act-368-of-1978 / Section 333.16642
Work authorization for dental laboratory work; form; contents; name or number of work authorization to accompany invoice; prohibition.
Status: in_force

Sec. 16642.

A written authorization for dental laboratory work shall be in a form prescribed by the board and shall contain the following:

The name and address of the laboratory.

An identification of the patient by name or number.

The date on which the authorization was written.

The description of the work to be done, with diagrams if necessary.

A specification of the type and quality of materials to be used.

The dentist's signature, complete business address, and license number.

A dental laboratory shall return completed prescribed work to the prescribing dentist or the dentist's office with the name or number of the written work authorization accompanying the invoice.

A dental laboratory shall not have in its possession a prosthetic denture, bridge, orthodontic or other appliance, or structure to be used as a substitute for or as a part of human teeth or jaws or associated structures or for the correction of malocclusions or deformities, completed or being fabricated without having in its possession a written work authorization therefor.

History: 1978, Act 368, Eff. Sept. 30, 1978
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.34142 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.34142
District accounts; duties of county treasurer; expenditure from district funds; bond interest; funds transfer.
Status: in_force

Sec. 34142.

The county treasurers of the counties in which the irrigation district is located shall carry all accounts and items pertaining thereto as a separate account upon the books of their office. A record shall be kept of the amount of money paid from the irrigation district funds for the use and benefit of any irrigation district and, upon payment to the county treasurer of taxes assessed by the irrigation district, the county treasurer shall pay for the outstanding interest on bonds issued out of the taxes received or shall transfer the excess of funds to the irrigation district fund for the use and benefit of the irrigation district.

History: Add. 1995, Act 59, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1995
Mich. Comp. Laws § 445.1643 — MI Code / Chapter 445 / Act Act-660-of-2002 / Section 445.1643
Model programs for financial education.
Status: in_force

Sec. 13.

(1) The department of insurance and financial services shall develop and make available to local units of government, financial institutions, and other interested persons 1 or more model programs for financial education.

(2) The program required under this section shall be designed to teach personal financial management skills and the basic principles involved with saving, borrowing, investing, and protection against predatory and other fraudulent lending practices.

History: 2002, Act 660, Imd. Eff. Dec. 23, 2002; Am. 2016, Act 44, Eff. June 13, 2016