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Mich. Comp. Laws § 123.776 — MI Code / Chapter 123 / Act Act-185-of-1957 / Section 123.776
Court commissioners; appointment; discontinuance of proceedings.
Status: in_force

Sec. 46.

On the day fixed, the court shall enter the default of all persons interested in the property described who have not appeared; and unless sufficient cause to the contrary be shown, shall appoint 3 disinterested persons as court commissioners whose duty it shall be to determine whether it is necessary to take for public use or benefit the property described in the petition and, if so, to appraise the damages to be paid as compensation for such taking. The commissioners shall not be residents of the area to be served by the improvement for which the property is to be taken. The court shall fix the time and place for the first meeting of the court commissioners and require their attendance; it may also authorize the court commissioners to adjourn their meeting from time to time not later than a day to be named, and shall fix the time for filing their report. After the appointment of court commissioners, no discontinuance shall be filed and no order of discontinuance may be entered, except upon payment by the county of the expenses of the proceeding and reasonable attorney fees of all parties in interest who have appeared in the proceedings under the order of the court.

History: 1957, Act 185, Imd. Eff. June 4, 1957
Mich. Comp. Laws § 257.1263 — MI Code / Chapter 257 / Act Act-263-of-2005 / Section 257.1263
Enforcement; powers of attorney general.
Status: in_force

Sec. 23.

The attorney general has all of the following enforcement powers with respect to a person that violates this act:

(a) To bring an action for a temporary or permanent injunction in the manner provided in section 5 of the Michigan consumer protection act, 1976 PA 331, MCL 445.905.

(b) To accept an assurance of discontinuance in the manner provided in section 6 of the Michigan consumer protection act, 1976 PA 331, MCL 445.906.

(c) To apply for the issuance of subpoenas in the manner provided in sections 7 and 8 of the Michigan consumer protection act, 1976 PA 331, MCL 445.907 and 445.908.

(d) To bring a class action in the manner provided in section 10 of the Michigan consumer protection act, 1976 PA 331, MCL 445.910.

History: 2005, Act 263, Eff. June 14, 2006
Mich. Comp. Laws § 500.6456 — MI Code / Chapter 500 / Act Act-218-of-1956 / Section 500.6456
Domestic cooperative plan insurers; conversion into mutual insurer; procedure.
Status: in_force

Sec. 6456.

Any insurer transacting business under subdivisions (1) (disability) or (3) (life) of section 6406, or under both such subdivisions, may, at its option, convert itself without reincorporation into a mutual insurance company transacting the corresponding kind or kinds of business, and become subject to the provisions of sections 5408 through 5430 (provisions applicable to domestic mutual life and disability insurers) and the applicable portions of sections 408 (capital, surplus, assets required) and 412 (deposit requirement), upon meeting the surplus and other requirements of said sections. Any insurer transacting only the kinds of business specified in subdivisions (1) (disability) and/or (2) (loss of position) of section 6406, may, at its option, convert itself without reincorporation into a mutual company and continue to transact the said kind or kinds of business, and become subject in all other respects to the provisions of chapter 58 (domestic general mutual insurers) upon meeting the requirements of said chapter.

The board of directors, trustees, or managers, shall adopt, in the manner provided by law, such amendments to the articles of incorporation and the bylaws of the insurer as shall be necessary to make the same conform to the articles of incorporation and bylaws of a mutual insurance company, as above limited. Upon approval by the commissioner of such amendments, and the filing of a certified copy of the amendments to the articles of incorporation with the county clerk of the county in which the principal office of the insurer is located, such insurer shall be subject to the provisions and entitled to the benefits of the sections or chapter above designated, as the case may be.

Such conversion into a mutual insurance company shall not affect the rights or obligations of the insurer or its members on any contract theretofore made.

History: 1956, Act 218, Eff. Jan. 1, 1957
Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.2159 — MI Code / Chapter 600 / Act Act-236-of-1961 / Section 600.2159
Parties as witnesses; depositions; comment on failure of criminal defendant to testify.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2159.

On the trial of any issue joined, or in any matter, suit or proceeding, in any court, or on any inquiry arising in any suit or proceeding in any court, or before any officer or person having by law, or by consent of parties, authority to hear, receive, and examine evidence, the parties to any such suit or proceeding named in the record, and persons for whose benefit such suit or proceeding is prosecuted, or defended, may be witnesses therein in their own behalf or otherwise, in the same manner as other witnesses, except as hereinafter otherwise provided; and the deposition of any such party or person may be taken and used in evidence under the rules and statutes governing depositions, and any such party or person may be proceeded against and compelled to attend and testify, as is provided by law for other witnesses. No person shall be disqualified as a witness in any civil or criminal case or proceeding by reason of his interest in the event of the same as a party or otherwise or by reason of his having been convicted of any crime; but such interest or conviction may be shown for the purpose of affecting his credibility. A defendant in any criminal case or proceeding shall only at his own request be deemed a competent witness, and his neglect to testify shall not create any presumption against him, nor shall the court permit any reference or comment to be made to or upon such neglect.

History: 1961, Act 236, Eff. Jan. 1, 1963
Mich. Comp. Laws § 457.461 — MI Code / Chapter 457 / Act Act-163-of-1893 / Section 457.461
Uniform Rank of Knights of Maccabees; incorporation.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

That the grand division and subordinate divisions of the Uniform Rank of the Knights of the Maccabees of the state of Michigan, may be incorporated in pursuance of the provisions of this act.

History: 1893, Act 163, Eff. Aug. 28, 1893; CL 1897, 8031; CL 1915, 10503; CL 1929, 10708; CL 1948, 457.461
Mich. Comp. Laws § 41.184 — MI Code / Chapter 41 / Act Act-246-of-1945 / Section 41.184
Township ordinance; effective date; publication; adoption by reference.
Status: in_force

Sec. 4.

(1) A township ordinance shall contain a provision stating when the ordinance takes effect.

(2) Except as provided in section 22 of the charter township act, 1947 PA 359, MCL 42.22, and section 401 of the Michigan zoning enabling act, 2006 PA 110, MCL 125.3401, a township ordinance shall take effect as follows:

(a) If an ordinance imposes a sanction for the violation of the ordinance, the ordinance shall take effect 30 days after the first publication of the ordinance.

(b) If an ordinance does not impose a sanction for the violation of the ordinance, the ordinance shall take effect the day following the date of the publication of the ordinance or any date following publication specified in the ordinance.

(3) Publication of the ordinance shall be made within 30 days after the passage of the ordinance by inserting either a true copy or a summary of the ordinance once in a newspaper circulating within the township. A summary of an ordinance may be drafted by the same person who drafted the ordinance or by the township board or township planning commission and shall be written in clear and nontechnical language. Each section of an ordinance or a summary of an ordinance shall be preceded by a catch line. If a summary of an ordinance is published, the township shall designate in the publication the location in the township where a true copy of the ordinance can be inspected or obtained.

(4) If an ordinance adopts by reference a provision of any state statute for which the maximum period of imprisonment is 93 days or the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.1 to 257.923, a statement of the purpose of the statute shall be published with the adopting ordinance or with the summary of the adopting ordinance under subsection (3). Copies of the statute adopted by the township by reference shall be kept in the office of the township clerk, available for inspection by and distribution to the public. The township shall include in the publication the designation of a location in the township where a copy of the statute can be inspected or obtained. Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, a township shall not enforce any provision adopted by reference for which the maximum period of imprisonment is greater than 93 days. A township may adopt section 625(1)(c) of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.625, by reference in an adopting ordinance and shall provide that a violation of that ordinance is a misdemeanor punishable by 1 or more of the following:

(a) Community service for not more than 360 hours.

(b) Imprisonment for not more than 180 days.

(c) A fine of not less than $200.00 or more than $700.00.

History: Add. 1989, Act 78, Imd. Eff. June 20, 1989; Am. 1994, Act 14, Eff. May 1, 1994; Am. 1999, Act 253, Imd. Eff. Dec. 28, 1999; Am. 1999, Act 257, Eff. Dec. 29, 1999; Am. 2012, Act 9, Imd. Eff. Feb. 15, 2012
Mich. Comp. Laws § 141.1441 — MI Code / Chapter 141 / Act Act-340-of-2020 / Section 141.1441
Short title.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

This act shall be known and may be cited as the "regional event center financing act".

History: 2020, Act 340, Eff. Mar. 24, 2021
Mich. Comp. Laws § 16.701 — MI Code / Chapter 16 / Act Act-240-of-1970 / Section 16.701
Commodities surplus food distribution; transfer to education department.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

The powers and duties now vested by law in the department of social services with reference to the commodities surplus food distribution section are transferred to the department of education. The commodities food surplus distribution section within the department of social services is abolished and the department of education is vested with full authority and shall exercise the powers and perform the duties with reference to the commodities surplus food distribution section as heretofore vested in and required to be performed by the department of social services.

History: 1970, Act 240, Imd. Eff. Dec. 30, 1970
Mich. Comp. Laws § 290.132 — MI Code / Chapter 290 / Act Act-74-of-1917 / Section 290.132
Standard containers for small fruits, berries and vegetables.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

That the standard basket or other container for small fruits, berries, and vegetables shall be of the following capacities: namely, dry 1/2 pint, dry pint, dry quart, or multiples of the dry quart.

The dry 1/2 pint shall contain 16 and 8/10 cubic inches;

The dry pint shall contain 33 and 6/10 cubic inches;

The dry quart shall contain 67 and 2/10 cubic inches.

History: 1917, Act 74, Eff. Nov. 1, 1917; CL 1929, 5572; CL 1948, 290.132
Mich. Comp. Laws § 554.26 — MI Code / Chapter 554 / Act R-S-of-1846 / Section 554.26
Future estates; validity as affected by probability of contingency.
Status: in_force

Sec. 26.

No future estate, otherwise valid, shall be void on the ground of the probability or improbability of the contingency on which it is limited to take effect.

History: R.S. 1846, Ch. 62; CL 1857, 2610; CL 1871, 4093; How. 5542; CL 1897, 8808; CL 1915, 11544; CL 1929, 12946; CL 1948, 554.26
Mich. Comp. Laws § 46.74 — MI Code / Chapter 46 / Act Act-58-of-1909 / Section 46.74
Appeal; county clerk, entry of action; pleadings; procedure.
Status: in_force

Sec. 4.

The county clerk shall, as soon as the said return is filed in his office, enter in the circuit court record an action in which the claimant shall be plaintiff and the particular county defendant. The claimant shall not be permitted to file any amended or different claim from that presented to the board of supervisors or board of county auditors. The statement or return of the proceedings before the auditing board, prepared and filed in the office of the county clerk, shall be equivalent to a declaration in such action, and the defendant may file its plea thereto within 20 days after such appeal is taken. Every appeal thus taken to the circuit court shall be docketed among the other causes pending therein, and shall be heard, tried and determined as an original cause, and the practice in the circuit court shall be followed in all such matters, except where the contrary is herein expressed.

History: 1909, Act 58, Eff. Sept. 1, 1909; CL 1915, 2302; CL 1929, 1189; CL 1948, 46.74
Mich. Comp. Laws § 750.204 — MI Code / Chapter 750 / Act Act-328-of-1931 / Section 750.204
Explosives; sending with intent to frighten, injure, or kill person or damage or destroy property; violation; penalties.
Status: in_force

Sec. 204.

(1) A person shall not send or deliver to another person or cause to be taken or received by any person any kind of explosive substance or any other dangerous thing with the intent to frighten, terrorize, intimidate, threaten, harass, injure, or kill any person, or with the intent to damage or destroy any real or personal property without the permission of the property owner or, if the property is public property, without the permission of the governmental agency having authority over that property.

(2) A person who violates this section is guilty of a crime as follows:

(a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivisions (b) to (e), the person is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than 15 years or a fine of not more than $10,000.00, or both.

(b) If the violation damages the property of another person, the person is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than 20 years or a fine of not more than $15,000.00, or both.

(c) If the violation causes physical injury to another individual, other than serious impairment of a body function, the person is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than 25 years or a fine of not more than $20,000.00, or both.

(d) If the violation causes serious impairment of a body function to another individual, the person is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for life or any term of years or a fine of not more than $25,000.00, or both.

(e) Except as provided in sections 25 and 25a of chapter IX of the code of criminal procedure, 1927 PA 175, MCL 769.25 and 769.25a, if the violation causes the death of another individual, the person is guilty of a felony and shall be imprisoned for life without eligibility for parole and may be fined not more than $40,000.00, or both.

History: 1931, Act 328, Eff. Sept. 18, 1931; CL 1948, 750.204; Am. 1998, Act 206, Eff. Oct. 1, 1998; Am. 2003, Act 257, Eff. Jan. 1, 2004; Am. 2014, Act 23, Imd. Eff. Mar. 4, 2014
Mich. Comp. Laws § 457.412 — MI Code / Chapter 457 / Act Act-291-of-1913 / Section 457.412
Incorporators; articles of association, execution, contents.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

Any 10 or more persons, residents of this state, being members in good standing of a subordinate lodge of the Loyal Order of Moose, having competent authority from the supreme lodge of the world, Loyal Order of Moose, desirous to become incorporated, may make and execute articles of association, under their hands and seals, which articles of association shall be acknowledged before some officer authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds, and shall set forth:

First, The names of the persons associating in the first instance, and their place of residence;

Second, The corporate name by which such association shall be known in the law, and the place of its business office;

Third, The objects and purposes of such association, which shall be to assist in binding civilized mankind closer together with bonds of fraternal love, to teach and educate its members and their families a higher and nobler citizenship, and to promote friendship, and social intercourse, and to accumulate a fund for that purpose; and the period for which it is incorporated, not exceeding 30 years.

History: 1913, Act 291, Eff. Aug. 14, 1913; CL 1915, 10630; CL 1929, 10691; CL 1948, 457.412
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.63501 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.63501
Meanings of words and phrases defined in MCL 324.63502 and 324.63503.
Status: in_force

Sec. 63501.

For the purposes of this part, the words and phrases defined in sections 63502 and 63503 have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections.

History: Add. 1995, Act 57, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1995
Mich. Comp. Laws § 440.5107 — MI Code / Chapter 440 / Act Act-174-of-1962 / Section 440.5107
Confirmation; rights and obligations; request to advise; notice to transferee beneficiary.
Status: in_force

Sec. 5107.

A confirmer is directly obligated on a letter of credit and has the rights and obligations of an issuer to the extent of its confirmation. The confirmer also has rights against and obligations to the issuer as if the issuer were an applicant and the confirmer had issued the letter of credit at the request and for the account of the issuer.

A nominated person who is not a confirmer is not obligated to honor or otherwise give value for a presentation.

A person requested to advise may decline to act as an adviser. An adviser that is not a confirmer is not obligated to honor or give value for a presentation. An adviser undertakes to the issuer and to the beneficiary accurately to advise the terms of the letter of credit, confirmation, amendment, or advice received by that person and undertakes to the beneficiary to check the apparent authenticity of the request to advise. Even if the advice is inaccurate, the letter of credit, confirmation, or amendment is enforceable as issued.

A person who notifies a transferee beneficiary of the terms of a letter of credit, confirmation, amendment, or advice has the rights and obligations of an adviser under subsection (3). The terms in the notice to the transferee beneficiary may differ from the terms in any notice to the transferor beneficiary to the extent permitted by the letter of credit, confirmation, amendment, or advice received by the person who so notifies.

History: 1962, Act 174, Eff. Jan. 1, 1964; Am. 1998, Act 488, Imd. Eff. Jan. 4, 1999
Mich. Comp. Laws § 457.321 — MI Code / Chapter 457 / Act Act-90-of-1905 / Section 457.321
Lodges of Independent Order of Odd Fellows; incorporation.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

The grand and subordinate lodges of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of the state of Michigan, may be incorporated in pursuance of the provisions of this act.

History: 1905, Act 90, Imd. Eff. May 3, 1905; CL 1915, 10450; CL 1929, 10653; CL 1948, 457.321
Mich. Comp. Laws § 18.1753 — MI Code / Chapter 18 / Act Act-540-of-2018 / Section 18.1753
Definitions.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3.

As used in this act:

(a) "Contractor" means the private entity, nonprofit entity, or academic institution selected by the department under section 5 to evaluate certain economic development incentives.

(b) "Department" means the department of technology, management, and budget.

(c) "Economic development incentive" means the abatements, tax credits, exemptions, grants, loans, or loan guarantees related to economic development activities in this state as determined by the Michigan strategic fund provided under the following acts:

( i ) The Michigan business tax act, 2007 PA 36, MCL 208.1101 to 208.1601.

( ii ) The income tax act of 1967, 1967 PA 281, MCL 206.1 to 206.713.

( iii ) 1974 PA 198, MCL 207.551 to 207.572.

( iv ) The commercial redevelopment act, 1978 PA 255, MCL 207.651 to 207.668.

( v ) The enterprise zone act, 1985 PA 224, MCL 125.2101 to 125.2123.

( vi ) 1953 PA 189, MCL 211.181 to 211.182.

( vii ) The technology park development act, 1984 PA 385, MCL 207.701 to 207.718.

( viii ) Part 511 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324.51101 to 324.51120.

( ix ) The neighborhood enterprise zone act, 1992 PA 147, MCL 207.771 to 207.786.

( x ) The city utility users tax act, 1990 PA 100, MCL 141.1151 to 141.1177.

( xi ) The city income tax act, 1964 PA 284, MCL 141.501 to 141.787.

( xii ) The general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211.1 to 211.155.

( xiii ) The Michigan economic growth authority act, 1995 PA 24, MCL 207.801 to 207.810.

( xiv ) The Michigan renaissance zone act, 1996 PA 376, MCL 125.2681 to 125.2696.

( xv ) The obsolete property rehabilitation act, 2000 PA 146, MCL 125.2781 to 125.2797.

( xvi ) The brownfield redevelopment financing act, 1996 PA 381, MCL 125.2651 to 125.2670.

( xvii ) The Michigan strategic fund act, 1984 PA 270, MCL 125.2001 to 125.2094.

( xviii ) Any new economic development programs as determined by the Michigan strategic fund.

(d) "Exclusive economic development incentive" means an economic development incentive that is intended to encourage a single specific entity, project, or associated projects to locate, expand, invest, or remain in this state or to hire or retain employees in this state as determined by the strategic fund.

(e) "The strategic fund" means the fund under the Michigan strategic fund act, 1984 PA 270, MCL 125.2001 to 125.2094.

History: 2018, Act 540, Imd. Eff. Dec. 28, 2018