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Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.30112 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.30112
Civil action; commencement by department; fine; violation as misdemeanor; penalty; civil sanction as appropriate to violation.
Status: in_force

Sec. 30112.

(1) The department may commence a civil action in the circuit court of the county in which a violation occurs to enforce compliance with this part, to restrain violation of this part or any action contrary to an order of the department denying a permit, to enjoin the further performance of, or order the removal of, any project that is undertaken contrary to this part or after denial of a permit by the department, or to order the restoration of the affected area to its prior condition.

(2) In a civil action commenced under this part, the circuit court, in addition to any other relief granted, may assess a civil fine of not more than $5,000.00 per day for each day of violation.

(3) Except as provided in subsection (4), a person who violates this part or a permit issued under this part is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not more than $10,000.00 per day for each day of violation.

(4) A person who commits a minor offense is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not more than $500.00 for each violation. A law enforcement officer may issue and serve an appearance ticket upon a person for a minor offense pursuant to sections 9c to 9g of chapter IV of the code of criminal procedure, 1927 PA 175, MCL 764.9c to 764.9g.

(5) A person who knowingly makes a false statement, representation, or certification in an application for a permit or in a notice or report required by a permit, or a person who knowingly renders inaccurate any monitoring device or method required to be maintained by a permit, is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not more than $10,000.00 per day for each day of violation.

(6) Any civil sanction assessed, sought, or agreed to by the department shall be appropriate to the violation.

History: Add. 1995, Act 59, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1995; Am. 2018, Act 631, Eff. Mar. 29, 2019
Mich. Comp. Laws § 70.4 — MI Code / Chapter 61 / Act Act-3-of-1895 / Section 70.4
Chief of fire department; appointment; duties; section subject to ordinance.
Status: in_force

Sec. 4.

The council may provide by ordinance or resolution for the appointment of a chief of the fire department, who shall be subject to the direction of the president and the regulations of the council. The chief of the fire department shall supervise and direct the department, and the care and management of the vehicles, equipment, and property of the department. This section is subject to an ordinance adopted under section 8 of chapter V.

History: 1895, Act 3, Imd. Eff. Feb. 19, 1895; CL 1897, 2881; CL 1915, 2755; CL 1929, 1664; CL 1948, 70.4; Am. 1985, Act 173, Imd. Eff. Dec. 2, 1985; Am. 1998, Act 254, Imd. Eff. July 13, 1998
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.40110b — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.40110b
Legislative findings and declaration; establishment of first open season for wolf.
Status: in_force

Sec. 40110b.

(1) The legislature finds and declares that:

(a) The wildlife populations of the state and their habitat are of paramount importance to the citizens of this state.

(b) The sound management of wolf populations in this state is necessary, including the use of hunting as a management tool, to minimize negative human and wolf encounters and to prevent wolves from threatening or harming humans, livestock, and pets.

(2) The legislature hereby authorizes the establishment of the first open season for wolf. The commission may issue orders under section 40113a establishing annual wolf hunting seasons throughout the state.

History: Add. 2012, Act 520, Imd. Eff. Dec. 28, 2012
Mich. Comp. Laws § 141.213 — MI Code / Chapter 141 / Act Act-204-of-1933 / Section 141.213
Defaulted municipal bonds; tenders, acceptance or rejection.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3.

Upon the giving of such call for tenders of such bonds, the holder or holders thereof may submit his tender to the governing body of such municipality, sealed and in writing, stipulating the lowest price at which the owner of such bond or bonds will sell such bonds to said municipality. At the time set for the opening and examining of such tenders the governing body of such municipality shall examine and list such tenders as shall have been made and may accept the lowest tender thereof, but not to exceed the amount of funds available of such special assessment district or improvement project: Provided, That such municipality shall first accept the tender or tenders which are the lowest in price and next accept such additional tenders at the next lowest price, the total of said tenders so accepted not to be in excess of the available balance of funds of said special assessment district or project: Provided further, That in all such advertisements of calls for tenders, the municipality shall reserve the right to reject all tenders, and such municipality may upon the opening of such tenders, reject all of the same.

History: 1933, Act 204, Imd. Eff. June 28, 1933; CL 1948, 141.213
Mich. Comp. Laws § 207.708 — MI Code / Chapter 207 / Act Act-385-of-1984 / Section 207.708
Certificate; issuance; form; contents; effective date; filing; record.
Status: in_force

Sec. 8.

After approval of the application for a certificate by the legislative body of the local governmental unit and the department, the clerk of the local governmental unit shall issue to the applicant a certificate in a form determined by the department that shall contain all of the following:

A legal description of the real property on which the facility is located or is to be located.

A descriptive list of the machinery, equipment, furniture, fixtures, and other personal property, if any, to be located in the facility.

A statement that the certificate remains in force with respect to the property described in the certificate for the period stated in the certificate, unless revoked as provided in this act.

The certificate shall take effect beginning on the December 31 next following the date of issuance of the certificate.

The clerk of the local governmental unit shall file a copy of the certificate with the department, and the department shall maintain a record of all certificates filed.

History: 1984, Act 385, Imd. Eff. Dec. 28, 1984; Am. 1990, Act 151, Imd. Eff. June 27, 1990
Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.5077 — MI Code / Chapter 600 / Act Act-236-of-1961 / Section 600.5077
Record of arbitration hearing.
Status: in_force

Sec. 5077.

Except as provided by this section, court rule, or the arbitration agreement, a record shall not be made of an arbitration hearing under this chapter. If a record is not required, an arbitrator may make a record to be used only by the arbitrator to aid in reaching the decision. The parties may provide in the arbitration agreement that a record be made of those portions of a hearing related to 1 or more issues subject to arbitration.

A record shall be made of that portion of a hearing that concerns child support, custody, or parenting time in the same manner required by the Michigan court rules for the record of a witness's testimony in a deposition.

History: Add. 2000, Act 420, Eff. Mar. 28, 2001
Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.8408 — MI Code / Chapter 600 / Act Act-236-of-1961 / Section 600.8408
Parties; representation; request for trial before district court judge; removal; waiver.
Status: in_force

Sec. 8408.

An attorney at law, except on the attorney's own behalf, a collection agency or agent or employee of a collection agency, or a person other than the plaintiff and defendant, except as is otherwise provided in this chapter, shall not take part in the filing, prosecution, or defense of litigation in the small claims division.

A sole proprietorship, partnership, or corporation as plaintiff or defendant may be represented by an officer or employee who has direct and personal knowledge of facts in dispute. If the officer or employee who has direct and personal knowledge of facts in dispute is no longer employed by the defendant or plaintiff or is medically unavailable, the representation may be made by that person's supervisor, or by the sole proprietor, a partner, or an officer or a member of the board of directors of a corporation.

A county, city, village, township, or local or intermediate school district as plaintiff or defendant may be represented only by an elected or appointed officer or an employee who has direct and personal knowledge of the facts in dispute. If the officer or employee who has direct and personal knowledge of the facts in dispute is no longer an officer or employee of the plaintiff or defendant, the representation may be made by that officer's successor or that employee's supervisor, or by a member of the governing body of the county, city, village, township, or local or intermediate school district. In addition, a person may not represent a county, city, village, township, or local or intermediate school district in the small claims division unless authorized to appear in the case by the governing body of the county, city, village, township, or local or intermediate school district.

Before commencement of a trial, the plaintiff or defendant may, upon demand, require that the trial be conducted before a district court judge and not a magistrate, or may remove the case from the small claims division to the general civil division of the district court. If the parties commence a trial of the case in the small claims division, both parties waive all rights mentioned in section 8412.

History: Add. 1968, Act 154, Imd. Eff. June 17, 1968; Am. 1978, Act 496, Eff. Jan. 1, 1979; Am. 1984, Act 272, Imd. Eff. Dec. 19, 1984; Am. 1984, Act 278, Eff. Jan. 1, 1985; Am. 1991, Act 192, Eff. July 1, 1992
Mich. Comp. Laws § 125.2687 — MI Code / Chapter 125 / Act Act-376-of-1996 / Section 125.2687
Renaissance zone; designation; criteria; resolution; report of transaction with or gift to official or employee of local governmental unit.
Status: in_force

Sec. 7.

The board shall consider the following criteria in designating a renaissance zone:

Shall give priority to applications that include new business activity.

Evidence of adverse economic and socioeconomic conditions within the proposed renaissance zone.

The viability of the development plan.

Whether the development plan is creative and innovative.

Public and private commitment to and other resources available for the proposed renaissance zone.

How renaissance zone designation would relate to a broader plan for the community as a whole.

The level of demonstrated cooperation from surrounding communities.

How the local regulatory burden will be eased for businesses operating in the proposed renaissance zone.

Public and private commitment to improving abandoned real property.

Any other information required by the board.

The board shall not designate an area as a renaissance zone unless each city, village, or township, within which the proposed renaissance zone is to be located, provides a resolution from its governing body that states if the renaissance zone designation is granted, persons and property within the renaissance zone are exempt from taxes levied by that city, village, or township as provided in this act.

Within a 12-month period immediately preceding and immediately following designation of a renaissance zone or submission of an application for consideration as a renaissance zone, an individual who is a resident of a renaissance zone or an area being considered for designation as a renaissance zone, a business that is located and conducts business activity within a renaissance zone or an area being considered for designation as a renaissance zone, or an officer of a business that is located and conducts business activity within a renaissance zone or an area being considered for designation as a renaissance zone shall report to the chief executive officer of the local governmental unit in which the renaissance zone is designated or the local governmental unit that has applied for renaissance zone designation any transaction with or gift to any official or employee of that local governmental unit. As used in this subsection, "gift" means that term as defined in section 4 of 1978 PA 472, MCL 4.414.

History: 1996, Act 376, Imd. Eff. July 17, 1996; Am. 2000, Act 259, Imd. Eff. June 29, 2000
Mich. Comp. Laws § 224.13 — MI Code / Chapter 220 / Act Act-283-of-1909 / Section 224.13
Condemnation; commissioners; appointment, duties, qualifications.
Status: in_force

Sec. 13.

On the day of hearing, the court shall hear the parties and appoint 3 disinterested persons commissioners, herein called court commissioners, whose duty it shall be to determine the necessity of such proposed road and the necessity for taking each parcel of land described in the petition therefor, and if they shall decide that it is necessary, then to appraise the damages to be paid as compensation for the taking of each such parcel therefor. Said commissioners shall not be residents of the townships in which the land sought to be taken is situated, nor of any township adjacent thereto. The court commissioners shall be sworn faithfully to discharge their duty. The courts shall fix the time and place for the first meeting of such court commissioners, and require their attendance; it may also authorize the court commissioners to adjourn their meeting from time to time not later than to a day to be named, and shall fix the time for filing the report of such court commissioners.

History: 1909, Act 283, Eff. Sept. 1, 1909; CL 1915, 4359; Am. 1921, Act 367, Eff. Aug. 18, 1921; CL 1929, 3988; CL 1948, 224.13
Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.138 — MI Code / Chapter 722 / Act Act-422-of-1984 / Section 722.138
Confidentiality.
Status: in_force

Sec. 8.

Records regarding specific children and their parents and relatives shall be confidential. Disclosure of this confidential information shall be properly safeguarded by the local board, the staff of the state board, and the state court administrator.

A person who discloses confidential information contained in records, reports, and plans prepared pursuant to this act is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Unauthorized disclosure of information contained in records and reports made pursuant to this act by a member of a local board shall be grounds for removal from the board.

History: 1984, Act 422, Imd. Eff. Dec. 28, 1984; Am. 1989, Act 74, Imd. Eff. June 16, 1989
Mich. Comp. Laws § 289.72 — MI Code / Chapter 289 / Act Act-37-of-1913 / Section 289.72
Suit to recover fees due; venue, procedure, judgment; disposition of moneys recovered; prerequisite notice to defendant.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

Said suit may be commenced in the circuit court for the county of Ingham or in the circuit court of the county where the principal business office of such defendant corporation, firm or person shall be located and shall be prosecuted in like manner as in civil suits between individuals, and judgment and execution may follow in like manner and costs may be recovered to be taxed as in other civil cases, and all moneys recovered shall be paid into the state treasury for the use and benefit of the state dairy and food department: Provided, That no suit as authorized by this act, shall be commenced until 30 days after the defendant in such suit has been duly notified of his or her delinquency either personally or by registered letter.

History: 1913, Act 37, Eff. Aug. 14, 1913; CL 1915, 6391; CL 1929, 5423; CL 1948, 289.72
Mich. Comp. Laws § 38.1363 — MI Code / Chapter 38 / Act Act-300-of-1980 / Section 38.1363
Noncontributory plan; applicability; duty of reporting unit.
Status: in_force

Sec. 63.

The noncontributory plan shall apply to each public school employee who is included in the membership of the retirement system. Each reporting unit shall remit the contributions as provided in section 42.

History: 1980, Act 300, Imd. Eff. Oct. 31, 1980
Mich. Comp. Laws § 440.3306 — MI Code / Chapter 440 / Act Act-174-of-1962 / Section 440.3306
Instrument; person subject to claim of property or possessory right.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3306.

A person taking an instrument, other than a person having rights of a holder in due course, is subject to a claim of a property or possessory right in the instrument or its proceeds, including a claim to rescind a negotiation and to recover the instrument or its proceeds. A person having rights of a holder in due course takes free of the claim to the instrument.

History: 1962, Act 174, Eff. Jan. 1, 1964; Am. 1993, Act 130, Eff. Sept. 30, 1993
Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.2625 — MI Code / Chapter 600 / Act Act-236-of-1961 / Section 600.2625
Oath to sureties or bail.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2625.

Whenever any officer is authorized to take any sureties or bail, he is authorized to administer an oath to every person who is offered as such bail or surety, to ascertain his sufficiency.

History: 1961, Act 236, Eff. Jan. 1, 1963
Mich. Comp. Laws § 768.7a — MI Code / Chapter 760 / Act Act-175-of-1927 / Section 768.7a
Commission of crime during incarceration in or escape from penal or reformatory institution; felony committed while on parole; term of imprisonment; supplementary powers conferred upon court.
Status: in_force

Sec. 7a.

A person who is incarcerated in a penal or reformatory institution in this state, or who escapes from such an institution, and who commits a crime during that incarceration or escape which is punishable by imprisonment in a penal or reformatory institution in this state shall, upon conviction of that crime, be sentenced as provided by law. The term of imprisonment imposed for the crime shall begin to run at the expiration of the term or terms of imprisonment which the person is serving or has become liable to serve in a penal or reformatory institution in this state.

If a person is convicted and sentenced to a term of imprisonment for a felony committed while the person was on parole from a sentence for a previous offense, the term of imprisonment imposed for the later offense shall begin to run at the expiration of the remaining portion of the term of imprisonment imposed for the previous offense.

The powers conferred upon the court by this section are supplementary to any other power conferred by law.

History: Add. 1954, Act 100, Imd. Eff. Apr. 14, 1954; Am. 1976, Act 184, Imd. Eff. July 8, 1976; Am. 1988, Act 48, Eff. June 1, 1988
Mich. Comp. Laws § 450.179 — MI Code / Chapter 450 / Act Act-327-of-1931 / Section 450.179
Ecclesiastical corporations; articles of incorporation.
Status: in_force

Sec. 179.

Same; articles of incorporation. The articles of any such ecclesiastical corporation shall be executed by the incorporators and shall follow the form prescribed in this section, and contain such further statements as may be appropriate to each such corporation, as the law may direct or as the incorporators may deem necessary or advisable. Such form shall run as follows:

"We, the undersigned, desiring to become incorporated under the provisions of Act No. ........ of the Public Acts of 1931 (namely, this act) do hereby make, execute and adopt the following articles of association, to-wit:

First, The name assumed by this corporation and by which it shall be known in law, is "The .............. church" (or other name which clearly indicates a religious society or association);

Second, The location of said church or society shall be in the ............ of ......... county of .......... and state of Michigan;

Third, The time for which said corporation shall be created shall be ......................;

Fourth, The members of said church or society shall worship and labor together according to the discipline, rules and usages of the .............. church in the United States of America (or other jurisdiction as the case may be), as from time to time authorized and declared by the ............ (here insert the name of the higher ecclesiastical body or bodies, if any, authorized to determine such question);

Fifth, And succeeding articles, if any (containing in brief and concise language, such other and further declarations or statements pertaining to such corporation, as may be deemed necessary or advisable by the incorporators, or as may be hereinafter prescribed).

In witness whereof, we, the parties hereby associating for the purpose of giving legal effect to these articles, hereunto sign our names and places of residence.

Done at the ............... of ..............., County of ............... and state of Michigan, this ............... day of ..............., 19.....

(Residences)

.........................

(Signatures)

.......................

(Acknowledgments.)

(Consent if any required.)

(Certificates, if any.)"

History: 1931, Act 327, Eff. Sept. 18, 1931; CL 1948, 450.179
Mich. Comp. Laws § 125.1496 — MI Code / Chapter 125 / Act Act-346-of-1966 / Section 125.1496
Basic organization document; approval.
Status: in_force

Sec. 96.

Before any limited dividend housing association can receive any benefits as a result of qualifying under this act, the authority must approve the terms of the partnership agreement, joint venture agreement, trust agreement or other document of basic organization.

History: Add. 1970, Act 129, Imd. Eff. July 29, 1970
Mich. Comp. Laws § 125.1592 — MI Code / Chapter 125 / Act Act-57-of-1998 / Section 125.1592
Improvement contract exceeding $75,000; provisions.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

A contract between a contractor and a governmental entity for an improvement that exceeds $75,000.00 shall contain all of the following provisions:

That if a contractor discovers 1 or both of the following physical conditions of the surface or subsurface at the improvement site, before disturbing the physical condition, the contractor shall promptly notify the governmental entity of the physical condition in writing:

A subsurface or a latent physical condition at the site is differing materially from those indicated in the improvement contract.

An unknown physical condition at the site is of an unusual nature differing materially from those ordinarily encountered and generally recognized as inhering in work of the character provided for in the improvement contract.

That if the governmental entity receives a notice under subdivision (a), the governmental entity shall promptly investigate the physical condition.

That if the governmental entity determines that the physical conditions do materially differ and will cause an increase or decrease in costs or additional time needed to perform the contract, the governmental entity's determination shall be made in writing and an equitable adjustment shall be made and the contract modified in writing accordingly.

That the contractor cannot make a claim for additional costs or time because of a physical condition unless the contractor has complied with the notice requirements of subdivision (a). The governmental entity may extend the time required for notice under subdivision (a).

That the contractor cannot make a claim for an adjustment under the contract after the contractor has received the final payment under the contract.

History: 1998, Act 57, Eff. Oct. 6, 1998