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Mich. Comp. Laws § 397.210 — MI Code / Chapter 397 / Act Act-164-of-1877 / Section 397.210
Free public library in village or township; petition to levy tax for establishment; notice of election; library fund; governing board; estimate of money necessary for support and maintenance of library; report; assessment and collection of tax; powers of corporate authorities; library as authority under state constitution.
Status: in_force

Sec. 10.

(1) Fifty voters of an incorporated village or township may present to the clerk of the village or township a petition asking that a tax be levied for the establishment of a free public library in the village or township and specifying the rate of taxation, not to exceed 2 mills on the dollar. The tax may be of unlimited duration or the petition may specify the number of years for which the tax shall be levied. The clerk, in the next legal notice of the regular election in that village or township, shall give notice that at the election every voter may vote on the proposition including the rate and any duration of taxation for the free public library.

(2) If the majority of all the votes cast in the village or township is for the tax for a free public library, the tax specified in the notice shall be levied and collected in the same manner as other general taxes of that village or township for the period, if any, specified in the petition, and shall be placed in a fund known as the library fund.

(3) If a free public library is established and a governing board elected and qualified, that board, on or before the first Monday of September in each year for a free public library established by a township, and on or before the second Monday in April in each year for a free public library established by an incorporated village, shall prepare an estimate of the amount of money necessary for the support and maintenance of the library for the ensuing year, not exceeding 2 mills on the dollar of the taxable property of the village or township. Unless any period specified in the petition for the levy of the tax has expired, the governing board shall report the estimate to the assessor of the village or the supervisor of the township for assessment and collection in the same manner as other village or township taxes and the tax shall be so assessed and collected. A corporate authority of a village or township may exercise the same powers conferred upon the corporate authority of a city under this act.

(4) A library established under this section constitutes an authority under section 6 of article IX of the state constitution of 1963.

History: 1877, Act 164, Eff. Aug. 21, 1877; How. 5184; Am. 1885, Act 36, Eff. Sept. 19, 1885; CL 1897, 3458; Am. 1907, Act 42, Imd. Eff. Apr. 11, 1907; CL 1915, 3440; CL 1929, 8068; CL 1948, 397.210; Am. 1986, Act 133, Imd. Eff. June 16, 1986; Am. 1994, Act 81, Imd. Eff. Apr. 11, 1994; Am. 2014, Act 131, Imd. Eff. May 27, 2014
Mich. Comp. Laws § 388.1858 — MI Code / Chapter 388 / Act Act-94-of-1979 / Section 388.1858
Student financial aid programs; report.
Status: in_force

Sec. 258.

By February 15 of each year, the department of lifelong education, advancement, and potential shall post to its publicly available website a report for the preceding fiscal year on all student financial aid programs for which funds are appropriated in section 236. For each student financial aid program, the report must include, but is not limited to, the total number of awards paid in the preceding fiscal year, the total dollar amount of those awards, and the number of students receiving awards and the total amount of those awards at each eligible postsecondary institution. To the extent information is available, the report must also include information on household income and other demographic characteristics of students receiving awards under each program and historical information on the number of awards and total award amounts for each program.

History: Add. 2011, Act 62, Eff. Oct. 1, 2011; Am. 2012, Act 201, Eff. Oct. 1, 2012; Am. 2013, Act 60, Eff. Oct. 1, 2013; Am. 2024, Act 120, Eff. Oct. 1, 2024
Mich. Comp. Laws § 123.1075 — MI Code / Chapter 123 / Act Act-425-of-1994 / Section 123.1075
Collection and distribution of tax.
Status: in_force

Sec. 15.

The tax under section 13 shall be collected and distributed by the local tax collecting units under the general property tax act, Act No. 206 of the Public Acts of 1893, being sections 211.1 to 211.157 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, at the same time and in the same manner as taxes levied by the district for school operating purposes.

History: 1994, Act 425, Imd. Eff. Jan. 6, 1995
Mich. Comp. Laws § 700.3403 — MI Code / Chapter 700 / Act Act-386-of-1998 / Section 700.3403
Formal testacy proceedings; notice of hearing on petition.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3403.

(1) Upon commencement of a formal testacy proceeding, the court shall fix a time and place of hearing. The petitioner shall give notice in the manner prescribed by section 1401 to each of the following persons:

(a) The decedent's heirs.

(b) The devisees and personal representatives named in a will that is being, or has been, probated or offered for informal or formal probate in the county, or that is known by the petitioner to have been probated or offered for informal or formal probate elsewhere.

(c) A personal representative of the decedent whose appointment has not been terminated.

(d) A person who has filed a demand for notice under section 3205.

(e) The trustee of a trust described in section 7605(1) as to which the decedent was settlor.

(2) Notice may be given to other persons. In addition, the petitioner shall give notice by publication to each unknown person and to each known person whose address is unknown who has an interest in the matters being litigated. If the proceeding involves a request for appointment of a personal representative and it appears that the deceased died intestate without leaving a known heir, the petitioner shall give notice to the attorney general, public administration division.

(3) If it appears by the petition or otherwise that the fact of the decedent's death may be in doubt, or on the written demand of an interested person, a copy of the notice of the hearing on the petition shall be sent by registered mail to the alleged decedent at his or her last known address. The court shall direct the petitioner to report the results of, or make and report back concerning, a reasonably diligent search for the alleged decedent in any manner that may seem advisable, including by any of the following methods:

(a) Inserting in 1 or more suitable periodicals a notice requesting information from anyone having knowledge of the alleged decedent's whereabouts.

(b) Notifying law enforcement officials and public welfare agencies in appropriate locations of the alleged decedent's disappearance.

(c) Engaging an investigator's services.

(4) The costs of a search conducted under subsection (3) shall be paid by the petitioner if there is no administration or by the decedent's estate if there is administration.

History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000; Am. 2009, Act 46, Eff. Apr. 1, 2010
Mich. Comp. Laws § 408.939 — MI Code / Chapter 408 / Act Act-337-of-2018 / Section 408.939
Violation of act by employer; civil action; fine.
Status: in_force

Sec. 9.

(1) If an employer violates this act, the employee affected by the violation, at any time within 3 years, may do any of the following:

(a) Bring a civil action for the recovery of the difference between the amount paid and the amount that, but for the violation, would have been paid the employee under this act and an equal additional amount as liquidated damages together with costs and reasonable attorney fees as are allowed by the court.

(b) File a claim with the director who shall investigate the claim.

(2) If the director determines there is reasonable cause to believe that the employer has violated this act and the director is subsequently unable to obtain voluntary compliance by the employer within a reasonable period of time, the director shall bring a civil action under subsection (1)(a). The director may investigate and file a civil action under subsection (1)(a) on behalf of all employees of that employer who are similarly situated at the same work site and who have not brought a civil action under subsection (1)(a). A contract or agreement between the employer and the employee or any acceptance of a lesser wage by the employee is not a bar to the action.

(3) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (4), in addition to bearing liability for civil remedies described in this section, an employer who fails to pay the minimum hourly wage in violation of this act, or that violates a provision of section 4a governing an employee's compensatory time, is subject to a civil fine of not more than $1,000.00.

(4) An employer that fails to pay the minimum hourly wage to an employee as described in section 4d(1) is subject to a civil fine of not more than $2,500.00.

History: 2018, Act 337, Eff. Mar. 29, 2019; Am. 2025, Act 1, Imd. Eff. Feb. 21, 2025
Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.1909 — MI Code / Chapter 722 / Act Act-24-of-2024 / Section 722.1909
Effect and enforceability of surrogacy agreement.
Status: in_force

Sec. 309.

(1) A surrogacy agreement that substantially complies with sections 302 and 303 is enforceable.

(2) If a child was conceived by assisted reproduction under a surrogacy agreement that does not substantially meet the material requirements of this part, a court must determine parentage consistent with the intent of the parties, taking into account the best interests of the child. Each party to the surrogacy agreement and any individual who at the time of the execution of the agreement was a spouse of a party to the agreement has standing to maintain an action to adjudicate an issue related to the enforcement of the agreement.

(3) Except as expressly provided in a surrogacy agreement or in subsection (4), if the agreement is breached by the surrogate or 1 or more intended parents, the nonbreaching party is entitled to the remedies available at law or in equity.

(4) The breach of the surrogacy agreement by 1 or more intended parents does not relieve the intended parent of the support obligations imposed by the parent and child relationship under this part.

(5) Specific performance is not a remedy available for breach by a surrogate of a provision in the agreement that the surrogate be impregnated, terminate a pregnancy, or submit to medical procedures.

(6) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (5), if an intended parent is determined to be a parent of the child, specific performance is a remedy available for either of the following:

(a) Breach of the surrogacy agreement by a surrogate that prevents an intended parent from exercising immediately on birth of the child the full rights of parentage.

(b) Breach of the surrogacy agreement by an intended parent that prevents the intended parent's acceptance, immediately on the birth of the child, of the duties of parentage.

History: 2024, Act 24, Eff. Apr. 2, 2025
Mich. Comp. Laws § 457.363 — MI Code / Chapter 457 / Act Act-85-of-1905 / Section 457.363
Filing copy of articles of association with department of commerce; signers of articles, associates, and successors as body corporate; evidence of existence and incorporation.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3.

A copy of said articles of association shall be filed with the corporation and securities bureau of the department of commerce, and thereupon the persons who shall have signed said articles of association, their associates and successors, shall be a body corporate by the name expressed in such articles of association. A copy of such articles of association, under the seal of the corporation and securities bureau of the department of commerce shall be received as prima facie evidence in all courts of this state of the existence and due incorporation of such association.

History: 1905, Act 85, Imd. Eff. May 3, 1905; CL 1915, 10473; CL 1929, 10676; CL 1948, 457.363; Am. 1982, Act 92, Imd. Eff. Apr. 19, 1982
Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.2421 — MI Code / Chapter 600 / Act Act-236-of-1961 / Section 600.2421
Civil actions by or in name of people; liability for costs; warrant.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2421.

Except as provided in sections 2421a to 2421d and as otherwise provided by law, in all civil actions by or in the name of the people of this state, except civil infraction actions, instituted by an officer duly authorized for that purpose and not for the use of a citizen, the state shall be liable for costs in the same manner and to the same extent as if the action were commenced by an individual.

In all civil actions instituted in the name of the people of this state, on the relation of any citizen, the relator shall be entitled to and liable for costs as if the action had been commenced in the relator's own name.

When costs are adjudged against the people of this state in a civil action or proceeding, instituted by an officer duly authorized for that purpose, the state treasurer shall issue a warrant for the amount thereof, upon the production of an authenticated copy of the record of judgment, or of the order adjudging the costs, with a taxed bill thereof, and upon the certificate of the attorney general that the action or proceeding was duly instituted, as by law required.

History: 1961, Act 236, Eff. Jan. 1, 1963; Am. 1978, Act 511, Eff. Aug. 1, 1979; Am. 1984, Act 197, Imd. Eff. July 3, 1984
Mich. Comp. Laws § 500.2405 — MI Code / Chapter 500 / Act Act-218-of-1956 / Section 500.2405
Liquor liability insurance policies; server training discount plan; certified server training course.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2405.

Each insurer which delivers or issues for delivery liquor liability insurance policies in this state shall develop and maintain a server training discount plan pursuant to this section. A server training discount plan required under this section shall provide for a premium discount for liquor liability insurance policies based upon the completion of a certified server training course in compliance with the provisions of the Michigan liquor control act, Act No. 8 of the Public Acts of the Extra Session of 1933, being sections 436.1 to 436.58 of the Michigan Compiled Laws.

History: Add. 1986, Act 173, Imd. Eff. July 7, 1986
Mich. Comp. Laws § 769.1l — MI Code / Chapter 760 / Act Act-175-of-1927 / Section 769.1l
Order of restitution; deduction; payment to court; priority.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1 l.

If a prisoner under the jurisdiction of the department of corrections has been ordered to pay any sum of money as described in section 1k and the department of corrections receives an order from the court on a form prescribed by the state court administrative office, the department of corrections shall deduct 50% of the funds received by the prisoner in a month over $50.00 and promptly forward a payment to the court as provided in the order when the amount exceeds $100.00, or the entire amount if the prisoner is paroled, is transferred to community programs, or is discharged on the maximum sentence. The department of corrections shall give an order of restitution under section 20h of the corrections code of 1953, 1953 PA 232, MCL 791.220h, or the crime victim's rights act, 1985 PA 87, MCL 780.751 to 780.834, priority over an order received under this section.

History: Add. 2005, Act 325, Eff. Jan. 1, 2006
Mich. Comp. Laws § 15.361 — MI Code / Chapter 15 / Act Act-469-of-1980 / Section 15.361
Definitions.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

As used in this act:

"Employee" means a person who performs a service for wages or other remuneration under a contract of hire, written or oral, express or implied. Employee includes a person employed by the state or a political subdivision of the state except state classified civil service.

"Employer" means a person who has 1 or more employees. Employer includes an agent of an employer and the state or a political subdivision of the state.

"Person" means an individual, sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation, association, or any other legal entity.

"Public body" means all of the following:

A state officer, employee, agency, department, division, bureau, board, commission, council, authority, or other body in the executive branch of state government.

An agency, board, commission, council, member, or employee of the legislative branch of state government.

A county, city, township, village, intercounty, intercity, or regional governing body, a council, school district, special district, or municipal corporation, or a board, department, commission, council, agency, or any member or employee thereof.

Any other body which is created by state or local authority or which is primarily funded by or through state or local authority, or any member or employee of that body.

A law enforcement agency or any member or employee of a law enforcement agency.

The judiciary and any member or employee of the judiciary.

History: 1980, Act 469, Eff. Mar. 31, 1981
Mich. Comp. Laws § 117.37 — MI Code / Chapter 117 / Act Act-279-of-1909 / Section 117.37
Saving clause.
Status: in_force

Sec. 37.

All charters heretofore formulated and all proceedings of charter commissions heretofore had under this act are hereby validated and made effectual so far as the same shall conform to and be within the provisions of this act as amended.

History: Add. 1911, Act 203, Eff. Aug. 1, 1911; CL 1915, 3340; CL 1929, 2273; CL 1948, 117.37
Mich. Comp. Laws § 484.1714 — MI Code / Chapter 484 / Act Act-32-of-1986 / Section 484.1714
Duties of committee; staff assistance.
Status: in_force

Sec. 714.

(1) The committee shall do all of the following:

(a) Organize and adopt standards governing the committee's formal and informal procedures.

(b) Meet not less than 4 times per year at a place and time specified by the chairperson.

(c) Keep a record of the proceedings and activities of the committee.

(d) Provide recommendations to public safety answering points and secondary public safety answering points on statewide technical and operational standards for PSAPs and secondary PSAPs.

(e) Provide recommendations to public agencies concerning model systems to be considered in preparing a 9-1-1 service plan.

(f) Perform all duties as required under this act relating to the development, implementation, operation, and funding of 9-1-1 systems in this state.

(g) Provide notice to the service suppliers of any changes in the state or county 9-1-1 charge under sections 401a, 401b, and 401c.

(2) The department of state police and the public service commission shall provide staff assistance to the committee as necessary to carry out the committee's duties under this act.

History: Add. 1999, Act 79, Imd. Eff. June 28, 1999; Am. 2007, Act 165, Imd. Eff. Dec. 21, 2007
Mich. Comp. Laws § 124.470 — MI Code / Chapter 124 / Act Act-196-of-1986 / Section 124.470
Contract with public authority to make payments, appropriations, or contributions; pledge of full faith and credit; tax levy; execution of contract.
Status: in_force

Sec. 20.

Any member of the public authority or a political subdivision may contract with the public authority to make payments, appropriations, or contributions to the public authority of the proceeds of taxes, special assessments, or charges imposed and collected by the political subdivision or out of any other funds legally available.

Any member of the public authority or a political subdivision may pledge its full faith and credit for payment of its contractual obligation to the public authority.

If the public authority has issued notes or bonds in anticipation of payments, appropriations, or contributions to be made to the public authority pursuant to contract by a member of the public authority or a political subdivision, the political subdivision may levy a tax, subject to all appropriate statutory and constitutional requirements, on all taxable property in the political subdivision to provide sufficient money to fulfill its contractual obligation to the public authority, which tax as to rate or amount will be as provided in section 6 of article IX of the state constitution of 1963.

Any member or political subdivision desiring to enter into a contract under subsection (1) shall authorize by resolution of its governing body the execution of the contract.

Any political subdivision that forms or becomes a member of the public authority under this act and, before the effective date of the formation or membership, has authorized the levy of a tax to provide money for public transportation purposes or has imposed or collected special assessments or charges for public transportation purposes may levy or impose and collect the tax or special assessment or charge and contract with the public authority to make payments, appropriations, or contributions to the public authority of the proceeds of the taxes, special assessments, or charges, subject to conditions of the original authorization.

History: 1986, Act 196, Imd. Eff. July 10, 1986
Mich. Comp. Laws § 257.653 — MI Code / Chapter 257 / Act Act-300-of-1949 / Section 257.653
Immediate approach of authorized emergency vehicle; duty of driver of another vehicle; duty of streetcar operator; violation as civil infraction.
Status: in_force

Sec. 653.

Upon the immediate approach of an authorized emergency vehicle equipped with not less than 1 lighted flashing, rotating, or oscillating lamp exhibiting a red or blue light visible under normal atmospheric condition from a distance of 500 feet to the front of the vehicle and when the driver is giving audible signal by siren, exhaust whistle, or bell:

The driver of another vehicle shall yield the right of way and shall immediately drive to a position parallel to and as close as possible to the right-hand edge or curb of the roadway, clear of an intersection, and shall stop and remain in that position until the authorized emergency vehicle has passed, except when otherwise directed by a police officer.

The operator of a streetcar shall immediately stop the car, clear of an intersection, and shall keep it in that position until the authorized emergency vehicle has passed, except when otherwise directed by a police officer.

This section does not relieve the driver of an authorized emergency vehicle from the duty to drive with due regard for the safety of persons using the highway.

A person who violates this section is responsible for a civil infraction.

History: 1949, Act 300, Eff. Sept. 23, 1949; Am. 1951, Act 270, Eff. Sept. 28, 1951; Am. 1964, Act 7, Imd. Eff. Mar. 20, 1964; Am. 1978, Act 510, Eff. Aug. 1, 1979
Mich. Comp. Laws § 339.5819 — MI Code / Chapter 339 / Act Act-407-of-2016 / Section 339.5819
Installation of heating or refrigerating system by owner of single family dwelling.
Status: in_force

Sec. 819.

An individual who is the owner of a single family dwelling that is, or on completion will become, his or her place of residence may personally install a heating or refrigerating system in the dwelling if the individual in his or her application for a permit affirms that he or she is or will become the owner and occupant of the dwelling in which the installation is done is completed and that the applicant will install the equipment in the dwelling for which the permit is requested. The applicant shall apply for and secure the required permits from the enforcing agency of the municipality and shall obtain the required inspection after the installation is completed and the equipment is placed in operation.

History: 2016, Act 407, Eff. Apr. 4, 2017