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Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.4027 — MI Code / Chapter 600 / Act Act-236-of-1961 / Section 600.4027
Writ of garnishment; filing; additional garnishee defendants; actions.
Status: in_force

Sec. 4027.

(1) If after a hearing officer orders the payment of a civil fine or costs under section 4q of the home rule city act, 1909 PA 279, MCL 117.4q, the defendant does not appeal the order within the time allowed under section 4q(17) of the home rule city act, 1909 PA 279, MCL 117.4q, and if the city has not obtained a lien under section 4r of the home rule city act, 1909 PA 279, MCL 117.4r, for the fine or costs, the city may file an action for a writ of garnishment in the appropriate court. The initial papers filed with the court shall include a properly authenticated copy of the applicable order.

(2) A court in which an action is filed under this section shall, immediately after the action is filed, issue a writ of garnishment. A writ of garnishment issued under this section serves in lieu of a summons and complaint in the action, and the time for the defendant and an initial garnishee defendant to respond is the same as for a response under statutes and court rules applicable to other garnishments.

(3) An action under this section may name more than 1 initial garnishee defendant. After the issuance of an initial writ of garnishment in an action under this section, the city may, without leave of court, obtain subsequent writs of garnishment against the same or additional garnishee defendants.

(4) A defendant or garnishee defendant in an action under this section may not raise in the action any issue that could have been appealed under section 4q(17) of the home rule city act, 1909 PA 279, MCL 117.4q.

(5) Except as provided in this section and in any rules adopted by the supreme court to apply to actions under this section, an action under this section shall proceed according to the statutes and court rules applicable to other garnishment actions.

History: Add. 2013, Act 191, Eff. Mar. 14, 2014
Mich. Comp. Laws § 752.362 — MI Code / Chapter 752 / Act Act-343-of-1984 / Section 752.362
Definitions; C to O.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

"Contemporary community standards" means the customary limits of candor and decency in this state at or near the time of the alleged violation of this act.

"Disseminate" means to manufacture, sell, lend, rent, publish, exhibit, or lease to the public for commercial gain or to offer or agree to manufacture, sell, lend, rent, publish, exhibit, or lease to the public for commercial gain.

"Knowledge of content and character" means having general knowledge of the nature and character of the material involved. Knowledge of content and character may be proven by direct evidence or by circumstantial evidence, or both.

"Material" means anything tangible that is capable of being used or adapted to arouse prurient interest, whether through the medium of reading, observation, sound, or in any other manner, including but not limited to, anything printed or written, any book, magazine, newspaper, pamphlet, picture, drawing, pictorial representation, motion picture, photograph, video tape, video disk, film, transparency, slide, audiotape, audiodisk, computer tape, or any other medium used to electronically produce or reproduce images on a screen, or any mechanical, chemical, or electronic reproduction. Material includes undeveloped photographs, molds, printing plates, and other latent representational objects whether or not processing or other acts are required to make the content of the material apparent.

"Obscene" means any material that meets all of the following criteria:

The average individual, applying contemporary community standards, would find the material, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest.

The reasonable person would find the material, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.

The material depicts or describes sexual conduct in a patently offensive way.

History: 1984, Act 343, Eff. Mar. 29, 1985; Am. 1992, Act 216, Eff. Mar. 31, 1993
Mich. Comp. Laws § 390.375 — MI Code / Chapter 390 / Act Act-9-of-1938-Ex-Sess- / Section 390.375
Michigan state college of mining and technology; prohibition of state to purchase bonds or obligations.
Status: in_force

Sec. 5.

Bonds or obligations issued under the provisions of this act shall not be purchased by the state of Michigan.

History: 1938, Ex. Sess., Act 9, Imd. Eff. Sept. 8, 1938; CL 1948, 390.375
Mich. Comp. Laws § 764.15h — MI Code / Chapter 760 / Act Act-175-of-1927 / Section 764.15h
Investigation of financial neglect, abuse or harm of a vulnerable adult or elder adult; definitions.
Status: in_force

Sec. 15h.

(1) After responding to an incident involving alleged physical abuse of a vulnerable adult or elder adult, a peace officer may also investigate for financial neglect, abuse, or harm.

(2) As used in this section:

(a) "Elder adult" means an adult who is 65 years of age or older.

(b) "Vulnerable adult" means that term as defined in section 145m of the Michigan penal code, 1931 PA 328, MCL 750.145m.

History: Add. 2018, Act 617, Eff. Mar. 28, 2019
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.53 — MI Code / Chapter 280 / Act Act-40-of-1956 / Section 280.53
County drains; surveyor, duties; route.
Status: in_force

Sec. 53.

The surveyor or engineer authorized to make the survey shall ascertain the size and depth of the drains and he shall preserve all minutes with reference thereto. He shall prepare preliminary plans, drawings and profiles thereof, together with a computation of the yards of earth to be excavated, the amount of tile or pipe to be used and the necessary bridges and culverts or fords to be built in constructing such proposed drain, and his estimate of the cost of such construction, and where practicable shall recommend the leveling of the spoil banks. He shall thereupon lay out a drainage district, which district may be described by its boundaries of streets or highways or tracts or parcels of land, or by a description of all tracts or all parcels of land, including therein all highways, townships, counties, cities and villages which would be benefited by the construction of the proposed drain, all of which he shall deliver to the commissioner. The surveyor or engineer shall not be limited to the route described in the application but may recommend a route and type of construction for the drains he considers most serviceable for draining the area involved.

History: 1956, Act 40, Imd. Eff. Mar. 28, 1956; Am. 1961, Act 212, Imd. Eff. June 6, 1961; Am. 1968, Act 79, Eff. Nov. 15, 1968
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.74116 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.74116
Entry into state park by nonresident or resident motor vehicle; permit; payment of recreation passport fee; registration tab or sticker; exceptions.
Status: in_force

Sec. 74116.

(1) Subject to subsection (4), the operator of a nonresident motor vehicle or commercial motor vehicle shall not enter any state park with that motor vehicle unless a valid motor vehicle park permit issued under section 74117 is affixed to the lower right-hand corner of the windshield. An annual motor vehicle park permit for a nonresident motor vehicle shall be affixed permanently for that year. The department shall post signs at parks that state that a motor vehicle park permit is required for entry by a nonresident motor vehicle or commercial motor vehicle.

(2) Subject to subsection (4), the operator of a resident motor vehicle shall not enter a state park with the resident motor vehicle unless the recreation passport fee has been paid for that motor vehicle. Payment of the recreation passport fee authorizes entry into all state parks and recreation areas and designated state-operated public boating access sites until expiration of the motor vehicle registration.

(3) Subject to subsection (4), if the secretary of state issues registration tabs or stickers as described in section 805 of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.805, the operator of a resident motor vehicle shall not enter a state park with the resident motor vehicle unless the resident motor vehicle has a registration tab or sticker marked as provided under that section to show that the recreation passport fee has been paid.

(4) Subsections (1) to (3) do not apply under any of the following circumstances:

(a) While the motor vehicle is being driven or parked within an established federal, state, or county highway within a state park.

(b) If the motor vehicle is used in the operation or maintenance of a state park, is an emergency motor vehicle, is a state owned or law enforcement motor vehicle, or is a private motor vehicle being operated on official state business.

(c) If the motor vehicle is registered under section 803e(1) of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.803e, and is exempt under section 803e(6) of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.803e, from the registration tax, or if the motor vehicle is registered under section 217d or 803f of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.217d and 257.803f.

(d) At a state-operated public boating access site or a state park where there is an opportunity to fish on a day that the department has designated as a free winter fishing day or a free fishing day under section 43534.

(e) If and to the extent that the department waives the requirements for department-sponsored events or other circumstances as determined by the director or the director's designee.

History: Add. 1995, Act 58, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1995; Am. 2010, Act 33, Eff. Oct. 1, 2010; Am. 2013, Act 81, Eff. May 1, 2014; Am. 2016, Act 1, Eff. Apr. 25, 2016
Mich. Comp. Laws § 333.13607 — MI Code / Chapter 333 / Act Act-368-of-1978 / Section 333.13607
Repeal of MCL 333.13601 to 333.13606.
Status: in_force

Sec. 13607.

Sections 13601 to 13606 of Act No. 368 of the Public Acts of 1978, being sections 333.13601 to 333.13606 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, are repealed effective December 31, 1993.

History: Add. 1985, Act 190, Imd. Eff. Dec. 20, 1985
Mich. Comp. Laws § 565.36 — MI Code / Chapter 565 / Act R-S-of-1846 / Section 565.36
Power of attorney to convey lands; inapplicability of preceding section; executory land contract; recording; recording as evidence.
Status: in_force

Sec. 36.

The preceding section shall not be construed to extend to a letter of attorney, or other instrument containing a power to convey lands as agent or attorney for the owner of such lands; but every such letter or instrument, and every executory contract for the sale or purchase of lands, when acknowledged or proved in the manner prescribed in this chapter, may be recorded in the registry of deeds of any county in which the lands to which such power or contract relates, may be situated; and when so acknowledged or proved, and the record thereof when recorded, or a transcript of such record duly certified, may be read in evidence in the same manner, and with the like effect, as a conveyance recorded in such county.

History: R.S. 1846, Ch. 65; CL 1857, 2755; CL 1871, 4238; How. 5690; CL 1897, 8995; CL 1915, 11727; CL 1929, 13310; CL 1948, 565.36
Mich. Comp. Laws § 169.223 — MI Code / Chapter 169 / Act Act-388-of-1976 / Section 169.223
Rules for withdrawal of funds; limitation on single expenditure from petty cash fund; violation; civil fine.
Status: in_force

Sec. 23.

Subject to section 15, the secretary of state shall promulgate rules for the withdrawal of funds from a committee account for petty cash expenditures and for keeping records of the withdrawals. A single expenditure from a petty cash fund shall not exceed $50.00. A person who violates this section is subject to a civil fine of 3 times the amount by which the expenditure exceeds $50.00, but the fine shall not exceed $1,000.00.

History: 1976, Act 388, Eff. June 1, 1977; Am. 1989, Act 95, Imd. Eff. June 21, 1989
Mich. Comp. Laws § 247.43 — MI Code / Chapter 247 / Act Act-341-of-1927 / Section 247.43
Highway bordering on lake or stream; hearing; notice; publication; posting; service.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3.

Upon the filing of an application required by section 2, the presiding circuit judge shall schedule a hearing on the application not later than 60 days from the date the application is filed. Notice of the application and the time of hearing on the application shall be published once each week for 3 successive weeks, in a newspaper printed and circulated in the county, unless an affidavit is filed in the case that no such newspaper is published in the county. The notice shall contain an accurate description of the highway described in the application and a brief recital of the reasons for its abandonment, discontinuance, vacation, or alteration. A copy of the notice shall also be posted in 3 of the most public places in the city or village in which the highway is situated, at least 20 days before the date of the hearing on the application. A copy of the notice shall be sent by first-class mail to the owners of record title of each parcel of land located within 300 feet of the highway described in the application and to those persons of record claiming under those owners at their local address and the address appearing on the assessment roll, if different, and to the chief executive officer of the city or village in which the highway is situated, the state transportation department, the department of natural resources, and, if applicable, the township in which the highway is situated at least 30 days before the date fixed for the hearing on the application. The department of natural resources and, if applicable, the township shall review the application to determine whether the property should be retained as an ingress and egress point. Proof by affidavit of the required publication, posting, and mailing shall be filed with the court before the date of hearing.

History: 1927, Act 341, Eff. Sept. 5, 1927; CL 1929, 3952; Am. 1931, Act 40, Eff. Sept. 18, 1931; CL 1948, 247.43; Am. 1996, Act 217, Imd. Eff. May 28, 1996
Mich. Comp. Laws § 38.1604 — MI Code / Chapter 38 / Act Act-182-of-1986 / Section 38.1604
Definitions; M to S.
Status: in_force

Sec. 4.

(1) "Member", except where the context otherwise requires, means an employee of the department of state police who has subscribed to the constitutional oath of office.

(2) "Officer" means a nonexclusively represented member of the retirement system.

(3) "Qualified participant" means an individual who first becomes a member on or after June 10, 2012 and who is also a participant of Tier 2.

(4) "Regular interest" means a rate or rates per annum, compounded annually, as the retirement board determines. For the purposes of employee refunds, the interest rate payable must not exceed 4% per annum, compounded annually.

(5) "Retirant" means a member who separates from service and retires with a retirement allowance payable from the appropriate reserve of the retirement system.

(6) "Retirement allowance" means the annual amount, payable monthly, to which a retirant, retirement allowance beneficiary, or refund beneficiary is entitled under this act.

(7) "Retirement allowance beneficiary" means a person who is being paid or has entitlement to the payment of a retirement allowance in the event of the death of a member, deferred member, or retirant.

(8) "Retirement board" means the retirement board created in section 6.

(9) "Retirement system" means the system of benefits for members and qualified participants of the department of state police and their survivors and beneficiaries provided by this act.

(10) "Surviving spouse" means the spouse at the time of death of the member or retirant.

(11) "Tier 1" means the retirement plan available to a member under this act.

(12) "Tier 2" means the retirement plan established pursuant to section 401(k) of the internal revenue code, 26 USC 401, that is available to qualified participants under sections 62 to 74.

History: 1986, Act 182, Eff. Oct. 1, 1986; Am. 2004, Act 83, Imd. Eff. Apr. 22, 2004; Am. 2018, Act 674, Imd. Eff. Dec. 28, 2018
Mich. Comp. Laws § 3.886 — MI Code / Chapter 3 / Act Act-515-of-2012 / Section 3.886
Person rendering aid.
Status: in_force

Sec. 6.

If a person holds a license, certificate, or other permit issued by any participating jurisdiction in the agreement evidencing the meeting or qualifications for professional, mechanical, or other skills, and when licensed assistance is requested under this act by the receiving participating jurisdiction, that person is considered to be licensed, certified, or permitted by the participating jurisdiction requesting assistance to render aid involving such skill to meet an emergency or disaster, to the extent allowed by law and subject to such limitations and conditions as the requesting participating jurisdiction receiving prescribes by executive order or otherwise.

History: 2012, Act 515, Imd. Eff. Dec. 28, 2012
Mich. Comp. Laws § 550.613 — MI Code / Chapter 550 / Act Act-173-of-1958 / Section 550.613
Papers filed with commissioner of issuing state; disapproval.
Status: in_force

Sec. 13.

The commissioner within 30 days after the filing of all policies, certificates of insurance, notices of proposed insurance, applications for insurance, binders, endorsements and riders, in addition to other requirements of law, may disapprove any such form if the benefits provided therein are not reasonable in relation to the premium charge or if it contains provisions which are unjust, unfair, inequitable, misleading, deceptive or encourage misrepresentation of such policy.

History: 1958, Act 173, Eff. Sept. 13, 1958
Mich. Comp. Laws § 565.49 — MI Code / Chapter 565 / Act R-S-of-1846 / Section 565.49
Conveyances; same person or persons among grantors and grantees; joint tenancy, tenancy by entireties.
Status: in_force

Sec. 49.

Conveyances in which the grantor or 1 or more of the grantors are named among the grantees therein shall have the same force and effect as they would have if the conveyance were made by a grantor or grantors who are not named among the grantees. Conveyances expressing an intent to create a joint tenancy or tenancy by the entireties in the grantor or grantors together with the grantee or grantees shall be effective to create the type of ownership indicated by the terms of the conveyance.

History: Add. 1955, Act 3, Eff. Oct. 14, 1955
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.517 — MI Code / Chapter 280 / Act Act-40-of-1956 / Section 280.517
Preliminary finding; first meeting of boards, time and place, notice, selection of secretary.
Status: in_force

Sec. 517.

Upon receipt of a petition as hereinbefore provided, the director of agriculture shall make a preliminary finding of the counties which, in his opinion, include public corporations that should be assessed under the provisions of this chapter for the cost of the proposed drain. Upon the making of such preliminary finding, the director of agriculture shall give notice of the time and place of the first meeting of the drainage board and of the first meeting of the augmented drainage board, by sending a copy of such notice and of such preliminary finding by registered mail to each member thereof, and to each highway agency having jurisdiction over any highway, road and street in said district, which notice and finding shall be mailed not less than 10 days prior to the time of the meeting. In the event there be no board of county auditors or finance committee in any county involved, then notice to the chairman of the board of supervisors of such county shall be deemed to be notice to the member of the board of supervisors to be selected by him. The drainage board shall meet first, for the purpose of selecting a secretary. Upon the selection of a secretary, the director of agriculture shall turn over to such secretary the original petition and any other records in his office pertaining to the proposed drain.

History: 1956, Act 40, Imd. Eff. Mar. 28, 1956
Mich. Comp. Laws § 333.21799e — MI Code / Chapter 333 / Act Act-368-of-1978 / Section 333.21799e
Penalties and remedies cumulative.
Status: in_force

Sec. 21799e.

The penalties prescribed by this part or a rule promulgated under this part are cumulative and not exclusive. Neither the department nor any other party is limited to the remedies in this part.

The remedies provided under section 20155 and sections 21799a to 21799d are independent and cumulative. Except as provided in section 21799(c)(5), the use of 1 remedy by a person shall not be considered a bar to the use of other remedies by that person or to the use of any remedy by another person.

History: Add. 1978, Act 493, Eff. Mar. 30, 1979
Mich. Comp. Laws § 552.615a — MI Code / Chapter 552 / Act Act-295-of-1982 / Section 552.615a
Military service adjustment; procedures.
Status: in_force

Sec. 15a.

(1) If a payer is called to emergency military service, that payer may request a military service adjustment on his or her support obligation by providing a written request to the office of the friend of the court along with information showing all military and civilian pay. A military service adjustment shall be made by multiplying the payer's child support by a fraction, the numerator of which is the payer's income during emergency military service and the denominator of which is the payer's income upon which the support was ordered.

(2) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, a payer is not eligible for a military service adjustment before the date the friend of the court receives the request for the military service adjustment. If the payer requests a military service adjustment on or before 56 days from the date the payer is called to emergency military service, the friend of the court shall make the military service adjustment effective beginning on the date of the commencement of emergency military service.

(3) If the friend of the court receives a request for a military service adjustment under subsection (1), the friend of the court shall calculate the adjustment as provided under this section and shall notify all parties of the amount of the adjustment, that they may object to the adjustment within 21 days, and of the place and manner for filing objections.

(4) If a party objects to a military service adjustment under this section, the military service adjustment shall continue until a party's objection is resolved under subsection (5) or until 35 days after the payer's emergency military service ends, whichever is sooner.

(5) If a party objects to a military service adjustment under this section, the friend of the court shall set a hearing to be held before a judge or referee to determine whether the military service adjustment should be modified or set aside. The hearing shall be held as soon as possible, and the court may permit the payer to appear at the hearing by any means authorized by supreme court rules. If the court cannot hold the hearing during the payer's emergency military service, the court shall do 1 of the following:

(a) Hold the hearing no later than 35 days after the payer's emergency military service ends.

(b) Conduct a support review upon a payer's return from emergency military service. If a support review is conducted, the notice of adjustment shall be treated as a petition for modification of support for determining an effective date for the modification.

(c) Schedule a meeting between the parties to be held upon the payer's return from emergency military service to attempt to resolve the dispute over whether the adjustment should be set aside or modified.

(6) As used in this section, "emergency military service" means that the payer is a member of the armed forces reserves or national guard, called into active military duty for a period of more than 30 days.

History: Add. 2006, Act 485, Imd. Eff. Dec. 29, 2006
Mich. Comp. Laws § 2.13.new — MI Code / Chapter 2 / Act Act-7-of-2026 / Section 2.13.new
Official state duck.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

The wood duck ( Aix sponsa ) is designated as the official duck of this state.

History: 2026, Act 7, Eff. (sine die)