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Mich. Comp. Laws § 380.1291 — MI Code / Chapter 380 / Act Act-451-of-1976 / Section 380.1291
Local school security task force.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1291.

The board of a school district may establish a local school security task force for the school district to perform functions at the local level similar to those performed at the state level by the school security task force created under the school security task force act. The local school security task force shall include representatives of parents, teachers and other school employees, school administrators, law enforcement officials, pupils, and other members of the community affected by weapons in schools. A school district may use school operating funds for the activities of its local school security task force. This section does not require a school district to establish a local school security task force, or create liability for a school district that does not establish a local school security task force.

History: Add. 1993, Act 320, Eff. Apr. 1, 1994
Mich. Comp. Laws § 400.201 — MI Code / Chapter 400 / Act Act-220-of-1935 / Section 400.201
Michigan children's institute; creation; transfer of records and property from state public school.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

That in order the state may more effectively exercise the duty and obligation which it owes to unfortunate children, there is hereby created and established the Michigan children's institute. Such records, papers, equipment and appurtenances as needed from the state public school shall be transferred to the said institute and whenever the name "state public school" appears in any statute of this state it shall be taken and deemed to mean the Michigan children's institute.

History: 1935, Act 220, Imd. Eff. June 8, 1935; CL 1948, 400.201
Mich. Comp. Laws § 290.672 — MI Code / Chapter 290 / Act Act-232-of-1965 / Section 290.672
Interest on unpaid assessment.
Status: in_force

Sec. 22.

If the assessment is not paid by the date specified by a committee as permitted under section 5(g), the unpaid assessment shall be subject to an interest charge of 1% per month.

History: Add. 1974, Act 324, Imd. Eff. Dec. 15, 1974; Am. 1996, Act 216, Imd. Eff. May 28, 1996; Am. 2002, Act 601, Imd. Eff. Dec. 20, 2002
Mich. Comp. Laws § 54.315 — MI Code / Chapter 54 / Act Act-81-of-2022 / Section 54.315
Michigan-Indiana state line commission; establishment; membership; appointment; meetings; quorum; public meeting; compensation.
Status: in_force

Sec. 5.

(1) The Michigan-Indiana state line commission is established in the department of licensing and regulatory affairs.

(2) The commission shall consist of 5 surveyors licensed in this state, 1 of whom is a resident of or does surveying work or operates as a surveyor in each of the following counties:

(a) Berrien County.

(b) Cass County.

(c) St. Joseph County.

(d) Branch County.

(e) Hillsdale County.

(3) The governor shall appoint members of the commission, by and with the advice and consent of the senate. The governor shall consider for appointment individuals previously appointed to the Indiana-Michigan boundary line commission pursuant to former 2010 PA 259.

(4) The term of a member of the commission is 2 years or until a successor is appointed, whichever is later.

(5) If a vacancy occurs on the commission, the governor, subject to subsection (3), shall appoint an individual to fill the vacancy for the balance of the term.

(6) The governor may remove a member of the commission for incompetence, dereliction of duty, malfeasance, misfeasance, or nonfeasance in office, or any other good cause.

(7) The first meeting of the commission shall be called by a majority of the members of the commission. The first meeting shall be held not later than September 15, 2022. At the first meeting, the commission shall elect from among its members a chairperson and other officers as it considers necessary or appropriate. After the first meeting, the commission shall meet not less than quarterly, or more frequently at the call of the chairperson or if requested by 3 or more members.

(8) A majority of the members of the commission constitute a quorum for transacting business. A vote in favor by a majority of the members serving is required for any action of the commission.

(9) The commission shall conduct its business in compliance with the open meetings act, 1976 PA 267, MCL 15.261 to 15.275.

(10) A writing that is prepared, owned, used, possessed, or retained by the commission in performing an official function is subject to the freedom of information act, 1976 PA 442, MCL 15.231 to 15.246.

(11) A member of the commission is not entitled to compensation for service on the commission but may be reimbursed for actual and necessary expenses incurred in serving.

History: 2022, Act 81, Eff. July 18, 2022; Am. 2025, Act 67, Imd. Eff. Dec. 23, 2025
Mich. Comp. Laws § 15.368 — MI Code / Chapter 15 / Act Act-469-of-1980 / Section 15.368
Posting notices of protections and obligations required.
Status: in_force

Sec. 8.

An employer shall post notices and use other appropriate means to keep his or her employees informed of their protections and obligations under this act.

History: 1980, Act 469, Eff. Mar. 31, 1981
Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.584 — MI Code / Chapter 600 / Act Act-236-of-1961 / Section 600.584
Sheriff and deputy, coroner; aid in performing duties.
Status: in_force

Sec. 584.

The sheriff, his deputies, and any coroner or constable having the power to perform such duty may require suitable aid in

serving process in civil or criminal cases;

preserving the peace;

apprehending or securing any person for felony or breach of the peace.

History: 1961, Act 236, Eff. Jan. 1, 1963
Mich. Comp. Laws § 2.29 — MI Code / Chapter 2 / Act Act-165-of-1972 / Section 2.29
Pledge to state flag.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

The following pledge of allegiance to the state flag, written by Harold G. Coburn, shall be the official pledge of allegiance to the state flag:

"I pledge allegiance to the flag of Michigan, and to the state for which it stands, 2 beautiful peninsulas united by a bridge of steel, where equal opportunity and justice to all is our ideal.".

History: 1972, Act 165, Imd. Eff. June 13, 1972
Mich. Comp. Laws § 125.947 — MI Code / Chapter 125 / Act Act-208-of-1949 / Section 125.947
Gifts, loans, grants from private or public sources; contracts for assistance.
Status: in_force

Sec. 7.

Municipalities are authorized and permitted to accept gifts or loans and grants from other governmental agencies to finance the purposes of this act, to borrow money and may issue bonds or notes therefor, to apply for and accept advances, loans, grants, contributions, and any other form of financial assistance from the federal government, the state, county, municipality or other public body or from any sources, public or private, for the purposes of this act, to give such security as may be required and to enter into and carry out contracts in connection therewith. A municipality notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, may include in any contract for financial assistance with the federal government for a project as defined in this act such conditions imposed pursuant to federal law, to agree to any conditions that it may deem reasonable and appropriate attached to federal financial assistance and imposed pursuant to federal law, in the undertaking or carrying out of a project as defined in this act as the municipality may deem reasonable and appropriate and which are not inconsistent with the purposes of this act, and to include in any contract let in connection with a project provisions to fulfill such of the conditions as it may deem reasonable and appropriate, including the payment of prevailing salaries and wages and compliance with federal labor standards.

History: 1949, Act 208, Eff. Sept. 23, 1949; Am. 1957, Act 298, Eff. Sept. 27, 1957
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.51106 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.51106
Acreage as commercial forestlands; certifying to state treasurer; payment to county treasurer; distribution of remaining funds; payment in full required.
Status: in_force

Sec. 51106.

(1) By November 1 of each year, the department shall certify to the state treasurer the number of acres that are commercial forestlands in each county. By December 1 of each year, the state treasurer shall transmit to the treasurer of each county in which these commercial forests are located a warrant on the state treasurer for an amount equal to $1.30 per acre of commercial forest in the county. Beginning January 1, 2022 and every 5 years after that date, the amount of the annual payment under this section shall be increased by 5 cents per acre.

(2) From the payments received under subsection (1), the county treasurer of each county shall distribute an amount equal to 25 cents per acre for each acre of commercial forest in the county in the same proportions between the various funds as the ad valorem general property tax is distributed by the township treasurers in each township. Except as provided by section 51109(2), the county treasurer of each county shall distribute the remainder of the funds received under this section in the same manner and in the same proportion as the ad valorem general property tax is distributed.

(3) This state shall make payment in full to each county under this section.

History: Add. 1995, Act 57, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1995; Am. 2006, Act 382, Imd. Eff. Sept. 27, 2006; Am. 2012, Act 604, Imd. Eff. Jan. 9, 2013; Am. 2018, Act 239, Eff. Sept. 25, 2018
Mich. Comp. Laws § 765.25 — MI Code / Chapter 760 / Act Act-175-of-1927 / Section 765.25
Perjury in affidavit of justification; penalty.
Status: in_force

Sec. 25.

Any surety who shall swear falsely to any of the material facts set up in his affidavit of justification shall be deemed guilty of perjury and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished in accordance with the law in such case made and provided.

History: 1927, Act 175, Eff. Sept. 5, 1927; CL 1929, 17187; CL 1948, 765.25
Mich. Comp. Laws § 85.15 — MI Code / Chapter 81 / Act Act-215-of-1895 / Section 85.15
Office declared vacant.
Status: in_force

Sec. 15.

If any officer shall cease to be a resident of the city, or if elected in and for a ward, shall remove therefrom during his term of office, the office shall thereby be vacated. If any officer shall be a defaulter the office shall thereby be vacated.

History: 1895, Act 215, Eff. Aug. 30, 1895; CL 1897, 3002; CL 1915, 2918; CL 1929, 1842; CL 1948, 85.15
Mich. Comp. Laws § 129.209 — MI Code / Chapter 129 / Act Act-213-of-1963 / Section 129.209
Venue; statute of limitations.
Status: in_force

Sec. 9.

An action instituted on the payment bond shall be brought only in the appropriate court in the political subdivision in which the contract was to be performed. No action shall be commenced after the expiration of 1 year from the date on which final payment was made to the principal contractor.

History: 1963, Act 213, Eff. Sept. 6, 1963
Mich. Comp. Laws § 423.282 — MI Code / Chapter 423 / Act Act-17-of-1980 / Section 423.282
Wilfully disobeying or resisting lawful order of enforcement; contempt; fine.
Status: in_force

Sec. 12.

If an employee organization recognized, pursuant to Act No. 336 of the Public Acts of 1947, as amended, being sections 423.201 to 423.216 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, as the bargaining representative of employees subject to this act, wilfully disobeys a lawful order of enforcement by the circuit court pursuant to section 11, or wilfully encourages or offers resistance to the order, whether by a strike or otherwise, the punishment for each day that the contempt persists may be a fine, fixed at the discretion of the court, in an amount not to exceed $250.00 per day. If the department wilfully disobeys a lawful order of enforcement by the circuit court, or wilfully encourages or offers resistance to the order, the punishment for each day that the contempt persists may be a fine, fixed at the discretion of the court, in an amount not to exceed $250.00 per day.

History: 1980, Act 17, Imd. Eff. Feb. 24, 1980
Mich. Comp. Laws § 390.802 — MI Code / Chapter 390 / Act Act-114-of-1949 / Section 390.802
Board of control; creation; appointment and terms of members; oath; removal of members; vacancies; board as body corporate; expenses of members; powers of board.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

There is created a board of control for the institution, as a state institution, which shall consist of 8 members to be appointed by the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, for terms of 8 years each, except that of the members first appointed, 2 members shall be appointed for terms of 2 years each, 2 members for terms of 4 years each, 2 members for terms of 6 years each, and 2 members for terms of 8 years each, and the terms of office of the first members of the board shall commence on July 1, 1950. Members of the board shall qualify by taking and filing the constitutional oath of office. Members of the board shall serve until the appointment and qualification of their successors. Members of the board may be removed by the governor for misfeasance, malfeasance, or nonfeasance in office. Vacancies in the board shall be filled by the governor for the unexpired term in like manner as original appointments. The board shall be a body corporate and shall have power to contract and be contracted with. Members of the board shall serve without compensation, but shall be entitled to actual and necessary expenses incurred in performance of official duties. The board shall have control and management of the institution, and is authorized to incur such expenses and to employ such personnel as shall be necessary in carrying out its functions. The board is authorized to accept gifts, grants, or devises of property, real, personal, or mixed, for the benefit of the institution. The board is further authorized and empowered to do any other act or acts necessary in the proper management of the institution as a state institution.

History: 1949, Act 114, Eff. Sept. 23, 1949; Am. 1963, Act 87, Imd. Eff. May 8, 1963; Am. 1987, Act 157, Imd. Eff. Nov. 5, 1987
Mich. Comp. Laws § 168.21 — MI Code / Chapter 168 / Act Act-116-of-1954 / Section 168.21
Secretary of state; chief election officer, powers and duties.
Status: in_force

Sec. 21.

The secretary of state shall be the chief election officer of the state and shall have supervisory control over local election officials in the performance of their duties under the provisions of this act.

History: 1954, Act 116, Eff. June 1, 1955
Mich. Comp. Laws § Article IX § 8 — MI Code / Chapter 1 / Act CONSTITUTION-OF-MICHIGAN-OF-1963 / Section Article IX § 8
Sales and use taxes.
Status: in_force

Sec. 8.

Except as provided in this section, the Legislature shall not impose a sales tax on retailers at a rate of more than 4% of their gross taxable sales of tangible personal property.

Beginning May 1, 1994, the sales tax shall be imposed on retailers at an additional rate of 2% of their gross taxable sales of tangible personal property not exempt by law and the use tax at an additional rate of 2%. The proceeds of the sales and use taxes imposed at the additional rate of 2% shall be deposited in the state school aid fund established in section 11 of this article. The allocation of sales tax revenue required or authorized by sections 9 and 10 of this article does not apply to the revenue from the sales tax imposed at the additional rate of 2%.

No sales tax or use tax shall be charged or collected from and after January 1, 1975 on the sale or use of prescription drugs for human use, or on the sale or use of food for human consumption except in the case of prepared food intended for immediate consumption as defined by law. This provision shall not apply to alcoholic beverages.

History: Const. 1963, Art. IX, § 8, Eff. Jan. 1, 1964; Am. Initiated Law, approved Nov. 5, 1974, Eff. Dec. 21, 1974; Am. S.J.R. S, approved Mar. 15, 1994, Eff. Apr. 30, 1994
Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.161 — MI Code / Chapter 722 / Act Act-33-of-1980 / Section 722.161
Reimbursement of certain legal costs of foster parents; conditions.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

The department of social services may reimburse a foster parent for the costs of legal counsel when an action is commenced against the foster parent for injury or damage which is sustained or which is alleged to have been sustained by, or which resulted from or which is alleged to have resulted from the action of, a foster child during the time when the foster parent was acting within the scope of his or her authority as a foster parent. This subsection does not apply to an administrative hearing or judicial review under Act No. 306 of the Public Acts of 1969, as amended, being sections 24.201 to 24.315 of the Michigan Compiled Laws.

The department of social services shall not reimburse a foster parent as provided in subsection (1), unless the department is satisfied that all of the following apply:

The foster parent is licensed under Act No. 116 of the Public Acts of 1973, as amended, being sections 722.111 to 722.128 of the Michigan Compiled Laws.

If the action is a civil action, a judgment for damages is not awarded against the foster parent as a result of the action.

If the action is a criminal action, the foster parent is not convicted, does not plead nolo contendere, or is not found guilty but mentally ill or not guilty by reason of insanity as a result of the action.

History: 1980, Act 33, Imd. Eff. Mar. 11, 1980
Mich. Comp. Laws § 213.325 — MI Code / Chapter 213 / Act Act-227-of-1972 / Section 213.325
Payments where federal funds not available or used.
Status: in_force

Sec. 5.

When federal funds are not available or used in a program which will require the acquisition of real property or its vacation by its occupants, the state agency may provide payments, assistance and reimbursement as contemplated by this act but not in excess of the provisions of this act.

History: 1972, Act 227, Imd. Eff. July 25, 1972
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.152 — MI Code / Chapter 280 / Act Act-40-of-1956 / Section 280.152
Apportionment of benefits; description of lands.
Status: in_force

Sec. 152.

All apportionments of benefits under the provisions of this act shall be upon the principle of benefits derived. All descriptions of land under the provisions of this act shall be made by giving the legal subdivision thereof, whenever practicable, and when the tract of land which is to be benefited or affected by such drain is less than such legal subdivision it may be described by designation of the lot or other boundaries, or in some way by which it may be known.

History: 1956, Act 40, Imd. Eff. Mar. 28, 1956
Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.1013 — MI Code / Chapter 722 / Act Act-305-of-1996 / Section 722.1013
Effective date.
Status: in_force

Sec. 13.

This act shall take effect June 1, 1997.

History: 1996, Act 305, Eff. June 1, 1997
Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.2129 — MI Code / Chapter 600 / Act Act-236-of-1961 / Section 600.2129
Proof of publication; copy of record of document; certification; court orders; seal.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2129.

Whenever a certified copy of any affidavit, record, document or paper, is declared by law to be evidence, such copy shall be certified by the clerk or officer in whose custody the same is by law required to be, to have been compared by him with the original, and to be a correct transcript therefrom, and of the whole of such original; and if such officer have any official seal by law, such certificate shall be attested by such seal; and if such certificate be given by the clerk of any county, in his official character as such clerk, it shall be attested by the seal of the court of which he is clerk.

But this section shall not be construed to require the affixing of the seal of any court to any certified copy of any rule or order made by such court, or of any paper filed therein, when such copy is used in the same court or before any officer thereof; nor to require the seal of the supreme court to be affixed to a certified copy of any rule or order of that court, when used in any circuit court.

History: 1961, Act 236, Eff. Jan. 1, 1963
Mich. Comp. Laws § 123.1112 — MI Code / Chapter 123 / Act Act-152-of-2006 / Section 123.1112
Demonstration; permit required; fee.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

(1) An ordinance authorized under section 1 may include the requiring of a permit before a person can demonstrate on public property outside of any funeral home, church, synagogue, mosque, any other place of worship, cemetery, or any other location at which a funeral service or memorial service is being held.

(2) The local unit of government may assess a reasonable fee for the processing and granting of a permit allowed under this act.

History: 2006, Act 152, Imd. Eff. May 24, 2006
Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.2934 — MI Code / Chapter 600 / Act Act-236-of-1961 / Section 600.2934
Quieting title; lands owned by corporation after expiration of term; complaint; stockholders and creditors of corporation as defendants; service; judgment; damages; costs; actions.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2934.

Notwithstanding the expiration of the term of private corporations organized for the conduct of business of any kind, under the laws of this state, any one having such an interest as would entitle him to bring an action under section 2932, in any land owned by such corporation while in existence, and now aliened or divested from it by due process of law, may bring an action under section 2932 and this section for the recovery of the same.

The summons and complaint shall be against such corporation by its corporate name, and against any occupant or occupants of such land, as defendants.

In accordance with the court rules, any person or persons who were stockholders of such corporation while it subsisted and who still retain their rights in the property in question, by virtue of having owned stock therein, and any creditor or creditors of such corporation, whose claims are subsisting and not barred by limitation of time, may appear and defend such action as fully as such corporation could have done while subsisting. Such right to appear and defend may be drawn in question by the plaintiff on the trial of the cause.

All persons so appearing shall plead together and in the name of the corporation. Service on the corporation, in the manner prescribed by the court rules, is a full and complete service upon such corporation, and upon all persons natural or artificial, interested in said land, because of their having been stockholders in the corporation while subsisting, or creditors thereof. All persons so appearing and defending, or seeking to defend, are liable for costs in the action as fully as such corporation would be if defending.

The judgment in such suit shall be against the corporation in the corporate name and shall be binding upon it and upon all persons claiming said land by virtue of their stock in or demands upon the same, and shall be conclusive against such corporation and such persons subject only to such exceptions as are or may be provided by general statute in other actions brought under section 2932.

Any judgment in favor of the defendant corporation shall inure to the benefit of the persons entitled to the property in dispute. The plaintiff shall have judgment against such corporation neither for money damages of any kind nor for costs of suit subject to the discretion of the court, nor shall he be entitled to file against it a suggestion of damages in continuation of such judgment.

Actions under this section are equitable in nature.

History: 1961, Act 236, Eff. Jan. 1, 1963
Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.881 — MI Code / Chapter 722 / Act Act-260-of-2008 / Section 722.881
Postpermanency services; eligibility.
Status: in_force

Sec. 11.

Families are eligible for postpermanency services in the same manner as adoptive families.

History: 2008, Act 260, Imd. Eff. Aug. 4, 2008