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Mich. Comp. Laws § 16.51 — MI Code / Chapter 16 / Act Act-17-of-1964 / Section 16.51
Deputies for state officers; appointment, term.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, a state executive or administrative officer, or the head of a department, commission, board or other state agency, may appoint in writing a deputy or other employee of his department to serve in his place as a member of any board, commission or agency of which he is made by law an ex officio member. When the initial executive reorganization is completed pursuant to section 2 of article 5 of the state constitution such appointment shall only be made by the head of the department. The appointment may be made for a specific meeting or meetings or a specific period of time or until revoked by the official making the appointment but such appointment shall terminate whenever the appointing official is no longer eligible to serve in such capacity.

History: 1964, Act 17, Imd. Eff. Apr. 14, 1964
Mich. Comp. Laws § 211.150 — MI Code / Chapter 211 / Act Act-206-of-1893 / Section 211.150
State tax commission; duties.
Status: in_force

Sec. 150.

It shall be the duty of the commission:

To have and exercise general supervision over the supervisors and other assessing officers of this state, and to take such measures as will secure the enforcement of the provisions of this act, to the end that all the properties of this state liable to assessment for taxation shall be placed upon the assessment rolls and assessed at that proportion of true cash value which the legislature from time to time shall provide pursuant to the provisions of article 9, section 3 of the constitution.

To confer with and advise assessing officers as to their duties under this act, and to institute proper proceedings to enforce the penalties and liabilities provided by law for public officers, officers of corporations and individuals failing to comply with the provisions of this act; to prefer charges to the governor against assessing and taxation officers who violate the law or fail in the performance of their duties in reference to assessment and taxation, and in the execution of these powers the commission may call upon the attorney general or any prosecuting attorney in the state to assist it.

To receive all complaints as to property liable to taxation that has not been assessed or that has been fraudulently or improperly assessed, and to investigate the same, and to take such proceedings as will correct the irregularity complained of, if any is found to exist.

To require from any officer in this state, on forms prescribed by the commission such annual or other reports as shall enable it to ascertain the assessed value and equalized values of all property listed for taxation throughout the state under this act, the amount of taxes assessed, collected and returned and such other matter as it may require, including a separate listing of the valuations of all personal and real property classifications within the assessing unit, to the end that it may have complete statistical information as to the practical operation of this act, and to approve the forms used by assessing officers in taking the assessment of property.

To furnish the state board of equalization at each session thereof an estimate of the actual cash value of the taxable property of each county in the state, and to meet with the state board of equalization when requested by said board to do so.

History: Add. 1899, Act 154, Imd. Eff. June 23, 1899; Am. 1905, Act 281, Eff. Sept. 16, 1905; Am. 1913, Act 153, Eff. Aug. 14, 1913; CL 1915, 4149; CL 1929, 3545; CL 1948, 211.150; Am. 1964, Act 275, Eff. Aug. 28, 1964
Mich. Comp. Laws § 257.682b — MI Code / Chapter 257 / Act Act-300-of-1949 / Section 257.682b
Permitting person under 18 to ride in open bed of pickup truck prohibited; exceptions; civil infraction.
Status: in_force

Sec. 682b.

Except as provided in this section, an operator shall not permit a person less than 18 years of age to ride in the open bed of a pickup truck on a highway, road, or street in a city, village, or township at a speed greater than 15 miles per hour.

Subsection (1) does not apply to the operator of any of the following:

A motor vehicle operated as part of a parade pursuant to a permit issued by the governmental unit with jurisdiction over the highway or street.

A military motor vehicle.

An authorized emergency vehicle.

A motor vehicle controlled or operated by an employer or an employee of a farm operation, construction business, or similar enterprise during the course of work activities.

A motor vehicle used to transport a search and rescue team to and from the site of an emergency.

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

History: Add. 2000, Act 434, Eff. Mar. 28, 2001
Mich. Comp. Laws § 211.9d — MI Code / Chapter 211 / Act Act-206-of-1893 / Section 211.9d
Computer software exempt from taxation; construction of section; “computer software” defined.
Status: in_force

Sec. 9d.

Computer software is exempt from taxation under this act unless either of the following is true:

The software is incorporated as a permanent component of a computer, machine, piece of equipment, or device, or of real property, and the software is not commonly available separately.

The cost of the software is included as part of the cost of a computer, machine, piece of equipment, or device, or of the cost of real property on the books or records of the taxpayer.

This section shall not be construed to affect the value of a machine, device, piece of equipment, or computer, or the value of real property, or to affect the taxable status of any other property subject to tax under this act.

As used in this section, "computer software" means a set of statements or instructions that when incorporated in a machine-usable medium is capable of causing a machine or device having information processing capabilities to indicate, perform, or achieve a particular function, task, or result.

History: Add. 1990, Act 286, Imd. Eff. Dec. 14, 1990
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.30928 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.30928
Intervention by department.
Status: in_force

Sec. 30928.

Whenever a public inland lake is to be improved, the department may intervene for the protection and conservation of the natural resources of the state.

History: Add. 1995, Act 59, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1995
Mich. Comp. Laws § 433.113 — MI Code / Chapter 433 / Act R-S-of-1846 / Section 433.113
Sale of beasts; notice.
Status: in_force

Sec. 13.

If the sum so found to be due, shall not be forthwith paid, the person who impounded the beasts shall cause them to be sold by auction in the township where they are impounded, first advertising the sale by posting up a notice thereof in 3 public places in the same township, at least 5 days before such sale.

History: R.S. 1846, Ch. 125; CL 1857, 5058; CL 1871, 6779; How. 8367; CL 1897, 10700; CL 1915, 14791; CL 1929, 9073; CL 1948, 433.113
Mich. Comp. Laws § 333.5674 — MI Code / Chapter 333 / Act Act-368-of-1978 / Section 333.5674
Definitions; M to W.
Status: in_force

Sec. 5674.

(1) "Medical control authority" means that term as defined in section 20906.

(2) "Patient" means an adult with an advanced illness or means an adult with another medical condition that, despite available curative therapies or modulation, compromises his or her health so as to make death within 1 year foreseeable though not a specific or predicted prognosis.

(3) "Patient advocate" means an individual presently authorized to make medical treatment decisions on behalf of a patient under sections 5506 to 5515 of the estates and protected individuals code, 1998 PA 386, MCL 700.5506 to 700.5515.

(4) "Patient representative" means a patient advocate or a guardian.

(5) "Person" means that term as defined in section 1106 or a governmental entity.

(6) "Physician" means that term as defined in section 17001 or 17501.

(7) "Physician orders for scope of treatment form" or "POST form" means the standardized POST form described in section 5676. A POST form is not an advance health care directive.

(8) "Physician's assistant" means an individual licensed as a physician's assistant under part 170 or part 175.

(9) "Residential setting" means a setting outside of a hospital, including, but not limited to, an adult foster care facility.

(10) "Ward" means that term as defined in section 1108 of the estates and protected individuals code, 1998 PA 386, MCL 700.1108.

History: Add. 2017, Act 154, Eff. Feb. 6, 2018
Mich. Comp. Laws § 487.14404 — MI Code / Chapter 487 / Act Act-276-of-1999 / Section 487.14404
Application for full fiduciary powers; considerations; limited trust power.
Status: in_force

Sec. 4404.

In acting upon applications for permission to exercise full fiduciary powers as provided in section 4401, the commissioner shall take into consideration the sufficiency of the capital and surplus of the applying bank and any other facts or circumstances the commissioner considers proper.

Without regard to the capital and surplus requirements specified in subsection (1), the commissioner may grant to a bank the limited trust power to act as executor, administrator, or guardian and to serve as a testamentary trustee.

History: 1999, Act 276, Eff. Mar. 1, 2000
Mich. Comp. Laws § 125.2663a — MI Code / Chapter 125 / Act Act-381-of-1996 / Section 125.2663a
Cost recovery action.
Status: in_force

Sec. 13a.

Costs of a response activity paid with tax increment revenues that are captured pursuant to section 13(4) may be recovered from a party that is responsible for an activity causing a release. This state or an authority may undertake cost recovery for tax increment revenue captured. Before an authority or this state may institute a cost recovery action, it must provide the other with 60 days' notice. This state or an authority that recovers costs under this section shall apply those recovered costs to the following, in the following order of priority:

(a) The reasonable attorney fees and costs incurred by this state or an authority in obtaining the cost recovery.

(b) One of the following:

( i ) If an authority undertakes the cost recovery action, the authority shall deposit the remaining recovered funds into the local brownfield revolving fund created pursuant to section 8, if such a fund has been established by the authority. If a local brownfield revolving fund has not been established, the authority shall disburse the remaining recovered funds to the local taxing jurisdictions in the proportion that the local taxing jurisdictions' taxes were captured.

( ii ) If this state undertakes a cost recovery action, this state shall deposit the remaining recovered funds into the revitalization revolving loan fund established under section 20108a of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324.20108a.

( iii ) If this state and an authority each undertake a cost recovery action, undertake a cost recovery action jointly, or one on behalf of the other, the amount of any remaining recovered funds shall be deposited pursuant to subparagraphs ( i ) and ( ii ) in the proportion that the tax increment revenues being recovered represent local taxes and taxes levied for school operating purposes, respectively.

History: Add. 2016, Act 471, Eff. Apr. 5, 2017
Mich. Comp. Laws § 141.501 — MI Code / Chapter 141 / Act Act-284-of-1964 / Section 141.501
City income tax act; short title.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

This act shall be known and may be cited as the "city income tax act".

History: 1964, Act 284, Imd. Eff. June 12, 1964
Mich. Comp. Laws § 285.2 — MI Code / Chapter 285 / Act Act-13-of-1921 / Section 285.2
Transfer of powers and duties to department of agriculture; abolition of agencies and officers; transfer of records, files, and papers; pending proceedings.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

The department of agriculture shall exercise the powers and perform the duties now vested by law in the department of animal industry, the state food and drug commissioner, the state veterinary board, the immigration commission, the commissioner of immigration, the market director, the Michigan weather service, and the Michigan agricultural fair commission. The departments, boards, commissions, and officers, except the Michigan weather service, whose powers and duties are transferred to the department of agriculture under this section are abolished as of June 30, 1921. All records, files, and papers of any nature pertaining to the functions of a transferred department, board, commission, or officer shall be turned over to the department of agriculture. Any hearing or other proceeding pending before any board or officer whose tenure is terminated under this section shall not be abated, but shall be considered to be transferred to the department of agriculture and shall be carried on and determined by the director of the department of agriculture in accordance with the provisions of the law governing the hearing or proceeding.

History: 1921, Act 13, Imd. Eff. Mar. 22, 1921; Am. 1923, Act 34, Eff. Aug. 30, 1923; CL 1929, 5002; CL 1948, 285.2; Am. 1980, Act 314, Imd. Eff. Dec. 5, 1980
Mich. Comp. Laws § 205.246 — MI Code / Chapter 205 / Act Act-188-of-1899 / Section 205.246
Probate court; jurisdiction; appeal of department decision; action to recover taxes, penalties, and interest; other actions.
Status: in_force

Sec. 46.

The probate court has exclusive jurisdiction of any court proceedings concerning this act. Every action shall be brought in the probate court for the county in which the estate is being or has been administered or, if there has been no administration in this state, in the county where any of the property of the estate is situated.

A personal representative or any person who is in actual or constructive possession of any property included in the gross estate of the decedent who is aggrieved by a decision by the department may appeal that decision by petitioning the probate court with notice to the department and to all other interested parties as determined by court rule.

An action may be brought by the department in the probate court within the times provided by this act to recover the amount of any taxes, penalties, and interest due under this act.

Nothing in this act shall be construed to prevent a personal representative from bringing or maintaining an action in probate court within any period otherwise prescribed by law to determine any question bearing upon the taxable situs of property, the domicile of a decedent, or otherwise affecting the jurisdiction of the state to impose a tax under this act with respect to a particular item or items of property.

All appeals of determinations made by the department under this act shall be made to the probate court.

History: Add. 1993, Act 54, Imd. Eff. June 3, 1993
Mich. Comp. Laws § 460.941 — MI Code / Chapter 460 / Act Act-270-of-2010 / Section 460.941
Imposition of assessment; written contract; verification.
Status: in_force

Sec. 11.

(1) A local unit of government may impose an assessment under a property assessed clean energy program only pursuant to a written contract entered into under section 5(2) with the record owner of the property to be assessed.

(2) Before entering into a contract with the record owner under section 5(2), the local unit of government must verify that none of the following are delinquent with respect to the property:

(a) A tax, special assessment, or water or sewer charge.

(b) An assessment for another project under a property assessed clean energy program.

History: 2010, Act 270, Imd. Eff. Dec. 14, 2010; Am. 2023, Act 107, Eff. Feb. 13, 2024
Mich. Comp. Laws § 380.1703 — MI Code / Chapter 380 / Act Act-451-of-1976 / Section 380.1703
Qualifications and requirements for special education personnel; rules relative to special education programs and services; review.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1703.

Special education personnel shall meet the qualifications and requirements of rules promulgated by the state board.

Curriculum, eligibility of specific persons for special education programs and services and for each particular program or service, review procedures regarding the placement of persons in the programs or services, size of classes, size of programs, quantity and quality of equipment, supplies and housing, adequacy of methods of instruction, and length and content of school day shall be in accordance with rules promulgated by the state board relative to special education programs and services.

Not later than September 30, 1996, the state board shall conduct a review of all rules promulgated by the state board or department pertaining to special education. The review shall consider at least all of the following:

The need to eliminate unnecessary separation and duplication between regular education and special education facilities, staff, programs, services, and pupils.

Potential benefits from coordination between all relevant federal, state, regional, and local organization services, including public and private organization services, for pupils with special needs, and encouragement of the provision of comprehensive necessary services delivered by the most appropriate organization or person in the most cost-effective and programmatically effective manner.

The advisability of simplification of rules or regulations and processes relating to identification of need and provision of services to special needs pupils, avoidance of barriers and cost and other penalties or discouragements to effective programming, and avoidance of requirements as to staff or program criteria that are not research based; allowing and encouraging reasonably flexible, workable, and, if appropriate, cooperatively operated comprehensive services, including reasonable endorsement or other qualification categories for personnel, to be delivered to pupils with related or similar special needs, as may be consistent with research.

A goal of providing educational and training services in a manner that maximizes for the benefit of the pupil the combination of the provisions of this act and federal law relating to inclusion, while avoiding, to the degree reasonably possible, requiring by rule an overall increase in a program or service beyond that required before December 23, 1978.

History: 1976, Act 451, Imd. Eff. Jan. 13, 1977; Am. 1995, Act 289, Eff. July 1, 1996
Mich. Comp. Laws § 457.172 — MI Code / Chapter 457 / Act Act-9-of-1885 / Section 457.172
Articles of association; execution, contents.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

Any 5 or more persons, resident of this state, being members of the supreme lodge of the Sons of Industry, may make and execute articles of association under their hands and seals, which articles of association shall be acknowledged before some officer authorized by law to execute deeds, and shall set forth:

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

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

Third, The object and purpose of such association, which shall be to promote the general welfare, and create a fraternal feeling amongst its members, and also to provide benefits to its members, and their widows, orphans, or heirs;

Fourth, The period for which the association may be incorporated shall be 30 years.

History: 1885, Act 9, Imd. Eff. Mar. 4, 1885; How. 4577s; CL 1897, 7875; CL 1915, 10312; CL 1929, 10594; CL 1948, 457.172
Mich. Comp. Laws § 560.201b — MI Code / Chapter 560 / Act Act-288-of-1967 / Section 560.201b
Assessor's plat; additional conditions for ordering.
Status: in_force

Sec. 201b.

Notwithstanding the conditions specified in section 201(1), an assessor's plat complying with sections 201 to 213 may also be ordered by the governing body of a municipality if all of the following conditions are met:

When a parcel or tract of land had been improved by 4 or more permanent residential structures before January 1, 1968.

When division of the parcel or tract into lots for the purpose of selling or leasing the permanent residential structures thereon would result in a lot size or configuration smaller than required by this act or by local ordinance.

Each lot be serviced by a sewage disposal and water supply system approved by the local health department having jurisdiction.

History: Add. 1976, Act 431, Imd. Eff. Jan. 11, 1977
Mich. Comp. Laws § 18.1366 — MI Code / Chapter 18 / Act Act-431-of-1984 / Section 18.1366
Financing and maintenance of state agency subject to act.
Status: in_force

Sec. 366.

Each state agency is subject to this act and shall be financed and maintained by specific appropriations by the legislature from the operating funds of the state, as such funds may be dedicated by law, pursuant to the submission of the state budget.

History: 1984, Act 431, Eff. Mar. 29, 1985
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.478 — MI Code / Chapter 280 / Act Act-40-of-1956 / Section 280.478
Drainage board; continuation; responsibility; expenses; relinquishment; moneys, disposition, consent.
Status: in_force

Sec. 478.

(1) The drainage board for each project shall continue in existence with changes in personnel that result from changes in the officers constituting the board membership. The drainage board is responsible for the operation and maintenance of the drain.

(2) Any necessary expenses incurred in administration and in the operation and maintenance of the drain and not covered by contract shall be paid by the several public corporations assessed for the cost of the drain. The assessments shall be in the same proportion as the cost of the drain was assessed unless the drainage board establishes a different proportion for the assessments after notice and hearing as provided in section 469.

(3) The drainage board, by resolution, may relinquish jurisdiction and control over all or part of a drain if there is no outstanding indebtedness or contract liability of its drainage district. Jurisdiction and control may be relinquished to the county or a township, city, village, or authority in which all or the part of the drain and the area the drain or part of the drain services is wholly located or to the board of county road commissioners or the state transportation department if all or part of the drain and the area the drain or part of the drain services is within the public right-of-way. The county, township, city, village, authority, board of county road commissioners, or director of the state transportation department, as applicable, must request or consent to the relinquishment of jurisdiction and control by resolution of its governing body. Indebtedness or contract liability of any drainage district that will be paid in full when jurisdiction and control is relinquished is not considered to be outstanding. If relinquishment of jurisdiction and control is to a county, the resolution of the governing body of the county shall specify the county agency, such as board of public works, road department, or parks and recreation commission, that shall be thereafter responsible for exercise of jurisdiction and control.

(4) If jurisdiction and control is relinquished over all of a drain, any money in the drain fund of the drain shall be used to pay any indebtedness or contract liability of its drainage district, and the balance shall be turned over to the county, township, city, or village, board of county road commissioners, or authority or to the state transportation department to be used solely with respect to the drain over which jurisdiction and control is assumed.

(5) If the relinquishment of jurisdiction and control relates to a part of a drain or drain project, the relinquishment and turnover does not become effective until consented to by resolution of the governing body of each public corporation that has paid a part of the cost of the drain or drain project.

History: 1956, Act 40, Imd. Eff. Mar. 28, 1956; Am. 1963, Act 215, Imd. Eff. May 17, 1963; Am. 1969, Act 90, Imd. Eff. July 24, 1969; Am. 2018, Act 645, Eff. Mar. 28, 2019