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Mich. Comp. Laws § 560.144 — MI Code / Chapter 560 / Act Act-288-of-1967 / Section 560.144
Proprietor's certificate.
Status: in_force

Sec. 144.

The proprietor's certificate on the plat shall include the following:

The caption of the plat.

A statement that the proprietor has caused the land described on the plat to be surveyed, divided, monumented, mapped, and dedicated as shown on the plat.

A statement that the streets, alleys, parks, and other places shown on it that are usually public are dedicated to the use of the public.

A statement that all public utility easements are private easements and that all other easements are reserved to the uses shown on the plat.

The name of each street, park, or other place that is usually public and that is intended to be reserved to other than public use, and the character and purpose of that use.

A statement that the plat includes all land to the water's edge.

The proprietor's certificate shall be signed by the following, and each signature shall be acknowledged as deeds conveying lands are required to be acknowledged:

All persons holding the title by deed of the lands.

All persons holding any other title of record.

All persons holding title as mortgagee or vendee under land contract or who are in possession but are not renters.

The spouses of persons named in subdivisions (a), (b), and (c).

History: 1967, Act 288, Eff. Jan. 1, 1968; Am. 2002, Act 21, Imd. Eff. Mar. 4, 2002
Mich. Comp. Laws § 772.6 — MI Code / Chapter 760 / Act Act-175-of-1927 / Section 772.6
Failure to pay recognizance; commitment to county jail; hearing.
Status: in_force

Sec. 6.

If the person so ordered to recognize refuses or neglects to provide that recognizance, the court shall commit the person to the county jail during the period for which security was required, or until the person provides that recognizance. A person shall not be incarcerated for failure to pay the recognizance unless the court conducts a hearing and determines that the person has the resources to pay the recognizance and has not made a good faith effort to do so. In determining whether to incarcerate the person, the court shall also consider the person's employment status, earning ability, and financial resources; the willfulness of the person's failure to pay the recognizance; and any other special circumstances that may have a bearing on the person's ability to pay the recognizance. The court shall state in the warrant the cause of commitment with the sum and the time for which the security was required.

History: 1927, Act 175, Eff. Sept. 5, 1927; CL 1929, 17393; CL 1948, 772.6; Am. 1994, Act 71, Eff. July 1, 1994
Mich. Comp. Laws § 333.21918 — MI Code / Chapter 333 / Act Act-368-of-1978 / Section 333.21918
Fees; payable to department; revocation or denial; nonrefundable.
Status: in_force

Sec. 21918.

The fees prescribed in this part are payable to the department or the department's contractor at the time an application for an initial or renewal registration or permit is submitted to the department. If an application for registration or permit is denied, or if a registration or permit is revoked before its expiration date, the department shall not refund the fees paid to the department.

History: Add. 2023, Act 273, Eff. Mar. 7, 2024
Mich. Comp. Laws § 457.541 — MI Code / Chapter 457 / Act Act-116-of-1889 / Section 457.541
Subordinate court; manner of becoming body corporate and politic.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

That any subordinate court of the Ancient Order of Foresters duly organized within this state, under and pursuant to the provisions of the constitution and laws of the Ancient Order of Foresters' friendly society may become a body corporate and politic in the manner following:

First, At some regular court of such order a resolution shall be put to vote of the members thereof expressing the desire and determination of said court to be incorporated, and directing the officers thereof to perfect such incorporation, and if such resolution receives a 2/3 vote of the members present it shall be declared passed, otherwise lost;

Second, On such resolution being so passed, the worthy chief ranger and the recording secretary shall prepare articles of association under their hands and the seal of the court, setting forth the number of persons then in good standing in the court desiring incorporation, the name by which the court is known, the date of its organization, a copy of the resolution mentioned in the first subdivision of this act, the corporate name by which the court shall be known in the law, the object and purposes of the association, which shall in no way conflict or be inconsistent with the object and purposes of the Ancient Order of Foresters' friendly society as stated in its constitution, and the period for which it is incorporated, not exceeding 30 years;

Third, A copy of such articles of association shall be filed with the corporation and securities bureau of the department of commerce;

Fourth, The worthy chief ranger and the recording secretary executing such articles of association or incorporation shall make and annex thereto, before filing, an affidavit stating that they are respectively members of and occupy the official positions above named in said court; that the resolution, a copy of which is set out in the articles of association, was duly passed at a regular meeting of said court, and received a 2/3 majority of all members present, and that all the statements in said articles of association are true, to the best to their and each of their knowledge and belief, and that said court is organized and acting under the constitution of the Ancient Order of Foresters' friendly society.

History: 1889, Act 116, Eff. Oct. 2, 1889; How. 4577a; CL 1897, 8066; CL 1915, 10540; CL 1929, 10745; CL 1948, 457.541; Am. 1982, Act 122, Imd. Eff. Apr. 19, 1982
Mich. Comp. Laws § 257.904f — MI Code / Chapter 257 / Act Act-300-of-1949 / Section 257.904f
Vehicle registration records; disclosure.
Status: in_force

Sec. 904f.

The vehicle registration records of the secretary of state shall disclose which vehicles are assigned a temporary registration plate under section 904c or are immobilized under this act.

History: Add. 1998, Act 358, Eff. Oct. 1, 1999
Mich. Comp. Laws § 205.94aa — MI Code / Chapter 205 / Act Act-94-of-1937 / Section 205.94aa
Storage, use, or consumption of tangible personal property for use as or at mineral-producing property; exemption; "mineral-producing property" and "taxpayer" defined.
Status: in_force

Sec. 4aa.

(1) Subject to subsection (2), the tax under this act does not apply to the storage, use, or consumption of tangible personal property sold to a taxpayer for use as or at mineral-producing property.

(2) The property under subsection (1) is exempt only to the extent that the property is used for the exempt purposes stated in this section. The exemption is limited to the percentage of exempt use to total use determined by a reasonable formula or method approved by the department.

(3) As used in this section, "mineral-producing property" and "taxpayer" mean those terms as defined in section 2 of the nonferrous metallic minerals extraction severance tax act.

History: Add. 2012, Act 413, Imd. Eff. Dec. 20, 2012
Mich. Comp. Laws § 390.553 — MI Code / Chapter 390 / Act Act-48-of-1963-2nd-Ex-Sess- / Section 390.553
Boards of control; general supervision, powers and duties.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3.

A board of control shall have general supervision of its institution, the control and direction of all funds of the institution, and such other powers and duties as may be prescribed by law.

History: 1963, 2nd Ex. Sess., Act 48, Eff. Jan. 1, 1964
Mich. Comp. Laws § 286.372 — MI Code / Chapter 286 / Act Act-228-of-1959 / Section 286.372
Controlled atmosphere storage for fruits and vegetables; prohibited representations.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

A person or other legal entity shall not sell, label, describe, advertise, offer, expose, exchange, or transport fruits or vegetables for sale represented as having been held under controlled atmosphere storage conditions as specified in this act, alone or with other words, or use any such terms or form or words or symbols of similar import on any container or lot of fruits or vegetables advertised, sold, offered for sale, or transported for sale within this state unless the fruits or vegetables have been stored in compliance with the provisions of this act and rules promulgated by the director.

History: 1959, Act 228, Eff. Mar. 19, 1960; Am. 2000, Act 53, Imd. Eff. Mar. 30, 2000
Mich. Comp. Laws § 500.8159 — MI Code / Chapter 500 / Act Act-218-of-1956 / Section 500.8159
Failure to transfer assets.
Status: in_force

Sec. 8159.

If an ancillary receiver in another state or foreign country, whether called by that name or not, fails to transfer to the domiciliary liquidator in this state any assets within his or her control other than special deposits, diminished only by the expenses of the ancillary receivership, if any, the claims filed in the ancillary receivership, other than special deposit claims or secured claims, shall be placed in the class of claims under section 8142(1)(h).

History: Add. 1989, Act 302, Imd. Eff. Jan. 3, 1990; Am. 1996, Act 429, Imd. Eff. Nov. 26, 1996; Am. 1998, Act 279, Imd. Eff. July 27, 1998
Mich. Comp. Laws § 32.1003 — MI Code / Chapter 32 / Act Act-523-of-1980 / Section 32.1003
Applicability; subject matter jurisdiction; convening and holding courts-martial and courts of inquiry out of state; offenses committed out of state; trial and punishment.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3.

(1) This code applies to all members of the state military forces at all times, except when in federal service.

(2) This code applies to an individual subject to this code while serving out of state and while going to and returning from the service out of state to the same extent as an individual serving within this state.

(3) Subject matter jurisdiction is established if the individual subject to this code was on any type of duty status with the state military forces at the time of the offense, including travel to and from the duty site or station or, if the individual subject to this code was not on any type of duty status with the state military forces at the time of the offense, a nexus exists between the offense and the state military forces.

(4) Courts-martial and courts of inquiry may be convened and held in units of the state military forces while serving out of state with the same jurisdiction and powers as if held within this state. Offenses committed out of state may be tried and punished either out of state or within this state.

History: 1980, Act 523, Eff. Mar. 31, 1981; Am. 2005, Act 186, Imd. Eff. Oct. 27, 2005; Am. 2024, Act 77, Imd. Eff. July 8, 2024
Mich. Comp. Laws § 729.215 — MI Code / Chapter 729 / Act Act-17-of-1953 / Section 729.215
Instructions to jury.
Status: in_force

Sec. 15.

It shall be the duty of said judge of a police court to instruct the jury in all cases as to the law applicable to the case being tried by it, which instruction shall be received by the jury as the law of the case.

History: 1953, Act 17, Imd. Eff. Apr. 3, 1953
Mich. Comp. Laws § 333.18513 — MI Code / Chapter 333 / Act Act-368-of-1978 / Section 333.18513
Confidentiality of communication.
Status: in_force

Sec. 18513.

An individual registered or licensed under this part or an employee or officer of an organization that employs the registrant or licensee is not required to disclose a communication or a portion of a communication made by a client to the individual or advice given in the course of professional employment.

Except as otherwise provided in this section, a communication between a registrant or licensee or an organization with which the registrant or licensee has an agency relationship and a client is a confidential communication. A confidential communication shall not be disclosed, except under either or both of the following circumstances:

The disclosure is part of a required supervisory process within the organization that employs or otherwise has an agency relationship with the registrant or licensee.

The privilege is waived by the client or a person authorized to act in the client's behalf.

If requested by the court for a court action, a registrant or licensee shall submit to an appropriate court a written evaluation of the prospect or prognosis of a particular client without disclosing a privileged fact or a privileged communication. An attorney representing a client who is the subject of an evaluation described in this subsection has the right to receive a copy of the evaluation. If required for the exercise of a public purpose by a legislative committee, a registrant or licensee or agency representative may make available statistical and program information without violating the privilege established under subsection (2).

A registrant or licensee may disclose a communication or a portion of a communication made by a client pursuant to section 946 of the mental health code, 1974 PA 258, MCL 330.1946, in order to comply with the duty set forth in that section.

History: Add. 2000, Act 11, Imd. Eff. Mar. 7, 2000; Am. 2004, Act 61, Eff. July 1, 2005
Mich. Comp. Laws § 207.776 — MI Code / Chapter 207 / Act Act-147-of-1992 / Section 207.776
Homestead facility or new or rehabilitated facility; determination of compliance with act; issuance and filing of certificate; maintenance of record; notice of refusal.
Status: in_force

Sec. 6.

Not later than 60 days after receipt of an approved application for a homestead facility or a rehabilitated facility, and not later than 30 days, or if an approved application is received after June 15, not later than 45 days after receipt of an approved application for a new facility, the qualified assessing authority shall determine whether the homestead facility, new facility, or rehabilitated facility complies with the requirements of this act. If the qualified assessing authority finds compliance, the qualified assessing authority shall issue a neighborhood enterprise zone certificate to the applicant and send a certified copy of the certificate to each affected taxing unit. The assessor shall keep the certificate filed on record in his or her office. The qualified assessing authority shall maintain a record of all certificates filed. Notice of the qualified assessing authority's refusal to issue a certificate shall be sent by certified mail to the same persons.

History: 1992, Act 147, Imd. Eff. July 16, 1992; Am. 2005, Act 338, Imd. Eff. Jan. 3, 2006; Am. 2008, Act 284, Imd. Eff. Sept. 29, 2008; Am. 2022, Act 238, Eff. Mar. 29, 2023
Mich. Comp. Laws § 791.220e — MI Code / Chapter 791 / Act Act-232-of-1953 / Section 791.220e
Scott correctional facility; western Wayne correctional facility; capacity limits; increase.
Status: in_force

Sec. 20e.

Except as provided in subsection (2), not more than 880 prisoners shall be housed at the Scott correctional facility and not more than 925 prisoners shall be housed at the western Wayne correctional facility.

If a new housing unit is constructed within the security perimeter of either facility listed in subsection (1), the capacity limits listed in subsection (1) for that facility are increased by the designated capacity of the new housing unit.

History: Add. 1985, Act 62, Imd. Eff. June 14, 1985; Am. 1991, Act 96, Imd. Eff. Aug. 1, 1991; Am. 1995, Act 20, Imd. Eff. Apr. 12, 1995; Am. 2002, Act 670, Eff. Mar. 1, 2003
Mich. Comp. Laws § 286.71 — MI Code / Chapter 286 / Act Act-221-of-1959 / Section 286.71
Certification of seeds; definitions.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

As used in this act:

"Seed" means the seed or propagating materials of cereals, grain crops, vegetable crops, oil crops, fiber crops, forage crops, grasses, legumes, turf species, tuberous crops, and other crops used in agricultural products which are produced or processed for the purpose of being sold, offered or exposed for sale, for planting, sowing or seeding processes within this state.

"Certified seed" means the progeny of foundation, registered or certified seed if designated foundation and plant propagating materials that are so handled as to maintain satisfactory genetic identity and purity and have met certification standards required by this act and have been approved and certified by the director upon the advice of official seed certifying agencies.

"Foundation seed" means seed stocks or plant propagating materials that are increased from breeder or designated foundation seed and are so handled as to most nearly maintain specific genetic identity and purity. Foundation seed, established by designation, shall be that seed designated by the agricultural experiment station together with the legal certifying agency and approved by the director of agriculture.

"Breeder seed" means seed or plant propagating material directly controlled by the originating or, in certain cases, the sponsoring plant breeder or institution, and which provides the source of foundation seed.

"Registered seed" means the progeny of foundation or registered seed or plant propagating material that is so handled as to maintain satisfactory genetic identity and purity and that has been approved and certified by the director of agriculture upon the advice of the official certifying agencies. This class of seed shall be of a quality suitable for the production of certified seed.

History: 1959, Act 221, Eff. Mar. 19, 1960
Mich. Comp. Laws § 338.1723 — MI Code / Chapter 338 / Act Act-295-of-1972 / Section 338.1723
Transcripts and records of proceedings before board; motion for rehearing.
Status: in_force

Sec. 23.

The board shall provide for the transcribing and recording of all proceedings before the board and shall furnish a transcript of the record to any party affected by the proceedings upon payment of the costs for the transcript.

In any case involving the denial, suspension or revocation of a license, a copy of the board's report shall be served upon the respondent by the board, either personally or by registered or certified mail as provided in this act for service of notice of hearing. Within 20 days after such service, the respondent may present to the board a motion in writing for rehearing, which written motion shall specify the particular grounds therefor. If a motion for rehearing is not filed, then upon expiration of the time specified for filing such motion; or if a motion for rehearing is denied, then upon such denial, the secretary shall enter an order in accordance with recommendations of the board. If the respondent orders and pays for a transcript of the record within the time for filing a motion for rehearing, the 20-day period within which a motion may be filed shall commence upon the delivery of the transcript to the respondent.

History: 1972, Act 295, Eff. Mar. 30, 1973
Mich. Comp. Laws § 330.1304 — MI Code / Chapter 330 / Act Act-258-of-1974 / Section 330.1304
Meaning of “net cost” in MCL 330.1302.
Status: in_force

Sec. 304.

For the purpose of section 302, net cost means: the operating cost of providing the service to the individual minus that part of operating cost paid for by federal and private funds and minus that amount received by the state as reimbursement from those persons and insurers who are financially liable for the cost of such service.

History: 1974, Act 258, Eff. Aug. 6, 1975
Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.1815 — MI Code / Chapter 600 / Act Act-236-of-1961 / Section 600.1815
Capias ad respondendum; abolishment.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1815.

The writ of capias ad respondendum is abolished and no civil actions shall be started by arrest.

History: 1961, Act 236, Eff. Jan. 1, 1963
Mich. Comp. Laws § 446.26 — MI Code / Chapter 446 / Act R-S-of-1846 / Section 446.26
Auctioneers; bond, delivery to county treasurer.
Status: in_force

Sec. 26.

Any citizen of this state may become an auctioneer within the county in which he resides, on executing and delivering to the treasurer of such county, a bond in the penal sum of 2,500 dollars, with 2 or more sufficient sureties to be approved by such treasurer, conditioned for the payment to such treasurer, of all auction duties upon goods or property which may be sold by him, according to law.

History: R.S. 1846, Ch. 21; CL 1857, 973; CL 1871, 1158; How. 1267; CL 1897, 5332; CL 1915, 7021; CL 1929, 9669; CL 1948, 446.26
Mich. Comp. Laws § 441.108 — MI Code / Chapter 441 / Act Act-239-of-1959 / Section 441.108
Fiduciary security transfers; territorial application.
Status: in_force

Sec. 8.

The rights and duties of a corporation and its transfer agents in registering a security in the name of a fiduciary or in making a transfer of a security pursuant to an assignment by a fiduciary are governed by the law of the jurisdiction under whose laws the corporation is organized.

This act applies to the rights and duties of a person other than the corporation and its transfer agents with regard to acts and omissions in this state in connection with the acquisition, disposition, assignment or transfer of a security by or to a fiduciary and of a person who guarantees in this state the signature of a fiduciary in connection with such a transaction.

History: 1959, Act 239, Eff. Mar. 19, 1960
Mich. Comp. Laws § 257.20b — MI Code / Chapter 257 / Act Act-300-of-1949 / Section 257.20b
"High-occupancy vehicle" or "HOV" defined.
Status: in_force

Sec. 20b.

"High-occupancy vehicle" or "HOV" means any motor vehicle carrying no fewer than 2 occupants including the driver of the vehicle.

History: Add. 2008, Act 304, Imd. Eff. Dec. 9, 2008
Mich. Comp. Laws § 450.2231 — MI Code / Chapter 450 / Act Act-162-of-1982 / Section 450.2231
Bylaws; adoption; amendment or repeal; contents.
Status: in_force

Sec. 231.

Except if the power to adopt, amend, or repeal the bylaws is reserved exclusively to the corporation's shareholders, its members, or its board in the articles of incorporation:

The initial bylaws of a corporation shall be adopted by its incorporators, its shareholders, its members, or its board.

The shareholders, the members, or the board may amend or repeal the bylaws or adopt new bylaws.

The shareholders or members may prescribe in the bylaws that any bylaw adopted by them shall not be amended or repealed by the board.

The bylaws may contain any provision for the regulation and management of the affairs of the corporation not inconsistent with law or the articles of incorporation.

History: 1982, Act 162, Eff. Jan. 1, 1983
Mich. Comp. Laws § 750.543x — MI Code / Chapter 750 / Act Act-328-of-1931 / Section 750.543x
Restitution; reimbursement.
Status: in_force

Sec. 543x.

The court shall order a person who violates this chapter to make restitution to any victim in the manner provided in section 16, 44, or 76 of the crime victim's rights act, 1985 PA 87, MCL 780.766, 780.794, and 780.826, and to reimburse any governmental entity for its expenses incurred as a result of the violation, in the manner provided in section 1f of chapter IX of the code of criminal procedure, 1927 PA 175, MCL 769.1f.

History: Add. 2002, Act 141, Eff. Apr. 22, 2002