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Mich. Comp. Laws § 500.1930 — MI Code / Chapter 500 / Act Act-218-of-1956 / Section 500.1930
Association of licensees; registration; purposes; required filings by association; reasons for refusal to register association; reasons for suspension or revocation of registration; denial of membership.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1930.

Licensees may associate and the commissioner may register an association for 1 or more of the following purposes:

Advising the commissioner as to the availability of surplus lines coverage and market practices and standards for surplus lines insurers and licensees.

Collecting and furnishing records, statistics, and accounts.

Submitting recommendations regarding administration of this chapter.

Each association shall file with the commissioner, for approval, all of the following:

A copy of the association's constitution and articles of agreement or association, or the association's certificate of incorporation and bylaws, and any rules or regulations governing the association's activities.

An agreement that, as a condition of continued registration under subsection (1), the commissioner may examine the association.

Each association shall file with the commissioner and keep current all of the following:

A list of members.

The name and address of a resident of this state upon whom notices or orders of the commissioner or process issued by the commissioner may be served.

The commissioner may refuse to register, or may suspend or revoke the registration of, an association for any of the following reasons:

It reasonably appears that the association will not be able to carry out the purposes of this chapter.

The association fails to maintain and enforce rules which can reasonably be anticipated to assure that members of the association and persons associated with those members comply with this chapter, other applicable chapters of this code, and rules promulgated under either.

The rules of the association do not assure a fair representation of its members in the selection of directors and in the administration of its affairs.

The rules of the association do not provide for an equitable allocation of reasonable dues, fees, and other charges among members.

The rules of the association impose a burden on competition not necessary or appropriate to the purposes of this chapter.

The association fails to meet other applicable requirements prescribed in this chapter.

An association shall deny membership to any person who is not a licensee.

History: Add. 1980, Act 341, Eff. June 23, 1981
Mich. Comp. Laws § 257.619 — MI Code / Chapter 257 / Act Act-300-of-1949 / Section 257.619
Accidents; duties of driver.
Status: in_force

Sec. 619.

The driver of a vehicle who knows or who has reason to believe that he or she has been involved in an accident with an individual or with another vehicle that is operated or attended by another individual shall do all of the following:

(a) Give his or her name and address, and the registration number of the vehicle he or she is operating, including the name and address of the owner, to a police officer, the individual struck, or the driver or occupants of the vehicle with which he or she has collided.

(b) Exhibit his or her operator's or chauffeur's license to a police officer, individual struck, or the driver or occupants of the vehicle with which he or she has collided.

(c) Render to any individual injured in the accident reasonable assistance in securing medical aid or arrange for or provide transportation to any injured individual.

History: 1949, Act 300, Eff. Sept. 23, 1949; Am. 1958, Act 35, Eff. Sept. 13, 1958; Am. 1999, Act 73, Eff. Oct. 1, 1999; Am. 2005, Act 3, Imd. Eff. Apr. 1, 2005
Mich. Comp. Laws § 18.1495 — MI Code / Chapter 18 / Act Act-431-of-1984 / Section 18.1495
Report on state's current financial situation; publish; contents required.
Status: in_force

Sec. 495.

(1) Within 9 months after the end of the fiscal year, the state budget director shall publish on the internet a report that communicates the state's current financial situation in an easy-to-understand report.

(2) At a minimum, the report will contain information on no less than the most recent 5 years of data for each of the following:

(a) Total state revenues and expenditures.

(b) Total general fund/general purpose revenues and expenditures.

(c) Total school aid fund revenues and expenditures.

(d) The unrestricted fund balance for the general fund and school aid fund.

(e) Total outstanding state debt by major type.

(f) Total unfunded pension and other postemployment benefit obligations for each of the following retirement systems:

( i ) The state employees' retirement act, 1943 PA 240, MCL 38.1 to 38.69.

( ii ) The public school employees retirement act of 1979, 1980 PA 300, MCL 38.1301 to 38.1437.

( iii ) The judges retirement act of 1992, 1992 PA 234, MCL 38.2101 to 38.2670.

( iv ) The state police retirement act of 1986, 1986 PA 182, MCL 38.1601 to 38.1648.

( v ) The Michigan legislative retirement system act, 1957 PA 261, MCL 38.1001 to 38.1080.

(g) Total revenues by major source, including taxes and federal grants.

(h) Total expenditures by major spending category.

(i) The number of state employees by department.

(j) Basic economic information for this state, including per-capita income, nonfarm payroll employment, and the unemployment rate.

History: Add. 2018, Act 389, Imd. Eff. Dec. 19, 2018
Mich. Comp. Laws § 451.2405 — MI Code / Chapter 451 / Act Act-551-of-2008 / Section 451.2405
Federal covered investment adviser; filing requirements; exceptions; notice; effectiveness of filing.
Status: in_force

Sec. 405.

(1) Except with respect to a federal covered investment adviser described in subsection (2), a federal covered investment adviser shall not transact business in this state as a federal covered investment adviser unless the federal covered investment adviser complies with subsection (3).

(2) The following federal covered investment advisers are not required to comply with subsection (3):

(a) A federal covered investment adviser without a place of business in this state if its only clients in this state are any of the following:

( i ) Federal covered investment advisers, investment advisers registered under this act, and broker-dealers registered under this act.

( ii ) Institutional investors.

( iii ) Bona fide preexisting clients whose principal places of residence are not in this state.

( iv ) Other clients specified by rule or order under this act.

(b) A federal covered investment adviser that does not have a place of business in this state if the federal covered investment adviser has had, during the preceding 12 months, not more than 5 clients that are residents of this state in addition to those specified under subdivision (a).

(c) Any other person excluded by rule or order under this act.

(3) A person acting as a federal covered investment adviser, not excluded under subsection (2), shall file a notice, a consent to service of process complying with section 611, and those records that have been filed with the securities and exchange commission under the investment advisers act of 1940 that are required by rule or order under this act and pay the fees specified in section 410(5).

(4) A notice under subsection (3) is effective on filing.

History: 2008, Act 551, Eff. Oct. 1, 2009
Mich. Comp. Laws § 570.188 — MI Code / Chapter 570 / Act R-S-of-1846 / Section 570.188
Suit for recovery of charges; commencement; jurisdiction.
Status: in_force

Sec. 38.

The person having such lien may commence a suit for the recovery of such charges in a court of competent jurisdiction against the person liable for the payment thereof.

History: R.S. 1846, Ch. 126; CL 1857, 5105; CL 1871, 6826; How. 8402; CL 1897, 10749; CL 1915, 14834; CL 1929, 13189; CL 1948, 570.188; Am. 1991, Act 159, Imd. Eff. Dec. 9, 1991
Mich. Comp. Laws § 457.510 — MI Code / Chapter 457 / Act Act-83-of-1887 / Section 457.510
Incorporated grand or subordinate lodge; surrendering corporate rights, powers, and liabilities; filing certificate with department of commerce; re-incorporation.
Status: in_force

Sec. 10.

Any grand or subordinate lodge which shall have been incorporated before this act takes effect as a law, under the provisions of former Act No. 104 of 1869, may by a vote of the members of such lodge at any regular meeting thereof, surrender its corporate rights, powers and liabilities, but such surrender shall not in any manner affect any suits which may be pending, or any rights which any person may have acquired by virtue of such incorporation; but before such surrender shall be valid, a certificate of the proper officers, under the seal of such lodge, shall be filed with the corporation and securities bureau of the department of commerce, certifying that such lodge has voted to surrender its corporate rights; and any such lodge having so surrendered its corporate rights may be again incorporated, in conformity with the provisions of this act: Provided, That all members of the corporate body that has surrendered its corporate rights shall, by virtue of such re-incorporation, and the payment of the first beneficiary assessment made by the re-incorporated body be entitled to all the rights and benefits flowing therefrom, and the beneficiary certificates held by them shall be treated and considered by the re-incorporated body as of its own issuance, and shall be, so far as the member is concerned, of the same force and effect as if issued by the re-incorporated body.

History: 1887, Act 83, Imd. Eff. Apr. 22, 1887; How. 4577z-7; CL 1897, 8056; CL 1915, 10529; CL 1929, 10734; CL 1948, 457.510; Am. 1982, Act 88, Imd. Eff. Apr. 19, 1982
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.572 — MI Code / Chapter 280 / Act Act-40-of-1956 / Section 280.572
Advancements by corporations; reimbursement.
Status: in_force

Sec. 572.

Public corporations may advance funds for the payment of any part of the cost of a project hereunder and shall be repaid by the district when funds are available therefor. The board is hereby authorized to assess preliminary costs in an equitable manner prior to the issuance of bonds, against public corporations within the district, to be assessed and collected as provided in section 567 of this act: Provided, That the percentage of such costs to be assessed against such public corporations shall be approved by the commission.

History: 1956, Act 40, Imd. Eff. Mar. 28, 1956
Mich. Comp. Laws § 777.57 — MI Code / Chapter 760 / Act Act-175-of-1927 / Section 777.57
Subsequent or concurrent felony convictions.
Status: in_force

Sec. 57.

(1) Prior record variable 7 is subsequent or concurrent felony convictions. Score prior record variable 7 by determining which of the following apply and by assigning the number of points attributable to the one that has the highest number of points:

(a) The offender has 2 or more subsequent or concurrent convictions 20 points (b) The offender has 1 subsequent or concurrent conviction 10 points (c) The offender has no subsequent or concurrent convictions 0 points

(a) The offender has 2 or more subsequent or concurrent convictions

20 points

(b) The offender has 1 subsequent or concurrent conviction

10 points

(c) The offender has no subsequent or concurrent convictions

0 points

(2) All of the following apply to scoring record variable 7:

(a) Score the appropriate point value if the offender was convicted of multiple felony counts or was convicted of a felony after the sentencing offense was committed.

(b) Do not score a felony firearm conviction in this variable.

(c) Do not score a concurrent felony conviction if a mandatory consecutive sentence or a consecutive sentence imposed under section 7401(3) of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333.7401, will result from that conviction.

History: Add. 1998, Act 317, Eff. Dec. 15, 1998; Am. 1999, Act 227, Imd. Eff. Dec. 28, 1999; Am. 2002, Act 666, Eff. Mar. 1, 2003
Mich. Comp. Laws § 408.1014h — MI Code / Chapter 408 / Act Act-154-of-1974 / Section 408.1014h
Employer engaged in construction operations.
Status: in_force

Sec. 14h.

An employer engaged in construction operations may satisfy the requirements of the standard incorporated in section 14a and sections 14b to 14 l that a safety data sheet be maintained for each hazardous chemical in the workplace by maintaining safety data sheets in 1 or more central locations at a jobsite.

History: Add. 1986, Act 80, Imd. Eff. Apr. 7, 1986; Am. 2012, Act 447, Imd. Eff. Dec. 27, 2012
Mich. Comp. Laws § 700.1308 — MI Code / Chapter 700 / Act Act-386-of-1998 / Section 700.1308
Breach of duty; remedies; order for accounting.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1308.

(1) A violation by a fiduciary of a duty the fiduciary owes to an heir, devisee, beneficiary, protected individual, or ward for whom the person is a fiduciary is a breach of duty. To remedy a breach of duty that has occurred or may occur, the court may do any of the following:

(a) Compel the fiduciary to perform the fiduciary's duties.

(b) Enjoin the fiduciary from committing a breach of duty.

(c) Compel the fiduciary to redress a breach of duty by paying money, restoring property, or other means.

(d) Order a fiduciary to account.

(e) Appoint a special fiduciary to take possession of the estate's, ward's, protected individual's, or trust property and administer the property.

(f) Suspend the fiduciary.

(g) Remove the fiduciary as provided in this act.

(h) For a fiduciary otherwise entitled to compensation, reduce or deny compensation to the fiduciary.

(i) Subject to other provisions of this act protecting persons dealing with a fiduciary, void an act of the fiduciary, impose a lien or a constructive trust on property, or trace property wrongfully disposed of and recover the property or its proceeds.

(2) In response to an interested person's petition or on its own motion, the court may at any time order a fiduciary of an estate under its jurisdiction to file an accounting. After due hearing on the accounting, the court shall enter an order that agrees with the law and the facts of the case.

History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000; Am. 2009, Act 46, Eff. Apr. 1, 2010
Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.8803 — MI Code / Chapter 600 / Act Act-236-of-1961 / Section 600.8803
State civil infraction; commencement of action; state as plaintiff; jurisdiction; time; place; venue; rights of minor.
Status: in_force

Sec. 8803.

A state civil infraction action is commenced upon the issuance of a citation as provided in section 8807. The plaintiff in a state civil infraction action is the state.

The district court and any municipal court have exclusive jurisdiction over state civil infraction actions.

The time specified in a citation for appearance shall be within a reasonable time after the citation is issued pursuant to section 8807.

The place specified in the citation for appearance shall be the court referred to in subsection (2) that has territorial jurisdiction of the place where the state civil infraction occurred. Venue in the district court is governed by section 8312.

If the person cited is a minor, that individual shall be permitted to appear in court or to admit responsibility for a state civil infraction without the necessity of appointment of a guardian or next friend. The courts listed in subsection (2) shall have jurisdiction over the minor and may proceed in the same manner and in all respects as if that individual were an adult.

History: Add. 1995, Act 54, Eff. Jan. 1, 1996
Mich. Comp. Laws § 16.554 — MI Code / Chapter 16 / Act Act-380-of-1965 / Section 16.554
Michigan commission on aging; transfer.
Status: in_force

Sec. 454.

The Michigan commission on aging created under section 1 of Act No. 11 of the Public Acts of 1960, being section 400.501 of the Compiled Laws of 1948, is transferred by a type I transfer to the department of social services.

History: 1965, Act 380, Imd. Eff. July 23, 1965
Mich. Comp. Laws § 259.320 — MI Code / Chapter 259 / Act Act-436-of-2016 / Section 259.320
Criminal liability; offense committed with aid of an unmanned aircraft system; exception.
Status: in_force

Sec. 20.

(1) A person is guilty of an offense committed with the aid of an unmanned aircraft system if the unmanned aircraft system is under the person's control and the activity performed with the aid of the unmanned aircraft system would have given rise to criminal liability under the penal law of this state if it was performed directly by the person without the aid of an unmanned aircraft system.

(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), and except as provided in sections 21 and 22 and section 45a(1) of the Michigan penal code, 1931 PA 328, MCL 750.45a, solely flying an unmanned aircraft system through navigable airspace in accordance with federal law does not give rise to criminal liability under the penal law of this state.

History: Add. 2018, Act 444, Eff. Mar. 21, 2019
Mich. Comp. Laws § 445.437 — MI Code / Chapter 445 / Act Act-429-of-2008 / Section 445.437
Private cause of action; damages; "value of the property stolen" defined; costs and attorney fees.
Status: in_force

Sec. 17.

(1) A person may bring a private cause of action against a seller or a scrap metal dealer, in a court of competent jurisdiction, for monetary damages suffered from violation of this act.

(2) If the court in an action described in subsection (1) finds that the violation included the purchase or sale of stolen property and finds that the purchaser in an action against the purchaser, or the seller in an action against the seller, knew or should have known that the property was stolen, the court shall award treble damages for the value of the property stolen. As used in this subsection, "value of the property stolen" means the greatest of the following:

(a) The replacement cost of the stolen property.

(b) The cost of repairing the damage caused by the larceny of the property.

(c) The total of subdivisions (a) and (b).

(3) The court may award costs and reasonable attorney fees in an action brought under subsection (1).

History: 2008, Act 429, Eff. Apr. 1, 2009; Am. 2014, Act 99, Eff. July 1, 2014
Mich. Comp. Laws § 41.333 — MI Code / Chapter 41 / Act Act-107-of-1941 / Section 41.333
Water supply system; payment from contingent fund; limitations; separately financed and operated water supply system; map.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3.

Not more than 75% of the net cost, exclusive of money, materials, and labor that are supplied by a federal agency, of purchasing and laying the mains and fittings of a water supply system shall be paid out of the contingent fund of the township. On resolving to make and install the improvement, the township board shall determine by resolution the net cost and the share of the net cost not exceeding 75% that the contingent fund of the township shall bear. However, no part of the cost of a water supply system acquired or created under sections 1 to 20a shall be levied or collected as a tax or assessment, whether general or special, upon property located in a village or school district or located in a water supply district in the township, including an area of the township served by a water system owned or operated by a city, if the village, school district, or water supply district has a water supply system that was originally acquired and is operated by or for the village, school district, or water supply district without any expense to the township at large. A water supply system, so separately financed and operated, shall not be taken, as to ownership or control, except by due process of law as provided by the general laws of this state. After determining the amount of money to be appropriated at any time from the township's contingent fund for purposes authorized in this section, the township board may set apart from that amount when appropriated a proportionate part of that amount for the benefit of the separately operated water supply system in the same ratio to the whole amount appropriated as the population of the separate district bears to the total population of the township, as determined by the board. This proportionate part shall be applied for the betterment of the separate water supply system as and when authorized by the board. The township board shall prepare and keep on file a map defining the boundaries of a water supply district served by the separately financed and operated water supply system separate from a township water system.

History: 1941, Act 107, Imd. Eff. May 20, 1941; CL 1948, 41.333; Am. 1949, Act 10, Imd. Eff. Mar. 8, 1949; Am. 1949, Act 118, Eff. Sept. 23, 1949; Am. 1951, Act 201, Imd. Eff. June 14, 1951; Am. 1989, Act 83, Imd. Eff. June 20, 1989
Mich. Comp. Laws § 338.3203 — MI Code / Chapter 338 / Act Act-135-of-1986 / Section 338.3203
Duties of board; special meetings; quorum; conducting business at public meeting; notice of meeting; availability of documents to public.
Status: in_force

Sec. 203.

The board shall do all of the following:

Organize and make rules governing the board's formal and informal procedures.

Meet not less than quarterly each year.

Keep a record of the proceedings and functions.

A special meeting of the board may be called by the chairperson and shall be called upon receipt of a written request signed by 2 or more members of the board. Four members of the board constitute a quorum to conduct business.

The business which the board may perform shall be conducted at a public meeting of the board held in compliance with the open meetings act, Act No. 267 of the Public Acts of 1976, being sections 15.261 to 15.275 of the Michigan Compiled Laws. Public notice of the time, date, and place of the meeting shall be given in the manner required by Act No. 267 of the Public Acts of 1976.

A written document prepared, used, in the possession of, or retained by the board in the performance of an official function shall be made available to the public in compliance with the freedom of information act, Act No. 442 of the Public Acts of 1976, being sections 15.231 to 15.246 of the Michigan Compiled Laws.

History: 1986, Act 135, Eff. July 2, 1986
Mich. Comp. Laws § 211.393 — MI Code / Chapter 211 / Act Act-292-of-1931 / Section 211.393
Delinquent drain taxes or highway assessments; installments; remittance of accrued interest and penalties; interest.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3.

If any part or parts of the drain taxes or highway assessments have become delinquent, and if the county has advanced money for the payment of the bonds by reason of the delinquency, or if refunding bonds have been issued to extend the time of payment of the bonds, the board of commissioners may, by resolution, at any time before the sale of land for the drain taxes or highway assessments only, or, if the lands shall have been bid off to the state at a tax sale for the drain taxes or highway assessments only, at any time before the lands shall have been deeded by the state treasurer, extend the time of payment of the delinquent taxes or assessments and divide the same into any number of installments not exceeding the number of the original installments, and may remit all or any part of the accrued interest and penalties. One of the installments shall be levied and collected on the general tax roll for each year following the last installment of the original drain tax or highway assessment of the same district, and interest thereon at 6 per cent from the date of the extension shall be included each year in the amount of the original or extended installment of the tax or assessment to be collected.

History: 1931, Act 292, Imd. Eff. June 8, 1931; Am. 1932, 1st Ex. Sess., Act 27, Imd. Eff. May 10, 1932; CL 1948, 211.393; Am. 2002, Act 349, Imd. Eff. May 23, 2002