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Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.63703 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.63703
Great Lakes sand dune areas; comprehensive study and inventory.
Status: in_force

Sec. 63703.

The department, by July 1, 1977, shall make or cause to be made a comprehensive study and inventory of Great Lakes sand dune areas in the state. The study and inventory shall include all of the following:

An economic study of the current and projected sand dune mining practices in the state, showing where the sand is marketed, its uses, and the amount of sand reserves.

A geologic study of sand areas within this state, other than Great Lakes sand dune areas, that would contain sufficient reserves and have properties suitable for use as foundry core and molding sands or for other uses of sand.

Sand dune areas or portions of sand dune areas that, for environmental or other reasons, should be protected through purchase by the state or other persons or interests, or easements including the acquisition of mineral rights by the state, and a priority list of sand dune areas to be acquired by the department.

An identification and designation of barrier dunes along the shoreline, showing their effect on aesthetic, environmental, economic, industrial, and agricultural interests in this state.

Methods for recycling or reusing sand for industrial and commercial purposes, along with alternatives to the use of dune sand and its economic impact.

Recommendations for the protection and management of sand dune areas for uses other than sand mining.

History: Add. 1995, Act 57, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1995
Mich. Comp. Laws § Article VI § 1 — MI Code / Chapter 1 / Act CONSTITUTION-OF-MICHIGAN-OF-1963 / Section Article VI § 1
Judicial power in court of justice; divisions.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

Except to the extent limited or abrogated by article IV, section 6, or article V, section 2, the judicial power of the state is vested exclusively in one court of justice which shall be divided into one supreme court, one court of appeals, one trial court of general jurisdiction known as the circuit court, one probate court, and courts of limited jurisdiction that the legislature may establish by a two-thirds vote of the members elected to and serving in each house.

History: Const. 1963, Art. VI, § 1, Eff. Jan. 1, 1964; Am. Initiated Law, approved Nov. 6, 2018, Eff. Dec. 22, 2018
Mich. Comp. Laws § 380.1363 — MI Code / Chapter 380 / Act Act-451-of-1976 / Section 380.1363
School districts subject to revised municipal finance act; handling moneys received to discharge indebtedness.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1363.

Money raised by taxes or otherwise received by a school district for the purpose of paying and discharging the principal and interest of the indebtedness is subject to the revised municipal finance act, 2001 PA 34, MCL 141.2101 to 141.2821.

History: 1976, Act 451, Imd. Eff. Jan. 13, 1977; Am. 2002, Act 69, Imd. Eff. Mar. 15, 2002
Mich. Comp. Laws § 750.539i — MI Code / Chapter 750 / Act Act-328-of-1931 / Section 750.539i
Proof of installation of device as prima facie evidence of violation.
Status: in_force

Sec. 539i.

In any criminal or civil action, proof of the installation in any private place of any device which may be used for the purposes of violating the provisions of this act shall be prima facie evidence of a violation of section 539d.

History: Add. 1966, Act 319, Eff. Mar. 10, 1967
Mich. Comp. Laws § 28.517 — MI Code / Chapter 28 / Act Act-537-of-2008 / Section 28.517
Issuance of certificate; carrying certificate and driver license or Michigan personal identification card; disclosure to peace officer; forfeiture upon notice of revocation; violation; penalties.
Status: in_force

Sec. 7.

(1) The commission or its agent shall issue a certificate to a qualified retired law enforcement officer who has complied with the active duty firearms standard and is eligible to carry a concealed firearm under 18 USC 926C and this act.

(2) A certificate holder shall carry the certificate and a valid driver license or Michigan personal identification card on his or her person at all times while in possession of a concealed firearm and shall produce the documents upon demand by a peace officer.

(3) A certificate holder who is carrying a concealed firearm and who is stopped by a peace officer shall immediately disclose to the peace officer that he or she is carrying a concealed firearm on his or her person or is transporting a firearm in his or her vehicle.

(4) Upon notice of revocation, a certificate holder is required to forfeit his or her certificate to the commission by returning the certificate in person to the commission or returning the certificate by certified mail.

(5) A violation of this section subjects the certificate holder to the penalties provided in section 5f of 1927 PA 372, MCL 28.425f, including forfeiture of the firearm.

History: 2008, Act 537, Eff. Mar. 31, 2009
Mich. Comp. Laws § 230.6 — MI Code / Chapter 220 / Act Act-283-of-1909 / Section 230.6
Trees or shrubs; wilful destruction or injury; civil liability.
Status: in_force

Sec. 6.

Any person who shall wilfully injure, deface, tear, or destroy any tree or shrub planted along the margin of the highway, or purposely left there for shade or ornament, or who shall hitch any horse to any such tree, by means of which the same shall suffer injury, or who shall negligently or carelessly, by any other means, suffer any horse or other beast driven by or for him, or any beast belonging to him and lawfully in the highway, to break down, destroy, or injure any tree or shrub not his own, standing for use or ornament in any highway, shall be liable to an action for damages in a sum not less than 1 nor more than 25 dollars for each offense, to be recovered at the suit and for the benefit of the owner or tenant of the land in front of which such tree or shrub stands, or at the suit of the commissioner in whose township such tree or shrub may be situated, for the benefit of the highway improvement fund of such township.

History: 1909, Act 283, Eff. Sept. 1, 1909; CL 1915, 4463; CL 1929, 4082; CL 1948, 230.6
Mich. Comp. Laws § 286.434 — MI Code / Chapter 286 / Act Act-111-of-2018 / Section 286.434
Actions by state treasurer; approval of legal form of documents by attorney general; duties of qualified institution; forwarding and destruction of affidavits; program as valid public purpose.
Status: in_force

Sec. 4.

(1) The state treasurer may take any necessary action to ensure the successful operation of the program, including, but not limited to, entering into agreements with qualified financial institutions related to the operation of the program and the issuance of qualified agricultural loans.

(2) The attorney general shall approve, as to legal form, all documents relating to the payment of a loan origination fee by this state.

(3) Each qualified financial institution participating in the program shall do both of the following:

(a) Report to the state treasurer the principal amount of loans made under the program by June 30, 2020 and June 30 for each year after any subsequent appropriation.

(b) File an affidavit with the state treasurer signed by a senior executive officer of the qualified financial institution stating that the qualified financial institution is in compliance with the program and this act.

(4) Upon request by the state treasurer, a qualified financial institution shall forward a copy of any affidavits executed by a person receiving a loan under this act to the state treasurer. The qualified financial institution and the state treasurer shall destroy the affidavit or its copy after the qualified agricultural loan is repaid.

(5) The program is found and declared to be for a valid public purpose.

History: 2018, Act 111, Imd. Eff. Apr. 25, 2018; Am. 2020, Act 52, Imd. Eff. Mar. 3, 2020
Mich. Comp. Laws § 123.361 — MI Code / Chapter 123 / Act Act-266-of-1951 / Section 123.361
Garbage disposal act; short title.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

This act shall be known and may be cited as "the garbage disposal act."

History: 1951, Act 266, Eff. Sept. 28, 1951
Mich. Comp. Laws § 38.82 — MI Code / Chapter 38 / Act Act-4-of-1937-Ex-Sess- / Section 38.82
Probationary period.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

A teacher shall not be required to serve more than 1 probationary period in any 1 school district or institution.

History: 1937, Ex. Sess., Act 4, Eff. Sept. 1, 1937; CL 1948, 38.82; Am. 1993, Act 59, Imd. Eff. June 11, 1993; Am. 2011, Act 101, Imd. Eff. July 19, 2011
Mich. Comp. Laws § 41.335a — MI Code / Chapter 41 / Act Act-107-of-1941 / Section 41.335a
Township water board; establishment; powers; loans from private parties; retirement of loans.
Status: in_force

Sec. 5a.

The township board may include, in its plan under section 5, rules and regulations for the establishment of a township water board and for loans to the water board from private parties of money necessary to aid in the financing of the project petitioned for under section 1. The loans shall be retired only out of excess money as defined in section 9 and other direct revenues, if any, to be derived from the project. A water board established in accordance with this section shall exercise under direction of the township board all of the powers of maintenance and control that are granted by sections 1 to 20a to the township board.

History: Add. 1949, Act 10, Imd. Eff. Mar. 8, 1949; Am. 1989, Act 83, Imd. Eff. June 20, 1989
Mich. Comp. Laws § 32.1014 — MI Code / Chapter 32 / Act Act-523-of-1980 / Section 32.1014
Trial by court-martial limited to certain violations; delivery of person subject to code to civil authority for trial; conviction in civil tribunal; return to military custody for completion of sentence of court-martial.
Status: in_force

Sec. 14.

(1) It is the intent of the legislature that trial by court-martial be limited to the violations defined in article 10.

(2) A person subject to this code who is on active state duty and who is accused of a criminal offense against civil authority shall be delivered, upon request, to the civil authority for trial.

(3) If delivery is made to a civil authority of a person undergoing sentence of a court-martial and the delivery, if followed by conviction in a civil tribunal, interrupts the execution of the sentence of the court-martial, the offender, after having answered to the civil authorities for the offense and upon the request of competent military authority, shall be returned to military custody for the completion of his or her sentence.

History: 1980, Act 523, Eff. Mar. 31, 1981; Am. 2005, Act 186, Imd. Eff. Oct. 27, 2005
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.32313 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.32313
Use and management plan; contents; hearings; submission of plan copies to governor and legislature.
Status: in_force

Sec. 32313.

By October 1, 1972, the department shall, in compliance with the purposes of this part, prepare a plan for the use and management of shoreland. The plan shall include but not be limited to all of the following:

An inventory and identification of the use and development characteristics of the shoreland; the general physical and man-influenced shoreline features; the existing and proposed municipal and industrial water intakes and sewage and industrial waste outfalls; and high-risk areas and environmental areas.

An inventory of existing federal, state, regional, and local plans for the management of the shorelands.

An identification of problems associated with shoreland use, development, conservation, and protection.

A provision for a continuing inventory of shoreland and estuarine resources.

Provisions for further studies and research pertaining to shoreland management.

Identification of the high-risk and environmental areas that need protection.

Recommendations that do all of the following:

Provide procedures for the resolution of conflicts arising from multiple use.

Foster the widest variety of beneficial uses.

Provide for the necessary enforcement powers to assure compliance with plans and to resolve conflicts in uses.

Provide criteria for the protection of shorelands from erosion or inundation, for aquatic recreation, for shore growth and cover, for low-lying lands, and for fish and game management.

Provide criteria for shoreland layout for residential, industrial, and commercial development, and shoreline alteration control.

Provide for building setbacks from the water.

Provide for the prevention of shoreland littering, blight harbor development, and pollution.

Provide for the regulation of mineral exploration and production.

Provide the basis for necessary future legislation pertaining to efficient shoreland management.

Upon completion of the plan, the department shall hold regional public hearings on the recommendations of the plan. Copies of the plan shall be submitted with the hearing records to the governor and the legislature.

History: Add. 1995, Act 59, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1995
Mich. Comp. Laws § 287.669 — MI Code / Chapter 287 / Act Act-239-of-1982 / Section 287.669
Inspection of facility, vehicle, and composting; suspension or revocation of license; hearings; alternative methods authorized by director; operation under common ownership or management; report of increase in mortality.
Status: in_force

Sec. 19.

(1) The director may inspect each facility and vehicle licensed under this act, and each location where composting of dead animals occurs as often as necessary to maintain the standards adopted in this act or in the rules promulgated under this act.

(2) The director may suspend or revoke a license issued under this act if a licensee violates this act or the rules promulgated under this act. The director shall conduct suspension or revocation administrative hearings pursuant to the administrative procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24.201 to 24.328.

(3) The director may authorize by rule alternative methods of composting of dead animals for emergency, commercial, research, or other applications.

(4) Dead animals resulting from normal natural daily mortality intrinsic to an animal operation under common ownership or management may be composted together if the methods comply with the requirements of this act and all rules applicable to those methods as promulgated under section 15.

(5) Composting methods shall be used to compost only the normal natural daily mortality associated with a animal production unit under common ownership or management. Any increase in normal natural daily mortality, due to any cause known or unknown, shall be reported to the director immediately, and any dead animals resulting from that increase in normal natural daily mortality shall not be composted without permission of the director.

History: 1982, Act 239, Eff. Oct. 1, 1982; Am. 1993, Act 228, Eff. Feb. 4, 1994; Am. 1998, Act 299, Imd. Eff. July 28, 1998; Am. 2005, Act 66, Imd. Eff. July 7, 2005
Mich. Comp. Laws § 500.8220 — MI Code / Chapter 500 / Act Act-218-of-1956 / Section 500.8220
Reorganization; special meeting; notice; approval; required vote; proxies.
Status: in_force

Sec. 8220.

A notice of said special meeting, in the form approved by the commissioner, shall be given in accordance with the requirement of the bylaws of such society. When so submitted, a majority vote of the supreme governing body present and voting, as authorized by its articles of incorporation and bylaws, shall be necessary to an approval of such plan of transformation; and no proxies shall in any case be voted.

History: 1956, Act 218, Eff. Jan. 1, 1957
Mich. Comp. Laws § 70.1 — MI Code / Chapter 61 / Act Act-3-of-1895 / Section 70.1
Ordinances and regulations; fire department and fire companies; fire fighters; rules and regulations.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

The council may adopt ordinances and regulations to protect against fires and may establish and maintain a fire department and organize and maintain fire companies. Unless otherwise provided in an ordinance adopted under section 8 of chapter V that delegates the authority to the fire chief, the council may employ and appoint fire fighters; and make and establish rules and regulations for the government of the department, the employees, fire fighters, and officers of the department; and for the care and management of the vehicles, equipment, property, and buildings of the department. Fire fighters shall comply with the fire fighters training council act of 1966, 1966 PA 291, MCL 29.361 to 29.377.

History: 1895, Act 3, Imd. Eff. Feb. 19, 1895; CL 1897, 2878; CL 1915, 2752; CL 1929, 1661; CL 1948, 70.1; Am. 1985, Act 173, Imd. Eff. Dec. 2, 1985; Am. 1998, Act 254, Imd. Eff. July 13, 1998
Mich. Comp. Laws § 418.205 — MI Code / Chapter 418 / Act Act-317-of-1969 / Section 418.205
Powers and duties of director.
Status: in_force

Sec. 205.

The director shall devote his or her entire time to and personally perform the duties of his or her office and shall engage in no other business or professional activity. He or she may make rules not inconsistent with this act for carrying out the provisions of the act in accordance with the administrative procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24.201 to 24.328. He or she shall appoint assistants and employees as necessary, who are entitled to necessary travel expenses incurred in performing official duties subject to the standardized travel regulations of this state, and compensation in accordance with applicable civil service rules. He or she has general supervisory control of the agency and all its officers and employees. He or she has charge of assigning the work of the agency to the assistants and employees. Cases involving a carrier terminating the voluntary payment of benefits and cases involving a petition to stop or reduce compensation shall be held within 60 days and take precedence over other cases. The director may provide assistance to employers and employees in resolving small disputes. He or she has general charge of all administrative functions of the agency and may delegate the duties, administrative functions, and the authority incident to those duties and functions.

History: 1969, Act 317, Eff. Dec. 31, 1969; Am. 1980, Act 357, Eff. Jan. 1, 1981; Am. 1985, Act 103, Imd. Eff. July 30, 1985; Am. 2011, Act 266, Imd. Eff. Dec. 19, 2011
Mich. Comp. Laws § 252.210 — MI Code / Chapter 252 / Act Act-219-of-1966 / Section 252.210
Control of junkyards; agreement with United States secretary of commerce.
Status: in_force

Sec. 10.

The state highway department is authorized to enter into agreements with the United States secretary of commerce as provided by title 23 of the United States code, relating to the control of junkyards in areas adjacent to the interstate and primary systems, and to take action in the name of the state to comply with the terms of such agreement.

History: 1966, Act 219, Imd. Eff. July 11, 1966
Mich. Comp. Laws § 125.1449d — MI Code / Chapter 125 / Act Act-346-of-1966 / Section 125.1449d
Sale of premises at public sale; hours; location; appointed person; highest bidder.
Status: in_force

Sec. 49d.

The sale shall be at public sale, between the hours of 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., at the place of holding the circuit court for the county in which the premises to be sold, or some part of them, are situated, and shall be made by the person appointed for that purpose in the mortgage, or by the sheriff, undersheriff, or a deputy sheriff of the county, to the highest bidder.

History: Add. 1981, Act 173, Imd. Eff. Dec. 10, 1981
Mich. Comp. Laws § 38.1214 — MI Code / Chapter 38 / Act Act-149-of-1999 / Section 38.1214
Investment fiduciary; duties.
Status: in_force

Sec. 4.

An investment fiduciary shall invest the assets of the fund in accordance with an investment policy adopted by the governing body of a public corporation and that complies with section 13 of the public employee retirement system investment act, 1965 PA 314, MCL 38.1133. However, the investment fiduciary shall discharge his or her duties solely in the interest of the public corporation. The public corporation may invest the fund's assets in the investment instruments and subject to the investment limitations governing the investment of assets of public employee retirement systems under the public employee retirement system investment act, 1965 PA 314, MCL 38.1132 to 38.1140.

History: 1999, Act 149, Imd. Eff. Nov. 1, 1999
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.80310 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.80310
Certificate of title; uniform method of numbering; indexes; destruction by secretary of state; furnishing information to law enforcement and conservation officers.
Status: in_force

Sec. 80310.

The secretary of state shall prescribe a uniform method of numbering certificates of title, and shall maintain in his or her office indexes for the certificates of title.

The secretary of state may destroy a certificate of title or supporting evidence of a certificate of title covering a watercraft which was on file for 10 years after the date of its filing.

The secretary of state shall furnish information on a title without charge to authorized law enforcement and conservation officers when engaged in official duties.

History: Add. 1995, Act 58, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1995; Am. 1997, Act 102, Imd. Eff. Aug. 7, 1997
Mich. Comp. Laws § 45.582 — MI Code / Chapter 45 / Act Act-186-of-1989 / Section 45.582
Definitions.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

As used in this act:

"Acquire" means acquisition by any method described in section 12 or by any other method permitted by law.

"County" means a county organized under Act No. 139 of the Public Acts of 1973, being sections 45.551 to 45.573 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, except where the context provides otherwise.

"Department of solid waste management" means the department of solid waste management provided for in section 3.

"Governing body" means, for a county, the county board of commissioners; for a city, the council, commission, or other body having legislative powers; for a village, the council, commission board of trustees, or other body having legislative powers; for a general law or charter township, the township board; and for a district or an authority, the body having general governing powers.

"Public corporation" means any county however organized, a city, village, township, charter township, district, or authority existing under the laws of this state.

"Solid waste system" or "system" means all plants, works, instrumentalities, properties, rights, processes, and contracts used or useful in connection with the collection, transportation, recycling, processing, storing, or disposing, by treatment, incineration, or otherwise, of solid waste, or as may be provided in a solid waste management plan or update of a solid waste management plan approved for a county pursuant to part 115 (solid waste management) of the natural resources and environmental protection act, Act No. 451 of the Public Acts of 1994, being sections 324.11501 to 324.11549 of the Michigan Compiled Laws.

"Solid waste" means putrescible and nonputrescible solid wastes, except body wastes, and includes garbage, rubbish, ashes, incinerator ash, incinerator residue, street cleanings, municipal and industrial sludges, commercial and industrial wastes, and any other wastes described in a solid waste management plan or an update of a solid waste management plan approved pursuant to part 115 of Act No. 451 of the Public Acts of 1994, for a county.

"Solid waste management plan" means the solid waste management plan of a county provided for in part 115 of Act No. 451 of the Public Acts of 1994.

History: 1989, Act 186, Imd. Eff. Aug. 24, 1989; Am. 1996, Act 39, Imd. Eff. Feb. 26, 1996
Mich. Comp. Laws § 408.1118 — MI Code / Chapter 408 / Act Act-10-of-2023 / Section 408.1118
Investigations; right to interview.
Status: in_force

Sec. 18.

During the course of an investigation, the commissioner shall have the right to interview employees, supervisors, and others, in private without third parties to ascertain the wages, benefits, classification, or other information relevant to enforcement of this act.

History: 2023, Act 10, Eff. Feb. 13, 2024