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Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.512 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.512
Film production located in state; authorization by director or commission to use property; exception; cooperation with Michigan film office; definitions.
Status: in_force

Sec. 512.

(1) The director may authorize a person engaged in the production of a film in this state to use without charge property owned by or under the control of the department for the purpose of producing a film under terms and conditions established by the director. The economic and other benefits to this state of film production located in this state shall be considered to be the value received by this state in exchange for the use of property under this section.

(2) The director or the commission shall not authorize the use of property owned by or under the control of the department for the production of a film that includes obscene matter or an obscene performance or for a production for which records are required to be maintained with respect to any performer under 18 USC 2257.

(3) The department shall cooperate with the Michigan film office in providing the office with information about potential film locations owned by or under the control of the department and the use of property owned by or under the control of the department.

(4) As used in this section:

(a) "Film" means single media or multimedia entertainment content for distribution or exhibition to the general public by any means and media in any digital media format, film, or videotape, including, but not limited to, a motion picture, a documentary, a television series, a television miniseries, a television special, interstitial television programming, long-form television, interactive television, music videos, interactive games, video games, commercials, internet programming, an internet video, a sound recording, a video, digital animation, or an interactive website.

(b) "Michigan film office" means the Michigan film office created in section 29a of the Michigan strategic fund act, 1984 PA 270, MCL 125.2029a.

(c) "Obscene matter or an obscene performance" means matter described in 1984 PA 343, MCL 752.361 to 752.374.

History: Add. 2008, Act 82, Imd. Eff. Apr. 8, 2008
Mich. Comp. Laws § 125.2708 — MI Code / Chapter 125 / Act Act-127-of-1999 / Section 125.2708
Audit.
Status: in_force

Sec. 8.

Not less than every 2 years, the administrator shall hire an independent auditor to audit the books and accounts of the urban homestead program operated by the administrator. Upon completion, the audit report shall be made available to the public.

History: 1999, Act 127, Imd. Eff. July 23, 1999
Mich. Comp. Laws § 487.3436 — MI Code / Chapter 487 / Act Act-354-of-1996 / Section 487.3436
Automatic teller machine located on premises of casino, casino enterprise, liquor store, or adult entertainment establishment; preventing access to cash benefits from Michigan bridge card; definitions.
Status: in_force

Sec. 436.

(1) A savings bank that owns, operates, or manages an automated teller machine located on the premises of a casino, casino enterprise, liquor store, or adult entertainment establishment shall work with the department of human services to ensure that the automated teller machine does not allow an individual access to cash benefits from a Michigan bridge card.

(2) As used in this section:

(a) "Adult entertainment establishment" means any of the following:

( i ) An on-premises licensee that holds a topless activity permit described in section 916(3) of the Michigan liquor control code of 1998, 1998 PA 58, MCL 436.1916.

( ii ) Any other retail establishment that provides adult-oriented entertainment in which performers disrobe or perform in an unclothed state for entertainment.

(b) "Alcoholic liquor" means that term as defined in section 105 of the Michigan liquor control code of 1998, 1998 PA 58, MCL 436.1105.

(c) Subject to subsection (3), "casino" means that term as defined in section 2 of the Michigan gaming control and revenue act, 1996 IL 1, MCL 432.202.

(d) Subject to subsection (3), "casino enterprise" means that term as defined in section 2 of the Michigan gaming control and revenue act, 1996 IL 1, MCL 432.202.

(e) "Gaming" means that term as defined in section 2 of the Michigan gaming control and revenue act, 1996 IL 1, MCL 432.202.

(f) "Liquor store" means a retailer, as defined in section 111 of the Michigan liquor control code of 1998, 1998 PA 58, MCL 436.1111, that is exclusively or primarily engaged in the sale of alcoholic liquor. The term does not include a retailer that is a retail food store.

(g) "Michigan bridge card" means the card that is used to distribute cash benefits by the department of human services.

(h) "Retail food store" means that term as defined in 7 USC 2012.

(3) As used in this section, the terms casino and casino enterprise do not include any of the following:

(a) A grocery store that sells groceries, including staple foods, and is located in a casino or a casino enterprise.

(b) Any other business establishment that offers gaming that is incidental to the principal purpose of that establishment.

History: Add. 2013, Act 196, Eff. Feb. 1, 2014
Mich. Comp. Laws § 500.6400 — MI Code / Chapter 500 / Act Act-218-of-1956 / Section 500.6400
Scope of chapter.
Status: in_force

Sec. 6400.

This chapter applies only to domestic insurers transacting life, disability, or loss of position insurances, as defined in section 6406, on the cooperative or assessment plan.

Corporations heretofore organized and/or doing business under the provisions of Act No. 339 of the Public Acts of 1937, as amended, shall hereafter be subject to the provisions of this chapter and shall hereafter be classified as insurers doing business under this chapter.

History: 1956, Act 218, Eff. Jan. 1, 1957
Mich. Comp. Laws § 700.2204 — MI Code / Chapter 700 / Act Act-386-of-1998 / Section 700.2204
Actions not preventing election.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2204.

Filing of a petition to admit the will of a deceased spouse, failing to object or consenting to admission of the will to probate, or accepting appointment as a personal representative does not prevent a surviving spouse's election to take against the will.

History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000
Mich. Comp. Laws § 120.114 — MI Code / Chapter 120 / Act Act-639-of-1978 / Section 120.114
Revenue bonds; applicability of revenue bond act; revenue bonds payable solely from revenues or income.
Status: in_force

Sec. 14.

An authority may provide by resolution for the issuance of revenue bonds of the authority for the purpose of providing funds for paying the cost of port facilities, or for paying the cost of an extension, enlargement, or improvement of a project then under the control of the authority. The bonds issued under this section shall mature at a time or times, not exceeding 40 years after their date of issuance, as the authority may provide.

Revenue bonds issued under this section are subject to the revenue bond act of 1933, 1933 PA 94, MCL 141.101 to 141.140.

Revenue bonds issued pursuant to this section shall not be considered to constitute a debt of this state, a political subdivision of this state, the authority, or any constituent unit, or a pledge of the faith and credit of this state or a political subdivision of this state or of the authority or any constituent unit, but shall be payable solely from the revenues or income to be derived from the projects. The revenue bonds shall contain on their face a statement to the effect that the bonds and attached coupons are payable solely from revenues and are not a general obligation of this state, a political subdivision of this state, the authority, or a constituent unit, and neither the faith and credit nor the taxing power of this state, a political subdivision of this state, the authority, or a constituent unit, is pledged to the payment of the principal of or the interest on the bonds.

History: 1978, Act 639, Imd. Eff. Jan. 11, 1979; Am. 1983, Act 23, Imd. Eff. Apr. 5, 1983; Am. 2002, Act 412, Imd. Eff. June 3, 2002
Mich. Comp. Laws § 390.952 — MI Code / Chapter 390 / Act Act-77-of-1960 / Section 390.952
Appointment and qualifications of members of authority.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

The authority shall consist of the superintendent of public instruction, ex officio, who shall be chairman, 2 representatives from private colleges located within this state, 2 representatives from community colleges located within this state, 1 representative each from the university of Michigan, Michigan state university, and Wayne state university, 2 representatives from all other state supported 4-year colleges and universities within the state, 1 representative from the secondary schools of the state, 1 representative from an eligible lending institution of the state, 1 representative from the private occupational schools within the state, and 3 representatives from the citizens of the state chosen for their interest in higher education but not employed by, professionally affiliated with, or on the governing body of a college, university, or public high school of this state, to be appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate.

History: 1960, Act 77, Imd. Eff. Apr. 25, 1960; Am. 1964, Act 218, Imd. Eff. May 22, 1964; Am. 1968, Act 42, Eff. Nov. 15, 1968; Am. 1976, Act 406, Imd. Eff. Jan. 9, 1977
Mich. Comp. Laws § 432.138 — MI Code / Chapter 432 / Act Act-382-of-1972 / Section 432.138
Supplier of equipment; approval of rental agreement required.
Status: in_force

Sec. 38.

A millionaire party licensee shall only conduct an event with equipment that it owns, rents from another qualified organization under a rental agreement approved by the executive director, or purchases or rents from a supplier.

History: Add. 2019, Act 159, Imd. Eff. Dec. 20, 2019
Mich. Comp. Laws § 700.3612 — MI Code / Chapter 700 / Act Act-386-of-1998 / Section 700.3612
Termination of appointment; change of testacy status.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3612.

Except as otherwise ordered in formal proceedings, the probate of a will after the appointment of a personal representative in intestacy or under a will that is superseded by formal probate of another will, or the vacation of an informal probate of a will after the appointment of the personal representative under that will, does not terminate the personal representative's appointment, although the personal representative's powers may be reduced as provided in section 3401. Termination occurs upon appointment in informal or formal appointment proceedings of a person entitled to appointment under the later assumption concerning testacy. If no request for new appointment is made within 28 days after expiration of time for appeal from the order in formal testacy proceedings, or from the informal probate, changing the assumption concerning testacy, the previously appointed personal representative upon request may be appointed personal representative under the subsequently probated will, or as in intestacy as the case may be.

History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000
Mich. Comp. Laws § 18.425 — MI Code / Chapter 18 / Act Act-302-of-1982 / Section 18.425
Law enforcement distribution funds; records of revenues and expenditures; report; final accounting.
Status: in_force

Sec. 5.

(1) An eligible entity receiving law enforcement distribution funds shall maintain records of law enforcement distribution revenues and expenditures separate from other funding sources.

(2) An eligible entity receiving law enforcement distribution funds shall report to the commission on expenditures of those funds in a manner and on intervals prescribed by the commission. Each criminal justice in-service training program financed in whole or in part by law enforcement distribution funds shall be separately identified.

(3) If an eligible entity is no longer operating, the unit of government with which it is affiliated shall immediately provide the commission with a final accounting of expenditures of law enforcement distribution funds for all years since the eligible entity last reported.

History: 1982, Act 302, Imd. Eff. Oct. 12, 1982; Am. 1989, Act 158, Imd. Eff. July 28, 1989; Am. 2016, Act 290, Eff. Jan. 2, 2017
Mich. Comp. Laws § 388.1769b — MI Code / Chapter 388 / Act Act-94-of-1979 / Section 388.1769b
Contract in which board member has conflict of interest; abstention from voting.
Status: in_force

Sec. 169b.

A board member of a district, intermediate district, public school academy, or public school academy corporation shall abstain from voting on any contract in which the board member has a conflict of interest.

History: Add. 1996, Act 300, Eff. Oct. 1, 1996
Mich. Comp. Laws § 560.150 — MI Code / Chapter 560 / Act Act-288-of-1967 / Section 560.150
State highway commission's certificate.
Status: in_force

Sec. 150.

A certificate shall be signed and dated by the state highway commission or by an official of the department of state highways, authorized by the commission to certify its approval on plats.

The certificate shall signify that:

The plat has been reviewed and conforms to the requirements of this act and the commission's published rules and regulations relative to streets, roads and highways under its jurisdiction.

The plat has the commission's approval.

History: 1967, Act 288, Eff. Jan. 1, 1968
Mich. Comp. Laws § 24.19 — MI Code / Chapter 24 / Act Act-44-of-1899 / Section 24.19
Annual or biennial reports; publication.
Status: in_force

Sec. 19.

All reports enumerated in this act which are made annually shall be published annually.

All reports enumerated in this act which are made biennially shall be published biennially.

History: 1899, Act 44, Imd. Eff. Apr. 18, 1899; CL 1915, 837; CL 1929, 503; CL 1948, 24.19; Am. 1995, Act 179, Imd. Eff. Oct. 17, 1995
Mich. Comp. Laws § 380.945 — MI Code / Chapter 380 / Act Act-451-of-1976 / Section 380.945
Election; resolution; conduct; canvass; question.
Status: in_force

Sec. 945.

Upon receipt of an order transmitted as prescribed by section 944 and approving the division of the school district, the board of the school district to be annexed, divided, and transferred shall provide by resolution for the election on the question of annexing, dividing, and transferring the school district. The election shall be conducted and canvassed in the dividing district as provided in the Michigan election law. The question to be submitted to the electors shall be whether the territory of the dividing school district shall be annexed and transferred in the manner specified in the resolution of the dividing school district.

History: Add. 1984, Act 154, Imd. Eff. June 25, 1984; Am. 2003, Act 299, Eff. Jan. 1, 2005
Mich. Comp. Laws § 380.1282 — MI Code / Chapter 380 / Act Act-451-of-1976 / Section 380.1282
Grades, schools, and departments; courses of study; opportunity to achieve state endorsement; special assistance.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1282.

The board of a school district shall establish and carry on the grades, schools, and departments it considers necessary or desirable for the maintenance and improvement of its schools and determine the courses of study to be pursued.

The board of a school district shall provide a core academic curriculum, learning processes, special assistance particularly for students with reading disorders or who have demonstrated marked difficulty in achieving success on standardized tests, and sufficient access to each of these so that all pupils have a fair opportunity to achieve a state endorsement under section 1279. The board shall use Michigan education assessment program (MEAP) test results as an indicator of which pupils need special assistance to have a fair opportunity to achieve state endorsement under section 1279 and of whether the school district's curriculum is adequately aligned to prepare pupils to achieve that state endorsement. This special assistance may include at least 1 meeting attended by at least the pupil and a member of the school district's staff or a local or intermediate school district consultant who is knowledgeable in the measurement and evaluation of pupils. The school district may provide the meeting as a group meeting for pupils in similar circumstances. If the pupil is a minor, the school district shall invite and encourage the pupil's parent, legal guardian, or person in loco parentis to attend the meeting and shall mail a notice of the meeting to the pupil's parent, legal guardian, or person in loco parentis. The purpose of this meeting and any subsequent meeting under this subsection should be to determine an educational program for the pupil designed to assist the pupil to be prepared to achieve state endorsement under section 1279. In addition, the school district may provide for subsequent meetings with the pupil conducted by a counselor or teacher designated by the pupil's principal, and shall invite and encourage the pupil's parent, legal guardian, or person in loco parentis to attend the subsequent meetings. The school district may provide special programs for the pupil or develop a program using the educational programs regularly provided by the school district.

History: 1976, Act 451, Imd. Eff. Jan. 13, 1977; Am. 1993, Act 335, Imd. Eff. Dec. 31, 1993; Am. 1997, Act 181, Imd. Eff. Dec. 30, 1997
Mich. Comp. Laws § 552.635a — MI Code / Chapter 552 / Act Act-295-of-1982 / Section 552.635a
Alternative contempt track docket.
Status: in_force

Sec. 35a.

(1) A payer who meets the criteria in subsection (2) may, with the consent of the court, agree to have his or her case placed on an alternative contempt track docket.

(2) The alternative contempt track is available for a payer who is determined by the court to have difficulty making support payments due to any of the following:

(a) A documented medical condition.

(b) A documented psychological disorder.

(c) Substance use disorder.

(d) Illiteracy.

(e) Homelessness.

(f) A temporary curable condition that the payer has difficulty controlling without assistance.

(g) Unemployment lasting longer than 27 weeks.

(3) The alternative contempt track shall provide for all of the following:

(a) A payer who is in the alternative contempt track is subject to probation for a period of up to 1 year.

(b) The court shall approve a plan to address the conditions in subsection (2).

(c) The court may direct the sheriff to take into custody a payer who fails to comply with the plan described in subdivision (b) under the conditions and for the time that the court directs to bring the payer into compliance with the plan described under subdivision (b). A payer shall not be ordered to remain in the sheriff's custody longer than 45 days for any single plan violation.

(d) If a payer willfully fails to comply with the terms of the plan described in subdivision (b), the court may punish that payer by ordering his or her commitment to jail for a period not to exceed 10 days.

(e) The payer is required to appear for review hearings as scheduled by the court and is subject to arrest according to section 31.

(f) The plan described in subdivision (b) may provide notice of modification to the payer and recipient of support. The court may enter a temporary support order or stay the current order based on the person's ability during the period a payer is under an alternative contempt track plan. Subject to section 3(2), the court shall enter a final support order upon completion or termination of the plan described in subdivision (b). Either party may object to a proposed final support order resulting from a plan described in subdivision (b). If an objection is made, the court must hold a separate hearing on the matter of entry of a final support order.

(g) The court may discharge arrears owed to the state with the state's approval and may also discharge arrears owed to a payee with the payee's consent upon successful completion of the alternative contempt track.

(4) Each court that uses an alternative contempt track must submit a plan for the alternative contempt track and obtain approval of the plan by the state court administrative office under the supervision of the supreme court.

History: Add. 2014, Act 373, Eff. Mar. 17, 2015
Mich. Comp. Laws § 257.658b — MI Code / Chapter 257 / Act Act-300-of-1949 / Section 257.658b
Crash helmet required; exception.
Status: in_force

Sec. 658b.

Except as provided in subsection (2), a person operating or riding in a low-speed vehicle shall wear a crash helmet on his or her head. The crash helmet shall meet the requirements of the rules promulgated by the department of state police under section 658.

Subsection (1) does not apply to a person operating or riding in a low-speed vehicle equipped with a roof that meets or exceeds the standards for roof-crush resistance, provided under 49 C.F.R. 571.500.

History: Add. 2000, Act 82, Eff. July 1, 2000
Mich. Comp. Laws § 767.33 — MI Code / Chapter 760 / Act Act-175-of-1927 / Section 767.33
Subpoena; witness for defendant; disobedience; penalty, civil liability.
Status: in_force

Sec. 33.

Disobedience to any subpoena issued pursuant to the foregoing provisions, shall be punished in the same manner and upon the like proceedings, as provided by law in other cases; and the person guilty of such disobedience shall be liable to the party at whose instance such subpoena issued in the same manner and to the like extent as in cases of subpoenas issued in any civil suit.

History: 1927, Act 175, Eff. Sept. 5, 1927; CL 1929, 17247; CL 1948, 767.33
Mich. Comp. Laws § 440.9809 — MI Code / Chapter 440 / Act Act-174-of-1962 / Section 440.9809
Priority of conflicting claims to collateral; establishment before effective date of amendatory act.
Status: in_force

Sec. 9809.

This amendatory act determines the priority of conflicting claims to collateral. However, if the relative priorities of the claims were established before the effective date of this amendatory act, this article as it existed before the effective date of this amendatory act determines priority.

History: Add. 2012, Act 88, Eff. July 1, 2013
Mich. Comp. Laws § 798.102 — MI Code / Chapter 798 / Act Act-89-of-1935 / Section 798.102
Interstate compact; declaration of necessity.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

Whereas an emergency exists for the immediate taking effect of this act, the same shall become effective immediately upon its passage and, when the governor of this state shall sign and seal this compact or any compact with any other state, pursuant to the provisions of this act. Such compact or compacts as between the state of Michigan and such other state so signing shall have the force and effect of law immediately upon the enactment by such other state of a law giving it similar effect.

History: 1935, Act 89, Imd. Eff. May 27, 1935; CL 1948, 798.102
Mich. Comp. Laws § 400.610b — MI Code / Chapter 400 / Act Act-72-of-1977 / Section 400.610b
Recovery of costs by attorney general.
Status: in_force

Sec. 10b.

(1) The attorney general may recover all costs this state incurs in the litigation and recovery of medicaid restitution under this act, including the cost of investigation and attorney fees. The attorney general shall retain the amount received for activities under this act, excluding amounts for restitution, court costs, and fines, not to exceed the amount of this state's funding match for the medicaid fraud control unit.

(2) The attorney general shall not retain amounts under this section until all the restitution awarded in the proceeding has been paid.

(3) Costs that the attorney general recovers in excess of the state's funding match for the medicaid fraud control unit shall be deposited in the Michigan medicaid benefits trust fund established in section 5 of the Michigan trust fund act, 2000 PA 489, MCL 12.255.

History: Add. 2005, Act 337, Imd. Eff. Jan. 3, 2006
Mich. Comp. Laws § 38.464 — MI Code / Chapter 38 / Act Act-246-of-1965 / Section 38.464
Payrolls; approval by civil service commission.
Status: in_force

Sec. 14.

All payrolls shall be approved by the civil service commission, or by its secretary when authorized by the commission, before payment.

History: 1965, Act 246, Eff. Mar. 31, 1966