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Mich. Comp. Laws § 287.805 — MI Code / Chapter 287 / Act Act-239-of-1992 / Section 287.805
Definitions; A, B.
Status: in_force

Sec. 5.

"Accredited veterinarian" means a veterinarian approved by the United States department of agriculture to perform specific functions required by cooperative state-federal disease control and eradication programs.

"Animal" means any vertebrate member of the animal kingdom other than a human being.

"Approved pseudorabies quarantined feedlot" means a swine feedlot premises inspected and approved by the director and whose owner has entered into an agreement with the director to comply with this act and rules or regulations promulgated pursuant to this act.

"Approved swine assembly point" means a premises where swine are gathered which is inspected and approved by the director whose owner has entered into an agreement with the director to comply with this act and rules or regulations promulgated pursuant to this act.

"Approved vaccine" means a preparation administered to livestock or other animals to induce a specific immunological response in the recipient, the use of which in this state shall be approved by the state veterinarian.

"Boar" means any sexually intact male swine.

"Breeding herd" means all swine on 1 swine premises that are maintained for breeding purposes or reproduction.

"Breeding swine" means swine intended for use as breeding stock and all swine not intended for slaughter or feeding to market age and weight for slaughter including companion animals and research animals regardless of reproductive capacity. Breeding swine includes all boars and sows.

"Broker" means any person, copartnership, association, or corporation engaged in the business of buying, receiving, selling, exchanging, transporting, negotiating, or soliciting sale, resale, exchange, transportation, or transfer of livestock and that is licensed as a livestock dealer in accordance with Act No. 284 of the Public Acts of 1937, being sections 287.121 to 287.131 of the Michigan Compiled Laws.

"Brucellosis" means the contagious, infectious, and communicable disease caused by bacteria of the genus brucellae also known as bangs disease, undulant fever, and contagious abortion.

History: 1992, Act 239, Eff. Mar. 31, 1993
Mich. Comp. Laws § 125.996 — MI Code / Chapter 125 / Act Act-288-of-1974 / Section 125.996
Treble damages.
Status: in_force

Sec. 6.

A manufacturer or dealer who knows or should have known that an alleged defect is covered by the warranty provided by this act and who wilfully or by gross negligence refuses or fails to take appropriate corrective action may be liable for treble damages.

History: 1974, Act 288, Imd. Eff. Oct. 14, 1974
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.47342 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.47342
False Presque Isle bay.
Status: in_force

Sec. 47342.

A person shall not set nets or seines of any kind or description west of a certain line commencing at the 1/4 post between sections 13 and 24 in town 33 north, range 8 east; thence north across the bay of False Presque Isle to 1/4 post between sections 12 and 13 in said town 33 north, range 8 east, in Presque Isle county.

History: Add. 1995, Act 57, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1995
Mich. Comp. Laws § 450.3137 — MI Code / Chapter 450 / Act Act-162-of-1982 / Section 450.3137
Nonvoting investment certificate or bond.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1137.

Subject to the uniform securities act, 1964 PA 265, MCL 451.501 to 451.818, and the uniform securities act (2002), 2008 PA 551, MCL 451.2101 to 451.2703, a cooperative may offer to its members or to the general public any form of nonvoting investment certificate or bond that may bear interest or dividends as provided by the board of directors.

History: Add. 1984, Act 209, Eff. Nov. 1, 1985; Am. 2009, Act 94, Imd. Eff. Sept. 24, 2009
Mich. Comp. Laws § 691.1137 — MI Code / Chapter 691 / Act Act-20-of-2008 / Section 691.1137
Foreign-country judgment; findings.
Status: in_force

Sec. 7.

If the court in a proceeding under section 6 finds that the foreign-country judgment is entitled to recognition under this act, then, to the extent that the foreign-country judgment grants or denies recovery of a sum of money, the foreign-country judgment is both of the following:

(a) Conclusive between the parties to the same extent as the judgment of a sister state entitled to full faith and credit in this state would be conclusive.

(b) Enforceable in the same manner and to the same extent as a judgment rendered in this state.

History: 2008, Act 20, Imd. Eff. Mar. 7, 2008
Mich. Comp. Laws § 455.313 — MI Code / Chapter 455 / Act Act-161-of-1911 / Section 455.313
Construction of act.
Status: in_force

Sec. 13.

In all proceedings of suits that may arise or be brought in any of the courts of this state touching or concerning corporations under this act, all other acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith shall be interpreted and construed in such manner as to give full force and effect to all the provisions of this act and to all the rights and privileges hereby granted.

History: 1911, Act 161, Eff. Aug. 1, 1911; CL 1915, 10142; CL 1929, 10400; CL 1948, 455.313
Mich. Comp. Laws § 457.54 — MI Code / Chapter 457 / Act Act-55-of-1895 / Section 457.54
Grand lodge; certified copy of articles as evidence; subordinate lodges, institution; existing lodges; regulation.
Status: in_force

Sec. 4.

A copy of the record of such articles of association, under the seal of the state, duly certified according to law shall be received as prima facie evidence in all courts of this state, of the existence and due incorporation of such corporation. Such corporation, when duly formed, shall have power to institute and charter district and subordinate lodges within this state, and from time to time, to make, ordain, constitute and establish such constitution, general laws and by-laws, ordinances and regulations, as the grand lodge shall judge proper for the regulation and government of such district and subordinate lodges, not repugnant to the laws of this state: Provided, That the existing district and subordinate lodges heretofore duly chartered by the supreme grand lodge of the United States, approved by the state grand lodge, shall be subject to the control of said state grand lodge, under this act, as heretofore, and in the same manner and to the same extent as those that may be hereafter instituted and chartered under this act.

History: 1895, Act 55, Imd. Eff. Mar. 29, 1895; CL 1897, 7836; CL 1915, 10272; CL 1929, 10562; CL 1948, 457.54
Mich. Comp. Laws § 484.1412a — MI Code / Chapter 484 / Act Act-32-of-1986 / Section 484.1412a
Annual accounting of total emergency telephone charges; adjustment of amount collected; additional charge.
Status: in_force

Sec. 412a.

(1) Within 90 days after the first day of the calendar year following the year in which a service supplier commenced collection of the emergency telephone technical charge under section 401d, and within 90 days after the first day of each calendar year thereafter, a service supplier collecting the emergency telephone technical charge for the purpose of providing 9-1-1 service pursuant to this act shall make an annual accounting to the 9-1-1 service district of the total emergency telephone charges collected during the immediately preceding calendar year.

(2) If an annual accounting made pursuant to subsection (1) discloses that the total emergency telephone technical charges collected during the immediately preceding calendar year exceeded the total cost of installing and providing 9-1-1 service within the 9-1-1 service district for the immediately preceding calendar year according to the rates and charges of the service supplier, the service supplier shall adjust the emergency telephone technical charge collected from service users in the 9-1-1 service district in an amount computed pursuant to this section. The amount of the adjustment shall be computed by dividing the excess by the number of exchange access facilities within the 9-1-1 service district as the district existed for the billing period immediately following the annual accounting. Costs of the service supplier associated with making the adjustment under this subsection as part of the billing and collection service shall be deducted from the amount to be adjusted.

(3) If the annual accounting discloses that the total emergency telephone technical charges collected during the calendar year are less than the total cost of installing and providing 9-1-1 service within the 9-1-1 service district for the immediately preceding calendar year according to the costs and rates of the service supplier, the service supplier shall collect an additional charge from service users in the 9-1-1 service district in an amount computed pursuant to this section. Subject to the limitations provided by section 401d, the amount of the additional charge shall be computed by dividing the amount by which the total cost exceeded the total emergency telephone technical charges collected during the immediately preceding calendar year by the number of exchange access facilities within the 9-1-1 service district as the district existed for the billing period immediately following the annual accounting.

History: Add. 2008, Act 379, Imd. Eff. Dec. 23, 2008
Mich. Comp. Laws § 38.381 — MI Code / Chapter 38 / Act Act-156-of-1967 / Section 38.381
Optional retirement act of 1967; short title.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

This act shall be known and may be cited as the "optional retirement act of 1967".

History: 1967, Act 156, Imd. Eff. June 30, 1967
Mich. Comp. Laws § 400.18c — MI Code / Chapter 400 / Act Act-280-of-1939 / Section 400.18c
Foster care of children; use of licensed child caring institutions or placement agencies; supervision by county department; standards of care and service; placement of child at least 16 but less than 21 years of age or at least 18 but less than 21 years of age.
Status: in_force

Sec. 18c.

(1) Foster care financed by a county department shall be provided by the use of licensed child caring institutions or placement agencies, in accordance with the needs of the child, or if licensed child caring institutions or placement agencies are not available, or there is a religious conflict, foster care shall be provided under the direct supervision of the county department, which care shall meet the following standards of care and service:

(a) Personnel engaged in placement and supervision of children in foster care shall have qualifying training and experience.

(b) Adequate records shall be maintained with information on the physical and mental health of the child, his or her emotional stability and family background, together with the reasons for the child's placement away from home to aid in planning for any child placed by the department, toward the end that the child may be reunited with his or her family as soon as it appears possible.

(c) Family foster homes used by the department shall be selected with consideration of the religious, racial, and cultural background of the child to be placed and children thus placed shall be visited in these homes at least once a month.

(2) The department may place a child who is at least 16 but less than 21 years of age in an unlicensed residence to live independently, or in the unlicensed residence of an adult who has no supervisory responsibility for the child, if the department maintains supervisory responsibility for that child. If the child is at least 18 but less than 21 years of age, he or she must meet the requirements of the young adult voluntary foster care act.

History: Add. 1955, Act 113, Eff. Oct. 14, 1955; Am. 2011, Act 230, Imd. Eff. Nov. 22, 2011
Mich. Comp. Laws § 500.3115 — MI Code / Chapter 500 / Act Act-218-of-1956 / Section 500.3115
Personal protection insurance benefits under the assigned claims plan for claims of persons not occupants of vehicle.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3115.

Except as provided in section 3114(1), a person who suffers accidental bodily injury while not an occupant of a motor vehicle shall claim personal protection insurance benefits under the assigned claims plan under sections 3171 to 3175.

History: Add. 1972, Act 294, Eff. Mar. 30, 1973; Am. 2019, Act 21, Imd. Eff. June 11, 2019
Mich. Comp. Laws § 484.1201 — MI Code / Chapter 484 / Act Act-32-of-1986 / Section 484.1201
Implementation of emergency 9-1-1 service system; conditions; creation by 1 or more counties or cities; access.
Status: in_force

Sec. 201.

(1) An emergency 9-1-1 service system shall not be implemented in this state except as provided under this act.

(2) One or more counties may create an emergency 9-1-1 service system under this act.

(3) With the approval of the county board of commissioners in a county with a population of 1,650,000 or more, 4 or more cities may create an emergency 9-1-1 service district under this act.

(4) Each service supplier in this state is required to provide each of its service users access to the 9-1-1 system. Each service supplier shall provide the committee with contact information to allow for notifications as required under section 714.

History: 1986, Act 32, Imd. Eff. Mar. 17, 1986; Am. 1994, Act 29, Imd. Eff. Mar. 2, 1994; Am. 1999, Act 78, Imd. Eff. June 28, 1999; Am. 2007, Act 164, Imd. Eff. Dec. 21, 2007; Am. 2018, Act 51, Imd. Eff. Mar. 6, 2018
Mich. Comp. Laws § 500.3402 — MI Code / Chapter 500 / Act Act-218-of-1956 / Section 500.3402
Disability insurance policy; provisions required.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3402.

An insurer shall not deliver or issue for delivery in this state a disability insurance policy for an individual or family unless all of the following requirements are met:

(a) The entire money and other considerations for the policy are expressed in the policy.

(b) The time at which the insurance takes effect and terminates is expressed in the policy.

(c) The policy purports to insure only 1 individual, except that a policy may insure, originally or by subsequent amendment, upon the application of an adult member of a family who is considered to be the policyholder, any 2 or more eligible members of that family, including husband, wife, dependent children, any children under a specified age, and any other individual dependent upon the policyholder, if coverage is made available to any dependent child at least until the child turns 26 years of age for a health insurance policy or 19 years of age for a policy of disability insurance, a policy providing pediatric dental benefits, or a policy providing pediatric vision benefits.

History: 1956, Act 218, Eff. Jan. 1, 1957; Am. 2016, Act 276, Imd. Eff. July 1, 2016
Mich. Comp. Laws § 457.11 — MI Code / Chapter 457 / Act Act-173-of-1891 / Section 457.11
Sons of St. George; incorporators.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

That any number of persons of English birth, who may now or hereafter be residents of this state, or the descendants of such persons in the first or second degree, may be incorporated in pursuance of the provisions of this act.

History: 1891, Act 173, Imd. Eff. June 30, 1891; CL 1897, 7795; CL 1915, 10231; CL 1929, 10528; CL 1948, 457.11
Mich. Comp. Laws § 455.51 — MI Code / Chapter 455 / Act Act-39-of-1889 / Section 455.51
Summer resort and assembly associations; incorporation, purpose.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

That any number of persons not less than 10, who may desire to form an association for the purchase and improvement of lands to be occupied for summer homes, for camp-meetings, for meetings and assemblies of associations and societies organized for scientific or intellectual culture and for the promotion of religion and morality, or any or all such purposes, may, with their associates, successors and assigns, become a body politic and corporate under any name by them assumed in their articles of incorporation, in the manner herein provided.

History: 1889, Act 39, Imd. Eff. Mar. 29, 1889; How. 3983d-6; CL 1897, 7639; CL 1915, 10062; CL 1929, 10327; CL 1948, 455.51
Mich. Comp. Laws § 46.2 — MI Code / Chapter 46 / Act Act-156-of-1851 / Section 46.2
Board of supervisors; authority to offer rewards; appointment of county paid attendants and county jail attendants; compensation; bonds.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

The board of supervisors is hereby authorized to offer and pay out of the general fund of the county, not to exceed 1,000 dollars as a reward for the arrest and conviction or for information leading to the arrest and conviction of any person or persons having committed a crime within the county or having escaped from any penal institution therein: Provided, That the powers granted hereby may be exercised by the finance committee of the board of supervisors where said board of supervisors is not in session.

The board of supervisors in any county containing a population of not less than 180,000 nor more than 250,000 according to the last United States census may, by a majority vote of members-elect at any regular or legally called special meeting thereof, provide by resolution for the appointment of a warden or other official and the necessary deputies and assistants to have full charge and control of the county jail and the prisoners therein, under the supervision of the board of supervisors. The board shall fix the salary or compensation and prescribe the duties of such official or officials. They may be required to furnish bonds in amounts and with sureties approved by the board of supervisors.

History: 1851, Act 156, Imd. Eff. Apr. 8, 1851; CL 1857, 336; CL 1871, 468; How. 474; CL 1897, 2475n; CL 1915, 2265n; Am. 1925, Act 262, Eff. Aug. 27, 1925; Am. 1927, Act 310, Eff. Sept. 5, 1927; CL 1929, 1121; CL 1948, 46.2
Mich. Comp. Laws § Article I § 19 — MI Code / Chapter 1 / Act CONSTITUTION-OF-MICHIGAN-OF-1963 / Section Article I § 19
Libels, truth as defense.
Status: in_force

Sec. 19.

In all prosecutions for libels the truth may be given in evidence to the jury; and, if it appears to the jury that the matter charged as libelous is true and was published with good motives and for justifiable ends, the accused shall be acquitted.

History: Const. 1963, Art. I, § 19, Eff. Jan 1. 1964
Mich. Comp. Laws § 700.6306 — MI Code / Chapter 700 / Act Act-386-of-1998 / Section 700.6306
Effect of registration in beneficiary form.
Status: in_force

Sec. 6306.

The designation of a TOD beneficiary on a registration in beneficiary form does not affect ownership until the owner's death. A registration of a security in beneficiary form may be canceled or changed at any time by the sole owner or all the surviving owners without the consent of the beneficiary.

History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000; Am. 2000, Act 54, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000
Mich. Comp. Laws § 455.53 — MI Code / Chapter 455 / Act Act-39-of-1889 / Section 455.53
Execution of articles of association; acknowledgment; filing articles with department of commerce; certification.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3.

The execution of such articles of association shall be acknowledged by the persons signing the same before some officer authorized to take the acknowledgment of deeds. Such articles shall thereupon be filed with the corporation and securities bureau of the department of commerce, which, after making such record, shall certify upon such articles the date and place of record thereof and return the same to the association.

History: 1889, Act 39, Imd. Eff. Mar. 29, 1889; How. 3983d-8; CL 1897, 7641; CL 1915, 10064; CL 1929, 10329; CL 1948, 455.53; Am. 1982, Act 85, Imd. Eff. Apr. 19, 1982
Mich. Comp. Laws § 400.701 — MI Code / Chapter 400 / Act Act-218-of-1979 / Section 400.701
Short title.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

This act shall be known and may be cited as the "adult foster care facility licensing act".

History: 1979, Act 218, Eff. Mar. 27, 1980
Mich. Comp. Laws § 440.2709 — MI Code / Chapter 440 / Act Act-174-of-1962 / Section 440.2709
Nonpayment; action for price, damages.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2709.

When the buyer fails to pay the price as it becomes due the seller may recover, together with any incidental damages under the next section, the price

of goods accepted or of conforming goods lost or damaged within a commercially reasonable time after risk of their loss has passed to the buyer; and

of goods identified to the contract if the seller is unable after reasonable effort to resell them at a reasonable price or the circumstances reasonably indicate that such effort will be unavailing.

Where the seller sues for the price he must hold for the buyer any goods which have been identified to the contract and are still in his control except that if resale becomes possible he may resell them at any time prior to the collection of the judgment. The net proceeds of any such resale must be credited to the buyer and payment of the judgment entitles him to any goods not resold.

After the buyer has wrongfully rejected or revoked acceptance of the goods or has failed to make a payment due or has repudiated (section 2610), a seller who is held not entitled to the price under this section shall nevertheless be awarded damages for nonacceptance under the preceding section.

History: 1962, Act 174, Eff. Jan. 1, 1964
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.392 — MI Code / Chapter 280 / Act Act-40-of-1956 / Section 280.392
Abandoned and vacated drains; notices; disposal of money in drain funds.
Status: in_force

Sec. 392.

Whenever any drain shall have been declared vacated and abandoned, as provided in section 391, it shall be the duty of the commissioner to serve notice thereof forthwith upon the county treasurer of the county or counties in which the drainage district, or any portion thereof, is situated. If there be any money credited to or belonging to the fund of such vacated and abandoned drain, it shall be the duty of the county treasurer or treasurers to transfer and pay over the same to the treasurer or treasurers of the township or townships in which the drain was located or in which assessments for benefits to be received from such drain have been assessed and collected: Provided, That in all cases where the amount of such money belonging to the drain fund of such drain, in the hands of the county treasurer, shall be insufficient to permit the refunding and paying over to such township treasurers all of the moneys assessed and collected in such townships, the county treasurer shall prorate the amounts so paid, and each township treasurer shall be entitled to receive such proportion of the moneys remaining in the fund of the vacated or abandoned drain as the total amount of the assessments levied and collected in his township and becoming a part of such drain fund shall bear to all of the moneys assessed and collected and making up such fund. In case it is necessary to prorate in the manner provided, the county treasurer shall furnish to each township treasurer a statement showing the amount of money in the fund at the time such drain was declared vacated and abandoned, and the various amounts assessed and collected for such fund from the different townships entitled to share in the disbursement thereof.

History: 1956, Act 40, Imd. Eff. Mar. 28, 1956
Mich. Comp. Laws § 333.16287 — MI Code / Chapter 333 / Act Act-368-of-1978 / Section 333.16287
Rules.
Status: in_force

Sec. 16287.

The department, in consultation with a board, shall promulgate rules to implement sections 16284 and 16285.

History: Add. 2016, Act 359, Eff. Mar. 29, 2017; Am. 2017, Act 22, Imd. Eff. Mar. 31, 2017