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Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.175 — MI Code / Chapter 600 / Act Act-236-of-1961 / Section 600.175
Judicial technology improvement fund; creation; use; disposition; investment; transfer of balance to general fund; administration; expenditure; reimbursement to state court administrative office.
Status: in_force

Sec. 175.

(1) The judicial technology improvement fund is created in the state treasury. The money in the fund shall be used as provided in this section.

(2) The state treasurer shall credit to the judicial technology improvement fund deposits of proceeds from the collection of revenue from court fees as provided in this act and shall credit all income from investment credited to the fund by the state treasurer. The state treasurer may invest money in the fund in any manner authorized by law for the investment of state money. However, an investment shall not interfere with any apportionment, allocation, or payment of money as required by this section. The state treasurer shall credit to the fund all income earned as a result of an investment of money in the fund. Except as provided in subsection (3), the unencumbered balance remaining in the fund at the end of a fiscal year shall remain in the fund and shall not revert to the general fund.

(3) For the state fiscal year ending September 30, 2005 only, $1,500,000.00 of the unencumbered balance remaining in the fund at the end of that fiscal year shall be transferred by the state treasurer to the general fund.

(4) The state court administrative office shall administer the judicial technology improvement fund. Money from the fund shall be expended for the development and ongoing support of a statewide judicial information system. The supreme court and the state court administrative office, working with the departments of state police, corrections, information technology, and secretary of state and with the prosecuting attorneys association of Michigan, will develop a statewide telecommunications infrastructure to integrate criminal justice information systems. The judicial technology improvement fund shall also be used to pursue technology innovations that will result in enhanced public service and access to local trial courts. These innovations will include, but not be limited to, electronic filing, on-line payments of fines and fees, data warehousing, and web-based instructions for completion of court documents.

(5) The state court administrative office shall be reimbursed annually from the judicial technology improvement fund for all reasonable costs associated with the administration of this section, including judicial and staff training, on-site management assistance, and software development and conversion.

History: Add. 2003, Act 78, Eff. Oct. 1, 2003; Am. 2004, Act 466, Imd. Eff. Dec. 28, 2004
Mich. Comp. Laws § 457.437 — MI Code / Chapter 457 / Act Act-130-of-1879 / Section 457.437
Erection of building; capital stock, creation, shares.
Status: in_force

Sec. 7.

Any corporation formed in pursuance of this act may erect and own such suitable edifice, building or hall, as such corporation shall seem proper, with convenient rooms for the meetings of the councils of the order of Royal Arcanum, and for that purpose may create a capital stock of not more than 10,000 dollars, to be divided into shares of not more than 10 dollars each.

History: 1879, Act 130, Imd. Eff. May 31, 1879; How. 4571; CL 1897, 8023; CL 1915, 10495; CL 1929, 10700; CL 1948, 457.437
Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.827 — MI Code / Chapter 722 / Act Act-13-of-1988 / Section 722.827
Separate diversion record.
Status: in_force

Sec. 7.

The court in the county in which a diverted minor resides or is found shall keep a separate diversion record for that minor.

History: 1988, Act 13, Eff. Apr. 1, 1988
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.60105 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.60105
Michigan geological survey; collection and conservation of cores, samples, and specimens.
Status: in_force

Sec. 60105.

The Michigan geological survey shall provide for the collection and conservation of cores, samples, and specimens for the illustration of every division of the geology and mineralogy of this state, to the extent that facilities and funds are available to do so.

History: Add. 1995, Act 57, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1995; Am. 2011, Act 167, Imd. Eff. Oct. 11, 2011
Mich. Comp. Laws § 29.370 — MI Code / Chapter 29 / Act Act-291-of-1966 / Section 29.370
Statement designating chief or director of fire department or public safety department; contact information; filing statement of change; digital video disc or other electronic form of video display to be used in training; fee; availability; recommendations from council.
Status: in_force

Sec. 10.

(1) Each organized fire department or public safety department or local government clerk shall file a statement with the council designating the chief or director of the department and providing contact information for the organized fire department or public safety department. If the department chief or director changes, the organized fire department or public safety department shall notify the council in writing by filing a statement of the change not more than 7 days after the change.

(2) The council shall develop and provide to each organized fire department or public safety department, upon request of the organized fire department or public safety department and at no charge, a digital video disc or other electronic form of video display to be used in training firefighters. The digital video disc or other electronic form of video display must be based upon the council-approved training programs. The council may impose a reasonable fee for loss, damage, or late return of a digital video disc or other electronic form of video display provided to an organized fire department or public safety department under this section. The council shall have available not fewer than 2 copies of each digital video disc or other electronic form of video display for an organized fire department's or public safety department's use.

(3) The council shall make recommendations with respect to both of the following:

(a) The category or classification of advanced in-service training programs for all fire service disciplines and minimum courses of study and attendance requirements for the category or classification needed for certification under this act.

(b) The standards required under this act for certification in each of the fire service disciplines.

History: 1966, Act 291, Eff. Jan. 1, 1968; Am. 2017, Act 144, Eff. Jan. 31, 2018
Mich. Comp. Laws § Article VI § 15 — MI Code / Chapter 1 / Act CONSTITUTION-OF-MICHIGAN-OF-1963 / Section Article VI § 15
Probate courts; districts, jurisdiction.
Status: in_force

Sec. 15.

In each county organized for judicial purposes there shall be a probate court. The legislature may create or alter probate court districts of more than one county if approved in each affected county by a majority of the electors voting on the question. The legislature may provide for the combination of the office of probate judge with any judicial office of limited jurisdiction within a county with supplemental salary as provided by law. The jurisdiction, powers and duties of the probate court and of the judges thereof shall be provided by law. They shall have original jurisdiction in all cases of juvenile delinquents and dependents, except as otherwise provided by law.

History: Const. 1963, Art. VI, § 15, Eff. Jan. 1, 1964
Mich. Comp. Laws § 450.2467 — MI Code / Chapter 450 / Act Act-162-of-1982 / Section 450.2467
Shares or memberships subject to voting trust; liability of trustee; designation of 2 or more persons as voting trustees.
Status: in_force

Sec. 467.

(1) A trustee that votes shares or memberships that are subject to a voting trust under section 466 is not liable as a shareholder, member, trustee or otherwise, except for the trustee's malfeasance.

(2) If 2 or more persons are designated as voting trustees, and the right and method of voting shares or memberships in their names are not fixed in the agreement that appoints the trustees, a majority of the trustees shall determine the right to vote and manner of voting the shares or memberships. If the trustees are equally divided concerning the right to vote and the manner of voting, the votes shall be divided equally among the trustees.

History: Add. 2014, Act 557, Imd. Eff. Jan. 15, 2015
Mich. Comp. Laws § 280.577 — MI Code / Chapter 280 / Act Act-40-of-1956 / Section 280.577
Venue of actions; appointment of circuit judge.
Status: in_force

Sec. 577.

Any action arising from the provisions of this chapter except such actions as may be brought directly in the supreme court may be brought in the circuit court of any county in which any part of the project involved is located: Provided, That on request by any party to said action made prior to the time said action is instituted, or within 30 days after receipt of service of process, the presiding circuit judge of Michigan shall appoint a circuit judge to hear said action.

History: 1956, Act 40, Imd. Eff. Mar. 28, 1956
Mich. Comp. Laws § 38.1f — MI Code / Chapter 38 / Act Act-240-of-1943 / Section 38.1f
Definitions; M to O.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1f.

"Member" means a state employee included in the membership of the retirement system, as provided for in section 13.

"Membership service" means all service rendered after July 1, 1943.

"New member" means a person who becomes a member of this retirement system on or after January 1, 1945.

"Original member" means a person who became a member of this retirement system before January 1, 1945, or as provided in section 18.

History: Add. 1995, Act 176, Imd. Eff. Oct. 17, 1995
Mich. Comp. Laws § 700.7609 — MI Code / Chapter 700 / Act Act-386-of-1998 / Section 700.7609
Presentation of claims against trust.
Status: in_force

Sec. 7609.

(1) Subject to section 7611, if notice to claimants is given by a trustee as provided in section 7608, a claimant shall present a claim against a trust described in section 7605(1) in either of the following ways:

(a) The claimant may mail or deliver to the trustee a written statement of the claim indicating its basis, the name and address of the claimant, and the amount claimed. The claim is considered presented on the trustee's receipt of the claim. If a claim is not yet due, the date when it will become due shall be stated. If the claim is contingent or unliquidated, the nature of the uncertainty shall be stated. If the claim is secured, the security shall be described. Failure to describe correctly the security, the nature of any uncertainty, and the due date of a claim not yet due does not invalidate a claim's presentation.

(b) The claimant may commence a proceeding to obtain payment of a claim against the trust in a court where the trustee is subject to jurisdiction. The commencement of the proceeding shall occur within the time limit for presenting the claim. Presentation of a claim is not required in regard to matters claimed in proceedings against the trust or settlor that were pending at the time of the settlor's death.

(2) If a personal representative is appointed for the settlor's estate, presentation of a claim against the settlor's estate shall be made in the manner described in section 3804, and such a presentation is sufficient to assert liability against a trust described in section 7605(1) without an additional presentation of the claim against the trustee.

History: Add. 2009, Act 46, Eff. Apr. 1, 2010
Mich. Comp. Laws § 389.53 — MI Code / Chapter 389 / Act Act-331-of-1966 / Section 389.53
Organizational election; propositions submitted.
Status: in_force

Sec. 53.

At the organizational election there shall be submitted the following issues:

Proposition to establish the community college district. The ballots shall read substantially as follows:

Shall a community college district comprised of ________________________________________________ (Name of intermediate school district or districts) be established in accordance with Act No._______ of the Public Acts of 1966?

Proposition to establish the maximum annual tax rate.

Election of the first board of trustees.

History: 1966, Act 331, Eff. Oct. 1, 1966
Mich. Comp. Laws § 257.25 — MI Code / Chapter 257 / Act Act-300-of-1949 / Section 257.25
“License” defined.
Status: in_force

Sec. 25.

"License" means any driving privileges, license, temporary instruction permit, commercial learner's permit, or temporary license issued under the laws of this state pertaining to the licensing of persons to operate motor vehicles.

History: 1949, Act 300, Eff. Sept. 23, 1949; Am. 1966, Act 247, Eff. Mar. 10, 1967; Am. 2015, Act 11, Eff. July 8, 2015
Mich. Comp. Laws § 38.54 — MI Code / Chapter 38 / Act Act-240-of-1943 / Section 38.54
Definitions; E to H.
Status: in_force

Sec. 54.

"Employer" means this state or, if a qualified participant is not employed by this state but is a participant in Tier 2 by virtue of his or her employment, the employer that pays his or her compensation.

"Former qualified participant" means an individual who was a qualified participant and who terminates the employment upon which his or her participation is based for any reason.

"Health benefit dependent" means the qualified or former qualified participant's spouse, if any, and an unmarried child who is considered a dependent of the qualified or former qualified participant under section 152 of the internal revenue code, if any.

History: Add. 1996, Act 487, Eff. Mar. 31, 1997
Mich. Comp. Laws § 12.262 — MI Code / Chapter 12 / Act Act-489-of-2000 / Section 12.262
Community district education trust fund; creation; deposit of money or other assets; investment; money remaining at close of fiscal year; expenditures; "community district" defined; deposit of tobacco settlement revenue; limitation; reimbursement from general fund.
Status: in_force

Sec. 12.

(1) The community district education trust fund is created within the state treasury.

(2) The state treasurer may receive money or other assets from any source for deposit into the fund. The state treasurer shall direct the investment of the community district education trust fund. The state treasurer shall credit to the community district education trust fund interest and earnings from community district education trust fund investments.

(3) Money in the community district education trust fund at the close of the fiscal year shall remain in the community district education trust fund and shall not lapse to the general fund.

(4) The department of treasury shall be the administrator of the community district education trust fund for auditing purposes.

(5) The department of treasury shall expend money from the community district education trust fund, upon appropriation, only to offset, directly or indirectly, the absence of local school operating revenue in a community district in the funding of the state portion of foundation allowances under section 22b of the state school aid act of 1979, 1979 PA 94, MCL 388.1622b. As used in this subsection, "community district" means that term as defined in section 3 of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380.3.

(6) Subject to the limitation in this subsection, beginning in fiscal year 2017 and each fiscal year thereafter, $72,000,000.00 of the tobacco settlement revenue received by this state that is not considered a TSR as that term is defined under the Michigan tobacco settlement finance authority act, 2005 PA 226, MCL 129.261 to 129.279, shall be deposited into the community district education trust fund to be used only as provided in subsection (5). The total amount deposited into the community district education trust fund pursuant to this subsection shall not exceed $617,000,000.00.

(7) To the extent that the amount deposited into the community district education trust fund pursuant to subsection (6) is less than the amount necessary to offset the absence of local school operating revenue in a community district in the funding of the state portion of foundation allowances under section 22b of the state school aid act of 1979, 1979 PA 94, MCL 388.1622b, and for as long as that community district is prohibited under section 386 of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380.386, from levying a school operating tax, the general fund shall reimburse the school aid fund.

History: Add. 2016, Act 193, Imd. Eff. June 21, 2016
Mich. Comp. Laws § 29.377 — MI Code / Chapter 29 / Act Act-291-of-1966 / Section 29.377
Effective date.
Status: in_force

Sec. 17.

This act shall take effect January 1, 1968.

History: 1966, Act 291, Eff. Jan. 1, 1968
Mich. Comp. Laws § 123.965 — MI Code / Chapter 123 / Act Act-31-of-1948-1st-Ex-Sess- / Section 123.965
Validation of prior authorities, actions, and bonds.
Status: in_force

Sec. 15.

All authorities heretofore incorporated, all actions heretofore taken, and all bonds heretofore issued under this act, as originally adopted or subsequently amended, and which incorporation actions and bonds do not violate the provisions of this act as amended by the 1968 or any subsequent amendatory act, are validated. No authority incorporated under this act, as originally adopted or subsequently amended, nor any incorporating unit or units thereof, shall contest the validity of any such bonds or any lease or contract which provides the security therefor after they have been sold and delivered and the authority has received the consideration therefor.

History: Add. 1955, Act 25, Imd. Eff. Apr. 7, 1955; Am. 1968, Act 96, Imd. Eff. June 6, 1968; Am. 1970, Act 47, Imd. Eff. July 2, 1970; Am. 1973, Act 110, Imd. Eff. Aug. 19, 1973
Mich. Comp. Laws § 8.3f — MI Code / Chapter 8 / Act R-S-of-1846 / Section 8.3f
“Inhabitant” defined.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3f.

The word "inhabitant" means a resident of a city, township, village, district or county.

History: Add. 1959, Act 189, Imd. Eff. July 22, 1959
Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.8545 — MI Code / Chapter 600 / Act Act-236-of-1961 / Section 600.8545
Small claims division; duties.
Status: in_force

Sec. 8545.

Magistrates shall exercise the same powers and perform the same duties as deputy clerks of the district court for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of chapter 84 although they shall not be considered deputy clerks.

History: Add. 1968, Act 154, Imd. Eff. June 17, 1968
Mich. Comp. Laws § 442.322 — MI Code / Chapter 442 / Act Act-121-of-1970 / Section 442.322
Warranties by art merchant; written instrument; effect of furnishing name of artist; negation or limitation of warranty; construing degree of authenticity of authorship.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

Any provision in any other law to the contrary notwithstanding:

If an art merchant, in selling or exchanging a work of fine art, furnishes to a buyer of the work who is not an art merchant, a written instrument which, in describing the work, identifies it with an author or authorship, the description is presumed to be part of the basis of the bargain and creates an express warranty of the authenticity of the authorship as of the date of the sale or exchange. However, if an art merchant furnishes the name of an artist pursuant to section 7 or 8 of the art multiples sales act, the art merchant for purposes of that information is bound by this section, whether or not the purchaser is an art merchant. The warranty is not negated or limited because the art merchant in the written instrument did not use formal words such as “warrant” or “guarantee”, because he or she did not have a specific intention or authorization to make a warranty, or because any statement relevant to authorship is, or purports to be, or is capable of being merely the art merchant's opinion.

In construing the degree of authenticity of authorship warranted, due regard shall be given to the terminology used in describing the authorship and the meaning accorded to the terminology by the customs and usage of the trade at the time and in the locality where the sale or exchange took place. A written instrument delivered pursuant to a sale which took place in this state which, in describing the work, states, for example:

That the work is by a named author or has a named authorship, without any other limiting words, means, unequivocally, that the work is by the named author or has the named authorship.

That the work is attributed to a named author means a work of the period of the author, attributed to the author, but not with certainty by the named author.

That the work is of the school of a named author means a work of the period of the author, by a pupil or close follower of the author but not by the author.

History: 1970, Act 121, Eff. Jan. 1, 1971; Am. 1987, Act 54, Eff. Dec. 9, 1987
Mich. Comp. Laws § 500.2070 — MI Code / Chapter 500 / Act Act-218-of-1956 / Section 500.2070
Acceptance of rebate or illegal inducement prohibited; reduction of insurance; penalty.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2070.

No insured person or party shall receive or accept, directly or indirectly, any rebate of premium or part thereof, or agent's, solicitor's or broker's commission thereon, payable on the policy, or on any policy of insurance, or any favor or advantage or share in the dividend or other benefit to accrue thereon, or any valuable consideration or inducement, not specified in the policy contract of insurance.

The amount of the insurance whereon the insured has knowingly received or accepted, either directly or indirectly any rebate of the premium or agent's, solicitor's or broker's commission thereon, shall be reduced in such proportion as the amount or value of such rebate, commission, dividend, or other consideration so received by the insured bears to the total premium on such policy, and any person insured, in addition to having the insurance reduced, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $100.00.

History: 1956, Act 218, Eff. Jan. 1, 1957
Mich. Comp. Laws § 456.19 — MI Code / Chapter 456 / Act Act-87-of-1855 / Section 456.19
Reincorporation under act; lot owners in public burying ground, incorporation; transfer of rights from municipalities.
Status: in_force

Sec. 19.

Any burying ground corporation heretofore organized under any law of this state, upon complying with the provisions of the preceding sections of this act, shall possess all the powers, and be subject to all the restrictions of corporations originally organized under this act; and the owners of lots in any public burying ground in this state may associate together and organize themselves into a corporation under the provisions of this act, whenever a majority of such owners shall take the proceedings provided by sections 5, 6, 7 and 8, and thereafter other owners may become members of such corporation by a vote of the board of officers of the corporation, on application to be admitted to membership. Cities, villages and towns may transfer to any corporation, organized under this act, all rights remaining to them in any public burying ground.

History: 1855, Act 87, Imd. Eff. Feb. 12, 1855; CL 1857, 1735; Am. 1867, Act 99, Eff. June 27, 1867; CL 1871, 3392; How. 4746; CL 1897, 8380; CL 1915, 11140; CL 1929, 10419; CL 1948, 456.19
Mich. Comp. Laws § 254.11 — MI Code / Chapter 254 / Act Act-354-of-1925 / Section 254.11
Failure to join; commissioner, duties; approval of supervisors of navigable rivers.
Status: in_force

Sec. 11.

The commissioner may adjourn the hearing from time to time in his discretion. He shall hear the parties and may make such independent investigation as he may deem desirable, and shall either grant or refuse the prayer of the petition. If he shall grant the same, he shall designate the kind of bridge to be built, and shall cause to be prepared the plans and specifications therefor: Provided, That if the same be on a navigable stream the approval of the board of supervisors of the proper county shall be secured before any construction work shall be done.

History: 1925, Act 354, Imd. Eff. May 27, 1925; CL 1929, 4532; CL 1948, 254.11