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Mich. Comp. Laws § 339.2633 — MI Code / Chapter 339 / Act Act-299-of-1980 / Section 339.2633
Duties of licensee.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2633.

A licensee shall do all of the following:

(a) Include, in any appraisal or report provided to a client, the following statement: "Appraisers are required to be licensed and are regulated by the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Growth, P.O. Box 30018, Lansing, Michigan 48909.".

(b) Maintain an actual place of business whose address shall be used as the licensee address and in all advertising.

(c) Maintain a system of books and records open to the department upon request during normal business hours. The books and records shall be maintained in accordance with the uniform standards of professional appraisal practice, the requirements of this article, and any requirements imposed by rules promulgated under this article. The books and records shall show all appraisals undertaken by name of client and the address or description of the property appraised. In addition, applicants for licensure as a state licensed real estate appraiser, a certified residential real estate appraiser, or a certified general real estate appraiser must also provide an appraisal log that includes, at a minimum, the documentation or data required to be kept under the AQB criteria.

(d) Advertise only the services authorized to be rendered according to the type of license issued and only in the name and address under which the individual is licensed. The licensee shall indicate on every appraisal report the license number and level of licensure.

History: Add. 1990, Act 269, Eff. July 1, 1991; Am. 1999, Act 170, Imd. Eff. Nov. 10, 1999; Am. 2006, Act 414, Imd. Eff. Sept. 29, 2006
Mich. Comp. Laws § 333.16243 — MI Code / Chapter 333 / Act Act-368-of-1978 / Section 333.16243
Reports; reporting name of licensee, amount of damages awarded, or amount of approved settlement.
Status: in_force

Sec. 16243.

(1) The department or a disciplinary subcommittee appointed under section 16216 may request and shall receive the following reports:

(a) Information from a licensed health care facility as to disciplinary action taken by it under section 20175.

(b) Information from an insurer providing professional liability insurance as to claims or actions for damages against a licensee; settlements in any amount; a final disposition not resulting in payment on behalf of the insured; or a personal injury claimed to have been caused by an error, omission, or negligence in the performance of the insured professional services. An insurer that receives a request under this subdivision shall submit the information requested directly to the department.

(c) Information from a court in this state as to a felony or misdemeanor conviction of a licensee or registrant or a judgment against a licensee or registrant finding the licensee or registrant negligent in an action for malpractice, whether or not the judgment is appealed.

(d) A report by a licensee or registrant under section 16222.

(e) Information provided by the National Practitioner Data Bank, and reports from the Michigan health care arbitration program.

(f) Reports from any other appropriate source necessary for determination of the competency and safety of the practice of a licensee. Appropriate sources include, but are not limited to, appointed public and private professional review entities and public and private health insurance programs.

(2) Within 10 days after the entry of a judgment against a licensee finding the licensee negligent in an action for malpractice or the approval by a court of a settlement in an action for malpractice, the clerk of the court in which the judgment was entered or the settlement approved shall prepare and immediately forward to the department on a form prescribed by the department a report setting forth the name of the licensee and the amount of damages awarded or the amount of the approved settlement.

History: 1978, Act 368, Eff. Sept. 30, 1978; Am. 1986, Act 174, Imd. Eff. July 7, 1986; Am. 1993, Act 79, Eff. Apr. 1, 1994; Am. 2016, Act 103, Eff. Aug. 1, 2016
Mich. Comp. Laws § 722.772 — MI Code / Chapter 722 / Act Act-176-of-1985 / Section 722.772
Definitions.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

As used in this act:

(a) "Child" means any person under 17 years of age.

(b) "Child or youth with special health care needs" means a single or married individual under 21 years of age whose activity is or may become so restricted by disease or specified medical condition as to reduce the individual's normal capacity for education and self-support.

(c) "Department" means the department of state police.

(d) "Department-approved entity" means an entity, including a local law enforcement agency or a private company, approved by the department to take the fingerprints and photograph of a child or youth with special health care needs under section 4.

(e) "Governmental unit" means the state or any political subdivision of the state, an authorized representative of the state or any political subdivision of the state, any school district, intermediate school district, or an authorized representative of any school district or intermediate school district.

(f) "Guardian" means a person who has qualified as a guardian of a minor or a child or youth with special health care needs under a parental or spousal nomination or a court order issued under section 19a or 19c of chapter XIIA of the probate code of 1939, MCL 712A.19a and 712A.19c, section 5204, 5205, or 5306 of the estates and protected individuals code, 1998 PA 386, MCL 700.5204, 700.5205, and 700.5306, or sections 600 to 644 of the mental health code, 1974 PA 258, MCL 330.1600 to 330.1644. Guardian may also include a person appointed by a tribal court under tribal code or custom. Guardian does not include a guardian ad litem.

History: 1985, Act 176, Imd. Eff. Dec. 2, 1985; Am. 2017, Act 24, Eff. Aug. 2, 2017
Mich. Comp. Laws § 339.5303 — MI Code / Chapter 339 / Act Act-407-of-2016 / Section 339.5303
Board; appointment and nominations.
Status: in_force

Sec. 303.

Unless otherwise provided in a specific article of this act, each of the following applies to the appointment of board members:

(a) The governor shall appoint an individual as a member of a board with the advice and consent of the senate, including an individual appointed to fill a vacancy on a board.

(b) In making an appointment, the governor shall seek nominations from a wide range of interested groups and persons, including appropriate professional associations, consumer associations, labor unions, and other organizations or individuals.

History: 2016, Act 407, Eff. Apr. 4, 2017
Mich. Comp. Laws § 487.1813 — MI Code / Chapter 487 / Act Act-89-of-1986 / Section 487.1813
Financing assistance to business firm to which associate of licensee provides financing assistance; applicability of section.
Status: in_force

Sec. 813.

A licensee shall not provide, directly or indirectly, financing assistance to a business firm to which an associate of that licensee provides financing assistance, either contemporaneously with, or within 1 year before or after, the providing of financing assistance by the licensee, if the terms on which the licensee provides financing assistance are less favorable to the licensee than the terms on which the associate provides financing assistance to the business firm. If the financing assistance provided by the associate of the licensee is of a different kind from the financing assistance provided by the licensee, the burden shall be on the licensee to prove that the terms on which the licensee provided financing assistance were at least as favorable to the licensee as the terms on which the associate provided financing assistance to the business firm.

This section does not apply to any of the following:

If the associate is a controlling person of the licensee and is also the only owner of the licensee.

If the associate is a subsidiary of the licensee.

A transaction effected by an associate of a licensee in the normal course of that associate's business involving a line of credit or short-term financing assistance.

History: 1986, Act 89, Imd. Eff. May 1, 1986; Am. 1997, Act 150, Imd. Eff. Dec. 2, 1997
Mich. Comp. Laws § 257.18 — MI Code / Chapter 257 / Act Act-300-of-1949 / Section 257.18
Definitions, F.
Status: in_force

Sec. 18.

"Foreign vehicle" means a vehicle of a type required to be registered under this act and brought into this state from another state, territory, or country other than in the ordinary course of business by or through a manufacturer or dealer, and not registered in this state.

"Former section 625(1) or (2)" means section 625(1) or (2) as amended by Act No. 391 of the Public Acts of 1978, Act No. 515 of the Public Acts of 1980, Act No. 309 of the Public Acts of 1982, or Act No. 109 of the Public Acts of 1987.

"Former section 625b" means section 625b as amended by Act No. 285 of the Public Acts of 1976, Act No. 515 of the Public Acts of 1980, Act No. 309 of the Public Acts of 1982, or Act No. 109 of the Public Acts of 1987.

History: 1949, Act 300, Eff. Sept. 23, 1949; Am. 1991, Act 99, Eff. Jan. 1, 1992
Mich. Comp. Laws § 570.547 — MI Code / Chapter 570 / Act Act-481-of-2002 / Section 570.547
Return receipt of notice; possession unclaimed; transfer.
Status: in_force

Sec. 7.

If a customer does not claim possession of the special tool within 120 days after the date the end user receives the return receipt of the notice sent under section 5, or does not make other arrangements with the end user for storage of the special tool within the time limit set forth in this section, all rights, title, and interest of the customer in the special tool shall be transferred by operation of law to the end user for purposes of destroying the special tool. This section shall not be construed to affect a right of a customer under federal patent or copyright law or any state or federal law pertaining to unfair competition.

History: 2002, Act 481, Imd. Eff. June 27, 2002
Mich. Comp. Laws § 32.1105 — MI Code / Chapter 32 / Act Act-523-of-1980 / Section 32.1105
Prohibited acts committed while in hands of captor during declared state of emergency or civil disturbance; punishment.
Status: in_force

Sec. 105.

(1) A person subject to this code who, while in the hands of a captor in time of declared state emergency, or civil disturbance emergency shall not do any of the following:

(a) To secure favorable treatment by the person's captors, act without proper authority in a manner contrary to law, custom, rule, or regulation to the detriment of others.

(b) While in a position of authority over those persons, maltreat them without justifiable cause.

(2) A person who violates this section shall be punished as a court-martial directs.

History: 1980, Act 523, Eff. Mar. 31, 1981; Am. 2005, Act 186, Imd. Eff. Oct. 27, 2005
Mich. Comp. Laws § 287.809 — MI Code / Chapter 287 / Act Act-239-of-1992 / Section 287.809
Definitions; G to L.
Status: in_force

Sec. 9.

"Gilt" means any female breeding swine until her first litter is farrowed, born, or aborted.

"Herd" means any individual swine or group of swine under common ownership or management maintained on a swine premises for more than 24 hours for any purpose, or 2 or more individual swine or groups of swine that have been intermingled or in physical contact without regard to pseudorabies status or that are under common ownership or management and that have been geographically separated. Two or more swine or such groups of swine are 1 herd unless, through investigation, the director has determined that intermingling and contact between groups has not occurred and is not likely to occur.

"Herd cleanup plan" means a written plan developed jointly by the director and the quarantined herd's owner for the elimination of pseudorabies virus from the swine herd. Such plan may include provisions for the movement of feeder pigs from the quarantined premises to an approved pseudorabies quarantined feedlot and shall include, but not be limited to, provisions for testing, segregation, cleaning, and disinfection, disease management, vaccine use, control of exposure and virus spread to other herds, and a timetable for implementing such plan as can be outlined. The herd cleanup plan shall be approved by the official pseudorabies epidemiologist for the state of Michigan.

"Herd of origin" means any herd in which swine are born and remain until movement or any herd in which swine remain for at least 30 days immediately following direct movement into the herd from another herd.

"Infected herd" means any herd in which pseudorabies or brucellosis has been diagnosed in 1 or more animals by an official test, clinical diagnosis, or laboratory procedure. The final determination of infected herd status shall be made by the director.

"Livestock" means animals used for human food and fiber or animals used for service to mankind. Livestock includes, but is not limited to, cattle, swine, sheep, llamas, goats, bison, equine, poultry, and rabbits.

"Livestock auction market" means a public stockyard, auction sale yard, livestock yard, or concentration yard or any livestock market where livestock are accepted on consignment and the auction method is used in the marketing of consigned livestock or as described in Act No. 284 of the Public Acts of 1937, being sections 287.121 to 287.131 of the Michigan Compiled Laws.

History: 1992, Act 239, Eff. Mar. 31, 1993
Mich. Comp. Laws § 490.406 — MI Code / Chapter 490 / Act Act-215-of-2003 / Section 490.406
Domestic credit union; powers authorized by credit union board; acquisition of interest in real property; definitions.
Status: in_force

Sec. 406.

If authorized by the credit union board, a domestic credit union may do any of the following:

Assist in providing cooperative housing and related facilities for its members. A domestic credit union shall not invest more than 5% of its unimpaired share capital in programs described in this subdivision. This section does not authorize a domestic credit union to invest in the stock of a housing cooperative.

Assist in creating a housing cooperative for its members.

Assist a housing cooperative composed of its members in selecting a housing site.

If authorized by the credit union board, a domestic credit union may acquire any interest in real property if all of the following are met:

The property is suitable for a housing cooperative and related facilities for its members.

The domestic credit union will dispose of its interest in the property to a housing cooperative within 3 years.

The purchase price of the property does not exceed the appraised value of the property as determined by a competent disinterested appraiser retained by the domestic credit union.

Before the domestic credit union acquires its interest, if state or federal assistance is contemplated, the domestic credit union where possible obtains the approval of the state or federal agency that will assist the housing cooperative in determining the acceptability to that agency of the property for use as a cooperative housing site.

If within a reasonable time after the domestic credit union acquires its interest in a housing cooperative it determines that the property is not suitable for cooperative housing for its members, the domestic credit union shall dispose of its interest in the manner most advantageous to the domestic credit union.

A domestic credit union may employ consultants, appraisers, or other persons or organizations qualified by experience and training to provide advice and assistance in the acquisition of cooperative housing sites, the creation of housing cooperatives, the processing of applications for state or federal assistance, or the development of plans for the housing and financing, and may take any other action related to its authority under this section.

As used in this section:

"Domestic credit union" may include more than 1 domestic credit union acting in combination.

"Housing cooperative" means a nonprofit housing cooperative corporation.

History: 2003, Act 215, Eff. June 1, 2004
Mich. Comp. Laws § 3.831 — MI Code / Chapter 3 / Act Act-26-of-1987 / Section 3.831
Superconducting super collider ombudsman; appointment; reconciliation of grievances; request for review; response.
Status: in_force

Sec. 21.

The director of commerce shall appoint and be responsible for 1 or more individuals within 30 days of the effective date of this act to serve as the superconducting super collider ombudsman. The ombudsman may act on behalf of the state in attempting to reconcile grievances between the state and any person aggrieved by the planning, construction, or operation of the superconducting super collider.

Any person aggrieved pursuant to subsection (1) may submit a request to the ombudsman to review the grievance. The ombudsman shall respond within 7 days of the request.

History: Add. 1988, Act 274, Imd. Eff. July 15, 1988
Mich. Comp. Laws § 691.1114 — MI Code / Chapter 691 / Act Act-106-of-1964 / Section 691.1114
Transcripts.
Status: in_force

Sec. 4.

Transcripts or certified copies of such copies, records, reproductions and replacements, shall be considered as transcripts or certified copies of the originals.

History: 1964, Act 106, Eff. Aug. 28, 1964
Mich. Comp. Laws § 557.29 — MI Code / Chapter 557 / Act Act-216-of-1981 / Section 557.29
Repeal of MCL 557.1 to 557.5, 557.11, and 557.51 to 557.55.
Status: in_force

Sec. 9.

The following acts and parts of acts are repealed:

Act No. 168 of the Public Acts of 1855, being sections 557.1 to 557.5 of the Compiled Laws of 1970.

Act No. 196 of the Public Acts of 1911, being section 557.11 of the Compiled Laws of 1970.

Act No. 158 of the Public Acts of 1917, being sections 557.51 to 557.55 of the Compiled Laws of 1970.

History: 1981, Act 216, Eff. Mar. 31, 1982
Mich. Comp. Laws § 458.302 — MI Code / Chapter 458 / Act Act-53-of-1901 / Section 458.302
Election, qualifications, and terms of trustees; filing articles of association and certificate of election with department of commerce; effect.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

The persons signing said articles may, at the same time, elect by ballot, or may designate some other time and place for so electing, not less than 3 nor more than 12 trustees, a majority of whom shall be members of said church, to serve until their successors shall be elected. One-third of said trustees as near as may be shall, at the first election, be chosen for 3 years, 1/3 for 2 years, and 1/3 for 1 year, but thereafter, except to fill vacancies, they shall be chosen for 3 years, of which election a full record shall be made, and a certified copy of such record, signed by the presiding officer and secretary of the meeting at which said election is held, together with said articles of association, shall be filed with the corporation and securities bureau of the department of commerce. When said articles of association and the certificate of election of said trustees shall have been so filed for record, the persons who shall have signed said articles, together with those who shall thereafter become members of said church, and, if the articles of association so provide, those persons, being of legal age, who are, and those who shall become regular contributors to the support of said church, shall become and be a body corporate under the name and style adopted in said articles, which name shall conform to the following form, namely: The (insert name or number) Congregational church of (insert name of place of location).

History: 1901, Act 53, Imd. Eff. Apr. 9, 1901; Am. 1913, Act 298, Eff. Aug. 14, 1913; CL 1915, 11017; CL 1929, 10951; CL 1948, 458.302; Am. 1982, Act 83, Imd. Eff. Apr. 19, 1982
Mich. Comp. Laws § 460.10 — MI Code / Chapter 460 / Act Act-3-of-1939 / Section 460.10
MCL 460.10a to 460.10bb; purpose.
Status: in_force

Sec. 10.

The purpose of sections 10a through 10bb is to do all of the following:

(a) To ensure that all persons in this state are afforded safe, reliable electric power at a competitive rate.

(b) To improve the opportunities for economic development in this state and to promote financially healthy and competitive utilities in this state.

(c) To maintain, foster, and encourage robust, reliable, and economic generation, distribution, and transmission systems to provide this state's electric suppliers and generators an opportunity to access regional sources of generation and wholesale power markets and to ensure a reliable supply of electricity in this state.

History: Add. 2000, Act 141, Imd. Eff. June 5, 2000; Am. 2008, Act 286, Imd. Eff. Oct. 6, 2008; Am. 2016, Act 341, Eff. Apr. 20, 2017
Mich. Comp. Laws § 257.620 — MI Code / Chapter 257 / Act Act-300-of-1949 / Section 257.620
Accidents; attended or unattended vehicle; stopping; report.
Status: in_force

Sec. 620.

The driver of any vehicle which collides upon either public or private property with any vehicle which is attended or unattended shall immediately stop and shall then and there either locate and notify the operator or owner of such vehicle of the name and address of the driver and owner of the vehicle striking the vehicle or, if such owner cannot be located, shall forthwith report it to the nearest or most convenient police officer.

History: 1949, Act 300, Eff. Sept. 23, 1949; Am. 1967, Act 71, Eff. Nov. 2, 1967
Mich. Comp. Laws § 774.47 — MI Code / Chapter 760 / Act Act-175-of-1927 / Section 774.47
Municipal court having more than 1 judge; powers of any judge in connection with trial and disposition of case.
Status: in_force

Sec. 47.

In a municipal court having more than 1 judge, whenever a warrant is issued for the arrest of a person charged with an offense against the laws of this state, or for the violation of a city ordinance, any judge of that municipal court may arraign, set bail, adjourn, try, take testimony in, conduct a preliminary examination, dismiss, hold for trial in circuit court, and do any other act in connection with the trial and disposition of the case brought before the municipal court.

History: Add. 1941, Act 264, Eff. Jan. 10, 1942; CL 1948, 774.47; Am. 1980, Act 506, Imd. Eff. Jan. 22, 1981
Mich. Comp. Laws § 124.426 — MI Code / Chapter 124 / Act Act-204-of-1967 / Section 124.426
Emergency financial manager.
Status: in_force

Sec. 26.

Notwithstanding any provision of this act, if an emergency financial manager has been appointed under the local government fiscal responsibility act, Act No. 101 of the Public Acts of 1988, being sections 141.1101 to 141.1118 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, with respect to an authority established by this act, then that emergency financial manager may exercise the authority and responsibilities provided in this act to the extent authorized by Act No. 101 of the Public Acts of 1988.

History: Add. 1988, Act 481, Imd. Eff. Dec. 28, 1988