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Mich. Comp. Laws § 554.917 — MI Code / Chapter 554 / Act Act-448-of-2014 / Section 554.917
Rules; exemption; variance; area not considered home for the aged or adult foster care facility; relationship not subject to laws between landlord and tenant.
Status: in_force

Sec. 17.

(1) A continuing care community that is licensed in whole or part under article 17 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333.20101 to 333.22260, or the adult foster care facility licensing act, 1979 PA 218, MCL 400.701 to 400.737, is exempt from any rules promulgated under article 17 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333.20101 to 333.22260, or the adult foster care facility licensing act, 1979 PA 218, MCL 400.701 to 400.737, that would interfere with a resident's access to a common area, subject to the resident's need for care and supervision.

(2) A continuing care community may request a variance from the application of a rule promulgated under article 17 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333.20101 to 333.22260, or promulgated under the adult foster care facility licensing act, 1979 PA 218, MCL 400.701 to 400.737, and applicable to a home for the aged or adult foster care facility, respectively, that is part of the continuing care community. The department of human services shall grant the variance upon a finding of both of the following:

(a) That the rule unnecessarily segregates members of the continuing care community who reside in the home for the aged or adult foster care facility from other members of the continuing care community.

(b) That the variance will not result in a risk to human health or safety.

(3) An area where room and board together with personal care, protection and supervision, or supervised personal care are provided to a member is not a home for the aged as defined in section 20106 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333.20106, or an adult foster care facility as defined in section 3 of the adult foster care facility licensing act, 1979 PA 218, MCL 400.703, if the services are only provided on a temporary basis under any of the following circumstances:

(a) While the member is recovering from an illness or accident.

(b) Until a living unit in an appropriate licensed area of the continuing care community becomes available.

(4) The relationship between a continuing care community and a member or prospective member is not subject to laws regulating the relationship between a landlord and a current or prospective tenant.

History: 2014, Act 448, Eff. Apr. 2, 2015
Mich. Comp. Laws § 254.192 — MI Code / Chapter 254 / Act Act-11-of-2010 / Section 254.192
Written accounting of expenditures and updates.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

The state transportation department shall provide, as directed in this section and at reasonable intervals, a written accounting of all expenditures related to the plaza expansion project and written updates as to whether the plaza expansion project is staying within the budget for project expenditures with full explanations for any expenditures beyond those budgeted. The written accounting and updates shall be provided to all of the following:

(a) The members of the standing committees in the senate and house of representatives that deal primarily with transportation and local government issues. The written updates shall be submitted electronically.

(b) Each member of the transportation appropriations subcommittee in the house of representatives and the senate.

(c) Each elected state official in the county in which the expansion project is located.

History: 2010, Act 11, Imd. Eff. Mar. 8, 2010
Mich. Comp. Laws § 46.12e — MI Code / Chapter 46 / Act Act-156-of-1851 / Section 46.12e
Transfer of county employee to state; employees' retirement benefits.
Status: in_force

Sec. 12e.

Subject to the protecting local government retirement and benefits act, if an employee of a county department of a county that has adopted a retirement system providing for the payment of benefits in the event of a nonduty disability or nonduty death is transferred to the employ of this state because of a function of the department is transferred to this state, the transferred employee who does not withdraw his or her accumulated contributions from the county's retirement system, and who while employed by this state sustains nonduty total disability or nonduty death, must have the credited period of service while employed by this state added to the credited period of service with the county before the transfer for the purpose of determining eligibility for nonduty disability retirement pension or benefits or, for nonduty death benefits payable to the dependents of deceased employees under the plan adopted by the county. Subject to the protecting local government retirement and benefits act, all pension or retirement benefits of a transferred employee described in this section or his or her dependents must be based on the service credit and compensation earned while employed by the county. Subject to the protecting local government and retirement benefits act, the board of commissioners by ordinance may provide that all pension or retirement benefits of transferred employees or their dependents must be based on the highest 5 years of service credit and compensation earned while employed by either the county or this state.

History: Add. 1966, Act 123, Imd. Eff. June 23, 1966; Am. 1970, Act 116, Imd. Eff. July 23, 1970; Am. 2017, Act 204, Imd. Eff. Dec. 20, 2017
Mich. Comp. Laws § 250.1117 — MI Code / Chapter 250 / Act Act-142-of-2001 / Section 250.1117
"Corporal Mohamed Said Memorial Highway"
Status: in_force

Sec. 117.

The portion of highway I-94 in Wayne County between Oakwood Boulevard and Outer Drive W shall be known as the "Corporal Mohamed Said Memorial Highway".

History: Add. 2024, Act 220, Eff. Apr. 2, 2025
Mich. Comp. Laws § 287.1103 — MI Code / Chapter 287 / Act Act-274-of-2000 / Section 287.1103
Prohibited conduct.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3.

A person shall not do any of the following:

(a) Own or possess a large carnivore except in compliance with this act.

(b) Except as provided in section 22, breed a large carnivore.

(c) Transfer ownership or possession of or receive a transfer of ownership or possession of a large carnivore, with or without remuneration. This subdivision does not apply to a transfer of ownership or possession of a large carnivore expressly authorized or required by this act.

History: 2000, Act 274, Imd. Eff. July 7, 2000; Am. 2018, Act 610, Eff. Mar. 28, 2019
Mich. Comp. Laws § 440.3406 — MI Code / Chapter 440 / Act Act-174-of-1962 / Section 440.3406
Failure to exercise ordinary care contributing to alteration or forged instrument; allocation of loss; burden of proof.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3406.

A person whose failure to exercise ordinary care substantially contributes to an alteration of an instrument or to the making of a forged signature on an instrument is precluded from asserting the alteration or the forgery against a person who, in good faith, pays the instrument or takes it for value or for collection.

Under subsection (1), if the person asserting the preclusion fails to exercise ordinary care in paying or taking the instrument and that failure substantially contributes to loss, the loss is allocated between the person precluded and the person asserting the preclusion according to the extent to which the failure of each to exercise ordinary care contributed to the loss.

Under subsection (1), the burden of proving failure to exercise ordinary care is on the person asserting the preclusion. Under subsection (2), the burden of proving failure to exercise ordinary care is on the person precluded.

History: 1962, Act 174, Eff. Jan. 1, 1964; Am. 1993, Act 130, Eff. Sept. 30, 1993
Mich. Comp. Laws § 124.284d — MI Code / Chapter 124 / Act Act-233-of-1955 / Section 124.284d
Enforcement of rules and regulations; issuance of citation or appearance ticket; exercise and scope of enforcement powers; costs and fees.
Status: in_force

Sec. 4d.

(1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3), rules and regulations promulgated under this act are enforceable by the authority, its constituent municipalities, and municipalities or Indian tribes that have contracted with the authority for the furnishing of service pursuant to section 10. A person charged with enforcement of those rules and regulations may issue a citation or an appearance ticket to any person who is reasonably believed to have violated a rule or regulation promulgated under this act.

(2) The authority shall exercise its enforcement powers under this act against a violator within a municipality.

(3) A municipality or Indian tribe may exercise its enforcement powers under this act against a violator in territory under its jurisdiction.

(4) For the purposes of this section, enforcement powers include the power to bring an action in a court of competent jurisdiction to enjoin the violation of a rule or regulation promulgated under this act or to recover actual damages sustained due to the violation, or both. Costs and fees shall be awarded in those actions as provided in sections 2401 to 2461 of the revised judicature act of 1961, 1961 PA 236, MCL 600.2401 to 600.2461, or other applicable law.

History: Add. 1985, Act 178, Imd. Eff. Dec. 6, 1985; Am. 2009, Act 167, Imd. Eff. Dec. 14, 2009
Mich. Comp. Laws § 421.57 — MI Code / Chapter 421 / Act Act-1-of-1936-Ex-Sess- / Section 421.57
Amendment or repeal of act.
Status: in_force

Sec. 57.

Amendment or repeal of act. All the rights, privileges or immunities conferred under or by virtue of the provisions of this act, or acts done pursuant thereto, shall exist subject to the power of amendment or repeal of this act by the legislature.

History: 1936, Ex. Sess., Act 1, Imd. Eff. Dec. 24, 1936; CL 1948, 421.57
Mich. Comp. Laws § 460.461 — MI Code / Chapter 460 / Act Act-182-of-1971 / Section 460.461
Loans to cities or villages owning and operating public utilities; evidences of indebtedness; term of loan; security; indebtedness subject to revenue bond act.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

A city or village owning and operating a public utility, without vote of its electors and upon approval of its legislative body, may borrow money and issue and sell its notes or other evidences of indebtedness in the form and on the terms it deems advisable for the purpose of purchasing equipment or fuel, or both, or of purchasing, acquiring, constructing, improving, enlarging, extending, or repairing the facilities of the public utility. Loans shall not be made or notes or other evidences of indebtedness issued for a term exceeding 5 years. Notes or other evidences of indebtedness relating to fuels or supplies shall not exceed a term of 18 months.

Notes or other evidences of indebtedness issued under this act shall not be general obligations of the city or village but shall be secured by and payable from the unencumbered revenues of the utility and other pledges and assignments authorized in this act. The city or village may pledge or assign bonds or other securities or evidences of debt held by it as investments for the public utility as security for the loan and to guarantee its repayment.

Notes or other evidences of indebtedness are subject to the revenue bond act of 1933, 1933 PA 94, MCL 141.101 to 141.140.

History: 1971, Act 182, Imd. Eff. Dec. 20, 1971; Am. 1972, Act 130, Imd. Eff. May 8, 1972; Am. 1975, Act 155, Imd. Eff. July 9, 1975; Am. 2002, Act 409, Imd. Eff. June 3, 2002
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.73105 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.73105
Posting or enclosing property.
Status: in_force

Sec. 73105.

A person shall not post a sign on property owned by another person or enclose the property of another person to prohibit hunting, fishing, trapping, or other recreational activities on that property without the written permission of the owner of that property or his or her lessee or agent.

History: Add. 1995, Act 58, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1995
Mich. Comp. Laws § 380.418a — MI Code / Chapter 380 / Act Act-451-of-1976 / Section 380.418a
Board; meetings; proceedings and official actions as public record; annual audit; report; publication; actions to be by yea and nay vote entered upon record.
Status: in_force

Sec. 418a.

Regular meetings of the first class school district board shall be held at least once each month, at a time and place fixed by the bylaws. If the question under section 410 is not approved, not less than 7 of the regular meetings shall be held in different voting districts of the first class school district each year. If the question under section 410 is approved, not less than 9 of the regular meetings shall be held in different voting districts of the first class school district each year. The bylaws may provide for the calling of special meetings.

The proceedings and official actions of the first class school district board shall be a public record open to inspection pursuant to section 1202.

The board of the first class school district shall have made a complete annual audit of its financial transactions. The board may employ a firm of certified public accountants to make the audit or, if the city with the greatest population located within the boundaries of the school district has an auditor whose duties are limited to postauditing of finances and investigation of operations, the board may arrange for the city's auditor to make the audit. The audit report shall be made to the board and the chief executive officer and shall be a public record. The board may direct the chief executive officer to publish the audit report by adding to it general school statistics or it may publish general school statistics separately.

If the question under section 410 is not approved in the first class school district, every action of the first class school district board creating a liability or debt or originating the disposal or expenditure of property or money shall be by yea and nay vote entered upon its record.

History: Add. 1981, Act 96, Eff. Jan. 1, 1983; Am. 1982, Act 71, Eff. Jan. 1, 1983; Am. 2004, Act 303, Imd. Eff. Aug. 10, 2004
Mich. Comp. Laws § 449.315 — MI Code / Chapter 449 / Act Act-191-of-1877 / Section 449.315
Existing associations; articles, amendment, procedure; evidence.
Status: in_force

Sec. 15.

Every association organized or existing under the provisions of this act may, at any annual meeting or any meeting duly called for that purpose by a resolution adopted by a vote of 2/3 in value of interest of its capital stock, amend its articles of association in any manner not inconsistent with the provisions of this act, but such amendments shall not become operative until a copy of such resolutions, signed by the chairman and secretary of the board of managers of such association, shall have been recorded as is provided herein for the recording of the original articles of association when such amendment shall have the same force and effect as though said amendments had been included in the original articles, and a record or copy of the record of such resolution certified as provided in section 1 for the certification of the original articles of association shall be received in all courts of this state as prima facie evidence of the things therein stated.

History: Add. 1903, Act 244, Imd. Eff. June 18, 1903; CL 1915, 7964; CL 1929, 9923; CL 1948, 449.315
Mich. Comp. Laws § 393.355 — MI Code / Chapter 393 / Act Act-260-of-1978 / Section 393.355
Additional duties of commission.
Status: in_force

Sec. 5.

The commission shall do all of the following:

Cooperate with other departments, agencies, and institutions, both public and private, in providing for the rehabilitation of blind persons, in studying problems relative to blind persons, and in establishing, developing, and providing necessary programs, facilities, and services.

Enter into reciprocal arrangements with other states to provide for the rehabilitation of residents of the states concerned.

Conduct research and compile statistics relating to the rehabilitation of blind persons.

Provide social adjustment, guidance, counsel, mobility training, and employment adjustment of blind persons in their home communities.

Provide surveys of employment opportunities for blind persons and the placement of blind persons in employment not otherwise provided for.

Regulate concessions reserved for operation by blind persons pursuant to this act.

Promulgate rules pursuant to Act No. 306 of the Public Acts of 1969, as amended, being sections 24.201 to 24.315 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, for the implementation and administration of this act.

History: 1978, Act 260, Eff. Oct. 1, 1978; Am. 1982, Act 224, Imd. Eff. Sept. 14, 1982
Mich. Comp. Laws § 28.713 — MI Code / Chapter 28 / Act Act-176-of-2012 / Section 28.713
Missing senior or vulnerable adult; report.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3.

A law enforcement agency that receives notice of a missing senior or vulnerable adult from a person familiar with the missing senior or vulnerable adult shall prepare a report on the missing senior or vulnerable adult. The report shall include the following:

(a) Relevant information obtained from the notification concerning the missing senior or vulnerable adult, including the following:

( i ) A physical description of the missing senior or vulnerable adult.

( ii ) The date, time, and place that the missing senior or vulnerable adult was last seen.

( iii ) The missing senior's or vulnerable adult's address.

(b) Information gathered by a preliminary investigation, if one was made.

(c) A statement by the law enforcement officer in charge setting forth that officer's assessment of the case based upon the evidence and information received.

History: 2012, Act 176, Imd. Eff. June 19, 2012
Mich. Comp. Laws § 37.24 — MI Code / Chapter 37 / Act Act-241-of-2023 / Section 37.24
Biennial report to office of global Michigan on implementation of meaningful language access to public services.
Status: in_force

Sec. 4.

Not less than every 2 years, each covered entity shall develop and submit to the office of global Michigan a report with information and plans concerning implementation of meaningful language access to its services. The report must include, but is not limited to, all of the following:

(a) The number of bilingual staff who are available to facilitate meaningful language access and the languages they facilitate.

(b) The number of bilingual staff determined to be needed for each language to provide meaningful language access for the population with limited English proficiency it serves.

(c) A plan to address any insufficiency in its ability to provide meaningful language access.

(d) A list of vital documents that it has had translated and the language of the translation.

(e) Designation of an employee as its language access coordinator.

(f) A staff training plan related to meaningful language access. The staff training plan must include specific information regarding implementation, including the specific types of language services available and how the covered entity will do all of the following:

( i ) Obtain language services internally or from vendors.

( ii ) Respond to callers with limited English proficiency.

( iii ) Respond to written communications from individuals with limited English proficiency.

( iv ) Respond to individuals with limited English proficiency who have in-person contact with staff.

( v ) Ensure competency of interpreters and translation services.

( vi ) Collect preferred language data for all unique public encounters.

( vii ) Indicate limited English proficiency status in data and information systems.

( viii ) Communicate information to the language access coordinator about perceived changes in language services needed by the population served and when that information will be communicated.

(g) A plan to increase public awareness of the services provided to facilitate meaningful language access.

History: 2023, Act 241, Eff. Feb. 28, 2024
Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.513 — MI Code / Chapter 600 / Act Act-236-of-1961 / Section 600.513
Twelfth judicial circuit.
Status: in_force

Sec. 513.

The twelfth judicial circuit consists of the counties of Baraga, Houghton and Keweenaw and has 1 judge.

History: 1961, Act 236, Eff. Jan. 1, 1963
Mich. Comp. Laws § 290.668 — MI Code / Chapter 290 / Act Act-232-of-1965 / Section 290.668
Rules and regulations; duty of director.
Status: in_force

Sec. 18.

The director may make and promulgate such rules and regulations as may be necessary to effectuate the provisions and intent of this act, in accordance with the provisions of Act No. 88 of the Public Acts of 1943, as amended, being sections 24.71 to 24.80 of the Compiled Laws of 1948, and subject to Act No. 197 of the Public Acts of 1952, as amended, being sections 24.101 to 24.110 of the Compiled Laws of 1948.

History: 1965, Act 232, Eff. Mar. 31, 1966
Mich. Comp. Laws § 333.17711 — MI Code / Chapter 333 / Act Act-368-of-1978 / Section 333.17711
Practice of pharmacy or pharmacy technician; license or authorization required; use of words, titles, or letters.
Status: in_force

Sec. 17711.

(1) An individual shall not engage in the practice of pharmacy unless licensed or otherwise authorized by this article. Beginning October 1, 2015, an individual shall not serve as a pharmacy technician unless licensed or otherwise authorized by this article.

(2) The following words, titles, or letters or a combination of words, titles, or letters, with or without qualifying words or phrases, are restricted in use only to those persons authorized under this part to use the terms and in a way prescribed in this part: "pharmacy", "pharmacist", "Pharm.D", "doctor of pharmacy", "pharmacy intern", "pharmacy technician", "licensed pharmacy technician", "certified pharmacy technician", "CPhT", "apothecary", "dispensary", "drugstore", "druggist", "medicine store", "prescriptions", and "r.ph.".

History: 1978, Act 368, Eff. Sept. 30, 1978; Am. 2006, Act 390, Imd. Eff. Sept. 27, 2006; Am. 2014, Act 285, Eff. Dec. 22, 2014; Am. 2014, Act 413, Eff. Mar. 30, 2015; Am. 2015, Act 91, Imd. Eff. June 25, 2015