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Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.35505 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.35505
Reports; contents; additional information.
Status: in_force

Sec. 35505.

The committee may require clear and concise reports containing the information listed under subsection (2) and, if applicable, subsection (3) from state departments and state agencies, including, but not limited to, the following:

Department of natural resources.

State transportation department.

Department of commerce.

Department of agriculture.

Department of public health.

Department of military affairs.

Each reporting department shall prepare for the committee a report that contains an overview of all of the following:

A report pertaining to those activities of the reporting departments that alter biological diversity, noting which ecosystems and species are impacted and the existence of and effectiveness of mitigation measures.

Any other information determined by the committee to be necessary or helpful in preparing the state strategy.

The costs and benefits of preserving biological diversity and mitigation measures.

In addition to the information required under subsection (2), the department of natural resources and the department of agriculture shall include in their report, to the extent practical, examples of techniques that are used to improve the protection and maintenance of this state's biological diversity, and the long-term viability of ecosystems and ecosystem processes, including all of the following:

Enhancement of scientific knowledge through improved and more complete biological surveys, and research designed to identify factors limiting population viability or persistence.

Identification of habitats and species of special concern and methods to protect them.

Improvement of management techniques based on scientific knowledge of the conservation of biological diversity.

Effective restoration methods for ecosystems or species of concern.

Broad-based education efforts regarding the importance of biological diversity and the need for conservation.

Use of areas demonstrating management techniques that conserve or restore native biological diversity.

Use of cooperative programs among government agencies, public and private ventures, and the public sector.

Promotion of sustained yield of natural resources for human benefit.

Any other technique to improve the protection and maintenance of this state's biological diversity, and the long-term viability of ecosystems and ecosystem processes whether or not the technique is in current use if supported by scientific knowledge.

The costs and benefits associated with activities described in subdivisions (a) to (i).

History: Add. 1995, Act 59, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1995
Mich. Comp. Laws § 259.182 — MI Code / Chapter 259 / Act Act-327-of-1945 / Section 259.182
Allowing domestic animals or fowl on airport facility.
Status: in_force

Sec. 182.

The owner or keeper of any domestic animal or fowl shall not allow the domestic animal or fowl to run at large and enter or be upon any airport, landing field, or other aeronautical facility.

History: 1945, Act 327, Imd. Eff. May 28, 1945; CL 1948, 259.182; Am. 1996, Act 370, Imd. Eff. July 3, 1996
Mich. Comp. Laws § 445.453 — MI Code / Chapter 445 / Act Act-12-of-1929 / Section 445.453
Violation of act; penalty.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3.

Any person, firm, association or corporation which shall operate such an establishment without a license, or shall violate any rule, regulation or condition, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding 100 dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed 90 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.

History: 1929, Act 12, Eff. Aug. 28, 1929; CL 1929, 9768; CL 1948, 445.453
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.3308 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.3308
Written permission from bottomland owner.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3308.

An applicant shall obtain authorization to chemically treat the proposed area of impact by obtaining written permission from each person who owns bottomlands in the area of impact. The applicant shall maintain the written permission for 1 year from the expiration date of the permit and shall make the records available to the department upon request. Written permission from each bottomland owner is not required if the applicant is providing, or has contracted to provide, chemical treatment for either of the following:

A lake board established under part 309 for the waterbody for which chemical treatment is proposed.

This state or a local unit of government acting under authority of state law to conduct lake improvement projects or to control aquatic vegetation.

History: Add. 2004, Act 246, Eff. Oct. 1, 2004
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.52902 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.52902
Transportation of plants.
Status: in_force

Sec. 52902.

A person shall not transport within this state any plant in either of the following circumstances:

If the plant has been removed from property owned by the person, unless he or she has in possession a current tax receipt or deed with respect to the property or a copy of the receipt or deed.

If the plant has been removed from property not owned by the person, unless either of the following has been met:

Each plant bears a tag placed on the plant by and identifying the person and his or her address and stating from whom the plant was acquired.

The person has in his or her possession a bill of sale or other evidence of title acquisition in a form prescribed by and available from the department or the department of agriculture or the federal agency that has jurisdiction. The person shall display the bill of sale or other evidence of title upon demand of a law enforcement officer.

History: Add. 1995, Act 57, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1995
Mich. Comp. Laws § 124.422 — MI Code / Chapter 124 / Act Act-204-of-1967 / Section 124.422
Tax exemption of property.
Status: in_force

Sec. 22.

Authorities and their property, real, personal and mixed, are exempt from assessment, levy and collection of all general and special taxes of the state or any governmental unit.

History: 1967, Act 204, Imd. Eff. July 10, 1967
Mich. Comp. Laws § 450.1432 — MI Code / Chapter 450 / Act Act-284-of-1972 / Section 450.1432
Procedure recognizing beneficial owner of shares as shareholder.
Status: in_force

Sec. 432.

A corporation may establish a procedure by which the beneficial owner of shares that are registered in the name of a nominee is recognized by the corporation as the shareholder. The procedure established may determine the extent of this recognition.

The procedure may set forth any of the following:

The types of nominees to which it applies.

The rights or privileges that the corporation recognizes in a beneficial owner.

The manner in which the procedure is selected by the nominee.

The information that must be provided when the procedure is selected.

The period for which selection of the procedure is effective.

Other aspects of the rights and duties created.

History: Add. 1989, Act 121, Eff. Oct. 1, 1989
Mich. Comp. Laws § 32.1085 — MI Code / Chapter 32 / Act Act-523-of-1980 / Section 32.1085
Desertion; member of state military forces not prohibited from accepting employment in another state or leaving state in pursuance of vocation, education, or profession; informing commanding officer of absence; waiver; punishment.
Status: in_force

Sec. 85.

(1) A member of the state military forces is guilty of desertion if the member commits 1 of the following acts:

(a) Without proper authority goes or remains absent from his or her unit, organization, or place of duty with intent to remain away permanently.

(b) Quits his or her unit, organization, or place of duty with intent to avoid hazardous duty or to shirk important service.

(c) Without being regularly separated from 1 of the forces of the state military forces, enlists or accepts an appointment in the same or another state military force without fully disclosing the fact that he or she has not been regularly separated.

(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), a member of the state military forces shall not be, in time of peace or order, prohibited from accepting bona fide employment in another state or leaving the boundaries of this state in pursuance of a vocation, education, or profession if before so doing the member fully informs the member's commanding officer of the absence from the state and the reasons for the absence. However, the commanding officer may waive this requirement.

(3) An officer of the state military forces who, having tendered his or her resignation and before due notice of the acceptance of the resignation, quits his or her post or proper duties without leave and with intent to remain away permanently is guilty of desertion.

(4) A person found guilty of desertion 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 § 388.1061 — MI Code / Chapter 388 / Act Act-316-of-1966 / Section 388.1061
State board of education; acceptance and expenditure of federal funds for arts and humanities.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

The state board of education may take any necessary action consistent with state law to comply with the provisions of Public Law 209 of the 89th Congress, known as the "national foundation on the arts and the humanities act of 1965" and may accept and expend federal funds available under this law.

History: 1966, Act 316, Imd. Eff. July 19, 1966
Mich. Comp. Laws § 440.2961 — MI Code / Chapter 440 / Act Act-174-of-1962 / Section 440.2961
Rejection of goods in merchant lessee's possession or control; duties of merchant lessee; right to reimbursement; good faith conduct; purchaser in good faith.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2A511.

Subject to any security interest of a lessee (section 2A508(5)), if a lessor or a supplier has no agent or place of business at the market of rejection, a merchant lessee, after rejection of goods in his or her possession or control, shall follow any reasonable instructions received from the lessor or the supplier with respect to the goods. In the absence of those instructions, a merchant lessee shall make reasonable efforts to sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of the goods for the lessor's account if they threaten to decline in value speedily. Instructions are not reasonable if on demand indemnity for expenses is not forthcoming.

If a merchant lessee or any other lessee (section 2A512) disposes of goods, he or she is entitled to reimbursement either from the lessor or the supplier or out of the proceeds for reasonable expenses of caring for and disposing of the goods and, if the expenses include no disposition commission, to such commission as is usual in the trade, or if there is none, to a reasonable sum not exceeding 10% of the gross proceeds.

In complying with this section or section 2A512, the lessee is held only to good faith. Good faith conduct hereunder is neither acceptance or conversion nor the basis of an action for damages.

A purchaser who purchases in good faith from a lessee pursuant to this section or section 2A512 takes the goods free of any rights of the lessor and the supplier even though the lessee fails to comply with 1 or more of the requirements of this article.

History: Add. 1992, Act 101, Eff. Sept. 30, 1992
Mich. Comp. Laws § 331.8a — MI Code / Chapter 331 / Act Act-47-of-1945 / Section 331.8a
Borrowing money and issuing notes; purpose; resolution; maturity; validation of notes previously issued; bonds and notes subject to agency financing reporting act.
Status: in_force

Sec. 8a.

The hospital board operating a community hospital under this act may, by a resolution adopted by a majority vote of the entire governing board, borrow money and issue notes, which shall mature not more than 1 year from the date of their issuance, for the purpose of meeting current expenses of operation and maintenance of the hospital. The resolution shall provide for the pledging of income and revenues of the hospital authority for the payment of the notes, and shall also provide for a special sinking fund into which there shall first be paid, as collected, a sufficient sum from the revenues of the hospital authority pledges to retire both the principal and interest of the notes at maturity. The resolution may also provide for the pledging of other assets of the hospital authority as additional security for the payment of the notes. Notes issued under this section and amounts assessed under section 8m are not subject to the revised municipal finance act, 2001 PA 34, MCL 141.2101 to 141.2821. Any notes issued by a hospital authority before the effective date of this act or an amendment to this act are hereby validated, ratified, and confirmed as though the notes and the proceedings relating to their issuance had been fully authorized by statutes existing at the time of their issuance.

Except for the bonds described in section 8(2), the issuance of bonds and notes under this act is subject to the agency financing reporting act.

History: Add. 1949, Act 62, Eff. Sept. 23, 1949; Am. 1980, Act 104, Imd. Eff. Apr. 30, 1980; Am. 2002, Act 435, Imd. Eff. June 10, 2002
Mich. Comp. Laws § 487.12204 — MI Code / Chapter 487 / Act Act-276-of-1999 / Section 487.12204
Declaratory rulings, orders, or determinations.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2204.

The commissioner may issue declaratory rulings in accordance with the administrative procedures act of 1969, or issue orders on applications by 1 or more banks to exercise powers not specifically authorized by this act that will authorize banks to exercise powers appropriate and necessary to compete with other providers of financial services.

In the exercise of the discretion permitted by this section, the commissioner shall consider the ability of banks to exercise any additional power in a safe and sound manner, the authority of depository institutions operating under state or federal law or regulation, the powers of other competing entities providing financial services, and any specific limitations on bank powers contained in this act or in any other law of this state. The commissioner shall give notice, at least quarterly, to all banks of declaratory rulings, orders, or determinations issued during the preceding quarter under this section.

History: 1999, Act 276, Eff. Mar. 1, 2000
Mich. Comp. Laws § 700.2707 — MI Code / Chapter 700 / Act Act-386-of-1998 / Section 700.2707
Class gifts construed to accord with intestate succession.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2707.

An adopted individual or an individual born out of wedlock, and his or her respective descendants if appropriate to the class, are included in class gifts and other terms of relationship in accordance with the rules for intestate succession. Terms of relationship that do not differentiate relationships by blood from those by affinity, such as "uncles", "aunts", "nieces", or "nephews", are construed to exclude relatives by affinity. Terms of relationship that do not differentiate relationships by the half blood from those by the whole blood, such as "brothers", "sisters", "nieces", or "nephews", are construed to include both types of relationships.

In addition to the requirements of subsection (1), in construing a dispositive provision of a transferor who is not a natural parent, an individual born to the natural parent is not considered the child of that parent unless the individual lived while a minor as a regular member of the household of that natural parent or of that natural parent's parent, brother, sister, spouse, or surviving spouse.

In addition to the requirements of subsection (1), in construing a dispositive provision of a transferor who is not an adopting parent, an adopted individual is not considered the child of the adopting parent unless the adopted individual lived while a minor, either before or after the adoption, as a regular member of the household of the adopting parent.

History: 1998, Act 386, Eff. Apr. 1, 2000
Mich. Comp. Laws § 440.3411 — MI Code / Chapter 440 / Act Act-174-of-1962 / Section 440.3411
Obligated bank; definition; refusal to pay check; expenses or damages not recoverable.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3411.

As used in this section, "obligated bank" means the acceptor of a certified check or the issuer of a cashier's check or teller's check bought from the issuer.

If the obligated bank wrongfully ( i ) refuses to pay a cashier's check or certified check, ( ii ) stops payment of a teller's check, or ( iii ) refuses to pay a dishonored teller's check, the person asserting the right to enforce the check is entitled to compensation for expenses and loss of interest resulting from the nonpayment and may recover consequential damages if the obligated bank refuses to pay after receiving notice of particular circumstances giving rise to the damages.

Expenses or consequential damages under subsection (2) are not recoverable if the refusal of the obligated bank to pay occurs because ( i ) the bank suspends payments, ( ii ) the obligated bank asserts a claim or defense of the bank that it has reasonable grounds to believe is available against the person entitled to enforce the instrument, ( iii ) the obligated bank has a reasonable doubt whether the person demanding payment is the person entitled to enforce the instrument, or ( iv ) payment is prohibited by law.

History: 1962, Act 174, Eff. Jan. 1, 1964; Am. 1993, Act 130, Eff. Sept. 30, 1993
Mich. Comp. Laws § 28.14 — MI Code / Chapter 28 / Act Act-59-of-1935 / Section 28.14
Disposition of fees.
Status: in_force

Sec. 14.

All fees or other moneys received by said Michigan state police shall be forwarded to the state treasurer each month and shall by said treasurer be deposited in the state treasury to be disbursed in such manner and for such purposes as may be provided by law.

History: 1935, Act 59, Imd. Eff. May 17, 1935; CL 1948, 28.14
Mich. Comp. Laws § 257.248d — MI Code / Chapter 257 / Act Act-300-of-1949 / Section 257.248d
Wholesaler; requirements.
Status: in_force

Sec. 248d.

All of the following requirements apply to a wholesaler:

(a) A wholesaler shall not advertise vehicles for sale on the internet or any classified listing unless the advertisement clearly discloses the wholesaler's license classification and clearly states that a purchaser must be a licensed vehicle dealer.

(b) A wholesaler shall not buy or sell fewer than 24 vehicles in this state each year to retain possession of a wholesaler license.

(c) A wholesaler shall maintain an established place of business in this state in accordance with the conditions listed in section 14(3).

(d) A wholesaler shall maintain and adhere to designated business hours that are filed with the secretary of state.

(e) A wholesaler shall maintain regular hours of operation at an established place of business that include at least 15 regular business hours per week between the hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.

History: Add. 2012, Act 498, Eff. Mar. 28, 2013; Am. 2022, Act 224, Eff. Jan. 23, 2023
Mich. Comp. Laws § 500.202 — MI Code / Chapter 500 / Act Act-218-of-1956 / Section 500.202
Insurance commissioner; qualifications, office, term, appointment, approval, vacancy.
Status: in_force

Sec. 202.

The chief officer of the department shall be known as the commissioner of insurance. He shall be a citizen of this state, shall have his office at the seat of government, shall personally superintend the duties of his office, and shall not be a stockholder or directly or indirectly connected with the management of affairs of any insurer. He shall be appointed by the governor for a term of 4 years by and with the consent of the senate.

Whenever a vacancy occurs in the office of commissioner by reason of death, removal, or otherwise, the governor shall fill such vacancy by appointment, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, if in session.

History: 1956, Act 218, Eff. Jan. 1, 1957
Mich. Comp. Laws § 125.664 — MI Code / Chapter 125 / Act Act-18-of-1933-Ex-Sess- / Section 125.664
Claims against project; contractual.
Status: in_force

Sec. 14.

The notes, bonds, or other obligations or any claims of whatever nature against said housing project or projects, shall not be debts or charges against the city or village nor against any members of the commission and no individual liability shall attach for any official act done by any member of such commission.

History: 1933, Ex. Sess., Act 18, Imd. Eff. Jan. 9, 1934; CL 1948, 125.664
Mich. Comp. Laws § 450.2556 — MI Code / Chapter 450 / Act Act-162-of-1982 / Section 450.2556
Volunteer's acts or omissions; claim for monetary damages.
Status: in_force

Sec. 556.

If the corporation's articles of incorporation contain a provision authorized under section 209(e), then a claim for monetary damages for a volunteer director, volunteer officer, or other volunteer's acts or omissions shall not be brought or maintained against a volunteer director, volunteer officer, or other volunteer. The claim shall be brought and maintained against the corporation.

History: Add. 1993, Act 129, Imd. Eff. July 22, 1993; Am. 1996, Act 457, Imd. Eff. Dec. 23, 1996
Mich. Comp. Laws § 259.124 — MI Code / Chapter 259 / Act Act-327-of-1945 / Section 259.124
Bonds or other evidence of indebtedness; tax exemption.
Status: in_force

Sec. 124.

All bonds or other evidences of indebtedness issued by an authority under this chapter, and the interest thereon, are free and exempt from all taxation within the state, except for transfer and franchise taxes.

History: Add. 2002, Act 90, Imd. Eff. Mar. 26, 2002
Mich. Comp. Laws § 252.141 — MI Code / Chapter 252 / Act Act-31-of-1970 / Section 252.141
Highways, displaced persons, relocation; federal funds.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

When federal funds are available for payment of direct financial assistance to persons displaced by acquisition of property for highways, the state highway commission may match the federal funds to the extent provided by federal law and provide such direct financial assistance in instances and on the conditions set forth by federal law and regulations.

History: 1970, Act 31, Imd. Eff. June 16, 1970