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Mich. Comp. Laws § 432.278 — MI Code / Chapter 432 / Act Act-74-of-1997 / Section 432.278
Violation of act or rules; duties of attorney general.
Status: in_force

Sec. 8.

The attorney general upon investigation and determination that this act or a rule promulgated under this act was violated shall do either of the following:

Initiate a civil action to enforce this act.

Begin criminal prosecution for the imposition of criminal penalties provided by this act in the judicial district in which the alleged violation occurred.

History: 1997, Act 74, Imd. Eff. July 17, 1997
Mich. Comp. Laws § 453.81 — MI Code / Chapter 453 / Act Act-165-of-1879 / Section 453.81
State agricultural society; property, limitation.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

That the Michigan state agricultural society may hold real and personal estate over and above its library, scientific and agricultural collections to amount not exceeding 100,000 dollars.

History: 1879, Act 165, Eff. Aug. 30, 1879; How. 2292; CL 1897, 5943; CL 1915, 7819; CL 1929, 10206; CL 1948, 453.81
Mich. Comp. Laws § 487.3332 — MI Code / Chapter 487 / Act Act-354-of-1996 / Section 487.3332
Definitions; best interests of savings bank, shareholders, or members.
Status: in_force

Sec. 332.

As used in sections 325 to 331:

"Fines" shall include any excise taxes assessed on a person with respect to an employee benefit plan.

"Other enterprise" shall include employee benefit plans.

"Savings bank" includes all savings banks, banks, out-of-state banks, national banks, and associations, absorbed in a consolidation or merger and the consolidated savings bank, so that a person who is or was a director, officer, employee, or agent of the savings bank, bank, out-of-state bank, national bank, or association or is or was serving at the request of the savings bank, bank, out-of-state bank, national bank, or association as a director, officer, partner, trustee, employee, or agent of another savings bank, bank, out-of-state bank, national bank, or association, foreign or domestic corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, or other enterprise, whether for profit or not, shall hold the same position with respect to the consolidated savings bank as he or she would if he or she had served the consolidated savings bank in that capacity.

"Serving at the request of the savings bank" shall include any service as a director, officer, employee, or agent of the savings bank which imposes duties on, or involves services by, the director, officer, employee, or agent with respect to an employee benefit plan, its participants or beneficiaries.

A person who acted in good faith and in a manner he or she reasonably believed to be in the interest of the participants and beneficiaries of an employee benefit plan shall be considered to have acted in a manner not opposed to the best interests of the savings bank or its shareholders or members as referred to in section 326.

History: 1996, Act 354, Imd. Eff. July 1, 1996
Mich. Comp. Laws § 207.657 — MI Code / Chapter 207 / Act Act-255-of-1978 / Section 207.657
Application for commercial facilities exemption certificate; approval or disapproval.
Status: in_force

Sec. 7.

The legislative body of the local governmental unit, not more than 60 days after receipt of the application by the clerk, shall by resolution either approve or disapprove the application for a commercial facilities exemption certificate in accordance with section 10 and the other provisions of this act. The clerk shall retain the original of the application and resolution. If disapproved, the reasons shall be set forth in writing in the resolution, and the clerk shall send a copy of the resolution to the applicant.

History: 1978, Act 255, Imd. Eff. June 21, 1978
Mich. Comp. Laws § 333.21757 — MI Code / Chapter 333 / Act Act-368-of-1978 / Section 333.21757
Provisional license.
Status: in_force

Sec. 21757.

The department may issue a 1-year provisional license, renewable for not more than 1 additional year, to an applicant whose services are needed in the community but who is temporarily unable to comply with the rules related to the physical plant of the facilities, excluding maintenance problems. At the time a provisional license is granted, specific deadlines for the correction of each physical plant violation shall be established.

A provisional license shall not be issued for a nursing home constructed, established, or changing corporate ownership or management after the effective date of this section unless it is shown that unusual hardship would result to the public or to the applicant for the provisional license and the nursing home was licensed and operating under a prior licensing act for not less than 5 years.

History: Add. 1978, Act 493, Eff. Mar. 30, 1979
Mich. Comp. Laws § 389.125 — MI Code / Chapter 389 / Act Act-331-of-1966 / Section 389.125
Board of trustees; payment of claims against community college district; gifts; bylaws.
Status: in_force

Sec. 125.

The board of trustees may:

Certify to the treasurer of the community college district for payment out of the funds thereof all claims and demands against the board or community college district, which shall be allowed by the board under rules and regulations it may establish.

Borrow money or other property and accept contributions, capital grants, gifts, donations, services or other financial assistance from the United States of America or any agency or instrumentality thereof.

Accept by gift or devise private property. They may accept from any county, township or other governmental unit any contribution authorized by its governing body as provided in sections 791 to 795 of Act No. 269 of the Public Acts of 1955, as amended, being sections 340.791 to 340.795 of the Compiled Laws of 1948. They shall likewise be entitled to receive from the state all grants of state aid, in the same manner and proportion, as any other community college.

Adopt bylaws, rules and regulations for its own government and for the control and government of the community college district.

Acquire and hold in the name of the district all real property and improvements acquired and erected under the provisions of this act.

To do all other things in its judgment necessary for the proper establishment, maintenance, management and carrying on of the community college.

History: 1966, Act 331, Eff. Oct. 1, 1966
Mich. Comp. Laws § 393.506 — MI Code / Chapter 393 / Act Act-204-of-1982 / Section 393.506
Oath or affirmation of interpreter; recess periods; information gathered by interpreter pertaining to pending proceeding confidential and privileged; waiver.
Status: in_force

Sec. 6.

(1) Before a qualified interpreter participates in any action or other proceeding because of an appointment under this act, the qualified interpreter shall make an oath or affirmation that the qualified interpreter will make a true interpretation in an understandable manner to the deaf or deaf-blind person for whom the qualified interpreter is appointed and that the qualified interpreter will interpret the statements of the deaf or deaf-blind person in the English language to the best of the interpreter's skill. The appointing authority shall provide recess periods as necessary for the qualified interpreter when the qualified interpreter so indicates.

(2) The information that the qualified interpreter, intermediary interpreter, or deaf interpreter gathers from the deaf or deaf-blind person pertaining to any action or other pending proceeding shall at all times remain confidential and privileged, unless the deaf or deaf-blind person executes a written waiver allowing the information to be communicated to other persons and the deaf or deaf-blind person is present at the time the information is communicated.

History: 1982, Act 204, Imd. Eff. July 1, 1982; Am. 2007, Act 23, Imd. Eff. June 28, 2007
Mich. Comp. Laws § 408.803 — MI Code / Chapter 408 / Act Act-227-of-1967 / Section 408.803
Definitions; E.
Status: in_force

Sec. 3.

(1) "Elevator" means the machinery, construction, apparatus, and equipment of an incline lift, escalator, moving walk, or device serving 2 or more landings used in raising and lowering a car, cage, or platform which is guided. The term includes a passenger elevator, freight elevator, gravity elevator, workmen's elevator, dumbwaiter, manlift, or other lifting or lowering apparatus that is guided. The term does not include:

(a) An elevating device within the scope of 1911 PA 163, MCL 425.101 to 425.113.

(b) A feeding machine or belted bucket, scoop, roller, or any similar type of freight conveyor.

(c) A lubrication hoist or other similar mechanism.

(d) A piling or stacking machine that is used within 1 story and does not penetrate a floor.

(e) A residential stairway chairlift or residential platform lift.

(f) An outside material hoist used for raising or lowering construction materials while a building or structure is under construction within the scope of the Michigan occupational safety and health act, 1974 PA 154, MCL 408.1001 to 408.1094.

(2) "Elevator contractor" means a person that is engaged in the business of constructing, installing, maintaining, repairing, or altering elevators, including the installing or maintaining of electric wiring, fixtures, apparatus, and appliances in connection with the operation or control of elevators.

(3) "Elevator contractor license" means a license issued by the director to an elevator contractor that authorizes the licensee to engage in the construction, installation, alteration, maintenance, or repair of elevators.

History: 1967, Act 227, Eff. Nov. 2, 1967; Am. 2015, Act 35, Eff. Aug. 19, 2015
Mich. Comp. Laws § 500.1127 — MI Code / Chapter 500 / Act Act-218-of-1956 / Section 500.1127
Reinsurance agreements; reduction to zero of certain reserve credits or assets.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1127.

Insurers subject to sections 1121 through 1125 shall reduce to zero by December 31, 1994 any reserve credits or assets established with respect to reinsurance agreements entered into prior to the effective date of this chapter that, under the provisions of this chapter, would not be entitled to recognition as reserve credits or assets, so long as those reinsurance agreements were in compliance with laws or regulations in effect immediately preceding the effective date of this chapter.

History: Add. 1994, Act 226, Imd. Eff. June 27, 1994
Mich. Comp. Laws § 397.207 — MI Code / Chapter 397 / Act Act-164-of-1877 / Section 397.207
Governing board; annual report; contents; affidavit.
Status: in_force

Sec. 7.

The governing board appointed under section 2 shall annually report to the city council on the money received from the library fund and from other sources, and how the money has been expended and for what purposes; the number of books and periodicals on hand; the number added by purchase, gift, or otherwise during the year; the number lost or missing; the number of visitors attending; the number of books loaned out, and the general character and kind of those books; as well as other statistics, information, and suggestions as it deems appropriate. All portions of the report that relate to the receipt and expenditure of money, as well as the number of books on hand, books lost or missing, or books purchased, shall be verified by affidavit.

History: 1877, Act 164, Eff. Aug. 21, 1877; How. 5181; CL 1897, 3455; CL 1915, 3437; CL 1929, 8065; CL 1948, 397.207; Am. 2014, Act 131, Imd. Eff. May 27, 2014
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.48734 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.48734
Permit to remove fish from waters or donate fish taken during fishing tournament; exception for game fish; issuance.
Status: in_force

Sec. 48734.

(1) The department may issue permits for the removal of fish, except for game fish, from all the waters over which this state has jurisdiction to manage fish and sell or authorize the sale of those fish to pay the expense of the removal on terms that are in the best advantage of this state.

(2) The department may issue a permit to a person that has registered with the department as a fishing tournament or event authorizing that any fish taken under a sport fishing license, except for game fish, during a registered tournament may be donated, not for pecuniary profit, to a person. Fish donated under this subsection are not subject to section 48723 and the person accepting the donated fish may process, utilize, and sell any fish or fish product resulting from the donation.

(3) The person taking the fish or accepting the donated fish must retain a copy of the permit with the fish for transport and final disposition. The department shall incorporate regulations and restrictions in the permits as the department considers advisable, including the authorized method of take. Any person taking fish under a permit issued under this section shall conform to all the regulations and restrictions specified in the permit and any reporting standards established by the department.

History: Add. 1995, Act 57, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1995; Am. 2018, Act 529, Imd. Eff. Dec. 28, 2018
Mich. Comp. Laws § 4.412 — MI Code / Chapter 4 / Act Act-472-of-1978 / Section 4.412
Definitions generally.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2.

"Administrative action" means the proposal, drafting, development, consideration, amendment, enactment, or defeat of a nonministerial action or rule by an executive agency or an official in the executive branch of state government. Administrative action does not include a quasi-judicial determination as authorized by law.

"Business" means a corporation, partnership, sole proprietorship, firm, enterprise, franchise, association, organization, self-employed individual, holding company, joint stock company, receivership, trust, activity, or entity which is organized for profit or nonprofit purposes.

"Business with which the individual is associated" means a business in which any of the following applies:

The individual is a partner, director, officer, or employer.

A member of the individual's immediate family is a partner, director, officer, or employer.

The individual or a member of the individual's immediate family is a stockholder of close corporation stock worth $1,000.00 or more at fair market value or which represents more than 5% equity interest, or is a stockholder of publicly traded stock worth $10,000.00 or more at fair market value or which represents more than 10% equity interest. This subdivision does not apply to publicly traded stock under a trading account if the filer reports the name and address of the stockbroker.

"Compensation" means anything of monetary value received or to be received from a person, whether in the form of a fee, salary, forbearance, forgiveness, or another form of recompense.

History: 1978, Act 472, Imd. Eff. Oct. 19, 1978
Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.2137 — MI Code / Chapter 600 / Act Act-236-of-1961 / Section 600.2137
Reproduction or copy admissible in evidence.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2137.

A reproduction in a medium under the records reproduction act, 1992 PA 116, MCL 24.401 to 24.406, or a reproduction consisting of a printout or other output readable by sight from such a medium is admissible as evidence before a court, commission, or administrative body the same as the original and has the same force and effect as the original would have had and shall be treated as an original for the purpose of admissibility in evidence. A certified or authenticated copy of the reproduction shall be admitted into evidence equally with the original reproduction. This section only applies to records filed with the court and maintained by the court clerk or register.

History: 1961, Act 236, Eff. Jan 1, 1963; Am. 1964, Act 244, Eff. Aug. 28, 1964; Am. 1975, Act 248, Imd. Eff. Sept. 4, 1975; Am. 1984, Act 43, Imd. Eff. Mar. 26, 1984; Am. 1986, Act 308, Eff. Jan. 1, 1987; Am. 1992, Act 192, Imd. Eff. Oct. 5, 1992; Am. 2001, Act 76, Imd. Eff. July 24, 2001; Am. 2009, Act 239, Imd. Eff. Jan. 8, 2010; Am. 2013, Act 199, Imd. Eff. Dec. 18, 2013
Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.2621 — MI Code / Chapter 600 / Act Act-236-of-1961 / Section 600.2621
Single corporate surety; sufficiency.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2621.

Unless otherwise expressly provided, a statute requiring a bond with 2 sureties on the bond may be satisfied by having, as surety on the bond, a single corporate surety authorized to transact such business in this state.

History: 1961, Act 236, Eff. Jan. 1, 1963
Mich. Comp. Laws § 550.2009 — MI Code / Chapter 550 / Act Act-499-of-2000 / Section 550.2009
Program not as entitlement; limitation on benefits; EPIC as payer of last resort; use of automated system; pharmacy dispensing fee.
Status: in_force

Sec. 9.

The program created by this act is not an entitlement. Benefits are limited to the level supported by the money explicitly appropriated in this or other acts for the EPIC program.

Except as allowed in section 3(4), the EPIC program is a payer of last resort. If the federal government establishes a pharmaceutical assistance program that covers EPIC eligible seniors under medicare or another program, the EPIC program shall cover only eligible costs not covered by the federal program. This subsection does not require payment by a local prescription drug discount program or a local emergency prescription drug assistance program for a prescription drug covered under the EPIC program.

The EPIC program shall utilize an automated pharmacy claims adjudication and prospective drug utilization review system. This automated system shall contain those edits necessary to reduce the risk of adverse drug reactions in the enrolled population.

The pharmacy dispensing fee payable under the EPIC program shall be equal to the current medicaid dispensing fee.

History: 2000, Act 499, Eff. Oct. 1, 2001
Mich. Comp. Laws § 500.4024 — MI Code / Chapter 500 / Act Act-218-of-1956 / Section 500.4024
Nonforfeiture benefits; cash surrender values; provision required.
Status: in_force

Sec. 4024.

Each life insurance policy shall contain a provision for nonforfeiture benefits and cash surrender values in accordance with the requirements of section 4058, 4060, or 4061.

History: 1956, Act 218, Eff. Jan. 1, 1957; Am. 1993, Act 349, Eff. Oct. 1, 1994
Mich. Comp. Laws § 28.246 — MI Code / Chapter 28 / Act Act-289-of-1925 / Section 28.246
Neglect or refusal of officers or officials to perform duties as misdemeanor; penalty.
Status: in_force

Sec. 6.

Neglect or refusal of any of the officers or officials mentioned in sections 2, 3, and 7 to report as required under this act or to perform any other act required to be performed by him or her under this act shall constitute a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not less than $25.00 nor more than $100.00, or by imprisonment for not more than 60 days, or both. Such neglect or refusal shall also constitute nonfeasance in office and subject the official or officer to removal from office.

History: 1925, Act 289, Imd. Eff. May 13, 1925; CL 1929, 572; CL 1948, 28.246; Am. 1986, Act 231, Eff. June 1, 1987
Mich. Comp. Laws § 440.7602 — MI Code / Chapter 440 / Act Act-174-of-1962 / Section 440.7602
Judicial process; surrender of document of title; purchaser for value.
Status: in_force

Sec. 7602.

Unless a document of title was originally issued upon delivery of the goods by a person that did not have power to dispose of them, a lien does not attach by virtue of any judicial process to goods in the possession of a bailee for which a negotiable document of title is outstanding unless possession or control of the document is first surrendered to the bailee or the document's negotiation is enjoined. The bailee may not be compelled to deliver the goods pursuant to process until possession or control of the document is surrendered to the bailee or to the court. A purchaser of the document for value without notice of the process or injunction takes free of the lien imposed by judicial process.

History: 1962, Act 174, Eff. Jan. 1, 1964; Am. 2012, Act 87, Eff. July 1, 2013
Mich. Comp. Laws § 453.308 — MI Code / Chapter 453 / Act Act-125-of-1871 / Section 453.308
Pomological and horticultural associations; privileges and immunities.
Status: in_force

Sec. 8.

Associations incorporated under this act shall, on compliance with the requirements thereof, be entitled to all the immunities, emoluments, and privileges accorded by law to the agricultural societies of this state.

History: 1871, Act 125, Imd. Eff. Apr. 15, 1871; CL 1871, 3177; How. 2322; CL 1897, 5983; CL 1915, 7885; CL 1929, 10243; CL 1948, 453.308
Mich. Comp. Laws § 324.31514 — MI Code / Chapter 324 / Act Act-451-of-1994 / Section 324.31514
Effect of proposed activity on public health, safety, welfare, property, or natural resources.
Status: in_force

Sec. 31514.

The department shall not issue a permit to construct a new dam, reconstruct a failed dam for which a complete application to reconstruct has been submitted more than 1 year after the date of the failure, or enlarge the surface area of an impoundment by more than 10% unless it determines, after a review of the application submitted, that the proposed activity for which a permit is requested will not have a significant adverse effect on public health, safety, welfare, property, or natural resources or the public trust in those natural resources.

History: Add. 1995, Act 59, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1995
Mich. Comp. Laws § 440.2958 — MI Code / Chapter 440 / Act Act-174-of-1962 / Section 440.2958
Default by lessor; rights and remedies; breach of warranty; security interest for rent, security, and expenses; deduction of damages from rent due.
Status: in_force

Sec. 2A508.

If a lessor fails to deliver the goods in conformity to the lease contract (section 2A509) or repudiates the lease contract (section 2A402), or a lessee rightfully rejects the goods (section 2A509) or justifiably revokes acceptance of the goods (section 2A517), then with respect to any goods involved, and with respect to all of the goods if under an installment lease contract the value of the whole lease contract is substantially impaired (section 2A510), the lessor is in default under the lease contract and the lessee may do any or all of the following:

Cancel the lease contract (section 2A505(1)).

Recover so much of the rent and security as has been paid and is just under the circumstances.

Cover and recover damages as to all goods affected whether or not they have been identified to the lease contract (section 2A518 or 2A520), or recover damages for nondelivery (section 2A519 or 2A520).

Exercise any other rights or pursue any other remedies provided in the lease contract.

If a lessor fails to deliver the goods in conformity to the lease contract or repudiates the lease contract, the lessee may also do either of the following:

If the goods have been identified, recover them (section 2A522).

In a proper case, obtain specific performance or replevy the goods (section 2A521).

If a lessor is otherwise in default under a lease contract, the lessee may exercise the rights and pursue the remedies provided in the lease contract, which may include the right to cancel the lease, and in section 2A519(3).

If a lessor has breached a warranty, whether express or implied, the lessee may recover damages (section 2A519(4)).

On rightful rejection or justifiable revocation of acceptance, a lessee has a security interest in goods in the lessee's possession or control for any rent and security that has been paid and any expenses reasonably incurred in their inspection, receipt, transportation, and care and custody and may hold those goods and dispose of them in good faith and in a commercially reasonable manner, subject to section 2A527(5).

Subject to the provisions of section 2A407, a lessee, on notifying the lessor of the lessee's intention to do so, may deduct all or any part of the damages resulting from any default under the lease contract from any part of the rent still due under the same lease contract.

History: Add. 1992, Act 101, Eff. Sept. 30, 1992
Mich. Comp. Laws § 54.201 — MI Code / Chapter 54 / Act Act-74-of-1970 / Section 54.201
Short title; corner recordation act.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.

This act shall be known and may be cited as the "corner recordation act".

History: 1970, Act 74, Imd. Eff. July 16, 1970