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• Short Title - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.101
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "natural resources and environmental protection act".
• Repeal of Statute; Effect - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.102
  The repeal of any statute by this act does not relinquish any penalty, forfeiture, or liability, whether criminal or civil in nature, and such...
• Heading or Title; Effect - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.103
  A heading or title of an article, chapter, part, or subpart of this act shall not be considered as a part of this act...
• Members of Predecessor Agency; Powers - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.104
  When a board, commission, committee, council, or other agency created by or pursuant to this act was preceded by an agency with the same...
• Existing Rules; Effect - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.105
  When the department or other agency is directed to promulgate rules by this act and rules exist on the date the requirement to promulgate...
• Orders; Effect - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.106
  Except as otherwise provided by law, this act does not repeal or alter the content or effect of orders that were issued pursuant to...
• Editorial Changes; Effect; Intent - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.107
  It is the intention of the legislature that editorial changes in the language of statutes codified as parts within this act not be construed...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.301
  Except as otherwise defined in this act, as used in this act: (a) "Commission" means the commission of natural resources. (b) "Department" means the...
• Department of Natural Resources; Creation; Powers and Duties; Commission of Natural Resources; Creation; Powers; Appointment, Qualifications, and Terms of Members; Vacancy; Removal; Meetings; Secretary; Chairperson; Quorum; Conducting Business At Public Meeting; Notice; Appointment and Employment of Director; Appointment of Deputy Director, Assistants, and Employees; Powers and Duties of Persons Delegated Decision Making Authority; Vacancy in Office of Director; Compensation and Expenses; Offices and Equipment; Oath - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.501
  (1) A department of natural resources for this state is created which shall possess the powers and perform the duties granted and imposed by...
• Jurisdiction, Rights, and Responsibilities of Great Lakes States and Provinces - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.501a
  The Great Lakes are a binational public treasure and are held in trust by the Great Lakes states and provinces. Management of the water...
• Rules; Powers of Department; Contracts for Taking and Storage of Mineral Products; Disposition and Use of Money; Drilling Operations for Taking Oil or Gas From Lake Bottomlands of Great Lakes; Prohibition; Compliance With Applicable Ordinances and Statutes - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.502
  (1) The commission may promulgate rules, not inconsistent with law, governing its organization and procedure. (2) The department may do 1 or more of...
• Designation of State Land Reserve; Petition, Recommendation, or Motion; Eligibility for Commission Consideration; Public Testimony; Issuance of Commission Recommendation; Offer and Adoption of Resolution by Legislature; Purchase, Trade, or Acquisition of Other Holdings - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.502a
  (1) Upon petition by a person, recommendation of the department, or its own motion, the commission shall place on its agenda at an upcoming...
• Duties of Department; Powers and Jurisdiction; Acquisition of Surface Rights to Land; Limitations; Record; Strategic Plan; Statement; Volunteers; Granting Concessions; Lease and Sale of Land; Reservation of Mineral Rights; Sale of Economic Share of Royalty Interests; Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.503
  (1) The department shall protect and conserve the natural resources of this state; provide and develop facilities for outdoor recreation; prevent the destruction of...
• Environmental Protection Fund - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.503a
  (1) The environmental protection fund is created within the state treasury. (2) The state treasurer may receive money or other assets from any source...
• Divestment From Terror Act; Compliance by State Treasurer - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.503b
  The state treasurer shall comply with the divestment from terror act in making investments under this act.
• Department of Natural Resources; Rules for Protection and Preservation of Lands and Property; Duties of Department; Report; Applicability of Subsections (2) and (3) to Commercial Forestland; Certain Rules Prohibited; Orders; Violation as Civil Infraction; Fine - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.504
  (1) The department shall promulgate rules to protect and preserve lands and other property under its control from depredation, damage, or destruction or wrongful...
• Federal Fish Stock and Programs; Application; Listing of Programs Supplied to Legislature - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.505
  The department, in pursuing the state's policy of propagating fish for the purpose of stocking the streams and lakes of the state, shall accept...
• Availability of Writings to Public; Report to Governor and Legislature - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.506
  (1) A writing prepared, owned, used, in the possession of, or retained by the department or the commission in the performance of an official...
• Declaration of Necessity - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.507
  This part is declared to be immediately necessary for the preservation of the public health, safety, and welfare and the environment.
• Fees and Rentals for Photographic or Publication Products or Services; Disposition and Use; Limitation; Unexpended Fees and Rentals - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.508
  The department may establish and collect fees and rentals for any photographic or publication products or services that the department provides. The fees and...
• Permit for Use of State Parks; Disposition of Revenue From Permit Fees and Concessions At State Parks; Use of Fees for Processing Applications for Use of State Forests; Creation of Forest Land User Fund - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.509
  (1) The department may require that a person obtain a permit for the use of a state park. The department may establish and collect...
• Macmullan Conference Center Account; Creation and Establishment; Deposits; Purpose; Annual Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.509a
  There is hereby created and established under the jurisdiction and control of the department a revolving account to be known as the MacMullan conference...
• Macmullan Conference Center; Restrictions on Availability - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.509b
  The MacMullan conference center shall be available only to the following: (a) The department. (b) Federal, state, and local government agencies. (c) Education institutions....
• Disposition of Certain Reimbursements and Other Money; Disposition and Use of Aircraft Fees; Limitation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.510
  (1) Money received by the department of natural resources for reimbursement of damages to department of natural resources property, reimbursement of land recording fees,...
• Fees for Department of Natural Resources Magazine, Publications, and Related Materials; Disposition and Use of Fees; Retained Earnings; Disposition of Unexpended Fees and Excess Collections; Annual Allocation to Magazine Account; Accounting Records; Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.511
  The department may establish and collect fees for the department of natural resources magazine, publications, and related materials. Fees collected shall be credited to...
• Film Production Located in State; Authorization by Director or Commission to Use Property; Exception; Cooperation With Michigan Film Office; Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.512
  (1) The director may authorize a person engaged in the production of a film in this state to use without charge property owned by...
• Gift Certificates - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.513
  Beginning not later than March 1, 2009, the department shall offer to the public 1 or more gift certificates redeemable for at least all...
• "fund" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.701
  As used in this part, "fund" means the forest and mineral resource development fund created in section 703.
• Duties of Department - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.702
  The department shall do all of the following: (a) Administer a grant and loan program pursuant to sections 704 and 705. (b) Provide advice...
• Forest and Mineral Resource Development Fund; Creation; Administration; Expenditures; Purpose; Appropriations; Grants and Loans; Repayments of Principal; Interest and Earnings; Appropriations, Interest, and Earnings to Remain in Fund - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.703
  (1) The forest and mineral resource development fund is created as a separate fund in the department of treasury to be administered and expended...
• Forest and Mineral Resource Development Grant and Loan Program; Establishment; Rules; Publication of Information About Grants and Loans; Distribution of Information and Application Forms; Form and Contents of Application; Projects Eligible for Grant or Loan; Matching Funds; Considerations in Making Grants and Loans; Determining Rate of Interest - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.704
  (1) The department shall establish a forest and mineral resource development grant and loan program. The department shall promulgate rules necessary to implement the...
• Reviewing and Prioritizing Application for Grant or Loan; Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.705
  (1) An application for a grant or loan made under this part shall be reviewed and prioritized by the department each fiscal year. (2)...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.901
  As used in this part: (a) "Articles" means the articles of incorporation of an authority. (b) "Authority" means a joint city-state environmental management authority...
• Environmental Management Authority; Creation; Powers; Appointment, Terms, and Removal of Members; Quorum; Compensation; Business Conducted At Public Meeting; Writings; Election of Officers - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.902
  (1) The governing body of any city within whose corporate boundaries a state park comprises more than 75% of the land area and the...
• Articles of Incorporation; Contents - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.903
  (1) A board shall draft and adopt articles of incorporation and bylaws for the administration of the authority. (2) An authority's articles shall state...
• Articles of Incorporation; Procedure for Adoption - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.904
  (1) The articles of an authority shall be adopted and may be amended by an affirmative vote of a majority of the members serving...
• Powers of Authority Subject to Articles of Incorporation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.905
  (1) The articles may authorize an authority to propose standards, criteria, and regulations. (2) To the extent authorized in the articles, an authority may...
• Powers of Authority Generally - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.906
  An authority may do 1 or more of the following: (a) Acquire and hold, by purchase, lease, grant, gift, devise, land contract, installment purchase...
• Dissolution of Authority - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.907
  Upon the expiration of a term agreed by the incorporating units, the authority shall be dissolved unless the city and the state agency agree...
• Review of Decision - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.1101
  (1) If a person has legal standing to challenge a final decision of the department under this act regarding the issuance, denial, suspension, revocation,...
• Violation of Mcl 168.1 to 168.992 Applicable to Petitions; Penalties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.1102
  A petition under section 4307, 4709, or 11906, including the circulation and signing of the petition, is subject to section 488 of the Michigan...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.1301
  As used in this part: (a) "Application period" means the period beginning when an application for a permit is received by the state and...
• Permit Application; Format; Documents - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.1303
  (1) An application for a permit shall be submitted to the department in a format to be developed by the department, except as provided...
• Receipt of Permit Application; Notice of Incomplete Application; Time Period; Request for New or Additional Information - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.1305
  (1) After a department receives an application for a permit, the department shall determine whether the application is administratively complete. Unless the department proceeds...
• Approval or Denial of Permit Application; Extension of Processing Period; Explanation of Reasons for Permit Denial; Failure of Department to Satisfy Requirements of Subsection (1); Effect; Notification to Legislative Committees - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.1307
  (1) By the processing deadline, the department shall approve or deny an application for a permit. If requested by the permit applicant, the department...
• Submissions of Applications for More Than 1 Type of Permit - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.1309
  If a person submits applications for more than 1 type of permit for a particular development or project, the department or departments shall process...
• Report; Information - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.1311
  By December 1 each year, the director shall submit a report to the standing committees and appropriations subcommittees of the senate and house of...
• Definitions; a to F - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.1401
  As used in this part: (a) "Applicable environmental requirement" means an applicable federal environmental requirement, an applicable state environmental requirement, or an environmental requirement...
• Definitions; I to W - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.1403
  As used in this part: (a) "ISO 14001:2004" means the standard adopted by the international organization for standardization in 2004 to prescribe uniform requirements...
• Clean Corporate Citizen Designation and Benefits; Qualifications; Application - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.1405
  To obtain a clean corporate citizen designation and the benefits described in section 1421, a facility shall meet the qualifications set forth in sections...
• Clean Corporate Citizen Designation; Disqualification; Conduct - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.1407
  (1) To qualify for a clean corporate citizen designation, a facility shall not have been the subject of any of the following at any...
• Clean Corporate Citizen Designation; Requirements - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.1409
  To qualify for a clean corporate citizen designation, a facility shall meet 1 of the following requirements: (a) Obtain and operate in accordance with...
• Duties of Facility - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.1411
  (1) To qualify for a clean corporate citizen designation, a facility shall do all of the following: (a) Adopt and maintain a written environmental...
• Application; Form; Additional Information; Determination of Completed Application; Publication and Posting; Approval or Disapproval by Director; Time Limitation; Reapplication Upon Disapproval; Withdrawal; Incorporation by Reference - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.1413
  (1) To obtain a clean corporate citizen designation, a facility shall submit an application to the department. The application shall be submitted on a...
• Clean Corporate Citizen Designation; Term - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.1415
  The term of a clean corporate citizen designation is 5 years.
• Clean Corporate Citizen Designation; Termination - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.1417
  (1) The director shall terminate a clean corporate citizen designation if the director determines that the facility does not meet applicable requirements of section...
• Annual Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.1419
  A clean corporate citizen shall submit an annual report not later than 60 days before the annual anniversary date of the current clean corporate...
• Benefits - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.1421
  (1) Upon request, a clean corporate citizen is entitled to each of the following benefits: (a) The department shall give the facility priority over...
• Termination of Benefits - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.1423
  Upon termination of a clean corporate citizen designation, all benefits provided to that facility under section 1421 terminate.
• Availability of Documents for Inspection; Purchase; Website of Facilities Designated as Clean Corporate Citizens - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.1425
  (1) The department shall maintain a copy of ISO 14001:2004 and RC 2008 available for inspection at the department's headquarters in Lansing. Upon request,...
• Conflict With State Law or Federal Law or Regulation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.1427
  This part shall not be construed in a manner that conflicts with or authorizes any violation of state law or federal regulation or law.
• Rescission of R 324.1501 to R 324.1511 - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.1429
  The clean corporate citizen program rules, R 324.1501 to 324.1511 of the Michigan administrative code, are rescinded.
• Conservation Officers as Peace Officers; Powers, Privileges, Prerogatives, and Immunities - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.1501
  Conservation officers appointed by the department and trained and certified pursuant to the Michigan law enforcement officers training council act of 1965, Act No....
• Service and Execution of Criminal Process; Fees - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.1502
  Except as otherwise provided by law, conservation officers appointed by the department have the same power to serve criminal process and to require aid...
• Inspection; Sampling Process; Exceptions; Report; Explanation and Reasons; Opportunity to Provide Comments; "Department" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.1505
  (1) The department shall use a fair and equitable sampling process to select persons whose operations or facilities will be inspected. (2) Subsection (1)...
• Meeting to Discuss Potential Civil Enforcement Action and Potential Resolution; Requirement; Exception; Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.1511
  (1) Subject to subsection (2) and notwithstanding any other provision of this act, before initiating a civil enforcement action under this act against a...
• Duties of Department and Appointed Officers - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.1601
  The department and any officer appointed by the department shall do all of the following: (a) Enforce the statutes and laws of this state...
• Department or Officer; Prosecution; Search Without Warrant; Private Property; Definition; Common Carrier Not Liable; Issuance of Warrant; Seizures; Probable Cause - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.1602
  (1) The department, or an officer appointed by the department, may file a complaint and commence proceedings against any person for a violation of...
• Confiscation of Seized Property; Jurisdiction; Venue - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.1603
  (1) The following courts have jurisdiction to determine whether seized property shall be confiscated as provided in section 1604: (a) The district court, if...
• Complaint; Filing; Contents; Order to Show Cause; Service; Notice; Hearing; Condemnation and Confiscation; Sale or Other Disposal; Disposition of Proceeds; Signing Property Release; Return of Property - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.1604
  (1) The officer seizing the property shall file a verified complaint in the court having jurisdiction and venue over the seizure of the property...
• Review or Certiorari; Procedure; Bond - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.1605
  The proceedings for the condemnation and confiscation of any property under this part are subject to review or certiorari as provided in this part....
• Department and Conservation Officer or Peace Officer; Powers and Duties; Fees; Park and Recreation Officers; Enforcement of Rules, Orders, and Laws; Powers, Privileges, and Immunities; Arrest Powers; Issuance of Civil Infraction Citation; Appearances; "minor Offense" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.1606
  (1) The department and conservation officers appointed by the department are peace officers vested with all the powers, privileges, prerogatives, and immunities conferred upon...
• Volunteer Conservation Officers - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.1607
  (1) The department may appoint persons to function as volunteer conservation officers. A volunteer conservation officer shall be appointed to assist a conservation officer...
• Obstructing, Resisting, or Opposing Officers as Misdemeanor; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.1608
  A person who knowingly or willfully obstructs, resists, or opposes the department, an officer appointed by the department, or any other peace officer in...
• Judgment Fee - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.1609
  In all prosecutions for violation of the law for the protection of game and fish, the sentencing court shall assess, as costs, the sum...
• Wildlife Violator Compact - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.1615
  The governor of this state may enter into a compact on behalf of this state with any of the other states of the United...
• Actions for Declaratory and Equitable Relief for Environmental Protection; Parties; Standards; Judicial Action - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.1701
  (1) The attorney general or any person may maintain an action in the circuit court having jurisdiction where the alleged violation occurred or is...
• Payment of Costs or Judgment; Posting Surety Bond or Cash; Amount - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.1702
  If the court has reasonable grounds to doubt the solvency of the plaintiff or the plaintiff's ability to pay any cost or judgment that...
• Rebuttal Evidence; Affirmative Defense; Burden of Proof; Referee; Costs - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.1703
  (1) When the plaintiff in the action has made a prima facie showing that the conduct of the defendant has polluted, impaired, or destroyed...
• Granting of Relief; Administrative, Licensing, or Other Proceedings; Adjudication; Judicial Review - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.1704
  (1) The court may grant temporary and permanent equitable relief or may impose conditions on the defendant that are required to protect the air,...
• Administrative, Licensing, or Other Proceedings; Intervenors; Determinations; Doctrines Applicable - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.1705
  (1) If administrative, licensing, or other proceedings and judicial review of such proceedings are available by law, the agency or the court may permit...
• Part as Supplement - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.1706
  This part is supplementary to existing administrative and regulatory procedures provided by law.
• "reciprocating Jurisdiction" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.1801
  As used in this part: (a) "Reciprocating jurisdiction" means a state of the United States of America, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of...
• Action or Other Proceeding for Injury Caused by Pollution - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.1802
  An action or other proceeding for injury or threatened injury to property or person in a reciprocating jurisdiction caused by pollution originating, or that...
• Injury Caused by Pollution in Reciprocating Jurisdiction; Rights to Relief - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.1803
  A person who suffers, or is threatened with, injury to his or her person or property in a reciprocating jurisdiction caused by pollution originating,...
• Applicable Law - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.1804
  The law to be applied in an action or other proceeding brought pursuant to this part, including what constitutes "pollution," is the law of...
• Superior Rights Not Accorded - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.1805
  This part does not accord a person injured or threatened with injury in a jurisdiction outside of this state any rights superior to those...
• Additional Right Provided - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.1806
  Any right provided in this part is in addition to and not in derogation of any other rights.
• Defense of Sovereign Immunity - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.1807
  The defense of sovereign immunity is applicable in any action or other proceeding brought pursuant to this part only to the extent that it...
• Application and Construction of Part - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.1808
  This part shall be applied and construed to carry out its general purpose to make uniform the law with respect to the subject of...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.1901
  As used in this part: (a) "Board" means the Michigan natural resources trust fund board established in section 1905. (b) "Economic development revenue bonds...
• Michigan Natural Resources Trust Fund; Establishment; Contents; Transfer of Amount to Michigan State Parks Endowment Fund; Receipts; Investment; Report on Accounting of Revenues and Expenditures; "Michigan State Parks Endowment Fund" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.1902
  (1) In accordance with section 35 of article IX of the state constitution of 1963, the Michigan natural resources trust fund is established in...
• Expenditures - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.1903
  (1) Subject to the limitations of this part and of section 35 of article IX of the state constitution of 1963, the interest and...
• Limitation on Amount Accumulated in Trust Fund; Deposit and Distribution of Amount - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.1904
  The amount accumulated in the trust fund shall not exceed $500,000,000.00, exclusive of interest and earnings and amounts authorized for expenditure under this part....
• Michigan Natural Resources Trust Fund Board; Establishment; Powers and Duties of Transferred Agency; Cooperation, Aid, Offices, and Equipment; Appointment and Terms of Members; Removal; Vacancies; Expenses; Compensation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.1905
  (1) The Michigan natural resources trust fund board is established within the department. The board shall have the powers and duties of an agency...
• Board; Election of Chairperson; Administrative Procedures; Conducting Business At Public Meeting; Notice; Meetings of Board; Availability of Writings to Public; Reports - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.1906
  (1) The board shall elect a chairperson and establish its administrative procedures. The business which the board may perform shall be conducted at a...
• List of Lands, Rights in Land, and Public Recreation Facilities to Be Acquired or Developed; Estimates of Total Costs; Guidelines; Legislative Approval; "Qualified Conservation Organization" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.1907
  (1) The board shall determine which lands and rights in land within the state should be acquired and which public recreation facilities should be...
• Project Status; Report; "Changes Significantly" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.1907a
  (1) If within 2 years after a parcel of property that is approved for acquisition or development by the legislature has not been acquired...
• Adopting Decisions of State Recreational Land Acquisition Trust Fund Board of Trustees; Completion of Projects; Validity and Expenditure of Appropriations; Deposit and Appropriation of Unexpended Funds; Appropriation of Funds Available Under Former Law; Deposit of Interest and Earnings on Unexpended Money - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.1908
  (1) Beginning on October 1, 1985, the board shall adopt as its own any decision made by the state recreational land acquisition trust fund...
• Repealed. 2010, Act 32, Eff. Oct. 1, 2010. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Local Public Recreation Facilities Fund - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.1911
  (1) The local public recreation facilities fund is created within the state treasury. (2) The state treasurer may receive money or other assets from...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2001
  As used in this part: (a) "Forest recreation account" means the forest recreation account of the legacy fund provided for in section 2005. (b)...
• Michigan Conservation and Recreation Legacy Fund - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2002
  (1) In accordance with section 40 of article IX of the state constitution of 1963, the Michigan conservation and recreation legacy fund is established...
• Forest Recreation Account - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2005
  (1) The forest recreation account is established as an account within the legacy fund. (2) The forest recreation account shall consist of both of...
• Game and Fish Protection Account - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2010
  (1) The game and fish protection account is established as an account within the legacy fund. (2) The game and fish protection account shall...
• Off - Road Vehicle Account - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2015
  (1) The off-road vehicle account is established as an account within the legacy fund. (2) The off-road vehicle account shall consist of both of...
• Recreation Improvement Account - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2020
  (1) The recreation improvement account is established as an account within the legacy fund. (2) The recreation improvement account shall consist of both of...
• Snowmobile Account - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2025
  (1) The snowmobile account is established as an account within the legacy fund. (2) The snowmobile account shall consist of both of the following:...
• State Park Improvement Account - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2030
  (1) The state park improvement account is established as an account within the legacy fund. (2) The state park improvement account shall consist of...
• Waterways Account - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2035
  (1) The waterways account is established as an account within the legacy fund. (2) The waterways account shall consist of both of the following:...
• Recreation Passport Fee Revenue - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2045
  (1) The department shall distribute recreation passport fee revenue as follows: (a) First, for necessary expenses incurred by the secretary of state each state...
• State Lands; Sale or Transfer for Public Purpose; Transfer of Jurisdiction to Other State Agencies; Reverter Clause - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2101
  (1) The department may sell sites to school districts and churches and sell lands for public purposes to public educational institutions; to the United...
• Conveyance of Tax Reverted Land to Public Agency Without Monetary Consideration; Reverter - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2102
  Notwithstanding section 2101, the department may convey tax reverted land to a public agency described in section 2101 without monetary consideration but subject to...
• Sale or Transfer of Trail or Trailway; Retention of Rail Interest and Easement - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2102a
  If the state sells or transfers land containing a Michigan trailway established under part 721, an off-road vehicle trail established under part 811, or...
• Unpaid Tax List; Lands Patented After Assessment; Preparation; Supervisors to Reassess; Collection; Return - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2103
  (1) On October 1 of each year, the department shall prepare lists showing the descriptions of lands upon which taxes have been assessed for...
• Exchange of Lands; Authorization; Refund of Application Fee - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2104
  (1) Any of the lands under the control of the department, the title to which is in this state and which may be sold...
• Exchange of Lands With United States; Description; Maintenance; Conveyance; Validity - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2105
  If the department determines that it is in the best interests of the state to relinquish or convey to the United States under the...
• Exchange of Lands With Private Individuals; Description; Maintenance; Conveyance by Individual; Title; Certification by Attorney General; Conveyance by State - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2106
  If the department determines that it is in the best interests of the state to exchange any of the lands mentioned in section 2104...
• Acquired Lands; Classification; Control; Application by Private Individual for Exchange - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2107
  If the state acquires lands under this subpart, under former Act No. 193 of the Public Acts of 1911, or pursuant to the laws...
• Conveyance to United States Pursuant to Property Rights Acquisition Act - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2108
  Any land that is exchanged, relinquished, or otherwise conveyed to the United States under this subpart shall be conveyed pursuant to the property rights...
• Tax Homestead Lands; Legal Records; Certified Copies as Evidence - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2109
  The department shall record, in a suitable book or books kept for that purpose, true copies of all deeds issued by the department for...
• Tax Homestead Lands; Record of Copy of Deed - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2110
  The registers of deeds in the several counties of this state shall receive and record all copies of tax homestead deeds, duly certified to...
• Records; Certified Copy; Fee; Recording Conditions; Perjury - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2111
  The department or other officer having charge of the records described in this subpart shall, upon application from any person, make a certified copy...
• Swamp Lands; Adoption of Notes of Surveys on File; Sale; Restrictions; Procurement of Records - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2120
  (1) The department shall adopt the notes of the surveys on file in the surveyor general's office as the basis upon which they will...
• Swamp Lands; Interest of State; Release - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2121
  The state treasurer may receive from the United States any money that may have been received, or that may hereafter be received, for any...
• Granting Easement Over State - Owned Land Under Jurisdiction of Department to Individual; Conditions; 30 - Day Period to Consider Application; Notification of Incomplete Application; Tolling of Time Period; Time Period for Approval or Denial of Application - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2123
  (1) Subject to sections 2123a and 2124, the department may grant or otherwise provide for an easement for a road over state-owned land under...
• Granting Easement Over State - Owned Land Under Jurisdiction of Department to Individual; Conditions; 30 - Day Period to Consider Application; Notification of Incomplete Application; Tolling of Time Period; Time Period for Approval or Denial of Application - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2123a
  (1) Subject to section 2124 and notwithstanding section 2123, the department shall grant or otherwise provide for an easement for a road over state-owned...
• Granting Easement Over State - Owned Land Under Jurisdiction of Department Prohibited - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2124
  The department shall not grant an easement over state-owned land under the jurisdiction of the department if any of the following apply: (a) The...
• Granting Easement Over State Owned Land Under Jurisdiction of Department to Individual; Interest in Land Required; "interest" Defined; Construction of Words and Phrases Used to Define Interest - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2125
  (1) The department shall not grant an easement over state owned land under the jurisdiction of the department to an individual unless that individual...
• Payment of Charges by Individual Applying for Easement - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2126
  Before the department grants an easement under this subpart, the individual applying for the easement shall pay charges as required by the department. The...
• Disposition of Revenues - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2127
  The revenues received from the charges levied under section 2126, less amounts necessary to pay the expenses of administering this subpart, shall be credited...
• Termination of Easement; Hearing - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2128
  (1) If the land to which an easement is granted by the department pursuant to this subpart or former Act No. 421 of the...
• Easements for Public Utilities Over State Lands; Disposition of Revenue - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2129
  The department may grant easements, upon terms and conditions the department determines just and reasonable, for state and county roads and for the purpose...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2130
  As used in this subpart: (a) "Board" means the Michigan natural resources trust fund board established in part 19. (b) "Fund" means the land...
• Designation and Sale of Surplus Land; Restrictions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2131
  (1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2) or (3), the department may designate as surplus land any state owned land that is under...
• Sale of Surplus Land; Price; Methods; Sale to Highest Bidder; Condition to Acceptance of Bid; Notice; Disposition of Proceeds; Quitclaim Deed; Consideration of Application - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2132
  (1) Subject to subsection (2), the department may sell surplus land at a price established using the method that the department determines to be...
• Notice of Sealed or Oral Bid Public Auction or Notice of Negotiated Sale; Publication and Contents; List of Surplus Lands - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2133
  (1) A notice of a sealed or oral bid public auction sale of surplus lands shall be published at least once in a newspaper...
• Land Exchange Facilitation Fund; Creation; Administration; Money Carried Over - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2134
  (1) A land exchange facilitation fund is created in the state treasury. The fund shall be administered by the department and shall be used...
• Land Exchange Facilitation Fund; Use of Money; Purchase of Land Identified in Recommendation; Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2135
  (1) Money from the fund shall be used by the department only for the following purposes: (a) Upon the recommendation of the department and...
• Construction of Subpart - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2136
  This subpart does not limit the authority of the department to do 1 or both of the following: (a) To exchange land as provided...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2140
  As used in this subpart: (a) "Conservation easement" means an interest in land that provides limitation on the use of land or a body...
• Conservation Easement; Enforcement; Recordation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2141
  A conservation easement granted to a governmental entity or to a charitable or educational association, corporation, trust, or other legal entity is enforceable against...
• Historic Preservation Easement; Enforcement; Recordation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2142
  A historic preservation easement granted to a governmental entity or to a charitable or educational association, corporation, trust, or other legal entity whose purposes...
• Enforceability of Restriction, Easement, Covenant, or Condition - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2143
  This subpart does not render unenforceable a restriction, easement, covenant, or condition that does not have the benefit of this subpart.
• Conservation Easement or Historic Preservation Easement as Interest in Real Estate; Document Creating Easement as Conveyance; Recordation; Enforcement; Assignment - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2144
  (1) A conservation easement or historic preservation easement is an interest in real estate, and a document creating 1 of those easements shall be...
• Iron Ore Mining; Public Interest; Acquisition of Property; Conditions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2145
  The business of mining and beneficiating low-grade iron ore, as defined in Act No. 77 of the Public Acts of 1951, being sections 211.621...
• Condemnation of Land; Compensation to Owners - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2146
  The department shall provide adequate compensation for any owner-occupied residences of owner-occupied or owner-operated farmland that it condemns pursuant to this subpart to enable...
• Lease or Conveyance of Land; Conditions for Issuance - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2147
  The department shall require as a condition for the issuance of any lease or conveyance authorized by this subpart the payment by the lessee...
• Tax on Tax Reverted, Recreation, and Forest or Other Lands; Exemption; Detailed Statement of Account; Descriptions of Lands; Warrant; Distribution; Payment of Tax From General Fund; Payment in Full - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2150
  (1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2), on December 1 of each year the department of treasury shall pay into the treasury of...
• Tax on Certain State Lands; Duty of Department; Record; Warrant - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2151
  The department shall enter upon its records against each description of the land the amounts provided by this subpart and shall certify the amounts...
• List of Certain Real Property Owned by State and Controlled by Department; Furnishing List to State Tax Commission - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2152
  For the purpose of this subpart, the department shall furnish the state tax commission with a list of all real property owned by the...
• Valuation of Real Property; Report to Assessing District; Entering Description Upon Assessment Rolls; Exemption; "Local Taxing Unit" Defined; Adjustment; Valuation Established - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2153
  (1) For purposes of this subpart, the state tax commission shall determine the valuation of real property described in section 2152 before February 1...
• Statement of Assessment; Review; Payment; Failure of Assessing District to Submit Statement; Aggregate Charges; Amount Available; Failure of State to Make Payment; "Michigan Natural Resources Trust Fund" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2154
  (1) The treasurer or other officer charged with the collection of taxes for an assessing district shall annually forward a single statement of the...
• "damages" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2155
  As used in this subpart, "damages" means the fair market value on the stump or at the mill, whichever is greater of a forest...
• Removal of Forest Products or Property From State Owned Land; Accepting or Receiving Property in Violation of Subsection (1) - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2156
  (1) Unless a person has the written permission of the department or is acting as authorized in R 299.321 or R 299.331 of the...
• Violation; Penalties; Determination of Total Value; Prior Convictions; Prohibition - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2157
  (1) A person who violates section 2156 is guilty of a crime as follows: (a) If the damages are less than $200.00, the person...
• Violation; Additional Penalties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2158
  (1) In addition to the penalties provided for in section 2157, a person convicted of violating this subpart shall forfeit in a civil action...
• Delivery of Records as to Land Titles and Surveys; Certified Copies Admissible as Evidence - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2160
  Upon receipt of an application of any person, and payment by the applicant of the fees provided for in this part, the department shall...
• Prices and Charges; Schedule - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2161
  The following schedule of prices and charges shall be observed by the department: (a) For field and meander notes, per survey township, $8.00. (b)...
• Disposition of Fees - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2162
  The fees received for all services under this part shall be paid into the state treasury and credited to the general fund.
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2301
  As used in this part: (a) "Department" means the department of environmental quality. (b) "Director" means the director of the department. (c) "Roundtable" means...
• Agriculture and Rural Communities Roundtable; Participants; Consultation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2303
  (1) The director shall convene an agriculture and rural communities roundtable to discuss how the laws, rules and policies administered by the department affect...
• Meetings - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2305
  (1) The first meeting of the roundtable shall be convened by the director within 90 days after the effective date of the amendatory act...
• Purpose of Part - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2501
  The purpose of this part is to facilitate an understanding by citizens of this state of the natural environment including an understanding of basic...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2502
  As used in this part: (a) "Coordinator" means the coordinator of environmental education provided for in section 2503. (b) "Environmental education" means the teaching...
• Coordinator of Environmental Education; Appointment; Responsibilities - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2503
  The department shall appoint a coordinator of environmental education within the department of natural resources. The coordinator's primary responsibilities shall be to do the...
• Repealed. 2008, Act 397, Imd. Eff. Jan. 6, 2009. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Environmental Education Fund; Creation; Disposition of Assets; Appropriation of Civil Fines to Fund; Money to Remain in Fund; Administrator of Fund for Auditing Purposes; Establishment and Operation of Clearinghouse of Environmental Education Materials - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2505
  (1) The environmental education fund is created within the state treasury. (2) The state treasurer shall direct the investment of the fund. The state...
• Designation as "Green School"; Environmental Stewardship Designation; Criteria; Approval or Rejection of Application - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2511
  (1) A public or private school in this state may apply to be designated as a "green school" by submitting an application to the...
• Status and Assessment Report; Environmental Indicators as Basis; Submission; Uniformity With Other States and Nationally; Responsibilities of Other State Agencies; "environmental Indicator" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2521
  (1) The department of environmental quality, in conjunction with the department of natural resources, shall biennially prepare a report that assesses the status of...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2701
  As used in this part: (a) "Department" means the department of environmental quality. (b) "Program" means a permit program or regulatory program administered by...
• Process Improvement - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2703
  (1) The department shall complete process improvement of 1 major program by February 1, 2012 and 2 major programs each year thereafter until the...
• Metrics - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2705
  (1) The department shall develop metrics for all of the following: (a) Environmental impacts. (b) Process performance. For a permit program, process performance shall...
• Survey - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.2707
  For each division of the department, the department shall survey persons regulated by that division and the general public concerning the division's service practices....
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3101
  As used in this part: (a) "Aquatic nuisance species" means a nonindigenous species that threatens the diversity or abundance of native species or the...
• Implementation of Part - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3102
  The director shall implement this part.
• Department of Environmental Quality; Powers and Duties Generally; Rules; Other Actions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3103
  (1) The department shall protect and conserve the water resources of the state and shall have control of the pollution of surface or underground...
• Legislative Findings; Duties of Department; Vessel Owner or Operator Ineligible for New Grant, Loan, or Award - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3103a
  (1) The legislature finds both of the following: (a) It is a goal of this state to prevent the introduction of and minimize the...
• Cooperation and Negotiation With Other Governments as to Water Resources; Alteration of Watercourses; Federal Assistance; Formation of Great Lakes Aquatic Nuisance Species Coalition; Report; Requests for Appropriations; Recommendations; Permit to Alter Floodplain; Application; Fees; Disposition of Fees; Other Acts Subject to Single Highest Permit Fee - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3104
  (1) The department is designated the state agency to cooperate and negotiate with other governments, governmental units, and governmental agencies in matters concerning the...
• Entering Property for Inspections and Investigations; Assistance - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3105
  The department may enter at all reasonable times in or upon any private or public property for the purpose of inspecting and investigating conditions...
• Establishment of Pollution Standards; Permits; Determination of Volume of Water and High and Low Water Marks; Rules; Orders; Pollution Prevention - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3106
  The department shall establish pollution standards for lakes, rivers, streams, and other waters of the state in relation to the public use to which...
• Satisfaction of Remedial Obligations - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3106a
  Corrective action measures conducted pursuant to part 213 satisfy remedial obligations under this part.
• Harmful Interference With Streams; Rules; Orders; Determinations for Record - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3107
  The department may promulgate rules and issue orders for the prevention of harmful interference with the discharge and stage characteristics of streams. The department...
• Unlawful Occupation, Filling, or Grading of Floodplain, Stream Bed, or Channel of Stream; Exceptions; Construction of Building With Basement - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3108
  (1) A person shall not occupy or permit the occupation of land for residential, commercial, or industrial purposes or fill or grade or permit...
• Discharge Into State Waters; Prohibitions; Exception; Violation; Penalties; Abatement - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3109
  (1) A person shall not directly or indirectly discharge into the waters of the state a substance that is or may become injurious to...
• Mixing Zones for Discharges of Venting Groundwater; Conditions Not Requiring Permit; Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3109a
  (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, or rules promulgated under this part, the department shall allow for a mixing zone for discharges...
• Satisfaction of Remedial Obligations - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3109b
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, remedial actions that satisfy the requirements of part 201 satisfy a person's remedial obligations under this part.
• Prohibition - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3109c
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this part or the rules promulgated under this part, the open water disposal of contaminated dredge materials is prohibited.
• Maeap - Verified Farms; Applicable Conditions; Obligation to Obtain Permit Not Modified or Limited; Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3109d
  (1) Beginning 6 months after the effective date of the amendatory act that added this section, notwithstanding any other provision of this part, the...
• Waste Treatment Facilities of Industrial or Commercial Entity; Exception; Examination and Certification of Supervisory Personnel; Training Program; Fees; Failure to Pay Fee; Continuing Education Programs; Reports; False Statement; Applicability of Section - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3110
  (1) Each industrial or commercial entity, other than a concentrated animal feed operation, that discharges liquid wastes into any surface water or groundwater or...
• Repealed. 2012, Act 43, Imd. Eff. Mar. 6, 2012. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Release Required to Be Reported Under R 324.2001 to R 324.2009 - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3111b
  (1) If a person is required to report a release to the department under part 5 of the water resources protection rules, R 324.2001...
• Permit to Discharge Waste Into State Waters; Application Determined as Complete; Condition of Validity; Modification, Suspension, or Revocation of Permit; Reissuance; Application for New Permit; Notice; Order; Complaint; Petition; Contested Case Hearing; Rejection of Petition; Oceangoing Vessels Engaging in Port Operations; Permit Required - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3112
  (1) A person shall not discharge any waste or waste effluent into the waters of this state unless the person is in possession of...
• Discharge of Untreated Sewage From Sewer System; Notification; Duties of Municipality; Legal Action by State Not Limited; Penalties and Fines; Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3112a
  (1) Except for sewer systems described in subsection (8), if untreated sewage or partially treated sewage is directly or indirectly discharged from a sewer...
• Discharge From Combined Sewer System; Issuance or Renewal of Permit; Disconnection of Eaves Troughs and Downspouts as Condition; Exception; "combined Sewer System" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3112b
  (1) When a permit for a discharge from a combined sewer system is issued or renewed under this part, the department shall require as...
• Discharges of Untreated or Partially Treated Sewage From Sewer Systems; List of Occurrences; "partially Treated Sewage" and "sewer System" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3112c
  (1) The department shall compile and maintain a list of occurrences of discharges of untreated or partially treated sewage from sewer systems onto land...
• New or Increased Use of Waters for Sewage or Other Waste Disposal Purposes; Filing Information; Permit; Conditions; Complaint; Petition; Contested Case Hearing; Rejection of Petition - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3113
  (1) A person who seeks a new or increased use of the waters of the state for sewage or other waste disposal purposes shall...
• Enforcement of Part; Criminal Complaint - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3114
  An employee of the department of natural resources or an employee of another governmental agency appointed by the department may, with the concurrence of...
• Violations; Civil or Criminal Liability; Venue; Jurisdiction; Penalties; Knowledge Attributable to Defendant; Lien; Setoff - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3115
  (1) The department may request the attorney general to commence a civil action for appropriate relief, including a permanent or temporary injunction, for a...
• Violation as Misdemeanor; Penalty; "minor Offense" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3115a
  (1) Except as provided in subsections (2) and (3), a person who alters or causes the alteration of a floodplain in violation of this...
• Construction of Part - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3116
  This part does not repeal any law governing the pollution of lakes and streams, but shall be held and construed as ancillary to and...
• Supplemental Construction - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3117
  This part is supplemental to and in addition to the drain code of 1956, Act No. 40 of the Public Acts of 1956, being...
• Storm Water Discharge Fees - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3118
  (1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, until October 1, 2015, the department shall collect storm water discharge fees from persons who apply...
• Storm Water Fund - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3119
  (1) The storm water fund is created within the state treasury. (2) The state treasurer may receive money or other assets from any source...
• New or Increased Use Permit; Application and Annual Permit Fees; Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3120
  (1) Until October 1, 2015, an application for a new permit, a reissuance of a permit, or a modification of an existing permit under...
• National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Fund - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3121
  (1) The national pollutant discharge elimination system fund is created within the state treasury. (2) The state treasurer may receive money or other assets...
• Annual Groundwater Discharge Permit Fee; Failure of Department to Grant or Deny Within Certain Time Period; Payment of Fee by Municipality; Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3122
  (1) Until October 1, 2015, the department may levy and collect an annual groundwater discharge permit fee from facilities that discharge wastewater to the...
• Annual Groundwater Discharge Permit Fees; Credit; Amount - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3122a
  In any state fiscal year, if the department collects more than $2,000,000.00 under section 3122 in annual groundwater discharge permit fees, the department shall...
• Groundwater Discharge Permit Fees; Invoices; Late Payment; Action by Attorney General - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3123
  (1) The department shall send invoices for the groundwater discharge permit fees under section 3122 to all permit holders by January 15 of each...
• Groundwater Discharge Permit Fund - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3124
  (1) The groundwater discharge permit fund is created within the state treasury. The state treasurer may receive money or other assets from any source...
• Land Application of Sewage Sludge and Derivatives; Rules; Applicability to Bulk Biosolids or Bulk Derivative; Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3131
  (1) By October 1, 1997, the department of environmental quality in consultation with the department of agriculture and rural development shall promulgate rules to...
• Sewage Sludge Generators and Sewage Sludge Distributors; Fees; Report; Sewage Sludge Land Application Fund; Local Ordinance - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3132
  (1) Beginning in state fiscal year 1998, an annual sewage sludge land application fee is imposed upon sewage sludge generators and sewage sludge distributors....
• Local Ordinances, Regulations, or Resolutions; Preemption; Contracts With Local Units; Enactment and Enforcement of Local Standards; Compliance With Conditions of Approval; Submission of Resolution by Local Unit to Department; Public Meeting; Issuance of Opinion and Approval by Department - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3133
  (1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, sections 3131 and 3132 preempt a local ordinance, regulation, or resolution of a local unit that...
• Operator Training and Certification Fund - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3134
  (1) The operator training and certification fund is created within the state treasury. (2) The state treasurer may receive money or other assets from...
• Definitions; a to D - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3301
  As used in this part: (a) "Aquatic nuisance" means an organism that lives or propagates, or both, within the aquatic environment and that impairs...
• Definitions; G to W - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3302
  As used in this part: (a) "General permit" means a permit for a category of activities that the department determines will not negatively impact...
• Chemical Treatment of Waters for Aquatic Nuisance Control; Permit or Certificate of Coverage Required; Exception; Records; Qualifications; Authorization Under Part 31 - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3303
  (1) Subject to subsections (2), (4), and (5), a person shall not chemically treat either of the following for purposes of aquatic nuisance control...
• Lake Management Plan as Part of Permit Application; Proposal for Whole Lake Evaluation Treatment; Placement of Specific Conditions in Permit; Scientific Rationale for Permit Denial - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3304
  (1) An applicant shall provide a lake management plan as part of an application for permit, if a whole lake treatment is proposed. (2)...
• Registration of Chemical Used for Aquatic Nuisance Control; Evaluation; Order to Prohibit or Suspend Chemical Use - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3305
  (1) A chemical shall not be used in waters of the state for aquatic nuisance control unless it is registered with the EPA, pursuant...
• Certificate of Coverage; Application Fee; Deposit - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3306
  (1) Until October 1, 2015, an application for a certificate of coverage under this part shall be accompanied by a fee of $75.00. Until...
• Approval or Denial of Application Within Certain Time Period - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3307
  (1) The department shall either approve or deny an application for a certificate of coverage by May 1 or within 15 working days after...
• Written Permission From Bottomland Owner - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3308
  An applicant shall obtain authorization to chemically treat the proposed area of impact by obtaining written permission from each person who owns bottomlands in...
• Information Included in Permit; Additional Conditions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3309
  (1) A permit under this part shall, at a minimum, include all of the following information: (a) The active ingredient or the trade name...
• Permit Conditions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3310
  As a condition of a permit under this part, the department may require the permittee to do any of the following: (a) Notify the...
• Permit Revisions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3311
  The department may make minor revisions to a permit under this part, to minimize the impacts to the natural resources, public health, and safety,...
• Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3312
  The department may promulgate rules to implement this part.
• Violations as Misdemeanors; Penalty; Commencement of Civil Action by Attorney General; Revocation of Permit or Certificate of Coverage - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3313
  (1) A person who commits a violation of this part that does not result in harm to or pose a substantial threat to natural...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3501
  As used in this part: (a) "Low-grade iron ore" means iron-bearing rock in the Upper Peninsula of this state that is not merchantable as...
• Iron Ore Mining in Upper Peninsula; Issuance of Water Permits - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3502
  Substantial deposits of low-grade iron ore are located in the Upper Peninsula of this state. The development and continuation of the industry of mining...
• Operation of Low - Grade Iron Ore Mining Property; Draining, Diverting, Controlling, or Using Water; Permit Required; Application; Contents; Hearing; Notice; Publication; Findings - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3503
  A person shall not drain, divert, control, or use water for the operation of a low-grade iron ore mining property except as authorized by...
• Water Permits; Liability of State - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3504
  Neither the state nor any of its officers, agents, or employees shall incur any liability because of the issuance of a permit under this...
• Water Permits; Term - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3505
  Every permit granted under this part shall be for a term as is necessary to permit the mining to exhaustion and beneficiation of all...
• Water Permits; Rights; Violation; Revocation; Emergency Order for Abatement - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3506
  Every permit issued by the department under this part shall give to the permittee the right to use the water specified in the permit...
• Enforcement; Administration - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3507
  (1) The department is responsible for enforcing this part. (2) At any hearing, the department, or its duly authorized agents, has the power to...
• Rules; Judicial Review - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3508
  The department shall promulgate rules to implement this part. Any interested person has the right of judicial review from any decision, order, or permit...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3701
  As used in this part: (a) "Facility" means any disposal system, including disposal wells, or any treatment works, appliance, equipment, machinery, or installation constructed,...
• Tax Exemption Certificate; Application; Filing; Manner; Form; Notice; Hearing - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3702
  (1) An application for a water pollution control tax exemption certificate shall be filed with the state tax commission in a manner and in...
• Issuance of Certificate; Grounds; Effective Date - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3703
  If the department finds that the facility is designed and operated primarily for the control, capture, and removal of industrial waste from the water,...
• Exemption of Facility From Real and Personal Property Taxes; Exemption of Certain Tangible Personal Property From Sales and Use Taxes; Statement in Certificate - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3704
  (1) For the period subsequent to the effective date of the certificate and continuing as long as the certificate is in force, a facility...
• Tax Exemption Certificate; Issuance; Mailing to Applicant, Local Tax Assessors, and Department of Treasury; Filing; Notice of Refusal of Certificate - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3705
  The state tax commission shall send a water pollution control tax exemption certificate, when issued, by certified mail to the applicant, and certified copies...
• Tax Exemption Certificate; Modification or Revocation; Grounds; Notice and Hearing; Statute of Limitations - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3706
  (1) The state tax commission, on notice by certified mail to the applicant and opportunity for a hearing, on its own initiative or on...
• Tax Exemption Certificate; Appeal - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3707
  A party aggrieved by the issuance, refusal to issue, revocation, or modification of a pollution control tax exemption certificate may appeal from the finding...
• State Tax Commission; Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3708
  The state tax commission may promulgate rules as it considers necessary for the administration of this part. These rules shall not abridge the authority...
• Definitions; Selling or Distributing Cleaner, Rinsing Aid, or Sanitizing Agent Containing More Than 14% Phosphorus Prohibited; Selling or Distributing Products Containing More Than 28% Phosphorus Prohibited - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3901
  (1) As used in this part: (a) "Cleaning agent" means a laundry detergent, dishwashing compound, household cleaner, metal cleaner, degreasing compound, commercial cleaner, industrial...
• Phosphorus Content; Cleaning Agent Intended for Use Beginning July 1, 2010 - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3902
  A person shall not sell, offer for sale, or distribute for sale or use in this state any of the following: (a) Subject to...
• Rules; Compliance - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3903
  The department shall promulgate rules to implement this part. The rules may further restrict the nutrient content and other contents of cleaning agents and...
• Prohibited Sales - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3904
  A person shall not sell detergents or cleaning compounds containing any substance other than phosphorus that may cause unlawful pollution of the waters of...
• Local Regulation Prohibited - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3905
  A local unit of government shall not enact or enforce an existing or future ordinance or rule with respect to the sale of cleaning...
• Enforcement of Part - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.3906
  The department shall enforce this part and seek court enforcement of its orders pursuant to part 31.
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.4101
  As used in this part: (a) "Conventional gravity sewer extension" means the installation of a new gravity sewer and connection to an existing collection...
• Department of Natural Resources; Powers - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.4102
  The department is given power and control as limited in this part over persons engaged in furnishing sewerage or sewage treatment service, or both,...
• Sewerage Systems; Inspection by Department - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.4103
  The department may enter at reasonable times the sewerage systems and other property of a person for the purpose of inspecting a sewerage system...
• Sewerage Systems; Rules; Classification of Sewage Treatment Works; Examinations; Issuance and Revocation of Certificates; Supervision by Certified Operator; Training Program for Certified Operator; Fees - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.4104
  (1) The department may promulgate and enforce rules as the department considers necessary governing and providing a method of conducting and operating all or...
• Sewerage Systems; Plans and Specifications; Rules; Permit for Construction; Minor Modifications; Misdemeanor - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.4105
  (1) The mayor of each city, the president of each village, the township supervisor of each township, the responsible executive officer of a governmental...
• Sewage Treatment Works; Reports; False Statement; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.4106
  (1) A person who operates a sewage treatment works shall file with the department reports under oath as required by the department. The reports...
• Inspection of Plans and Specifications; Inspection of Sewerage Systems; Recommendations or Orders; Compliance - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.4107
  (1) The department on receipt of plans and specifications for a sewerage system shall inspect them with reference to their adequacy to protect the...
• Sewerage System; Planning, Construction and Operation; Cooperation; Compliance; "Private, Investor - Owned Wastewater Utility" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.4108
  (1) The department shall exercise due care to see that sewerage systems are properly planned, constructed, and operated to prevent unlawful pollution of the...
• Engineers and Other Assistants; Employment - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.4109
  The department may employ engineers and other assistants as may be necessary to administer this part.
• Commencement of Civil Action by Attorney General; Jurisdiction; Additional Relief; Violation as Misdemeanor; Penalty; Appearance Ticket; Enforcement; "Minor Offense" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.4110
  (1) The department may request that the attorney general commence a civil action for appropriate relief, including a permanent or temporary injunction, for a...
• Actions Brought by Department - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.4111
  The department may bring an appropriate action in the name of the people of this state as may be necessary to carry out this...
• Expedited Review Process for Certain Projects - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.4112
  (1) For projects described in subsection (2), an expedited review process shall be available through September 30, 2015. To be eligible for expedited review,...
• Infrastructure Construction Fund; Administration of Expedited Review Process; Reports - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.4113
  (1) The infrastructure construction fund is created within the state treasury. (2) The state treasurer may receive money or other assets from any source...
• Waterworks Systems, Sewers, and Disposal Plants; Acquisition, Construction, Equipping, Operation, and Maintenance; Acquisition of Land; Powers of Local Units of Government - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.4301
  A local unit of government in this state, either individually or jointly by agreement with another local unit of government, may own, acquire, construct,...
• Waterworks Systems, Sewers, and Disposal Plants; Mortgage Bonds - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.4302
  (1) The waterworks system, intercepting sewers, pumping stations, sewage disposal plant and system, transfer station, and garbage and refuse processing or disposal plant and...
• Waterworks Systems, Sewers, and Disposal Plants; Supervision and Control by Local Units of Government; Rules; Establishment, Certification, and Assessment of Rates or Charges - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.4303
  The legislative body of a local unit of government or the respective legislative bodies of the local units of government who have agreed to...
• Mortgage Bonds; Manner of Payment; Sinking Fund - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.4304
  Bonds that are issued and secured by a mortgage on the utility as provided in this part shall not be a general obligation of...
• Sewers and Disposal Plants; Granting Franchise to Private Corporation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.4305
  Instead of owning and operating a sewer system and sewage disposal plant, transfer station, garbage or refuse collection, processing, and disposal plant or system...
• Contract to Receive, Treat, Transfer, and Process Sewage, Night Soil, Garbage, and Refuse; Charges - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.4306
  The local unit or units of government may enter into a contract with a person to receive, treat, transfer, and process in the manner...
• Sewage System, Solid Waste Facility, or Waterworks System; Bonds Generally - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.4307
  (1) In accordance with and to the extent authorized by law, when the department, the department of public health, or a court of competent...
• Waterworks Systems, Sewers, or Disposal Systems; Court Order; Plans and Specifications; Authorization and Issuance of Bonds - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.4308
  If an order is made by a court of competent jurisdiction pursuant to this part, the fact that the order was issued shall be...
• Construction of Part - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.4309
  The authority given by this part is in addition to and not in derogation of any power existing in any of the local units...
• Waterworks Systems, Sewers, or Disposal Plants; Court Proceedings - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.4310
  Proceedings under this part shall be taken only in a court of competent jurisdiction in the county in which the proposed waterworks system, interceptors,...
• Waterworks Systems, Sewers, or Disposal Plants; Agreements Between Local Units of Government and Municipalities as to Bonds - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.4311
  If considered expedient for the safety and health of the people, local units of government may enter into agreement with each other to raise...
• Local Units of Government; Contract Power; Approval - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.4312
  If local units of government desire to act under this part, the relationship established between such local units of government shall be fixed by...
• "municipality" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.4501
  The term "municipality" or "municipalities" as used in this part means and includes a county, city, village, township, school district, metropolitan district, port district,...
• Legislative Determinations - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.4502
  The legislature hereby determines all of the following: (a) That it is essential for the public health, safety, and welfare of the state and...
• Bond Issuance; Authorization; Amount; Purpose - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.4503
  The state shall borrow the sum of $335,000,000.00 and issue the general obligation bonds of the state, pledging the faith and credit of the...
• Bonds; Issuance in Series; Resolution of Administrative Board; Sale of Bonds - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.4504
  (1) The bonds shall be issued in 1 or more series, each series to be in the principal amount, to be dated, to have...
• Revenues; Disposition - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.4505
  The proceeds of sale of the bonds or any series of the bonds and any premium and accrued interest received on the delivery of...
• Bonds; Negotiability; Tax Exempt - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.4506
  Bonds issued under this part are fully negotiable under the uniform commercial code, Act No. 174 of the Public Acts of 1962, being sections...
• Legal Investments - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.4507
  Bonds issued under former Act No. 76 of the Public Acts of 1968 or this part are securities in which all banks, bankers, savings...
• Bonds; Question; Submission to Electors; Ballot; Form - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.4508
  The question of borrowing the sum of $335,000,000.00 and issuing bonds of the state for the purpose set forth in this part shall be...
• Submission to Electors - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.4509
  The secretary of state shall take such steps and perform all acts as are necessary to properly submit the question to the electors of...
• Bonds; Appropriation to Make Prompt Payment - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.4510
  After the issuance of the bonds authorized by former Act No. 76 of the Public Acts of 1968 or this part, or any series...
• Approval of Electors - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.4511
  Bonds shall not be issued under this part unless the question set forth in section 4508 is approved by a majority vote of the...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.4701
  As used in this part: (a) "Due notice" means notice published at least twice, with an interval of at least 7 days between the...
• Department of Natural Resources; Powers and Duties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.4702
  The department under this part has all of the following powers and duties: (a) To foster and encourage the organization of sewage disposal and...
• Sewage Disposal and Water Supply Districts; Joint Municipal Action to Form District; Filing, Contents, and Consolidation of Petition - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.4703
  (1) Two or more municipalities, by resolution of their legislative bodies, may file a petition with the department requesting that a sewage disposal district...
• Sewage Disposal and Water Supply Districts; Petition; Hearing; Notice; Adjournment; Determination as to Territory Affected - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.4704
  Within 30 days after a petition is filed with the department, or later if authorized by the department, but not to exceed 90 days,...
• Sewage Disposal and Water Supply Districts; Hearing; Determination of No Necessity; Record; Determination of Necessity; Referendum; Rules; Creation of Authority; Application; Petitions to Include Additional Territory; Legal Status of District; Certificate - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.4705
  (1) If the department determines after the hearing that there is no need for a district to be formed in the territory considered at...
• Permanent Governing Body; Nomination, Election, and Terms of Directors; Certification of Election; Vacancy; Conducting Business At Public Meeting; Notice of Meeting; Quorum; Concurrence of Majority for Determination; Expenses - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.4706
  (1) The first permanent governing body of the district after the district has been organized and has received the secretary of state certificate described...
• Employment of Executive Secretary, Technical Experts, Officers, Agents, and Employees; Qualifications, Duties, and Compensation; Delegation of Powers and Duties; Furnishing Copies of Documents and Other Information; Availability of Writings to Public; Execution of Surety Bonds; Records; Annual Audit; Designation of Representatives to Advise and Consult on Questions of Program and Policy - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.4707
  (1) The directors may employ an executive secretary, technical experts, and other officers, agents, and employees, permanent or temporary, as required, and shall determine...
• Sewage Disposal and Water Supply Districts; Powers - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.4708
  A district organized under this part constitutes a governmental subdivision of this state and a body corporate, exercising public powers, with power to sue...
• Sewage Disposal and Water Supply Districts; Contracts With Municipalities; Construction, Improvement, Enlargement, Extension, Operation, and Financing; Pledge of Payment; Resolution; Approval by Electors; Issuance of Bonds - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.4709
  (1) The district may enter into contracts with any municipality located within its territorial limits providing for the acquisition, construction, improvement, enlargement, extension, operation,...
• Sewage Disposal and Water Supply Districts; Contract Sewage Treatment; Income; Application - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.4710
  The district may enter into a contract for the furnishing of sewage treatment services by any sewage treatment plant owned or operated by the...
• Detachment of Territory From Participating Municipality; Contractual Obligations; Bonds; Redemption - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.4711
  If territory that is part of a district created under this part is detached from a municipality and transferred to a municipality that is...
• Existing Systems; Self - Liquidating Revenue Bonds - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.4712
  If the governing body of a district formed under this part acquires, extends, improves, or operates a sewage disposal system or water supply system...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.4901
  As used in this part: (a) "Collecting sewers" means lateral, branch, submain, and trunk sewers consisting of pipes or conduits including pumps, lift stations,...
• State Sewer Construction Fund; Grants; Funding - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.4902
  Grants to local agencies shall be funded from the state sewer construction fund for collecting sewer projects in the descending order of their priority...
• State Sewer Construction Fund; Establishment; Eligibility - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.4903
  A fund to be known as the state sewer construction fund is established to be used for state grants to local agencies for their...
• State Sewer Construction Fund; Disposition - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.4904
  The proceeds of the sale of $50,000,000.00 of the bonds authorized by former Act No. 76 of the Public Acts of 1968 or part...
• Grants; Application; Amount; Limitations - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.4905
  (1) A local agency may apply to the department for a grant under this part. (2) A grant shall be made in an amount...
• State Sewer Construction Fund; Disbursements - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.4906
  (1) Disbursements from the state sewer construction fund shall be made by the director of the department of management and budget and the state...
• Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.4907
  The department may promulgate rules to implement this part.
• State Agencies; Officers and Employees; Use; Purpose; Grant Recipients; Records - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.4908
  (1) The department, with consent of the head of any other agency of this state, shall use the officers and employees of such agency...
• Priority Establishment and Project Certification Procedures; Compliance Prerequisite to Grant - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.4909
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this part or of any rule of the department, compliance with sections 4909 to 4912 is a prerequisite to...
• Collecting Sewer Projects; Pollution Control Needs; Assignment of Points - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.4910
  (1) Points assigned to a collecting sewer project as a complete measure of pollution control needs shall not exceed 15. (2) Two points shall...
• Total Priority Points; Computation; Tied Projects; Assignment of Priority - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.4911
  (1) Total priority points for a collecting sewer project shall be the sum of the points assigned for water pollution control needs. (2) If...
• Fiscal Year; Filing Application for Grant; Assignment of Point Total; Certification of Projects; Condition of Certification; Time Extensions; Validity of Application; Report to Legislature; Approval or Rejection of Projects - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.4912
  (1) For the purposes of sections 4909 to 4912, the fiscal year is July 1 to June 30. (2) Applications for collecting sewer construction...
• "land Disposal Wastewater Management Program" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5101
  As used in this part, "land disposal wastewater management program" means the program developed in the United States army corps of engineers southeastern Michigan...
• Submission of Views as to Environmental Consequences, Cost Effectiveness, and Social Acceptability of Program - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5102
  Upon receipt of a proposal to implement a land disposal wastewater management program as defined in this part by a federal, state, or local...
• Implementation of Program; Approval or Disapproval - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5103
  Upon receipt of the views of the department and the department of agriculture, the local units of government shall either approve or disapprove by...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5201
  As used in this part: (a) "Asset management program" means the program that identifies the desired level of service at the lowest life cycle...
• Strategic Water Quality Initiatives Loan Program; Establishment; Purpose; Asset Management Program; Content; Criteria; Interest Rate - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5202
  (1) The authority in consultation with the department shall establish a strategic water quality initiatives loan program. This loan program shall provide low interest...
• Loan Application by Municipality; Process; Agreement; Disposition of Money Received as Repayment - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5203
  (1) A municipality that wishes to apply for a loan shall submit a loan application to the department as follows: (a) In compliance with...
• Strategic Water Quality Initiatives Fund; Creation; Disposition of Money or Assets; Investment; Funds Remaining At Close of Fiscal Year; Expenditures; Fund as Security - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5204
  (1) The strategic water quality initiatives fund is created within the state treasury. (2) The state treasurer may receive money or other assets from...
• Strategic Water Quality Initiatives Grant Program - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5204a
  (1) The authority, in conjunction with the department, shall establish a strategic water quality initiatives grant program that provides grants totaling not more than...
• Nonpoint Source Water Pollution; Expenditures; Limitation; Requirements; Selection of Projects; Expenditures Subject to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles; Annual Report; Use of Fund; "Facility", "Release", and "Response Activity" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5204b
  (1) Subject to section 5204c, the department may expend, upon appropriation, not more than $140,000,000.00 of the money from the fund for response activities...
• Nonpoint Source Water Pollution; Brownfield Redevelopment Grants and Loans to Municipalities and Brownfield Redevelopment Authorities; Development of Materials; Applications - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5204c
  (1) The department may expend $10,000,000.00 of money from the fund to provide brownfield redevelopment grants and loans to municipalities and brownfield redevelopment authorities...
• Grant Program Within Strategic Water Quality Initiatives Fund; Establishment; Purpose; Recommendations - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5204d
  The state may establish a grant program within the strategic water quality initiatives fund for the purpose of funding specific wastewater treatment facility infrastructure...
• Grant Program; Purpose; Conditions; Application and Review Process; Contents; Approval; Agreement; Terms; Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5204e
  (1) In addition to other requirements of this part, the grant program shall provide grants to municipalities for sewage collection and treatment systems or...
• Wetland Mitigation Bank Funding Program - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5204f
  (1) The department, in conjunction with the authority, shall establish a wetland mitigation bank funding program that provides grants and loans totaling not more...
• Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5205
  The department may promulgate rules to implement this part.
• Legislative Findings - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5206
  The legislature finds and declares that the environmental, natural resources, and water quality protection programs implemented under this part are a public purpose and...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5301
  As used in this part: (a) "Assistance" means 1 or more of the following activities to the extent authorized by the federal water pollution...
• Construction of Part; Broad Interpretation of Powers; Prohibited Grants or Loans; Liability for Costs; Legislative Intent - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5302
  (1) This part shall be construed liberally to effectuate the legislative intent. All powers granted under this part shall be broadly interpreted to effectuate...
• Cooperative Regional or Intermunicipal Projects; Project Plan for Tier I or Tier II Project; Documentation; Notice; Public Comment; Development of Priority List; Submission of Priority List to Legislature; Effective Date of Priority List; Other Actions Not Limited; "on - Site Septic System" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5303
  (1) Municipalities shall consider and utilize, where possible, cooperative regional or intermunicipal projects in satisfying sewerage needs in the development of project plans. (2)...
• Assistance; Requirements - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5304
  Subject to sections 5309 and 5310, assistance provided to municipalities to construct sewage treatment works projects, stormwater projects, and nonpoint source projects shall be...
• Descriptions and Timetables for Actions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5305
  The department shall provide written descriptions and timetables for actions required under this part, including the intended use plan developed under section 5306, and...
• Intended Use Plan; Preparation and Submission; Purpose; Public Participation; Changes in Plan; Contents of Plan; Notice of Approval; Notification of Municipality; Information to Be Provided; Schedule - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5306
  (1) The department shall prepare and submit an intended use plan annually to identify proposed annual intended uses of the fund, and to facilitate...
• Project Plans; Review; Approval or Disapproval; Extension of Review Period; Notice of Deficiencies; Review of Subsequent Submittals - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5307
  (1) The department shall review, generally in priority order, the project plans for projects in the fundable range and either approve or disapprove the...
• Application for Assistance; Requirements; Revenue Source; Acceptance; Notice of Additional Information Required; Approval or Disapproval of Application - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5308
  (1) To apply for assistance from the fund, a municipality shall submit the following, if applicable as determined by the department: (a) If assistance...
• Segmenting Sewage Treatment Work Project - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5309
  To ensure that a disproportionate share of available funds for a given fiscal year is not committed to a single sewage treatment work project...
• Project Subject to Bypass; Extension of Schedule; Effect of Bypass - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5310
  A project in the fundable range of a priority list that fails to meet the schedule established by the department under section 5306, or...
• Order of Approval; Certification of Eligibility; Method of Establishing Interest Rate - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5311
  (1) The department shall review a complete application for assistance for a project in the fundable range. If the department approves the application for...
• Termination of Assistance; Determination; Causes; Notice; Repayment of Outstanding Loan Balance; Requirements Under State or Federal Law - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5312
  (1) The department may make a determination that assistance should be terminated and may issue an order recommending that the authority take appropriate action...
• Petition; Orders; Repayment of Outstanding Loan Balance; Requirements Under State or Federal Law - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5313
  (1) A municipality may petition the department to make a determination and issue an order under section 5312(1) for cause. (2) The department may...
• Costs of Administering and Implementing Part; Payment - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5314
  The costs of administering and implementing this part by the department, the designated agents of the department, and the authority may be paid from...
• Duration of Current Priority List - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5315
  The priority list developed under Act No. 329 of the Public Acts of 1966, being sections 323.111 to 323.128 of the Michigan Compiled Laws,...
• Powers of Department - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5316
  The department has the powers necessary or convenient to carry out and effectuate the purpose, objectives, and provisions of this part, and the powers...
• State Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund Advisory Committee - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5317
  (1) The state water pollution control revolving fund advisory committee is created within the department of natural resources and environment. (2) The committee shall...
• Definitions; a to C - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5401
  As used in this part: (a) "Act 399" means the safe drinking water act, 1976 PA 399, MCL 325.101 to 325.1023. (b) "Annual user...
• Definitions; D to N - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5402
  As used in this part: (a) "Department" means the department of environmental quality or its authorized agent or representative. (b) "Director" means the director...
• Definitions; P to W - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5403
  As used in this part: (a) "Priority list" means the annual ranked listing of projects developed by the department in section 5406. (b) "Project"...
• Water Suppliers; Qualifications for Assistance - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5404
  (1) Water suppliers owning the following types of public water supplies qualify to receive assistance under this part: (a) A community water supply. (b)...
• Water Suppliers; Application for Assistance; Project Plan - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5405
  (1) A water supplier who is interested in applying for assistance under this part shall prepare and submit to the department a project plan...
• Projects Eligible for Assistance; Priority List; Award of Points; Annual Submission to Legislative Standing Committees; Segmenting of Projects; Equitable Distribution of Funding; Priority List to Be Effective First Day of Fiscal Year - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5406
  (1) The department shall annually develop a priority list of projects eligible for assistance under this part. Projects that are not funded during the...
• Identification of Projects in Fundable Range - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5407
  The department shall annually identify those projects in the fundable range of the priority list. Following the identification of projects in the fundable range,...
• Project Plan; Environmental Review; Categorical Exclusion; Criteria; Environmental Assessment; Finding of No Significant Impact; Environmental Impact Statement; Record of Decision; Project Reevaluation for Compliance With National Environmental Policy Act Requirements; Action Prohibited During Public Comment Period - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5408
  (1) The department shall conduct an environmental review of the project plan of each project in the fundable range of the priority list to...
• Application for Fund Assistance; Contents; Availability of Revenue Sources; Acceptance of Applications by Department; Liability for Incurred Costs - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5409
  (1) A water supplier whose project plan is approved or under review by the department under section 5407 may apply for assistance from the...
• Water Suppliers; Responsibility to Obtain Permits or Clearances; Incorporation of Provisions, Conditions, and Mitigative Measures; Review of Documents by Department; Enforcement - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5410
  (1) A water supplier who receives assistance under this part is responsible for obtaining any federal, state, or local permits or clearances required for...
• Application for Assistance; Review by Department; Order of Approval; Incorporation of Other Documents; Use of Project Assistance as Matching Requirements; Eligibility Certification - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5411
  (1) The department shall review a complete application for assistance for a proposed project submitted under section 5409. If the department approves the application...
• Bypassed Projects - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5412
  (1) The department may bypass projects that fail to meet the schedule negotiated and agreed upon between the water supplier and the department, or...
• Determination to Terminate Assistance; Issuance of Order by Department; Cause; Written Notice to Water Supplier; Repayment of Outstanding Loan Balance Not Affected; Other State and Federal Requirements Not Relieved; Responsibility for Settlement Costs - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5413
  (1) The department may make a determination that assistance should be terminated and may issue an order recommending that the authority take appropriate action...
• Determination to Terminate Assistance; Petition by Water Supplier; Issuance of Order by Department; Cause; Repayment of Outstanding Loan Balance Not Affected; Other State or Federal Laws Not Relieved; Responsibility for Settlement Costs - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5414
  (1) A water supplier may petition the department to make a determination that assistance to that water supplier should be terminated. (2) Upon receipt...
• Annual Establishment of Interest Rates; Criteria - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5415
  (1) The department shall annually establish the interest rates to be assessed for projects receiving assistance under this part. These rates of interest shall...
• Administration and Implementation Costs; Payment Sources - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5416
  The costs of administering and implementing this part by the department, the designated agents of the department, and the authority may be paid from...
• Powers of Department - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5417
  In implementing this part, the department may do 1 or more of the following: (a) Make, execute, and deliver contracts, conveyances, and other instruments...
• Appeal; Judicial Review - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5418
  Determinations made by the department may be appealed in writing to the director. Determinations made by the director are final. Judicial review may be...
• Repealed. 2002, Act 451, Eff. Sept. 30, 2003. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5501
  As used in this part: (a) "Air contaminant" means a dust, fume, gas, mist, odor, smoke, vapor, or any combination thereof. (b) "Air pollution"...
• Issuance of Permit to Install or Operating Permit to Municipal Solid Waste Incinerator; Applicability of Subsection (1); Municipal Solid Waste Incinerator Existing Prior to June 15, 1993 - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5502
  (1) Except as provided in subsection (2), the department shall not issue a permit to install or an operating permit to a municipal solid...
• Powers of Department - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5503
  The department may do 1 or more of the following: (a) Promulgate rules to establish standards for ambient air quality and for emissions. (b)...
• Medical Waste Incineration Facility; Operating Permit Required; Form and Contents of Application; Compliance; Validity and Renewal of Permit; Review of Operating Permits; Retrofitting Facility; Interim Operating Permit; Rules; Receipt of Pathological or Medical Wastes Generated Off - Site; Records; Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5504
  (1) Beginning on June 6, 1991 or on the effective date of the rules promulgated under subsection (5), whichever is later, a facility that...
• Installation, Construction, Reconstruction, Relocation, Alteration, or Modification of Process or Process Equipment; Permit to Install or Operate Required; Rules; Trial Operation; Rules for Issuance of General Permit or Certain Exemptions; Temporary Locations; Nonrenewable Permits; Failure of Department to Act on Applications; Appeal of Permit Actions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5505
  (1) Except as provided in subsection (4), a person shall not install, construct, reconstruct, relocate, alter, or modify any process or process equipment without...
• Operating Permit - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5506
  (1) After the date established pursuant to subsections (3) and (4)(n), if an application for an operating permit is required to be submitted, a...
• Administratively Complete Action; Exemption From Information Requirements; "compliance Plan" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5507
  (1) An administratively complete application means an application for an operating permit required in section 5506 that is submitted on standard application forms provided...
• "section 112" Defined; Source, Process, or Process Equipment Not Subject to Best Available Control Technology for Toxics Requirements or Health Based Screening Level Requirements - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5508
  (1) As used in this section, "section 112" means section 112 of part A of title I of the clean air act, 84 Stat....
• "malfunction" Defined; Rules; Prohibition; Actions Taken by Department; Enforcement; Conditions for Applicability of Subsections (3) to (5) - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5509
  (1) As used in this section, "malfunction" means any sudden failure of a source, air pollution control equipment, process, or process equipment to operate...
• Denial or Revocation of Permit; Circumstances - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5510
  In accordance with this part and rules promulgated under this part, the department may, after notice and opportunity for public hearing, deny or revoke...
• List of Permit Applications; List of Consent Order Public Notices; Notice, Opportunity for Public Comment and Public Hearing Required for Certain Permit Actions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5511
  (1) The department shall establish and maintain a list of all applications for permits submitted pursuant to sections 5505 and 5506. The list shall...
• Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5512
  (1) The department shall promulgate rules for purposes of doing all of the following: (a) Controlling or prohibiting air pollution. (b) Complying with the...
• Car Ferries and Coal - Fueled Trains - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5513
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this part or the rules promulgated under this part, car ferries having the capacity to carry more than 110...
• Repealed. 2012, Act 102, Imd. Eff. Apr. 19, 2012. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Investigation; Voluntary Agreement; Order; Petition for Contested Case Hearing; Final Order or Determination; Review - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5515
  (1) If the department believes that a person is violating this part, a rule promulgated under this part, a permit issued under this part,...
• Public Hearing; Information Available to the Public; Use of Confidential Information - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5516
  (1) A public hearing with reference to pollution control may be held before the department. Persons designated to conduct the hearing shall be described...
• Petition for Relief From Rule - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5517
  Application for relief from a rule promulgated by the department shall be made by petition to the circuit court for the county of Ingham...
• Notice to Discontinue Pollution; Hearing; Suit Brought by Attorney General in Circuit Court; Effectiveness and Duration of Order; Notice to County Emergency Management Coordinator - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5518
  (1) If the department finds that a person is discharging or causing to be discharged into the atmosphere, directly or indirectly, an air contaminant...
• Repealed. 1998, Act 245, Imd. Eff. July 8, 1998. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Emissions Control Fund - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5521
  (1) The emissions control fund is created within the state treasury. The state treasurer may receive money from any source for deposit into the...
• Fee - Subject Facility; Air Quality Fees; Calculation of Facility Emissions for Previous Year; Annual Report Detailing Activities of Previous Fiscal Year; Action by Attorney General for Collection of Fees; Applicability of Section; Condition; "Electric Provider" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5522
  (1) Until October 1, 2015, the owner or operator of each fee-subject facility shall pay air quality fees as required and calculated under this...
• Issuance of Permits and Administration and Enforcement of Part, Rules, and State Implementation Plan; Delegation Granted by Department to Certain Counties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5523
  (1) A county in which a city with a population of 750,000 or more is located may apply for a delegation from the department...
• Fugitive Dust Sources or Emissions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5524
  (1) The provisions of this section, including subsection (2), shall apply to any fugitive dust source at all mining operations, standard industrial classification major...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5525
  As used in section 5524: (a) "Control equipment or pollution control equipment" has the meaning ascribed to control equipment in R 336.1103 of the...
• Investigation; Inspection; Furnishing Duplicate of Analytical Report; Powers of Department or Authorized Representative; Entry or Access to Records Refused; Powers of Attorney General; "authorized Representative" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5526
  (1) The department may, upon the presentation of credentials and other documents as may be required by law, and upon stating the authority and...
• Emergency; Definition; Affirmative Defense; Burden of Proof - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5527
  (1) As used in this section, "emergency" means a situation arising from sudden and reasonably unforeseeable events beyond the control of the source, including...
• Violation of Part, Rule, Terms of Permit, or Order; Agreement to Correct Violation; Consent Order; Public Notice and Opportunity for Public Comment; Providing Copy of Proposed Consent Order - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5528
  (1) If the department believes that a violation of this part or a rule promulgated under this part exists, or a violation of the...
• Administrative Fine; Limitation; Petition for Review of Fine - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5529
  (1) The department may assess an administrative fine of up to $10,000.00 for each instance of violation and, if the violation continues, for each...
• Commencement of Civil Action by Attorney General; Relief; Costs; Jurisdiction; Defenses; Fines - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5530
  (1) The attorney general may commence a civil action against a person for appropriate relief, including injunctive relief, and a civil fine as provided...
• Violations as Misdemeanors; Violations as Felonies; Fines; Defenses; Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5531
  (1) A person who knowingly violates any requirement or prohibition of an applicable requirement of this part or a rule promulgated under this part...
• Civil or Criminal Fines; Factors to Be Considered in Determining Amount - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5532
  (1) A civil or criminal fine assessed, sought, or agreed upon under this part shall be appropriate to the violation. (2) In determining the...
• Award; Eligibility; Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5533
  The department may pay an award of up to $10,000.00 to an individual who provides information resulting in the assessment of a civil fine...
• Repealed. 1999, Act 231, Imd. Eff. Dec. 28, 1999. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Suspension of Enforcement; Reasons; Variance - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5535
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, the department may suspend the enforcement of the whole or any part of any rule as it...
• Variance; Considerations Effecting - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5536
  In determining under what conditions and to what extent a variance from a rule or regulation that would not violate the clean air act...
• Variance; Granting for Undue Hardship - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5537
  The department shall grant a variance from any rule to, and suspend the enforcement of the rule as it applies to, any person who...
• Variance; Period Granted; Report; Conditions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5538
  Any variance granted pursuant to sections 5535, 5536, and 5537 shall be granted for a period of time, that does not exceed 1 year,...
• Variance; Revocation or Modification of Order; Public Hearing and Notice Required - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5539
  The department may revoke or modify any order permitting a variance by written order, after a public hearing held upon not less than 10...
• Purpose of Part; Alteration of Existing Rights of Actions or Remedies - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5540
  It is the purpose of this part to provide additional and cumulative remedies to prevent and abate air pollution. This part does not abridge...
• Construction of Part; Evidentiary Effect of Determination by Commission - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5541
  This part does not repeal any of the laws relating to air pollution which are not by this part expressly repealed. This part is...
• Effect on Existing Ordinances or Regulations; Local Enforcement; Cooperation With Local Governmental Units - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5542
  (1) Nothing in this part or in any rule promulgated under this part invalidates any existing ordinance or regulation having requirements equal to or...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5701
  As used in this part: (a) "Clean air act" means chapter 360, 69 Stat. 322, 42 U.S.C. 7401 to 7431, 7470 to 7479, 7491...
• "small Business Stationary Source" Explained - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5702
  (1) Upon petition by a source, the department may, after notice and opportunity for public comment, include as a small business stationary source for...
• Office of Small Business Clean Air Ombudsman; Creation; Exercise of Powers and Duties; Appointment of Executive Officer - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5703
  (1) The office of the small business clean air ombudsman is created within the department of commerce. The office shall exercise its powers and...
• Office of Ombudsman; Responsibilities and Duties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5704
  The office of the ombudsman is responsible for assessing and ensuring that the goals of the program are being met and in addition shall...
• Small Business Clean Air Assistance Program; Creation; Purpose - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5705
  The program is created in the department of commerce. The program shall develop adequate mechanisms for all of the following: (a) Developing, collecting, and...
• Access to Information, Records, and Documents; Assistance to Ombudsman - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5706
  Upon request, the ombudsman shall be given access to all information, records, and documents in the possession of the commission and the department that...
• Information Obtained From Small Businesses; Confidentiality - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5707
  Information obtained by the office or the program from small businesses that utilize their services shall be held in confidence by those employed by...
• Small Business Clean Air Compliance Advisory Panel - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5708
  (1) The small business clean air compliance advisory panel is created within the program. (2) The advisory panel shall be broadly representative of the...
• "facility" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5901
  As used in this part, "facility" means machinery, equipment, structures, or any part or accessories of machinery, equipment, or structures, installed or acquired for...
• Tax Exemption Certificate; Application; Contents; Approval; Notice; Hearing; Tax Exemption - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5902
  (1) An application for a pollution control tax exemption certificate shall be filed with the state tax commission in a manner and in a...
• Tax Exemption Certificate; Findings of Department; Notice to State Tax Commission; Issuance and Effective Date of Certificate - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5903
  If the department finds that the facility is designed and operated primarily for the control, capture, and removal of pollutants from the air, and...
• Tax Exemptions; Statement in Certificate - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5904
  (1) For the period subsequent to the effective date of the certificate and continuing as long as the certificate is in force, a facility...
• Tax Exemption Certificate; Issuance; Mailing to Applicant, Local Tax Assessors, and Treasury Department; Filing; Notice of Refusal - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5905
  The state tax commission shall send an air pollution control tax exemption certificate, when issued, by certified mail to the applicant, and certified copies...
• Tax Exemption Certificate; Modification or Revocation; Grounds; Notice and Hearing; Statute of Limitations - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5906
  (1) The state tax commission, on notice by certified mail to the applicant and opportunity for a hearing, shall, on its own initiative or...
• Tax Exemption Certificate; Refusal; Appeal - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5907
  A party aggrieved by the issuance, refusal to issue, revocation, or modification of a pollution control tax exemption certificate may appeal from the finding...
• State Tax Commission; Rules; Administration of Part - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.5908
  The state tax commission may adopt rules as it considers necessary for the administration of this part. These rules shall not abridge the authority...
• Vessels; Blowing Flues Prohibited; Exceptions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.6101
  A marine vessel while navigating in the waters of this state within 1 mile of land shall not blow flues unless necessary under an...
• Violation; Penalty; Separate Offenses - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.6102
  A person who is convicted of violating this part is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000.00. Each...
• Meanings of Words and Phrases - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.6301
  For the purposes of this part, the words and phrases contained in sections 6302 to 6304 have the meanings ascribed to them in those
• Definitions; a to D - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.6302
  (1) "Alternative fuel" means the following fuel sources used to propel a motor vehicle: (a) Compressed natural gas. (b) Diesel fuel. (c) Electric power....
• Definitions; E to N - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.6303
  (1) "Emission control device" means a catalytic converter, thermal reactor, or other component part used by a vehicle manufacturer to reduce emissions or to...
• Definitions; P to T - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.6304
  (1) "Pollutants" means nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, and other toxic substances emitted from the operation of a motor vehicle. (2) "Public inspection station"...
• Motor Vehicle Emissions Inspection and Maintenance Program Fund; Account - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.6305
  (1) There is established a motor vehicle emissions inspection and maintenance program fund to be maintained as a separate fund in the state treasury...
• Operation of Motor Vehicle; Prohibition; Testing; Enforcement; Inspection and Maintenance Program; Implementation in Kent, Ottawa, and Muskegon Counties; Exclusion; Test Procedures and Components; Vehicles Subject to Inspection; Rules; Suspension of Vehicle Registration; Suspension of Program - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.6306
  (1) Each motor vehicle subject to this part shall be inspected for emissions as provided in this part. A person shall not operate a...
• Registration Renewal; Vehicle Inspection and Certificate of Compliance or Waiver Required; Validity; Prohibition - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.6307
  (1) The department of state shall not renew the registration of a motor vehicle subject to this part unless the vehicle has been inspected...
• Repealed. 1996, Act 564, Imd. Eff. Jan. 16, 1997. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Judicial Relief - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.6309
  The state should pursue judicial relief, either alone or in cooperation with other states, from the requirements or penalties imposed by the clean air
• Inspection Fee; Initial Inspections; Free Reinspections; Remittance and Deposit of Inspection Fee - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.6310
  (1) The department, in consultation with the department of state, may establish an inspection fee not to exceed $24.00 adjusted annually by the percentage...
• Vehicles Exempt From Inspection Requirements of Part - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.6311
  The following vehicles are exempt from the inspection requirements of this part: (a) Motor vehicles that are exempted by rules promulgated by the department...
• Public Inspection Stations; Contracts With Private Entities to Conduct Inspections; Competitive Evaluation Process; Notice of Requests for Proposals and Contract Awards; Factors to Be Considered During Contractor Evaluation Process - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.6312
  (1) The department shall contract with a private entity or entities for the design, construction, equipment, establishment, maintenance, and operation of public inspection stations...
• Contract Provisions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.6313
  In addition to any other provisions of this part, the contract authorized by section 6312 shall contain all of the following provisions: (a) The...
• Public Inspection Stations - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.6314
  (1) The number and locations of the public inspection stations shall provide convenient service for motorists and shall be consistent with all of the...
• Certificate of Waiver - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.6315
  (1) A certificate of waiver shall be issued for a motor vehicle that fails an initial inspection and a subsequent reinspection if the actual...
• Implementation of Continuing Education Programs; Protection of Public From Fraud and Abuse; Ensuring Proper and Accurate Emission Inspection Results; Evaluation; Compilation of Data; Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.6316
  (1) The department, directly or by contract, shall implement continuing education programs to begin 6 months before the commencement of the public inspection program...
• Certificate of Compliance; Issuance - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.6317
  A contractor shall not issue a certificate of compliance for a motor vehicle that has not been inspected and has not met or exceeded...
• Furnishing Certain Information About Repair Facility; Guidelines; Failure of Vehicle to Pass Inspection; Availability of Certificates of Waiver - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.6318
  (1) An employee, owner, or operator of a public inspection station shall not furnish information about the name or other description of a repair...
• Tampering With Motor Vehicle - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.6319
  A person shall not tamper with a motor vehicle that has been certified to comply with this part and the rules promulgated under this...
• Providing False Information to Public Inspection Station or Department - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.6320
  A person shall not provide false information to a public inspection station or the department about estimated or actual repair costs or repairs needed...
• Violations as Misdemeanor; Fine; Separate Offenses - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.6321
  (1) A person who violates section 6317, forges, counterfeits, or alters an inspection certificate, or knowingly possesses an unauthorized inspection certificate is guilty of...
• Meanings of Words and Phrases - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.6501
  For the purposes of this part, the words and phrases contained in sections 6502 to 6504 have the meanings ascribed to them in those
• Definitions; C, D - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.6502
  (1) "Certificate of compliance" means a serially numbered written instrument or document that is issued to the owner of a motor vehicle upon passing...
• Definitions; E to N - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.6503
  (1) "Emission control device" means a catalytic converter, thermal reactor, or other component part used by a vehicle manufacturer to reduce emissions or to...
• Definitions; P to T - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.6504
  (1) "Pollutants" means nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, and other toxic substances emitted from the operation of a motor vehicle. (2) "Tamper with" means...
• Access to Records; Requests in Writing; Identification of Record; Reasonable Charge - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.6505
  (1) Access to records of the department and the department of state shall be in accordance with the freedom of information act, Act No....
• Testing or Repair of Motor Vehicles; Implementation of Emissions Inspection Test Program in Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb Counties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.6506
  On and after the effective date of the 1996 amendatory act that amended this section, the owner of a motor vehicle who resides in...
• Emissions Inspection Test Program in Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb Counties; Conditions for Implementation; Contingency Measures; Adoption of Cut Points; Equipment and Test Procedures; Rules; Suspension of Vehicle Registration - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.6507
  (1) The department may implement and administer only under the conditions set forth in subsection (2) an emissions inspection test program designed to meet...
• Motor Vehicle Emissions Testing Program Fund; Account - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.6508
  (1) There is established a motor vehicle emissions testing program fund to be maintained as a separate fund in the state treasury and to...
• Renewal of Registration; Issuance of Certificate of Compliance or Certificate of Waiver Required; Validity of Certificate - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.6509
  (1) The department of state shall not renew the registration of a motor vehicle subject to this part unless the vehicle has been inspected...
• Testing Station; Prohibited Conduct - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.6510
  (1) A testing station shall not falsely represent that the motor vehicle has passed or failed an inspection or reinspection. (2) A testing station...
• Testing Station; Fee; Use of Fee; Conditions Requiring Free Reinspection or Issuance of Certificate of Compliance; Initial Inspections; Remittance and Disposition of Fee - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.6511
  (1) A testing station may charge a person a fee of not more than $13.00. This part or the rules promulgated under this part...
• Vehicles Exempt From Inspection Requirements - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.6512
  The following vehicles are exempt from the inspection requirements of this part: (a) Motor vehicles that are exempted by rules promulgated by the department...
• Motor Vehicles Subject to Part and Rules; Exceptions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.6513
  (1) The motor vehicles subject to this part and the rules promulgated under this part include the following: (a) Each registered motor vehicle for...
• Motor Vehicles Purchased as New Vehicles; Evidence - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.6514
  Any 1 of the following shall be accepted by the department of state as evidence that a motor vehicle was purchased as a new...
• Application for Motor Vehicle Registration as Evidence of Owner's Permanent Place of Residence - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.6515
  An application for a motor vehicle registration shall be accepted by the department of state as evidence of a motor vehicle owner's permanent place...
• Inspection of Motor Vehicles; License to Operate Testing Station; Separate License and Fee; Mobile or Temporary Location; Remote Sensing Devices; Use of Other Instruments; Display of License - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.6516
  (1) A person shall not engage in the business of inspecting motor vehicles under this part except as authorized by a license to operate...
• Testing Station License; Application; Information; Fee; Effective Date and Duration of License; Reinstatement of Surrendered, Revoked, or Expired Repair Facility Registration; Resumption of Operation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.6517
  (1) An application for a testing station license shall include a description of the business to be licensed. The description shall include, in addition...
• Testing Station; Change of Ownership; Notice - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.6518
  (1) If the ownership of a testing station changes, a new original license and payment of a new license fee is required, and the...
• Display of Certain Information; Prohibited Conduct - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.6519
  (1) A testing station shall display at the established place of business an information sign that bears an identifying symbol developed by the department...
• Testing Station; Certification by Third - Party Organization - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.6520
  (1) A testing station shall submit annually to the department evidence of certification of its testing equipment and emission inspectors by an independent third-party...
• Fleet Testing Station; Permit; Requirements - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.6521
  (1) A fleet owner or lessee shall not perform inspections under this part or the rules promulgated under this part except as authorized under...
• Fleet Testing Station; Change of Ownership; Notice - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.6522
  (1) If the ownership of a fleet testing station changes, a new permit is required, and the fleet testing station shall not operate until...
• Fleet Testing Station; Limitation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.6523
  A fleet testing station shall perform inspections under this part and the rules promulgated under this part only upon its own fleet motor vehicles,...
• Fleet Testing Station; Inspection by Independent Third Party; Prohibited Conduct - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.6524
  (1) A fleet testing station, its records, equipment required by this part and the rules promulgated under this part, and the motor vehicle emission...
• False Representations - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.6525
  A fleet testing station shall not falsely represent that a motor vehicle has passed or failed an inspection or reinspection.
• Fleet Testing Station; Issuance of Certificate of Compliance - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.6526
  A fleet testing station shall issue a certificate of compliance for a vehicle that has passed an inspection or reinspection or received a low...
• Inspection Appointment; Issuance of Certificate of Compliance; Report Describing Reason for Rejection - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.6527
  (1) A person shall not be required to make an appointment for a vehicle inspection. (2) A testing station shall inspect and reinspect motor...
• Certificate of Waiver; Issuance; Conditions; Certain Costs Not Considered in Determining Eligibility; Criteria; Temporary Certificate; Fee - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.6528
  (1) A certificate of waiver shall be issued for a motor vehicle that fails an initial inspection and a subsequent reinspection if the actual...
• Approval as Emission Inspector - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.6529
  (1) A person shall not perform inspections under this part or the rules promulgated under this part unless the person receives approval from the...
• Inspection; Certificate of Compliance or Waiver Obtained At Licensed Testing Station - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.6530
  Unless the person is licensed as a fleet testing station, a person who owns a motor vehicle required to be inspected under this part...
• Compliance; Determination by Department; System for Selection of Qualified Vehicles - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.6531
  The department may issue a certificate of compliance for a motor vehicle when the department makes a determination that the motor vehicle complies with...
• Protection of Public From Fraud and Abuse; Quality Assurance; Evaluation of Cost; Effectiveness and Benefits of Inspection Program; Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.6532
  (1) The department shall institute procedures and mechanisms to protect the public from fraud and abuse by inspectors, mechanics, and others involved in the...
• Testing Station; Fleet Testing Station; Issuance of Certificate of Compliance; Conditions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.6533
  A testing station or a fleet testing station shall not issue a certificate of compliance for a motor vehicle that has not been inspected...
• Information to Be Provided by Public Inspection Station; Availability of Certificate of Waiver - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.6534
  (1) An employee, owner, or operator of a public inspection station shall not furnish information, except information provided by the state or otherwise required...
• Tampering With Motor Vehicle - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.6535
  A person shall not tamper with a motor vehicle that has been certified to comply with this part and the rules promulgated under this...
• Providing False Information About Repair Costs Prohibited - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.6536
  A person shall not provide false information to a public inspection station or the department about estimated or actual repair costs or repairs needed...
• Violations as Misdemeanor; Fine - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.6537
  (1) A person who violates section 6533 or forges, counterfeits, or alters an inspection certificate or who knowingly possesses an unauthorized inspection certificate, is...
• Transfer and Availability of Vehicle Emissions Inspection and Maintenance Fund - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.6538
  Funds remaining in the vehicle emissions inspection and maintenance fund created by former Act No. 83 of the Public Acts of 1980 shall be...
• Repeal of Mcl 257.1051 to 257.1076 - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.6539
  Act No. 83 of the Public Acts of 1980, being sections 257.1051 to 257.1076 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, is repealed January 1, 1996.
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8201
  As used in this part: (a) "Conservation easement" means that term as it is defined in section 2140. (b) "Conservation plan" means a plan...
• Conservation Programs; Establishment; Purpose; Coordination With Departments of Natural Resources and Environmental Quality - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8202
  (1) The department may establish conservation programs designed to encourage the voluntary use of conservation practices in the state. (2) In implementing the conservation...
• Conservation Practice Verification; Conditions; Revocation; Penalties and Repayment - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8203
  (1) As part of a conservation program established under this part, the department may provide for conservation practice verification. Conservation practice verification may be...
• Conservation Easements - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8204
  (1) The department may purchase or otherwise acquire conservation easements in accordance with subpart 11 of part 21. A conservation easement purchased or otherwise...
• Disposition of Recovered Money - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8205
  Any money recovered by the department under this part, including, but not limited to, money paid to the department due to the termination of...
• Agriculture Pollution Prevention Fund - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8206
  (1) The agriculture pollution prevention fund is created in the state treasury. (2) The state treasurer may receive money or other assets from any...
• Confidentiality; Exemption From Freedom of Information Act - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8207
  Any information voluntarily provided by a person in connection with the development, implementation, or verification of a conservation plan or conservation practices under this...
• Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8208
  The department may promulgate rules to implement this part.
• Meanings of Words and Phrases - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8301
  For the purposes of this part, the words and phrases defined in sections 8302 to 8306 have the meanings ascribed to them in those
• Definitions; a to C - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8302
  (1) "Active ingredient" means an ingredient that will prevent, destroy, repel, or mitigate pests, or that will act as a plant regulator, defoliant, or...
• Definitions; D to G - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8303
  (1) "Day care center" means a facility, other than a private residence, receiving 1 or more preschool or school-age children for care for periods...
• Definitions; I to M - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8304
  (1) "Inert ingredient" means an ingredient that is not active. (2) "Ingredient statement" means: (a) A statement of the name and percentage of each...
• Definitions; N to P - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8305
  (1) "Nematode" means invertebrate animals of the phylum nemathelminthes and class nematoda, which are unsegmented roundworms with elongated, fusiform, or sac-like bodies covered with...
• Definitions; R to W - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8306
  (1) "Registered applicator" means an individual who is authorized to apply general use pesticides for a private or commercial purpose as provided in this...
• Repealed. 2002, Act 418, Imd. Eff. June 5, 2002. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Distribution, Sale, Exposure, or Offering Sale of Pesticide; Registration Required - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8307a
  (1) Every pesticide distributed, sold, exposed, or offered for sale in this state shall be registered with the director pursuant to this part. The...
• Maintenance of Registration; Renewal; Discontinuing Registration - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8307b
  (1) A pesticide that has been registered with the department must continue to be registered as long as the pesticide remains in the channels...
• Registration of Pesticide; Exception - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8307c
  Registration is not required under this part if a pesticide is shipped from 1 plant or warehouse to another plant or warehouse operated by...
• Prohibited Claims - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8307d
  (1) No person who uses, distributes, exposes, or offers to sell a pesticide shall make claims that the pesticide can be used on sites...
• Registration for Special Local Needs - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8307e
  To register a pesticide for special local needs pursuant to section 24(c) of FIFRA, 7 U.S.C. 136v, or the regulations promulgated under that section,...
• Information Requirements - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8307f
  (1) Upon the director's request, a person who has registered a pesticide shall provide the information necessary to determine its mobility in the environment...
• Powers of Director Generally - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8308
  The director may do all of the following: (a) Issue an experimental permit to a person applying for that permit if the director determines...
• Refusing, Canceling, or Suspending Registration; Circumstances - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8309
  The director may refuse to register or may cancel or suspend registration of a pesticide if any of the following circumstances exist: (a) The...
• Restricted Use Pesticide Dealer's License; Examination; Out - of - State Applicant; Sales Records; Summary Form of Information; Sale or Distribution of Restricted Use Pesticide; Denial, Suspension, or Revocation of License; Maintenance of Certain Records; Confidentiality of Information; Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8310
  (1) A person shall not engage in distributing, selling, or offering for sale restricted use pesticides to the ultimate user except as authorized under...
• Issuance of License Pursuant to Part 13; Form; Information to Be Provided; Out - of - State Business Location; Report; Denial, Suspension, or Revocation of License; Exemption From Requirements of Subsection (1) - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8310a
  (1) A person who is not licensed under section 8310 shall not engage in distributing, selling, or offering for sale agricultural pesticides except as...
• Certification and Other Requirements; Identification; Records of Certified Commercial Applicator; Submission of Summary to Director; Supervision; Following Recommended and Accepted Good Practices; Governmental Agencies Subject to Part and Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8311
  (1) A person shall not use a restricted use pesticide without first complying with the certification requirements of this part. (2) A person is...
• Completion of Certification Requirements; Application for Certified Applicator Certificate; Fee; Issuance of Certificate; Restrictions; Grounds for Refusal to Issue or Renew Certificate; Denying, Revoking, or Suspending Certificate; Reasons for Denial; Display of Certificate - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8312
  (1) To become a certified applicator, an applicant must satisfactorily complete the certification requirements prescribed by the director and categorized according to the various...
• Commercial Applicator; License Required; Qualifications; Form and Contents of Application; Fee; Proof of Financial Responsibility; Restriction; Grounds for Refusal to Issue or Renew License; Denying, Revoking, or Suspending License; Reasons for Denial; Allowable Pesticides; Limitations - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8313
  (1) Commercial applicators who hold themselves out to the public as being in the business of applying pesticides shall obtain a commercial applicator license...
• Commercial Application of Pesticide; Certified or Registered Applicator; Qualifications; Temporary Registration; Fee; Program Completion Form; Authorized Applications; Exemption; Displaying Registration Certificate; Training Program; Denial, Revocation, or Suspension of Certification or Registration; Documents and Forms - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8314
  (1) A person shall not apply a pesticide for a commercial purpose or in the course of his or her employment unless that person...
• Aerial Application of Pesticides; Requirements - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8315
  (1) A private agricultural applicator or a commercial applicator, in addition to complying with the other requirements of this part, shall meet 1 or...
• Notice of Pesticide Application At School or Day Care Center - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8316
  (1) Beginning 1 year after the effective date of the amendatory act that added this subsection, a person shall not apply a pesticide in...
• Fees; Duration; Expiration; Nonrefundability; Waiver; Deposit - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8317
  (1) An application submitted under this part shall be accompanied by the following application fee: (a) For a commercial applicator certification, $75.00. (b) For...
• Repealed. 2007, Act 78, Imd. Eff. Sept. 30, 2007. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Exemptions; Supervision by Allopathic or Osteopathic Physician or Doctor of Veterinary Medicine - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8319
  (1) The certification and registration of applicators and licensing requirements do not apply to any of the following: (a) Employees of a certified private...
• Reciprocal Agreements - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8320
  The director may enter into reciprocal agreements with other states or federal agencies for the purpose of accepting certification or registration required for pesticide...
• Responsibility for Damage Resulting From Misuse of Pesticides; Filing Claim for Damages; Inspection of Damages; Collection of Samples; Effect of Failure to File Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8321
  (1) A certificate or license issued by the director does not exonerate the holder from responsibility for damage resulting from misuse of pesticides, such...
• Additional Powers of Director; Preliminary Order; Program on Pesticide Container Recycling and Disposal - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8322
  (1) The director may do all of the following: (a) Declare as a pest any form of plant or animal life, except viruses, nematodes,...
• Confirmation of Groundwater Contamination; Duties of Director; Development of Activity Plan by Person Responsible for Contamination; Approval or Rejection by Director; Continuation of Certain Activities; Order to Cease or Modify Activities; Hearing - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8323
  (1) Upon confirming contamination of groundwater by a pesticide pursuant to part 87 at a single location, the director shall do all of the...
• Groundwater Protection Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8324
  (1) The director shall promulgate a groundwater protection rule that defines the scope and region of implementation of the rule if any of the...
• Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8325
  (1) The director shall promulgate rules for implementing this part, including, but not limited to, rules providing for the following: (a) The collection, examination,...
• Pesticide Advisory Committee; Creation; Appointment, Qualifications, and Terms of Members; Vacancies; Meetings; Quorum; Duties and Responsibilities; Meetings Open to the Public - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8326
  (1) A pesticide advisory committee is created within the department. The committee shall be composed of the following members: (a) The director. (b) The...
• Order to Cease Use Of, or to Refrain From Intended Use Of, Pesticide; Effect of Noncompliance; Inspection; Rescission of Order - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8327
  (1) When the director has probable cause to believe that an applicator is using or intending to use a pesticide in an unsafe or...
• Local Governments; Powers - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8328
  (1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, it is the express legislative intent that this part preempt any local ordinance, regulation, or resolution...
• Order to Stop Prohibited Conduct; Proceeding in Rem for Condemnation; Disposition of Pesticide or Device; Award of Court Costs, Fees, Storage, and Other Expenses - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8329
  (1) When the director has reasonable suspicion that a pesticide or device is distributed, stored, transported, offered for sale, or used in violation of...
• Containers; Labels; Colored or Discolored Pesticides; Handling, Storage, Display, or Transportation of Pesticides; Adding or Taking Substance From Pesticide; Filing and Inspection of Shipping Data - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8330
  (1) Pesticides distributed, transported, sold, or exposed or offered for sale in this state shall be in the registrant's or manufacturer's unbroken immediate container...
• False Information; Resisting, Impeding, or Hindering Director - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8331
  A person shall not give false information in a matter pertaining to this part, or resist, impede, or hinder the director or his or...
• Hearings - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8332
  A person aggrieved by an order issued pursuant to this part may request a hearing pursuant to the administrative procedures act of 1969, Act...
• Violation; Administrative Fine; Warning; Action to Recover Fine; Misdemeanors; Injunction; Action by Attorney General; Compliance as Affirmative Defense; Gross Negligence; Applicability of Revised Judicature Act - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8333
  (1) A person who violates this part is subject to the penalties and remedies provided in this part regardless of whether he or she...
• Exemptions From Penalties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8334
  The penalties provided for violations of this part do not apply to any of the following: (a) A carrier while lawfully engaged in transporting...
• Probable Cause as Precluding Recovery of Damages - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8335
  A court shall not allow the recovery of damages from an administrative action taken or an order stopping the sale or use or requiring...
• Effect of Part on Other Civil or Criminal Liability; Act or Omission Occurring Before June 25, 1976 - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8336
  (1) This part does not terminate or in any way modify any liability, civil or criminal, which is in existence on June 25, 1976....
• Definitions; a to T - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8501
  As used in this part: (a) "Adulterated product" means a product that contains any deleterious or harmful substance in sufficient amount to render it...
• Definitions; M to U - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8501a
  As used in this part: (a) "Mixed fertilizer" means a fertilizer containing any combination or mixture of fertilizer materials. (b) "Nitrogen fertilizer" means a...
• Label; Invoice - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8502
  (1) A packaged fertilizer distributed in this state, including packaged mixed fertilizer and soil conditioner, shall have placed on or affixed to the package...
• Order and Form of Guaranteed Analysis; Minimum Percentage of Plant Nutrients; Additional Plant Nutrients; Other Beneficial Compounds or Substances - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8503
  (1) The guaranteed analysis shall show the minimum percentage of plant nutrients claimed in the following order and form: (a) Total nitrogen (N). _____%...
• License to Manufacture or Distribute Fertilizer; Fee; Application; Notice of Additional Distribution Points; Exception; Expiration - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8504
  (1) A person shall not manufacture or distribute fertilizer in this state, except specialty fertilizer and soil conditioners, until the appropriate groundwater protection fee...
• Distribution of Specialty Fertilizer or Soil Conditioner; Registration; Application; Labels to Accompany Application; Copy of Registration Approval; Expiration; Fees - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8505
  (1) A person shall not distribute a specialty fertilizer or soil conditioner unless it is registered with the department. An application listing each brand...
• Inspection Fee; Tonnage Reports as Basis of Payment; Waiver; Penalty; Unpaid Fees and Penalties as Basis of Judgment; Responsibility for Reporting Tonnage and Paying Inspection Fee - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8506
  (1) An inspection fee of 10 cents per ton shall be paid to the department for all fertilizers or soil conditioners sold or distributed...
• Records; Disclosure of Information - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8507
  (1) Each licensee and registrant shall maintain for a period of 3 years a record of quantities and grades of fertilizer and soil conditioner...
• Construction and Application of Part - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8508
  (1) This part does not require the payment of inspection fees for sales or exchanges of fertilizers or soil conditioners between manufacturers who mix...
• Prohibitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8509
  A person shall not do any of the following: (a) Sell or distribute fertilizer or soil conditioner in violation of the requirements of this...
• Inspecting, Sampling, and Analyzing Fertilizer and Soil Conditioners; Methods; Rules; Access to Premises; Stopping Conveyances; Submission of Information to Department; Confidentiality - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8510
  (1) The director shall inspect, sample, and analyze fertilizers and soil conditioners distributed within this state at a time and place and to the...
• Selection of Sample From Package or Bulk Lot for Comparison With Label; Order to Cease and Desist; Seizing, or Stopping Sale Of, Fertilizer or Soil Conditioner; Conditions; Filing Action With Court - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8511
  (1) The director, by a duly authorized agent, may select from any package or bulk lot of commercial fertilizer or soil conditioner exposed for...
• Nitrates in Groundwater Exceeding Certain Limits Associated With Aquifer Sensitivity or Fertilizer Use; Educational Materials Provided to Fertilizer Users; Authority of Department Director; Eligibility of Regional Stewardship to Receive Certain Grants; Authorization to Land - Apply Materials Containing Fertilizers At Agronomic Rates - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8512
  (1) Upon confirming the presence of nitrate in groundwater in concentration exceeding 50% of the maximum contaminant level for nitrates in 20% of drinking...
• Fertilizer Containing Phosphate; Application to Turf; Requirements - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8512b
  (1) Beginning January 1, 2012, except as provided in subsection (2), (3), (4), or (5), a person shall not apply to turf a fertilizer...
• Release of Fertilizer on Impervious Turf; Application of Fertilizer on Frozen or Saturated Turf - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8512f
  (1) A person who releases fertilizer on an impervious surface shall do both of the following: (a) Promptly contain the fertilizer. (b) Either legally...
• Residential Uses of Phosphorus; Consumer Information on Use Restrictions and Recommended Best Practices - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8512g
  The department, in consultation with the fertilizer industry representatives, fertilizer retailers, statewide environmental organizations, lake groups, and other interested parties, may approve consumer information...
• Rules; Bulk Storage of Fertilizers - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8513
  The department may promulgate rules regarding the bulk storage of fertilizers.
• Fertilizer Control Fund; Creation; Deposits; Lapse; Expenditures - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8514
  (1) The fertilizer control fund is created within the state treasury. (2) The state treasurer shall receive for deposit in the fund all fees,...
• Revocation or Refusal of License or Registration; Grounds; Hearing; Exception for Refusal to Sell Ammonium Nitrate Fertilizer - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8515
  (1) The director of the department may revoke the license of a manufacturer or distributor or the registration of a fertilizer product or soil...
• Enforcement; Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8516
  The director of the department shall enforce this part and may promulgate rules.
• Local Ordinance, Regulation, or Resolution; Preemption; Adoption; Enforcement; Identification of Unreasonable Adverse Effects; Local Public Meeting; Contract by Director With Local Government; Compliance With Training and Enforcement Requirements; Application of Fertilizer Containing Phosphate - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8517
  (1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, this part preempts any local ordinance, regulation, or resolution that would duplicate, extend, or revise in...
• Ammonium Nitrate Fertilizer; Storage Methods; Information to Be Obtained by Retailers; Records; Refusal of Retailer to Sell - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8518
  (1) A retailer shall secure at all times ammonium nitrate fertilizer to provide reasonable protection against vandalism, theft, or unauthorized access. Secured storage includes,...
• Hearing; Request - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8519
  A person aggrieved by an order issued pursuant to this part may request a hearing pursuant to the administrative procedures act of 1969, 1969...
• Violations; Penalties; Remedies; Injunctive Action; Civil Action; Defenses; Liability for Damages; Applicability of Provisions of Revised Judicature Act - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8520
  (1) A person who violates or attempts to violate this part or rules promulgated under this part is subject to the penalties and remedies...
• Penalties and Sanctions; Exceptions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8521
  The penalties and sanctions provided for violations of this part do not apply to any of the following: (a) A commercial carrier while lawfully...
• Finding of Probable Cause - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8522
  A court shall not allow the recovery of damages by a person against whom an administrative action was brought resulting in an order stopping...
• Meanings of Words and Phrases - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8701
  For purposes of this part, the words and phrases defined in sections 8702 to 8705 have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections.
• Definitions; a to D - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8702
  (1) "Activity plan" means a plan for a specific location that identifies all environmental risks and includes a time frame for implementation of conservation...
• Definitions; E to M - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8703
  (1) "Envelope monitoring" means monitoring of groundwater in areas adjacent to properties where groundwater is contaminated to determine the concentration and spatial distribution of...
• Definitions; N to P - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8704
  (1) "Nitrogen fertilizer" means a fertilizer that contains nitrogen as a component. (2) "On-site evaluation" means a specific set of criteria used to voluntarily...
• Definitions; R to W - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8705
  (1) "Registrant" means that term as it is defined in part 83. (2) "Restricted use pesticide" means that term as it is defined in...
• Purpose of Part - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8706
  The intent of this part is to reduce risks to the environment and public health and promote economic development by assisting farms in achieving...
• Conservation Practices; on - Site Evaluations; Review and Evaluation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8707
  (1) The director, in conjunction with Michigan state university extension and the Michigan state university agricultural experiment station, and in cooperation with the United...
• Environmental Assurance Advisory Council - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8708
  (1) The director shall establish an environmental assurance advisory council composed of all of the following: (a) The director of the department of agriculture...
• Environmental Assurance Teams - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8709
  (1) The director may establish regional environmental assurance teams composed of departmental, educational, and technical assistance personnel, and other persons as determined necessary by...
• Michigan Agriculture Environmental Assurance Program - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8710
  (1) The director, in consultation with the environmental assurance advisory council, shall implement a Michigan agriculture environmental assurance program designed to promote natural resources...
• Designation of Pesticide as Restricted Use; Establishment of Groundwater Resource Protection Levels - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8711
  (1) Pesticides containing ingredients that have been confirmed in groundwater at a level above their groundwater resource response level or pesticides for which a...
• Program to Track Restricted Use Pesticides to County of Application; Additional Information Required; Confidentiality - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8712
  (1) The director shall establish and implement a program to track restricted use pesticides to their county of application. (2) The director may require...
• Water Quality Monitoring Program - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8713
  (1) The director, in conjunction with the department of environmental quality and the department of community health, shall develop and establish priorities, procedures, and...
• Surface Water Quality Monitoring Program - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8713a
  (1) The director, in consultation with the environmental assurance advisory council, may develop and establish priorities, procedures, and protocols for the implementation of a...
• Confirmation of Adverse Impact on Groundwater; Powers and Authority of Director - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8714
  (1) Upon confirmation of an adverse impact on groundwater, the director may, upon reasonable notice, require a person to furnish any information that the...
• Fees; Repeal of Section - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8715
  (1) In addition to the fees provided for in part 83, a registrant shall pay an annual groundwater protection fee for each product to...
• Freshwater Protection Fund - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8716
  (1) The freshwater protection fund is created within the state treasury. (2) The state treasurer may receive money or other assets from any source...
• Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8717
  The department may promulgate rules as it considers necessary or advisable to implement this part.
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8801
  As used in this part: (a) "Department" means the department of environmental quality. (b) "Director" means the director of the department. (c) "Fund" means...
• Nonpoint Source Pollution Prevention and Control Grants; Wellhead Protection Grants - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8802
  (1) The department, in consultation with the department of agriculture and rural development, shall establish a grants program to provide grants for nonpoint source...
• Grant Awards; Criteria for Project Selection - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8803
  In selecting projects for a grant award, the department shall consider the following as they relate to a project: (a) The expectation for long-term...
• Grant Applications - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8804
  A local unit of government that wishes to apply for a grant shall submit a written grant application to the department in a manner...
• Issuance of Grants - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8805
  Upon receipt of a grant application pursuant to section 8804, the department, in consultation with the department of agriculture and rural development, shall consider...
• Administration of Part - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8806
  Grants made under this part are subject to the applicable requirements of part 196. The department, in consultation with the department of agriculture and...
• Clean Water Fund - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8807
  (1) The clean water fund is created within the state treasury. (2) The state treasurer may receive money or other assets from any source...
• Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8808
  The department shall promulgate rules to implement this part including rules to establish a grant program or loan program, or both, for expenditure of...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8901
  As used in this part: (a) "Litter" means rubbish, refuse, waste material, garbage, offal, paper, glass, cans, bottles, trash, debris, or other foreign substances...
• Littering Property or Water Prohibited; Removal of Injurious Substances Dropped on Highway as Result of Accident - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8902
  (1) A person shall not knowingly, without the consent of the public authority having supervision of public property or the owner of private property,...
• Causing Litter or Object to Fall or Be Thrown Into Path of or to Hit Vehicle; Violation as Misdemeanor; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8903
  (1) A person shall not knowingly cause litter or any object to fall or to be thrown into the path of or to hit...
• Presumptions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8904
  (1) Except as provided in subsection (3) involving litter from a leased vehicle or leased vessel, in a proceeding for a violation of this...
• Violation Involving Litter Produced At Health Facility, Agency, or Laboratory as Misdemeanor; Violation Involving Infectious Waste, Pathological Waste, or Sharps as Felony; Penalty; Second or Subsequent Violation Under Subsection (2); Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8905
  (1) A person who violates this part where the violation involves litter that is produced at a health facility or agency as defined in...
• Violations as State Civil Infractions; Civil Fines; Default Remedies; Exception - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8905a
  (1) A person who violates this part where the amount of the litter is less than 1 cubic foot in volume is responsible for...
• Additional Penalties or Sanctions; Community Service - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8905b
  (1) In addition to any other penalty or sanction provided in this part for a criminal or civil action brought under this part, the...
• Impoundment of Vehicles; Lien; Forfeiture of Bond; Foreclosure Sale; Notice; Distribution of Proceeds - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8905c
  (1) A peace officer may seize and impound a vehicle operated in the commission of a violation of this part if the operator of...
• Posting Notices; Publication; Receptacles for Litter - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8906
  All public authorities having supervision of public property of this state or any political subdivision of this state may post notice signs and otherwise...
• Powers of Municipalities Not Limited - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.8907
  This part does not affect or in any way limit the powers of municipalities to enact and enforce ordinances for the control and elimination...
• Definitions; a to W - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.9101
  (1) "Agricultural practices" means all land farming operations except the plowing or tilling of land for the purpose of crop production or the harvesting...
• Repealed. 2000, Act 504, Imd. Eff. Jan. 11, 2001. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Rules; Availability of Information - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.9104
  (1) The department, with the assistance of the department of agriculture, shall promulgate rules for a unified soil erosion and sedimentation control program, including...
• Administration and Enforcement of Rules; Resolution; Ordinance; Interlocal Agreement; Review; Notice of Results; Informal Meeting; Probation; Consultant; Inspection Fees; Rescission of Order, Stipulation, or Probation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.9105
  (1) Subject to subsection (6), a county is responsible for the administration and enforcement of this part and the rules promulgated under this part...
• Ordinances - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.9106
  (1) Subject to subsection (3), a municipality by ordinance may provide for soil erosion and sedimentation control on public and private earth changes within...
• Notice of Violation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.9107
  If a local unit of government has notice that a violation of this part has occurred within the boundaries of that local unit of...
• Permit; Deposit as Condition for Issuance - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.9108
  As a condition for the issuance of a permit, the county enforcing agency or municipal enforcing agency may require the applicant to deposit with...
• Agreement Between Public Agency or County or Municipal Enforcing Agency and Conservation District; Purpose; Reviews and Evaluations of Agency's Programs or Procedures; Agreement Between Person Engaged in Agricultural Practices and Conservation District; Notification; Enforcement - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.9109
  (1) An authorized public agency, county enforcing agency, or municipal enforcing agency may enter into an agreement with a conservation district for assistance and...
• Designation as Authorized Public Agency; Application; Submission of Procedures; Variance; Approval - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.9110
  (1) Subject to subsection (4), a state agency or an agency of a local unit of government may apply to the department for designation...
• Repealed. 2000, Act 504, Imd. Eff. Jan. 11, 2001. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Earth Change; Permit Required; Effect of Property Transfer; Violation; Notice; Hearing; Answer; Evidence; Stipulation or Consent Order; Final Order of Determination - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.9112
  (1) A person shall not maintain or undertake an earth change governed by this part, the rules promulgated under this part, or an applicable...
• Injunction; Inspection and Investigation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.9113
  (1) Notwithstanding the existence or pursuit of any other remedy, the department or a county enforcing agency or municipal enforcing agency may maintain an...
• Additional Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.9114
  In order to carry out their functions under this part, the department and the department of agriculture may promulgate rules in addition to those...
• Logging, Mining, or Land Plowing or Tilling; Permit Exemption; "mining" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.9115
  (1) Subject to subsection (2), a person engaged in the logging industry, the mining industry, or the plowing or tilling of land for the...
• Earth Change Activities Not Requiring Permit; Violations - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.9115a
  (1) A residential property owner who causes the following activities to be conducted on individual residential property owned and occupied by him or her...
• Reduction of Soil Erosion or Sedimentation by Owner - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.9116
  A person who owns land on which an earth change has been made that may result in or contribute to soil erosion or sedimentation...
• Notice of Determination - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.9117
  If the county enforcing agency or municipal enforcing agency that is responsible for enforcing this part and the rules promulgated under this part determines...
• Compliance; Time - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.9118
  Within 5 days after a notice of violation has been issued under section 9117, a person who owns land subject to this part and...
• Entry Upon Land; Construction, Implementation, and Maintenance of Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control Measures; Cost - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.9119
  Except as otherwise provided in this section, not sooner than 5 days after notice of violation of this part has been mailed under section...
• Reimbursement of County or Municipal Enforcing Agency; Lien for Expenses; Priority; Collection and Treatment of Lien - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.9120
  (1) All expenses incurred by a county enforcing agency or a municipal enforcing agency under section 9119 to construct, implement, and maintain soil erosion...
• Violations; Penalties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.9121
  (1) A person who violates this part is responsible for either of the following: (a) If the action is brought by a county enforcing...
• Severability - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.9122
  If any provision of this part is declared by a court to be invalid, the invalid provision shall not affect the remaining provisions of...
• Training Program; Certificate; Fees - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.9123
  (1) Beginning 3 years after the effective date of the 2000 amendments to this section, each individual who is responsible for administering this part...
• Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control Training Fund; Creation; Disposition of Funds; Lapse; Expenditures - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.9123a
  (1) The soil erosion and sedimentation control training fund is created within the state treasury. (2) The state treasurer may receive money or other...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.9301
  As used in this part: (a) "Agency of this state" includes the government of this state and any subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, corporate or...
• Declaration of Policy - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.9302
  It is the policy of the legislature to provide for the conservation of the natural resources of the state, including soil, water, farmland, and...
• Conducting Business At Public Meeting; Notice; Availability of Writings to Public - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.9303
  (1) The business that a conservation district board may perform shall be conducted at a public meeting of the board held in compliance with...
• Additional Duties and Powers of Department - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.9304
  In addition to the other duties and powers conferred upon the department under this part, the department has the following duties and powers: (a)...
• Conservation Species Advisory Panel; Creation; Membership; Establishment of Conservation Species List - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.9304a
  (1) The conservation species advisory panel is created within the department. The conservation species advisory panel shall consist of the following members selected by...
• Boundaries; Petition to Change District's Name - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.9305
  (1) Boundaries of conservation districts shall include cities, townships, and incorporated villages. (2) A conservation district's board may petition the department to change the...
• Repealed. 1998, Act 463, Imd. Eff. Jan. 4, 1999. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Directors; Appointment; Terms; Chairperson; Annual Meeting; Election; Notice; Vacancies; Quorum; Expenses; Employees; Legal Services; Delegation of Powers and Duties; Copies of Documents; Duties of Directors; Removal of Director; Designation and Function of Legislative Representative - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.9307
  (1) A conservation district board shall consist of 5 directors, elected or appointed as provided in this part. The directors shall designate a chairperson...
• Powers of District and Board Generally - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.9308
  (1) A conservation district organized under this part constitutes a governmental subdivision of this state and a public body corporate and politic, exercising public...
• Cooperation Between Districts - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.9309
  The directors of any 2 or more districts organized under this part may cooperate with one another in the exercise of any or all...
• Cooperation of State Agencies; Agreements - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.9310
  (1) Agencies of this state that have jurisdiction over, or are charged with the administration of, any state owned lands, and agencies of any...
• Repealed. 1998, Act 463, Imd. Eff. Jan. 4, 1999. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Revision of Boundaries; Procedure - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.9312
  (1) One or more conservation districts may petition the department for a revision in the boundaries of 1 or more conservation districts. The department...
• Appropriations - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.9313
  The necessary expenses of any conservation districts shall be made from appropriations made for those purposes. History: Add. 1995, Act 60, Imd. Eff. May...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.9501
  As used in this part: (a) "Approved holding tank" means a holding tank certified by the United States coast guard under part 159 of...
• Prohibition of Discharges Into Water - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.9502
  (1) A person shall not place, throw, deposit, discharge, or cause to be discharged into or onto the waters of this state, any litter,...
• Pollution Control Devices as Condition to Mooring or Operating Watercraft; Rendering Bypass Connection, Pump, or Other Device Incapable of Discharging Sewage; Exempting Certain Watercraft by Rule; Inspection; Sticker - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.9503
  (1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, a person shall not moor or operate a watercraft, or permit the mooring or operation of...
• Pump - Out Facilities - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.9504
  (1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, all docking facilities shall provide pump-out facilities approved by the department of public health for marine...
• Discharge of Oil Prohibited; Removal of Oil From Waters, Shorelines, or Beaches - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.9505
  (1) A person shall not discharge or permit the discharge of oil from a watercraft or a docking facility into or onto the waters...
• Inspection of Watercraft, Marinas and Docks; Facilities Required - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.9506
  All watercraft moored, operated, or located upon the waters of this state are subject to inspection by the department, or any peace, conservation, or...
• State Rights Reserves; Prohibition of Local Regulations - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.9507
  The state fully reserves to itself the exclusive right to establish requirements with reference to the disposal or discharge of sewage, litter, and oil...
• Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.9508
  (1) The department may promulgate rules that are necessary or convenient to implement this part. (2) The department of public health may promulgate rules...
• Violation of Part or Rules as Misdemeanor; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.9510
  A person who violates this part or the rules promulgated under this part is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not more...
• Meanings of Words and Phrases - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11101
  For the purposes of this part, the words and phrases defined in sections 11102 to 11104 have the meanings ascribed to them in those
• Definitions; C to F - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11102
  (1) "Contaminant" means any of the following: (a) Hazardous waste as defined in R 299.9203 of the Michigan administrative code. (b) Any hazardous waste...
• Definitions; G to O - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11103
  (1) "Generation" means the act or process of producing hazardous waste. (2) "Generator" means any person, by site, whose act or process produces hazardous...
• Definitions; O to V - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11104
  (1) "Operator" means the person responsible for the overall operation of a disposal, treatment, or storage facility with approval of the department either by...
• Generation, Disposition, Storage, Treatment, or Transportation of Hazardous Waste - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11105
  A person shall not generate, dispose, store, treat, or transport hazardous waste in this state without complying with the requirements of this part.
• Repealed. 2006, Act 560, Eff. Dec. 29, 2008. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Municipal Solid Waste Incinerator Ash; Regulation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11106
  The generation, transportation, treatment, storage, disposal, reuse, and recycling of municipal solid waste incinerator ash is regulated under part 115, and not under this
• Methods of Hazardous Waste Management; Assistance - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11107
  The department, in the conduct of its duties as prescribed under this part, shall assist in encouraging, developing, and implementing methods of hazardous waste...
• Landfill or Solidification Facility; Payment of Fee by Owner or Operator; Certain Hazardous Waste Exempt From Fees; Certification; Evaluating Accuracy of Generator Fee Exemption Certifications; Enforcement Action; Forwarding Fee Revenue and Completed Form; Reduction in Hazardous Waste Generated or Disposed; Refund; Disposition of Fees; Waste Reduction Fund - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11108
  (1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, each owner or operator of a landfill shall pay to the department a fee assessed on...
• State Hazardous Waste Management Plan; Preparation; Contents; Studies; Incentives; Criteria; Notice; News Release; Public Hearings; Comments; Amendments - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11110
  (1) Not later than January 1, 1990, the department shall prepare an updated state hazardous waste management plan. (2) The updated plan shall: (a)...
• State Hazardous Waste Management Plan; Adoption or Rejection; Reason for Rejection; Return of Plan; Changing and Reconsidering Plan - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11111
  (1) The department, with the advice of the director of public health, shall adopt or reject the updated plan within 60 days. (2) If...
• State Hazardous Waste Management Plan; Final Decision; Adoption - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11112
  The department shall make a final decision on the updated plan within 120 days after the department first receives the updated plan. If the...
• Proposed Rules to Implement Plan - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11114
  Not more than 180 days after the final adoption of the updated plan, the department shall submit to the legislature proposed rules to implement...
• Permits and Licenses for Treatment, Storage, or Disposal Facility; Determination; Exception - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11115
  After the updated plan is adopted, the department shall not issue a permit or license under this part for a treatment, storage, or disposal...
• Facility Subject to Corrective Action Requirements; Release of Contaminant From Waste Management Unit or Release of Hazardous Waste From Facility; Determination by Department; Consent Order; License, Permit, or Order; Contents - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11115a
  (1) Beginning on June 4, 1992, the owner or operator, or both, of a facility specified in this subsection is subject to the corrective...
• Corrective Actions; Satisfaction of Remedial Action Obligations - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11115b
  Corrective actions conducted pursuant to this part satisfy a person's remedial action obligations under part 201 and remedial obligations under part 31 for that...
• Repealed. 2010, Act 357, Imd. Eff. Dec. 22, 2010. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Multisource Commercial Hazardous Waste Disposal Well; Definition; Maintenance of Treatment and Storage Facility; Operating License Required; Business Plan; Applicability of Subsection (3) - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11118a
  (1) As used in this section, "multisource commercial hazardous waste disposal well" has the meaning ascribed to that term in section 62506a. (2) A...
• Repealed. 2010, Act 357, Imd. Eff. Dec. 22, 2010. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Effect of Local Ordinance, Permit Requirement, or Other Requirement - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11121
  A local ordinance, permit requirement, or other requirement does not prohibit the construction of a treatment, storage, or disposal facility, except as otherwise provided...
• Repealed. 2010, Act 357, Imd. Eff. Dec. 22, 2010. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Operating Licenses; Contents of Applications; Schedule for Submitting Operating License Application; Time Period for Submitting Complete Operating License Application; Conditions for Operating Storage Facility Until Application Approved or Denied; Placement on Department - Organized Mailing List; Fee - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11123
  (1) Unless a person is complying with subsection (8) or a rule promulgated under section 11127(4), a person shall not establish, construct, conduct, manage,...
• Inspection of Site; Determination of Compliance; Filing and Review of Inspection Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11124
  (1) Following the construction of the proposed treatment, storage, or disposal facility or the expansion, enlargement, or alteration of a treatment, storage, or disposal...
• Duties of Department Upon Receipt of Operating License Application; Establishment of Operating License Condition; Final Decision on Operating License Application; Public Hearing; Notice; Time; Extension of Deadline; Stipulations; Operation Not Prohibited by Local Ordinance, Permit, or Other Requirement; Changes or Additions to Disclosure Statement; Denial of Application; Modification or Revocation of Operating License; Conditions; Postconstruction Documentation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11125
  (1) Upon receipt of an operating license application that complies with the requirements of section 11123(2), the department shall do all of the following:...
• Coordinating and Integrating Provisions of Act; Extent - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11126
  The department shall coordinate and integrate the provisions of this part for purposes of administration and enforcement with appropriate state and federal law including...
• Fee Schedule; Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11126a
  By September 1, 1998, the department shall submit a report to the legislature that recommends a fee schedule to implement this part.
• Rules Generally; Exemption; Effect of Amendment to Part or Rules, or Changes in Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11127
  (1) The department shall submit to the legislature, after consultation with the department of public health, rules necessary to implement and administer this part....
• Rules Listing Hazardous Waste and Other Criteria; Revision; Removing Certain Materials From List; Public Hearings; Construction of Part, Rules, and List - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11128
  (1) The department shall submit to the legislature proposed rules listing hazardous waste and other criteria as required by this part. The rules shall...
• Information as Public Record; Confidential Information; Notice of Request for Information; Demonstration by Person Regulated; Granting or Denying Request; Certain Data Not Confidential; Release of Confidential Information - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11129
  (1) Except as provided in subsections (2) and (3), information obtained by the department under this part is a public record subject to disclosure...
• Environmental Pollution Prevention Fund; Creation; Receipt and Disposition of Assets; Hazardous Waste and Liquid Industrial Waste Users Account - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11130
  (1) The environmental pollution prevention fund is created in the state treasury. (2) The state treasurer may receive money or other assets from any...
• Repealed. 1998, Act 139, Eff. Sept. 1, 1998. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Transporter; Duties; Inspection; Establishment of Standards and Requirements by Rule - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11132a
  (1) A transporter shall do all of the following: (a) Obtain and utilize an environmental protection agency identification number in accordance with the rules...
• Hazardous Waste Transporter Business License; Revocation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11133
  A hazardous waste transporter business license issued under this part shall be revoked if the holder of the license selected a treatment, storage, or...
• Municipality or County; Prohibited Conduct - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11134
  A municipality or county shall not prohibit the transportation of hazardous waste through the municipality or county or prevent the ingress and egress into...
• Manifest; User Charge; Payment; Violations; Contents; Copy; Certification; Specified Destination; Determining Status of Specified Waste; Exception Report; Retention Period for Copy of Manifest; Extension - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11135
  (1) A hazardous waste generator shall provide a separate manifest to the transporter for each load of hazardous waste transported to property that is...
• Certifying Acceptance of Waste for Transportation; Delivery of Hazardous Waste and Manifest; Period for Keeping Copy of Manifest; Review and Inspection of Manifest; Extension of Retention Period - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11136
  (1) The hazardous waste transporter shall certify acceptance of waste for transportation and shall deliver the hazardous waste and accompanying manifest only to the...
• Accepting Delivery of Hazardous Waste; Condition; Duties of Owner or Operator - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11137
  The treatment, storage, or disposal facility owner or operator shall accept delivery of hazardous waste only if delivery is accompanied by a manifest properly...
• Generator of Hazardous Waste; Duties; Records; Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11138
  (1) A generator of hazardous waste shall do the following: (a) Compile and maintain information and records regarding the quantities of hazardous waste generated,...
• Condition of Obtaining Operating License for Disposal Facility; Condition of Obtaining Operating License for Landfill - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11139
  (1) As a condition of obtaining an operating license for a disposal facility pursuant to section 11123, the applicant shall demonstrate to the department...
• Closure and Postclosure Monitoring and Maintenance Plan; Submission; Contents; Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11140
  (1) The owner or operator of a treatment, storage, or disposal facility shall submit a closure plan to the department as part of the...
• Cost of Closing and Postclosure Monitoring and Maintenance of Facility; Methods of Assurance; Amount; Periodic Adjustment; Violation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11141
  An owner or operator of a treatment, storage, or disposal facility shall file, as a part of the application for a license to operate,...
• Hazardous Waste Service Fund; Creation; Financing; Uses of Fund; Administration; Expenditures; Expenses; Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11143
  (1) There is created within the state treasury a hazardous waste service fund of not less than $1,000,000.00 to be financed by appropriations for...
• Inspection; Filing Report for Licensed Facility; Complaint or Allegation; Record; Investigation; Report; Notice of Violation or Emergency Situation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11144
  (1) The department shall inspect and file a written report not less than 4 times per year for each licensed treatment, storage, and disposal...
• Administration and Enforcement of Part by Certified Health Department; Certification Procedures; Rescission of Certification; Annual Grant; Costs; Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11145
  (1) The department may certify a city, county, or district health department to administer and enforce portions of this part but only to an...
• Request for Information and Records; Purpose; Court Authorization; Inspection; Samples; Probable Cause as to Violation; Search and Seizure; Forfeiture - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11146
  (1) Any person who generates, stores, treats, transports, disposes of, or otherwise handles or has handled hazardous waste shall furnish information relating to the...
• Violation as Misdemeanor; Penalty; Appearance Ticket - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11147
  A person who violates section 11132a(1)(b) or (n) or who violates rules promulgated under section 11132a(1)(b) or (n) is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable...
• Imminent and Substantial Hazard to Health; Endangering or Causing Damage to Public Health or Environment; Actions by Director; Determination - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11148
  (1) Subject to subsection (2), upon receipt of information that the storage, transportation, treatment, or disposal of hazardous waste may present an imminent and...
• Tearing Down, Removing, or Destroying Sign or Notice as Misdemeanor; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11149
  A person who willfully tears down, removes, or destroys any sign or notice warning of the presence of hazardous waste or marking the boundaries...
• Order of Noncompliance; Order Suspending or Restricting License of Facility - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11150
  (1) Upon receipt and verification of information that a licensed storage, treatment, or disposal facility does not have or has not maintained a suitable...
• Violation of Permit, License, Rule, or Part; Order Requiring Compliance; Civil Action; Jurisdiction; Imposition, Collection, and Disposition of Fine; Conduct Constituting Misdemeanor; Penalty; State of Mind and Knowledge; Affirmative Defense; Preponderance of Evidence; Definition; Action for Damages and Costs; Disposition and Use of Damages and Costs Collected; Awarding Costs of Litigation; Intervention - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11151
  (1) If the department finds that a person is in violation of a permit, license, rule promulgated under this part, or requirement of this...
• Interstate and International Cooperation; Purpose - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11152
  The department shall encourage interstate and international cooperation for the improved management of hazardous waste; for improved, and so far as is practicable, uniform...
• Site Identification Number; User Charges; Violations; Summary of Findings; Suspension; Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11153
  (1) A generator, transporter, or treatment, storage, or disposal facility shall obtain and utilize a site identification number assigned by the United States environmental...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11301
  As used in this part: (a) "Fund" means the landfill maintenance trust fund created in section 11302 . (b) "Response activity" means response activity...
• Landfill Maintenance Trust Fund; Creation; Separate Fund; Revenue - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11302
  (1) There is hereby created the landfill maintenance trust fund. The fund shall be established as a separate fund in the department of treasury....
• Expenditure of Interest and Earnings of Fund; Manner of Maintaining Corpus of Fund - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11303
  (1) The interest and earnings of the fund shall be expended by the department to monitor the effectiveness of response activity and to provide...
• Investment of Fund - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11304
  The state treasurer shall direct the investment of the fund in the same manner as surplus funds are invested.
• Meanings of Words and Phrases - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11501
  For purposes of this part, the words and phrases defined in sections 11502 to 11506 have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections.
• Definitions; a to C - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11502
  (1) "Applicant" includes any person. (2) "Ashes" means the residue from the burning of wood, coal, coke, refuse, wastewater sludge, or other combustible materials....
• Definitions; D to W - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11503
  (1) "De minimis" refers to a small amount of material or number of items, as applicable, commingled and incidentally disposed of with other solid...
• Definitions; H to T - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11504
  (1) "Health officer" means a full-time administrative officer of a certified city, county, or district department of health. (2) "Inert material" means a substance...
• Definitions; R, S - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11505
  (1) "Recyclable materials" means source separated materials, site separated materials, high grade paper, glass, metal, plastic, aluminum, newspaper, corrugated paper, yard clippings, and other...
• Definitions; S to Y - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11506
  (1) "Solid waste" means garbage, rubbish, ashes, incinerator ash, incinerator residue, street cleanings, municipal and industrial sludges, solid commercial and solid industrial waste, and...
• Development of Methods for Disposal of Solid Waste; Construction and Administration of Part; Exemption of Inert Material From Regulation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11507
  (1) The department and a health officer shall assist in developing and encouraging methods for the disposal of solid waste that are environmentally sound,...
• Report on Amount of Solid Waste Received by Landfill and Amount of Remaining Disposal Capacity - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11507a
  (1) The owner or operator of a landfill shall annually submit a report to the state and the county and municipality in which the...
• Solid Waste Management Program; Certification - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11508
  A city, county, or district health department may be certified by the department to perform a solid waste management program. Certification procedures shall be...
• Construction Permit for Establishment of Disposal Area; Application; Engineering Plan; Construction Permit Application Fee for Landfill; Construction Permit for Solid Waste Transfer Facility, Solid Waste Processing Plant, or Other Disposal Area; Fees; Fee Refund; Permit Denial; Resubmission of Application With Additional Information; Modification or Renewal of Permit; Multiple Permits; Disposition of Fees - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11509
  (1) Except as otherwise provided in section 11529, a person shall not establish a disposal area except as authorized by a construction permit issued...
• Advisory Analysis of Proposed Disposal Area; Duties of Department Upon Receipt of Construction Permit Application - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11510
  (1) Before the submission of a construction permit application for a new disposal area, the applicant shall request a health officer or the department...
• Construction Permit; Approval or Denial of Issuance; Expiration; Renewal; Fee; Additional Relevant Information; Conditions to Issuance of Construction Permit for Disposal Area - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11511
  (1) The department shall notify the clerk of the municipality in which the disposal area is proposed to be located and the applicant of...
• Repealed. 2004, Act 38, Eff. Jan. 1, 2006. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Rddp - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11511b
  (1) A person may submit to the department a project abstract for an RDDP. If, based on the project abstract, the director determines that...
• Disposal of Solid Waste At Licensed Disposal Area; License Required to Conduct, Manage, Maintain, or Operate Disposal Area; Application; Contents; Fee; Certification; Resubmitting Application; Additional Information or Corrections; Operation of Incinerator Without Operating License; Additional Fees - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11512
  (1) A person shall dispose of solid waste at a disposal area licensed under this part unless a person is permitted by state law...
• Acceptance of Solid Waste or Municipal Solid Waste Incinerator Ash for Disposal; Enforcement - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11513
  A person shall not accept for disposal solid waste or municipal solid waste incinerator ash that is not generated in the county in which...
• Promotion of Recycling and Reuse of Materials; Electronics Recycling; Materials Prohibited From Disposal in Landfill; Disposal of Yard Clippings; Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11514
  (1) Optimizing recycling opportunities, including electronics recycling opportunities, and the reuse of materials shall be a principal objective of the state's solid waste management...
• Inspection of Site; Compliance; Hydrogeologic Monitoring Program as Condition to Licensing Landfill Facility; Determining Course of Action; Revocation of License; Issuance of Timetable or Schedule - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11515
  (1) Upon receipt of a license application, the department or a health officer or an authorized representative of a health officer shall inspect the...
• Final Decision on License Application; Time; Effect of Failure to Make Final Decision; Expiration and Renewal of Operating License; Fee; Entry on Private or Public Property; Inspection or Investigation; Conditions to Issuance of Operating License for New Disposal Area; Issuance of License as Authority to Accept Waste for Disposal - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11516
  (1) The department shall conduct a consistency review before making a final decision on a license application. The department shall notify the clerk of...
• Plan for Program Reducing Incineration of Noncombustible Materials and Dangerous Combustible Materials and Other Hazardous by - Products; Approval or Disapproval; Considerations; Modifications; Revised Plan; Implementation; Operation Without Approved Plan - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11517
  (1) Within 9 months after the completion of construction of a municipal solid waste incinerator, the owner or operator of a municipal solid waste...
• Sanitary Landfill; Instrument Imposing Restrictive Covenant on Land; Filing; Contents of Covenant; Authorization; Special Exemption; Construction of Part - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11518
  (1) At the time a disposal area that is a sanitary landfill is licensed, an instrument that imposes a restrictive covenant upon the land...
• Specifying Reasons for Denial of Construction Permit or Operating License; Cease and Desist Order; Grounds for Order Revoking, Suspending, or Restricting Permit or License; Contested Case Hearing; Judicial Review; Inspection; Report; Copies; Violation of Part or Rules; Summary Suspension of Permit or License - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11519
  (1) The department shall specify, in writing, the reasons for denial of a construction permit or an operating license, further specifying those particular sections...
• Disposition of Fees; Special Fund; Disposition of Solid Waste on Private Property - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11520
  (1) Fees collected by a health officer under this part shall be deposited with the city or county treasurer, who shall keep the deposits...
• Yard Clippings; Management; Means; Temporary Accumulation; Requirements; Composting on Farm; Qualification as Registered Composting Facility; Site At Which Yard Clippings Are Managed - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11521
  (1) Yard clippings shall be managed by 1 of the following means: (a) Composted on the property where the yard clippings are generated. (b)...
• Open Burning of Grass Clippings or Leaves; Open Burning of Household Waste; Materials; Violation; Extension of Prohibition to Materials Not Listed in Subsection (3); Open Burning of Wooden Fruit or Vegetable Storage Bins Constructed From Untreated Lumber; Requirements; Effect of Local Ordinance; Burning of United States Flag - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11522
  (1) The open burning of grass clippings or leaves is prohibited in any municipality having a population of 7,500 or more, unless specifically authorized...
• Financial Assurance; Cash Bond; Payments; Interest; Reduction in Bond; Termination; Noncompliance With Closure and Postclosure Monitoring and Maintenance Requirements; Expiration or Cancellation Notice; Effect of Bankruptcy Action; Perpetual Care Fund - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11523
  (1) The department shall not issue a license to operate a disposal area unless the applicant has filed, as a part of the application...
• Operation of Type II Landfill - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11523a
  (1) Effective April 9, 1997, the department shall not issue a license to operate a type II landfill unless the applicant demonstrates that for...
• Trust Fund or Escrow Account - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11523b
  (1) The owner or operator of a landfill may establish a trust fund or escrow account to fulfill the requirements of sections 11523 and...
• Reduction or Increase in Financial Assurance - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11524
  A person required under section 11523 to provide financial assurance in the form of a bond or a letter of credit for a landfill...
• Perpetual Care Fund - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11525
  (1) The owner or operator of a landfill shall establish and maintain a perpetual care fund for a period of 30 years after final...
• Owner or Operator of Landfill; Surcharge; Payment of Surcharge; Deposit; "captive Facility" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11525a
  (1) The owner or operator of a landfill shall pay a surcharge as follows: (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the following surcharge:...
• Continuous Financial Assurance Coverage Required; Request for Termination of Requirements - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11525b
  (1) The owner or operator of a disposal area shall provide continuous financial assurance coverage until released from these requirements by the department under...
• Inspection of Solid Waste Transporting Unit; Determination; Administration; Inspections - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11526
  (1) The department, a health officer, or a law enforcement officer of competent jurisdiction may inspect a solid waste transporting unit that is being...
• Solid Waste Generated Out of State; Acceptance by Owner or Operator of Landfill Prohibited; Exceptions; Disposal Capacity - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11526a
  (1) Beginning October 1, 2004, in order to protect the public health, safety, and welfare and the environment of this state from the improper...
• Compliance With Mcl 324.11526b Required; Notice Requirements; Compilation of List; Documentation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11526b
  (1) Not later than October 1, 2004, the department shall do all of the following: (a) Notify each state, the country of Canada, and...
• Order Restricting or Prohibiting Solid Waste Transportation or Disposal in This State - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11526c
  (1) The director may issue an order restricting or prohibiting the transportation or disposal in this state of solid waste originating within or outside...
• Disposal of Municipal Solid Waste Generated Outside of United States; Applicability of Subsections (1) and (2) - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11526e
  (1) Subject to subsection (3), a person shall not deliver for disposal, in a landfill or incinerator in this state, municipal solid waste, including,...
• Delivery of Waste to Licensed Disposal Area or Solid Waste Transfer Facility; Vehicle or Container; Violation; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11527
  (1) A solid waste hauler transporting solid waste over a public road in this state shall deliver all waste to a disposal area or...
• Website Listing Materials Prohibited From Disposal; Notice to Customers - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11527a
  (1) The department shall post on its website a list of materials prohibited from disposal in a landfill under section 11514 and appropriate disposal...
• Solid Waste Transporting Unit; Watertight; Construction, Maintenance, and Operation; Violation; Penalties; Ordering Unit Out of Service - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11528
  (1) A solid waste transporting unit used for garbage, industrial or domestic sludges, or other moisture laden materials not specifically covered by part 121...
• Exemptions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11529
  (1) A disposal area that is a solid waste transfer facility is not subject to the construction permit and operating license requirements of this...
• Collection Center for Junk Motor Vehicles and Farm Implements; Competitive Bidding; Bonds; "collect" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11530
  (1) A municipality or county may establish and operate a collection center for junk motor vehicles and farm implements. (2) A municipality or county...
• Solid Waste Removal; Frequency; Disposal; Ordinance - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11531
  (1) A municipality or county shall assure that all solid waste is removed from the site of generation frequently enough to protect the public...
• Impact Fees; Agreement; Collection, Payment, and Disposition; Reduction; Use of Revenue; Trust Fund; Board of Trustees; Membership and Terms; Expenditures From Trust Fund - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11532
  (1) Except as provided in subsection (3), a municipality may impose an impact fee of not more than 10 cents per cubic yard on...
• Initial Solid Waste Management Plan; Contents; Submission; Review and Update; Amendment; Scope of Plan; Minimum Compliance; Consultation With Regional Planning Agency; Filing, Form, and Contents of Notice of Intent; Effect of Failure to File Notice of Intent; Vote; Preparation of Plan by Regional Solid Waste Management Planning Agency or by Department; Progress Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11533
  (1) Each solid waste management plan shall include an enforceable program and process to assure that the nonhazardous solid waste generated or to be...
• Planning Committee; Purpose; Appointment, Qualifications, and Terms of Members; Approval of Appointment; Reappointment; Vacancy; Removal; Chairperson; Procedures - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11534
  (1) The county executive of a charter county that elects a county executive and that chooses to prepare a solid waste management plan under...
• County or Regional Solid Waste Management Planning Agency; Duties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11535
  A county or regional solid waste management planning agency preparing a solid waste management plan shall do all of the following: (a) Solicit the...
• Request by Municipality to Be Included in Plan of Adjacent County; Approval by Resolution; Appeal; Final Decision; Formal Action on Plan; Return of Plan With Statement of Objections; Review and Recommendations; Approval by Governing Bodies; Preparation of Final Plan by Department - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11536
  (1) A municipality located in 2 counties or adjacent to a municipality located in another county may request to be included in the adjacent...
• Approval or Disapproval of Plan by Department; Time; Minimum Requirements; Periodic Review; Revisions or Corrections; Withdrawal of Approval; Timetable or Schedule for Compliance - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11537
  (1) The department shall, within 6 months after a plan has been submitted for approval, approve or disapprove the plan. An approved plan shall...
• Use of Siting Mechanisms to Site Capacity - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11537a
  Beginning on June 9, 1994 a county that has a solid waste management plan that provides for siting of disposal areas to fulfill a...
• Rules for Development, Form, and Submission of Initial Solid Waste Management Plans; Requirements; Identification of Specific Sites; Calculation of Disposal Need Requirements; Interim Siting Mechanism; Annual Certification Process; New Certification; Disposal Area Serving Disposal Needs of Another County, State, or Country; Compliance as Condition to Disposing Of, Storing, or Transporting Solid Waste; Provisions or Practices in Conflict With Part - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11538
  (1) Not later than September 11, 1979, the director shall promulgate rules for the development, form, and submission of initial solid waste management plans....
• Plan Update; Approval; Conditions; Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11539
  (1) The director shall not approve a plan update unless: (a) The plan contains an analysis or evaluation of the best available information applicable...
• Plan Update; Submission to Legislature; Standard Format - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11539a
  (1) The department shall prepare a proposed standard format for the submittal of updates to solid waste management plans. This proposed standard format shall...
• Rules; Sanitary Design and Operational Standards - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11540
  Not later than September 11, 1979, the department shall submit to the legislature rules that contain sanitary design and operational standards for solid waste...
• Repealed. 2010, Act 345, Eff. Mar. 1, 2011. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• State Solid Waste Management Plan; Contents; Duties of Department - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11541
  (1) The state solid waste management plan shall consist of the state solid waste plan and all county plans approved or prepared by the...
• Municipal Solid Waste Incinerator Ash; Disposal - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11542
  (1) Except as provided in subsection (5), municipal solid waste incinerator ash shall be disposed of in 1 of the following: (a) A landfill...
• Municipal Solid Waste Incinerator Ash; Transportation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11543
  (1) If municipal solid waste incinerator ash is transported, it shall be transported in compliance with section 720 of the Michigan vehicle code, Act...
• List of Laboratories Capable of Performing Test Provided for in Mcl 324.11542; Compilation; Publication; Definitive Testing; Fraudulent or Careless Testing - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11544
  (1) The department shall compile a list of approved laboratories that are capable of performing the test provided for in section 11542. (2) The...
• Incineration of Used Oil Prohibited; "oil" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11545
  Beginning June 21, 1993, a municipal solid waste incinerator shall not incinerate used oil. As used in this section, used oil has the meaning...
• Action for Appropriate Relief; Penalties for Violation or Noncompliance; Restoration; Return; Civil Action - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11546
  (1) The department or a health officer may request that the attorney general bring an action in the name of the people of the...
• Grant Program; Establishment; Purpose; Interlocal Agreements; Separate Planning Grant; Appropriation; Use of Grant Funds by Department; Rules; Financial Assistance to Certified Health Department - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11547
  (1) In order for a county to effectively implement the planning responsibilities designated under this part, a grant program is established to provide financial...
• Private Sector; Legislative Intent; Salvaging Not Prohibited - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11548
  (1) This part is not intended to prohibit the continuation of the private sector from doing business in solid waste disposal and transportation. This...
• Violation as Misdemeanor; Violation as Felony; Penalty; Separate Offenses - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11549
  (1) A person who violates this part, a rule promulgated under this part, or a condition of a permit, license, or final order issued...
• Solid Waste Management Fund; Creation; Deposit of Money Into Fund; Establishment of Solid Waste Staff Account and Perpetual Care Account; Expenditures; Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11550
  (1) The solid waste management fund is created within the state treasury. The state treasurer may receive money from any source for deposit into...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11701
  As used in this part: (a) "Agricultural land" means land on which a food crop, a feed crop, or a fiber crop is grown,...
• Septage Waste Licensing; Requirement - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11702
  (1) A person shall not engage in servicing or contract to engage in servicing except as authorized by a septage waste servicing license and...
• Septage Waste Servicing License; Application; Eligibility; Records - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11703
  (1) An application for a septage waste servicing license shall include all of the following: (a) The applicant's name and mailing address. (b) The...
• Septage Waste Vehicle License; Application; Display; Transportation of Hazardous Waste - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11704
  (1) An application for a septage waste vehicle license shall include all of the following: (a) The model and year of the septage waste...
• Septage Waste Vehicle, Tank, and Accessory Equipment; Requirements - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11705
  A tank upon a septage waste vehicle shall be closed in transit to prevent the release of septage waste and odor. The septage waste...
• Review of Applications; Providing Health Department With Copies of Application Materials; Investigations; Issuance of License; License Nontransferable; Duration of License - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11706
  (1) Upon receipt of an application for a septage waste servicing license or a septage waste vehicle license, the department shall review the application...
• Display on Both Sides of Septage Waste Vehicle - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11707
  Each septage waste vehicle for which a septage waste vehicle license has been issued shall display on both sides of the septage waste vehicle...
• Deposit of Septage Waste in Public Septage Waste Treatment Facility; Disposal Fee; Prohibiting Operation of Wastewater Treatment Plant - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11708
  (1) Before 1 year after the effective date of the 2004 amendatory act that added this subsection, if a person is engaged in servicing...
• Disposal of Septage Waste on Land; Permit Required; Additional Information; Notice; Renewal; Revocation of Permit - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11709
  (1) A person shall not dispose of septage waste on land except as authorized by a site permit for that site issued by the...
• Requirements to Which Permit Subject - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11710
  A site permit is subject to all of the following requirements: (a) The septage waste disposed of shall be applied uniformly at agronomic rates....
• Surface Application of Septage Waste to Frozen Ground; Requirements - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11711
  Beginning 2 years after the effective date of the 2004 amendatory act that amended this section, a person shall not surface apply septage waste...
• Applicability of Federal Regulations - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11712
  Persons subject to this part shall comply with applicable provisions of subparts A, B, and D of part 503 of title 40 of the...
• Inspection of Disposal Site - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11713
  (1) At any reasonable time, a representative of the department may enter in or upon any private or public property for the purpose of...
• Prohibited Disposition of Septage Waste Into Certain Bodies of Water - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11714
  A person shall not dispose of septage waste directly or indirectly in a lake, pond, stream, river, or other body of water. History: 1994,...
• Preemption; Duty of Governmental Unit to Make Available Public Septage Waste Receiving Facility; Posting of Surety - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11715
  (1) This part does not preempt an ordinance of a governmental unit that prohibits the application of septage waste to land within that governmental...
• Rules; Requirements for Receiving Facilities and Control of Nuisance Conditions; Notice of Operation; Penalties for Noncompliance - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11715b
  (1) The department shall promulgate rules establishing design and operating requirements for receiving facilities and the control of nuisance conditions. (2) A person shall...
• Advisory Committee to Make Recommendations on Septage Waste Storage Facility Management Practices - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11715d
  (1) Within 60 days after the effective date of the amendatory act that added this section, the department shall convene an advisory committee to...
• Certification of City, County, and District Departments of Health to Carry Out Powers and Duties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11716
  (1) The department may certify a city, county, or district health department to carry out certain powers and duties of the department under this...
• Septage Waste Site Contingency Fund; Creation; Authorization of Expenditures - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11717
  (1) There is created in the state treasury a septage waste site contingency fund. Interest earned by the septage waste contingency fund shall remain...
• Fees for Persons Engaged in Septage Waste Servicing - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11717b
  (1) The cost of administering this part shall be recovered by collecting fees from persons engaged in servicing. Fee categories and, subject to subsection...
• Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11718
  (1) The department shall promulgate rules that establish both of the following: (a) Continuing education requirements under section 11706. (b) Design and operating requirements...
• Violation or False Statement as Misdemeanor; Penalties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11719
  (1) A person who violates section 11704, 11705, 11708, 11709, 11710, or 11711 is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not more...
• Temporary Variance From Act - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11720
  (1) The director may grant a temporary variance from a requirement of this part added by the 2004 amendatory act that amended this part...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11901
  As used in this part: (a) "Costs" means 1 or more of the following costs that may be chargeable to the waste management project...
• Powers of Municipality Generally - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11902
  A municipality may do any of the following: (a) Acquire by gift, purchase, or lease, construct, improve, remodel, repair, maintain, and operate, individually or...
• Contracts for Acquisition, Construction, Financing, and Operation of Waste Management Project or for Use of Services of Project; Bids or Proposals; Negotiations; Validity of Contracts; Pledge of Full Faith and Credit; Methods of Paying Pledged Share of Costs - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11903
  (1) A municipality may enter into a contract with a person or municipality, providing for the acquisition, construction, financing, and operation of a waste...
• Additional Powers of Municipality - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11904
  A municipality may do any of the following: (a) Include in a contract with a municipality or person provisions to the effect that the...
• Contracts; Provisions; Remedies in Case of Default - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11905
  A contract by a municipality with a person or municipality may provide for any and all matters relating to the acquisition, construction, financing, and...
• Resolution Authorizing Execution of Contract; Publication and Contents of Notice of Adoption; Effective Date of Contract; Referendum; Special Election Not Included in Statutory or Charter Limitation; Verification of Signatures on Petition; Rejection of Signatures; Determining Number of Registered Electors - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11906
  (1) A municipality desiring to enter into a contract under section 11902 or 11903 shall authorize, by resolution of its governing body, the execution...
• Exercise of Powers Conferred on Municipality - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11907
  A municipality may exercise the powers conferred by this part regardless of the requirements, including the competitive bidding requirement, of its municipal charter.
• Provisions Inapplicable to Certain Municipalities - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.11908
  This part shall not apply to municipalities having a population of more than 2,000,000.
• Definitions; B to L - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.12101
  As used in this part: (a) "Biofuel" means any renewable liquid or gas fuel offered for sale as a fuel that is derived from...
• Definitions; M to V - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.12102
  As used in this part: (a) "Manifest" means either of the following: (i) A form and instructions approved by the department used for identifying...
• Materials Not Specified as Liquid Industrial Wastes - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.12102a
  The following materials are not liquid industrial wastes when managed as specified: (a) A material that is used or reused as an effective substitute...
• Generator; Duties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.12103
  (1) A generator shall do all of the following: (a) Characterize the waste in accordance with section 12101(n) and the requirements of part 111...
• Repealed. 1998, Act 140, Eff. Sept. 1, 1998. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Registered and Permitted Transporter; Generator; Exemptions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.12105
  (1) A transporter is subject to the registration and permitting requirements of the hazardous materials transportation act, 1998 PA 138, MCL 29.471 to 29.480....
• Equipment, Location, and Methods of Transporter; Inspection by Department - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.12106
  The department may conduct an inspection to verify that the equipment, location, and methods of a transporter are adequate to effectuate service under this...
• Vehicles; Copy of Registration and Permit to Be Carried; Closing or Covering of Vehicles; Cleaning and Decontamination; Applicability of Subsection (3) to Vehicle Transporting Brine - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.12107
  (1) A vehicle used to transport liquid industrial waste by public roadway shall carry a copy of the registration and permit issued in accordance...
• Repealed. 1998, Act 140, Eff. Sept. 1, 1998. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Manifest; Requirements - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.12109
  (1) A liquid industrial waste transporter shall certify acceptance of waste for transportation by completing the transporter section of the manifest, and shall deliver...
• Repealed. 1998, Act 140, Eff. Sept. 1, 1998. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Incidents Threatening Public Health, Safety, and Welfare, or Environment; Duties of Generator, Transporter, or Owner or Operator of Facility; Exemptions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.12111
  (1) If a fire, explosion, or discharge of liquid industrial waste occurs that could threaten the public health, safety, and welfare, or the environment,...
• Facilities Accepting Liquid Industrial Waste; Duties of Owner or Operator - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.12112
  (1) Except as provided in section 12103(4), the owner or operator of a facility that accepts liquid industrial waste shall accept delivery of waste...
• Treatment, Storage, or Disposal of Liquid Industrial Waste; Requirements - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.12113
  (1) Storage of liquid industrial waste, whether at the location of generation, under the control of the transporter, or at the designated facility, shall...
• Violations; Probable Cause; Powers of Department or Peace Officer; Court Costs and Other Expenses; Obtaining Samples for Purposes of Enforcing or Administering Part - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.12114
  (1) If the department or a peace officer has probable cause to believe that a person is violating this part, the department or a...
• Civil Actions; Damages; Court Costs and Other Expenses - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.12115
  (1) The attorney general or a person may bring a civil action in a court of competent jurisdiction to recover the full value of...
• Violations; Penalties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.12116
  (1) A person who violates section 12103(1)(b) or (e), 12105(1)(d), 12107(2) or (3), 12109(4), or 12112(1)(b) or (c) is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable...
• Liquid Industrial Transporter Waste Account - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.12117
  (1) The liquid industrial transporter waste account is created within the environmental pollution prevention fund which is created in section 11130. (2) The state...
• Repealed. 1998, Act 140, Eff. Sept. 1, 1998. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.14301
  As used in this part: (a) "Department" means the department of environmental quality. (b) "Environmental wastes" means all environmental pollutants, wastes, discharges, and emissions,...
• Pollution Prevention; Incorporation; Purpose; Personnel and Support Staff - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.14302
  (1) The department shall incorporate pollution prevention goals within its regulatory and permit programs, including data collection and analysis to advance the concept and...
• Pollution Prevention; Duties of Department; Emphasis on in - Plant Pollution Prevention and Reduction of Hazardous Waste - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.14303
  (1) The department shall do all of the following: (a) Identify opportunities to encourage pollution prevention through the department's regulatory programs. (b) Identify opportunities...
• Transmitting Certain Information - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.14304
  The department shall assure that relevant information received under section 313 of subtitle B of the emergency planning and community right-to-know act of 1986,...
• Repealed. 1998, Act 289, Imd. Eff. July 27, 1998. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Annual Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.14306
  The department shall prepare and deliver, before January 1 of each year, a report detailing the efforts the department has undertaken during the previous...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.14501
  As used in this part: (a) "Agricultural biomass" means residue and waste generated on a farm or by farm co-operative members from the production...
• Reduction in Amount of Generated Environmental Waste; Emphasis on Pollution Prevention; Personnel; Staff and Services - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.14502
  (1) The department shall inform, assist, educate, and provide funding, as provided in this part, to persons to facilitate a reduction in the amount...
• Pollution Prevention Information Clearinghouse; Establishment; Duties; Contracts - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.14503
  (1) The department shall establish a pollution prevention information clearinghouse which shall do all of the following: (a) Upon request, provide specific pollution prevention...
• Pollution Prevention Technical Assistance - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.14504
  The department shall provide and support technical assistance regarding pollution prevention to business and industry throughout the state and shall do all of the...
• Repealed. 1998, Act 289, Imd. Eff. July 27, 1998. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Pollution Prevention Research Grants Program; Establishment; Distribution of Information and Applications for Grants; Form and Contents of Application; Recipients of Grants; Considerations - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.14506
  (1) The department shall establish a pollution prevention research grants program. (2) Information and applications for grants under this section shall be distributed upon...
• Repealed. 1998, Act 289, Imd. Eff. July 27, 1998. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Annual Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.14510
  (1) The department shall prepare and deliver, before January 1 of each year, a report detailing the efforts the department, including RETAP, has undertaken...
• Retired Engineers Technical Assistance Program; Establishment; Conduct; Contract; Priorities - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.14511
  (1) The department shall establish a retired engineers technical assistance program. The RETAP shall provide assistance pursuant to section 14504. RETAP assistance shall be...
• Retired Engineers Technical Assistance Program Fund; Creation; Disposition of Funds; Limitation; Lapse; Annual Report; Expenditure - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.14512
  (1) The retired engineers technical assistance program fund is created within the state treasury. (2) The state treasurer may receive money or other assets...
• Small Business Pollution Prevention Assistance Revolving Loan Fund; Creation; Disposition; Lapse; Expenditure; Loan Eligibility Requirements; Loan Limitations; "fund" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.14513
  (1) The small business pollution prevention assistance revolving loan fund is created within the state treasury. (2) The state treasurer may receive money or...
• Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.14514
  The department may promulgate rules to implement and administer this part.
• Repealed. 2012, Act 446, Imd. Eff. Dec. 27, 2012. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Repealed. 2012, Act 446, Imd. Eff. Dec. 27, 2012. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Repealed. 2012, Act 446, Imd. Eff. Dec. 27, 2012. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Repealed. 2012, Act 446, Imd. Eff. Dec. 27, 2012. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Repealed. 2012, Act 446, Imd. Eff. Dec. 27, 2012. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Definitions; Heading of Subpart - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.14721
  (1) As used in this subpart: (a) "Department" means the department of environmental quality. (b) "Octa-BDE" means octabromodiphenyl ether. (c) "PBDE" means polybrominated diphenyl...
• Product or Material Containing Penta - Bde; Limitation; Exceptions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.14722
  (1) Beginning June 1, 2006, a person shall not manufacture, process, or distribute a product or material that contains more than 1/10 of 1%...
• Product or Material Containing Octa - Bde; Limitation; Manufacturing, Processing, or Distributing; Exception - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.14723
  (1) Beginning June 1, 2006, a person shall not manufacture, process, or distribute a product or material that contains more than 1/10 of 1%...
• Pbde Advisory Committee; Recommendations - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.14724
  The department may establish a PBDE advisory committee to assist the department in determining the risk posed by the release of PBDEs, other than...
• Violation as Misdemeanor; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.14725
  A person who violates this subpart is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not less than $2,500.00 or more than $25,000.00....
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.14801
  As used in this part: (a) "Environmental audit" means a voluntary and internal evaluation conducted on or after the effective date of this part...
• Environmental Audit and Environmental Audit Report; Conduct; Creation; Privilege and Protection From Disclosure; Exception; Testimony; Admissibility as Evidence - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.14802
  (1) The owner or operator of a facility, or an employee or agent of the owner or operator on behalf of the owner or...
• Waiver of Privilege - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.14803
  (1) The privilege provided for in this part may be expressly waived by the person for whom the environmental audit report was prepared. The...
• Request for Disclosure by State or Local Law Enforcement Authorities; Objection; Petition; in Camera Hearing; Determination by Court; Disclosure Pending Appeal - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.14804
  (1) A request by state or local law enforcement authorities for disclosure of an environmental audit report shall be made by a written request...
• Criminal Proceeding; Applicability of Privilege - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.14805
  The privilege created by this part does not apply to criminal investigations or proceedings. Where an audit report is obtained, reviewed, or used in...
• Privilege; Burden of Proof; Stipulation; Disclosure of Relevant Portions of Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.14806
  (1) A person asserting the privilege under this part has the burden of proving a prima facie case as to the privilege. A person...
• Fraud as Misdemeanor; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.14807
  A person who uses this part to commit fraud is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than $25,000.00.
• Other Privileges Not Limited - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.14808
  This part does not limit, waive, or abrogate either of the following: (a) The scope or nature of any statutory or common law privilege,...
• Immunity From Civil and Criminal Penalties and Fines - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.14809
  (1) A person is immune from any administrative or civil penalties and fines under this act and from criminal penalties and fines for negligent...
• Authority of Other Provisions Not Limited - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.14809a
  Except for the immunity provided in section 14809, this part does not limit or affect the authority of any other provision of this act...
• Data Base - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.14810
  (1) The department of environmental quality shall establish and maintain a data base of the voluntary disclosures made under this part. The data base...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.16101
  As used in this part: (a) "Degradable" means capable of being broken down by biodegradation, photodegradation, or chemical degradation into component parts within 360...
• Plastic Products; Labeling With Code; List of Label Codes; Copies of List - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.16102
  (1) All plastic products sold in this state shall be labeled with a code indicating the plastic resin used to produce the product. The...
• Additional Staff Prohibited - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.16103
  Additional staff shall not be hired by the department for the purposes of enforcing this part.
• Violation; Civil Fine; Default; Remedy - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.16104
  (1) A person who violates this part is subject to a civil fine of $500.00 per violation. (2) A default in the payment of...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.16301
  As used in this part: (a) "Containers" means glass, metal, or plastic bottles, cans, jars, or other receptacles that contain any substance. (b) "Degradable"...
• Container Holding Devices Constructed of Plastic Rings; Design and Registration of Symbol; Test Data; Vacuum - Packed Wrapping - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.16302
  (1) A person shall not sell or offer for sale in this state containers connected to each other by a separate holding device that...
• Violation as Misdemeanor; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.16303
  A person who violates this part is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of $500.00 for each day this part is violated.
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.16501
  As used in this part: (a) "Accessible and available market" means that opportunities exist to sell wastepaper products that are collected pursuant to this...
• Paper Recycling System; Establishment; Purpose; Scope; Schedule; Functions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.16502
  (1) The department shall establish and implement a paper recycling system to recycle wastepaper products that are recyclable and for which there is an...
• Proceeds of Paper Recycling System; Disposition; Use - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.16503
  The proceeds of the paper recycling system shall be forwarded to the state treasurer and credited to the office services revolving fund created in...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.16701
  As used in this part: (a) "Motor oil" means oil used as a lubricant in a motor vehicle. (b) "Oil" means petroleum based oil....
• Plan to Promote Recycling of Motor Oil; Public Education Program - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.16702
  The department shall implement a plan to promote the recycling of motor oil by the public and private sectors. The department shall conduct a...
• Plan to Recycle Motor Oil; Demonstration Used Oil Recycling Project; Project Plan; Funding - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.16703
  (1) The director of the department of management and budget shall formulate and implement a plan to recycle the motor oil used by the...
• Disposal of Used Oil; Designation of Land as Collection Facility; Placement in Receptacle or Container; Applicability of Subsection (1); Disposal of Used Oil in Municipal Solid Waste Incinerator; Violation as Misdemeanor; Penalty; Enforcement Actions; Criteria Used in Designating Collection Facilities - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.16704
  (1) A person shall not dispose of or cause the disposal of used oil by dumping used oil onto the ground; discharging, dumping, or...
• Comprehensive Plan - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.16705
  In addition to the other powers and duties of the department under this part, by January 1, 1991, the department shall develop and submit...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.16901
  (1) As used in this part: (a) "Abandoned scrap tires" means an accumulation of scrap tires on property where the property owner is not...
• Delivery of Scrap Tire; Limitations; Removal; Scope of Subsection (2) - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.16902
  (1) A person shall deliver a scrap tire only to 1 of the following that is in compliance with this part: (a) A collection...
• Repealed. 2002, Act 496, Imd. Eff. July 3, 2002. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Accumulation of Scrap Tires Outdoors by Owner or Operator of Collection Site; Compliance; Bond Required; Exception - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.16903
  (1) A person who owns or operates a collection site where less than 2,500 scrap tires are accumulated outdoors shall comply with all of...
• Fires At Collection Sites; Statewide Response Plan - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.16903a
  The department of environmental quality shall prepare and implement a statewide response plan for responding to fires at collection sites.
• Bond; Exemptions; Noncompliance; "site Requirements" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.16903b
  (1) Subject to subsection (2), the owner of a collection site is exempt from the requirement to obtain a bond under section 16903(4) if...
• Maintenance Limiting Mosquito Breeding; Requirements; Violation; Penalty; Payment Default - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.16903c
  (1) The owner or operator of a collection site shall ensure that tires at a collection site are maintained in a manner that limits...
• Owner of Collection Site or Portable Shredding Operation; Application for Registration; Form; Documentation of Bonding; Compliance With Storage Requirements; Fee - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.16904
  (1) By January 31 of each year, a person who owns a collection site or portable shredding operation, or both, shall submit an application...
• End User; Exemption - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.16904a
  (1) Except as provided in subsection (2), an end-user is exempt from this part for scrap tires stored on the site of the end-user...
• Scrap Tire Hauler; Registration; Form; Contents; Presentment; Display of Number; Maintenance and Availability of Records; Disposal At Other Location Prohibited; Original Record; Copy - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.16905
  (1) By January 31 of each year, a scrap tire hauler shall submit an application for registration to the department. The application shall be...
• Records - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.16906
  (1) A person, other than a property owner removing 7 or fewer scrap tires from his or her property, who by contract, agreement, or...
• Report to Legislature - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.16907
  By January 1, 1996, the department shall report to the legislature on all of the following: (a) The effectiveness of this part and whether...
• Scrap Tire Regulatory Fund; Creation; Sources of Money; Investments; Interest and Earnings; No Reversion to General Fund; Use of Money in Fund; Grants - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.16908
  (1) The scrap tire regulatory fund is created in the state treasury. The fund shall receive money as provided by law and any gifts...
• Development of Markets for Scrap Tires - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.16908a
  The department of environmental quality shall assist owners and operators of collection sites and scrap tire processors in this state in developing markets for...
• Unpaid Cleanup Costs; Lien; Filing of Petition by Attorney General; Type of Lien; Duration; Release - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.16908b
  (1) All unpaid cleanup costs for scrap tires accumulated after January 1, 1991 that are incurred under section 16908(2)(c), including any staff costs, costs...
• Violation as Misdemeanor; Penalties; Separate Violations; Authority of Officer; Penalties Inapplicable; Conditions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.16909
  (1) A person who violates this part when fewer than 50 scrap tires are involved is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for...
• Investigation or Inspection - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.16909a
  The department may enter at reasonable hours a tire retail establishment, vehicle owned or operated by a scrap tire hauler for the transport of...
• Response to Fire or Violation of Part; Action for Recovery of Incurred Costs - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.16910
  A person who incurs costs as a result of a response to a fire or a violation of this part at a collection site...
• Report on Utilization of Fund Revenues; Reuse and Safe Storage of Scrap Tires; Appointment of Scrap Tire Advisory Committee - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.16911
  (1) The department shall annually report to the standing committees of the senate and house of representatives with primary responsibility for issues pertaining to...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.17101
  As used in this part: (a) "Alkaline manganese battery" means a dry cell battery containing manganese dioxide and zinc electrodes and an alkaline electrolyte....
• Disposal of Lead Acid Battery - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.17102
  (1) A person other than a retailer, distributor, or manufacturer shall not dispose of a lead acid battery except by delivery to 1 of...
• Retailer of Lead Acid Batteries; Duties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.17103
  A retailer of lead acid batteries shall do all of the following: (a) Accept, at or near the point at which lead acid batteries...
• Notices; Failure to Post; Default in Payment of Civil Fine - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.17104
  (1) The department shall produce, print, and make available to retailers notices required by section 17103. (2) A retailer who fails to post a...
• Acceptance of Lead Acid Batteries by Distributor; Quantity; Removal From Point of Collection - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.17105
  (1) A distributor shall accept used lead acid batteries from retailers in a quantity at least equal to the number of new lead acid...
• Batteries Containing Intentionally Introduced Mercury; Sales or Offers Prohibited - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.17105a
  (1) Except for alkaline manganese button cell batteries that have a mercury content of 25 milligrams or less, a person shall not sell, offer...
• Button Cell Mercuric Oxide Battery or Mercuric Oxide Battery; Sales or Offers - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.17105b
  (1) Beginning on January 1, 1996, a person shall not sell, offer for sale, or offer for promotional purposes a button cell mercuric oxide...
• Nickel Cadmium Batteries; Voluntary Collection Program - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.17105c
  A manufacturer that participates in a voluntary collection program for nickel cadmium batteries in this state shall provide to retailers of nickel cadmium batteries...
• Repealed. 1995, Act 124, Imd. Eff. June 30, 1995. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Enforcement; Violation as Misdemeanor; Penalties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.17107
  (1) The department shall enforce this part. (2) A person other than a retailer, distributor, or manufacturer who knowingly disposes of lead acid batteries...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.17201
  As used in this part: (a) "Appliance" means a refrigerator, dehumidifier, freezer, oven, range, microwave oven, washer, dryer, dishwasher, trash compactor, window room air...
• Mercury Thermometer; Sale, Offer for Sale, or Offer for Promotional Purposes - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.17202
  (1) Except as provided in subsection (2), beginning on January 1, 2003, a person shall not sell, offer for sale, or offer for promotional...
• Enforcement; Violation as Misdemeanor; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.17203
  (1) The department of environmental quality shall enforce this part. (2) A person who violates this part is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by...
• Sale of Blood Pressure Device Containing Mercury; Prohibitions; Exceptions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.17204
  (1) Beginning January 1, 2008, a person shall not sell, offer for sale, or offer for promotional purposes in this state or for use...
• Thermostat Containing Mercury or Mercury Compound; Sale or Distribution Prohibited; Exception - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.17205
  (1) Beginning January 1, 2009, a person shall not sell, offer for sale, or distribute in this state or for use in this state...
• Esophageal Dilator, Bougie Tube, or Gastrointestinal Tube With Mercury or Mercury Compound Added; Sale, Offer for Sale, or Distribution Prohibited; Exceptions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.17206
  (1) Except as provided in subsection (2), beginning January 1, 2009, a person shall not sell, offer for sale, or distribute in this state...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.17301
  As used in this part: (a) "Collector" means a person who receives covered electronic devices from consumers and arranges for the delivery of the...
• Sale or Offer of Sale of New Covered Electronic Device; Registration by Manufacturer; Expiration; Contents; Effectiveness; Failure to Comply With Requirements or Rules; Notice of Deficiency; Denial or Revocation of Registration; Hearing; Duration of Validity; Fee; Deposit of Revenues; List of Registered Manufacturers; Maintenance of Website; Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.17303
  (1) By 30 days after the end of each state fiscal year, a manufacturer that sells or offers for sale to any person in...
• Sale or Offer of Sale of New Covered Electronic Device; Manufacturer; Requirements - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.17305
  Beginning April 1, 2010, a manufacturer shall not sell or offer for sale to any person in this state a new covered electronic device,...
• Sale or Offer of Sale of New Covered Electronic Device; Retailer; Appearance of Manufacturer on Registration List - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.17307
  A retailer shall not sell or offer for sale to any person in this state a new covered electronic device from a manufacturer, purchased...
• Computer Takeback Program - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.17309
  (1) Beginning April 1, 2010, each manufacturer of covered computers shall implement a computer takeback program that meets all of the following criteria: (a)...
• Video Display Device Takeback Program - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.17311
  (1) Beginning April 1, 2010, each manufacturer of covered video display devices shall implement a video display device takeback program that meets all of...
• Electronic Waste Advisory Council; Creation; Members; Appointments; Term; Vacancy; Removal; Co - Chairs; Meeting; Quorum; Business Conducted At Public Meeting; Writings; Compensation Prohibited; Report; Dissolution - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.17313
  (1) The electronic waste advisory council is created within the legislative branch of state government. The council shall consist of the following members: (a)...
• Recycling of Covered Electronic Devices; Manner; Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.17315
  (1) Covered electronic devices collected under this part shall be recycled in a manner that complies with federal and state laws, including rules promulgated...
• Recycling of Covered Electronic Devices; Registration Form; Contents; Report of Total Weight Recycled Previous Year; Effectiveness of Registration; Failure to Meet Requirements; Fee; Deposit of Revenues; Submission of False Registration as Violation; Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.17317
  (1) By 30 days after the end of each state fiscal year, a person who engages in the business of recycling covered electronic devices...
• Requirements - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.17319
  A recycler shall comply with all of the following: (a) Employ industry-accepted procedures substantially equivalent to those specified by the United States department of...
• Rules for Purposes of Mcl 324.17303 and 324.17315 - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.17321
  After April 1, 2012, the department, pursuant to the administrative procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24.201 to 24.328, may promulgate rules...
• Management of Covered Electronic Devices Not Considered Disposal - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.17323
  Management of covered electronic devices consistent with this part is not considered disposal for purposes of section 11538(6).
• Recycler of Covered Electronic Devices; Inspection of Operations - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.17325
  (1) The department shall administer and enforce this part to the extent that funds are appropriated for that purpose. (2) The department may inspect...
• Electronic Waste Recycling Fund; Creation; Deposit of Money or Assets; Investment; Money At Close of Fiscal Year; Administrator of Fund; Expenditures - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.17327
  (1) The electronic waste recycling fund is created within the state treasury. (2) The state treasurer may receive money or other assets from any...
• Violation; Penalty; Suspension or Revocation of Registration; Deposit of Fine in Electronic Waste Recycling Fund - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.17329
  (1) A person who violates this part may be ordered to pay a civil fine of not more than $500.00 for the first violation...
• Loss or Use of Data; Liability - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.17331
  (1) Except to the extent otherwise provided by contract, a manufacturer, retailer, collector, or, subject to subsection (2), recycler is not liable for the...
• Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.17333
  If federal law establishes a national program for the collection and recycling of computer equipment, the department shall, within 90 days, submit a report...
• Meanings of Words and Phrases - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19101
  For purposes of this part, the words and phrases defined in sections 19102 and 19103 have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections.
• Definitions; a to N - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19102
  (1) "Approved solid waste management plan" means a solid waste management plan submitted and approved under part 115. (2) "Capital costs" means those allowable...
• Definitions; P to W - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19103
  (1) "Private entity" means an individual, trust, firm, joint stock company, corporation, or association that is not a local unit of government. (2) "Recycling...
• Clean Michigan Fund; Creation; Appropriations, Gifts, and Donations; Expenditures - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19104
  The clean Michigan fund is created in the state treasury. The fund shall consist of appropriations from the general fund or any other fund,...
• Grants to Counties for Establishment of Revolving Loan Fund; Use of Initial Grant; Percentage of Grant Utilized for Administration of Loan Program; Use of Loans; Establishment, Duties, and Membership of County Loan Board; Conditions to Making Loan; Annual Audit; Liability of County; Maximum Grant - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19105
  (1) The department may make a grant to a county having a population of less than 12,000 enabling the county to establish a revolving...
• Waste Stream Assessments - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19106
  (1) The department shall cause to be conducted a series of waste stream assessments in representative areas of the state. The assessments shall determine...
• Recycling and Composting Feasibility Studies - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19107
  (1) The department shall cause to be conducted a series of recycling and composting feasibility studies. A study shall establish a basis upon which...
• Waste - to - Energy Feasibility Studies - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19108
  (1) The department shall cause to be conducted a series of waste-to-energy feasibility studies. A study shall establish a basis upon which a decision...
• Educational Program With Respect to Resource Recovery; Resource Recovery Education Grant Program; Authorized Grants; Factors in Selecting Recipients; Limitations on Expenditures - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19109
  (1) The department shall establish an educational program with respect to resource recovery to accomplish the following: (a) To promote on a statewide basis...
• Solid Waste Transfer Station Grant Program - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19110
  (1) The department shall establish a solid waste transfer station grant program. The program shall provide funding to municipalities, nonprofit private entities, and private...
• Recycling and Composting Capital Grant Program - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19111
  (1) The department shall establish a recycling and composting capital grant program. The program shall provide funding for the capital costs of recycling and...
• Waste - to - Energy Capital Grant Program - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19112
  (1) The department shall establish a waste-to-energy capital grant program. The program shall provide funding for the capital costs of waste-to-energy programs undertaken by...
• Recycling Operational Grant Program - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19113
  (1) The department shall establish a recycling operational grant program. The program shall provide temporary operating subsidies to assist municipalities, nonprofit private entities, and...
• Composting Operational Grant Program - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19114
  (1) The department shall establish a composting operational grant program. The program shall provide temporary operating subsidies to assist municipalities, nonprofit private entities, and...
• Household Hazardous Waste Disposal Grant Program - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19115
  (1) The department shall establish a household hazardous waste disposal grant program. The program shall assist municipalities in projects that educate citizens as to...
• Statewide Market Development Research Study; Market Development Plan; Market Development Grant Program; Selection of Development Projects; Selecting Recipients of Market Development Grants; Permits as Condition to Dispensing Market Development Grant; Limitation on Expenditures - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19116
  (1) The department shall cause to be conducted a statewide market development research study to assess the current markets and the potential for and...
• Program to Perform Hydrogeological Monitoring Studies on Open and Closed Sanitary Landfills and Open Dumps Owned by Municipalities - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19117
  (1) The department shall establish a program to perform hydrogeological monitoring studies on open and closed sanitary landfills and open dumps owned by municipalities....
• Sanitary Landfill and Open Dump Closure or Reclosure Matching Grant Program - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19118
  (1) The department shall establish a sanitary landfill and open dump closure or reclosure matching grant program. The program shall provide up to 75%...
• Project Producing Site Separated Materials; Eligibility for Grant - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19119
  Any project of the type for which a grant may be available under section 19111, which produces site separated materials, and for which the...
• Administration of Studies, Assessments, and Programs; Application for Inclusion in Study or Assessment or for Grant; Project Summary - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19120
  (1) The department shall administer the studies, assessments, and programs described in this part according to the following: (a) Within 60 days after enactment...
• Reports - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19121
  (1) Not later than March 31 of each year, the department shall report the following information regarding the projects financed under this part for...
• Bonds; Authorization; Limitation; Purpose - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19301
  The state shall borrow a sum not to exceed $660,000,000.00 and issue the general obligation bonds of this state, pledging the full faith and...
• Conditions, Methods, and Procedures - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19302
  Bonds shall be issued in accordance with conditions, methods, and procedures to be established by law.
• Disposition of Proceeds and Interest - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19303
  The proceeds of the sale of the bonds or any series of the bonds, any premium and accrued interest received on the delivery of...
• Submission of Question to Electors - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19304
  The question of borrowing a sum not to exceed $660,000,000.00 and the issuance of the general obligation bonds of the state for the purposes...
• Duties of Secretary of State - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19305
  The secretary of state shall perform all acts necessary to properly submit the question prescribed by section 19304 to the electors of this state...
• Appropriation; Purpose - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19306
  (1) After the issuance of the bonds authorized by this part or former Act No. 326 of the Public Acts of 1988, there shall...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19501
  As used in this part: (a) "Bonds" means the bonds issued under part 193 or former Act No. 326 of the Public Acts of...
• Legislative Finding and Declaration - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19502
  The legislature finds and declares that the environmental protection programs implemented under former Act No. 328 of the Public Acts of 1988 or this...
• Bonds; Requirements Generally - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19503
  (1) The bonds issued under former Act No. 326 of the Public Acts of 1988 or part 193 shall be issued in 1 or...
• Bonds Negotiable; Tax Exemption - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19504
  Bonds issued under former Act No. 326 of the Public Acts of 1988 or part 193 shall be fully negotiable under the uniform commercial...
• Bonds as Securities - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19505
  Bonds issued under former Act No. 326 of the Public Acts of 1988 or part 193 are made securities in which banks, savings and...
• Environmental Protection Bond Fund; Creation; Composition; Restricted Subaccounts - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19506
  (1) The environmental protection bond fund is created in the state treasury. (2) The fund shall consist of all of the following: (a) The...
• Disposition and Allocation of Bond Proceeds; Investment of Fund; Allocation and Disposition of Interest and Earnings; Transfer of Repayments of Principal and Interest; Disposition of Unencumbered Balance - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19507
  (1) The total proceeds of all bonds issued under former Act No. 326 of the Public Acts of 1988 or part 193 shall be...
• Use of Money in Fund Allocated Under Mcl 324.19507; Expenditures; Recovery and Retention of Funds by Eligible Community; Contents and Submission of List of Projects; Appropriations; Prioritizing and Approving Projects; Report; "eligible Community" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19508
  (1) Except as provided in subsection (3), money in the fund that is allocated under section 19507 shall be used for the following purposes:...
• Grant and Loan Programs; Rules; Maximum Participation; Considerations in Making Grant a Loan; Interest; Applicability - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19509
  (1) The department shall promulgate rules necessary to implement grant and loan programs provided in this part. (2) The department shall assure maximum participation...
• Application for Grant or Loan; Form; Contents - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19510
  An application for a grant or a loan authorized under this part shall be made on a form prescribed by the department. The department...
• Conditions to Making Grant or Loan - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19511
  The department shall not make a grant or a loan under section 19508(1)(a) or (b) unless all of the following conditions are met: (a)...
• Recipient of Grant or Loan; Conditions; Noncompliance; Recovery of Grant; Withholding Grant or Loan - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19512
  (1) A recipient of a grant or a loan made under section 19508(1)(a) or (b) shall be subject to all of the following: (a)...
• Rules Generally - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19513
  The department shall promulgate rules as are necessary or required to implement this part.
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19601
  As used in this part: (a) "Bonds" means the bonds authorized under the clean Michigan initiative act. (b) "Corrective action" means that term as...
• Findings and Declaration - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19602
  The legislature finds and declares that the environmental and natural resources protection programs implemented under this part are a public purpose and of paramount...
• Bonds; Issuance; Refund; Security; Authority of State Treasurer; Bonds Not Subject to Revised Municipal Finance Act; Sale; Issuance Subject to Agency Financing Reporting Act; Interest Rate Agreement - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19603
  (1) The bonds shall be issued in 1 or more series, each series to be in a principal amount, to be dated, to have...
• Bonds as Negotiable and Exempt From Taxation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19604
  The bonds shall be fully negotiable under the uniform commercial code, 1962 PA 174, MCL 440.1101 to 440.11102. The bonds and the interest on...
• Bonds as Securities; Investment of Funds - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19605
  The bonds are securities in which banks, savings and loan associations, investment companies, credit unions, and other persons carrying on a banking business; all...
• Clean Michigan Initiative Bond Fund; Creation; Composition; Establishment of Restricted Subaccounts - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19606
  (1) The clean Michigan initiative bond fund is created in the state treasury. (2) The fund shall consist of all of the following: (a)...
• Disposition and Allocation of Fund; Investment; Loan Repayments; Expenditures; Unencumbered Balance Not to Revert to General Fund; Annual Accounting - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19607
  (1) The total proceeds of all bonds shall be deposited into the fund and allocated as follows: (a) Not more than $335,000,000.00 shall be...
• Use of Money Allocated Under Mcl 324.19607; Purposes; Notice to Public Advisory Council; Use of Fund to Develop Municipal or Commercial Marina Prohibited; Payment of Costs; Grant Prohibited; Submission of Eligible Project List; Carrying Over Appropriations Until Project Completion; Submission of List of Financed Projects - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19608
  (1) Money in the fund that is allocated under section 19607 shall be used for the following purposes: (a) Money allocated under section 19607(1)(a)...
• Clean Michigan Initiative Revolving Loan Program - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19608a
  (1) The department shall create a clean Michigan initiative revolving loan program for the purpose of making loans to local units of government and...
• Grant or Loan Application; Form or Format - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19609
  An application for a grant or a loan from the fund shall be made on a form or in a format prescribed by the...
• Grant or Loan Funding; Conditions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19610
  The administering state department shall not make a grant or a loan with money from the fund unless all of the following conditions are...
• Balancing Distribution of Grants and Loans - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19611
  Prior to making a grant or loan with money from the fund, the administering state department shall consider the extent to which the making...
• Duties of Grant or Loan Recipient; Revoking Grant or Withholding Payment; Cancellation of Grant or Loan Offer; Loan Terms; Disposition of Loan Payments and Interest; Default - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19612
  (1) A recipient of a grant or a loan made with money from the fund shall do both of the following: (a) Keep an...
• Grants and Loans Under Mcl 324.19608; Conditions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19613
  Of the funds to be used to provide grants and loans under section 19608(1)(a)(iv), all of the following conditions apply: (a) A recipient of...
• Recovery of Costs - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19614
  The department and the department of the attorney general may recover costs expended pursuant to section 19608(1)(a)(i) to (iv) for corrective actions, response activities,...
• Performance Audit - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19615
  Every 2 years that state programs funded with money from the fund continue to be administered, the auditor general shall conduct a performance audit...
• Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19616
  The department may promulgate rules as are necessary to implement this part.
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19701
  As used in this part: (a) "Bonds" means the bonds authorized under the Great Lakes water quality bond authorization act. (b) "Department" means the...
• Legislative Findings - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19702
  The legislature finds and declares that the environmental, natural resources, and water quality protection programs implemented under this part are a public purpose and...
• Bonds Generally - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19703
  (1) Subject to subsection (2), the bonds shall be issued in 1 or more series, each series to be in a principal amount, to...
• Issuance of Bonds; Conditions; Report; "Fundable Range" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19703a
  (1) Bonds issued under this part are subject to the following: (a) For the state fiscal year ending on September 30, 2011, bonds shall...
• Bonds as Negotiable - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19704
  The bonds shall be fully negotiable under the uniform commercial code, 1962 PA 174, MCL 440.1101 to 440.11102. The bonds and the interest on...
• Bonds as Securities - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19705
  The bonds are securities in which banks, savings and loan associations, state authorities, investment companies, credit unions, and other persons carrying on a banking...
• Great Lakes Water Quality Bond Fund; Creation; Subaccounts - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19706
  (1) The Great Lakes water quality bond fund is created in the state treasury. (2) The fund shall consist of all of the following:...
• Bond Proceeds; Disposition; Investment; Expenditure; Tax Exempt Status; Funds Remaining At Close of Fiscal Year; Annual Accounting - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19707
  (1) The total proceeds of all bonds sold at public or private sale shall be deposited into the fund. (2) The state treasurer shall...
• Funds; Transfer; Use; Deposit of Certain Bonds in Determination of Allocation and Transfer; Audit - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.19708
  (1) Subject to subsections (2), (3), and (4), the state treasurer shall transfer money in the fund as follows: (a) In aggregate, not more...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.20101
  (1) As used in this part: (a) "Act of God" means an unanticipated grave natural disaster or other natural phenomenon of an exceptional, inevitable,...
• Participation in Management of Facility by Lender; "workout" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.20101a
  (1) For purposes of this part, a lender holding a security interest in a facility participates in the management of the facility if that...
• Liability of Lender as Fiduciary or Representative for Disabled Person; Responsibilities - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.20101b
  (1) A lender or other person who has not participated in the management of a property as described in section 20101a before assuming ownership...
• Legislative Finding and Declaration - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.20102
  The legislature hereby finds and declares: (a) That there exist in this state certain facilities containing hazardous substances that pose a danger to the...
• Applicability of Provisions in Effect on May 1, 1995 to Certain Actions; Incorporation by Reference; Approval of Changes in Response Activity Plan - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.20102a
  (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, the following actions shall be governed by the provisions of this part that were in effect...
• Federal Assistance - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.20103
  The department shall seek federal assistance for response activities required at facilities in this state.
• Coordination of Activities; Rules; Guideline, Bulletin, Interpretive Statement, or Operational Memorandum Not Binding on Person; Damages; Use of Nonuse Valuation Methods; Applicability of Provisions to Certain Bankruptcy Actions or Claims - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.20104
  (1) The department shall coordinate all activities required under this part and may promulgate rules necessary to implement this part. (2) A guideline, bulletin,...
• Brownfield Redevelopment Board; Creation; Membership; Quorum; Business Conducted At Public Meeting; Writings Subject to Freedom of Information Act; Duties and Responsibilities - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.20104a
  (1) The brownfield redevelopment board is created within the department. (2) The board shall consist of the following members: (a) The director or his...
• Repealed. 2010, Act 228, Imd. Eff. Dec. 14, 2010. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Sites Receiving State Funds to Conduct Response Activities; Compilation, Arrangement, and Submission of List - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.20105a
  The department shall annually compile a list of sites that are receiving state funds to conduct response activities. This list shall be arranged in...
• Level of Funding; Recommendation of Governor - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.20106
  (1) The governor shall include in his or her annual budget recommendations to the legislature a recommended level of funding to provide for the...
• Tearing Down, Removing, or Destroying Sign or Notice as Misdemeanor; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.20107
  A person who willfully tears down, removes, or destroys any sign or notice warning of the presence of hazardous substances or marking boundaries of...
• Duties of Owner or Operator Having Knowledge of Facility; Hazardous Substances; Obligations Based on Current Numeric Cleanup Criteria; Liability for Costs and Damages; Compliance With Section; Applicability of Subsection (1)(a) to (C) to State or Local Unit of Government; "Express Public Purpose" Explained - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.20107a
  (1) A person who owns or operates property that he or she has knowledge is a facility shall do all of the following with...
• Cleanup and Redevelopment Fund; Creation; Deposit of Assets Into Fund; Subaccounts; Unexpended Balance to Be Carried Forward - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.20108
  (1) The cleanup and redevelopment fund is created in the state treasury. (2) The state treasurer may receive money or other assets from any...
• Revitalization Revolving Loan Fund; Creation; Deposit of Assets Into Fund; Investment; Interest and Earnings; Carrying Forward Unexpended Balance; Lump - Sum Appropriation; Expenditure - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.20108a
  (1) The revitalization revolving loan fund is created within the state treasury. (2) The state treasurer may receive money or other assets from any...
• Revitalization Revolving Loan Program - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.20108b
  (1) The department shall create a revitalization revolving loan program for the purpose of making loans to certain local units of government to provide...
• State Site Cleanup Fund; Creation; Deposit of Assets Into Fund; Investment; Interest and Earnings; Money Remaining in Fund; Lapse; Use of Money; State Sites Cleanup Program; Establishment; Purpose; Expenditure; List of Facilities With State Liability; Prioritized List; Payment for Necessary Response Activities; Carrying Forward Unexpended Funds; Compliance With Mcl 18.1451; Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.20108c
  (1) The state site cleanup fund is created within the state treasury. (2) The state treasurer may receive money or other assets from any...
• Repealed. 1996, Act 380, Imd. Eff. July 24, 1996. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Repealed. 2010, Act 228, Imd. Eff. Dec. 14, 2010. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Repealed. 1996, Act 380, Imd. Eff. July 24, 1996. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Repealed. 1995, Act 71, Imd. Eff. June 5, 1995. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Inventory of Residential Closures; Creation and Update; Compilation of Data; No Further Action Reports - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.20112a
  (1) Subject to subsection (3), the department shall create, and update on an ongoing basis, an inventory of residential closures and a separate inventory...
• Releases Associated With Clandestine Drug Laboratories; Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.20112b
  Not more than 12 months after the effective date of the amendatory act that added this section and biennially after that, the department shall...
• Appropriation; Purposes; Request to Governor; List of Facilities; Use of Fund; Expenditures; Limitation; Providing List of Projects to Governor and Legislative Committees; "Urbanized Area" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.20113
  (1) Money required to implement the programs described under this part and to pay for response activities recommended under this part shall be appropriated...
• Owner or Operator of Facility; Duties; Response Activity Without Prior Approval; Easement; Applicability of Subsections (1) and (3); Effect of Section on Authority of Department to Conduct Response Activities or on Liability of Certain Persons - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.20114
  (1) Except as provided in subsection (4), an owner or operator of property who has knowledge that the property is a facility and who...
• Undertaking Response Activities Without Prior Approval of Department; Exception; Completion; Submission of No Further Action Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.20114a
  (1) Subject to section 20114 and other applicable law, a person may undertake response activities without prior approval by the department unless 1 or...
• Response Activity Plan; Submission; Form; Availability; Response by Department; Failure of Department to Respond Within Certain Time Frames; Extension; Appeal of Department's Decision - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.20114b
  (1) Subject to section 20114(1)(h), a person undertaking response activity under this part may submit to the department a response activity plan that includes...
• Remedial Actions Satisfying or Not Satisfying Cleanup Criteria for Unrestricted Residential Use; Preparation and Implementation of Postclosure Plan; Contents; Development of Restrictive Covenant; Recording; Notice of Land Use or Resource Use Restrictions to Department and Zoning Authority; Placement of Restrictive Covenants on Deeds of State - Owned Property; Liability; Obligation to Undertake Response Activities - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.20114c
  (1) If remedial actions at a facility satisfy cleanup criteria for unrestricted residential use, land use or resource use restrictions or monitoring is not...
• No Further Action Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.20114d
  (1) Upon completion of remedial actions that satisfy the requirements of this part, a person may submit a no further action report to the...
• Response Activity Review Panel - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.20114e
  (1) The director shall establish a response activity review panel to advise him or her on technical or scientific disputes, including disputes regarding assessment...
• Certificate of Completion - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.20114f
  (1) Upon completion of a response activity a person may request a certificate of completion from the department. (2) To obtain a certificate of...
• Documentation of Due Care Compliance - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.20114g
  (1) A person may submit to the department documentation of due care compliance regarding a facility. The documentation of due care compliance shall be...
• Notice to Department of Agriculture; Information; "substance Regulated by the Department of Agriculture" Defined; Response Activities to Be Consistent With Mcl 324.8714(2) - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.20115
  (1) The department, upon confirmation of a release or threat of release of a substance that is regulated by the department of agriculture, shall...
• Release or Threat of Release From Underground Storage Tank System; Corrective Actions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.20115a
  (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, if a release or threat of release at a facility is solely the result of a...
• Release From Disposal Area; Corrective Actions; Exception - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.20115b
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, if a release at a disposal area licensed under part 115 is solely a release from that...
• Transfer of Interest in Real Property; Notice; Certification; Disclosure of Restrictions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.20116
  (1) A person who has knowledge or information or is on notice through a recorded instrument that a parcel of his or her real...
• Information Required to Be Furnished; Requirements; Right to Enter Public or Private Property; Purposes; Duties of Person Entering Public or Private Property; Copies of Sample Analyses, Photographs, or Videotapes; Completion of Inspections and Investigations; Refusing Entry or Information; Powers of Attorney General; Injunction; Civil Fine; Availability of Information to Public; Protection of Information; Administrative Subpoena; Witness Fees and Mileage; Court Order; Contempt; "information" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.20117
  (1) To determine the need for response activity or selecting or taking a response activity or otherwise enforcing this part or a rule promulgated...
• Response Activity; Purposes of Remedial Action; Alternatives; Referred Remedial Actions; Approval of Plan; Conditions; Record; Analysis of Source Control Measures; Liability; Aquifer Monitoring Plan; Innovative Cleanup Technologies - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.20118
  (1) The department may take response activity or approve of response activity proposed by a person that is consistent with this part and the...
• Action to Abate Danger or Threat; Administrative Order; Noncompliance; Liability; Petition for Reimbursement; Action in Court of Claims; Evidence - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.20119
  (1) In accordance with this section, if the department determines that there may be an imminent and substantial endangerment to the public health, safety,...
• Selection of Remedial Action; Factors - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.20120
  (1) All of the following shall be considered when a person is selecting a remedial action or the department is selecting or approving a...
• Cleanup Criteria - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.20120a
  (1) The department may establish cleanup criteria and approve of remedial actions in the categories listed in this subsection. The cleanup category proposed shall...
• Numeric or Nonnumeric Site - Specific Criteria - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.20120b
  (1) The department shall approve numeric or nonnumeric site-specific criteria in a response activity under section 20120a if such criteria, in comparison to generic...
• Relocation of Contaminated Soil - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.20120c
  (1) An owner or operator may relocate contaminated soil off-site or allow contaminated soil to be relocated off-site if all of the following requirements...
• Public Meeting; Notice; Publication; Summary Document; Administrative Record; Comments or Information Not Included in Record - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.20120d
  (1) At a facility where state funds will be spent to develop or implement a remedial action plan or where the department determines there...
• Response Activity Providing for Venting Groundwater; Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.20120e
  (1) Subject to other requirements of this section, a person may demonstrate compliance with requirements under this part for a response activity providing for...
• Repealed. 1995, Act 71, Imd. Eff. June 5, 1995. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Liability Under Part - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.20126
  (1) Notwithstanding any other provision or rule of law and except as provided in subsections (2), (3), (4), and (5) and section 20128, the...
• Joint Several Liability; Costs of Amounts Recoverable; Interest; Recovery; Permitted Release; Action by Attorney General; Action Brought by State or Other Person - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.20126a
  (1) Except as provided in section 20126(2), a person who is liable under section 20126 is jointly and severally liable for all of the...
• Repealed. 1995, Act 71, Imd. Eff. June 5, 1995. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Liability of Response Activity Contractor; Effect of Warranty; Liability of Employer to Employee; Governmental Employee Exempt From Liability; Definitions; Liability of Person in Rendering Care, Assistance, or Advice on Release of Petroleum; Effect of Exception Under Subsection (6); Burden of Establishing Liability - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.20128
  (1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, a person who is a response activity contractor for any release or threatened release is not...
• Divisibility of Harm and Apportionment of Liability; Liability for Indivisible Harm; Contribution; Factors in Allocating Response Activity Costs and Damages; Reallocation of Uncollectible Amount; Effect of Consent Order; Resolution of Liability in Approved Settlement; Contribution Protection; Effect of State Obtaining Less Than Complete Relief; Contribution From Person Not Party to Consent Order; Subordinate Rights in Action for Contribution - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.20129
  (1) If 2 or more persons acting independently are liable under section 20126 and there is a reasonable basis for division of harm according...
• Repealed. 2010, Act 228, Imd. Eff. Dec. 14, 2010. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Indemnification, Hold Harmless, or Similar Agreement or Conveyance; Subrogation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.20130
  (1) An indemnification, hold harmless, or similar agreement or conveyance is not effective to transfer from a person who is liable under section 20126...
• Limitations on Liability; Circumstances Requiring Total Costs and Damages - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.20131
  (1) Except as provided in subsection (2), the liability under this part for each release or threat of release shall not exceed the total...
• Covenant Not to Sue Generally; Future Enforcement Action - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.20132
  (1) The state may provide a person with a covenant not to sue concerning any liability to the state under this part, including future...
• Redevelopment or Reuse of Facility; Covenant Not to Sue; Conditions; Demonstration; Limitation; Reservation of Right to Assert Claims; Irrevocable Right of Entry; Monitoring Compliance - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.20133
  (1) The state may provide a person who proposes to redevelop or reuse a facility, including a vacant manufacturing or abandoned industrial site, with...
• Consent Order; Settlement - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.20134
  (1) The department and the attorney general may enter into a consent order with a person who is liable under section 20126 or any...
• Repealed. 1995, Act 71, Imd. Eff. June 5, 1995. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Civil Action; Jurisdiction; Conditions; Notice; Awarding Costs and Fees; Rights Not Impaired; Venue - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.20135
  (1) Except as otherwise provided in this part, a person, including a local unit of government on behalf of its citizens, whose health or...
• Access to Property; Action by Court - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.20135a
  (1) A person who is liable under section 20126 or a lender that has a security interest in all or a portion of a...
• Repealed. 1995, Act 71, Imd. Eff. June 5, 1995. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Additional Relief; Failure of Facility Owner or Operator to Report Hazardous Substance Release; Civil Fine; Providing Copy of Complaint to Attorney General; Jurisdiction; Judicial Review; Intervenor - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.20137
  (1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3), in addition to other relief authorized by law, the attorney general may, on behalf of the state,...
• Unpaid Costs and Damages as Lien on Facility; Priority; Commencement and Sufficiency of Lien; Petition; Notice of Hearing; Increased Value as Lien; Perfection, Duration, and Release of Lien; Document Stating Completion of Response Activities - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.20138
  (1) All unpaid costs and damages for which a person is liable under section 20126 constitute a lien in favor of the state upon...
• Applicability of Penalties; Conduct Constituting Felony; Penalties; Jurisdiction; Criminal Liability for Substantial Endangerment to Public Health, Safety, or Welfare; Determination; Knowledge Attributable to Defendant; Award; Rules; "Serious Bodily Injury" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.20139
  (1) The penalties provided in this section only apply to a release that occurs after July 1, 1991. (2) A person who does any...
• Limitation Periods; Effect of Subsection (3) - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.20140
  (1) Except as provided in subsections (2) and (3), the limitation period for filing actions under this part is as follows: (a) For the...
• Repealed. 1995, Act 71, Imd. Eff. June 5, 1995. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Compliance as Bar to Certain Claims; Exceptions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.20142
  (1) Except as provided in section 20126a(5), a person who has complied with the requirements of this part or is exempt from liability under...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.20301
  As used in this part: (a) "Hazardous material" means a chemical or other material which is or may become injurious to the public health,...
• Hazardous Material Spills; Immunity of Volunteers From Civil Suits; Effect of Gross Negligence or Willful Misconduct - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.20302
  (1) A volunteer who assists in remedial actions associated with a spill of a hazardous material into the waters of the state following a...
• Repealed. 2010, Act 159, Imd. Eff. Sept. 17, 2010. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Repealed. 2010, Act 159, Eff. Jan. 16, 2011. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Repealed. 2010, Act 159, Imd. Eff. Sept. 17, 2010. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Definitions; Applicability of Certain Authority - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21101
  As used in this part: (a) "Department" means the department of natural resources, underground storage tank division. (b) "Fund" means the underground storage tank...
• Underground Storage Tank System; Registration or Renewal of Registration; Exemption; Notification of Change; Indication of Materials Stored; Tests; Forwarding Copy of Registration or Notification of Change to Local Unit of Government; Registration Fee; Deposit of Fees; Rules; Exemption; Notification of Closure or Removal; Continuation of Fees - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21102
  (1) A person who is the owner of an underground storage tank system shall register and annually renew the registration on the underground storage...
• Registration Forms; Suspected or Confirmed Release From System; Notice; Supplementary Information - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21103
  (1) The registration required by section 21102(1) and (2) shall be provided either: (a) On a form provided by the department and in compliance...
• Underground Storage Tank Regulatory Enforcement Fund; Creation; Receipts; Investment; Crediting Interest and Earnings; Reversion to General Fund Prohibited; Use of Money; Suspension of Registration Fee; Notice of Balance in Fund - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21104
  (1) The underground storage tank regulatory enforcement fund is created in the state treasury. The fund may receive money as provided in this part...
• Collection and Evaluation of Information; Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21105
  The department shall collect and evaluate the information obtained through the registration of underground storage tanks required by section 21102. Not later than September...
• Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21106
  The department shall promulgate rules relating to underground storage tank systems that are at least as stringent as the rules promulgated by the United...
• Maintaining Pollution Liability Insurance; Limits - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21107
  A person who installs or removes underground storage tank systems shall maintain pollution liability insurance with limits of not less than $1,000,000.00 per occurrence.
• Enforcement of Part and Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21108
  (1) The department shall enforce this part and the rules promulgated under this part. (2) The department may delegate the authority to enforce this...
• Additional Safeguards; Resolution; Enactment or Enforcement of Certain Ordinances Prohibited - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21109
  (1) The department may, upon resolution of the governing body of a local unit of government in whose jurisdiction an underground storage tank system...
• Prohibited Conduct - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21110
  (1) A person shall not knowingly deliver a regulated substance into an underground storage tank system that is not registered under this part. (2)...
• Deferments - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21111
  The following are deferred from regulation under this part until such time as the department determines that they should be regulated: (a) Wastewater treatment...
• Violation; Misdemeanor; Penalty; Civil Fine - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21112
  (1) A person who violates this part or a rule promulgated under this part or who knowingly submits false information when registering an underground...
• Repeal of Part - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21113
  This part is repealed upon the expiration of 12 months after part 215 becomes invalid pursuant to section 21546(3).
• Repealed. 1995, Act 22, Imd. Eff. Apr. 13, 1995. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Purpose and Applicability of Part - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21301a
  (1) This part is intended to provide remedies using a process and procedures separate and distinct from the process, procedures, and criteria established under...
• Actions Governed by Provisions in Part; Changes in Corrective Action; Corrective Actions by Nonliable Parties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21301b
  (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, the following actions shall be governed by the provisions of this part that were in effect...
• Definitions; a to M - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21302
  As used in this part: (a) "Air" means ambient or indoor air at the point of exposure. (b) "All appropriate inquiry" means an evaluation...
• Definitions; N to V - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21303
  As used in this part: (a) "NAPL" means a nonaqueous-phase liquid or a nonaqueous-phase liquid solution composed of 1 or more organic compounds that...
• Liability of Owner or Operator Not Limited or Removed; Owner or Operator as or Employing Consultant - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21304
  (1) Actions taken by a consultant pursuant to this part do not limit or remove the liability of an owner or operator that is...
• Corrective Action Activities; Conduct; Manner; Use of Tier I Risk - Based Screening Levels for Regulated Substances; Carcinogenic Risk From Regulated Substance; Applicable Rbsl or Sstl for Groundwater Differing From Certain Standards; Corrective Action by Owner or Operator of Underground Storage Tank - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21304a
  (1) Corrective action activities undertaken pursuant to this part shall be conducted in accordance with the process outlined in RBCA in a manner that...
• Removal or Relocation of Soil - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21304b
  (1) A person shall not remove soil, or allow soil to be removed, from a site to an off-site location unless that person determines...
• Duty of Owner or Operator of Property; Basis; Liability for Corrective Action Activity Costs and Natural Resource Damages; Applicability of Subsection (1)(a) to (C) to State or Local Unit of Government - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21304c
  (1) A person that owns or operates property that the person has knowledge is contaminated shall do all of the following with respect to...
• Transfer of Interest in Real Property in Which Notice Required; Certification of Completed Corrective Action Activity; Disclosure - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21304d
  (1) If a person owns a parcel of real property and has knowledge or information or is on notice through a recorded instrument that...
• Repealed. 1995, Act 22, Imd. Eff. Apr. 13, 1995. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Repealed. 1996, Act 116, Imd. Eff. Mar. 6, 1996. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Report of Release; Initial Response Actions; Duties of Owner or Operator Liable Under Mcl 324.21323a - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21307
  (1) Upon confirmation of a release from an underground storage tank system, the owner or operator that is liable under section 21323a shall report...
• Site Closure Report; Activities Requiring Notification by Owner or Operator to Department - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21307a
  (1) Following initiation of initial actions under section 21307, the owner or operator that is liable under section 21323a shall complete the requirements of...
• Repealed. 1995, Act 22, Imd. Eff. Apr. 13, 1995. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Initial Assessment Report; Discovery of Migrating or Mobile Napl; Additional Information; Supporting Documentation Upon Request - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21308a
  (1) Within 180 days after a release has been discovered, the owner or operator that is liable under section 21323a shall complete an initial...
• Repealed. 1995, Act 22, Imd. Eff. Apr. 13, 1995. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Corrective Action Plan - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21309a
  (1) If initial actions under section 21307 have not resulted in completion of corrective action, an owner or operator that is liable under section...
• Repealed. 1995, Act 22, Imd. Eff. Apr. 13, 1995. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Notice of Corrective Action; Institutional Controls; Restrictive Covenants; Alternative Mechanisms; Notice of Land Use Restrictions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21310a
  (1) If the corrective action activities at a site result in a final remedy that relies on a nonresidential RBSL or an SSTL, institutional...
• Repealed. 1995, Act 22, Imd. Eff. Apr. 13, 1995. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Final Assessment Report; Information; Providing Supporting Documentation Upon Request - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21311a
  (1) Within 365 days after a release has been discovered, an owner or operator that is liable under section 21323a shall complete a final...
• Repealed. 1995, Act 22, Imd. Eff. Apr. 13, 1995. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Closure Report; Information; Confirmation of Receipt by Department; Additional Information - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21312a
  (1) Upon completion of the corrective action, the owner or operator that is liable under section 21323a shall complete a closure report and submit...
• Repealed. 1995, Act 22, Imd. Eff. Apr. 13, 1995. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Failure to Provide Required Submittal; Penalty; Computing Period of Time; Extension of Reporting Deadline; Contract Provision for Payment of Fines; Disposition of Money Collected; Accrual of Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21313a
  (1) Beginning on May 1, 2012, except as provided in subsection (6), and except for the confirmation provided in section 21312a(2), if a required...
• Repealed. 1995, Act 22, Imd. Eff. Apr. 13, 1995. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Classification of Sites; Corrective Action; Schedule - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21314a
  Sites shall be classified consistent with the process outlined in RBCA. If the department determines that no imminent risk to the public health, safety,...
• Audit; Final Assessment Report or Closure Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21315
  (1) The department shall design and implement a program to selectively audit final assessment reports and closure reports submitted under this part. Upon receipt...
• Use of Forms - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21316
  The department may create and require the use of forms containing information specifically required under this part to assist in the reporting requirements provided...
• Delivery of Regulated Substance to Underground Storage Tank as Misdemeanor; Penalty; Notice of Violation; Placard; Tampering With Placard as Misdemeanor; Commencement of Criminal Actions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21316a
  (1) A person shall not knowingly deliver a regulated substance to an underground storage tank system that has had a placard affixed to it...
• Repealed. 1995, Act 22, Imd. Eff. Apr. 13, 1995. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Administrative Order - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21319a
  (1) In accordance with this section, if the department determines that there may be an imminent risk to the public health, safety, or welfare,...
• Corrective Actions by Department - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21320
  If the department learns of a suspected or confirmed release from an underground storage tank system, the department may undertake corrective actions necessary to...
• Repealed. 1995, Act 22, Imd. Eff. Apr. 13, 1995. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Commencement of Civil Action by Attorney General; Return or Retention of Federal Funds - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21323
  (1) The attorney general may, on behalf of the department, commence a civil action seeking any of the following: (a) A temporary or permanent...
• Persons Liable Under Part; Persons Not Liable Under Part; Burden of Proof; Compliance - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21323a
  (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this act, and except as otherwise provided in this section and section 21323c, the following persons are liable...
• Joint and Several Liability; Recovery of Costs - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21323b
  (1) Except as provided in section 21323a(2), a person that is liable under section 21323a is jointly and severally liable for all of the...
• Liability of Corrective Action Contractor; "Corrective Action Contract" and "Corrective Action Contractor" Defined; Liability if Act or Failure to Act Consistent With National Contingency Plan or Directed by Federal on - Scene Coordinator or Director; Damages; Definitions; Burden of Proof - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21323c
  (1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, a person that is a corrective action contractor for any release or threatened release is not...
• Basis for Division of Harm; Action for Contribution; Reallocation of Uncollectible Amount; Effect of Consent Order - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21323d
  (1) If 2 or more persons acting independently are liable under section 21323a and there is a reasonable basis for division of harm according...
• Effect of Indemnification, Hold Harmless, or Similar Agreement or Conveyance - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21323e
  (1) An indemnification, hold harmless, or similar agreement or conveyance is not effective to transfer from a person that is liable under section 21323a...
• Costs and Damages; Limitation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21323f
  (1) Except as provided in subsection (2), the liability under this part for each release or threat of release shall not exceed the total...
• Covenant Not to Sue; Conditions; Effect; Factors; Covenant Not to Sue Concerning Future Liability; Exception; Provisions Providing for Future Enforcement Action - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21323g
  (1) The state may provide a person with a covenant not to sue concerning any liability to the state under this part, including future...
• Proposal to Redevelop or Reuse Contaminated Property; Covenant Not to Sue; Conditions; Assertion of Claims; Irrevocable Right of Entry to Department, Its Contractors, or Other Persons Performing Corrective Action - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21323h
  (1) The state may provide a person that proposes to redevelop or reuse property contaminated by a release from an underground storage tank system,...
• Consent Order; Final Settlement - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21323i
  (1) The department and the attorney general may enter into a consent order with a person that is liable under section 21323a or any...
• Civil Action - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21323j
  (1) Except as otherwise provided in this part, a person, including a local unit of government on behalf of its citizens, whose health or...
• Access to Property - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21323k
  (1) A person that is liable under section 21323a or a lender that has a security interest in all or a portion of a...
• Limitation Period for Filing Actions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21323l
  The limitation period for filing actions under this part is as follows: (a) For the recovery of corrective action costs and natural resources damages...
• Persons Exempt From Liability - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21323m
  (1) Except as provided in section 21323b(5), a person that has complied with the requirements of this part or is exempt from liability under...
• Documentation of Due Care - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21323n
  (1) A person may submit to the department documentation of due care compliance regarding a site. The documentation of due care compliance shall be...
• Submission of False, Misleading, or Fraudulent Information as Felony; Penalty; Civil Fine; Retroactive Application; "fraudulent" and "fraudulent Practice" Defined; Investigation and Commencement of Action by Attorney General or County Prosecutor; Subpoena; Enforcement; Order Granting Immunity; Failure to Comply With Subpoena; Prosecution Under Other Laws Not Precluded; Apportionment of Fines - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21324
  (1) Beginning April 25, 1994, a person who makes or submits or causes to be made or submitted either directly or indirectly a statement,...
• Qualified Underground Tank Consultant; Requirements - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21325
  A person shall be considered a qualified underground storage tank consultant if the person meets all of the following requirements: (a) Experience in all...
• Furnishing Information to Department; Right of Entry; Inspections and Investigations; Powers of Attorney General - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21326
  (1) Upon request of the department for the purpose of conducting an investigation, taking corrective action, or enforcing this part, a person shall furnish...
• Rules; Prohibition - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21327
  (1) Beginning on the effective date of the 2012 amendatory act that amended this section, the department shall not promulgate rules to implement this...
• Agreements - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21328
  The department may enter into an agreement with a local unit of government or a state or federal agency to aid in the implementation...
• Coordination and Integration - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21329
  The department shall coordinate and integrate the provisions of this part with appropriate state and federal law for purposes of administration and enforcement. The...
• Actions Taken by State Police - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21330
  This part does not prohibit the department of state police from taking action in any situation in which it is otherwise authorized by law...
• Repealed. 1995, Act 22, Imd. Eff. Apr. 13, 1995. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Contested Case Hearing; Petition; Hearing - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21332
  (1) Subject to subsection (2), an owner or operator that is liable under section 21323a may petition the department for a contested case hearing...
• Appeal of Final Agency Decision - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21333
  An owner or operator that is liable under section 21323a may appeal a final agency decision to affix a placard under section 21316a(2) or...
• Report to Legislative Committees - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21334
  Not later than November 1, 2013 and not later than November 1 of each subsequent year, the department shall submit a report to the...
• Meanings of Words and Phrases - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21501
  For purposes of this part, the words and phrases defined in sections 21502 and 21503 have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections.
• Definitions; a to O - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21502
  As used in this part: (a) "Administrator" means the fund administrator provided for in section 21513. (b) "Approved claim" means a claim that is...
• Definitions; P to W - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21503
  As used in this part: (a) "Payment voucher" means a form prepared by the department that specifies payment authorization by the department to the...
• Objectives of Part - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21504
  The objectives of this part are to address certain problems associated with releases from petroleum underground storage tank systems, to promote compliance with parts...
• Legislative Findings - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21505
  The legislature finds that releases from underground storage tanks are a significant cause of contamination of the natural resources, water resources, and groundwater in...
• Michigan Underground Storage Tank Financial Assurance Fund; Creation; Expenditures - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21506
  (1) The Michigan underground storage tank financial assurance fund is created in the state treasury. (2) The state treasurer shall direct the investment of...
• Refined Petroleum Fund; Creation; Deposit of Money or Other Assets; Investment; Money Remaining At Close of Fiscal Year; Expenditures; Purposes; Establishment of Underground Storage Tank System Cleanup Advisory Board; Audit - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21506a
  (1) The refined petroleum fund is created within the state treasury. (2) The state treasurer may receive money or other assets from any source...
• Repealed. 1995, Act 252, Eff. Dec. 22, 1998. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Environmental Protection Regulatory Fee; Imposition; Disposition of Fees; Powers and Authority of Department of Treasury - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21508
  (1) An environmental protection regulatory fee is imposed on all refined petroleum products sold for resale in this state or consumption in this state....
• Calculation and Payment of Regulatory Fees; Collection of Regulatory Fees Under Product Exchange Agreement; Definition - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21509
  (1) Notwithstanding any other provision in this part, regulatory fees shall be calculated and paid upon gross or metered gallons with respect to all...
• Eligibility of Owner or Operator to Receive Money From Fund or Bond Proceeds Account for Corrective Action or Indemnification - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21510
  (1) Except as provided in section 21521, an owner or operator is eligible to receive money from the fund or bond proceeds account for...
• Eligibility of Financial Institution, Land Contract Vendor, or Local Unit of Government to Receive Money From Fund for Corrective Action or Indemnification - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21511
  (1) Subject to subsection (2), a regulated financial institution or land contract vendor may receive money from the fund for corrective action or indemnification...
• Approval of Expenditures on Behalf of Owner or Operator; Limitation; Availability of Fund; Reduction; Determination to Delay Implementation of Schedule - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21512
  (1) Except as provided in subsection (4), the administrator shall approve expenditures for corrective action and indemnification, on behalf of an owner or operator,...
• Fund Administrator; Employment; Responsibilities - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21513
  The department shall employ a person to serve as the fund administrator. The administrator shall be responsible for processing requests for payments from the...
• Payment of Co - Pay Amount by Owner or Operator; Second Release; Limitation; Transfer - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21514
  (1) Except as provided in subsection (2) and section 21511, an owner or operator who is eligible under section 21510 or 21511 to receive...
• Receiving Money From Fund or Bond Proceeds Account for Corrective Action; Procedures - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21515
  (1) To receive money from the fund or bond proceeds account for corrective action, the owner or operator shall follow the procedures outlined in...
• Assignment or Transfer of Approved Claim; Notice - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21516
  (1) An owner or operator with a claim approved pursuant to section 21515 for which corrective action is in progress who sells or transfers...
• Responsibilities of Owner or Operator; Requirements; Hiring of Contractor; Funding for Removal of Underground Storage Tank Systems; Implementation of Selected Corrective Action Alternative; Payment - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21517
  (1) In order to receive money from the fund, an owner or operator shall perform the responsibilities required under part 213 and shall comply...
• Receiving Money From Fund for Indemnification; Request for Indemnification; Approval; Records; Payment - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21518
  (1) To receive money from the fund for indemnification, the owner or operator shall submit to the administrator a request for indemnification containing the...
• Order of Payment; Insufficient Money in Fund; Liability of State - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21519
  (1) The state treasurer shall pay payment vouchers in the order in which they are received. If there is insufficient money in the fund...
• Audit Program - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21520
  The department shall establish an audit program to monitor compliance with this part. As part of the audit program, the department shall employ or...
• Denial of Claim, Work Invoice, or Request for Indemnification; Review; Approval; Compliance; Costs; Appeal - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21521
  (1) If the administrator denies a claim or work invoice, or a request for indemnification, the owner or operator who submitted the claim, work...
• Interest Subsidy Program; Establishment; Purpose; Applications; Rate; Maximum Loan Period - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21522
  (1) The department of treasury in cooperation with the board shall establish an interest subsidy program through rules. This program shall provide for interest...
• Michigan Underground Storage Tank Financial Assurance Authority; Creation; Handling of Funds - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21523
  The Michigan underground storage tank financial assurance authority is created as a body corporate within the department of management and budget and shall exercise...
• Authority; Appointment, Terms, and Duties of Members; Vacancy; Conduct of Business; Meetings Open to Public; Quorum; Voting; Designation of Representative; Election of Chairperson and Other Officers - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21524
  (1) The authority shall be governed by a board of directors consisting of the director of the department of management and budget, the director...
• Designation of Executive Director; Employment of Experts, Other Officers, Agents, or Employees; Duties of Department; Report; Audit - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21525
  (1) The governor shall designate the executive director of the authority. The authority may employ on a permanent or temporary basis legal and technical...
• Board of Directors; Powers - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21526
  Except as otherwise provided in this part, the board of directors may do all things necessary or convenient to implement this part and the...
• Bonds or Notes; Issuance; Indebtedness, Liability, or Obligations of State Not Created; Payment; Expenses - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21527
  (1) The authority may authorize and issue its bonds or notes payable solely from the revenues or funds available to the fund under section...
• Bonds or Notes; Issuance; Amount; Purpose; Payment; Provisions; Validity of Signatures; Sale; Bonds or Notes Subject to Other Acts - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21528
  (1) The authority may issue from time to time bonds or notes in principal amounts the authority considers necessary to provide funds for any...
• Bonds or Notes; Issuance; Amounts; Purpose; Application of Proceeds to Purchase or Retirement At Maturity or Redemption; Investment of Escrowed Proceeds; Use by Authority; Refunded Bonds or Notes Considered as Paid; Termination of Obligation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21529
  (1) The authority may provide for the issuance of bonds or notes in the amounts the authority considers necessary for the purpose of refunding...
• Bonds or Notes; Assurance of Timely Payments; Costs of Issuance - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21530
  (1) The authority may authorize and approve an insurance contract, an agreement for a line of credit, a letter of credit, a commitment to...
• Members of Board of Directors, Executive Director, or Other Officer; Powers - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21531
  Within limitations that are contained in the issuance or authorization resolution of the authority, the authority may authorize a member of the board of...
• Contract With Holders of Bonds or Notes; Provisions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21532
  A resolution authorizing bonds or notes may provide for all or any portion of the following that shall be part of the contract with...
• Pledge as Valid and Binding; Lien - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21533
  A pledge made by the authority is valid and binding from the time the pledge is made. The money or property pledged by the...
• Disposition of Proceeds - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21534
  The proceeds of bonds or notes issued pursuant to this part shall be deposited into the fund or bond proceeds account as authorized or...
• Personal Liability - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21535
  A member of the authority, any person executing bonds or notes issued under this part, or any person executing any agreement on behalf of...
• Holders of Bonds or Notes; Rights and Remedies Not Limited, Restricted, or Impaired - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21536
  The state pledges to and agrees with the holders of bonds or notes issued under this part that the state shall not limit or...
• Persons Authorized to Invest Funds; Authority Bonds or Notes as Security for Public Deposits - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21537
  Notwithstanding any restriction contained in any other law, the state and a public officer, local unit of government, or agency of the state or...
• Property and Income of Authority; Bonds or Notes as Exempt From Tax - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21538
  (1) Property of the authority is public property devoted to an essential public and governmental function and purpose. Income of the authority is for...
• Construction of Part - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21539
  This part shall be construed liberally to effectuate the legislative intent and the purposes as complete and independent authority for the performance of each...
• Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21540
  The authority may promulgate rules as necessary to implement sections 21523 to 21539.
• Repealed. 2012, Act 113, Imd. Eff. May 1, 2012. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Repealed. 2012, Act 113, Imd. Eff. May 1, 2012. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Repealed. 2012, Act 113, Imd. Eff. May 1, 2012. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21544
  The department and the department of treasury may promulgate rules necessary to implement this part.
• Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21545
  By February 9, 1994, the department shall promulgate rules to implement this part. The rules shall address, at a minimum, a procedure for the...
• Liability; Constitutionality of Part - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21546
  (1) This part does not create any liability on behalf of the state. This part shall not be construed as making the state the...
• Availability and Cost of Environmental Impairment Insurance; Study; Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21547
  Not later than June 22, 1994, the department shall conduct a study to determine the availability and cost of environmental impairment insurance for owners...
• Knowledge of False, Misleading, or Fraudulent Request for Payment as Felony or Subject to Civil Fine; "Fraudulent" or "Fraudulent Practice" Defined; Action Brought by Attorney General or County Prosecutor; Prosecutions Under Other Laws Not Precluded; Apportionment of Fines - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21548
  (1) A person who makes or submits or causes to be made or submitted either directly or indirectly any statement, report, affidavit, application, claim,...
• Providing Information Contributing to Fine or Conviction; Reward - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21549
  (1) A person who provides information that materially contributes to the imposition of a civil fine against or the criminal conviction of any person...
• Repeal of Mcl 324.21508; Obligation to Pay Off Bonds or Notes - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21550
  (1) Section 21508 is repealed effective December 31, 2015. (2) The authority's obligation to pay off any bonds or notes issued pursuant to this...
• Reservation of Money; Purpose; Use of Money - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21551
  Notwithstanding any provision of this part, prior to December 22, 1998, the state treasurer shall reserve enough money in the fund to pay interest...
• Repealed. 2006, Act 318, Eff. Dec. 31, 2006. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Refined Petroleum Product Cleanup Initial Program; Establishment; Purpose - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21553
  The department shall establish a refined petroleum product cleanup initial program to conduct corrective actions associated with releases from petroleum underground storage tank systems.
• Temporary Reimbursement Program; Establishment - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21554
  The department shall establish a temporary reimbursement program to promote progress toward site closure of releases from petroleum underground storage tank systems by providing...
• Temporary Reimbursement Program; Administration; Implementation; Precertification Application Period; Notice of Initiation Date - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21555
  The department shall administer the temporary reimbursement program and process precertification applications and subsequent work invoices submitted by eligible persons in accordance with this...
• First Round Precertification Application; Submission; Form; Date of Receipt; Eligibility Requirements; Consideration of Application; Time Period for Corrective Actions; Costs Considered for Reimbursement; Limitation; Submission of Work Invoices; Rate of Reimbursement; Unexpended Amount Held in Reserve - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21556
  (1) To be considered for eligibility for reimbursement under the first round of the temporary reimbursement program, a person shall submit to the department...
• Second Round Precertification Application; Submission; Form; Date of Receipt; Eligibility Requirements; Consideration of Application; Reimbursement of Corrective Action Costs; Allocation of Remaining Money; Unexpended Amount Held in Reserve - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21557
  (1) If the department determines pursuant to section 21555 that sufficient funds are available for a second round of the temporary reimbursement program, the...
• Temporary Reimbursement Program; Corrective Actions; Requirements; Hiring Contractors; Work Ineligible for Temporary Reimbursement Program - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21558
  (1) In order to receive money under the temporary reimbursement program, an eligible person shall perform the corrective actions required under part 213. (2)...
• Temporary Reimbursement Program; Receipt of Money for Corrective Action; Conditions; Determination by Department; Denial of Payment of Work Invoice; Notice of Determination; Records of Approved Precertification Applications and Work Invoices; Payment Upon Receipt of Approved Payment Voucher; Liability; Withholding Partial Payment - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21559
  (1) For an eligible person to receive money under the temporary reimbursement program for corrective action, all of the following conditions shall be met:...
• Assignment or Transfer of Approved Precertification Application; Notice to Department - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21560
  (1) An eligible person with a precertification application approved pursuant to section 21556 or 21557 for which corrective action is in progress that sells,...
• Denial of Precertification Application or Work Invoice; Request for Review; Review and Recommendation by Advisory Board; Appeal to Circuit Court - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21561
  (1) If the department denies a precertification application or a work invoice submitted under the temporary reimbursement program, the applicant who submitted the precertification...
• Repealed. 2012, Act 113, Imd. Eff. May 1, 2012. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Temporary Reimbursement Program; Cessation; Availability of Remaining Funds - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.21563
  (1) The temporary reimbursement program shall cease upon payment of all approved work invoices and resolution of work invoice appeals. (2) Any temporary reimbursement...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30101
  As used in this part: (a) "Bottomland" means the land area of an inland lake or stream that lies below the ordinary high-water mark...
• Operations Prohibited Without Permit; Exception - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30102
  (1) Except as provided in this part, a person without a permit from the department shall not do any of the following: (a) Dredge...
• Exceptions; "Water Withdrawal" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30103
  (1) A permit is not required under this part for any of the following: (a) Any fill or structure existing before April 1, 1966,...
• Application for Permit; Fees - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30104
  (1) A person shall not undertake a project subject to this part except as authorized by a permit issued by the department pursuant to...
• Applicability of Mcl 324.30306b to Proposed Project or Permit Application; Repeal of Section Effective October 1, 2015 - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30104b
  (1) Section 30306b applies to a proposed project or a permit application under this part. (2) This section is repealed effective October 1, 2015....
• Pending Applications; Posting on Website; Public Hearing; Review of Application; Statement; Final Inspection and Certification; Notice of Hearing; Conditional Permit in Emergency; Provisions Applicable to Minor Project; Issuance of General Permits; Minor Project Category; "Qualifying Small Dam" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30105
  (1) The department shall post on its website all of the following under this part: (a) A list of pending applications. (b) Public notices....
• Prerequisite to Issuance of Permit; Specification in Permit - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30106
  The department shall issue a permit if it finds that the structure or project will not adversely affect the public trust or riparian rights....
• Construction, Expansion, or Reconfiguration of Marina; Issuance of Permit; Conditions; Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30106a
  (1) The department shall issue a permit to construct, expand, or reconfigure a marina if the department determines that the marina meets the conditions...
• Duration, Terms, and Revocation of Permit; Hearing; Modification or Revocation of General Permit - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30107
  (1) A permit is effective until revoked for cause but not beyond its term and may be subject to renewal. A permit may specify...
• Bulkhead Line; Establishment; Application; Jurisdiction; Duties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30108
  The department may establish by permit a bulkhead line on its own application or on the application of a local unit of government. The...
• Ordinary High - Water Mark Agreement With Riparian Owner; Agreement as Proof of Location; Fee - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30109
  Upon the written request of a riparian owner and upon payment of a service fee, the department may enter into a written agreement with...
• Rules; Promulgation and Enforcement; Hearing; Review; Proceeding by Riparian Owner - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30110
  (1) The department may promulgate and enforce rules to implement this part. (2) If a person is aggrieved by any action or inaction of...
• Rights of Riparian Owner as to Water Frontage and Exposed Bottomland - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30111
  This part does not deprive a riparian owner of rights associated with his or her ownership of water frontage. A riparian owner among other...
• Public Road End; Prohibited Use; Violation as Misdemeanor; Fine; Civil Action; Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30111b
  (1) A public road end shall not be used for any of the following unless a recorded deed, recorded easement, or other recorded dedication...
• Civil Action; Commencement by Department; Fine; Violation as Misdemeanor; Penalty; Civil Penalty as Appropriate to Violation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30112
  (1) The department may commence a civil action in the circuit court of the county in which a violation occurs to enforce compliance with...
• Land and Water Management Permit Fee Fund - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30113
  (1) The land and water management permit fee fund is created within the state treasury. (2) The state treasurer may receive money or other...
• Definitions; Technical Wetland Delineation Standards - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30301
  (1) As used in this part: (a) "Department" means the department of environmental quality. (b) "Director" means the director of the department. (c) "Exceptional...
• Legislative Findings; Criteria to Be Considered in Administration of Part - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30302
  (1) The legislature finds that: (a) Wetland conservation is a matter of state concern since a wetland of 1 county may be affected by...
• Studies Regarding Wetland Resources; Contracts; Study as Public Record for Distribution At Cost; Identification of Land Suitable for Cranberry Production Activities - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30303
  (1) The department may enter into an agreement to make contracts with the federal government, other state agencies, local units of government, private agencies,...
• Repealed. 2009, Act 120, Eff. Oct. 1, 2012. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Repealed. 2009, Act 120, Eff. Oct. 1, 2012. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Prohibited Activities - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30304
  Except as otherwise provided in this part or by a permit issued by the department under sections 30306 to 30314 and pursuant to part...
• Issuance of State Programmatic General Permits; Agreement With United States Army Corps of Engineers; Applicability of Subsections (2) and (3) - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30304b
  (1) The department shall pursue an agreement with the United States army corps of engineers for the corps to issue state programmatic general permits...
• Activities Not Requiring Permit Under Part; Uses Allowed Without Permit; Farming Operation in Wetland Not Requiring Permit; Incidental Creation of Wetland; Activities Not Subject to Regulation; Subsection (5) Inapplicable to Certain Lands - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30305
  (1) Activities that require a permit under part 325 or part 301 or a discharge that is authorized by a discharge permit under section...
• Cranberry Beds - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30305b
  (1) The department shall consider construction of cranberry beds, including associated dikes and water control structures associated with dikes, such as headgates, weirs, and...
• Permit for Use or Development Listed in Mcl 324.30304; Filing, Form, and Contents of Application; Proposed Use or Development as Single Permit Application; Fee; Work Done in Violation of Permit Requirement; Fee Refund - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30306
  (1) Except as provided in section 30307(6), to obtain a permit for a use or development listed in section 30304, a person shall file...
• Preapplication Meeting; Fee; Withdrawal of Request; Refund of Fee; Duration of Written Agreement; Repeal of Section - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30306b
  (1) If a preapplication meeting is requested in writing by the landowner or another person who is authorized in writing by the landowner, the...
• Hearing; Location; Notice; Approval or Disapproval of Permit Application; Appeal; Legal Action; Request and Fee for Notification of Pending Permit Applications; Biweekly List of Applications; Effect of Ordinance Regulating Wetlands; Review of Permit Application by Local Unit of Government; Effect of Failure to Approve or Disapprove Within Time Period; Recommendations; Notice of Permit Issuance - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30307
  (1) Within 60 days after receipt of the completed application and fee, the department may hold a hearing. If a hearing is held, it...
• Adoption of Wetlands Ordinance by Local Unit of Government; Availability of Wetland Inventory; Completion of Inventory Map; Notice; Enforceable Presumptions Not Created; Processing Wetland Use Applications - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30308
  (1) Prior to the effective date of an ordinance authorized under section 30307(4), a local unit of government that wishes to adopt such an...
• Regulation by Local Unit of Government of Wetland Less Than 2 Acres; Permit Application; Determination - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30309
  A local unit of government that has adopted an ordinance under section 30307(4) that regulates wetland within its jurisdiction that is less than 2...
• Regulation by Local Unit of Government of Wetland Less Than 2 Acres; Revaluation for Assessment Purposes; Protest and Appeal; Judicial Review; Right to Initiate Proceedings Not Limited by Section - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30310
  (1) A local unit of government that adopts an ordinance authorized under section 30307(4) shall include in the ordinance a provision that allows a...
• Permit for Activity Listed in Mcl 324.30304; Approval Conditioned on Certain Determinations; Criteria; Findings of Necessity; Criteria for Determining Unacceptable Disruption to Aquatic Resources; Additional Showing; Determination of Unreasonable Costs - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30311
  (1) A permit for an activity listed in section 30304 shall not be approved unless the department determines that the issuance of a permit...
• Guideline, Bulletin, Interpretive Statement; Form With Instructions; Effect; Guideline Document for Evaluation of Feasible and Prudent Alternatives; Denial of Application for Permit; Prohibition; Extension of Processing Period; Request for Rule - Making - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30311a
  (1) A guideline, bulletin, interpretive statement, or form with instructions under this part shall not be given the force and effect of law. A...
• Permit; Validity; Duration; Conditions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30311b
  (1) A permit issued under this part shall not be valid for more than 5 years. (2) The department may establish a reasonable time...
• Compensatory Wetland Mitigation; Methods; Submission of Mitigation Plan; Financial Assurance - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30311d
  (1) The department may impose as a condition on any permit, other than a general permit, under this part a requirement for compensatory wetland...
• Minor Project Categories of Activities; General Permit for Category of Activities; Notice and Public Hearing; Determinations; Requirements and Standards; Duration of General Permit; Determination of More Than Minimal Adverse Effects; Coordination of General Permit and Minor Project Categories - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30312
  (1) After providing notice and an opportunity for a public hearing, the department shall establish minor project categories of activities that are similar in...
• Repealed. 2009, Act 120, Eff. Oct. 1, 2012. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Ecologically Responsible Voluntary Wetland Restoration and Enhancement Projects - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30312d
  The department shall develop a program to facilitate ecologically responsible voluntary wetland restoration and enhancement projects in coordination with state, federal, tribal, and nongovernmental...
• Grounds for Revocation or Modification of General Permit; Grounds for Termination or Modification for Cause of General Permit - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30313
  (1) A general permit may be revoked or modified if, after opportunity for a public hearing or a contested case hearing under the administrative...
• Minor Permit Revisions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30313b
  (1) The department may make minor revisions in a permit issued under this part if all of the following apply: (a) The project is...
• Information Required to Obtain Compliance With Part; Entering on Premises - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30314
  (1) The department shall require the holder of a permit to provide information the department reasonably requires to obtain compliance with this part. (2)...
• Violation; Order Requiring Compliance; Civil Action - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30315
  (1) If, on the basis of information available to the department, the department finds that a person is in violation of this part or...
• Civil Action; Commencement; Request; Venue; Jurisdiction; Violations; Penalties; Restoration of Wetland - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30316
  (1) The attorney general may commence a civil action for appropriate relief, including injunctive relief upon request of the department under section 30315(1). An...
• Disposition of Fees and Civil Fines; Expenditures; Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30317
  (1) The civil fines collected under this part shall be forwarded to the state treasurer for deposit in the general fund of the state....
• Revaluation of Property for Assessment Purposes - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30318
  If a permit is denied for a proposed wetland activity, the landowner may request a revaluation of the affected property for assessment purposes to...
• Rules; Hearing; Judicial Review; Proceedings to Protect Wetland Owner's Rights - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30319
  (1) The department shall promulgate and enforce rules to implement this part. (2) If a person is aggrieved by any action or inaction of...
• Inventories of Wetland; Use; Updating; Maps, Ground Surveys, and Descriptions as Public Documents; Availability and Cost of Aerial Photographs and Satellite Telemetry Data Reproduction to County Register of Deeds - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30320
  (1) As inventories of wetland are completed, the inventories shall be used as 1 of the criteria by the department in issuing permits. The...
• Basis and Filing of Preliminary Inventory of Wetland; Hearing in State Planning and Development Region; Notice; Issuance and Distribution of Final Inventory; Legislators to Receive Inventories; Assessment of Property; Report; Reassessment; Fee - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30321
  (1) The department shall make or cause to be made a preliminary inventory of all wetland in this state on a county by county...
• Notice to Owners of Record of Change in Status of Property - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30322
  As wetland inventories are completed as specified in section 30321, owners of record as identified by the current property tax roll shall be notified...
• Legal Rights or Authority Not Abrogated; Action to Determine if Property Taken Without Just Compensation; Court Order; Limitation on Value of Property - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30323
  (1) This part shall not be construed to abrogate rights or authority otherwise provided by law. (2) For the purposes of determining if there...
• Expansion of Categories of Discharges; Agreement With United States Environmental Protection Agency - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30325
  The department shall pursue an agreement with the United States environmental protection agency to expand the categories of discharges subject to the waiver from...
• Certifications by Department Under Federal Water Pollution Control Act - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30327
  The department may provide certifications under section 401 of title IV of the federal water pollution control act, 33 USC 1341.
• Wetland Advisory Council; Creation; Membership; Appointment; Term; Vacancy; Removal; Meetings; Election of Chairperson and Officers; Quorum; Compliance With Open Meetings Act; Writings Subject to Freedom of Information Act; Service Without Compensation; Reports; Repeal of Section - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30329
  (1) The wetland advisory council is created within the department. The council shall consist of the following: (a) The director of the department or...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30501
  As used in this part: (a) "Free flowing" means existing or flowing in natural condition without impoundment, diversion, straightening, riprapping, or other modification. (b)...
• Natural River; Designation; Purpose; Long - Range Plans; Publicity; Cooperation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30502
  The department, in the interest of the people of the state and future generations, may designate a river or portion of a river as...
• Qualifications for Designation; Categories of Rivers - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30503
  A river qualifying for designation as a natural river area shall possess 1 or more of the natural or outstanding existing values cited in...
• Land Acquisition; Purpose; Interest Acquired; Consent - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30504
  The department may acquire lands or interests in lands adjacent to a designated natural river for the purpose of maintaining or improving the river...
• Federal Financial Assistance Programs; Leases; Expenditures; Purposes - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30505
  (1) The department may administer federal financial assistance programs for natural river areas. (2) The department may enter into a lease or agreement with...
• Public Hearings; Notice - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30506
  Before designating a river as a natural river area, the department shall conduct public hearings in the county seat of any county in which...
• Land Uses; Zoning; Local Ordinances; State Rule - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30507
  After designation of a river or portion of a river as a natural river area and following the preparation of the long-range comprehensive plan,...
• Zoning Ordinance or Rule; Purpose - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30508
  A zoning ordinance adopted by a local unit of government or a zoning rule promulgated by the department shall provide for the protection of...
• Zoning Ordinance or Rule; Establishment of Districts; Powers; Distance - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30509
  The ordinance or rule shall establish zoning districts within which such uses of land as for agriculture, forestry, recreation, residence, industry, commerce, and additional...
• Local Zoning Ordinance; Conformance With Applicable Law; Construction - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30510
  A local unit of government, in establishing a zoning ordinance, in addition to the authority and requirements of this part, shall conform to the...
• Districts; Valuation for Tax Purposes - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30511
  Upon adoption of a zoning ordinance or rule, certified copies of the maps showing districts shall be filed with the local tax assessing officer...
• Rules; Enforcement; Promulgation; Variance; Existing Use - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30512
  (1) The department shall prescribe administrative procedures and rules and provide personnel as it considers necessary for the enforcement of a zoning ordinance or...
• National Wild and Scenic River System; Administration - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30513
  This part does not preclude a component of the system from becoming a part of the national wild and scenic river system under the...
• Area Plans; Approval; Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30514
  The department shall approve preliminary and final plans for site or route location, construction, or enlargement of utility transmission lines, publicly provided recreation facilities,...
• Construction of Part - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30515
  This part does not prohibit a reasonable and lawful use of any other natural resource that benefits the general welfare of the people of...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30701
  As used in this part: (a) "Commissioner" means the county drain commissioner or the county road commission in counties not having a drain commissioner,...
• Determination of Normal Inland Lake Level; Motion or Petition to Initiate Action; Delegation of Powers and Duties by County Board; Maintenance - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30702
  (1) The county board of a county in which an inland lake is located may upon the board's own motion, or shall within 45...
• Preliminary Study; Costs; Contents of Study - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30703
  (1) Before proceeding on a motion made or a petition filed under section 30702, the county board may require that a preliminary study be...
• Initiating Proceeding for Determining Normal Inland Lake Level and Establishing Special Assessment District; Required Finding; Multicounty Lake; Joinder Permitted - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30704
  (1) If the county board, based on the preliminary study, finds it expedient to have and resolves to have determined and established the normal...
• Special Assessment Bonds; Lake Level Orders; Proceedings; Issuance of Notes; Full Faith and Credit - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30705
  (1) The special assessment district may issue bonds or lake level orders in anticipation of special assessments. All proceedings relating to the making, levying,...
• Initiation of Proceedings by Director of Department - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30706
  If the department finds it expedient to have the normal level of an inland lake determined, the department may initiate by civil action on...
• Hearing; Notice; Service; Powers and Duties of Court - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30707
  (1) Upon filing of a civil action under this part, the court shall set a day for a hearing. The prosecuting attorney or other...
• Maintenance of Normal Level; Acquisition by Gift, Grant, Purchase, or Condemnation; Contract for Operation and Maintenance of Existing Dam; Dam in Adjoining County; Operation of Pumps and Wells - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30708
  (1) After the court determines the normal level of an inland lake in a proceeding initiated by the county, the delegated authority of any...
• Powers of Department - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30709
  (1) After the court determines the normal level of an inland lake in a proceeding initiated by the department, the department may provide for...
• Condemnation of Private Property - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30710
  If the department or the delegated authority determines that it is necessary to condemn private property for the purpose of this part, the department...
• Defraying Project Costs by Special Assessment; Special Assessment Roll; Reassessment - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30711
  (1) The county board may determine by resolution that the whole or a part of the cost of a project to establish and maintain...
• Computation of Project Costs - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30712
  (1) Computation of the cost of a normal level project shall include the cost of all of the following: (a) The preliminary study. (b)...
• Contract With Agency or Corporation; Provisions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30713
  The delegated authority of a county in which an inland lake is located may contract with a state or federal government agency or a...
• Special Assessment Roll; Public Hearing; Notice; Approval; Appeal - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30714
  (1) A special assessment roll shall describe the parcels of land to be assessed, the name of the owner of each parcel, if known,...
• Assessment Payments; Installments; Amount; Interest, Penalty, and Collection; Lien; Preliminary Study Payment Credited - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30715
  (1) The county board may provide that assessments under this part are payable in installments. (2) Assessment payments shall be sufficient to meet bond...
• Bonds and Notes; Issuance - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30716
  With approval of the county board and subject to the revised municipal finance act, 2001 PA 34, MCL 141.2101 to 141.2821, the district may...
• Acceptance and Repayment of Advance - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30717
  The delegated authority may accept the advance of work, material, or money in connection with a normal level project. The obligation to repay an...
• Dam Construction or Maintenance; Plans and Specifications; Approval by Department; Bids; Work Relief Project - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30718
  Plans and specifications for a dam constructed or maintained under this part shall be prepared by a licensed professional engineer under the direction of...
• Dam Construction; Underspill Device; Fish Ladder - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30719
  (1) The department may require that a new dam that is proposed to be constructed be equipped with an underspill device for the release...
• Unauthorized Change of Level; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30720
  A person who is not authorized by a delegated authority or the department to operate a dam or other normal level control facility and...
• Establishment of Normal Inland Lake Level Prohibited in Certain Cases - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30721
  A normal level shall not be established for an inland lake in either of the following cases: (a) The inland lake is used as...
• Inspection; Report; Repairs; Penalty; Expenditure - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30722
  (1) The delegated authority of a county shall cause an inspection to be made of each dam on an inland lake within the county...
• Other Requirements Not Abrogated - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30723
  This part does not abrogate the requirements of other state statutes.
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30901
  As used in this part: (a) "Benefit" or "benefits" means advantages resulting from a project to public corporations, the inhabitants of public corporations, the...
• Petition for Improvement of Lake or Wetland; Local Governing Bodies' Powers; Lake Boards - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30902
  (1) The local governing body of any local unit of government in which the whole or any part of the waters of any public...
• Lake Board; Composition; Election of Chairperson, Treasurer, and Secretary; Quorum; Concurrence of Majority Required; Technical Data; Recommendations - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30903
  (1) The lake board shall consist of all of the following: (a) A member of the county board of commissioners appointed by the chairperson...
• Initiation of Action by Freeholders - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30904
  Action may be initiated under section 30902 relating to any private inland lake only upon petition of 2/3 of the freeholders owning lands abutting...
• Preliminary Costs; Revolving Funds; Assessments - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30905
  The county board of commissioners may provide for a revolving fund to pay for the preliminary costs of improvement projects within the county. The...
• Institution of Proceedings for Lake Improvement; Conflicts With Local Ordinances and Charters - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30906
  (1) Whenever a local governing body, in accordance with section 30902, considers it expedient to have a lake improved, it, by resolution, shall direct...
• Lake Improvement; Initiation by Department - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30907
  If the department considers it expedient, in accordance with section 30902, to have a lake dredged or improved, the department may petition the local...
• Lake Board; Determination of Scope of Project; Establishment of Special Assessment Districts; Ministerial Duties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30908
  The lake board, when instructed by resolution of the local governing body, shall determine the scope of the project and shall establish a special...
• Engineering and Economic Reports; Cost Estimates - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30909
  (1) The lake board shall retain a licensed professional engineer to prepare an engineering feasibility report, an economic study report, and an estimate of...
• Review of Reports by Board; Determinations of Practicability; Public Hearings; Notice; Determination - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30910
  Within 60 days after his or her receipt of the reports, the chairperson shall hold a meeting of the lake board to review the...
• County Contributions Toward Costs of Improvement - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30911
  The county board of commissioners may provide up to 25% of the cost of a lake improvement project on any public inland lake.
• Approval of Plans and Cost Estimates; Sufficiency of Petition; Resolution; Publication; Assessment Roll - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30912
  If the lake board passes a resolution in which it determines the project to be practicable, the lake board shall determine to proceed with...
• Report of Assessment to Lake Board; Review; Notice and Hearing; Confirmation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30913
  The assessment roll shall be reported to the lake board by the assessing official of the local unit or units of government initiating the...
• Special Assessments; Installments; Interest; Penalties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30914
  Upon the confirmation of the assessment roll, the lake board may provide that the assessments be payable in 1 or more approximately equal annual...
• Special Assessments; Liens - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30915
  All special assessments contained in any special assessment roll, including any part of the special assessment payment that is deferred, constitute a lien, from...
• Special Assessments; Collections - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30916
  When any special assessment roll is confirmed, the lake board shall direct the assessments made in the roll to be collected. The clerk of...
• Delinquent Assessments; Reassessment - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30917
  If the treasurer reports as delinquent any assessment or part of an assessment, the lake board shall certify the delinquency to the assessing official...
• Division of Land Parcels; Uncollected Assessment Apportioned - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30918
  If any parcel of land is divided after a special assessment on the land has been confirmed and before the collection of the assessment,...
• Additional Special Assessments - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30919
  If the assessments in any special assessment roll prove insufficient for any reason, including the noncollection of the assessment, to pay for the improvement...
• Special Assessments; Invalidity and New Assessments - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30920
  Whenever, in the opinion of the lake board, any special assessment is invalid by reason of irregularities or informalities in the proceedings, or if...
• Special Assessments; Exempt Lands - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30921
  The governing body of any department of the state or any of its political subdivisions, municipalities, school districts, townships, or counties, whose lands are...
• Borrowing; Issuance of Lake Level Orders and Bonds - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30922
  The lake board may borrow money and issue lake level orders or the bonds of the special assessment district in anticipation of the collection...
• Condemnation; Commencement and Conduct of Proceedings - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30923
  Whenever the lake board determines by proper resolution that it is necessary to condemn private property for the purpose of this part, the condemnation...
• Gifts and Grants - in - Aid; Acceptance by Lake Board; Contract or Agreement - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30924
  (1) The lake board may receive and accept gifts or grants-in-aid for the purpose of implementing this part. (2) The lake board may contract...
• Gifts and Grants - in - Aid; Acceptance by Department - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30925
  The department in carrying out the purposes of this part may receive and accept, on behalf of the state, gifts and grants-in-aid.
• Advertising for Bids; Letting of Contracts; Work Relief Project - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30926
  (1) Except as provided in subsection (2), the chairperson of the lake board shall advertise for bids. A contract shall be let to the...
• Costs of Projects; Computation; Expenditures; Representation by Attorney - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30927
  (1) Within 10 days after the letting of contracts or, in case of an appeal, immediately after the appeal has been decided, the lake...
• Intervention by Department - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30928
  Whenever a public inland lake is to be improved, the department may intervene for the protection and conservation of the natural resources of the
• Lake Board for Inland Lake; Dissolution - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.30929
  A lake board for an inland lake is dissolved if all of the following requirements are met: (a) The governing body of each local...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31101
  As used in this part: (a) "Board" means a river management board created as the governing body of a river management district in accordance...
• Watershed Council; Petition; Contents; Organizational Meeting; Notice - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31102
  (1) To promote cooperation among local units of government in river management, a watershed council shall be established by the department upon a petition...
• Watershed Council; Membership; Voting Rights; Term; River Management Board - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31103
  (1) The watershed council shall be composed of representatives of local units of government within the watershed who are appointed to and maintain membership...
• Watershed Council; Duties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31104
  In carrying out its authorized functions, the council shall do all of the following: (a) Adopt bylaws that govern its operations. (b) Prepare an...
• Watershed Council; Powers - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31105
  A watershed council may do 1 or more of the following: (a) Conduct, or cause to be conducted, studies of the water resources of...
• River Management District; Establishment; Powers; Consolidation; Coordination - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31106
  (1) The governing bodies of 2 or more local units of government may petition the department to establish a river management district in order...
• River Management District; Organizational Meeting; Notice; Date; Board; Membership; Term; Voting Rights - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31107
  (1) Within 60 days after establishing a district, the department shall schedule an organizational meeting of the district board and shall provide notice of...
• River Management Board; Powers - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31108
  A river management board may do any of the following: (a) Conduct a continuing study of river use requirements and needs for river management...
• River Management District; Body Corporate; Powers; Taxing Power - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31109
  A district formed under this part is a body corporate with powers to contract; to sue and be sued; to exercise the right of...
• River Management Board; Duties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31110
  A river management board shall do all of the following: (a) Adopt bylaws to govern its operations. (b) Prepare an annual operating budget and...
• Executive Secretary; Additional Staff - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31111
  The executive secretary of a watershed council may serve as executive secretary to the river management board. If a relevant watershed council does not...
• Minimum Level of Stream Flow; Industrial Use of Water - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31112
  Upon request of a council or a board, the department shall determine, within the watershed subject to the council, the minimum level of stream...
• Minimum Level of Stream Flow; Order of Determination; Notice; Publication; Review - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31113
  In carrying out its authority to determine minimum levels of stream flow, the department, after public hearing, shall issue an order of determination setting...
• Minimum Level of Stream Flow; Determination by Watershed Council or Department; Request - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31114
  A river management board may request a watershed council to seek a determination of minimum levels of stream flow in accordance with sections 31112...
• Measurement of Stream Flow, Lake Levels, and Water Quality; Gauges and Sampling Devices; Entering Public Property - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31115
  The department may maintain gauges and sampling devices to measure stream flow, lake levels, and water quality as necessary to implement this part, and...
• Preparation of River Management Plan; Advice, Assistance, and Supervision by Department - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31116
  The department may cooperate and negotiate with any person in establishing and maintaining gauges and sampling devices to measure stream flow, lake levels, or...
• Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31117
  The department shall promulgate rules to implement this part.
• Authority of Department Not Affected by Part - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31118
  This part does not abridge the authority vested in the department by part 31. Permits granted by the department in accordance with part 35...
• Director of Public Health; Powers Unaffected - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31119
  The functions, powers, and duties of the director of public health as provided for by Act No. 98 of the Public Acts of 1913,...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31201
  As used in this part: (a) "County agency" means an agency created or controlled by a county board of commissioners or a county executive,...
• Watershed Alliance; Establishment by Municipalities; Purpose; Resolution; Bylaws; Voluntary Membership - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31202
  (1) Two or more municipalities, by resolution of their respective governing bodies, may establish a watershed alliance for the purpose of studying problems and...
• Watershed Alliance as Body Corporate; Powers and Authority - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31203
  A watershed alliance is a body corporate with power to sue and be sued in any court of this state and with the authority...
• Watershed Alliance; Powers and Authority; Report; Assessment or Collection of Fees or Taxes - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31204
  (1) A watershed alliance, consistent with the purposes identified in section 31202 and its bylaws, may do 1 or more of the following: (a)...
• Audit - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31205
  (1) A watershed alliance shall obtain an audit of its financial records, accounts, and procedures at least every other year. (2) A watershed alliance...
• Additional Authority Prohibited - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31206
  This part does not provide a watershed alliance or any of its members with any additional authority not otherwise provided by law.
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31301
  As used in this part: (a) "Board" means the county board of commissioners. (b) "Dams" means dams, embankments, dikes, pumps, weirs, locks, gates, tubes,...
• Request for Surveys; Utilization of Reports - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31302
  Any board or group of boards or local unit or units acting singly or in concert may request the department to undertake a survey...
• Request for Surveys; Involvement of Other Boards - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31303
  If it appears to the department, after a review of the request, that a feasible plan for the impoundment, utilization, and conservation of surplus...
• Request for Surveys; Determination of Optimum Flow; Plan for Improvement, Utilization, and Conservation of Surplus Water; Factors; Limitations - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31304
  (1) Upon receipt of a request, the department shall determine the optimum flow for the rivers and streams that may be substantially affected by...
• Public Hearing; Determination of Optimum Flow; Notice; Order; Review - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31305
  (1) Before making a determination of optimum flow, the department shall hold a public hearing on the issue. The department shall set the time...
• Transmission of Plans to Boards; Adoption; Dams; Supervision - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31306
  (1) When the order has become final, the department shall transmit the plan to all of the boards involved, and, if the plan is...
• Gifts and Grants; Buying, Selling, Exchanging, or Condemning Land; Restrictions on Financing Dams - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31307
  For the purpose of implementing this part, the boards may receive and accept in the name of the county gifts and grants of land...
• Gifts and Grants - in - Aid; Acceptance by Department - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31308
  The department, in carrying out the purposes of this part, may receive and accept on behalf of the state gifts and grants-in-aid from any
• Use of Increased Flowage; Waste Assimilation; Rates for Usage - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31309
  All increased flowage resulting from operation of a plan shall be available for nonconsumptive use to all riparians. A person shall not utilize for...
• Permits Granted by Department Not Affected by Part - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31310
  This part does not abridge the authority of the department as it presently exists. Permits granted by the department in accordance with part 35...
• Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31311
  The department shall promulgate rules to implement this part.
• Redetermination of Optimum Flow; Modification of Plan; Hearings - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31312
  After a determination or plan has been in effect for 5 years, any riparian owner may petition the department for a redetermination of the...
• Violation as Misdemeanor - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31313
  Any person knowingly violating this part, or any rule promulgated under this part, or any written order of the department in pursuance of this...
• Applicability of Part to River Management Districts - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31314
  This part does not apply within the boundaries of any river management district created under part 311.
• Meanings of Words and Phrases - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31501
  For purposes of this part, the words and phrases defined in sections 31502 to 31505 have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections.
• Definitions; a to D - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31502
  (1) "Abandonment" means an affirmative act on the part of an owner to discontinue maintenance or operation of a dam. (2) "Administrative procedures act...
• Definitions; E to H - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31503
  (1) "Emergency action plan" means a plan developed by the owner that establishes procedures for notification of the department, public off-site authorities, and other...
• Definitions; I to P - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31504
  (1) "Impoundment" means the water held back by a dam. (2) "Low hazard potential dam" means a dam located in an area where failure...
• Definitions; R to T - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31505
  (1) "Removal" means the physical elimination of a dam or impoundment. (2) "Repair" means to substantially restore a dam to its original condition and...
• Jurisdiction of Dams and Impoundments; Exemptions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31506
  (1) Except as otherwise provided in subsections (2) and (3), dams and impoundments in the state are under the jurisdiction of the department. (2)...
• Prohibited Conduct; Exception - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31507
  (1) A person shall not construct, enlarge, repair, reconstruct, alter, remove, or abandon any dam except in a manner provided for in this part....
• Preparation of Plans and Specifications; Licensed Professional Engineer Required; Exceptions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31508
  (1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2), a licensed professional engineer shall prepare all plans and specifications, except for minor projects undertaken pursuant...
• Activities Requiring Permit; Application for Permit; Fees; Waiver and Disposition of Fees - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31509
  (1) Except as otherwise provided in this part or as authorized by a permit issued by the department pursuant to part 13, a person...
• Request for Notification of Pending Applications for Permits; Annual Fee; Biweekly List of Applications; Copies; Contents - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31510
  (1) A person who wants to be notified of pending applications for permits issued under this part may make a written request to the...
• Copies of Application and Statement; Submission; Public Hearing; Notice - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31511
  (1) Upon receipt of an application for a permit under this part, the department shall submit copies of the application accompanied by a statement...
• Necessity for Immediate Action; Emergency Conditions; Application for Permit to Reconstruct Failed Dam - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31512
  (1) When immediate action is necessary to protect the structural integrity of a dam, the department may issue a permit before the expiration of...
• Minor Project Categories; Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31513
  (1) The department shall promulgate rules to establish minor project categories for alterations and repairs that have minimal effect on the structural integrity of...
• Effect of Proposed Activity on Public Health, Safety, Welfare, Property, or Natural Resources - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31514
  The department shall not issue a permit to construct a new dam, reconstruct a failed dam for which a complete application to reconstruct has...
• Approval of Plans and Specifications; Completion of Permitted Activity; Time; Extension; Approval of Changes; Duration and Renewal of Permit; Terms and Conditions; Mitigating Measures; Recommendations; Performance Bond; Suspension, Revocation, Annulment, Withdrawal, Recall, Cancellation, or Amendment of Permit; Hearings - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31515
  (1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, a permit issued by the department under this part shall require that plans and specifications be...
• Spillway Capacity; Minimum Criteria; Freeboard; Auxiliary Spillway; Duty of Owner - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31516
  (1) Spillway capacity shall meet the following minimum criteria: (a) Low hazard potential dams shall be capable of passing the 100-year flood, or the...
• Duties of Owner; Inspection; Notice of Final Approval; Notice of Project Not Completed in Accordance With Plans, Specifications, or Conditions; Enforcement Action - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31517
  (1) Except for minor projects authorized pursuant to section 31513, the owner shall do both of the following: (a) Within 10 days after the...
• Inspection Reports; Determination of Hazard Potential Classification; Inspection Schedule; Notice; Additional Inspection Reports; Contents of Inspection Report; Visual Inspection and Report; Detailed Investigation or Evaluation; Life or Property Threatened by Breach of Dam; Cause of Action; Ordering Actions to Alleviate Danger - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31518
  (1) An owner shall submit to the department inspection reports prepared by a licensed professional engineer that evaluate the condition of the dam. The...
• Order to Limit Dam Operations; Order to Remove Dam; Hearing - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31519
  (1) Where significant damage to the public health, safety, welfare, property, and natural resources or the public trust in those natural resources or damage...
• Sudden or Unprecedented Flood; Unusual or Alarming Circumstance or Occurrence; Emergency Drawdowns, Repairs, Breaching, or Other Action; Notice - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31520
  (1) The owner or his or her agent shall advise the department and the affected off-site public authorities and safety agencies of any sudden...
• Emergency Orders - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31521
  (1) The department may issue emergency orders as provided in this section. The department may, by written notice, order an owner to immediately repair,...
• Structural Integrity and Operation of Dam; Investigations and Studies - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31522
  The department may make, or cause to be made, hydrologic or other investigations and studies as may be required to facilitate its decisions regarding...
• Emergency Action Plans; Submissions; Review; Consistency With Other Plans; Contents of Plans - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31523
  (1) An owner shall prepare, and keep current, emergency action plans for all high and significant hazard potential dams owned by that person. (2)...
• Violation; Order; Suspension, Modification, or Revocation of Permit; Remedies Cumulative; Civil Action - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31524
  (1) If the department determines that a person is in violation of this part, a rule promulgated under this part, or a condition set...
• Commencement of Civil Action; Request; Place; Civil Fine; Contempt; Willful or Reckless Violation as Misdemeanor; Penalty; Subsequent Violations; Fine for Failure to Obtain Permit; Restoration of Site; Schedule of Administrative Monetary Penalties for Minor Violations - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31525
  (1) The attorney general may commence a civil action for appropriate relief, including injunctive relief, upon request of the department under section 31524. (2)...
• Person Aggrieved by Action or Inaction of Department; Hearing; Determination; Judicial Review - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31526
  (1) A person aggrieved by any action or inaction of the department under this part or rules promulgated under this part may request a...
• Entering Private or Public Property; Time; Purpose - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31527
  The department may enter in or upon any private or public property anytime where the public safety may be in danger and at all...
• Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31528
  The department shall promulgate rules as necessary to implement and enforce this part.
• Construction of Part - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31529
  (1) This part does not abrogate requirements of parts 31, 91, 301, 303, 305, 307, and 483 or other applicable law. (2) This part...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31701
  As used in this part: (a) "Agricultural well" means a high-capacity well that is used for an agricultural purpose. (b) "Complaint" means a complaint...
• Allegation of Potential Groundwater Dispute; Submission of Complaint by Small - Quantity Well Owner; Investigation; on - Site Evaluation; Inability to Resolve Complaint; Toll - Free Facsimile and Telephone Line; Duties of Director of Department of Environmental Quality and Director of Department of Agriculture and Rural Development; Unverified Complaints - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31702
  (1) The owner of a small-quantity well may submit a complaint alleging a potential groundwater dispute if the small-quantity well has failed to furnish...
• Duties of Director in Groundwater Dispute - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31703
  (1) The director shall, by order, declare a groundwater dispute if an investigation of a complaint discloses all of the following, based upon reasonable...
• Order Declaring Groundwater Dispute - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31704
  (1) An order declaring a groundwater dispute is effective when a copy of the order is served upon the owner of a high-capacity well...
• Declaration of Groundwater Dispute; Temporary Provision At Point of Use of Adequate Supply of Potable Water; Extraction of Groundwater; Restriction; Impact on Viability of Certain Businesses; Public Water Supply Owned or Operated by Local Government - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31705
  (1) Upon declaration of a groundwater dispute, the director shall, by order, require the immediate temporary provision at the point of use of an...
• Compensation; Conditions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31706
  If a groundwater dispute has been declared, the owner of a high-capacity well shall, subject to an order of the director, provide timely and...
• Compensation; Requirements - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31707
  (1) Timely and reasonable compensation under section 31706 consists of and is limited to either or both of the following: (a) The reimbursement of...
• Appeal - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31708
  The owner of a high-capacity well subject to an order under this part may appeal that order directly to circuit court pursuant to the...
• Exceptions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31709
  This part does not apply to a potential groundwater dispute involving either of the following: (a) A high-capacity well that is a dewatering well....
• Aquifer Protection Revolving Fund - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31710
  (1) The aquifer protection revolving fund is created in the state treasury. (2) The fund may receive money or other assets from any source...
• Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31711
  Not later than April 1, 2013, and every 2 years thereafter, the department shall prepare and submit to the legislature a report that includes...
• Violation of Order; Civil Fine or Costs; Default; Deposit; Action to Enforce Order - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.31712
  (1) A person who violates an order issued under this part is responsible for a civil fine of not more than $1,000.00 for each...
• Repealed. 2009, Act 176, Imd. Eff. Dec. 15, 2009. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Great Lakes Compact; Cooperation With Ontario and Bordering States; Agreement Authority - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32101
  So that the state of Michigan can consult and cooperate with the other states bordering on the Great Lakes and the province of Ontario...
• Compact; Ratification - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32102
  Such compact shall become operative whenever, in addition to Michigan, any 3 of the states of Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and...
• Compact; Terms; Conditions; Provisions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32103
  In addition to other pertinent and necessary provisions which are in consonance with the expressed purposes of the compact as herein provided, such a...
• Compact Commission; Memberships - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32104
  Each compacting party shall have the right to designate 5 representatives to such interstate compact commission to be known as the Great Lakes compact...
• Compact; Effective Date; Commission Meetings; Officers; Duties; Quorum - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32105
  The compact herein provided shall become effective upon the adoption of laws by the states referred to in section 2 in conformity with the...
• Compact; Commission; Records of Meetings and Proceedings; Reports - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32106
  Said commission shall keep a written record of its meetings and proceedings and shall annually make a report thereof to be submitted to the...
• Compact Commission; Expenses - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32107
  Each compacting party shall pay for the expenses of its representatives on said commission and each compacting party shall pay to the secretary of...
• Great Lakes Basin Compact; Ratification; Contents - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32201
  The great lakes basin compact is hereby ratified, enacted into law, and entered into by this state as a party thereto with any other...
• Great Lakes Commission; Membership; Oath; Expenses; Voting Rights - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32202
  (1) For purposes of this section through section 32206, "commission" means the Great Lakes commission established in the compact entered into by this part....
• Commission; Cooperation by State Officers - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32203
  All officers of this state are hereby authorized and directed to do all things falling within their respective jurisdictions necessary to or incidental to...
• Commission; Budget; Appropriations - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32204
  The budget of the estimated expenditures of the commission shall be submitted to the director and to the director of the department of commerce...
• Basin Compact; Transmission of Copy of Part and Compact to Other Parties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32205
  The governor is hereby authorized and directed to transmit a duly authenticated copy of this part and the compact contained herein to each jurisdiction...
• Limiting Diversions of Water of Great Lakes - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32206
  The commissioners who represent this state shall request the commission to consider and recommend amendments or agreements supplementary to the Great Lakes basin compact...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32301
  As used in this part: (a) "Connecting waterway" means the St. Marys river, Detroit river, St. Clair river, or Lake St. Clair. (b) "Environmental...
• Shoreland Engineering Study; Determinations - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32302
  By April 1, 1972, the department shall make or cause to be made an engineering study of the shoreland to determine all of the...
• Engineering Study - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32303
  Before January 1, 1975, the department shall make or cause to be made an engineering study of the shoreland to determine: (a) Flood risk...
• Environmental Study - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32304
  By April 1, 1972, the department shall make or cause to be made an environmental study of the shoreland to determine all of the...
• Use of High Risk Area; Prevention of Property Loss; Notice of Determinations and Recommendations - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32305
  The department pursuant to section 32302 shall determine if the use of a high-risk area shall be regulated to prevent property loss or if...
• Use of Flood Risk Area; Prevention of Property Loss; Notice of Determinations and Recommendations - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32306
  The department pursuant to section 32303 shall determine if the use of a flood risk area shall be regulated to prevent property loss or...
• Environmental Area; Use; Regulation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32307
  The department in accordance with section 32304 shall notify a local unit of government of the existence of any environmental area that is in...
• County Zoning - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32308
  Until July 1, 1975, a county, pursuant to rules promulgated under section 32313 and the county rural zoning enabling act, Act No. 183 of...
• City or Village Zoning - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32309
  Until July 1, 1975, a city or village, pursuant to rules promulgated under section 32313 and Act No. 207 of the Public Acts of...
• Township Zoning - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32310
  Until July 1, 1975, a township, pursuant to rules promulgated under section 32313 and the township rural zoning act, Act No. 184 of the...
• Approval or Disapproval of Zoning Ordinance Regulating High Risk Area, Flood Risk Area, or Environmental Area - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32311
  An existing zoning ordinance or a zoning ordinance or a modification or amendment to a zoning ordinance that regulates a high-risk area, a flood...
• Rules; Fee Required With Permit Application or Project; Disposition of Fees; Violation; Restraining Order - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32312
  (1) To regulate the uses and development of high-risk areas, flood risk areas, and environmental areas and to implement the purposes of this part,...
• Construction of Above Grade Walls With Movable Brick - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32312a
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this part or the rules promulgated under this part, the department shall allow above grade walls to be constructed...
• Use and Management Plan; Contents; Hearings; Submission of Plan Copies to Governor and Legislature - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32313
  (1) By October 1, 1972, the department shall, in compliance with the purposes of this part, prepare a plan for the use and management...
• Agreements and Contracts - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32314
  The department may enter into an agreement or make contracts with the federal government, other state agencies, local units of government, or private agencies...
• Money, Grants, or Grants - in - Aid; Purpose - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32315
  For the purposes of this part, the department may receive, obtain, or accept money, grants, or grants-in-aid for the purpose of research, planning, or...
• Additional Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32501
  As used in this part: (a) "Department" means the department of environmental quality. (b) "Director" means the director of the department. (c) "Marina purposes"...
• Unpatented Lake Bottomlands and Unpatented Made Lands in Great Lakes; Construction of Part - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32502
  The lands covered and affected by this part are all of the unpatented lake bottomlands and unpatented made lands in the Great Lakes, including...
• Agreements Pertaining to Waters Over and Filling in of Submerged Patented Lands; Lease or Deed of Unpatented Lands; Terms, Conditions, and Requirements; Reservation of Mineral Rights; Exception; Lease or Deed Allowing Drilling Operations for Exploration of Oil or Gas Purposes; Execution of Agreement, Lease, or Deed With United States - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32503
  (1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the department, after finding that the public trust in the waters will not be impaired or...
• Unpatented Lake Lands and Unpatented Made Lands; Application for Conveyance; Contents; Qualifications of Applicant; Consent; Approval; Fee - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32504
  (1) Application for a deed or lease to unpatented lands or agreement for use of water areas over patented lands shall be on forms...
• Restoration or Maintenance of Lighthouse; Lease or Agreement for Use of Lands; "approved Organization" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32504a
  (1) The department may accept an application under this part from an approved organization, whether or not the approved organization is a riparian landowner,...
• Unpatented Lake Bottomlands and Unpatented Made Lands; Consideration for Conveyances or Lease - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32505
  (1) If the department determines that it is in the public interest to grant an applicant a deed or lease to such lands or...
• Unpatented Lands and Unpatented Made Lands; Value Determination by Department; Appraisal; Decision of Court - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32506
  The fair, cash market value of lands approved for sale under this part shall be determined by the department. Consideration paid to the state...
• Receipts; Disposition; Accounting; Employees - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32507
  (1) All money received by the department from the sale, lease, or other disposition of land and water areas under this part shall be...
• Lands Conveyed; Taxation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32508
  All lands conveyed or leased under this part are subject to taxation and the general property tax laws and other laws as other real...
• Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32509
  The department may promulgate rules, in accordance with the requirements of law, consistent with this part, that may be necessary to implement this part.
• Land Filled, Excavated, or Modified Without Approval; Misdemeanor; Penalty; Issuance or Service of Appearance Ticket; "minor Offense" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32510
  (1) Except as provided in subsection (2), a person who excavates or fills or in any manner alters or modifies any of the land...
• Certificate of Location of Lakeward Boundary; Application; Riparian Owner; Fee - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32511
  A riparian owner may apply to the department for a certificate suitable for recording indicating the location of his or her lakeward boundary or...
• Acts Prohibited; Exceptions; Activities Not Subject to Regulation; Applicability of Subsection (2) to Certain Lands - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32512
  (1) Except as provided in subsection (2), unless a permit has been granted by the department pursuant to part 13 or authorization has been...
• Minor Project Categories; Activities; Conditions; Application; Notice; General Permit - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32512a
  (1) After providing notice and an opportunity for a public hearing, the department shall establish minor project categories of activities that are similar in...
• Application for Permit; Contents; Fees; Disposition of Fees - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32513
  (1) To obtain a permit for any work or connection specified in section 32512, a person shall file an application with the department on...
• Application for Permit; Copies; Local Units; Adjacent Riparian Owners; Objections; Hearing; Time; Notice - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32514
  Upon receipt of the application, the department shall mail copies to the department of public health, the clerks of the county, city, village, and...
• Artificial Waterway; Permit; Issuance; Conditions; Maintenance - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32515
  If the department finds that the project will not injure the public trust or interest including fish and game habitat, that the project conforms...
• Repealed. 2012, Act 247, Imd. Eff. July 2, 2012. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32601
  As used in this part: (a) "Bottomlands" means land in the Great Lakes, and bays and harbors of the Great Lakes, lying below and...
• Submerged Logs; Reservation of Ownership Rights - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32602
  This state reserves to itself title and ownership of all submerged logs lying on or over, embedded in, or buried under unpatented lands.
• Removal of Submerged Logs From Bottomlands, Patented Lands, or Underwater Preserves; Permit - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32603
  (1) A person shall not remove submerged logs from bottomlands except as authorized by a permit issued by the department pursuant to part 13....
• Application for Submerged Log Removal Permit; Submission; Form; Information; Time Period for Submission; Disposition of Fees - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32604
  (1) Applications for submerged log removal permits shall be submitted before February 1 of each calendar year. (2) An application for a submerged log...
• Receipt of Completed Application; Review by Department; Issuance of Permit; Conditions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32605
  Upon receiving a complete application for a submerged log removal permit, the department shall do both of the following: (a) Place the application on...
• Department Review of Application; Issuance; Limitation; Time Period for Making Decision; Conditions; Notification of Approval or Denial; Disposition of Fees - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32606
  (1) The department shall review each complete application received for a submerged log removal permit and shall not issue a permit unless the department...
• Submerged Log Removal Permit; Overlaps; Expiration; Transfer; Bond; Termination; "Bond" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32607
  (1) The department shall not authorize the same bottomland log removal area in more than 1 submerged log removal permit at any 1 time....
• Application for Submerged Log Removal Permit; Hearing - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32608
  (1) The department may hold a public hearing on an application for a submerged log removal permit if the department desires additional information before...
• Sawlog Stumpage Value; Reservation of Payments; "Sawlog Stumpage Value" Defined; Report and Payments Due; Disposition of Payments; Overdue Payment - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32609
  (1) The state reserves a payment of 15% of the sawlog stumpage value of each submerged log that is removed from unpatented lands. As...
• Submerged Log Recovery Fund - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32610
  (1) The submerged log recovery fund is created within the state treasury. (2) The state treasurer may receive money or other assets from any...
• Great Lakes Fund - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32611
  (1) The Great Lakes fund is created within the state treasury. (2) The state treasurer may receive money or other assets from any source...
• Violation; Civil Action; Remedies; Civil Fine - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32612
  (1) The department may bring a civil action against a person in the circuit court of the county in which a violation occurs or...
• Violation as Misdemeanor; Penalties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32613
  (1) A person who does any of the following is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than $10,000.00 per...
• Annual Report; Submission to Legislative Committees - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32614
  (1) The department shall annually prepare a report that includes all of the following: (a) The number of submerged log removal applications received under...
• Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32615
  The department may promulgate rules to implement this part.
• Definitions; Retention of Established Baseline Capacity - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32701
  (1) As used in this part: (a) "Adverse resource impact" means any of the following: (i) Until February 1, 2009, decreasing the flow of...
• Legislative Findings and Declarations; Authority - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32702
  (1) The legislature finds and declares that: (a) A diversion of water out of the basin of the Great Lakes may impair or destroy...
• Diversion of Waters Prohibited - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32703
  Subject to section 32704, a diversion of the waters of the state out of the Great Lakes basin is prohibited. History: Add. 1995, Act...
• Diversion; Authorization; Conditions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32703a
  (1) If the prohibition in section 32703 is determined to be invalid, the waters of the state shall not be diverted unless authorized by...
• Applicability of Mcl 324.32703 - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32704
  Section 32703 does not apply to a diversion of the waters of the Great Lakes out of the drainage basin of the Great Lakes...
• Diversion; Proposal; Comment Period; Notification; Waiver - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32704a
  The governor shall establish a public comment period with regard to a proposal subject to 42 USC 1962d-20 to divert waters of the Great...
• Registration of Withdrawal; Use of Assessment Tool; Exception; Agricultural Purpose; Form; Calculating Total Amount of Existing or Proposed Withdrawal; Aggregate Information; Duration of Valid Registration - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32705
  (1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the owner of real property who intends to develop capacity on that property to make a...
• Development of Internet - Based Online Registration Process; Registration; Required Statement and Supporting Documentation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32706
  (1) Not later than 1 year after the effective date of the amendatory act that amended this section, the department shall develop and implement...
• Internet - Based Water Withdrawal Assessment Tool; Implementation; Determination of Proposed Zone Withdrawal; Entering and Printing Data; Working in Conjunction With Online Registration Process; Technical Modifications; Redesignation of Stream or River; Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32706a
  (1) On October 1, 2008, the department shall make available for testing and evaluation an internet-based water withdrawal assessment tool based upon the recommendations...
• Utilization of Assessment Tool; Request for Site - Specific Review; Designation of Proposed Withdrawal; Registration; Rerun of Assessment Tool; Correction of Data - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32706b
  (1) Beginning on the effective date of the implementation of the assessment tool under section 32706a, prior to registering a new or increased large...
• Request for Site - Specific Review; Conditions; Form; Information to Be Included; Completion of Review by Department; Withdrawals; Registration; Corrected Data; Interim Site - Specific Review to Determine Adverse Resource Impact - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32706c
  (1) If the assessment tool determines that a proposed withdrawal is a zone B withdrawal in a cold-transitional river system, or a zone C...
• Collection of Stream or River Flow Measurements by Persons Other Than Department; Development and Use of Protocol; Training Program - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32706d
  (1) The department shall develop a protocol for the collection of stream or river flow measurements by persons other than the department for use...
• Cumulative Withdrawals; Determination of Adverse Impact - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32706e
  The department shall determine whether an adverse resource impact has occurred under this part and whether a withdrawal is a zone A, a zone...
• Reporting Requirements; Forms; Water Use Reporting Fees - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32707
  (1) Except as provided in subsections (2) and (3), a person who is required to register under section 32705 or holds a permit under...
• Water Use Conservation Plan; Formula or Model to Estimate Consumptive Use of Withdrawals for Agricultural Purposes; Inclusion of Information in Statewide Groundwater Inventory and Map; Disclosure - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32708
  (1) The owner of a farm that is registered under this part who makes a withdrawal for an agricultural purpose, including irrigation for an...
• Generic Water Conservation Measures; Preparation; Posting on Website; Submission of Water Conservation Measures by Water User's Sector; Acceptance by Department; Water Conservation Measures for Agricultural Purposes; Report; Notification of Zone C Withdrawal; Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32708a
  (1) Not later than March 31, 2009, the department shall prepare, based upon recommendations from representative trade associations, a set of generic water conservation...
• Informational Materials - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32709
  The department may contract for the preparation and distribution of informational materials to members of the public related to any of the following: (a)...
• Duties of Department; Electronic Mail Notification of Withdrawals; Formation of Water Resources Assessment and Education Committee - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32710
  (1) The department shall do all of the following: (a) Cooperate with the states and provinces in the Great Lakes region to develop and...
• Repealed. 2006, Act 33, Imd. Eff. Feb. 28, 2006. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Civil Action; Commencement; Civil Fine; Recovery of Surveillance and Enforcement Costs - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32713
  (1) The department may request the attorney general to commence a civil action for appropriate relief, including a permanent or temporary injunction, for a...
• Water Use Protection Fund; Creation; Disposition of Assets; Investments; Money Remaining in Fund; Expenditures - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32714
  (1) The water use protection fund is created within the state treasury. (2) The state treasurer may receive money or other assets from any...
• Large Quantity Withdrawal; Prohibition; Exception; Certain Large Quantity Withdrawals Subject to Definition of Adverse Resource Impact Existing on February 28, 2006 - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32721
  (1) A person shall not make a new or increased large quantity withdrawal from the waters of the state that causes an adverse resource...
• Presumption - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32722
  (1) For new or increased large quantity withdrawals developed on or after February 28, 2006 and prior to the implementation date of the assessment...
• Water Withdrawal Permit; Persons Required to Obtain; Application; Fee; Issuance; Conditions; Revocation; Petition for Contested Case Hearing; Exemptions From Permit Requirements - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32723
  (1) Except as provided in subsection (13), the following persons shall obtain a water withdrawal permit prior to making the withdrawal: (a) A person...
• 324.32724 Repealed. 2008, Act 181, Imd. Eff. July 9, 2008. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Water Users Committee; Establishment; Purpose; Composition; Notice of Withdrawal; Occurrence of Adverse Resource Impacts; Recommended Solution Proposed by Department; Order by Director; Petition; "Unverified Petition" and "Permit Holders" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32725
  (1) All persons making large quantity withdrawals within a watershed are encouraged to establish a water users committee to evaluate the status of current...
• Local Ordinance - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32726
  Except as authorized by the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333.1101 to 333.25211, a local unit of government shall not enact or...
• Exemptions; Compilation and Sharing of Certain Data - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32727
  (1) The following withdrawals are exempt from the requirements of this part unless they result in a diversion: (a) A withdrawal undertaken as part...
• Construction and Scope of Act; Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32728
  (1) This part shall not be construed as affecting, intending to affect, or in any way altering or interfering with common law water rights...
• Fees Not Authorized; Exception - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32729
  Except as specifically authorized under this part, this part does not authorize the assessment of fees.
• Compact; Implementation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32730
  The compact shall be implemented as follows: (a) Except as specifically provided in this part, water withdrawals originating within this state shall be regulated...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32801
  As used in this part: (a) "Annex 2001" means the Great Lakes charter annex signed by the governors and premiers of the Great Lakes...
• Groundwater Data; Collection and Compilation Into Statewide Groundwater Inventory and Map; Update; Availability to Public - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32802
  (1) Not later than 2 years after the effective date of the amendatory act that added this section, the department shall collect and compile...
• Water Resources Conservation Advisory Council; Creation; Qualifications and Appointment of Members; Appointment of Technical Advisory Committee; Duties of Council; Reports; "Assessment Tool" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32803
  (1) The water resources conservation advisory council is created within the department of natural resources. The council shall consist of all of the following...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32901
  As used in this part: (a) "Board" means the Michigan Great Lakes protection fund technical advisory board created in section 32908. (b) "Fund" means...
• Legislative Findings - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32902
  The legislature finds that: (a) The Great Lakes are a valuable resource providing an important source of food, fresh water, recreation, beauty, and enjoyment....
• Office of the Great Lakes; Establishment; Purpose; Duties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32903
  The office of the Great Lakes is established within the department of natural resources and is designated as the lead agency within state government...
• Reports, Analysis, and Inventory to Be Submitted by Governor to Legislature - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32904
  The governor, with the assistance of the office of the Great Lakes, shall prepare and submit to the legislature the following: (a) An annual...
• Michigan Great Lakes Protection Fund; Creation; Sources of Money; Investment of Fund; Crediting Interest and Earnings to Fund; Money Not to Revert to General Fund; Annual Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32905
  (1) The Michigan Great Lakes protection fund is created in the state treasury. (2) The fund shall receive money from the following sources: (a)...
• State Treasurer to Credit Money to Fund - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32906
  The state treasurer shall credit all money the state receives from the Great Lakes protection fund as authorized in part 331 to the fund.
• Use of Money in Fund - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32907
  Money in the fund shall be used only for programs or grants to supplement existing Great Lakes research and protection programs consistent with the...
• Michigan Great Lakes Protection Fund Technical Advisory Board; Creation; Appointment, Qualifications, and Terms of Members; Removal of Member; Election of Chairperson; Meetings; Public Notice; Member Not to Receive Grant - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32908
  (1) The Michigan Great Lakes protection fund technical advisory board is created within the department. The board shall consist of the following members: (a)...
• Duties of Board Generally - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32909
  The board shall do both of the following: (a) Advise this state's representatives on the board of directors of the Great Lakes protection fund...
• Programs and Grants to Be Funded; Advice to Department; Compilation and Submission of List; Statement of Guidelines; Appropriation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32910
  (1) The board shall annually advise the department on the programs or grants that should be funded under this part and shall submit a...
• Great Lakes Spill Prevention Research Fund; Creation; Appropriations, Gifts, and Contributions; Investments; Disposition of Interest and Earnings; Reversions; Use of Money; Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.32911
  (1) The Great Lakes spill prevention research fund is created in the state treasury. (2) The research fund may receive money as appropriated by...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.33101
  As used in this part: (a) "Agreement" means the document entitled "Great Lakes protection fund agreement" signed by the governor on February 26, 1989....
• Legislative Findings and Declaration - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.33102
  The legislature finds and declares that: (a) The Great Lakes protection fund has been created to advance the principal goals and objectives of the...
• Great Lakes Protection Fund; Formation and Operation; Agreement; Appointment of Members to Board of Directors - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.33103
  (1) The governor, on behalf of this state, may take all steps necessary to join with other states in the formation and operation of...
• Withdrawal of Participation in Fund; Dissolution of Fund and Distribution of Assets; Agreement to Extend Deadline - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.33104
  (1) If, by February 28, 1991, fewer than 4 states whose representatives signed the agreement have enacted legislation and provided funding as required by...
• Delegation of Responsibilities - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.33105
  The governor may delegate his or her responsibilities under this part to the department.
• Coastal Beach Erosion or Protection; Expenditures Authorized - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.33301
  Any political subdivision of the state, by resolution of its legislative body adopted by a majority vote of its full membership, is authorized to...
• Flood, Drainage, or Beach Erosion Control; Lands; Acquisition; Contract With Federal Government; Terms - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.33701
  The township board of any township, the legislative body of any incorporated city or incorporated village, or the board of county road commissioners of...
• Relief From Assessment - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.33702
  A contract entered into under section 33701 may provide that payments made or work done by the federal government or agency of the federal...
• Contract; Provisions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.33703
  A contract entered into under section 33701 may provide for the granting, without cost to the United States, of all lands, easements, and rights-of-way...
• Expenditures From Municipal or County Funds - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.33704
  The township board of any township, the legislative body of any incorporated city or incorporated village, or the county board of commissioners of any...
• Assurances to Federal Government - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.33705
  The township board of any township, the legislative body of any incorporated city or incorporated village, or the board of county road commissioners of...
• Joint Contracts for Implementation of Part - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.33706
  The township board of any township, the legislative body of any incorporated city or incorporated village, or the board of county road commissioners of...
• Contracts; Borrowing Funds From Federal Government - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.33707
  Contracts entered into under this part involving the financial ability of the incorporated city, incorporated village, township, or county to meet all obligations and...
• Interest in Lands; Easement for Flood Plain; Acquisition; Declared Public Purposes - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.33708
  For the accomplishment of the purposes of this part, any city, incorporated village, township, or board of county road commissioners may acquire any interest...
• Unpatented Overflowed Lands, Made Lands, and Lake St. Clair Bottomlands; Authority of Department - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.33901
  All of the unpatented overflowed lands, made lands, and Lake St. Clair bottomlands belonging to this state or held in trust by this state...
• Powers of Department to Convey Lands; Dedication of Unleased Lands for Recreational Uses - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.33902
  The department shall not deed or convey the lands described in section 33901 except as provided in sections 33903 to 33911. The department may...
• Conveyance of Certain Leased Lands by Department; Rights Reserved - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.33903
  The department, upon application of any person who, on the effective date of the 2006 amendatory act that amended this section, holds a lease...
• Deeds; Prerequisites to Granting - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.33904
  Before the department grants a deed, there shall be presented evidence that the applicant requesting the deed is the lessee of the land, that...
• Repealed. 2006, Act 496, Imd. Eff. Dec. 29, 2006. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• St. Clair Flats Lands; Conflicting Claims; Determination; Appeal - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.33906
  In all cases where there is a contest or conflict between applicants for a deed to the same piece or parcel of land growing...
• St. Clair Flats Area; Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.33907
  The department may promulgate and enforce rules as it considers necessary for the preservation and use of the paramount right of navigation, hunting, and...
• Receipts; Credit of Consideration and Fees to Land and Water Management Permit Fee Fund - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.33908
  The consideration received for the execution and delivery of deeds under this part and all fees collected under this part shall be forwarded to...
• Repealed. 2006, Act 496, Imd. Eff. Dec. 29, 2006. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Water Highway Lands; Lease; Conveyance to Contiguous Lessees - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.33910
  The department, in its discretion, upon application of a person holding a lease or deed under this part to any lands lying contiguous to...
• Granting Deeds to Certain Property; Requirements - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.33911
  (1) Upon application of a person that holds a lease from this state of any portion or portions of the real property described in...
• Rental Valuation Periods; Determination; Improvements; Maximum Increase; Gross Sum - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.33912
  Whenever any person is entitled under this part to lease for the period of 99 years, the department shall divide the term of 99...
• Repealed. 2006, Act 496, Imd. Eff. Dec. 29, 2006. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Former Lease Holder as Trespasser; Recovery of Possession by State - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.33916
  If a lease under this part expires and a deed is not issued under this part to the former lease holder, the former lease...
• Repealed. 2006, Act 496, Imd. Eff. Dec. 29, 2006. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Rights of Lessees Subject to Certain Public Rights - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.33921
  The rights of lessees under this part shall be subject to the paramount right of navigation, hunting, and fishing, which rights are to remain...
• Repealed. 2006, Act 496, Imd. Eff. Dec. 29, 2006. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.33924
  As used in this part: (a) "Department" means the department of natural resources unless expressly indicated otherwise. (b) "Possession", "occupancy", and "improvement" include dredging...
• Repealed. 2006, Act 496, Imd. Eff. Dec. 29, 2006. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Surveys Governing Terms of Part - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.33926
  In describing the lands that may be leased under this part, the department shall be governed by maps, plats, and field notes of surveys...
• Ascertainment of Rights by Department; Hearing; Powers of Department - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.33927
  The department shall ascertain and decide upon the rights of persons claiming the benefit of this part, and it may hear and decide in...
• Conflicting Claims; Determination by Department; Hearing; Notice; Depositions; Appeal - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.33928
  In all cases where there is a contest or conflict between applicants for a lease to the same piece or parcel of land growing...
• State Leased Lands; Sale or Transfer of Lease; Statement of Purpose; Approval by Department; Record of Assignment - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.33929
  (1) Each sale or transfer of a lease shall contain a specific statement of the purpose for which the property leased is to be...
• Repealed. 2006, Act 496, Imd. Eff. Dec. 29, 2006. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• State Leased Lands; Taxes; Assessment - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.33933
  The lessee's interest in all leases made under this part shall be assessed as real estate by the assessing officer of the township, city,...
• State Leased Lands; Tax Default; Procedure for Payment; Forfeiture of Lease; Co - Owners; Partial Payment of Taxes; Certificate of Cancellation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.33934
  (1) If default is made in the payment of taxes to the treasurer of the township, city, or village in which the lands leased...
• State Leased Lands; Nonpayment of Taxes; Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.33935
  Each county treasurer shall report to the department all descriptions of parcels of property subject to this part that have been returned for nonpayment...
• Repealed. 2006, Act 496, Imd. Eff. Dec. 29, 2006. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Irrigation Districts; Conditions and Limitations for Withdrawal of Waters From Great Lakes; Enforcement of Section - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.34101
  (1) This part is applicable in counties with a population of 400,000 or less to the use of water from the Great Lakes only,...
• Construction of Part - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.34102
  This part shall be liberally construed to promote the public welfare by irrigating lands, improving the existing water supply for the lands or providing...
• Previously Organized Districts; Validity, Rights, Privileges, and Obligations; Applicability of Part - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.34103
  This part does not affect the validity of any district organized under the laws of this state prior to July 10, 1967, or its...
• Irrigation District as Body Corporate; Powers; Seal; Condemnation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.34104
  An established irrigation district is a body corporate with power to contract, to sue and be sued, and to hold, manage, and dispose of...
• District Contracts With Federal Government, State, and Others; Approval by Department; State's Public Trust - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.34105
  As used in this section, "federal government" means the United States and includes any and all agencies of the United States. The irrigation district...
• Grant to United States or Irrigation District of Right to Use Rights - of - Way in County or Intercounty Drainage Districts; Approval; Rights of Private Persons - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.34106
  Subject to the written assignment, consent, and approval of the drain commissioner administering a county drainage district or the written assignment, consent, and approval...
• Dams for Irrigation; Approval - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.34107
  A dam for irrigation purposes shall not be constructed unless the dam is approved in a manner provided by law.
• Grants of Federal, State, and Private Aid for Irrigation Projects - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.34108
  An irrigation district may apply for and accept grants or any aid which the United States government or any agency of the United States...
• Irrigation Districts; Petitions for Formulation or Improvement; Contents; Circulation; Signatures - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.34109
  (1) Whenever a majority of freeholders owning lands in a proposed irrigation district who represent 1/3 or more of the area of lands within...
• Irrigation Districts; Affidavit of Signers of Petitions; Evidence - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.34110
  The affidavit of 1 or more of the signers of the petition stating that they have examined it and are acquainted with the locality...
• Irrigation Districts; Lands Included - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.34111
  The lands proposed to be included in any irrigation district need not be contiguous if the benefit of the proposed work in each part...
• Irrigation Board; Creation; Membership; Chairperson; Availability of Writings to Public; Minutes; Records and Files; Member as Commissioner of Irrigation and Public Officer; Presumption; Contested Report or Action; Burden of Proof; Exception - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.34112
  (1) There is created for each irrigation district petitioned for under this part an irrigation board to consist of the drain commissioner of each...
• Commissioners of Irrigation; Oath of Office; Annual Accounts - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.34113
  Before entering upon their duties, commissioners shall take and subscribe the constitutional oath of office. The commissioners shall make a true account of their...
• Control Over Withdrawals and Operations; Rules; Orders; Expenses - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.34114
  (1) The department shall maintain superintending control over withdrawals and operations of each irrigation district formed under this part and may promulgate rules to...
• Irrigation Board; Conducting Business At Public Meeting; Notice; Calling and Notice of Meetings; Affidavit as Proof of Mailing; Waiver of Additional Notice; Quorum; Adjournment; Action by Board; Signing of Orders - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.34115
  (1) The business that the irrigation board may perform shall be conducted at a public meeting of the irrigation board held in compliance with...
• Proceedings Upon Petition for Establishment of Irrigation Districts; Meetings; Filing and Examination of Petition; Report; Expenses and Compensation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.34116
  (1) Upon receipt of a petition for the establishment of an irrigation district, the county drain commissioner shall call the first meeting of the...
• Irrigation Board; First Meeting; Considerations; Naming Project and Irrigation District; Determination of Sufficiency of Petition and Practicability of Proposed Project; Objections; Hearing; Notice; Report of Department; Final Order of Determination; Order of Department; Eliminating or Adding Land in Irrigation District; Rehearing; Legal Establishment of Irrigation District - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.34117
  (1) The irrigation board at its first meeting shall consider the petition for the project, make a tentative determination as to the sufficiency of...
• Plans, Specifications, and Costs; Estimates of Proposed Irrigation Projects - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.34118
  The irrigation board shall proceed to secure from a competent engineer plans and specifications and an estimate of the cost of the proposed irrigation...
• Design Plans of Irrigation Works; Commissioner's Alteration or Deviation; Approval of Department - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.34119
  The commissioners shall not be confined to the points of location, commencement, routes, or termini of the drains, reservoirs, dams, canals, ditches, pumps, or...
• Acquisition of Lands or Rights - of - Way - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.34120
  The irrigation board shall proceed to secure the lands or rights-of-way necessary for the irrigation project. If the lands or rights-of-way cannot be secured...
• Advertisement for Bids for Construction; Acceptance and Rejection of Bids; Readvertisement - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.34121
  The irrigation board shall advertise for bids for construction of the improvements requested in the petition. The contract shall be let to the lowest...
• Costs of Irrigation District; Computation; Approval - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.34122
  Within 10 days after the letting of contracts, or, in case of an appeal, then immediately after the appeal has been decided, the chairperson...
• Assessment Roll; Description of Lands Benefited; Apportionment of Costs; Objections - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.34123
  The chairperson of the irrigation board, under the direction of the board, shall make out an assessment roll, entering and describing on the assessment...
• Notice of Hearing; Publication; Form - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.34124
  Notice of hearing shall be given as prescribed in section 34115 and Act No. 162 of the Public Acts of 1962, being sections 211.741...
• Hearing on Objections; Scope of Review; Equalization - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.34125
  At the hearing, the irrigation board shall hear the proofs and allegations of all parties interested, shall carefully reconsider and review the description of...
• Special Assessment Rolls; Final Orders and Confirmation; Endorsement; Memorandum of Installments; Conclusiveness - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.34126
  After the hearing, the irrigation board shall enter its final order of apportionment and order of confirmation of the roll and shall make an...
• Irrigation Special Assessments Liens - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.34127
  From the date of confirmation of the special assessment roll, all irrigation special assessments constitute a lien upon the respective lots or parcels assessed...
• Tax Assessment Rolls; Contents; Permanent Installment Payments - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.34128
  The chairperson of the irrigation board, at the direction of the irrigation board, shall prepare a tax assessment roll in each year for the...
• Spread of Special Assessments on Local Tax Rolls; Orders by County Board of Commissioners - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.34129
  The county board of commissioners of the counties involved shall order the spread of all irrigation special assessments on the local tax rolls by...
• Spread of Special Assessments on Local Tax Rolls; Duties of Local Assessing Officers - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.34130
  The supervisor or the village or city assessor shall spread on his or her roll the total amount of all irrigation special assessment taxes...
• Special Assessment Taxes; Interest, Charges, Collections, Disbursement; Defense of Collector; Limitation on Actions; Payments Under Protest; Liens - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.34131
  All irrigation special assessment taxes assessed under this part shall be subject to the same interest and charges, and shall be collected in the...
• Additional Pro Rata Assessments; Limitations - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.34132
  If the assessments in any special assessment roll prove insufficient for any reason, including the noncollection of the assessments, to pay for the improvement...
• Invalid Assessments; Validation Procedure; Payments Applied to Reassessments - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.34133
  If, in the opinion of the irrigation board, a special assessment is invalid by reason of irregularities or informalities in the proceedings, or if...
• Irrigation Orders to Pay Charges and to Pay Easements or Rights - of - Way; Installments; Drawing Orders on First and Succeeding Years' Assessments; Limitations; Certification by Treasurer - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.34134
  The irrigation board of each special assessment district may issue irrigation orders for the payment of all charges reflected by the computation of costs...
• Interest on Bonds; Board of Commissioners; Resolution Pledging Full Faith and Credit of County to Pay - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.34135
  The county board of commissioners of the county involved by a resolution adopted by a 2/3 vote of its members may pledge the full...
• Operating and Maintaining Property of Irrigation District; Fixing and Collecting Water Charges; Approval of Charges; Charges for Water Services as Lien on Affected Lands; Certification of Delinquent Charges; Entering Charges on Tax Roll; Enforcement; Exaction of Other Charges; Future Expenses; Assessment; Notice of Hearing - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.34136
  (1) The irrigation board shall operate and maintain the property of the irrigation district. (2) The irrigation board may fix and collect water charges...
• Attack on Orders; Proceedings by Writ of Superintending Control; Legality of Irrigation Special Assessment District and Project; Assessments; Actions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.34137
  (1) Except as prescribed in subsection (2), the final order of determination, the order of apportionment of benefits, or the order confirming the special...
• Suspension of Water Delivery; Delinquent Irrigation Taxes; Right - of - Way for Laterals; Condemnation; Payment - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.34138
  The irrigation board may, by the adoption of an appropriate order, provide for the suspension of water delivery to any land in the district...
• Irrigation Boards; Powers and Duties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.34139
  The irrigation board shall manage and conduct the business affairs of the district, make and execute all necessary contracts, employ agents, officers, and employees...
• Right of Entry Upon Land to Survey; Location of Drains; Acquisition of Property; Reservoirs for Storage or Transfers of Great Lakes Water - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.34140
  The irrigation board and its agents and employees may enter upon any land within the district to make surveys, and may locate the line...
• Advancement of Money to Pay Costs; Reimbursement by Irrigation Special Assessment District; Obligations - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.34141
  Any person may advance money for the payment of any part of the cost of a project and shall be reimbursed by the irrigation...
• District Accounts; Duties of County Treasurer; Expenditure From District Funds; Bond Interest; Funds Transfer - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.34142
  The county treasurers of the counties in which the irrigation district is located shall carry all accounts and items pertaining thereto as a separate...
• Irrigation District Funds; Deposit; Interest; Use - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.34143
  The irrigation district funds shall be deposited by the county treasurer in a bank of the county in accordance with the general laws of...
• Irrigation District Funds; County Treasurers as Custodians; Deputies; Bond; Orders for Payment - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.34144
  The county treasurer shall be the custodian of the funds of the irrigation district. He or she may designate 1 or more of his...
• Revolving Fund to Pay for Preliminary Costs; Assessment of Preliminary Costs; Repayment of Fund - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.34145
  The county board of commissioners in which an irrigation district is proposed to be formed may provide for an appropriation to create a revolving...
• Borrowing Money; Issuing Bonds; Anticipating Collection of Special Assessments; Amount; Applicability of Law - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.34146
  The irrigation board may borrow money and issue the bonds of the special assessment district for that money in anticipation of the collection of...
• Great Lakes - St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.34201
  The Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact is hereby ratified, enacted into law, and entered into by this state as a party...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.35101
  As used in this part: (a) "Natural area" means a tract of state land or water under control of the department and dedicated and...
• Wilderness, Wild, and Natural Areas; Duty of Department to Identify, Dedicate, and Administer - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.35102
  The department shall identify for dedication, dedicate, and administer wilderness areas, wild areas, and natural areas in accordance with this part. The department shall...
• Review of State Land; Identification of Certain Tracts; Determination of Dedication; Proposed Alteration or Withdrawal of Previously Dedicated Areas; Filing Proposals; Procedure for Making Dedication or Denying Proposal; Exchange of Dedicated Land; Notice Requirements - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.35103
  (1) The department shall annually review all state land under its control and identify those tracts that in its judgment best exhibit the characteristics...
• Proximity of Wild and Natural Areas to Certain Urban Centers; Designation of Private Land or Land Controlled by Other Governmental Units - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.35104
  (1) The department shall attempt to provide, to the extent possible, wild areas and natural areas in relative proximity to urban centers of more...
• Prohibited Activities; Easement - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.35105
  (1) The following are prohibited on state land in a wilderness area, wild area, or natural area, or on state land proposed by the...
• Landing Aircraft or Operating Mechanical Transport in Wilderness, Wild, or Natural Area - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.35106
  A person who lands an aircraft or operates a motor vehicle, motorboat, or other form of mechanical transport in a wilderness area, wild area,...
• Maintenance or Restoration of Wilderness, Wild, or Natural Area - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.35107
  (1) State land in a wilderness area, wild area, or natural area shall be maintained or restored so as to preserve its natural values...
• Posting Signs; Contents - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.35108
  The department shall post signs in appropriate locations along the borders of a wilderness area, wild area, or natural area. The signs shall give...
• Acquisition of Land - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.35109
  The department may acquire land through purchase, gift, or bequest for inclusion in a wilderness area, wild area, or natural area.
• Taxation; Audit of Assessments; Appropriation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.35110
  The local taxing authority is entitled to collect from the state a tax on a wilderness, wild, or natural area within its jurisdiction at...
• Saving Clause - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.35111
  (1) Nothing in this part affects or diminishes any right acquired or vested before August 3, 1972. (2) Nothing in this part alters the...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.35301
  As used in this part: (a) "Contour change" includes any grading, filling, digging, or excavating that significantly alters the physical characteristic of a critical...
• Legislative Findings - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.35302
  The legislature finds that: (a) The critical dune areas of this state are a unique, irreplaceable, and fragile resource that provide significant recreational, economic,...
• Notice to Local Units of Government and Property Owners; Copy of "atlas of Critical Dune Areas"; Contents of Notice; Supplying Addresses of Property Owners - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.35303
  (1) As soon as practicable following July 5, 1989, the department shall notify by mail each local unit of government that has within its...
• Permit for Use in Critical Dune Area; Requirements; Decision of Local Unit of Government; Limitations; Ordinance; Model Zoning Plan; Special Exceptions; Assisting Local Units of Government - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.35304
  (1) A person shall not initiate a use within a critical dune area unless the person obtains a permit from the local unit of...
• Hearing; Judicial Review - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.35305
  (1) If an applicant for a permit or a special exception or the owner of the property immediately adjacent to the proposed use is...
• Lawful Use of Land or Structure; Exemptions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.35306
  (1) The lawful use of land or a structure, as existing and lawful within a critical dune area at the time the department implements...
• Maps - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.35307
  Upon adoption of an approved zoning ordinance, certified copies of the maps showing critical dune areas, and existing development and uses, shall be sent...
• Prohibited Uses; Exception - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.35308
  (1) Except as provided in subsection (2), the following uses shall be prohibited in a critical dune area: (a) A surface drilling operation that...
• Use Permit and Inspection Fee; Disposition of Fees; Authorization of Separate Fee; Bond - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.35309
  (1) A local unit of government, or the department if the local unit of government does not have an approved zoning ordinance, may establish...
• Suspension or Revocation of Permit; Restraining Order, Injunction, or Other Appropriate Remedy; Instituting Action; Cumulative Rights; Performance Review; Determination of Noncompliance; Response; Implementation of Model Zoning Plan; Appeal; Civil Fine; Order to Pay Cost of Restabilization; Violation as Misdemeanor - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.35310
  (1) If the department finds that a person is not in compliance with the model zoning plan if the department is implementing the plan,...
• Review of "atlas of Critical Dune Areas"; Appointment and Duties of Review Team - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.35311
  Beginning with the effective date of the 2012 act that amended this section and once every 10 years thereafter, the department may appoint a...
• Construction, Improvement, and Maintenance of Driveways - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.35311a
  (1) Notwithstanding section 35316 or any other provision of this part, the construction, improvement, and maintenance of a driveway shall be permitted for any...
• Construction, Improvement, and Maintenance of Accessibility Measures - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.35311b
  (1) Notwithstanding section 35316 or any other provision of this part, at the request of the applicant, the construction, improvement, and maintenance of accessibility...
• Zoning Ordinance; Provisions; Regulation of Additional Lands - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.35312
  (1) A local unit of government that has 1 or more critical dune areas within its jurisdiction may formulate a zoning ordinance pursuant to...
• Zoning Ordinance; Requirements for Applications for Permits for Use of Critical Dune Area - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.35313
  (1) A zoning ordinance shall require that all applications for permits for the use of a critical dune area include in writing all of...
• Zoning Ordinance; Provisions; Review of Subdivision Development - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.35314
  (1) A zoning ordinance shall provide for all of the following: (a) Lot size, width, density, and front and side setbacks. (b) Storm water...
• Zoning Ordinance; Prohibited Uses in Critical Dune Area - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.35315
  A zoning ordinance shall not permit either of the following uses in a critical dune area: (a) The disposal of sewage on-site unless the...
• Zoning Ordinances; Additional Prohibited Uses in Critical Dune Area; Variance; Contour Maps; Guidelines; Restoration - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.35316
  (1) Unless a variance is granted pursuant to section 35317, a zoning ordinance shall not permit the following uses in a critical dune area:...
• Variances; Special Exceptions; Limitations; Decision; Environmental Site Assessment or Environmental Impact Statement; Annual Report; Forwarding Application to Local Government; Review and Comment; Waiver of Opportunity to Review; Notice of Opposition; Determination of Practical Difficulty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.35317
  (1) A local unit of government may issue variances under a zoning ordinance, or the department may issue special exceptions under the model zoning...
• Request for Revaluation to Determine Fair Market Value - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.35318
  If a permit for a proposed use within a critical dune area is denied, the landowner may request a revaluation of the affected property...
• Environmental Assessment; Contents - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.35319
  The zoning ordinance shall provide that if an environmental assessment is required under section 35313, that assessment shall include the following information concerning the...
• Environmental Impact Statement; Contents - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.35320
  If an environmental impact statement is required under section 35313 prior to permitting a proposed use, a zoning ordinance may require that the statement...
• Review of Site Plan; Duties of Planning Commission - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.35321
  A zoning ordinance shall provide that, in reviewing a site plan required under section 35313(1)(d), the planning commission shall do both of the following:...
• Special Use Project Application, Plan, and Proposed Decision; Review; Action - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.35322
  Prior to issuing a permit allowing a special use project within a critical dune area, a local unit of government shall submit the special...
• Destruction of Structure or Use; Exemption; Replacement - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.35323
  A structure or use located in a critical dune area that is destroyed by fire, other than arson for which the owner is found...
• Management of Federally Owned and State Owned Land - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.35324
  Federally owned land, to the extent allowable by law, and state owned land within critical dune areas shall be managed by the federal or...
• Purchase of Lands or Interests in Lands; Purpose - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.35325
  The department or local units of government may purchase lands or interests in lands from a willing seller in critical dune areas for the...
• Repealed. 2012, Act 297, Imd. Eff. Aug. 7, 2012 - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.35501
  As used in this part: (a) "Biological diversity" means the full range of variety and variability within and among living organisms and the natural...
• Legislative Findings - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.35502
  The legislature finds that: (a) The earth's biological diversity is an important natural resource. Decreasing biological diversity is a concern. (b) Most losses of...
• State Goal - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.35503
  (1) It is the goal of this state to encourage the lasting conservation of biological diversity. (2) This part does not require a state...
• Joint Legislative Working Committee on Biological Diversity; Creation; Appointment of Members; Establishment, Organization, and Membership of Scientific Advisory Boards; Consultation With Other Qualified Individuals; Function; Reports; Meetings; Compliance With Open Meetings Act; Writings Available to Public; Public Hearings; Dissolution - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.35504
  (1) The joint legislative working committee on biological diversity is created in the legislature. The committee shall consist of 4 members of the senate...
• Reports; Contents; Additional Information - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.35505
  (1) The committee may require clear and concise reports containing the information listed under subsection (2) and, if applicable, subsection (3) from state departments...
• Development of State Strategy; Factors; Progress Report to Legislature; Circulation of Draft Report; Public Hearing; Report to Legislature - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.35506
  (1) Based on information received from the reporting departments and other sources identified in section 35504(1), the committee shall develop a state strategy that...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.35701
  As used in this part: (a) "Board" means board of county road commissioners. (b) "City street" means city major street or city local street...
• Petition for Designation; Hearing; Notice; Resolution - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.35702
  (1) Twenty-five or more freeholders of a township may apply by petition to the board for the county in which that township is located...
• Designation; Petition Requesting Withdrawal; Revocation of Designation; Determination; Publication of Notice; Reversion to Former Status - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.35703
  (1) Not more than 45 days after a board designates a road as a natural beauty road or the legislative body of a city...
• Guidelines and Procedures for Native Vegetation Preservation; Rights of Public Utilities or Governmental Agencies or Municipalities - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.35704
  (1) The department shall develop uniform guidelines and procedures that may be adopted by a board to preserve native vegetation in a natural beauty...
• Citizen's Advisory Committee; Establishment; Purpose - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.35705
  The department may establish a citizen's advisory committee to assist in the formulation of proposals for guidelines and procedures.
• Violation of Guideline or Procedure; Complaint; Civil Action; Default in Payment of Civil Fine or Costs - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.35706
  (1) If there is a violation of a guideline or procedure adopted by a board, the legislative body of a city, or the legislative...
• Adopt - a - Shoreline Program; Administration; Purpose; Rules; Agreements With Volunteer Groups to Implement Program - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.35801
  (1) The department shall administer a program entitled the adopt-a-shoreline program which shall be designed to remove litter from and to beautify state owned...
• Adopt - a - Shoreline Program; Duties of Department - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.35802
  In implementing this part and the adopt-a-shoreline program, the department shall do all of the following: (a) Create a recognition program that acknowledges the...
• Data Information Sheets; Compilation of Information - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.35803
  (1) The department shall provide volunteer groups conducting litter cleanup efforts with data information sheets and shall request that the volunteer groups record on...
• Annual Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.35804
  The department shall annually report to the standing committees of the legislature that primarily consider issues pertaining to the protection of natural resources and...
• Adopt - a - River Program; Administration; Purpose; Rules; Agreements With Volunteer Groups to Implement Program - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.35901
  (1) The department shall administer a program entitled the adopt-a-river program which shall be designed to remove litter from and to beautify the state's...
• Adopt - a - River Program; Duties of Department - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.35902
  In implementing this part and the adopt-a-river program, the department shall do all of the following: (a) Create a recognition program that acknowledges the...
• Data Information Sheets; Compilation of Information - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.35903
  (1) The department shall provide volunteer groups conducting litter cleanup efforts under this part with data information sheets and shall request that the volunteer...
• Annual Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.35904
  The department shall annually report to the standing committees of the legislature that primarily consider issues pertaining to the protection of natural resources and...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.36101
  As used in this part: (a) "Agricultural conservation easement" means a conveyance, by a written instrument, in which, subject to permitted uses, the owner...
• Development Rights Agreement or Easement; Execution Authorized; Provisions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.36102
  (1) The state land use agency may execute a development rights agreement or easement on behalf of the state. (2) The provisions of a...
• Development Rights Agreement or Easement; Effect of Execution and Acceptance; Term; Limitation; Disposition; Prior Lien, Lease, or Interest Not Superseded; Lien of State or Local Governing Body; Subordination - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.36103
  (1) The execution and acceptance of a development rights agreement or easement by the state or local governing body and the owner dedicates to...
• Application for Farmland Development Rights Agreement; Form; Contents; Notice; Review, Comments, and Recommendations; Approval or Rejection; Appeal; Preparation, Contents, Execution, and Recordation of Agreement; Reapplication; Tax Exemption - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.36104
  (1) An owner of land desiring a farmland development rights agreement may apply by filing an application with the local governing body having jurisdiction...
• Permitted Use; Criteria - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.36104a
  In determining whether a use is a permitted use, the state land use agency shall consider the following criteria: (a) Whether the use adversely...
• Land Subject to Mcl 324.36101(j)(i); Application for Open Space Development Rights Easement; Approval or Rejection; Provisions; Tax Exemption - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.36105
  (1) If an owner of open space land desires an open space development rights easement, and the land is subject to section 36101(j)(i), the...
• Land Subject to Mcl 324.36101(j)(ii); Application for Open Space Development Rights Easement; Form; Contents; Notice; Review, Comments, and Recommendations; Approval or Rejection; Preparation and Contents of Easement; Appraisal; Statement of Fair Market Value; Execution and Recordation of Easement; Forwarding Copies of Easement; Appeal; Legislative Approval; Costs; Reapplication; Tax Exemption - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.36106
  (1) An owner of open space land desiring an open space development rights easement whose land is subject to section 36101(j)(ii) may apply by...
• Notice of Owners' Intentions Regarding Extension or Expiration of Agreement or Easement; Notice of Lien - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.36107
  (1) All participants owning land contained under a development rights agreement or easement shall notify, on a form provided by the state land use...
• Special Assessments - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.36108
  (1) A city, village, township, county, or other governmental agency shall not impose special assessments for sanitary sewers, water, lights, or nonfarm drainage on...
• Credit Against State Income Tax or State Single Business Tax - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.36109
  (1) An owner of farmland and related buildings subject to 1 or more development rights agreements under section 36104 or agricultural conservation easements or...
• Sale of Land; Notice; Death or Disability of Owner - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.36110
  (1) Land subject to a development rights agreement or easement may be sold without penalty under sections 36111, 36112, and 36113, if the use...
• Expiration or Relinquishment of Development Rights Agreement - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.36111
  (1) A development rights agreement expires at the expiration of the term of the agreement unless renewed with the consent of the owner of...
• Relinquishment of Development Rights Agreement; Conditions; "economic Viability" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.36111a
  (1) Upon request from a landowner and a local governing body, the state land use agency shall relinquish farmland from the development rights agreement...
• Development Rights or Acquisition of Agricultural Conservation Easements; Application; Selection Criteria and Scoring System; Notification; Points; Determination of Development Rights Value; Approval by Director; Installment Purchase Plan; Provisions for Protection of Farmland; Termination of Easements; Value Development Rights in Event of Condemnation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.36111b
  (1) An application submitted under section 36111(10) for purchase of development rights or acquisition of agricultural conservation easements shall be evaluated and ranked according...
• Relinquishment of Open Space Development Rights Easement Pursuant to Mcl 324.36105 - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.36112
  (1) An open space development rights easement pursuant to section 36105 shall be relinquished by the state at the expiration of the term of...
• Relinquishment of Open Space Development Rights Easement Pursuant to Mcl 324.36106 - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.36113
  (1) An open space development rights easement pursuant to section 36106 shall be relinquished by the local governing body at the expiration of the...
• Injunction; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.36114
  If the owner or a successor in title of the land upon which a development rights agreement or easement has been recorded pursuant to...
• Exchange of Information - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.36115
  All departments and agencies of state government shall cooperate with the state land use agency in the exchange of information concerning projects and activities...
• Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.36116
  The state land use agency may promulgate rules for the administration of this part.
• Report; Recommendations to Legislature - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.36117
  The state land use agency shall prepare a report and make recommendations to the legislature not later than January 30, 1976, for a state...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.36201
  As used in this part: (a) "Agricultural conservation easement" means a conveyance, by a written instrument, in which, subject to permitted uses, the owner...
• Agricultural Preservation Fund; Creation; Disposition; Money Remaining in Fund; Expenditures - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.36202
  (1) The agricultural preservation fund is created within the state treasury. (2) The state treasurer may receive money or other assets from any source...
• Purchase of Agricultural Conservation Easements; Establishment of Grant Program; Application; Eligibility; Form; Contents; Forwarding to Board - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.36203
  (1) The department shall establish a grant program to provide grants to eligible local units of government for the purchase of agricultural conservation easements....
• Agricultural Preservation Fund Board; Creation; Membership; Appointment; Terms; Quorum; Compensation; Expenses; Election of Chairperson and Vice - Chairperson; Removal of Member; Vacancy - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.36204
  (1) The agricultural preservation fund board is created within the department. (2) The board shall consist of the following members: (a) The director of...
• Application; Evaluation Criteria; Priority; Determination of Grant Awards; Amount; Notification; Report to Commission; Maximum Expenditure; Portion of Acquisition Cost to Be Provided by Applicant or Another Person - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.36205
  (1) An application submitted to the board under section 36203 shall be evaluated according to selection criteria established by the board. The criteria shall...
• Distribution of Grants to Local Units of Government; Condition; Reviewing Permitted Uses; Contribution of Development Rights; Purchase by Local Unit of Government Through Installment Purchase Agreement; Joint Holding by State and Local Unit of Government; Delegation of Enforcement Authority; Transfer to Property Owner; Tax Credits Under Mcl 324.36109 - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.36206
  (1) After the board determines which grants should be awarded, and the amount of the grants, the department shall distribute the grants to the...
• Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.36207
  The department may promulgate rules to implement this part.
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.36501
  As used in this part: (a) "Endangered species" means any species of fish, plant life, or wildlife that is in danger of extinction throughout...
• Duties of Department - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.36502
  The department shall perform those acts necessary for the conservation, protection, restoration, and propagation of endangered and threatened species of fish, wildlife, and plants...
• Investigations; Determinations; Rule; Review - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.36503
  (1) The department shall conduct investigations on fish, plants, and wildlife in order to develop information relating to population, distribution, habitat needs, limiting factors,...
• Programs; Cooperative Agreements - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.36504
  (1) The department may establish programs, including acquisition of land or aquatic habitat, as are considered necessary for the management of endangered or threatened...
• Prohibitions; Exceptions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.36505
  (1) Except as otherwise provided in this part, a person shall not take, possess, transport, import, export, process, sell, offer for sale, buy, or...
• Enforcement of Part and Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.36506
  A law enforcement officer, police officer, sheriff's deputy, or conservation officer shall enforce this part and the rules promulgated under this part.
• Violation; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.36507
  A person who violates this part or who fails to procure any permit required under this part is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by...
• Meanings of Words and Phrases - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.40101
  For purposes of this part, the words and phrases defined in sections 40102 to 40104 have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections.
• Definitions; a to F - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.40102
  (1) "Animals" means wild birds and wild mammals. (2) "Bag limit" means the number of animals that may be taken and possessed as determined...
• Definitions; G to R - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.40103
  (1) "Game" means any of the following animals but does not include privately owned cervidae species located on a cervidae livestock facility registered under...
• Definitions; T, V - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.40104
  (1) "Take" means to hunt with any weapon, dog, raptor, or other wild or domestic animal trained for that purpose; kill; chase; follow; harass;...
• Animals as Property of State; Taking of Animals to Be Regulated - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.40105
  All animals found in this state, whether resident or migratory and whether native or introduced, are the property of the people of the state,...
• Game or Protected Animal; Taking, Releasing, Transporting, Selling, Buying, or Possessing; Construction of Section - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.40106
  A person shall not take, release, transport, sell, buy, or have in his or her possession game or any protected animal, whether living or...
• Management of Animals; Orders of Department; Procedures for Exercising Power; Revision of Order; Filing Orders to Take Place of Former 1929 Pa 286; Filing and Effective Date of Orders - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.40107
  (1) The department shall manage animals in this state. In managing animals, the department may issue orders to do all of the following: (a)...
• Repealed. 2003, Act 242, Eff. Jan. 4, 2009. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Taking of Live Raptors for Use in Falconry; Order; Establishment of Season; Scope of Section - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.40107b
  (1) The department shall issue an order in the manner provided in section 40107(2) establishing a season or seasons for falconers to take live...
• Control and Management of Double - Crested Cormorants; Administration of Program; Organization of States; Funds - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.40107c
  (1) To reduce cormorant damage, the department shall administer a program to control and manage double-crested cormorants. The department shall administer the program in...
• Control and Management of Double - Crested Cormorants; Administration of Program; Organization of States; Funds - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.40107d
  (1) The cormorant control fund is created within the state treasury. (2) The state treasurer may receive money or other assets from any source...
• Interim Orders - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.40108
  The department may modify an order issued under section 40107 by issuing an interim order consistent with federal regulations or when the department determines...
• Transportation of Game; Identification of Sex and Species; Tagging; Section Inapplicable to Skins, Pelts, and Hides - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.40109
  If game is transported, the sex and species of the game shall be readily identifiable unless the game is game that has been cleaned...
• Designation of Species as Game; Establishment of First Open Season; Orders - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.40110
  Only the legislature may designate a species as game. If an animal is designated under this section by the legislature as game, then only...
• Open Season for Moose - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.40110a
  The legislature hereby authorizes the establishment of the first open season for moose. The commission may issue orders pertaining to moose for each of...
• Legislative Findings and Declaration; Establishment of First Open Season for Wolf - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.40110b
  (1) The legislature finds and declares that: (a) The wildlife populations of the state and their habitat are of paramount importance to the citizens...
• Taking Animal From in or Upon Vehicle; Transporting or Possessing Firearm in or Upon Vehicle; Person With Disability; Transporting or Possessing Unloaded Firearm in or Upon Vehicle on Sporting Clays Range; Transporting or Possessing Bow in or Upon Vehicle; Written Permission to Hunt or Discharge Firearm; Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.40111
  (1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (3) or (4), this part, or in a department order authorized under section 40107, an individual shall...
• Deer and Elk Feeding; Order; Definition; Baiting; Repeal of Section - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.40111a
  (1) The commission, after consultation with the commission of agriculture, shall issue in the manner provided in section 40113a an order concerning deer and...
• Use of Tranquilizer Propelled From Bow or Firearm Prohibited - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.40111c
  A person other than the department shall not take game using a tranquilizer propelled from a bow or firearm.
• Obstructing or Interfering in Lawful Taking of Animals; Prohibited Conduct; Petition; Injunction; Violation as Misdemeanor; Penalties; Section Inapplicable to Peace Officer - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.40112
  (1) A person shall not obstruct or interfere in the lawful taking of animals by another person. (2) A person violates this section when...
• Artificial Light - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.40113
  (1) Except as otherwise provided in a department order authorized under section 40107 for a specified animal, a person shall not use an artificial...
• Legislative Findings and Declarations; Taking of Game; Issuance of Orders - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.40113a
  (1) The legislature finds and declares that: (a) The wildlife populations of the state and their habitat are of paramount importance to the citizens...
• Permits and Licenses; Paraplegics, Amputees, and Permanently Disabled; Issuance of Permit for Certain Purposes; Taking of Game With Modified Bow; Permits for Additional Activities; Suspension, Revocation, Annulment, Withdrawal, Recall, Cancellation, or Amendment of Permit; Disposition of Fees - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.40114
  (1) The department may issue a permit to an individual who is unable to walk because the individual is a paraplegic or an amputee...
• Repealed. 2000, Act 347, Eff. July 1, 2000. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Hunter Orange; Exceptions; Noncompliance Not as Evidence of Contributory Negligence; "Hunter Orange" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.40116
  (1) A person shall not take game during the established daylight shooting hours from August 15 through April 30 unless the person wears a...
• Possession of Parts of Animal as Prima Facie Evidence of Violation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.40117
  In a prosecution for a violation of this part or an order or interim order issued under this part, the possession of the parts...
• Violation as Misdemeanor; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.40118
  (1) A person who violates this part, an order or interim order issued under this part, or a condition of a permit issued under...
• Reimbursement of State for Value of Game or Protected Animal; Forfeiture; Payment; Default as Civil Contempt; Additional Time for Payment; Reduction of Amount Forfeited; Revocation of Forfeiture; Collection of Default in Payment; Disposition of Forfeiture Damages - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.40119
  (1) In addition to the penalties provided for violating this part or an order issued under this part, and the penalty provided in section...
• Michigan Big Game Trophy Records; Official Keeper; Recognition - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.40120
  The department shall recognize commemorative bucks of Michigan, inc., as the official keeper of Michigan big game trophy records for deer, bear, elk, and
• Sale of Items Signifying Interest in Wildlife Preservation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.40301
  The department may issue for sale to the public a stamp, decal, medallion, or other item of personal property intended to signify the interest...
• Use of Net Proceeds - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.40302
  Net proceeds from the sale of an item authorized by this part shall be used by the department exclusively for wildlife research and habitat...
• Rights and Privileges; Marketing Items - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.40303
  The department may attach such rights and privileges to the items sold as will best serve the interests of wildlife preservation and shall market...
• Wildlife Restoration, Management, and Research Projects; Authority of Department to Cooperate With Federal Government; Use of Hunters' License Fees - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.40501
  The department shall perform such acts as may be necessary to conduct and establish wildlife restoration, management, and research projects and areas in cooperation...
• Homing Pigeons; Prohibited Acts - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.40901
  A person shall not at any time of the year or in any manner, hunt, take, pursue, capture, wound, kill, maim, or disfigure the...
• Homing Pigeons; Use of Certain Devices Prohibited - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.40902
  A person shall not at any time make use of any pit, pitfalls, deadfall, scaffold, cage, snarl, trap, net, baited hook, or any similar...
• Violation of Part as Misdemeanor; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.40903
  A person who violates this part, upon conviction of a first offense, is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment for not more than...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.41101
  As used in this part: (a) "Area" means the whole of the state and the whole or any designated portion of any township or...
• Regulatory Powers of Department; Exception - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.41102
  (1) The department, in accordance with this part, may regulate the taking or killing of all fish, game and fur-bearing animals, and game birds...
• Orders Protecting Fish, Animals, or Birds; Provisions; Duration; Notice; Newspaper Publication; Filing; Printing Order in Michigan Fish and Game Laws; Fisheries Research; Experimental Game Management Areas; Notice of Availability of Annual Sports Fishing Handbook and Amendments, Corrections, or Additions Thereto - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.41103
  (1) If the department determines that any fish, game or fur-bearing animals, or game birds of any kind or species are in danger of...
• Suspended Open Season; Rescission or Modification; Exception - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.41104
  If the open season during which any species of fish, game or fur-bearing animals, or game birds may be taken or killed has been...
• Violation as Misdemeanor; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.41105
  A person who takes or kills any fish, game, or fur-bearing animal, or game bird, contrary to an order or rule promulgated under this...
• Definitions; Possession of Live Organism - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.41301
  (1) As used in this part: (a) "Genetically engineered" refers to an organism whose genome, chromosomal or extrachromosomal, is modified permanently and heritably, using...
• Adding or Deleting From List of Prohibited Species or Restricted Species; Consultation; Procedure; Determination - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.41302
  (1) The commission of natural resources may by order add to or delete from the list of prohibited species or restricted species under section...
• Possession of Live Prohibited or Restricted Organism; Prohibition; Exceptions; Notification of Location Where Found - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.41303
  (1) Subject to subsection (2), a person shall not knowingly possess a live organism if the organism is a prohibited species or restricted species,...
• Introduction of Prohibited or Restricted Species, or Genetically Engineered or Nonnative Aquatic Plant, Bird, Crustacean, Fish, Mammal, or Mollusk; Exceptions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.41305
  A person shall not introduce a prohibited species, a restricted species, or a genetically engineered or nonnative aquatic plant, bird, crustacean, fish, mammal, or...
• Permit; Application; Fee; Approval; Revocation; Modification; Hearing; Administration; Enforcement - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.41306
  (1) A person shall apply for a permit that section 41303 or 41305 describes as being issued by the department of natural resources or...
• Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.41307
  The department shall promulgate rules under the administrative procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24.201 to 24.328, necessary to implement this part.
• Violation; Penalties; Liability for Damages to Natural Resources; Exceptions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.41309
  (1) A person who violates section 41303(2) is subject to a civil fine of not more than $100.00. (2) A person who violates section...
• Invasive Species Fund; Creation; Disposition of Funds; Money Remaining in Fund; Expenditures; Purposes - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.41311
  (1) The invasive species fund is created within the state treasury. (2) The department of natural resources and the department of agriculture shall forward...
• Providing Information on Website; Requirements - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.41313
  The department of natural resources and the department of agriculture shall each provide all of the following information on its website: (a) Information on...
• Repealed. 2009, Act 51, Eff. Sept. 21, 2009. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Duties of Department - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.41323
  (1) The department of natural resources shall do all of the following: (a) By March 1 of each year, submit to the governor and...
• Boat, Boating Equipment, or Boat Trailer With Aquatic Plant Attached; Placement in State Waters Prohibited; Order to Remove Aquatic Plants; Notice; Posting; Violation as Civil Infraction; Penalty; Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.41325
  (1) A person shall not place a boat, boating equipment, or boat trailer in the waters of this state if the boat, boating equipment,...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.41401
  As used in this part: (a) "Aquatic invasive species" or "AIS" means an aquatic species that is nonnative to the ecosystem under consideration and...
• Legislative Findings - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.41403
  The legislature finds all of the following: (a) The waters of the Great Lakes basin are precious public natural resources shared and held in...
• Aquatic Invasive Species Advisory Council; Creation; Membership; Appointment; Vacancy; Removal; First Meeting; Election of Chairperson and Officers; Quorum; Compliance With Open Meetings Act; Writings Subject to Freedom of Information Act; Compensation; Reimbursement; Technical Advisory Committees - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.41405
  (1) The aquatic invasive species advisory council is created within the department of environmental quality. (2) The council shall consist of the following: (a)...
• Final Update to Plan; Recommendations; Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.41407
  (1) Within 180 days after the effective date of the amendatory act that added this section or within 60 days of the issuance of...
• Prevention of Introduction and Spread of Ais Through Trade; Report; Recommendations - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.41409
  (1) Within 240 days after the effective date of the amendatory act that added this section, the council shall submit a report with recommendations...
• Draft Next Vessel General Permit; Development of Recommendations by Council - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.41411
  The council shall develop recommendations regarding this state's comments on the draft next vessel general permit and certification response to the draft next vessel...
• Phragmites Australis Control Measures; Review and Recommendations - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.41412
  The council shall review and provide recommendations on Phragmites australis control measures to the department and to the standing committees of the senate and...
• Duties of Council - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.41413
  To facilitate coordination and minimize duplication in fulfilling its duties, the council shall do all of the following: (a) Consider relevant recommendations and reports...
• Repeal of Part - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.41415
  This part is repealed effective 4 years after the effective date of the amendatory act that added this section.
• Saginaw Bay; Public Shooting and Hunting Ground - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.41501
  All of the lands belonging to the state and being in township 16 north, range 9 east, in Wild Fowl bay, in the county...
• Saginaw Bay; Trespassers; Prosecution - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.41502
  A person who has located upon or occupied or in the future locates upon or occupies any part of the lands described in this...
• Saginaw Bay; Hunting - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.41503
  A person may go upon any parts of the lands described in this subpart at any and all times permitted by the game laws...
• Saginaw Bay; Control; Rules; Enforcement; Violation of Subpart; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.41504
  Public shooting grounds described in this subpart are under the control of the department. The department may make, publish, and enforce reasonable rules and...
• Lake Erie Submerged Lands in Monroe and Wayne Counties; Public Shooting and Hunting Ground; Fishing Privileges - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.41505
  All of that part of Lake Erie lying adjacent to the surveyed lands of Monroe and Wayne counties and any submerged lands within the...
• Lake Erie Submerged Lands; Trespassers; Navigation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.41506
  A person who has located upon or occupied or in the future locates upon or occupies any part of the submerged lands or lake...
• Lake Erie Submerged Lands; Destruction of Submarine Vegetation; Violation as Misdemeanor; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.41507
  A person shall not cut or otherwise destroy the rushes and other submarine vegetation growing on the reserve described in this subpart without the...
• Great Lakes, Kalamazoo, Grand and Muskegon Rivers; Submerged and Swamp Lands; Public Shooting and Hunting Grounds; Boundaries; Excluded Lands - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.41508
  All of the swamp or submerged lands lying along the borders of Lakes Erie, Huron, Michigan, Superior, and St. Clair, except such parts of...
• Public Shooting and Hunting Ground; Inclusion of Subsequently Acquired Swamp or Submerged Lands - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.41509
  (1) If the state acquires title to any swamp or submerged lands within the limits described in section 41508, whether by purchase, escheat, forfeiture,...
• Swamp or Submerged Lands; Ratification of Certain Conveyances; Title - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.41510
  All conveyances made before July 1, 1977, by or for and on behalf of the state conveying swamp or submerged lands described in section...
• Land Subject to Fish and Game Laws; Navigation; Private and Municipal Dockage - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.41511
  The reservation and dedication in section 41508 shall not interfere with or detract from any rights or privileges of fishing now enjoyed by private...
• Trespassers; Officers to Protect Possession; Operation of Statute of Limitations - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.41512
  A person who has located upon or occupied or in the future locates upon or occupies any part of the park set aside in...
• Control by County Commissioners; Permissible Destruction of Submarine Vegetation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.41513
  The board of commissioners of each county shall have the care and control of that part of the park described in this subpart within...
• Destruction of Submarine Vegetation; Consent Required; Violation as Misdemeanor; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.41514
  A person shall not cut or otherwise destroy, or cause the cutting or destruction of, any rushes or other submarine vegetation growing on the...
• Driving Ducks Away From Hunters; Violation as Misdemeanor; Penalty; Navigation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.41515
  A person shall not willfully scare or drive wild ducks or other wild waterfowl, or cause the same to be done, from or away...
• "license" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.41701
  As used in this part, "license" means a license issued by the department to operate a game bird hunting preserve. History: Add. 1995, Act...
• Game Bird Hunting Preserves; License; Fee; Duration; Sunday Hunting - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.41702
  The department may issue licenses authorizing the establishment and operation of game bird hunting preserves pursuant to part 13. The fee for a license...
• Game Bird Hunting Preserves; Size; Boundary Signs - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.41703
  Each game bird hunting preserve shall contain not less than 80 acres or more than 640 acres of land leased or owned by the...
• Species Under Game Bird Hunting Preserve License; Limitation; Propagation, Sale, and Release of Birds; Requirements for Wild Turkeys or Wild Turkey Hybrids - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.41704
  (1) Only artificially propagated wild turkeys and wild turkey hybrids and other artificially propagated species as prescribed by the department may be hunted under...
• Licenses; Determination by Department of Percentage of Species Hunted - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.41705
  The licenses provided for in this part entitle the holders of the licenses and their lessees and licensees to take, by hunting, the percentage...
• Tagging of Birds; Cost; Reuse - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.41706
  Except as otherwise provided by an order issued under section 41710, before a game bird shot under authority of a game bird hunting preserve...
• Species of Wild Animal or Bird Permitted to Be Hunted - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.41707
  A wild animal, or a wild bird of a species other than those permitted to be hunted under authority of a license issued under...
• Operator's Records; Contents; Inspection; Reports - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.41708
  Each operator of a game bird hunting preserve licensed under this part shall maintain a record of the names, addresses, and hunting license numbers...
• License; Application; Contents - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.41709
  An application for a license under this part shall state the name and address of the applicant, the legal description of the premises to...
• Open Season; Duration; Orders - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.41710
  (1) By order, the department may establish an open season for game bird hunting preserves that shall be not less than 120 days. The...
• License Fees; Credit to Game and Fish Protection Account - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.41711
  All money received from the sale of licenses and tags or seals as provided in this part shall be deposited in the state treasury...
• Violation as Misdemeanor; Penalty; Grounds for Suspension or Revocation of License - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.41712
  (1) A person who violates this part or an order issued under this part is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not...
• Regulation and Prohibitions in Certain Areas; Powers of Department; Area Closures; Hearings, Investigations, Studies, and Statement of Facts; Regulations - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.41901
  (1) In addition to all of the department powers, in the interest of public safety and the general welfare, the department may regulate and...
• Submission of Findings and Recommendations; Approval or Disapproval of Prescribed Controls; Ordinance; Certified Copy; Repeal of Ordinance; Enforcement; Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.41902
  (1) The department shall submit its findings and recommendations to the governing body of the political subdivision concerned. By majority vote, the governing body...
• Closure Notice Signs; Materials, Form, Placement, Maintenance, Spacing, Publication of Notice; Rescission of Closure - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.41903
  The department shall designate closure notice signs of approved material, overall size, number, and letter size and composition of message. At least 4 notices,...
• Prohibitions Against Discharge of Firearms; Exceptions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.41904
  Any prohibition against discharge of firearms made under authority of this part does not apply to peace officers or members of any branch of...
• Violation of Part or Rules as Misdemeanor - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.41905
  Any person who violates this part or a rule promulgated under this part is guilty of a misdemeanor.
• Special Dog Training Area; Permit; Application; Fee; Size; Limitation; Additional Permits - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.42101
  Upon application of any club or organization having 10 or more members who are citizens of this state, or upon the application of 10...
• Training Dogs; Conditions; Rules; Prohibitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.42102
  Permit holders may at any time during the year train their own dogs or the dogs of other persons on land described in section...
• Dog Training Areas; Posting Boundary Lines; Notice; Contents - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.42103
  The boundary lines of each such special dog training area described in section 42101 shall be kept plainly and conspicuously posted by the permit...
• Area for Field Dog Trials and Dog Training on State - Owned Lands; Establishment; Closing Areas; Fee; Bond; Care and Maintenance of Areas - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.42104
  The department may establish areas that include the Gladwin, Brighton, Highland, Waterloo, Ionia, Escanaba state forest, and White Cloud areas for field dog trials...
• Dog Training Areas; Boundary Fence or Poster; Mutilation, Injury, or Destruction Prohibited - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.42105
  A person shall not willfully, negligently, or maliciously cut, remove, cover up, deface, or otherwise mutilate, injure, or destroy any special dog training area...
• Violation as Misdemeanor; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.42106
  A person who violates this part or any rule promulgated under section 42102 or 42104, upon conviction, is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by...
• Dealers in Furs, Hides, Plumage, or Pelts; Licenses; Fees; Beaver Trapping; Designation by Department of Nonsaleable Plumage and Skin; "plumage" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.42501
  (1) A person shall not engage in the business of buying, selling, dealing, or the tanning and dressing of raw furs, hides, or pelts...
• Fur Dealer's License; Forms and Blanks; Term; Revocation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.42502
  The department may prepare suitable report forms and blanks covering the different kinds of licenses to be issued under this part. All licenses issued...
• Shipping Permits; Contents; Label; Confiscation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.42503
  Any dealer who desires to ship or transport out of the state any fur-bearing animals or the raw skins of fur-bearing animals, or parts...
• Report of Pelts in Possession on Last Day of Season - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.42504
  Within 10 days after the close of the respective open seasons provided by law for the taking of fur-bearing animals, game birds, and game...
• Monthly Reports - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.42505
  On or before the tenth day of every month, each person licensed to do business under this part shall make a report to the...
• Money Received From Sale of Licenses; Credit to Game and Fish Protection Account; Use - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.42506
  All money received from the sale of licenses as provided in this part shall be forwarded to the state treasurer and placed to the...
• Violation as Misdemeanor; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.42507
  A person or his or her agent or servant who violates this part is guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall forfeit to the state...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.42701
  As used in this part: (a) "Game" has the same meaning ascribed to that term in part 401. (b) "License" means a game breeder's...
• Possession of Game for Propagation and Dealing and Selling of Game; License; Denial; Zoning Requirements; License Nontransferable; Validity - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.42702
  (1) The department may, pursuant to part 13, issue licenses to authorize the possession of game for propagation and the dealing in and selling...
• License to Be Valid and Current; Exemptions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.42703
  A person shall not maintain in captivity or propagate or sell game, except as otherwise provided by law, unless that person holds a valid...
• License Fees - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.42704
  The fee for a license shall be established by the department as follows: (a) If it is practicable to count the applicant's game, the...
• Rights of Licensee - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.42705
  A person who has secured a license may possess, propagate, use, buy, sell, trap, kill, consume, ship, or transport any or all of the...
• Islands, Enclosures, and Pens Used for Propagation Purposes; Character and Location; Construction; Conditions to Issuance of License or Approval of Enclosure; Purchase of Deer From State; Applicability of Subsections (2) and (3); "flush" or "flushed" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.42706
  (1) All islands, enclosures, and pens used for propagation purposes shall be of a character and in a location that the department approves as...
• Purchase of and Title to State - Owned Game; Price - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.42707
  If wild, state owned game animals are present on land that is covered by a license, the applicant may purchase the state owned game...
• Game Covered by License; Manner of Taking or Killing; Requirement for Wild Turkey or Wild Turkey Hybrids - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.42708
  (1) Game covered by a license may be taken or killed in any manner and at any time, except that game birds covered by...
• Removal of Game From Premises; Identification; Seals, Bands, and Tags; Removal of Certain Fertile Eggs Prohibited - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.42709
  (1) Game, including the parts or products of game, may be removed from licensed premises only when identified as required by the department. This...
• Orders; Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.42710
  (1) The department may issue orders considered necessary by the department to protect the public interest and to provide for the proper administration of...
• Released or Escaped Game as Property of State; Permission to Release Game Birds Required - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.42711
  (1) Game that are released or that escape from the premises of a person licensed under this part become the property of the state....
• Disposition of Money - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.42712
  All money received from the sale of licenses under this part shall be credited to the game and fish protection account of the Michigan...
• Suspension or Revocation of License - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.42713
  (1) After providing an opportunity for a hearing under the administrative procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24.201 to 24.328, the department...
• Violation as Misdemeanor; Penalties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.42714
  A person who violates this part or an order issued under this part is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment for not more...
• Foxes in Captivity as Domestic Animals; Protection; Construction of Part - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43101
  Silver, silver-black, black, and cross foxes, which of their nature, in the absence of efforts for their domestication, were known as wild, which are...
• Brands or Tattoo Marks; Recording; Prima Facie Evidence of Ownership - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43102
  An owner or prospective owner of a fur-bearing animal described in this part which is living in captivity is entitled, by written subscribed statement,...
• Prohibited Acts; Trespass on Premises; Killing, Trapping, Injuring or Disturbing Fur - Bearing Animal; Consent - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43103
  Without the permission of the owner of a privately owned fur-bearing animal described in this part, a person shall not enter the enclosure within...
• Violation of Part as Misdemeanor; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43104
  A person who violates this part is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment for not more than 90 days or a fine of...
• Limitation on Acreage Held for Sporting Purposes - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43301
  A person shall not acquire, hold, or occupy by purchase, lease, or other evidence of title, possession, or right of occupancy or enclose by...
• Limitation on Acreage; Location - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43302
  A person shall not acquire, hold, or occupy in the manner and for the purposes stated in section 43301 any real estate that is...
• Violation of Part; Fine - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43303
  A person who violates this part is subject to a civil fine of $50.00 for each day that a violation of this part continues....
• Meanings of Words and Phrases - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43501
  For the purposes of this part, the words and phrases defined in sections 43502 to 43508 have the meanings ascribed to them in those
• Definitions; a to C - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43502
  (1) "Accompany" means to go along with another person under circumstances that allow one to come to the immediate aid of the other person...
• Definitions; F - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43503
  (1) "Fish" means all species of fish. (2) "Fishing" means the pursuing, capturing, catching, killing, or taking of fish, and includes attempting to pursue,...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43504
  As used in this part: (a) "Game" has the meaning given that term in part 401. (b) "Game and fish protection account" means the...
• Definitions; H to N - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43505
  (1) "Hunt" and "hunting" mean to pursue, capture, shoot, kill, chase, follow, harass, harm, rob, or trap a wild animal, or to attempt to...
• Definitions; O to R - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43506
  (1) "Open season" means the time during which game animals, game birds, fur-bearing animals, and aquatic species may be legally taken or killed. Open...
• Definitions; S - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43507
  (1) "Senior citizen" means a resident 65 years of age or older. (2) "Slingshot" means a Y-shaped device with an elastic strip attached between...
• Definitions; T to W - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43508
  (1) "Take" means fishing, hunting, trapping, catching, capturing, killing, or the attempt to engage in such an activity. (2) "Trap" and "trapping" mean the...
• Taking Aquatic Species; Taking or Possessing Wild Animal; License - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43509
  (1) A person 17 years of age or older shall not take aquatic species, except aquatic insects, in or upon any waters over which...
• Carrying or Transporting Firearm, Slingshot, Bow and Arrow, Crossbow or Trap; License Required; Exception; Applicability to Taking of Wild Animal - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43510
  (1) Subject to subsection (2) and except as provided in section 43513, a person shall not carry or transport a firearm, slingshot, bow and...
• Deer or Elk Season; Transporting or Possessing Shotgun or Rifle; License Required; Exception - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43511
  (1) Subject to subsection (2), and except as provided in section 43513, during the open season for the taking of deer or elk with...
• Repealed. 1998, Act 104, Eff. Mar. 23, 1999. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Carrying, Transporting, or Possessing Firearm, Slingshot, Bow and Arrow, or Crossbow; Hunting License Not Required; Carrying or Possessing Unloaded Weapon - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43513
  (1) A person may carry, transport, or possess a firearm without a hunting license if the firearm is unloaded in both barrel and magazine...
• Hunting and Fishing Without License; Exception - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43514
  (1) A resident, the resident's spouse, and the resident's children may hunt small game without a license upon the enclosed farmlands upon which they...
• Permit Authorizing Mentally Retarded Person or Resident of Home for Aged to Fish Without License - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43515
  The department may issue a permit authorizing a mentally retarded person or a resident of a home for the aged licensed under article 17...
• Hunting, Fur Harvester, or Fishing License; Carrying License; Exhibiting License on Demand; Firearm Deer License With Unused Kill Tag; Exhibiting Tag on Request - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43516
  (1) A person who has been issued a hunting, fur harvester's, or fishing license shall carry the license and shall exhibit the license upon...
• Hunting by Minor Child; Order Establishing Mentored Youth Hunting Program - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43517
  (1) A parent or legal guardian of a minor child shall not permit or allow the minor child to hunt game under the authority...
• "department" Defined; Signature Requirement for Valid License - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43518
  (1) As used in this section to section 43544, "department" includes a person designated by the department to issue and sell licenses. (2) A...
• License Requirements; Effect of Court Order - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43519
  (1) To obtain any license, an applicant shall provide the department with 1 or more of the following as required by the department: (a)...
• Hunting License; Issuance to Minor Child; Conditions; Duties of Issuing Agent; Proof of Previous Hunting Experience or Certification of Completion of Training in Hunter Safety; Affidavit; Information to Be Recorded; Apprentice License; Mentored Youth Hunting License; Fee; Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43520
  (1) Subject to other requirements of this part, the department may issue a hunting license to a minor child if all of the following...
• Discounting Price of License - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43521
  Notwithstanding any other section of this part, the department may discount the price of a license for the following purposes: (a) For marketing purposes...
• Issuance of Sportcard to Persons Not Possessing Driver License or Other Identification; Fee - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43522
  If a person applying for a license or permit under this part does not possess a Michigan driver license or other identification, the department...
• License Fee Increase; Deferment; Determination by Director - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43522a
  Notwithstanding any other section of this part, any portion of the license fee increases authorized in this part for 1999 or 2001, or both,...
• Small Game License; Fees; Validity - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43523
  (1) Except as otherwise provided in this part, a person shall not hunt small game unless the person possesses a current small game license....
• Wild Turkey Hunting License; Fees; Lottery; Issuance of License; Use of Fees; Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43524
  (1) An individual shall not hunt wild turkey without a wild turkey hunting license. The fee for a resident wild turkey hunting license is...
• Waterfowl Hunting License; Affixing Stamp to License; Purchase by Collector; Annual or Daily Managed Waterfowl Area Permit; Fees; Lottery for Hunting Privilege; Use of Fees - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43525
  (1) A person 16 years of age or older shall not hunt waterfowl without a current waterfowl hunting license issued by this state. The...
• Combination Deer License - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43525a
  (1) The department shall issue a combination deer license that authorizes an individual to hunt deer both during the firearm deer seasons and the...
• Firearm Deer License; Second Firearm Deer License; Fees; Orders; Kill Tag - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43526
  (1) A person shall not hunt deer during the firearm deer season without purchasing a firearm deer license. The fee for a resident firearm...
• Hunters Helping Landowners Program; Repeal of Section - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43526a
  (1) The department shall establish a hunters helping landowners program. (2) The program shall do each of the following: (a) Allow an individual who...
• Bow and Arrow Deer License; Fees; Purchase of Second Bow and Arrow Deer License; Orders; Kill Tag; Provisions Applicable to Bow and Arrow Deer License - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43527
  (1) A person shall not hunt deer with a bow and arrow or crossbow during the bow and arrow deer season without a bow...
• Bear Hunting License; Exception; Fees; Tag - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43528
  (1) A person shall not hunt bear unless the person possesses a bear hunting license. However, a person who goes on a bear hunt...
• Moose Hunting License; Fees; Kill Tag - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43528a
  (1) A resident shall not hunt moose without a moose hunting license. The fee for a moose hunting license is $100.00. The department may...
• Wolf Hunting License Required; Fee; Kill Tag - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43528b
  (1) An individual shall not hunt wolf without a wolf hunting license. The fee for a resident wolf hunting license is $100.00. The fee...
• Elk Hunting License; Fees; Kill Tag - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43529
  (1) A resident shall not hunt elk during the elk season without an elk hunting license. The fee for an elk hunting license is...
• Hunting Small Game on Game Bird Hunting Preserves; Small Game License; Special Game Bird Hunting License; Fee; Affixing Date of Issuance to License; Rights of Licensee - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43530
  (1) A person shall not hunt small game on game bird hunting preserves licensed under part 417 without a small game license as provided...
• Fur Harvester's License; Exception; Fees; Conditions to Issuance of Nonresident Fur Harvester's License; Rights of Licensee - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43531
  (1) Except as otherwise provided in section 43523(2), an individual shall not trap or hunt fur-bearing animals unless the individual possesses a fur harvester's...
• Restricted Fishing License; Fees; Rights of Licensee; All - Species Fishing License - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43532
  (1) A person 17 years of age or older shall not take or possess an aquatic species, except aquatic insects, in the waters over...
• 24 - Hour or 72 - Hour Fishing License; Fees - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43533
  (1) A resident or nonresident may purchase a 24-hour or 72-hour fishing license entitling that person to take, for a designated 24-hour or 72-hour...
• Free Fishing Days - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43534
  (1) The department shall designate a Saturday and the following Sunday during January or February of each year as free winter fishing days. In...
• Senior License; Fee; Rights and Privileges - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43535
  A resident of this state who is 65 years of age or older may obtain a senior small game license, a senior firearm deer...
• Senior Restricted Fishing License; Fee; Senior All - Species Fishing License - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43536
  (1) A resident of this state who is 65 years of age or older may obtain a senior restricted fishing license. The fee for...
• Person Stationed Outside State; Lottery Not Required; Validity; "member of the Military" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43536a
  (1) A member of the military may obtain any license under this part for which a lottery is not required for $1.00 upon presentation...
• Restricted or Senior All - Species Fishing License; Eligibility of Legally Blind; Disabled Veteran; Resident License for Which Lottery Not Required; Proof of Eligibility; Processing Licenses; Appropriations; "Disabled Veteran" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43537
  (1) A resident who is declared legally blind is eligible to purchase a senior restricted or senior all-species fishing license. (2) A disabled veteran...
• Fishing; Reciprocity - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43538
  The department may permit a person licensed under the fishing laws of an adjacent state to fish in the inland lakes and rivers or...
• Report by Licensee - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43539
  The department may require each licensed hunter, trapper, and angler to make a report to the department of the number, kinds, and location of...
• License; Application and Issuance by Mail, on - Line Computer Service, or Telephone; Fees; Delinquent Payment - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43540
  (1) An application for 1 or more licenses issued under this part may be made by mail, on-line computer service, or telephone to the...
• Sportsmen Against Hunger Program; Implementation; Duties of Department; Financial Donations; Contract With Nonprofit Organization to Administrate Program; Contract Requirements; "Program" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43540a
  (1) Subject to subsection (4), by January 1, 2007, the department shall implement a program to distribute wild game to people in need. The...
• Sportsmen Against Hunger Program; Donation; Creation; Disposition of Money or Other Assets; Money Remaining in Fund; Expenditure; Costs; Limitation; "Fund" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43540c
  (1) Subject to subsection (2), when a person applies for a license under this part, the department or the department's agent shall ask whether...
• Repealed. 2010, Act 366, Eff. Dec. 22, 2011. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Wolf Management Advisory Council - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43540e
  (1) The wolf management advisory council is created within the department. (2) The council shall consist of at least the following members: (a) The...
• Retaining Percentage of Fees for Sportcard, License, Duplicate License, Application, or Permit; Additional Charges - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43541
  (1) A person authorized by the department to issue licenses on March 15, 1993, may retain 7.5% of the fees for each sportcard, license,...
• Licenses; Validity; Fee; Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43542
  (1) All licenses issued under this part are valid from March 1 through March 31 of the following year or as otherwise provided by...
• Course of Instruction in Safe Handling of Firearms; Instructors; Registration; Certificate of Competency - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43543
  The department shall provide for a course of instruction in the safe handling of firearms and shall designate persons, without compensation, to serve as...
• License, Sportcard, or Kill Tag; Loss or Destruction; Duplicate; Certification of Loss Form; Fees - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43544
  (1) If a license or sportcard issued pursuant to this part or a kill tag is lost or destroyed, a licensee may procure a...
• Senior Hunting and Fishing Licenses; Appropriating Sum Equal to Fees Not Collected; Crediting Appropriation to Game and Fish Protection Account - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43546
  (1) Before June 1 of each year, the department shall determine the total number of senior hunting and fishing licenses issued and the total...
• Preparation and Issuance of Sportcards and Licenses; Information; Equipment; Conservation Law Enforcement Stamps - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43547
  (1) The department shall prepare sportcards, if necessary, and licenses to comply with this part and may authorize persons to issue sportcards and licenses....
• Persons Authorized to Issue Limited Fishing Licenses Without Equipment; Bond; Remittance of Money; Limitation on Fee; Fees Held in Trust - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43548
  (1) The department may require a person authorized to issue limited fishing licenses without the equipment described in section 43547 to file a bond...
• Violation of Mcl 324.43548; Penalties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43549
  A person who violates section 43548, in addition to other penalties provided by law, forfeits the right to issue licenses and sportcards and forfeits...
• Format of License - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43550
  The department shall select the format of the license.
• Issuance of Certain Licenses; Restriction - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43551
  The department may restrict the issuance of certain licenses to issuance only by department offices or employees.
• Quotas on Licenses - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43552
  The department may establish a quota on the number of each kind of license that may be issued.
• Disposition of Money Received From Sale of Passbooks and Licenses; Payments; Grants; Youth Hunting and Fishing Education and Outreach Fund; Annual Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43553
  (1) The department shall transmit all money received from the sale of licenses to the state treasurer, together with a statement indicating the amount...
• Deer Habitat; Improvement; Maintenance; Management - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43554
  One dollar and fifty cents of the license fee for each firearm deer, bow and arrow deer, and resident sportsperson's license shall be used...
• Wildlife Resource Protection Fund; Creation; Transmission and Deposit of Additional Fee; Money Credited; Expenditures; Voluntary Contribution; Annual Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43555
  (1) Thirty-five cents from each license and stamp fee prescribed in this part, except for fees for licenses described in section 43553(5), shall be...
• Hunter Access Leases on Private Land; Lease Payments; Control of Hunter Access by Participating Landowners; Cancellation of Lease Agreement; Forfeiture of Lease Payments; Posting Boundaries of Leased Land; Cause of Action for Injuries; Orders - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43556
  (1) The department may utilize the game and fish protection account for the purpose of acquiring and administering hunter access leases on private land....
• License Application Lists, Information, and Publications; Sale; Price; Disposition of Proceeds - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43557
  The department may sell, or contract for the sale of, license application lists or information filed with the department pursuant to this part and...
• Prohibited Conduct; Misdemeanor; Penalties; Carrying Firearm Under Influence of Controlled Substance or Alcohol; Effect of Prior Conviction; Violation of Subsection (1)(d) as Misdemeanor - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43558
  (1) A person is guilty of a misdemeanor if the person does any of the following: (a) Makes a false statement as to material...
• Violation; Revocation of License; Suspension Order; Compliance; Rescission - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43559
  (1) If a person is convicted of violating this part, or another law relative to hunting, fishing, or trapping that does not otherwise require...
• Violation as Misdemeanor; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43560
  A person who violates this part or a rule promulgated under this part, for which violation a penalty is not otherwise provided for in...
• Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43561
  The department may promulgate rules for the administration of this part. History: Add. 1995, Act 57, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1995 ;-- Am. 1996,...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43701
  As used in this part: (a) "Game and fish protection account" means the game and fish protection account of the Michigan conservation and recreation...
• Michigan Game and Fish Protection Trust Fund; Establishment; Composition - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43702
  In accordance with section 41 of article IX of the state constitution of 1963, the Michigan game and fish protection trust fund is established...
• Transfer of Interest and Earnings; Manner of Maintaining Corpus of Trust Fund; Transfer of Funds - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43703
  (1) The state treasurer shall transfer the interest and earnings from the trust fund to the game and fish protection account. (2) Subject to...
• Investment of Trust Fund; Report on Accounting of Revenues and Expenditures - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43704
  (1) The state treasurer shall direct the investment of the trust fund. The state treasurer shall have the same authority to invest the assets...
• Joint Legislative Work Group; Establishment; Purpose; Composition; Membership; Appointment; Service; Vacancy; First Meeting; Quorum; Compensation; Assistance and Staff Support; Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43705
  (1) A joint legislative work group on game and fish program revenue is established. (2) The work group shall consist of representatives of the...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43901
  As used in this part: (a) "Nongame fish and wildlife" means fish or wild animals that are unconfined and not ordinarily taken for sport,...
• Michigan Nongame Fish and Wildlife Trust Fund; Establishment; Composition; Investment; Annual Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43902
  (1) In accordance with section 42 of article IX of the state constitution of 1963, the Michigan nongame fish and wildlife trust fund is...
• Retention of Certain Money in Trust Fund on Permanent Basis; Expenditures - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43903
  (1) The Michigan nongame fish and wildlife trust fund shall maintain a principal balance of not less than $6,000,000.00, which shall be retained in...
• Plan for Management of Nongame Fish and Wildlife Resources - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43904
  The department shall develop and implement a long-range plan for the management of Michigan's nongame fish and wildlife resources. The plan shall be reviewed...
• Duties of Department - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43905
  The department shall do all of the following: (a) Develop long-range nongame wildlife plans. (b) Provide information to the public about the value of...
• Determination of Projects to Be Funded; Solicitation and Approval of Proposals - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43906
  The department shall determine which projects should be funded with money from the trust fund. The department shall solicit and approve proposals from individuals,...
• Public Information Program - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.43907
  The department shall develop and implement a public information program to present the values and benefits of nongame fish and wildlife and their habitats...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.44101
  As used in this part: (a) "Resident" means either of the following: (i) A person who resides in a settled or permanent home or...
• Lifetime Hunting or Fishing Licenses; Fees; Privileges, Responsibilities, and Duties; Validity; Comprehensive Lifetime Hunting and Fishing License - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.44102
  (1) From March 1, 1989 to February 28, 1990, certain lifetime hunting or fishing licenses may be purchased by a resident of this state...
• Submission of Application and Fee; Contents of Application; Notice of Change in Name or Address; Purchase of Lifetime License for Another Person; Issuance of Certificate; Minor Child; Eligibility of Holder of Certificate to Hunt or Fish; Review of Application; Mailing License; Denial of Application; Retention of Certain Amounts; Tender of Money and Information; Report; Return of Information, Unsold License, and Money to Department; Replacement Lifetime License; Forwarding Proceeds to State Treasurer - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.44103
  (1) A resident of this state may purchase a lifetime license by submitting a completed application accompanied by the fee required in section 44102...
• Game and Fish Lifetime License Trust Fund; Creation; Purpose; Crediting Money Received; Investment of Trust Fund - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.44104
  (1) The game and fish lifetime license trust fund is created within the state treasury for the benefit of the people of this state...
• Maintenance and Investment of Corpus, Interest, and Earnings of Trust Fund; Crediting Certain Amount to Game and Fish Protection Account - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.44105
  (1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2) , the corpus of the trust fund and the interest and earnings of the trust fund...
• Violation of Mcl 324.44103; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.44106
  In addition to any other penalty provided by law, a person who violates section 44103 shall forfeit the right to issue lifetime licenses and...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.44501
  As used in this part: (a) "Boat livery" means a place of business or any location where a person rents or offers for rent...
• Conditions to Renting or Leasing Charter Boat or Carrying Passengers for Hire; Possession and Display of Valid Pilot's License; Obtaining Vessel Inspection Certificate and Pilot's License - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.44502
  (1) A person shall not rent or lease, or offer to rent or lease, a charter boat, and a person shall not carry passengers...
• Conditions to Advertising or Arranging for Carrying Passenger on Charter Boat - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.44503
  A person shall not advertise or arrange for the carrying of any passenger on a charter boat unless the charter boat has been issued...
• Rules Establishing Minimum Safety Standards for Charter Boats; Vessel Ventilation and Rail Height - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.44504
  (1) The department shall promulgate rules to establish minimum safety standards for charter boats. The safety standards shall be designed to ensure the safety...
• Public Liability Insurance; Notice of Cancellation or Expiration - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.44505
  An insurance carrier that issues public liability insurance required by this part or a rule promulgated under this part shall notify the department immediately,...
• Rules for Licensing Pilots of Charter Boats - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.44506
  The department shall promulgate rules for the licensing of pilots of charter boats on inland waters. Rules promulgated under this section shall be designed...
• Inspection of Charter Boats and Equipment; Certificate of Inspection; Number of Crew; Effect of Noncompliance - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.44507
  (1) Except for an inspection under section 44511(2) and except for a class E vessel that is a charter boat, the department shall inspect...
• Availability of Fish in Waters Utilized by Charter Boats; Catch Activity Committee; Composition; Duties; Reports; Charter Boat Operator Engaged in Fishing; Duties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.44508
  (1) The department may research the availability of fish in the waters of this state that are utilized by charter boats. (2) The department...
• Operation of Charter Boat in Violation of Terms of Certificate of Inspection - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.44509
  (1) A person shall not operate a charter boat in violation of the terms of a certificate of inspection. (2) Subsection (1) does not...
• State Pilot's License or Renewal; Examination; Reexamination; Revocation; Issuance; Duration - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.44510
  (1) The department shall examine, or provide for the examination of, all applicants for a state pilot's license or renewal of an existing state...
• Application for Charter Boat Inspection or State Pilot's Examination; Filing; Fee; Form; Furnishing Required Information; False Information; Signature as Certification of True and Correct Information; Inspection Fee Schedules for Dry Dock and Dockside Inspection; Inspection Without Fee or for Reduced Fee; Examination Fee for State Pilot's License; Forfeiture of Application Fee; Disposition and Use of Inspection Fees - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.44511
  (1) The owner of a charter boat required to be inspected under this part and a person required to be licensed as a state...
• Petition for Evidentiary Hearing; Appeal - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.44512
  (1) A person denied a state pilot's license or the owner of a charter boat for which a certificate of inspection has been denied...
• Reciprocity; Annual Operating Permit; Amount and Use of Fees; Education and Enforcement Program; Printed Materials - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.44513
  (1) The department may enter into reciprocal agreements with other states and countries concerning the operation and inspection of charter boats from those states...
• Repealed. 2012, Act 249, Imd. Eff. July 2, 2012. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Rules Requiring Equipment and Minimum Safety Standards for Livery Boats - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.44515
  The department shall promulgate rules requiring equipment and minimum safety standards for livery boats that are rented or leased to the public by boat...
• Boat Livery; Annual Inspection Decal, Plate, or Tab; Permit Application; Inspection Fee; Inspection by Sheriff's Department; Permit; Issuance; Display; Powers and Duties of Department and Conservation Officer; Items to Be Furnished by Department of Natural Resources - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.44516
  (1) A boat livery shall not rent a motorized livery boat unless the livery boat has a current annual inspection decal, plate, or tab...
• Repealed. 2012, Act 249, Imd. Eff. July 2, 2012. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Affixing Inspection Decal, Plate, or Tab to Motorized Livery Boat; Expiration; Fees; Information; Amount, Disposition, and Use of Fees - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.44518
  (1) The sheriff of the county where a boat livery is located or a deputy sheriff shall affix or cause to be affixed an...
• Removing, Damaging, or Mutilating Inspection Decal, Plate, or Tab - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.44519
  A boat livery owner, the designated representative of the boat livery owner, or any other person, except an inspecting officer, shall not remove, damage,...
• Written Rental Contract Required for Certain Livery Boats; Relinquishing Physical Control; Responsibility of Individual Renting Livery Boat; Display of Information - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.44520
  (1) The owner of a boat livery shall not rent a livery boat more than 20 feet in length to be used on navigable...
• Nonmotorized Livery Boat; Liability for Injury or Death to User; Notice; Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.44520a
  (1) An owner of a nonmotorized livery boat is not liable for an injury to or the death of a user of the nonmotorized...
• Presenting Rental Contract or Lease Agreement for Examination by Peace Officer; Prohibited Conduct by Person Renting, Leasing, or Operating Livery Boat - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.44521
  (1) Any person renting, leasing, or operating a livery boat on navigable waters that is more than 20 feet in length shall present for...
• Rental of Personal Watercraft; Prohibition; Certification Required; Rental Agreement; Contents; Validity; Liability; Violation of Subsection (1) or (2) as Misdemeanor; Impoundment - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.44522
  (1) A boat livery shall not rent a personal watercraft to any of the following: (a) A person who is under 14 years of...
• Inspection by Peace Officer - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.44522a
  In addition to inspections conducted for purposes of section 44516 or under section 80166, a peace officer may inspect any livery boat at a...
• Petition for Evidentiary Hearing - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.44523
  (1) A boat livery owner denied a permit to operate a boat livery by an inspecting officer designated by the department may petition the...
• Violation as Misdemeanor; Penalties; Seizure, Condemnation, and Confiscation of Vessel; Issuance of Appearance Ticket - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.44524
  (1) A person who violates this part or a rule promulgated under this part is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not...
• Applicability and Construction of Part - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.44525
  (1) Except for the reporting requirements of section 44508, this part does not apply to a vessel that is required to be inspected by...
• Effect of Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.44526
  Except as otherwise provided in section 44504, rules promulgated pursuant to former Act No. 244 of the Public Acts of 1986 or an act...
• Inland Lakes; Fishing Prohibited; Exception - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.45101
  A person shall not take any fish from any of the inland lakes of this state, within which fish are planted at the expense...
• Violation of Part; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.45102
  A person who violates this part is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment for not more than 30 days, or a fine of...
• Lawful Fishing With Hook and Line - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.45301
  In any of the navigable or meandered waters of this state where fish have been or are propagated, planted, or spread at the expense...
• Fishing Rights; Action; Defense - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.45302
  An action shall not be maintained against a person entering upon the waters for the purpose of fishing, by the owner, lessee, or other...
• Frogs; Limitation on Taking or Killing; Spearing With Aid of Artificial Light Prohibited - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.45501
  A person shall not take or kill any species of frogs in this state from November 16 in any year to the Friday immediately...
• Frogs; Lawful Purchase, Sale, or Possession - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.45502
  This part does not prevent the purchase, sale, or possession of frogs or any portion of the carcasses of frogs that have been legally...
• Frogs; Permits to Take for Scientific or Experimental Purposes; Revocation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.45503
  The department may, pursuant to part 13, issue permits to take frogs at any season of the year if used for scientific or experimental...
• Violation of Part or False Statement; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.45504
  A person who violates this part or who makes a false statement in securing or attempting to secure a permit under this part is...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.45701
  As used in this part: (a) "Mussel" means the pearly freshwater mussel, clam, or naiad, and the shells of the pearly freshwater mussel, clam,...
• Mussels; Registration and License Requirements - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.45702
  A person shall not take, catch, or kill mussels by means of any kind of apparatus or in any manner in any of the...
• License; Application; Form; Fee - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.45703
  A person shall not take, catch, or kill mussels in any of the inland waters of this state without applying to the department on...
• License; Issuance; Duration; Contents; Possession; Exhibition - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.45704
  The department shall upon receipt of an application and the proper fee issue a license to take, catch, or kill mussels. All licenses shall...
• Applications and Licenses; Record; Receipts; Disposition; "Nonresident" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.45705
  The department shall keep a record of all applications and licenses issued and on the first day of each month shall pay to the...
• Mussels; Number of Boats Permitted; Crowfoot Bars; Hand Rods; Prohibited Devices; Mufflers - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.45706
  Any person to whom a license has been issued under this part may operate not more than 1 boat, with or without a motor,...
• Mussels; Limitation on Catch of Certain Undersized Species - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.45707
  A person shall not take, catch, kill, offer for sale, or possess, in a quantity of more than 1% by weight, mussels of the...
• Mussels; Closed Areas; Orders of Department; Publication; Effective Date - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.45708
  The department may, for the conservation of the mussel resources of the state, prescribe areas in any part of the state from which mussels...
• Mussels; Report to Department by License Holder; Prerequisite to New License - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.45709
  On or before December 31 of the year in which any license was issued, the holder of the license shall make a written report...
• Taking Mussels for Culture or Scientific Investigation; Permit Required - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.45710
  A person shall not take from any of the inland waters of this state any kind of mussels in any manner for the purpose...
• Violation of Part; Penalty; Default - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.45711
  A person who violates this part is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not less than $10.00 or more than $100.00...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.45901
  As used in this part: (a) "Game fish" includes all species of fish in the families of salmonidae (trout and salmon), thymallidae (grayling), esocidae...
• Game Fish; License for Propagation for Sale - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.45902
  (1) A person shall not propagate, rear, or have in possession for the purpose of offering for sale or selling any kind of game...
• Game Fish; License; Application; Contents; Fee - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.45903
  Any person owning or having control of private waters in this state who desires a license under this part shall make application for the...
• Game Fish; Sale; Posting of License - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.45904
  A person shall not propagate, rear, or possess, for the purpose of offering for sale or selling, any game fish, except at the location...
• Rules; Enforcement - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.45905
  The department may promulgate and enforce rules as may be necessary to carry out the intent of this part and to protect the public
• Importation of Game Fish or Viable Eggs; Prohibition or Restriction; Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.45906
  (1) A person shall not import into this state any live game fish, including viable eggs of any game fish, except as authorized by...
• License Fees; Crediting Game and Fish Protection Account - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.45907
  All money received from the sale of licenses provided for in this part shall be paid over to the state treasurer and shall be...
• Violation of Part or Rules as Misdemeanor; Penalty; Suspension or Revocation of License - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.45908
  (1) Except as provided in subsection (2), a person who violates this part or the rules promulgated under this part is guilty of a...
• Northport Harbor; Fishing for Perch or Smelt Prohibited - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.46101
  (1) A person shall not take any of the species of fish known as perch with gill nets, pound nets, trap nets, seines, setlines,...
• Violation of Part as Misdemeanor; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.46102
  A person who violates this part is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not more than $100.00, or imprisonment for not...
• St. Joseph River; Applicability of General Laws - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.46301
  All general laws relative to fishing on inland lakes are applicable to the waters in that part of the St. Joseph river formerly known...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.46501
  As used in this part: (a) "Fishing shanty" means a fishing house or any other structure or shelter placed on the ice on the...
• Fishing Shanty; Affixing Name and Address of Owner - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.46502
  (1) A person shall not set, place, erect, or cause to be set, placed, or erected, or use a fishing shanty at any time...
• Fishing Shanties; Upper Peninsula; Removal; Conditions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.46503
  A person who sets, places, erects, or causes to be set, placed, or erected a fishing shanty upon the ice of any waters of...
• Fishing Shanties; Certain Counties; Removal; Conditions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.46504
  A person who sets, places, erects, or causes to be set, placed, or erected a fishing shanty upon the ice of any water in...
• Fishing Shanties; Other Counties; Removal; Conditions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.46505
  A person who sets, places, erects, or causes to be set, placed, or erected a fishing shanty upon the ice of water in any...
• Fishing Shanty; Use and Placement After Certain Dates - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.46506
  After the dates listed in sections 46503, 46504, and 46505, a person may place and use a fishing shanty for the purposes of fishing...
• Fishing Shanties; Lake St. Clair; Removal; Conditions; Violation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.46507
  A person who sets, places, erects, or causes to be set, placed, or erected any fishing shanty upon the ice of lake St. Clair...
• Ordinance, Rule, or Regulation of Local Unit of Government; Effect - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.46508
  A local unit of government shall not pass an ordinance, rule, or regulation regulating the placement, use, marking, or removal of a fishing shanty...
• Violation as Misdemeanor; Penalty; Reimbursement to Governmental Entity - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.46509
  (1) A person who violates this part is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment for not more than 30 days, or a fine...
• Commercial Fishing Laws; Suspension by Department - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.46701
  Notwithstanding any other act or part to the contrary, any statute or law of this state governing commercial fishing may be suspended, abridged, extended,...
• Effective Date of Order; Copy to Licensees - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.46702
  The effective date of any order issued by the department under this part shall be not less than 30 days from and after the...
• Violation of Order; Penalty; Revocation of License - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.46703
  A person who violates any order issued under this part is guilty of a misdemeanor. Each violation is a separate and distinct offense and,...
• Construction of Part - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.46704
  Nothing in this part confers upon the department the power to alter any provisions of the statutes relating to forfeitures, penalties, or license fees.
• Soo Rapids and Certain Connecting Waters of St. Marys River; Closed Seasons on Rainbow Trout; Excepted Waters - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.46901
  A person shall not take or attempt to take rainbow trout in the waters of the Soo Rapids, and the United States power canal...
• Violation of Part as Misdemeanor; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.46902
  A person who violates this part is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment for not less than 10 days or more than 90...
• Department; Fish - Breeding Duties; Property Tax Exempt; Superintendent of Fisheries; Duties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47101
  The department shall select suitable locations within this state at which to establish and maintain fish-breeding establishments for the propagation and cultivation of whitefish,...
• Accounts; Records; Biennial Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47102
  The department shall keep proper books of accounts and records of its transactions, and also of all operations and experiments in the discharge of...
• Duties of Department - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47103
  The department may take or cause to be taken any fish in any manner or at any time, for the purposes connected with the...
• Appropriation; Carrying Forward Unexpended Balance - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47104
  The unexpended balance of any appropriation to implement this part at the end of the year for which the appropriation is made shall be...
• Joint Action With Other States - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47105
  In case appropriations by other states contiguous to the waters of this state are made, and a disposition for joint action with this state...
• Fish in Great Lakes; Property of State - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47301
  All fish of whatever kind found in the waters of Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, and Erie, commonly known as the Great Lakes, the bays...
• Obstruction or Interference in Lawful Taking of Fish; Prohibited Conduct; Injunction; Violation as Misdemeanor; Penalty; Applicability of Section to Peace Officer; Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47301a
  (1) A person shall not obstruct or interfere in the lawful taking of fish by a person licensed under this part. (2) A person...
• Fishing License; Limited Number to Be Issued; Qualifications; Provisions; Expiration Date; Suspension or Revocation; Renewal; Transfer - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47302
  (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of this or any other part or act, the department, when in the department's opinion it is necessary for the...
• Fish and Game Protection Account; Receipts; Use - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47303
  The department shall provide financial remuneration to the state for fish taken for commercial purposes by collection from the licensee of not more than...
• Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47305
  For the purpose of carrying out this section and sections 47302 and 47303, the department may promulgate rules as may be necessary.
• Commercial Fishing Law; Setting of Nets or Hook Lines Prohibited; Connecting Waters - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47306
  A person shall not place or set any kind of a net or set hook lines or take or attempt to take any kind...
• Setting of Nets or Hook Lines Prohibited; Channel At Mouth of Stream or Outlet of Inland Lake; Fishing From Docks; Spearing Through Ice - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47307
  A person shall not set any net, set hook lines, or other device for the purpose of taking or catching fish within 160 rods...
• Set Hook Lines, Spears, and Gill Nets; Use Permitted; Marketing Prohibited; Unused Bait - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47308
  Except as otherwise provided by law, a person may use in the waters of Lakes Michigan, Superior, Huron, and Erie, and the bays of...
• Nets; Use; Meshes - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47309
  A person shall not possess on any boat licensed under this part or use in the waters of Lakes Michigan, Superior, Huron, and Erie,...
• Taking, Catching, or Attempting to Take or Catch Fish With Gill Net, Pound Net, or Trap Net in Certain Waters; Transfer of Fishing Licenses; License or Permit for Chubs; Applicability of Section - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47310
  (1) Except as provided in subsections (2) and (3), within the jurisdiction of this state the holder of a license or permit issued under...
• Closed Seasons; Setting of Nets or Hooks; Disposition of Fish Taken During Closed Season; Revocation of License; Chilling Fish - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47311
  (1) A person shall not take from any of the waters listed in section 47301 any of the following: (a) Lake trout, in Lake...
• Taking Fish for Fish Culture; Commercial Fishing; Closing - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47312
  The department may authorize the taking of trout, whitefish, and yellow pickerel for the purpose of fish culture at any time during the open...
• Spawn; Handling; Violation of Part; Unlawful Taking of Trout - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47313
  All persons engaged in fishing for whitefish, trout, yellow pickerel, or perch in the waters named in this part shall from the beginning of...
• Spawn; Propagation; Planting of Fry; Violation of Part - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47314
  The department shall deliver to designated representatives of the United States bureau of fisheries and to the state fish hatcheries as much of this...
• Taking Fish for Fish Culture; Powers of Department; Sale; Disposition of Proceeds - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47315
  The department may take fish in any manner, in any of the waters mentioned in this part, at any and all seasons of the...
• Shipments; Marketing; Seizure as Illegal - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47316
  A person shall not ship or transport within this state any fish in packages or containers without plainly and correctly marking each package or...
• Possession of Shipment of Illegal Fish; Construction - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47317
  The possession of any package or shipment of illegal fish offered to any common carrier as described in section 47316 shall be construed to...
• Repacking After Opening; Detention of Legal Shipment Prohibited - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47318
  Any package or car of fish in transit opened by the department, if found to be a lawful shipment under this part, shall be...
• Minimum Length and Weight Requirements; Unlawful Possession and Marketing - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47319
  (1) A person shall not market, possess, transport, or offer for sale at any time in this state, whether caught within or outside of...
• Undersized Fish; Return to Waters; Definition - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47320
  A person engaged in lifting pound nets, trap nets, or seines in the waters of this state shall not take from the waters of...
• Taking of Certain Fish by Commercial Fishing Devices Prohibited; Return to Waters - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47321
  A person shall not take or catch with any kind of a net or other device used in commercial fishing in any of the...
• Marking of Location of Nets and Devices - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47322
  A person shall not set or use nets, set hook lines, or any other continuous device in any of the waters mentioned in this...
• Inspection Before Shipment - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47323
  Every person taking fish for market in any of the waters mentioned in this part shall bring them to some port or place in...
• Power of Department to Take Fish for Cultural Purposes; Price; Basis - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47324
  The department may take, for fish cultural purposes only, fish taken by any person fishing in the waters of this state, and when so...
• Daily Report of Catch; Failure to File; Penalty; Monthly Form - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47325
  Every person taking fish for the market in any of the waters mentioned in this part shall keep an accurate report of each day's...
• Report of Fish in Possession by Commercial Fishermen; Contents; Inspection; Prohibited Possession - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47326
  Every person licensed to take fish under this part, at the close of the 24-hour period immediately following the close of the respective open...
• Violation of Mcl 324.47301 to 324.47325; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47327
  Any person who violates sections 47301 to 47325, upon conviction for the first offense shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than 30...
• License to Use Fishing Devices; Sport Trolling; Licensing Boats for Hire; License Not Required Under Certain Conditions in Lake St. Clair - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47328
  A person shall not use any kind of a boat, tug, or launch, except when used in hook and line fishing, or any kind...
• Commercial Fishing Licenses; Application; Contents; "overall Length" Defined; Fee - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47329
  (1) A person desiring a license under this part shall submit an application for that license to the department on oath when required on...
• License to Use Fishing Devices; Issuance Fees - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47330
  (1) The department, when application is made by any person in accordance with section 47329, shall issue the license provided for in this part...
• Commercial Fishing Licenses; Form; Tag Attached to Boat; Fee; Transfer Procedure - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47331
  (1) Upon the payment of the fee provided for in section 47330, the department shall have prepared and shall issue to a person entitled...
• Licenses; Expiration Date; Record of Applications and Licenses; Disposition of Fees - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47332
  All licenses expire on December 31 in the calendar year for which they were issued. The department shall keep a record of all applications...
• Wholesale Fish Market or House; License; Fee; Label on Containers; Record - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47333
  (1) Every person who deals in fish by operating a wholesale fish market or fish house, or who solicits the purchase of or buys...
• Violation of Sections; Penalties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47334
  Any person who violates sections 47328 to 47333 is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction for the first offense shall be punished by...
• Nets and Seines; Prohibited Use in Certain Waters of Lake Superior - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47335
  A person shall not take or catch fish of any kind with gill nets, pound nets, trap nets, seines, or other device of any...
• Grand Traverse Bay - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47336
  A person shall not take or attempt to take fish with seines or nets of any kind in that part of Grand Traverse bay...
• Charlevoix Bay - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47337
  A person shall not take or catch, or attempt to take or catch, any species of fish with gill nets, pound nets, trap nets,...
• Setting or Using Nets Near Public Docks or Piers Prohibited; Exceptions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47338
  A person shall not set or use any kind of a net mentioned in this part, except seines in the taking of noxious fish,...
• Saginaw Bay - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47339
  As used in this part, "Saginaw bay" means those waters lying inside of a line drawn from Tawas point lighthouse in Iosco county to...
• Marquette Bay - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47340
  A person shall not drive stakes for fishing purposes, or set, place, or extend any pound, trap, stake, or set net of any kind,...
• Grand Marais Harbor - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47341
  Commencing June 15, 1962, a person shall not place or set any kind of net or set hook lines or take or attempt to...
• False Presque Isle Bay - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47342
  A person shall not set nets or seines of any kind or description west of a certain line commencing at the 1/4 post between...
• Presque Isle Harbor - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47343
  A person shall not take or attempt to take fish with seines, set hook lines, or nets of any kind in the waters of...
• Thunder Bay - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47344
  A person shall not catch or take fish of any kind with a net or other device of any kind, except hook and line...
• Whitney Bay - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47345
  A person shall not fish with, use, or set any seines, gill nets, or any form of pound, trap, sweep, or set nets, or...
• Pike Bay and Island Harbor - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47346
  A person shall not take or catch fish of any kind with gill nets, trap nets, pound nets, seines, or other device of any...
• Straits of Mackinac - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47347
  A person shall not take or catch fish of any kind with gill nets, trap nets, seines, or other device of any kind, except...
• Les Cheneaux Channels - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47348
  (1) A person shall not fish with seines, gill nets, or any form of trap nets, or in any manner except by hook and...
• Fishing in Certain Water of Upper Lake Huron With Fishing Devices; Prohibition; Exceptions; Spearing Through Ice for Certain Fish; Open Season - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47349
  A person shall not take or catch fish of any kind with gill nets, pound nets, trap nets, seines, or other device of any...
• Little Traverse Bay - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47350
  A person shall not take or catch fish of any kind with gill nets, trap nets, seines, or other device of any kind, except...
• Little Bay De Noquette - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47351
  A person shall not fish with, use, or set any seines, gill nets, or any form of pound, trap, sweep, or set nets, or...
• Garden Bay - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47352
  A person shall not take or catch fish of any kind with gill nets, pound nets, trap nets, seines, or other device of any...
• Little Bay De Noquette, Big Bay De Noquette, and Green Bay - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47353
  A person shall not in the waters of this state known as Little Bay de Noquette and Big Bay de Noquette, and that part...
• Keweenaw Bay - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47354
  A person shall not take, catch, or attempt to take or catch any fish with seines, gill nets, or any form of pound or...
• Portage Lake Ship Canal - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47355
  A person shall not take, catch, or attempt to take or catch any fish with seines, gill nets, or any form of pound nets...
• Huron Bay - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47356
  A person shall not take, catch, or attempt to take or catch any fish with seines, gill nets, or any form of pound or...
• Duncan Bay - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47357
  A person shall not use any kind of a net, set hook line, or other device for the purpose of taking or catching fish...
• Munising and Murray Bays - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47358
  A person shall not take or catch fish of any kind in any manner except with hook and line and spear as permitted by...
• Bait; Taking With Nets - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47359
  The taking of minnows as defined in section 48728 and other small fish for bait with nets not otherwise prohibited by law is not...
• Construction of Part - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47360
  Nothing contained in this part authorizes the taking, selling, or transporting of fish, the use of illegal nets, or the setting of nets at...
• Violation; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47361
  A person who violates sections 47335 to 47360 is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment for not more than 30 days, or a...
• Part 479 Not Repealed. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Fish Hatcheries to Restock Great Lakes; Establishment; Plan - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47501
  The department may plan the establishment of fish hatcheries for the propagation and cultivation of pickerel, trout, and whitefish for restocking the Great Lakes...
• Fish Restoration; Cooperation With Federal Government; Funds Accruing From License Fees; Use - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47701
  The department may perform acts as may be necessary to the establishment and management of fish restoration, management, and research projects and areas in...
• Refuse From Fish Catch; Disposal - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47901
  All fish, offal, or filth accruing from the catching and curing of fish shall be burned or buried at least 10 rods away from...
• Nonresident Fishing License; Fee; Forfeiture; Disposition of Money Accrued - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47902
  The county board of commissioners of each county, or a majority of the county board of commissioners, shall grant, on the application of a...
• Dumping Into Waters Prohibited; Molesting of Nets - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47903
  A person shall not put into any stream, pond, or lake any sand, coal, cinders, ashes, log slabs, decayed wood, bark, sawdust, or filth....
• Violation of Part; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47904
  A person who violates this part is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment for not more than 90 days, or a fine of...
• Prohibited Acts; Penalty; Civil Liability - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.47905
  A person shall not willfully cut, tear, untie, remove, or in any manner injure, damage, molest, or destroy any net, rope, line, stake, anchor,...
• Free Passage of Fish; Rules; Fish Ladders - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.48301
  The department shall prescribe rules and regulations to provide for the free passage and uninterrupted passage of fish over or through dams now in...
• Inspector of Dams; Duties; Plan; Contents; Copies - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.48302
  The department is the inspector of dams across rivers, streams, and creeks of this state and shall prepare a draft of a general plan...
• Order to Provide Free Passage of Fish; Compliance; Kind and Manner - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.48303
  Any person owning or using any dam that exists or may be constructed across any river, stream, or creek in this state, if ordered...
• Prosecutions; Mandamus - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.48304
  The department shall prosecute in the name of the people of the state in all cases where this part is violated, and the prosecuting...
• Violations of Part; Separate Offenses - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.48305
  If any person owning, using, or employing the use of any dam across any of the rivers, streams, or creeks of this state refuses...
• Construction of Passageways for Fish by Department; Expenses; Payment; Tax Assessment - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.48306
  If the owner or user of any dam refuses or fails to construct and maintain the means or equipment for the free passage of...
• Passage of Fish Through and Over Dams; Apparatus Obstructing Rivers, Streams, or Creeks Prohibited; Violation; Authority of Department - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.48307
  Except as authorized by law, a person shall not obstruct the channel or course of any river, stream, or creek in this state by...
• Repealed. 2012, Act 301, Imd. Eff. Sept. 25, 2012. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.48701
  As used in this part: (a) "Amphibian" means any frog, toad, or salamander of the class amphibia. (b) "Crustacea" means any freshwater crayfish, shrimp,...
• Fish, Reptiles, Amphibians, Mollusks, and Crustaceans as Property of State; Exception; Registration Under Michigan Aquaculture Development Act - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.48702
  (1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2), all fish, reptiles, amphibians, mollusks, and crustaceans found in this state are the property of the...
• Definitions; Obstruction or Interference in Lawful Taking of Aquatic Species; Prohibited Conduct - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.48702a
  (1) As used in this section and section 48702b: (a) "Aquatic species" means fish, reptiles, mollusks, crustacea, minnows, wigglers, and amphibians of the class...
• Violation of Mcl 324.48702a - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.48702b
  (1) Upon petition of an aggrieved person or a person who reasonably may be aggrieved by a violation of section 48702a , a court...
• Fishing Means or Device; Lines; Hooks; Tip - Up or Similar Device; Spear, Bow and Arrow, or Crossbow; Order to Regulate Nets - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.48703
  (1) A person shall not take, catch, or kill or attempt to take, catch, or kill a fish in the waters of this state...
• Gill Net; Cisco - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.48704
  A person holding a resident fishing license may take cisco with 1 gill net, not exceeding 165 feet in length and having meshes not...
• Reptiles, Amphibians, Mollusks, and Crustaceans; Manner and Times of Taking; Fishing License for Turtles or Frogs; Commercial Reptile and Amphibian License; Fee - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.48705
  (1) Reptiles, amphibians, mollusks, and crustaceans may only be taken in a manner and during those times prescribed by the department. Persons taking, trapping,...
• Seines or Nets; Prohibited Use Near Dams; Definition - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.48706
  Except as otherwise provided by law, a person shall not fish with any kind of seines or nets within a radius of 100 feet...
• Lamprey Control Weir; Prohibited Waters for Fishing - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.48707
  A person shall not fish within a distance of 100 feet upstream or downstream from a lamprey control weir installed by the department or...
• Smelt Nets; Length; Mesh; License Fee; Marking - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.48708
  A person may use a net not more than 50 feet in length and having meshes not less than 1-1/4 inches or more than...
• Dam or Barrier; Destruction or Interference Prohibited - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.48709
  A person shall not destroy or attempt to destroy, or interfere with in any manner, any artificial dam or barrier placed in a trout...
• Applicability of Part to Gaff, Landing Net, Person Propagating Fish, or to Fish Caught by Device; Requirements as to Landing Net - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.48710
  (1) This part does not prohibit the use of a gaff, except on or along trout streams, or a landing net to assist in...
• Possession of Fishing Devices; Prohibition; Confiscation; Exceptions; Evidence; Certain Controls Not Affected - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.48711
  A person shall not have in his or her possession any net, set lines, jack or other artificial light of any kind, dynamite, giant...
• Fishing in Propagating Beds Prohibited; Exception - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.48712
  A person shall not catch any fish or attempt to catch any fish in any manner in any lake, stream, or pond or portion...
• Fishing to Remove Eggs Prohibited - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.48713
  A person shall not catch any game or nongame fish in any manner in any lake, stream, or pond or in the Great Lakes...
• Nonresident as Commercial Fishing Guide; "commercial Fishing Guide" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.48714
  (1) A nonresident who resides in a state or country that does not allow residents of this state to act as commercial fishing guides...
• Open Seasons by Classification of Waters - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.48715
  Except as otherwise provided by law, a person shall not take, catch, or kill or attempt to take, catch, or kill any species of...
• Open Seasons by Species of Fish - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.48716
  A person shall not take, catch, or kill or attempt to take, catch, or kill any fish of the species named in this section...
• Open Season for Trout - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.48717
  Notwithstanding any other provision in this part or any order of the department, the following provisions are applicable during the open season for trout...
• Establishment of Closed Season; Spawning Beds; Notices; Use of Boat or Floating Device Over Spawning Bed; Opening Waters Out of Season - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.48718
  The department may establish a closed season on any spawning bed when it appears that spawning or guarding does not coincide with the time...
• Legal Sizes of Fish; Mutilation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.48719
  (1) A person shall not take or possess any of the following: (a) Brook trout, brown trout, rainbow trout, steelhead, lake trout, and splake...
• Open Season for Fishing in Crystal Lake, Benzie County - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.48720
  The department may designate Crystal lake in Benzie county as open to fishing whenever it appears that this action is not inimical to the...
• Possession Limits of Fish - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.48721
  (1) The department shall issue an order under part 411 establishing possession limits of fish consistent with this section. A person shall not possess...
• Game Fish; Carried as Open Hand Baggage; Transportation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.48722
  A resident or nonresident who holds an unexpired fishing license issued in his or her name may carry as open hand baggage not more...
• Purchase, Sale, Transportation or Possession of Certain Fish Prohibited; Exceptions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.48723
  A person shall not purchase, buy, or sell, attempt to purchase, buy, or sell, transport to any point outside of this state at any...
• "fish Cleaning Station" Defined; License to Purchase, Sell, or Exchange Anything of Value for Raw or Unprocessed Salmon Eggs; Prohibited Conduct; Compliance With Requirements; Selling or Buying Chemically Treated Salmon Eggs; Violation; Order; Injunctive Relief - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.48724
  (1) As used in this section, "fish cleaning station" means an operation or location used to clean salmon for sport fishers. (2) Except as...
• Grayling; Taking or Possession Prohibited - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.48725
  A person shall not at any time take, attempt to take, or possess any grayling taken from any of the waters over which this...
• Repealed. 2008, Act 291, Imd. Eff. Oct. 6, 2008. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Snagging of Fish Illegal on and After October 26, 1993; Management of Fisheries on Pere Marquette River - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.48727
  (1) On and after October 26, 1993, the snagging of fish is illegal in this state. (2) The department shall manage fisheries on the...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.48728
  As used in this part: (a) "Commercial purposes" means offering for sale, selling, giving, or furnishing to others. (b) "Crayfish" means any arthropod of...
• Prohibited Conduct - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.48729
  A person shall not do any of the following: (a) Take or possess minnows, wigglers, or crayfish for commercial purposes from any of the...
• Powers of Department - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.48730
  (1) The department may designate the lakes and streams and parts of lakes and streams from which minnows, wigglers, and crayfish may be taken...
• Minnow Seines; Glass or Wire Traps; Hand Nets; Hook and Line; Dip Nets - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.48731
  (1) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, minnow seines of not more than 125 feet in length and 16 feet in width may...
• "place of Business" Defined; Limited Retail Minnow Dealer's License; Wholesale Minnow Dealer's License; Minnow Catcher's License; Fees; Prohibited Imports; Separate Licenses; Size of Crew; Identification Cards; License Application Forms; Display of Placard and License Number; Display of License or Identification Card on Demand; Inspection of Records and Equipment; Revocation or Expiration of License - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.48732
  (1) As used in this section, "place of business" means a single location designated in a license application. (2) The department, upon receipt of...
• Cisco, Whitefish, Suckers and Carp Season; Designation of Waters for Use of Spear and Artificial Light; Purchase or Sale; Higgins Lake; Season - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.48733
  The department may designate the lakes or streams in this state from which cisco, whitefish, suckers, and carp may be taken by means of...
• Permit to Remove Noxious Fish From Waters; Issuance - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.48734
  The department may issue permits for the removal of dogfish, carp, garfish, sheepshead, and other noxious fish from all the waters over which this...
• Permit to Take Fish for Fish Culture or Scientific Investigation; Exception; Permit to Possess Live Game Fish in Ponds, Pools, and Aquariums; Taking Fish to Obtain Spawn or for Protection From Ecological Damage or Imbalance; Taking Fish Not Required to Maintain Fishery Resources; Supervision; Sale or Transfer of Fish; Importing or Bringing Fish or Eggs From Outside State; Permit to Plant Spawn, Fry, or Fish in Public Waters; Exhibiting Permits; Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.48735
  (1) Subject to subsection (2), a person shall not take from any of the inland waters of this state any fish in any manner...
• Removal of Caddis Fly Larvae or Other Insect Larvae From Trout Streams; Prohibition; Exception - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.48736
  Except as provided in this section, a person shall not take or remove or attempt to take or remove any caddis fly larvae or...
• Sale of Licenses and Stamps; Disposition of Proceeds - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.48737
  All money collected from the sale of licenses and stamps as provided in this part shall be paid over to the state treasurer by...
• Violations as Misdemeanors; Violation as Felony; Penalties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.48738
  (1) A person who violates this part or rules or orders issued to implement this part, if a penalty is not otherwise provided for...
• Violation of Part as Misdemeanor; Possession or Sale of Multipointed Hook With Weight Permanently Attached as Misdemeanor; Penalties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.48739
  (1) A person who snags fish in violation of this part is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment for not more than 90...
• Additional Penalties; Forfeitures; Probation; Default; Disposition of Forfeitures - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.48740
  (1) In addition to the penalties provided in this part, a person convicted of taking game fish during a closed season; taking or possessing...
• Whaiska Bay; Fishing Devices Prohibited - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.48901
  A person shall not place or set any kind of net or set hook lines or take or attempt to take any kind of...
• Reciprocal Agreements With Adjoining States to Cover Taking of Fish - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.49101
  In order to provide uniform fishing regulations in any river or any of the Great Lakes forming a common boundary with an adjoining state...
• Fishing; Reciprocal Agreements; Publication - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.49102
  Any order issued under this part supersedes all other laws and regulations governing fishing in the waters that in any way conflict. The regulations...
• Violation of Regulations as Misdemeanor; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.49103
  A person who violates any regulation made under a reciprocal agreement entered into under this part is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment...
• Meanings of Words and Phrases - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50101
  As used in this part, the words and phrases defined in sections 50102 to 50105 have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections.
• Definitions; a to D - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50102
  (1) "Agency of this state" means a board, bureau, commission, department, or other division of the executive branch of government of this state. (2)...
• Definitions; F to P - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50103
  (1) "Fish and wildlife habitat improvements" means measures designed to protect, maintain, or enhance fish and wildlife habitats. (2) "Follow-up work" means forest practices...
• Definitions; H to P - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50104
  (1) "Harvest" means the point at which timber that has been cut, severed, or removed for purposes of sale or use is first measured...
• Definitions; R to U - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50105
  (1) "Reforestation" means planting of tree seedlings, cuttings, or seed. (2) "Small business entity" means a business enterprise with $500,000.00 or less average annual...
• Purpose - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50106
  (1) The purpose of this part is to stimulate improved management and utilization of forest land and forest resources within this state as recommended...
• Liberal Construction - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50107
  This part, being necessary to secure the public health, safety, welfare, and convenience of the citizens of the state, shall be liberally construed to...
• Forest Restoration Pilot Project; Purpose; Sources of Funding; Allocation of Funds - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50108
  (1) The department may fund a forest restoration pilot project or any other district created under this part to implement this part. The forest...
• Expenses - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50109
  A district board of directors shall determine the annual expenses of the district and shall submit an itemized list of the expenses to the...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50110
  (1) In addition to the definitions contained in subpart 1 that are not modified by this subpart, the definitions contained in this section also...
• Western Upper Peninsula Forest Improvement District; Establishment; Petition; Selection of Lands by Committee; Employment of Forester; Activation of Working Forests; Factors in Determining and Allocating Funds - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50111
  (1) A forest restoration pilot project organized as a forest improvement district with a gross territorial boundary encompassing the western 6 counties of the...
• Board of Directors; Election, Appointment, Powers, and Duties of Members; Profit Corporation Having Contract as Agent for District; Powers and Duties; Evaluation of Commercial Feasibility; Conducting Approved Forest Practices; Incentive Payments; Acquisition of Industrial Site for Processing Operations; Erection and Operation of Plants; Bonds - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50112
  (1) The western Upper Peninsula forest improvement district shall be managed pursuant to this part by a board of directors composed of 1 member...
• Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50113
  During the years of operation of the western Upper Peninsula forest improvement district, a detailed report of the operation and impact of the district...
• Notices; Contents; Certification - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50114
  Within 30 days after receipt of the certificate from the secretary of state pursuant to section 50127, the western Upper Peninsula forest improvement district...
• Mandate for Public Benefit; Standards for Conduct of Forest Practices - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50115
  For the public benefit, the board shall mandate the continuous growing, improvement, and harvesting of forest trees to protect and maintain the forest soil,...
• Changes in Forest Management Plan; Approval; Appeal; Determination; Service of Changes on Members; Effective Date of Changes - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50116
  (1) A member who has submitted and obtained approval of the member's forest management plan and desires to effect a change in the plan...
• Security for Repayment of Bonds - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50117
  The security for the repayment of bonds issued by the district may be a pledge or mortgage on all lands owned by the district...
• Approved Reserve Fund; Establishment; Purpose; Payments Into Fund; Resolution as to Use of Money; Limitations - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50118
  (1) The western Upper Peninsula forest improvement district shall establish 1 or more special debt service reserve funds to secure its bonds, referred to...
• Applicability of Part - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50119
  Except where expressly modified by this subpart, this part applies to the western Upper Peninsula forest restoration pilot project.
• Duties of Department Generally; Applicability of Provisions to Western Upper Peninsula Forest Improvement District - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50120
  (1) The department shall do all of the following: (a) Provide the technical assistance of the department to the board of directors of a...
• Rules, Guidelines, and Publications - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50121
  The department shall promulgate rules, adopt guidelines, and issue publications under the administrative procedures act of 1969, Act No. 306 of the Public Acts...
• Primary Consideration in Promulgating Rules and Disposing of Timber and Other Products; Timber Volume Agreement; Forest Improvement Program - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50122
  (1) The department, in promulgating its rules and in disposing of the timber and other products from state forest land, shall give primary consideration...
• Establishment Authorized; Powers Generally - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50123
  A forest improvement district may be established pursuant to this part, and when established has the powers conferred by this part.
• Petitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50124
  (1) A district may be established by filing a petition, signed by 10 or more owners of forest land who control a total combined...
• Creation of District; Hearing; Notice; Determination; Defining Boundaries of District; Actual Notice - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50125
  (1) Within 30 days after a petition has been filed, the department shall give notice of a proposed hearing upon the question of the...
• Operation of District; Feasibility - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50126
  (1) If the department makes and records a determination that the need for a district exists and defines its boundaries, the department shall then...
• Board of Directors; Appointment and Qualifications of Directors; Presentation and Contents of Application; Certification Statement; Examination and Recordation of Application and Statement; Issuance and Contents of Certification - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50127
  (1) If the operation of a district is determined to be feasible, the department shall appoint 2 directors who, with the 3 directors elected...
• District as Governmental Subdivision and Public Body Corporate and Politic - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50128
  The district shall constitute a governmental subdivision of the state and a public body corporate and politic on the date specified in the directors'...
• Petition for Discontinuance; Filing; Form; Notice - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50129
  A petition for discontinuance of membership in, for deletion of member forest land within, and for including additional territory within an existing district shall...
• Petitions for Change of Boundary Line; Filing; Contents; Hearing; Determination; Application for Certificate Evidencing Change of Boundary; Statement; Effect of Filing; Issuance and Contents of Certificate - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50130
  (1) Petitions signed by a majority of the members of each of the boards of adjoining districts may be filed with the department asking...
• Board of Directors as Governing Body of District; Officers; Election and Appointment of Directors; Terms; Eligibility to Vote; Vacancy; Annual Meeting; Fiscal Year; Quorum; Concurrence of Majority for Determination; Expenses; Delegation of Powers and Duties; Recall Petition; Notice; Recall Election; Cessation of Term; Furnishing Commission With Documents and Other Information; Surety Bonds; Records; Audit; Representatives of Local Legislative Body - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50131
  (1) The governing body of a district shall be the board of directors which shall consist of 5 persons. The board may elect a...
• Nominating Petition; Filing; Signatures; Notice; Eligibility to Vote - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50132
  (1) A candidate for the first board of directors shall file nominating petitions with the department at or before the hearing on the need...
• Consolidation Into Single District; Petition; Notice; Hearing; Determination; Order; Board of Consolidated District; Certificate of Organization; Powers and Duties; Property, Agreements, and Obligations of Consolidated District - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50133
  (1) Two or more districts may petition the department for consolidation into a single district. The department shall not act on the petition unless...
• Discontinuance of District; Petition; Public Hearings; Notice of Referendum; Eligibility to Vote; Publishing Results of Referendum; Determination; Certificate of Determination; Payment of Debt and Disposition of Property; Application for Discontinuance; Issuance and Recordation of Certificate of Dissolution; Contracts, Bonds, or Other Obligations; Limitation on Petition for Discontinuance - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50134
  (1) The members within a district, whose total lands compose 25% or more of the private forest land which comprise the district, may file...
• Additional Powers of District - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50135
  In addition to those powers granted elsewhere in this part, a district has all of the following powers, which are subject to federal and...
• Cooperation Between State Agency and District Board - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50136
  Each agency of this state that has jurisdiction over, or is charged with the administration of, state owned land within the boundaries of a...
• Expenses of District; Sources of Payment; Allocation of Funds - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50137
  (1) The expenses of a district may be paid from 1 or more of the following: (a) An appropriation by the legislature. (b) The...
• Cooperative Exercise of Powers - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50138
  The boards of any 2 or more districts may cooperate in the exercise of powers conferred in this part.
• Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50139
  During the years of operation of a district, a detailed report of the operation and impact of the district shall be submitted by the...
• Conduct of Forest Practices; Minimum Standards - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50140
  For the public benefit, the board shall mandate the continuous growing, improvement, and harvesting of forest tree species so as to protect and maintain...
• Notification of Compliance With Forest Practice Rules; Forest Management Plan; Forms; Contents of Notification; Notice of Change in Information; Validity of Notification - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50141
  (1) A member shall notify the district of compliance with the forest practice rules by submitting a forest management plan on forms prescribed and...
• Violation of District Forest Practice Rule; Notice; Order; Hearing - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50142
  (1) If the board determines that a district forest practice rule was violated, it shall notify the member of the violation within 10 days...
• Noncompliance With Order Directing Repair of Damage or Correction of Unsatisfactory Condition; Estimate of Cost; Notice of Estimate; Review; Determination of Expenditure; Appearance of Member; Itemized Certified Statement of Expenditures; Expenditures as Lien; Certification and Filing of Notice of Lien; Legal Action; Error or Mistake in Notice of Lien; Termination of Lien - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50143
  (1) If an order directs the repair of damage or correction of an unsatisfactory condition and if the member fails to comply, the board...
• Conversion of Forest Land to Other Use; Procedures and Criteria - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50144
  This subpart does not prevent forest land from being converted to any other use. A board shall establish the procedures and criteria for excluding...
• Agreements to Share Cost of Forest Practices; Schedule of Cost Share Percentages - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50145
  (1) A district may enter into agreements to share the cost of implementing forest practices on member forest land within the district. A district...
• Loans to Members; Purpose; Term; Interest; Security; Recordation of Mortgage or Deed of Trust; Repayment Before Maturity Date; Damage as Grounds for Release of Obligation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50146
  (1) A district may make loans to a member for 1 or more of the following reasons: (a) To cover all or part of...
• Annual Incentive Payments to Members; Purpose; Application of Income From Sale of Timber; Term; Interest; Limitation; Security; Recordation of Mortgage or Deed of Trust; Effect of Voluntary Withdrawal of Member; Damage as Grounds for Release of Obligation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50147
  (1) A district may make annual incentive payments to members to cover forest practice costs only, but not to cover ad valorem property taxes...
• Cost - Share Payments, Loans, or Annual Incentive Payments; Eligibility; Conditions; Guidelines - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50148
  (1) The following conditions shall be met for a member to be eligible for cost-share payments, a loan, or an annual incentive payment: (a)...
• Applications for Financial Assistance; Selection of Programs; Factors; Preferences; Criteria for Evaluation and Approval - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50149
  (1) When allocating available funds among applicants for assistance pursuant to this subpart, the board shall select those programs of forest practices which in...
• Cost - Share Payments, Loans, or Annual Incentive Payments; Federal Payments or Other Assistance; Limitation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50150
  Cost-share payments, loans, or annual incentive payments under this subpart may be made for forest practices that are also the subject of payments or...
• Cost - Share Payments, Loans, or Annual Incentive Payments; Refund; Interest; Payments as Lien on Forest Land; Filing Lien; Legal Action - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50151
  (1) All cost-share payments, loans, or annual incentive payments advanced to a member under this subpart shall be refunded to the district if either...
• Severance and Service Fees Generally - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50152
  In order to provide a source of funds for the cost-share payments, loans, annual incentive payments, and other services authorized to be offered to...
• Schedule of Fees for Services; Establishment; Uniform Severance Fee - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50153
  (1) The board may establish a schedule of fees for the services provided directly to members within a district. (2) After a referendum in...
• Severance and Service Fees; Collection and Disposition; Responsibility for Payment of Severance Fee; Stumpage Values and Units of Measurement; Remittance; Reports; Records - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50154
  (1) The board shall develop the necessary administrative procedures to collect the fees and shall deposit the revenue collected in the district forest management...
• Collection of Fees; Enforcement - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50155
  The board shall enforce collection of the fees pursuant to the procedure contained in section 50143.
• Resolution Authorizing Bonds; Provisions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50156
  A resolution authorizing bonds to be issued under the power granted in section 50135 may contain provisions, which shall be part of the contract...
• Resolution Authorizing Bonds; Principal, Interest, Payment, and Security; Full Faith and Credit; Trustees - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50157
  (1) The bonds shall be payable and secured as set forth in the resolution authorizing the issuance. The resolution may provide that the principal...
• Special Debt Service Reserve Fund; Creation; Purpose; Sources and Use of Money; Transfer of Income or Interest; Limitation on Approved Reserve Fund Requirement; Limitation on Issuance of Bonds - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50158
  (1) A district, with the approval of the department, may create and establish 1 or more special debt service reserve funds, to secure its...
• Statement of Liability on Face of Bond - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50159
  The state shall not be liable on bonds of a district, and the bonds shall not be a debt of the state. The bonds...
• Applicability of Part and Resolution; Enforcement of Duties; Recital in Bond as Evidence of Validity; Publication and Effective Date of Resolution - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50160
  (1) This part, and the resolution authorizing the issuance of bonds under this part shall remain applicable until the principal and interest on bonds...
• Refunding Bonds - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50161
  A district may issue its bonds to refund in whole or part, at any time, bonds previously issued by the district under this part.
• Adoption of Bonds by Resolution of Majority of Board; Bonds Subject to Revised Municipal Finance Act - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50162
  The bonds of a district shall be authorized by resolution adopted by a majority of the board. The bonds are subject to the revised...
• Pledge and Lien of Pledge Valid and Binding; Recordation Not Required - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50163
  A pledge made by a district shall be valid and binding from the time the pledge is made. The money or property pledged and...
• Liability on Bonds - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50164
  Neither the members of the board of a district nor a person executing the bonds is personally liable on the bonds or subject to...
• Pledge and Agreement of State Not to Impair Rights and Remedies of Bondholders; Bonds as Negotiable Instruments; Bonds as Securities; Investment in Bonds - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50165
  (1) The state pledges and agrees with the holders of bonds issued under this part that the state will not limit or alter the...
• Exemption From Taxation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50166
  The state covenants with the purchasers and all subsequent holders and transferees of bonds issued under this part, in consideration of the acceptance of...
• Duties of Department - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50301
  The department shall do all of the following: (a) Advise the legislature and the governor on forest management and development and other matters relevant...
• Annual Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50302
  The department shall annually report to the governor and the legislature on its activities to promote the development of the forest products industry in...
• Purpose of Part - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50501
  The purpose of this part and of the authority created by this part is to preserve existing jobs, create new jobs, and alleviate and...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50502
  As used in this part: (a) "Authority" means the Michigan forest finance authority created in section 50503. (b) "Board" means the board of directors...
• Michigan Forest Finance Authority; Creation; Exercise of Powers, Duties, and Functions; Handling of Funds - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50503
  The Michigan forest finance authority is created as a body corporate within the department of natural resources and shall be administered under the supervision...
• Board of Directors; Appointment; Terms; Oath; Vacancy; Persons Subject to Mcl 15.321 to 15.330; Discharge of Duties; Policies and Procedures; Conducting Business At Public Meetings; Notice; Quorum; Actions of Board; Representative as Voting Member; Chairperson - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50504
  (1) The authority shall be governed by a board of directors consisting of the director, the state treasurer, the director of the department of...
• Election of Chairperson and Vice - Chairperson; State Forester as Executive Director; Qualifications, Duties, and Compensation of Employees; Delegation of Powers or Duties; Rights and Interests of Authority; Annual Report; Audits; Records - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50505
  (1) The authority shall elect a chairperson and a vice-chairperson from among its members. The state forester shall serve as the executive director of...
• Powers of Board - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50506
  Except as otherwise provided in this part, the board may do all things necessary or convenient to implement the purposes, objectives, and provisions of...
• Financing Forest Management Operations and Practices; Guidelines, Rules, and Objectives; Application of Funds; Interim Procedure; Annual List of Activities and Practices; Projection of Probable Default; Contracts for Cutting and Sale of Timber; Forest Development Fund; Audit - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50507
  (1) The authority shall finance only forest management operations and practices consistent with part 525 that follow the guidelines, rules, and objectives prescribed and...
• Department as Agent for Authority; Conveyance of State's Interest in Contracts Granting Timber Cutting Rights; Deposit of Money Received; Conveyance of Title to Timber - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50508
  (1) Except as provided in section 50507(3), the department shall act as the agent for the authority in contracting for the cutting and sale...
• Bonds and Notes Generally; Expenses; Expenditures - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50509
  (1) The authority may authorize and issue its bonds or notes payable solely from the revenues or funds available to the authority. Bonds and...
• Bonds or Notes; Purposes; Payment; Requirements; Signature of Board Member or Office of Authority; Sale of Bonds or Notes; Applicability of Other Laws; Interest Rate Agreement - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50510
  (1) The authority may issue from time to time bonds or notes in principal amounts the authority considers necessary to provide funds for any...
• Refunding Bonds or Notes - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50511
  (1) The authority may provide for the issuance of bonds or notes in the amounts the authority considers necessary for the purpose of refunding...
• Security to Assure Timely Payment of Bond or Note - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50512
  (1) The authority may authorize and approve an insurance contract, an agreement for a line of credit, a letter of credit, a commitment to...
• Bonds or Notes; Authority of Board Member, Executive Director, or Other Officer of Authority - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50513
  Within limitations that shall be contained in the issuance or authorization resolution of the authority, the authority may authorize a member of the board,...
• Resolution Authorizing Bonds or Notes; Provisions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50514
  A resolution authorizing bonds or notes may provide for all of the following that shall be part of the contract with the holders of...
• Pledge - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50515
  A pledge made by the authority shall be valid and binding from the time the pledge is made. The money or property pledged and...
• Personal Liability on Bonds or Notes - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50516
  Neither the members of the authority nor any person executing bonds or notes issued under this part or any person executing any agreement on...
• Purchasing, Holding, Canceling, or Reselling Bonds or Notes - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50517
  The authority may purchase bonds or notes of the authority out of funds or money of the authority available for that purpose. The authority...
• Rights and Remedies - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50518
  The state pledges to and agrees with the holders of bonds or notes issued under this part that the state shall not limit or...
• Bonds or Notes as Legal Investments; Security - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50519
  Notwithstanding any restriction contained in any other law, the state and a public officer, local unit of government, or agency of the state or...
• Property and Income of Authority; Exemption From Taxes and Special Assessments; Bonds or Notes Exempt From Taxation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50520
  Property of the authority is public property devoted to an essential public and governmental function and purpose. Income of the authority is considered to...
• Liberal Construction; Broad Interpretation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50521
  This part shall be construed liberally to effectuate the legislative intent and the purposes as complete and independent authority for the performance of each...
• Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50522
  The authority may promulgate rules as necessary to implement this part.
• Conveyance by Department of Leasehold Interest in State - Owned Property to Certain Counties; Designation of Forest Lands to Be Leased; Maximum Term of Leasehold Interest; Renewal; Recreational Use of Property During Leasehold - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50701
  (1) In a county in which more than 50% of the land is owned by the state and in which the county annual average...
• Use of Leased Property; Purposes; Use and Disposition of Proceeds; Implementation of Forest Management Demonstration Program - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50702
  (1) The property leased pursuant to this part shall be used by the county only for the following purposes: (a) To establish a forest...
• County Forestry Committee; Creation; Appointment, Qualifications, and Terms of Members; Approval of Committee Actions; Vacancy - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50703
  A county forestry committee is created for purposes of this part and shall consist of 5 members who shall be appointed by the county...
• Instrument Conveying Leasehold Interest; Approval by Attorney General - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50704
  An instrument conveying a leasehold interest in real property authorized by this part shall be approved by the attorney general.
• Conveyance to Provide for Use of Property; Termination of Lease - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50705
  The conveyance authorized by this part shall provide that the property be used exclusively for the purposes set forth in section 50702(1), and that...
• Submission of Forest Management Plan; Approval - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50706
  Within 30 days after the execution of a lease authorized by this part, the county forestry committee shall submit to the department for approval...
• Conveyance of Leasehold - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.50707
  A leasehold interest authorized by this part shall be conveyed by the department by October 8, 1982.
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.51101
  As used in this part: (a) "Ad valorem general property tax" means taxes levied under the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL...
• Commercial Forest; Scope and Authority of Department; Rules; Expenses; Staff - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.51102
  The department shall establish and maintain commercial forests and may promulgate and enforce rules as necessary to accomplish the intent and purpose of this...
• Commercial Forest; Application for Determination; "Contiguous" Defined; Requirements for Eligibility; Application Form; Postmark or Delivery Date; Contents; Brochure; Notification; Preparation of Forest Management Plan - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.51103
  (1) The owner of at least 40 contiguous acres or a survey unit consisting of 1/4 of 1/4 of a section of forestland located...
• Forestland; Evaluation; Hearing; Notice; Conduct; Approval; Record - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.51104
  (1) Upon receipt of the application, the forest management plan certification, the timber rights certification, and the application fee described in section 51103, the...
• Commercial Forests Not Subject to Ad Valorem General Property Tax; Specific Tax; Removal From Land Descriptions List; Separate Roll; Collection; Return and Sale for Nonpayment of Taxes; Valuation Prohibited; Lands Not Considered in Connection With Equalization Distribution of Sums Collected; Distribution; Commercial Forestland Located in Renaissance Zone - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.51105
  (1) Commercial forests are not subject to the ad valorem general property tax after the date the township supervisor is notified by the department...
• Acreage as Commercial Forestlands; Certifying to State Treasurer; Payment to County Treasurer; Distribution of Remaining Funds; Payment in Full Required - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.51106
  (1) On December 1 of each year, the department shall certify to the state treasurer the number of acres that are commercial forestlands in...
• Repealed. 2006, Act 383, Imd. Eff. Sept. 27, 2006 - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Withdrawal of Land as Commercial Forest; Application; Fee; Penalty; Publication on Website; Granting Application Without Payment of Fee or Penalty; Disposition; Distribution; Notice to Applicant, Township Supervisor, and Register of Deeds; Filing List of Withdrawn Lands; Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.51108
  (1) An owner of a commercial forest may withdraw his or her land, in whole or in part, from the operation of this part...
• Determining Proportion for Disbursement of Revenues and Attribution of Revenues; Number of Mills Levied for Local School Operating Purposes; Distribution of Revenues; "revenues" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.51109
  (1) For revenues disbursed after June 30, 1994, to determine the proportion for the disbursement of revenues under this part and for attribution of...
• Cutting, Harvesting, or Removing Forest Products Prohibited; Exceptions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.51110
  (1) Except as provided in subsection (2), a person shall not cut, harvest, or remove forest products from a commercial forest. (2) The owner...
• Report to Department - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.51111
  The owner shall report to the department prior to the cutting, harvesting, or removal of forest products from the commercial forest.
• Commercial Forest Fund - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.51112
  (1) The commercial forest fund is created within the state treasury. (2) The state treasurer shall deposit the money collected from the following sources...
• Prohibited Use of Land by Owner; Exception; Exploration for Minerals; Removal of Commercial Mineral Deposits, Sand and Gravel, and Oil and Gas - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.51113
  (1) Except as provided in this section, the owner of a commercial forest shall not use that land in a manner that is prejudicial...
• Applications, Statements, and Reports Under Oath; Forms - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.51114
  All applications, statements, reports, and information required by the department in the administration of this part shall be on forms prescribed by the department...
• Transfer of Title; Effect; Withdrawal; Document; Notification - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.51115
  (1) The transfer of title of forestland subject to this part shall not affect that forestland's status as a commercial forest if the forestland...
• Removal of Designation; Declassification; Notice; Recording; Fee - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.51116
  If, after providing notice and an opportunity for a hearing, the department determines that a commercial forest was used in violation of this part,...
• Applicability of Changes in Part; Withdrawal; Fees - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.51118
  (1) Except as provided in this section, changes in the terms, fees, taxes, or other provisions of this part apply to all forestlands that...
• Representatives of Department; Right of Entry on Commercial Forestlands; Access to Books and Papers - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.51119
  A duly authorized representative of the department may at any time go upon commercial forestlands to ascertain the validity of any report made pursuant...
• Violation of Part; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.51120
  (1) Except as provided in subsection (2), a person who violates this part is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not more...
• Owner of Commercial Forestland Subject to Sustainable Forest Conservation Easement; Specific Tax; Application for Sustainable Forest Conservation Easement Tax Incentives; Form; Information; Cutting or Removing Forest Products; Violation; Penalty; Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.51201
  (1) Notwithstanding section 51105, an owner of commercial forestland that is subject to a sustainable forest conservation easement is subject to an annual specific...
• Repealed. 2006, Act 378, Eff. Sept. 1, 2007. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.51501
  As used in this part: (a) "Certified prescribed burn manager" means an individual who has successfully completed the certification program of the department under...
• Department of Natural Resources; Authority; Appointment of Assistants - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.51502
  The department shall have charge of the prevention and suppression of forest fires and shall appoint assistants as needed to implement this part.
• Burning Permits; Conditions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.51503
  (1) At any time the ground is not snow-covered, a person shall not burn any flammable material on or adjacent to forest land, except...
• Prescribed Burning; Liability; Requirements - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.51503b
  (1) Prescribed burning does not constitute a public or private nuisance when conducted in compliance with this part, part 55, and rules promulgated to...
• Acts Prohibited - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.51504
  A person shall not do any of the following: (a) Dispose of a lighted match, cigarette, cigar, ashes or other flaming or glowing substances,...
• Refuse Disposal Facilities; Devices; Conditions; Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.51505
  Any person maintaining or operating a refuse disposal facility shall provide devices and conditions that will promote the safe operation and guard against the...
• Violation of Part Causing Forest or Grass Fires; Liability - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.51506
  (1) Except as provided in section 51503b, a person who, in violating this part, causes a forest or grass fire is liable for all...
• Extreme Fire Hazard Conditions; Proclamation by Governor as to Use of Fire; Prohibited Acts - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.51507
  (1) Whenever the governor finds that conditions of extreme fire hazard exist and that it is necessary in the public interest and for the...
• Emergency Assistance; Persons Subject to Call; Compensation; Refusal; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.51508
  The department may call to its assistance in emergencies any able-bodied male person who has reached his eighteenth birthday who, unless the person is...
• Fire Suppression Expenses; Liability; Determination; Collection of Claim; Actions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.51509
  (1) Except as provided in section 51503b, a person who sets fire on any land and negligently allows the fire to escape and become...
• Prohibited Acts; Exception - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.51510
  (1) A person shall not do any of the following: (a) Willfully, maliciously, or wantonly set fire or cause or procure to be set...
• Department of Natural Resources Officer, Employee, or Agent; Right of Entry - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.51511
  Any duly authorized officer, employee, or agent of the department, in the performance of his or her duty, may enter upon or enter into...
• Violation of Part or Rule; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.51512
  Any person who violates this part or any rule promulgated under this part is guilty of a misdemeanor. Any person convicted of violating section...
• Administration of Part; Rules; Investigations; Surveys; Construction of Part as to Other Law Enforcement Agencies and Local Ordinances and Regulations - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.51513
  (1) The department shall administer this part and shall promulgate rules necessary to implement this part. The department shall adopt rules governing prescribed burning...
• Forest Fire Control; Interstate and Federal Assistance Agreements Authorized; Employee Training Considered as Work Within State - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.51514
  The department may enter into agreements with other states and the federal government to provide assistance and to accept assistance in the control of...
• Legislation, Rules, or Policies Creating Conditions Promoting, Fostering, or Leading to Forest Fires - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.51701
  The state or a department, bureau, board, commission, or other agency of the state or a political subdivision of the state shall not enact,...
• Inconsistent Acts or Rules Repealed. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Forest Cutting, Slash, and Debris; Disposal Methods, Specifications, and Elimination; Approval by Department - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.51901
  Any person who cuts any forest growth within any public road or highway, or on land bordering on any public road or highway in...
• Forest Cutting, Slash, and Debris; Public Utilities; Responsibility for Disposal - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.51902
  All cuttings of forest growth, slash, and debris resulting from the construction and maintenance of any railroad, that is a common carrier, telephone, telegraph,...
• Forest Cutting, Slash, and Debris; Time for Disposal; Burning Permit Required - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.51903
  All cuttings of forest growth, slash, and debris referred to in sections 51901 and 51902 shall be disposed of within 30 days after cutting...
• Forest Cutting, Slash, and Debris; Noncompliance; Disposal by Department; Statement of Expenditures; Reimbursement; Neglect or Refusal to Pay Amount; Action; Money Collected; Disposition - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.51904
  If cuttings of forest growth, slash, and debris are not disposed of as provided under section 51903, the department shall notify, by registered mail,...
• Violation of Part; Penalty; Civil Liability - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.51905
  Any person who violates this part is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment for not more than 90 days or a fine of...
• Rules, Regulations, and Specifications - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.51906
  All rules, regulations, and specifications prescribed under this part shall be prescribed in accordance with the administrative procedures act of 1969, Act No. 306...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.52501
  As used in this part: (a) "Breast height" means 4.5 feet from highest ground at the base of the tree. (b) "Certification" means a...
• Management of State Forest; Manner; Duties of Department - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.52502
  The department shall manage the state forest in a manner that is consistent with principles of sustainable forestry and in doing so shall do...
• Forestry Development, Conservation, and Recreation Management Plan - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.52503
  (1) The department shall adopt a forestry development, conservation, and recreation management plan for state owned lands owned or controlled by the department. Parks...
• Harvest and Sale of Timber; Deposit of Proceeds Into Forest Development Fund; Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.52504
  (1) The department shall harvest timber from the state forest and other state owned lands owned or controlled by the department in compliance with...
• Third - Party Certification That Forestry Standards Satisfied; Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.52505
  (1) The department shall seek and maintain third-party certification that the management of the state forest and other state owned lands owned or controlled...
• Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.52506
  By January 1 of each year, the department shall prepare and submit to the commission of natural resources, the standing committees of the senate...
• Repealed. 2004, Act 123, Eff. Dec. 31, 2011. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.52701
  As used in this part: (a) "Forestry commission" means a forestry commission appointed by a municipality pursuant to this part. (b) "Legislative body" means...
• Municipality; Right to Acquire and Use Lands for Forestry - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.52702
  Any municipality may acquire by purchase, gift, or devise, or may provide land already in its possession, and use the land for a forestry...
• Municipal Forestry Commission; Members; Appointment; Terms; Vacancies - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.52703
  The legislative body of any municipality desiring to proceed under this part may appoint a forestry commission for the municipality to consist of 3...
• Forestry Commission; Powers and Duties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.52704
  A forestry commission shall supervise and manage all land of the municipality devoted to forestry and provide labor on forest land by foresters and...
• Forestry Commission; Report; Contents; Filing - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.52705
  Every forestry commission shall annually at a time to be designated by the legislative body make a report to the legislative body showing the...
• Authority to Sell State Lands to Municipalities for Forestry; Reversion; Relinquishing Reversionary Interest; Re - Acquisition; Definitions; Use of Term "This Section." - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.52706
  (1) The department, the department of treasury, or a state officer having charge of state land, may sell homestead, tax, swamp, or primary school...
• Forestry Commissions and Department of Natural Resources; Cooperation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.52707
  A forestry commission and the department shall cooperate with each other in all matters pertaining to the establishment and maintenance of public forests. The...
• Municipality; Appropriation for Forestry; Limitation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.52708
  The legislative body of any county, city, or village or the electors of any township or school district in which a forestry commission has...
• Forestry Funds; Accounting - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.52709
  A separate account of all revenue and expense of all funds appropriated or invested, or both, to the forestry commission shall be kept by...
• Special Forestry Fund; Creation; Payments in Lieu of Property Taxes - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.52710
  Any income from forest land shall be paid into the general fund of the municipality and may be set up in a special forestry...
• Removal of Certain Plants; "plant" Defined; Bill of Sale or Other Evidence of Title Required - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.52901
  (1) A person shall not cut, remove, or transport, without having in possession a bill of sale from the owner or other evidence of...
• Transportation of Plants - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.52902
  A person shall not transport within this state any plant in either of the following circumstances: (a) If the plant has been removed from...
• Sale of Plants; Bill of Sale or Other Evidence of Title Required; Records of Transactions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.52903
  A person shall not sell or offer for sale any plant without having in his or her possession the evidence of title prescribed by...
• Trees, Shrubs, Vines or Plants; Shipment; Evidence of Title - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.52904
  A common carrier shall not accept for shipment any of the trees, boughs, shrubs, vines, or plants listed in section 52901 unless the consignor...
• Law Enforcement Officers; Inspection; Impoundment of Plants or Equipment; Failure to Exhibit Bill of Sale or Other Evidence of Title - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.52905
  A law enforcement officer having probable cause to believe that this part is being violated, including authorized employees of the department of agriculture or...
• Construction of Part - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.52906
  Nothing in this part shall be construed to interfere with the insect pest and plant disease act, Act No. 189 of the Public Acts...
• Enforcement of Part; Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.52907
  The director of agriculture and the department, in cooperation with law enforcement agencies, shall enforce this part. The director of agriculture, after consultation with...
• Violation of Part; Penalties; Determination of Total Value; Prior Convictions; Prohibition; Additional Penalties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.52908
  (1) A person who violates this part is guilty of a crime as follows: (a) If the damages are less than $200.00, the person...
• Christmas Trees; Transportation During December - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.52909
  This part does not apply to the sale of or the transportation by any 1 person of not more than 2 Christmas trees between...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.60101
  As used in this part: (a) "Governing institution" means the state university within which the Michigan geological survey is established or continued under section...
• Michigan Geological Survey; Establishment Within Western Michigan University; Duties of Governing Institution; Transfer and Establishment Within Another State University; Conditions; Order; Agreement - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.60102
  (1) Subject to subsection (2), the Michigan geological survey is established within western Michigan university and shall continue as an entity within a governing...
• Repealed. 2011, Act 167, Imd. Eff. Oct. 11, 2011. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Michigan Geological Survey; Scope - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.60104
  The Michigan geological survey shall continue to make a thorough geological survey of this state, which may include a determination of the succession and...
• Michigan Geological Survey; Collection and Conservation of Cores, Samples, and Specimens - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.60105
  The Michigan geological survey shall provide for the collection and conservation of cores, samples, and specimens for the illustration of every division of the...
• Annual Report; Contents - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.60106
  The Michigan geological survey shall prepare and submit to the state geologist an annual report of progress and other reports, documents, and maps as...
• Notes, Compilations, Specimens, Diagrams, and Illustrations as State Property - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.60107
  All notes, memoranda, compilations, collections, specimens, diagrams, and illustrations that are made in the operation of the Michigan geological survey are the property of...
• Michigan Geological Survey; Receipt of Money and Assets - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.60108
  The Michigan geological survey may receive money or other assets to implement this part from any of the following: (a) Funds appropriated by the...
• Soil and Economic Survey; Duty of Department - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.60301
  The department shall conduct a soil and economic survey of all lands in the state.
• Soil and Economic Survey; Purpose; Direction and Control; Assistants; Compensation; Reimbursement - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.60302
  The soil and economic survey provided for in this part shall be conducted by counties; and the order in which the soil and economic...
• Soil and Economic Survey; Completion; Report; Copies; Printing - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.60303
  Upon completion of the soil and economic survey in any county, the department shall cause a full and detailed report of the soil and...
• Soil and Economic Survey; Report; Contents; Maps; Distribution - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.60304
  The report required under section 60303 to be made upon the soil and economic survey in each county, subject to this part, shall set...
• Soil and Economic Survey; Payment of Expenses; Claim or Account; Statement of Unexpended Funds - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.60305
  Payments shall be made out of the fund created by this part only on the warrant of the state treasurer. However, payments shall not...
• Cooperation With Other Agencies; Effect - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.60306
  In implementing the work contemplated in this part, the department may cooperate with the various counties of the state, with development bureaus, with any...
• Right of Entry on Private Property by Department - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.60307
  For the purposes of performing their respective duties under this part and carrying on the work of the soil and economic survey, the department...
• Annual Appropriation; Carrying Forward Unexpended Funds; Disposition; Reduction Through Federal Aid - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.60308
  Any portion of the annual appropriation provided for in this part that remains unexpended at the close of any fiscal year shall be carried...
• Reports to Legislature; Contents - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.60309
  The department shall prepare and submit to each legislature a report covering the work of the preceding 2 years. The report shall indicate specifically...
• Aerial Photographs and Ground Control Surveys for Preparation of Base Maps; Cooperative Agreements - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.60501
  The department, on behalf of the state, may confer with the director of the United States geological survey or his or her representatives and...
• Preparation of Base Maps; Authority of Department to Contract With Federal Government; Contents; Right of Entry on Private Lands - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.60502
  The department may, on behalf of the state, contract with the United States government for the aerial photographing and mapping, scale of photographs and...
• Preparation of Base Maps; Payment of Expenses - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.60503
  The amounts authorized to be paid under this part shall first be certified to be correct by the department and shall be paid out...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.60701
  As used in this part: (a) "Soil survey" means the identification and description of kinds of soil, the plotting of boundaries on aerial photographs...
• Inventory of Soil Resources of State; 10 - Year Program; Minimum Acres for Soil Surveys; Conducting Soil Surveys on Proportional Basis - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.60702
  (1) The department of agriculture shall provide an inventory of the soil resources of the state by a 10-year program for the acceleration of...
• Authority of Department of Agriculture - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.60703
  The department of agriculture shall implement this part by employing, subject to civil service rules, and equipping soil scientists, within appropriations for that purpose,...
• Department of Agriculture; Budget Requests; Appropriations - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.60704
  The department of agriculture shall make yearly budget requests and the legislature shall annually appropriate funds to implement this part.
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.60901
  As used in this part: (a) "Classification system" means a mechanism to identify the current use of land and any structures on the land....
• Project Design Study; Land Resource and Current Use Inventory; Technical Assistance Program; Recommendations - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.60902
  (1) The department shall make or have made a project design study. The study shall determine the appropriate operational criteria, computer software and hardware,...
• Technical Assistance Program; Creation and Purpose; Utilizing Programs of Regional Planning Commissions; Scope of Technical Assistance - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.60903
  (1) The department shall create a technical assistance program designed to help municipalities and counties effectively use the inventory. The technical assistance program shall,...
• Land Resource Portion of Inventory; Format; Scope of Inventory; Option to Purchase or Exchange Wetland; Exemption From Property Taxes - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.60904
  (1) The land resource portion of the inventory shall be completed in a format that may be readily integrated into the data management system,...
• Current Use Portion of Inventory; Classification System; Scope - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.60905
  The current use portion of the inventory shall be completed using a consistent classification system that can be readily integrated into the data management...
• Conducting Current Use Portion of Inventory; Preparation and Contents of Criteria; Circulation of Criteria; Notice of Intent to Perform Work; Assistance, Data, and Information - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.60906
  (1) The current use portion of the inventory may be conducted by municipalities, counties, or regional planning commissions as provided in subsection (4). A...
• Reimbursement for Preparation of Current Use Portion of Inventory; Certification; Prorating Amount - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.60907
  The state shall reimburse each municipality, county, or regional planning commission engaged in the preparation of the current use portion of the inventory for...
• Review and Updating of Land Resource and Current Use Portions of Inventory - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.60908
  (1) The land resource portion of the inventory shall be reviewed and updated when necessary, but not less than once every 10 years. (2)...
• Fees for Generating Products or Rendering Services - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.60909
  The department may charge fees for generating products or rendering services based on the information in the inventory. The fees shall not exceed the...
• Controlling or Curtailing Development of Private Property; Prohibitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.60910
  (1) This part shall not be construed to permit the state, the department, or a person to exercise control over private property or to...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61001
  As used in this part: (a) "Department" means the department of natural resources. (b) "Severed oil and gas rights" means those subsurface oil and...
• Inventory and Categorization of Land; Contract - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61002
  (1) Within 4 years after the effective date of this section, the department shall complete an inventory of all land under the jurisdiction of...
• Divestiture of Severed Oil and Gas Rights; Reuniting Oil and Gas Rights With Surface Rights; Deed Restriction; Reversion of Subsurface Rights - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61003
  (1) The department shall implement procedures in compliance with this part that allow the department, after consultation with the natural resources trust fund board...
• Divestiture of Severed Oil and Gas Rights; Basis; Priority; Plan for Attaching Monetary Value; Offer to Sell or Transfer Severed Rights to Surface Owner; Notice; Duration of Designated Price; Petition; Disposition of Money Received - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61004
  (1) The department may divest itself of severed oil and gas rights on a county-by-county basis. The department may prioritize counties in the order...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61501
  Unless the context requires a different meaning, the words defined in this section have the following meanings when used in this part: (a) "Department"...
• Construction of Part - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61502
  It has long been the declared policy of this state to foster conservation of natural resources so that our citizens may continue to enjoy...
• Supervisor of Wells; Assistants; Commission as Appeal Board; Hearing; Compensation and Expenses; Office - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61503
  (1) The supervisor of wells shall designate suitable assistants as are required to implement this part. (2) The commission shall act as an appeal...
• Gas Lease; Duties of Lessee; Monthly Revenue Statements and Payments; Initiation; Deferment - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61503a
  (1) Beginning 12 months after the effective date of this section, a person who has entered into a gas lease as a lessee prior...
• Postproduction Costs - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61503b
  (1) A person who enters into a gas lease as a lessee after March 28, 2000 shall not deduct from the lessor's royalty any...
• Violation of Mcl 324.61503a or Mcl 324.61503b; Penalty; Injunction or Damages; Separate Offenses; Recovery of Postproduction Costs and Attorney Fees; Notice - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61503c
  (1) Notwithstanding section 61522, a person who knowingly violates section 61503a or 61503b is responsible for the payment of a civil fine of not...
• Waste Prohibited - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61504
  A person shall not commit waste in the exploration for or in the development, production, handling, or use of oil or gas, or in...
• Supervisor of Wells; Jurisdiction; Authority; Enforcement of Part - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61505
  The supervisor has jurisdiction and authority over the administration and enforcement of this part and all matters relating to the prevention of waste and...
• Drilling Permit for Well Beneath Lake Bottomlands for Exploration or Production of Oil or Gas; Condition - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61505a
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this part or the rules promulgated under this part, beginning on the effective date of this section, the supervisor...
• Supervisor of Wells; Powers and Duties Generally - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61506
  The supervisor shall prevent the waste prohibited by this part. To that end, acting directly or through his or her authorized representatives, the supervisor...
• Notice of Violation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61506a
  Upon completion of an inspection under this part, the supervisor shall notify the owner or operator of the well of any violation of this...
• Conditions Prohibiting Issuance of Permit or Authorization to Drill Oil or Gas Well; Waiver; Exception - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61506b
  (1) Except as provided in subsections (2) and (3), beginning on the effective date of this section, the supervisor shall not issue a permit...
• Toll - Free Telephone Number; Maintenance; Use - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61506c
  The department shall maintain a toll-free telephone number that a person or a representative of a local unit of government may call in order...
• Prevention of Waste; Procedure; Hearing; Rules; Orders - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61507
  Upon the initiative of the supervisor or upon verified complaint of any person interested in the subject matter alleging that waste is taking place...
• Rules of Order or Procedure in Hearings or Other Proceedings; Entering in Book; Copy of Rule or Order as Evidence; Availability of Writings to Public - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61508
  (1) The supervisor shall prescribe rules of order or procedure in hearings or other proceedings before the supervisor under this part. Rules promulgated or...
• Hearings; Subpoena; Witnesses and Production of Books; Incriminating Testimony - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61509
  The supervisor may compel by subpoena the attendance of witnesses and the production of books, papers, records, or articles necessary in any proceeding before...
• Failure to Comply With Subpoena; Refusal to Testify; Attachment; Contempt; Fees and Mileage of Witnesses - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61510
  (1) If a person fails or refuses to comply with a subpoena issued by the supervisor, or if a witness refuses to testify as...
• False Swearing as Perjury; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61511
  If a person who is required to give an oath under this part, or by any rule promulgated or order issued by the supervisor,...
• Allocation or Distribution of Allowable Production in Well, Field, or Pool; Basis - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61512
  If, to prevent waste, the supervisor limits the amount of oil or gas to be produced from any well, pool, or field in this...
• Proration or Distribution of Allowable Production Among Wells; Basis; Drilling Unit; Unnecessary Wells; Pooling of Properties; Location of Well; Exceptions; Minimum Allowable Production; Allowable Production Pursuant to Rules or Orders - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61513
  (1) When, to prevent waste, the total allowable production for any oil or gas field or pool in the state is fixed in an...
• Pooling of Properties Not Required - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61513a
  The supervisor shall not require the pooling of state owned properties or parts of properties under section 61513 if the state provides for the...
• Certificates of Clearance or Tenders; Issuance - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61514
  The supervisor may issue certificates of clearance or tenders if required to implement this part.
• Handling or Disposition of Illegal Oil or Gas; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61515
  A person shall not sell, purchase, acquire, transport, refine, process, or otherwise handle or dispose of any illegal oil or gas or any illegal...
• Rule or Order; Public Hearings Required; Emergency Rules or Orders Without Public Hearing; Requirements for Public Hearings Held Pertaining to Pooling of Properties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61516
  (1) A rule or order shall not be made, promulgated, put into effect, revoked, changed, renewed, or extended, except emergency orders, unless public hearings...
• Actions Against Department or Commission; Jurisdiction of Ingham County Circuit Court; Injunction or Restraining Order; Actions Pertaining to Pooling of Properties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61517
  (1) Except as provided in subsection (2), the circuit court of Ingham county has exclusive jurisdiction over all suits brought against the department, the...
• Enforcement of Part and Rules; Representation by Attorney General; Complaint; Proceedings; Powers of Supervisor; Exception - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61518
  (1) The supervisor may proceed at law or for the enforcement of this part and a rule promulgated under this part or for the...
• Failure of Owner or Operator to Obtain Permit or to Construct, Operate, Maintain, Case, Plug, or Repair Well; Notice of Determination; Liability; Claims - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61519
  If the supervisor determines that the owner or operator of a well subject to this part has failed or neglected to properly obtain a...
• Abandoning Well Without Properly Plugging; Violation of Part or Rule; Penalty; Liability of Owner; "owner" and "operator" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61520
  (1) A person who abandons a well without properly plugging the well as provided in this part or the rules promulgated under this part,...
• Unlawful Acts; Penalties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61521
  (1) A person who, for the purpose of evading this part or of evading a rule promulgated or an order issued under this part,...
• Violations of Part, Rule, or Order; Penalties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61522
  (1) Unless a penalty is otherwise provided for in this part, a person who violates this part or a rule or order promulgated or...
• Confiscation of Illegal Oil or Gas, Oil or Gas Products, Conveyances, and Containers; Notice; Seizure; Sale; Intervention - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61523
  All illegal oil or gas, products derived from illegal oil or gas, conveyances used in the transportation of illegal oil or gas or oil...
• Fee for Monitoring, Surveillance, Enforcement, and Administration of Part - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61524
  (1) For the purposes of monitoring, surveillance, enforcement, and administration of this part, a fee not in excess of 1%, based upon the gross...
• Permit to Drill Well; Application; Bond; Posting; Fee; Issuance; Disposition of Fees; Availability of Information Pertaining to Applications; Information Provided to City, Village, or Township - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61525
  (1) A person shall not drill or begin the drilling of any well for oil or gas, for secondary recovery, or a well for...
• Annual Well Regulatory Fee; Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61525a
  The owner or operator of a well used for injection, withdrawal, or observation related to the storage of natural gas or liquefied petroleum gas...
• Oil and Gas Regulatory Fund; Creation; Disposition of Money or Other Assets; Lapse; Expenditures; Annual Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61525b
  (1) The oil and gas regulatory fund is created within the state treasury. (2) The state treasurer may receive money or other assets from...
• Part Cumulative; Conflicting Provisions Repealed; Exception. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Applicability of Part - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61527
  This part does not apply to drill holes for the exploration for and the extraction of iron, copper, or brine; to water wells; to...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61601
  As used in this part: (a) "Abandoned oil or gas well" means an oil or gas well that has not been plugged promptly after...
• Orphan Well Fund; Creation; Disposition of Assets - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61602
  (1) The orphan well fund is created within the state treasury. (2) The state treasurer may receive money or other assets from any source...
• Expenditures From Fund; Consultation With Operator - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61603
  (1) The supervisor shall expend money from the fund, upon appropriation, only for the following purposes: (a) For plugging of abandoned or improperly closed...
• List to Be Submitted to Legislature; Annual Appropriation From Fund for Listed Projects - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61604
  (1) By January 1 of each year, the supervisor shall prepare and submit to the legislature a list of the oil or gas wells...
• Action by Attorney General Against Well Owner or Operator; Recovery of Money Expended - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61605
  Following the expenditure of money from the fund pursuant to section 61603(1)(a), the attorney general may bring an action against a person who was...
• Sale of Equipment - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61606
  The supervisor may sell the well pipe and any other equipment related to an abandoned or improperly closed well as to which there is...
• Report to Legislature of Expenditures - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61607
  By December 31 of each year, the supervisor shall prepare and submit to the legislature a report that details expenditures from the fund for...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61701
  As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires: (a) "Field" means an underground reservoir or reservoirs containing oil or gas, or both....
• Supervisor of Wells; General Duties; Fees - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61702
  Subject to the limitations of this part, the supervisor shall make and enforce such orders, rules, and regulations and do such things as may...
• Petition; Filing; Contents - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61703
  Any interested lessee may file a verified petition with the supervisor requesting an order for the unit operation of a pool, pools, or parts...
• Notice to Interested Persons; Contents; Notice of Protest; Order - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61704
  (1) Upon the filing of a petition as provided in section 61703, the petitioner shall give notice to interested persons as set forth in...
• Order for Unit Operations; Terms and Conditions; Plan for Operations - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61705
  The order of the supervisor shall be upon terms and conditions that are fair, reasonable, and equitable and shall prescribe a plan for unit...
• Effective Date of Order; Finding - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61706
  An order of the supervisor providing for unit operations shall not be declared or become effective until the supervisor makes a finding, either in...
• Supplemental Hearings and Orders; Ineffective Order; Time - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61707
  If a finding is not made as set forth in section 61706 at the time the order for unit operations is made, the supervisor...
• Amendment of Orders; Approval; Limitations - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61708
  An order providing for unit operations may be amended by an order made by the supervisor in the same manner and subject to the...
• Signed Writings; Admissible as Evidence - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61709
  Writings containing signatures that are witnessed and acknowledged in a form acceptable for recording under the laws of this state shall be admissible under...
• Unit Area Embracing Previously Established Area - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61710
  The supervisor by order may provide for the unit operation of a unit area that embraces a unit area established by a previous order....
• Unit Area Less Than Whole Pool - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61711
  An order may provide for a unit area less than the whole of a pool if the unit area is of such size or...
• Operations Upon Unit Area Considered Operation on Separate Tracts - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61712
  All operations, including, but not limited to, the commencement, drilling, or operation of a well upon any portion of the unit area, shall be...
• Lease Obligations; Effect on Unit Operation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61713
  Operations conducted pursuant to an order of the supervisor for unit operations constitute a fulfillment of all the express and implied obligations of each...
• Order for Unit Operation Not to Affect Title; Property; Acquisition - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61714
  Except to the extent that the parties specifically agree otherwise, an order for unit operations shall not be construed to result in a transfer...
• Unit; Legal Powers; Operator of Unit; Powers - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61715
  Each unit created under this part, if the plan provides, shall, through its operator, be capable of suing, being sued, and contracting as such...
• Operation of Well Without Authority Prohibited - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61716
  After the effective date of the order of the supervisor creating a unit, the operation of any well within the unit area except by...
• Property Rights as Amended or Modified - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61717
  Property rights, leases, contracts, and all other rights and obligations shall be regarded as amended and modified to the extent necessary to conform to...
• Lien for Costs; Responsibility for Costs; Subrogation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61718
  Subject to reasonable limitations as set out in the plan of unitization, the unit shall have a first and prior lien for costs incurred...
• Lessee's Obligation; Liability - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61719
  The obligation or liability of each lessee in the several separately owned tracts for the payment of unit expense at all times is several...
• Allocation of Unit Production - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61720
  The portion of the unit production allocated to any tract and the proceeds from the sale of that unit production are the property and...
• Division Order or Contract Not Affected by Unit Order - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61721
  A division order or other contract relating to the sale or purchase of production from a separately owned tract shall not be terminated by...
• Unit Production or Proceeds Not Income of Unit; Unit as Administrative Agent Only - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61722
  The unit production, proceeds from the sale of the unit production, or other receipts shall not be treated, regarded, or taxed as income or...
• Agreements in Restraint of Trade Prohibited - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61723
  An agreement between or among lessees or other owners of oil and gas rights in oil and gas properties entered into pursuant to this...
• Consent to or Participation in Plan or Program of Unitization by Governmental Subdivision or Agency - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61724
  The department or other proper board or officer of the state having the control and management of state land and the proper board or...
• Rules, Regulations, or Orders; Public Hearings; Notice - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61725
  Except as provided in section 61704, rules, regulations, or orders shall not be made, promulgated, put into effect, revoked, changed, renewed, or extended, unless...
• Hearings; Jurisdictional Requirements of Notice - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61726
  Jurisdictional requirements of notice of time, place, and issues involved for all hearings required by this part, except proceedings for criminal or civil enforcement...
• Service of Notice; Filing Receipts; Filing Undelivered Notices; Filing Affidavit of Service - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61727
  (1) Service of the notice described in section 61704(2), which is provided as a matter of public policy and not as a requirement of...
• Compliance With Mcl 24.201 to 24.328; Persons Authorized to Conduct Hearings and Other Actions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61728
  Except as otherwise expressly provided in this part, all proceedings under this part, including the filing of petitions, the giving of notices, the conduct...
• Appellant to Comply With Order, Rule, or Regulation; Bond - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61729
  During the pendency of the appeal, the appealing party shall obey the order, rule, or regulation appealed unless the interests sought to be protected...
• Judicial Review - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61730
  The action of the supervisor shall be final with respect to jurisdiction for an appeal before any regulatory agency of this state, but any...
• Subpoena of Witnesses and Documentary Evidence; Incriminating Evidence; Perjury - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61731
  The supervisor may compel by subpoena the attendance of witnesses or the production of books, papers, records, or articles necessary in any proceeding before...
• Failure or Refusal to Comply With Subpoena; Refusal to Testify or Answer; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61732
  In case of failure or refusal on the part of any person to comply with any subpoena issued by the supervisor, or the refusal...
• Fees and Travel Expense of Witnesses - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61733
  Any witness summoned by subpoena or by written request of the supervisor and attending any hearing called by the supervisor is entitled to the...
• Witnesses; False Swearing or Affidavit; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61734
  If any person of whom an oath is required under this part, or by any rule, regulation, or order of the supervisor, willfully swears...
• Enforcement of Part - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61735
  The supervisor may bring proceedings for the enforcement of this part and all rules and regulations promulgated under this part or for the prevention...
• Violation of Part; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61736
  A person who violates this part or any rule, regulation, or order promulgated under this part is subject to a penalty of not more...
• Violation of Part; Aiding or Abetting; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61737
  A person aiding or abetting in the violation of this part, or any rule, regulation, or order made under this part, is subject to...
• Orders of Supervisor; Recording; Notice - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61738
  A certified copy of any order of the supervisor issued under this part is entitled to be recorded in the office of the register...
• Legislative Findings - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61901
  (1) The legislature finds that it is in the public interest to encourage and promote safe, effective, efficient, and environmentally prudent extraction of hydrocarbon...
• Pigeon River Country State Forest as Valuable Public Resource; Production of Oil and Gas in Public Interest; Amended Stipulation and Consent Order as Hydrocarbon Development Plan - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61902
  The Pigeon river country state forest as dedicated by the commission on December 7, 1973, is a valuable public resource. It is in the...
• Hydrocarbon Activities Not in Violation of Law - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61903
  The hydrocarbon activities within the Pigeon river country state forest authorized by the plan referred to in section 61902 can be carried out without...
• Implementation of Hydrocarbon Development Plan - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.61904
  In light of the legislative findings in section 61901, the declaration of public interest in section 61902, and the determination that hydrocarbons can be...
• Interstate Compact for Conservation of Oil and Gas; Extension Agreements; Withdrawal - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.62101
  So that the state of Michigan can cooperate with other states in fostering and encouraging the production of oil and gas without waste, the...
• Interstate Oil and Gas Compact; Agreement - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.62102
  The interstate compact to conserve oil and gas referred to in the above section, and which it is hereby proposed to extend by agreement...
• Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission; Governor as Representative of State; Powers and Duties; Assistant Representatives - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.62103
  The governor shall be the official representative of the state of Michigan on "the interstate oil and gas compact commission," provided for in the...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.62501
  As used in this part: (a) "Artificial brine" means mineralized water formed by dissolving rock salt or other readily soluble rocks or minerals. (b)...
• Waste Prohibited - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.62502
  A person shall not cause surface or underground waste in the drilling, development, production, operation, or plugging of wells subject to this part.
• Supervisor of Mineral Wells; Appointment of Assistants; Salaries; Expenses - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.62503
  The supervisor of mineral wells shall appoint, with the approval of the department, assistants as necessary to implement this part. The supervisor of mineral...
• Appeal Board; Persons Entitled to Appeal; Hearing; Right to Be Heard - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.62504
  The commission shall act as an appeal board regarding the issuance, denial, suspension, revocation, annulment, withdrawal, recall, cancellation, or amendment of a permit under...
• Administration and Enforcement of Part; Jurisdiction of Supervisor - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.62505
  The supervisor of mineral wells shall have jurisdiction over the administration and enforcement of this part.
• Prevention of Waste; Rules; Waste; Enforcement - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.62506
  The supervisor of mineral wells shall prevent the wastes defined in and prohibited by this part. Acting directly or through his or her deputy...
• Definitions; Drilling Multisource Commercial Hazardous Waste Disposal Well; Construction Permit Required; Construction of Section - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.62506a
  (1) As used in this section: (a) "Hazardous waste", "storage facility", and "treatment facility" have the meanings ascribed to these terms in part 111....
• Emergency Orders; Issuance; Duration - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.62507
  The supervisor of mineral wells, acting directly or through his or her deputy or authorized representative, may issue emergency orders without a public hearing...
• Supervisor of Mineral Wells; Powers - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.62508
  The supervisor of mineral wells, acting directly or through his or her deputy or authorized representative, may do any of the following: (a) Make...
• Drilling or Conversion Permits; Application; Bond; Permit Not Required; Blanket Permit; Confidentiality of Information, Records, Logs, and Reports; Fees - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.62509
  (1) A person shall not drill or begin the drilling of any brine, storage, or waste disposal well, or convert any well for these...
• Mineral Well Regulatory Fee - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.62509a
  (1) The owner or operator of a well regulated under this part is subject to the following annual mineral well regulatory fee. The fee...
• Mineral Well Regulatory Fund - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.62509b
  (1) The mineral well regulatory fund is created within the state treasury. (2) The state treasurer may receive money or other assets from any...
• Enforcement of Part and Rules; Jurisdiction of Court; Representation by Attorney General - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.62510
  The supervisor of mineral wells may bring proceedings for the enforcement of this part and rules promulgated under this part in the circuit court...
• Suits Against Supervisor, Commission, Agent or Employee; Jurisdiction of Ingham County Circuit Court - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.62511
  The circuit court of Ingham county has exclusive jurisdiction of all suits brought against the supervisor of mineral wells or commission, or their agents...
• Hearing; Notice of Time, Place, and Issues; Service in Form of Notice by Registered Mail; Responsibility for Publication of Notice and Payment - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.62512
  (1) The jurisdictional requirement of notice of time, place, and issues involved in a hearing required by this part shall be given in the...
• Persons Authorized to Conduct Hearings and Investigations; Acts by Supervisor's Deputy or Representative; Effect - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.62513
  All hearings and other actions pertaining to these hearings or investigations may be conducted by the supervisor of mineral wells or the supervisor's deputy...
• Supervisor of Mineral Wells; Power to Summon Witnesses, Administer Oaths, Require Production of Documents; Noncompliance; Contempt - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.62514
  (1) The supervisor of mineral wells may summon witnesses, administer oaths, and, when necessary to carry out the provisions of this part, require the...
• Failure to Case, Seal, Operate, Repair, or Plug Wells; Notice; Expense of Repair or Correction; Collection - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.62515
  Whenever the supervisor of mineral wells or the supervisor's deputy or authorized representative determines that an owner or operator has failed or neglected to...
• Prohibited Acts - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.62516
  A person shall not do any of the following: (a) Willfully violate any provision of this part or any rule or order of the...
• Violations; Penalties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.62517
  A person who violates this part is subject to a fine of not more than $1,000.00, and each day that the violation continues constitutes...
• Construction of Part - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.62518
  This part does not apply to wells drilled under the authority of part 41 or part 615. This part does not supersede or contravene...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63101
  As used in this part: (a) "Department" means the department of environmental quality. (b) "Ferrous mineral" or "mineral" means ferrous ore or material mined...
• Repealed. 2011, Act 214, Imd. Eff. Nov. 8, 2011. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Mining Operations; Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63103
  The department may promulgate rules pertaining to mining operations conducted subsequent to their effective date, subject to any rights existing pursuant to any permit,...
• Mining of Ferrous Minerals; Permit Required - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63103a
  A ferrous mineral operator shall not engage in the mining of ferrous minerals except as authorized by a permit issued by the department pursuant...
• Mining and Reclamation Plan - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63103b
  The mining and reclamation plan submitted under section 63103a shall include all of the following for the total project: (a) The method and direction...
• Ferrous Mineral Mining Permit - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63103c
  (1) A ferrous mineral mining permit issued by the department is valid for the life of the mine. However, the department may revoke a...
• Ferrous Mineral Surveillance Fee; Annual Report of Production - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63103d
  (1) For purposes of surveillance, monitoring, administration, and enforcement of this part, a ferrous mineral operator shall be assessed a ferrous mineral surveillance fee...
• Ferrous Mineral Surveillance Fund - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63103e
  (1) The ferrous mineral surveillance fund is created within the state treasury. (2) The state treasurer may receive money or other assets from any...
• Mining Operations; Variance or Modification From Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63104
  The supervisor of reclamation, on application by the landowner or operator, may modify or permit variance from the rules promulgated under this part if...
• Supervisor of Reclamation; Administration of Part and Rules; Powers - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63105
  The supervisor of reclamation shall administer and enforce this part and the rules promulgated under this part. The supervisor of reclamation may do any...
• Plan Maps; Filing by Operator; Form; Annual Changes; Long - Range Plans - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63106
  For the purpose of information and to assist the supervisor of reclamation in proper enforcement of rules promulgated under this part, an operator shall...
• Performance Bond, Security, or Assurance of Operator - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63107
  The supervisor of reclamation, if he or she has reasonable doubts as to an operator's financial ability to comply with the rules promulgated under...
• Injunctive Relief to Prevent Violation of Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63108
  At the request of the supervisor of reclamation, the attorney general may institute an action in a circuit court of the county in which...
• Scope of Part - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63110
  This part does not apply to activities subject to part 632.
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63201
  As used in this part: (a) "Administratively complete" means an application for a mining permit under this part that is determined by the department...
• Legislative Findings - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63202
  The legislature finds that: (a) It is the policy of this state to foster the conservation and development of the state's natural resources. (b)...
• Nonferrous Metallic Mineral Mining; Administration and Enforcement; Rules; Regulation or Control by Local Units of Government - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63203
  (1) The department shall administer and enforce this part in order to regulate nonferrous metallic mineral mining. In addition to other powers granted to...
• Mining Permit; Application Procedure - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63205
  (1) A person shall not engage in the mining of nonferrous metallic minerals except as authorized in a mining permit issued by the department....
• Mining Permit; Duration; Termination; Revocation; Transfer; Amendment - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63207
  (1) A mining permit issued by the department shall remain in effect until terminated or revoked by the department. (2) The department may terminate...
• Duties of Permittee - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63209
  (1) A permittee shall comply with all other applicable permit standards under this act. (2) A permittee shall conduct reclamation activities at a mining...
• Financial Assurance - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63211
  (1) An operator shall maintain financial assurance during mining operations until the department determines that all reclamation has been completed and for a postclosure...
• Mining and Reclamation Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63213
  (1) A permittee shall file with the department a mining and reclamation report on or before March 15 of each year, during the period...
• Surveillance Fee - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63215
  (1) For purposes of surveillance, monitoring, administration, and enforcement of this part, the department shall assess a permittee a nonferrous metallic mineral surveillance fee...
• Nonferrous Metallic Mineral Surveillance Fund - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63217
  (1) The nonferrous metallic mineral surveillance fund is created within the state treasury. (2) The state treasurer may receive money or other assets from...
• Contested Case Hearing - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63219
  (1) A person who is aggrieved by an order, action, or inaction of the department or by the issuance, denial, revocation, or amendment of...
• Violations - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63221
  (1) If the department determines that an operator has violated this part, a rule promulgated under this part, or a mining permit issued under...
• Civil Action; Commencement; Jurisdiction; Relief; Fine; Violation as Felony; Penalties; Lien - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63223
  (1) The department may request the attorney general to commence a civil action for appropriate relief, including a permanent or temporary injunction, for a...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63301
  The following words and terms as used in this part have the meaning ascribed to them in this section: (a) "Mineral", when employed in...
• Exploration of Certain Lands for Mining Purposes - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63302
  Whenever lands or mineral rights in lands in this state are owned by tenants in common, joint owners, co-tenants, or co-parceners, whether title is...
• Decree of Court to Lease Land; Complaint - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63303
  The owner or owners of not less than 3/4 in interest desiring to lease land or the mineral rights in the land for mining...
• Decree of Court; Distribution of Proceeds - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63304
  If the court finds that the material assertions of the complaint are true and that the plaintiffs do own the required interest in the...
• Deposit With Clerk of Court When Defendant Is Unknown - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63305
  If the whereabouts of any of the defendants is unknown, the court may require the plaintiffs to deposit those defendants' share of the net...
• Suits by Lessees - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63306
  If a person or persons holding not less than a 3/4 interest in the land has or have executed a mineral lease or leases...
• Meanings of Words and Phrases Defined in Mcl 324.63502 and 324.63503 - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63501
  For the purposes of this part, the words and phrases defined in sections 63502 and 63503 have the meanings ascribed to them in those
• Definitions; a to O - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63502
  (1) "Agricultural land" includes any of the following as determined by the department of natural resources under part 609: (a) Prime farmland is land...
• Definitions; P to U - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63503
  (1) "Permit" means a permit issued by the department to conduct surface coal mining and reclamation operations. (2) "Permit area" means the area of...
• Assumption by State of Exclusive Jurisdiction Over Regulation of Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation Operations in State; Purpose of Part - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63504
  Pursuant to the authority granted in section 503 of title V of the surface mining control and reclamation act of 1977, Public Law 95-87,...
• Exclusive Jurisdiction of Department Over Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation Operations in State; Construction of Part - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63505
  The department has exclusive jurisdiction over all surface coal mining and reclamation operations in this state. This part shall not be construed as preempting...
• Powers of Department - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63506
  To implement this part, the department has the following powers: (a) To promulgate and enforce rules pertaining to surface coal mining and reclamation operations...
• Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63507
  (1) The department shall promulgate rules pertaining to surface coal mining and reclamation operations that are required by this part. (2) A rule promulgated...
• Information Submitted to Department, Other State Agency, or Local Unit of Government as Public Record; Confidential Information; Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63508
  Except when confidentiality is provided in this part, information submitted to the department, other state agency, or local unit of government pursuant to this...
• Participation in Abandoned Mines Reclamation Fund Established by Title IV of Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977; Authorization; Action; Procedures - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63509
  The department is authorized to take all action necessary to ensure participation to the fullest extent practicable in the abandoned mines reclamation fund established...
• State Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund; Creation; Administration; Investment of Money; Use of Interest and Earnings; Money Deposited in Fund; Carrying Over Remaining Money; Expenditures - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63510
  (1) The state abandoned mine reclamation fund is created in the state treasury and shall be administered by the department. The state treasurer shall...
• Entry on Private Property by Department; Purposes; Conditions; Notice; Money Expended and Benefits Accruing to Property Chargeable Against Land; Mitigating or Offsetting Claim in Action by Owner for Damages; Acquisition by Department of Land Adversely Affected by Past Coal Mining Practices; Sale or Transfer of Acquired Land Suitable for Development; Rules; Grant; Public Hearings - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63511
  (1) The department may, in the manner provided in this section, enter on private property for the purposes of conducting an investigation, inspection, study,...
• Itemizing Money Expended to Complete Project; Filing Statement of Account and Appraisal With County Clerk; Filing of Lis Pendens With Statement of Account and Appraisal as Lien on Land; Priority; Amount; Lien Not to Be Filed Against Certain Property; Petition for Hearing Concerning Amount of Lien; Appeal - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63512
  (1) Within 6 months after the completion of a project to restore, reclaim, abate, control, or prevent the adverse effects of past mining practices...
• Expenditures From State Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund for Emergency Restoration, Reclamation, Abatement, Control, or Prevention of Adverse Effects; Conditions; Entry on Land Where Emergency Exists as Exercise of Police Power; Warrant; Action for Damages; Intent of Subsection (2) - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63513
  (1) The department may expend money from the state abandoned mine reclamation fund created by section 63510 for the emergency restoration, reclamation, abatement, control,...
• Conduct of Surface Coal Mining Operation Without Permit - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63514
  A person shall not conduct a surface coal mining operation in this state except as authorized by a permit issued by the department pursuant...
• Term of Permits; Continuation of Plan by Successor in Interest; Termination of Permit; Extensions of Time to Commence Operations; Conditions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63515
  (1) Permits issued pursuant to this part are for a term not to exceed 3 years, except that if the applicant demonstrates that a...
• Permit Application; Contents; Submission of Certificate of Public Liability Insurance Policy to Department; Policy Provisions; Maintenance of Policy in Full Force and Effect - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63516
  (1) The permit application shall be submitted to the department and shall contain all of the following: (a) The names and addresses of the...
• Renewal of Permit - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63517
  (1) A permit issued pursuant to this part includes the right of successive renewal on expiration with respect to areas within the boundaries of...
• Reclamation Plan; Contents - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63518
  The reclamation plan required to be submitted pursuant to this part as part of a permit application shall include details necessary to demonstrate that...
• Blasting Plan; Submission by Permit Applicant - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63519
  Each applicant for a surface coal mining and reclamation permit shall submit to the department as a part of its application a blasting plan...
• Filing Copy of Application With County and Township Clerks; Exception; Information Obtained by Department Available to Public With County Clerk; Confidentiality - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63520
  (1) An applicant for a surface coal mining and reclamation permit shall file a copy of the application with the county clerk of each...
• Application Fee - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63521
  An application for a surface coal mining and reclamation permit shall be accompanied by an initial application fee. The initial application fee is $100.00.
• Determination of Probable Hydrologic Consequences and Statement of Boring or Sampling Results; Performance; Cost - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63522
  If the department finds that the probable total annual production at all locations of a surface coal mining operator will not exceed 100,000 tons,...
• Application for Permit or Renewal; Advertisement of Ownership, Location, and Boundaries of Land Affected; Notification of Local Units of Government; Written Comments; Notice to Department of History, Arts, and Libraries; Determination; Filing Objections to Proposed Application for Permit; Request for Hearing; Action by Department - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63523
  (1) When an application for a surface coal mining and reclamation permit or renewal of an existing permit is submitted, the applicant's advertisement of...
• Application for Permit or Revision of Permit; Notice; Burden; Requirements for Approval; Filing Schedule Listing Notices of Violations; Issuance of Permit; Mining on Agricultural Land; Consultation; Finding - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63524
  (1) The applicant for a permit or revision of a permit has the burden of establishing that his or her application is in compliance...
• Application for Revision of Permit; Standards; Transfer, Assignment, or Sale of Rights; Review of Outstanding Permits; Revision or Modification of Permit Provisions; Conducting Action Regarding Permit Pursuant to Mcl 24.271 to 24.292 - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63525
  (1) During the term of a permit, the permittee may submit to the department an application for a revision of the permit, including a...
• Construction of Subpart - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63526
  This subpart does not exempt a permittee from obtaining any other permit, license, or permission to engage in any activity regulated by this part...
• Performance Standards - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63527
  (1) A permit issued under this part to conduct surface coal mining operations shall require that the operations meet the performance standards provided in...
• Certificate of Public Liability Insurance; Maintenance of Policy in Full Force and Effect; Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63528
  (1) An applicant for a permit shall submit to the department, as part of each permit application, a certificate that the applicant has a...
• Performance Bond; Form, Coverage, and Amount; Liability; Execution by Applicant and Corporate Surety; Election to Deposit Cash or Assets as Security; Acceptance of Bond Without Separate Surety; Adjustment of Bond or Deposit Amount and Terms of Acceptance; Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63529
  (1) After a surface coal mining and reclamation permit application has been approved, but before the permit is issued, the applicant shall file with...
• Total or Partial Release of Performance Bond or Deposit; Application; Notice; Publication; Contents; Inspection and Evaluation of Reclamation Work; Notification of Decision; Reclamation Schedule; Disapproval of Application; Notifying County Clerk of Filed Application; Written Objections; Public Hearings; Notice - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63530
  (1) The permittee may file a request with the department for the release of all or part of a performance bond or deposit. Within...
• Coal Exploration Operations; Rules; Notice of Intent to Explore; Violation of Section or Rules; Penalties; Maximum Amount of Coal Removable Pursuant to Exploration Permit - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63531
  (1) Coal exploration operations that significantly disturb the natural land surface shall be conducted in accordance with rules promulgated by the department. The rules...
• Surface Effects of Underground Mining; Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63532
  The department shall promulgate rules applicable to the surface effects of underground mining that are consistent with the requirements of the surface mining control...
• Permit Requirements; Suspension of Underground Coal Mining; Imminent Danger; Applicability of Subparts 3, 4, 5, 7, and 8 to Surface Operations and Surface Impacts Incident to Underground Coal Mine; Modifications; Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63533
  (1) A permit issued pursuant to this part relating to underground coal mining shall require the operator to do all of the following: (a)...
• Conducting Inspections and Requiring Monitoring and Reporting of Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation Operations; Taking Necessary Actions to Administer Part and Meet Program Requirements; Right of Entry and Access to Records; Notice and Report of Violation; Removal or Disturbance of Strata Serving as Aquifer; Specifications; Rules; Inspection Requirements - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63534
  (1) The department shall conduct inspections and require monitoring and reporting of surface coal mining and reclamation operations, and shall take all actions necessary...
• Sign - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63535
  Each permittee shall conspicuously maintain at the entrances or visible areas of access to the surface coal mining and reclamation operations a clearly visible...
• Information Obtained Under Article Available to Public With County Clerk - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63536
  Copies of any records, reports, inspection materials, or information obtained under this subpart by the department shall be made available to the public with...
• Fines and Imprisonment - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63537
  (1) The department may impose an administrative fine against a permittee or other person who violates a permit condition or a provision of this...
• Commencement of Civil Action; Notice of Intent to Commence Civil Action; Rule; Notice of Violation; Effect of Action by State; Intervention by Department or Federal Regulatory Agency; Costs of Litigation; Filing of Security if Temporary Restraining Order or Preliminary Injunction Sought; Construction of Section - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63538
  (1) Except as provided in subsections (2) and (3), a person having an interest that is or may be adversely affected by an operation...
• Notices and Orders; Application for Review; Investigation; Public Hearing; Findings of Fact; Written Decision; Temporary Relief From Notice or Order; Conditions; Requirements; Suspension or Revocation of Permit; Order to Show Cause; Costs and Expenses; Civil Action Instituted by Attorney General; Certified Mail - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63539
  (1) If the department determines, on the basis of an inspection, that a condition exists or practices exist or that a person or permittee...
• Financial Interest of Department Employee in Coal Mining Operation Prohibited; Violation; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63540
  An employee of the department performing any function or duty under this part shall not have a direct or indirect financial interest in an...
• Prohibited Acts; Violation; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63541
  Except as permitted by a law of this state or the United States, a person shall not willfully resist, prevent, impede, or interfere with...
• Inspection and Reclamation Fee; Amount; Rule; Quarterly Reports; Contents; Notice of Fee Due; Payment and Disposition of Fees - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63542
  (1) For the purposes of inspections and monitoring, and the administration and enforcement of this part, an operator is assessed an inspection and reclamation...
• Failure to Submit Quarterly Report as Grounds for Revocation of Permit; Penalty; Unpaid Fee and Penalty as Debt; Confidentiality of Fee and Reports; Disclosure - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63543
  (1) Failure to submit a quarterly report constitutes grounds for revocation of a permit. An action taken by the department under this subsection shall...
• Prohibited Acts; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63544
  Any person, corporate officer, agent, or director, on behalf of an operator, who knowingly makes any false statement, representation, or certification, or knowingly fails...
• Designating Areas Unsuitable for Surface Coal Mining; Rules; Determination; Petition by Interested Person; Public Hearing; Written Decision; Statement; Certain Surface Coal Mining Operation Prohibited; Consultation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63545
  (1) The department shall promulgate rules establishing a process for designating areas unsuitable for surface coal mining. The rules shall include all of the...
• Government Agency, Unit, or Instrumentality Proposed to Engage in Surface Coal Mining Operations; Compliance With Part - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63546
  An agency, unit, or instrumentality of federal, state, or local government, including any publicly owned utility or publicly owned corporation of federal, state, or...
• Part Inapplicable to Certain Activities - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63547
  This part does not apply to any of the following: (a) The extraction of coal as an incidental part of federal, state, or local...
• Departures From Environmental Protection Performance Standards; Authorization - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63548
  To encourage advances in mining and reclamation practices and to allow postmining land use for industrial, commercial, residential, or public use, including recreational facilities,...
• Right to Enforce or Protect Interest in Natural Resource Affected by Operation; Replacement of Water Supply - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63549
  (1) This part shall not be construed as affecting the right of any person to enforce or protect, under applicable law, his or her...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63701
  As used in this part: (a) "Active cell-unit" means a cell-unit set forth in the approved progressive cell-unit mining and reclamation plan provided for...
• Sand Dune Mining Permit Within Critical Dune Area; "adjacent" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63702
  (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, the department shall not issue a sand dune mining permit within a critical dune area as...
• Great Lakes Sand Dune Areas; Comprehensive Study and Inventory - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63703
  The department, by July 1, 1977, shall make or cause to be made a comprehensive study and inventory of Great Lakes sand dune areas...
• Sand Dune Mining; Permit; Requirements - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63704
  (1) A person shall not engage in sand dune mining within Great Lakes sand dune areas except as authorized by a permit issued by...
• Environmental Impact Statement - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63705
  The environmental impact statement submitted to the department shall comply with the requirements of the department and shall include, but is not limited to,...
• Progressive Cell - Unit Mining and Reclamation Plan; Sand Dune Mining Permit; Requirements - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63706
  (1) The progressive cell-unit mining and reclamation plan, for both the total project and each cell-unit, shall include all of the following: (a) The...
• Fifteen - Year Mining Plan; Submission of Duplicate Copy of Cell - Unit Mining and Reclamation Plan - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63707
  (1) The 15-year mining plan shall include the following: (a) The location and acreage of sand dune areas presently being mined and the amount...
• Sand Dune Mining Permit; Duration; Renewal; Contents; Reasons for Permitting Removal of Barrier Dune; List of Pending Applications - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63708
  (1) A sand dune mining permit issued by the department is valid for not more than 5 years. A sand dune mining permit shall...
• Denial of Sand Dune Mining Permit - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63709
  The department shall deny a sand dune mining permit if, upon review of the environmental impact statement, it determines that the proposed sand dune...
• Extraction of Sand or Other Minerals by State - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63710
  The state or an instrumentality of the state shall not engage in the extraction of sand or other minerals from a sand dune area,...
• Assessment of Fee for Surveillance, Monitoring, Administration, and Enforcement of Part; Disposition of Unexpended Fees; Annual Report of Operator; Confidentiality; Failure to Submit Annual Report; Penalty for Unpaid Fee; Records; Annual Report of Department - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63711
  (1) For purposes of surveillance, monitoring, administration, and enforcement of this part, an operator is assessed a fee of not more than 10 cents...
• Conformance Bond; Reclassification of Active Cell - Unit to Interim Cell - Unit; Notice of Completion or Acceptance of Reclamation Activity; Compliance or Approval Required for Mining or Extraction; Violation as Grounds for Revocation of Permit - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63712
  (1) Prior to the initiation of a disturbance of land, the holder of a sand dune mining permit shall file with the department a...
• Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63713
  The department shall promulgate rules to implement and administer this part.
• Suspension or Revocation of Permit; Restraining Order, Injunction, or Other Appropriate Remedy; Violation as Misdemeanor; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.63714
  (1) If the department finds that an operator is not in compliance with this part, the rules promulgated under this part, or a permit...
• "peat" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.64101
  As used in this part, "peat" means a deposit of unconsolidated, naturally occurring soil material consisting of decomposed and partially decomposed mosses, sedges, trees,...
• Contracts for Taking of Peat From State - Owned Lands - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.64102
  Subject to the requirements of this part, the department may make contracts with persons for the taking of peat from state owned lands upon...
• Inventory and Preliminary Evaluation; Classification of Peat Lands; Public Notice; Public Comments; Public Hearings; Reclassification of Lands - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.64103
  (1) Beginning immediately after July 9, 1984, the department shall conduct an inventory of state owned land to determine the surface areas of peat...
• Nomination of Parcel; Fee; Direct Lease Contract - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.64104
  (1) Except as provided in subsection (4), contracting for the taking of peat from state owned lands shall be initiated by the nomination of...
• Public Auction; Exclusive Opportunity to Pursue Contract; Information Required From Highest Bidder - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.64105
  (1) On the basis of the inventory and the classification described in section 64103, the department shall determine whether to offer at a public...
• Public Hearing; Determination; Criteria; Statement of Reasons - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.64106
  (1) After the submission of the information required by section 64105(4), and after review and evaluation of that information by the department, the department...
• Terms of Contract - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.64107
  A contract entered into under this part for the taking of peat from state owned lands shall contain the following terms: (a) A requirement...
• Peat Resource Conservation and Development Fund; Creation; Deposits - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.64108
  (1) The peat resource conservation and development fund is created in the state treasury. (2) Subject to subsections (3) and (4), the following shall...
• Expenditures; Purposes - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.64109
  The department shall expend the money in the fund and the interest and earnings on the money in the fund for the following purposes:...
• Applicability of Mcl 324.64103 to 324.64106; Responsibility of Meeting Legal Requirements - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.64110
  The requirements of sections 64103 through 64106 do not apply to proposals for the taking of peat from state owned lands that have been...
• Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.64111
  The department may promulgate rules for the implementation of this part.
• Recreation and Cultural Arts Section; Establishment - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.70101
  There is established a state recreation and cultural arts section in the department.
• Head of Section; Qualifications - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.70102
  The head of the state recreation and cultural arts section shall be a person widely experienced in community recreation and shall be directly responsible...
• Technical Advice and Guidance; Duty to Collect and Disseminate Data and Information; Other Duties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.70103
  The state recreation and cultural arts section shall provide technical advice and guidance to the political subdivisions of this state and other interested groups...
• Representation of Citizen Interest, Need, and Participation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.70104
  The department shall provide continual representation of citizen interest, need, and participation in a wide variety of leisure-time pursuits.
• Existing Employees; Reassignment - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.70105
  The department may reassign existing employees of the department of natural resources or employ staff necessary to implement this part.
• Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.70106
  The department shall promulgate rules necessary for the establishment and implementation of this part.
• Outdoor Recreation; Comprehensive Plan - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.70301
  The department is authorized to prepare, maintain, and keep up-to-date a comprehensive plan for the development of the outdoor recreation resources of the state.
• Federal Aid Programs - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.70302
  The department may apply to any appropriate agency or officer of the United States for participation in or the receipt of aid from any...
• Federal Aid Programs; Federal Land and Water Conservation Fund; Disposition and Apportionment of Funds - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.70303
  Grants-in-aid received from the land and water conservation fund act of 1965, Public Law 88-578, 78 Stat. 897, shall be deposited in the state...
• Federal Land Programs; Appropriations; Agreements on Behalf of State Subdivisions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.70304
  The department shall not make a commitment or enter into an agreement pursuant to an exercise of authority under this part until the legislature...
• State Assistance to Subdivisions; Guidelines and Limits on State Payments - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.70305
  The department is authorized to disburse state appropriated grants-in-aid to political subdivisions of the state to be used in conjunction with the land and...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.71101
  As used in this part: (a) "Associated facilities" means restrooms, shelters, campgrounds, and parking lots directly related to trails or waterways projects. (b) "Off-road...
• Privilege Tax; Imposition; Payment; Inapplicable to Liquefied Petroleum Gas - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.71102
  (1) There is a privilege tax imposed on all gasoline and diesel fuel sold in this state that is used to generate power for...
• Legislative Finding; Joint Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.71103
  (1) The legislature finds that 2.0% of all of the gasoline sold in this state for consumption in internal combustion engines is used to...
• Tax Refund; Claim; Invoice; Payment; False Statement; Forfeiture; Misdemeanor - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.71104
  (1) The purchaser of gasoline or diesel fuel for the operation of vessels excepted by section 71101 is entitled to a refund of tax...
• Repealed. 2004, Act 587, Eff. Dec. 23, 2006. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Total of Taxes Collected; Determining Revenue Derived - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.71106
  The department of treasury shall annually present to the department an accurate total of all the gasoline taxes collected and shall determine the amount...
• Repealed. 2004, Act 587, Eff. Dec. 23, 2006. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Annual Review and Recommendations; Distribution and Use of Account - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.71108
  (1) The state treasurer shall annually review and make recommendations to the legislature on the distributions of the recreation improvement account, including recreational projects...
• Bonds; Authorization; Limitation; Purpose - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.71301
  The state shall borrow a sum not to exceed $140,000,000.00 and issue the general obligation bonds of this state, pledging the full faith and...
• Bonds; Conditions, Methods, and Procedures - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.71302
  324.71302 Bonds; conditions, methods, and procedures. Sec.71302. Bonds shall be issued in accordance with conditions, methods, and procedures established by law.
• Bonds; Disposition of Proceeds and Interest - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.71303
  The proceeds of the sale of the bonds or any series of the bonds, any premium and accrued interest received on the delivery of...
• Submission of Question to Electors - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.71304
  The question of borrowing a sum not to exceed $140,000,000.00 and the issuance of the general obligation bonds of the state for the purposes...
• Duties of Secretary of State - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.71305
  The secretary of state shall perform all acts necessary to properly submit the question prescribed by section 71304 to the electors of this state...
• Appropriation; Purpose; Executive Budget Recommendations - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.71306
  (1) After the issuance of the bonds authorized by this part, there shall be appropriated from the general fund of the state each fiscal...
• Majority Vote of Electors Required - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.71307
  Bonds shall not be issued unless the question set forth in section 71304 is approved by a majority vote of the qualified electors voting...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.71501
  As used in this part: (a) "Bonds" means the bonds issued under part 713 or former Act No. 327 of the Public Acts of...
• Legislative Finding and Declaration - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.71502
  The legislature finds and declares that the construction, expansion, development, and rehabilitation of state and local recreational facilities and the restoration of the natural...
• Bonds; Requirements Generally - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.71503
  (1) The bonds issued under part 713 shall be issued in 1 or more series, each series to be in a principal amount, to...
• Bonds Negotiable; Tax Exemption - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.71504
  Bonds issued under part 713 shall be fully negotiable under the uniform commercial code, Act No. 174 of the Public Acts of 1962, being...
• Bonds as Securities - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.71505
  Bonds issued under part 713 are made securities in which banks, savings and loan associations, investment companies, credit unions, and other persons carrying on...
• Recreation Bond Fund; Creation; Composition; Restricted Subaccounts - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.71506
  (1) The recreation bond fund is created in the state treasury. (2) The fund shall consist of all of the following: (a) The proceeds...
• Disposition of Bond Proceeds; Investment of Fund; Allocation of Interest and Earnings; Crediting and Use of Repayments of Principal and Interest; Disposition of Unencumbered Balance; Submission and Contents of List of Projects; Appropriations; Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.71507
  (1) The proceeds of the bonds issued under part 713 shall be deposited into the fund. (2) The state treasurer shall direct the investment...
• Use of Fund Generally - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.71508
  (1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, money in the fund shall be used as follows: (a) $70,000,000.00 of the bond revenues shall...
• Making and Allocating Grants and Loans to Local Units of Government; Division of State Into Regions; Match by Local Unit; Rules; Sale, Disposal, or Use of Facility - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.71509
  (1) Grants and loans made to local units of government under section 71508(1)(b) shall be made by the department and allocated as follows: (a)...
• Grant or Loan Program; Rules; Maximum Participation; Considerations in Determining Appropriateness of Grant or Loan Program; Considerations in Making Grant or Loan - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.71510
  (1) The department shall assure maximum participation by local units of government by promulgating rules that provide for a grant or loan program, where...
• Application for Grant or Loan; Form; Information - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.71511
  An application for a grant or a loan authorized under this part shall be made on a form prescribed by the department. The department...
• Conditions to Making Grant or Loan - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.71512
  The department shall not make a grant or a loan under this part unless all of the following conditions are met: (a) The applicant...
• Recipient of Grant or Loan; Duties; Noncompliance; Recovery of Grant; Withholding Grant or Loan - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.71513
  (1) A recipient of a grant or a loan made under this part shall be subject to all of the following: (a) A recipient...
• Rules Generally - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.71514
  The department shall promulgate rules as are necessary or required to implement this part.
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.71601
  As used in this part: (a) "Community recreation plan" means a 5-year, comprehensive recreation plan for a given local unit of government, approval of...
• Local Recreation Grant Program; Establishment; Provisions; Prohibitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.71602
  (1) The department shall establish a local recreation grant program. The grant program shall provide grants to local units of government for local recreation...
• Allocations to Local Units of Government; Zones; Purposes; Matching Requirements; Sale, Disposal, or Conversion of Facility - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.71603
  (1) Subject to amounts appropriated to the department under section 19608(5), the total amount of grants made to local units of government under this...
• Project Funding; Conditions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.71604
  The department shall consider a project application for funding under this part if it is in compliance with all of the following conditions: (a)...
• Final Grant Awards; Determination; Factors; Ratings; Priority; Upgrade of Drinking Water Systems or Rest Room Facilities - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.71605
  (1) Final grant awards will be determined by the director. (2) The department shall use the 3 factors listed in subsection (3)(a), (b), and...
• Administration of Grants; Compliance With Requirements of Part 196 - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.71606
  Grants made under this part are subject to the applicable requirements of part 196. The department shall administer this part in compliance with the...
• Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.71607
  The department may promulgate rules to implement this part.
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.72101
  As used in this part: (a) "Advisory council" means the Michigan snowmobile and trails advisory council created in section 72110. (b) "Council" means a...
• Legislative Findings and Declaration - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.72102
  The legislature finds and declares that a statewide system of trails, trailways, and pack and saddle trailways will provide for public enjoyment, health, and...
• Designation as Trailway; Public Hearing; Establishing and Changing Permitted Uses; Revocation of Designation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.72103
  (1) Upon petition by any person or on its own motion, the commission may designate a trailway in this state as a "Michigan trailway"....
• Designation as Trailway Connector - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.72104
  (1) Upon petition by any person or on its own motion, the commission may designate a trailway, bicycle path, sidewalk, road, or other suitable...
• Operating and Maintaining Trailway; Agreement; Provisions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.72105
  The department may operate and maintain a Michigan trailway that is located on state owned land or may enter into an agreement with a...
• Adopt - a - Trail Program - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.72105a
  (1) The department shall establish an "adopt-a-trail" program that will allow volunteer groups to assist in maintaining and enhancing Michigan trailways, pack and saddle...
• Michigan Trailway Management Council; Establishment; Purpose; Adopting Operating Procedures and Electing Officers; Powers; Dissolution - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.72106
  (1) Two or more governmental agencies may establish a Michigan trailway management council for the development and management of a Michigan trailway pursuant to...
• Closure During Pesticide Application - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.72107
  In agricultural areas, a Michigan trailway may be temporarily closed by the entity operating the trailway to allow pesticide application on lands adjoining the...
• Commission; Powers - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.72108
  (1) The commission may do any of the following: (a) Grant easements or, pursuant to part 13, use permits or lease land owned by...
• Michigan Trailways Fund - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.72109
  (1) The Michigan trailways fund is created within the state treasury. (2) Except as otherwise provided by law, the state treasurer may receive money...
• Michigan Snowmobile and Trails Advisory Council; Creation; Duties; Membership; Terms; Vacancy; Qualifications; Chairperson; Vice - Chairperson; Staffing; Procedures; Quorum; Meetings; Powers; Compensation; Contracts; Responsibilities - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.72110
  (1) The Michigan snowmobile and trails advisory council is created within the department. (2) The advisory council shall advise the director of the department...
• Equine Trailways Subcommittee; Creation; Staffing; Funding; Membership; Appointments; Terms; Vacancy; Removal; Meetings; Quorum; Business Conducted At Public Meetings; Writings Subject to Freedom of Information Act; Compensation; Duties; Development of Plan for Statewide Network of Pack and Saddle Trailways - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.72110a
  (1) The equine trailways subcommittee is created as a subcommittee of the advisory council. The department may provide staffing and administrative support to the...
• State Agencies; Duties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.72111
  All state agencies shall cooperate with the commission and the department in the implementation of this part.
• Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.72112
  The commission may promulgate rules as it considers necessary to implement this part.
• Michigan Heritage Water Trail Program - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.72113
  (1) The Great Lakes center for maritime studies at western Michigan university, in conjunction with the department, the department of history, arts, and libraries,...
• Statewide Trail Network; Plan; Establishment; Modification to Include Additional Trails; Availability of Plan on Department's Website; Recommendations From Equine Trailways Subcommittee and Other Trailway Users - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.72114
  (1) Within 1 year after receiving recommendations from the advisory council under subsection (4), the department shall establish a plan for a statewide trail...
• Pack and Saddle Animals; Access to Pack and Saddle Trailways on Public Land; Restrictions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.72115
  (1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3), pack and saddle animals shall be allowed to access pack and saddle trailways on public land managed...
• Installation of Telecommunication Facilities on Rail - Trail; Authorization; Deposit of Use Fees; Expenditures; Preexisting Arrangements or Agreements; Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.72116
  (1) If the state owns the land on which a rail-trail is located or if the land is under the long-term control of the...
• "trail" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.72301
  As used in this part, "trail" means a right-of-way adapted to foot or horseback travel.
• State System of Trails; Master Plan; Development and Maintenance of Trails With Facilities - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.72302
  Within legislative appropriations, the department shall make a survey and prepare a master plan for a state system of trails with campsites and necessary...
• Trails; Gifts; Grants of Property Interests; Prison Labor - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.72303
  The department may accept gifts or grants of land, rights-of-way and other property. The department may use state timber, timber materials, equipment, and prison...
• Definitions; F to P - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.73101
  As used in this part: (a) "Farm product" means that term as defined in section 2 of the Michigan right to farm act, 1981...
• Entering or Remaining on Property of Another; Consent; Exceptions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.73102
  (1) Except as provided in subsection (4), a person shall not enter or remain upon the property of another person, other than farm property...
• Discharging Firearm Within Right - of - Way of Public Highway Abutting Certain Property; Consent; "public Highway" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.73103
  (1) A person shall not discharge a firearm within the right-of-way of a public highway adjoining or abutting any platted property, fenced, enclosed, or...
• Removing, Defacing, or Destroying Sign or Poster - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.73104
  A person shall not remove, deface, or destroy a sign or poster that has been posted pursuant to this part.
• Posting or Enclosing Property - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.73105
  A person shall not post a sign on property owned by another person or enclose the property of another person to prohibit hunting, fishing,...
• Prosecution Generally; Seizure and Enforcement by Peace Officer - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.73106
  (1) A prosecution under this part shall be in the name of the people of the state, shall be brought before a district court...
• Action for Injury to Person on Property of Another; Exception - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.73107
  (1) Except as provided in subsection (2), a cause of action shall not arise against the owner, tenant, or lessee of property for an...
• Enforcement and Prosecution - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.73108
  The prosecuting attorney for a county shall enforce this part and prosecute all persons charged with violating this part in that county. The attorney...
• Violation of Part; Cause of Action by Property Owner - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.73109
  The owner of property on which a violation of this part is committed, or his or her lessee, may bring a cause of action...
• Violation as Misdemeanor; Penalties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.73110
  (1) Except as provided in subsection (2), a person who violates this part is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not more...
• Adoption of Part as Ordinance; Effect of Contradicting or Conflicting Ordinance, Regulation, or Resolution - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.73111
  (1) A local unit of government may adopt this part as an ordinance, except that a penalty imposed for a violation of that ordinance...
• Liability of Landowner, Tenant, or Lessee for Injuries to Persons on Property for Purpose of Outdoor Recreation or Trail Use, Using Michigan Trailway or Other Public Trail, Gleaning Agricultural or Farm Products, Fishing or Hunting, or Picking and Purchasing Agricultural or Farm Products At Farm or "u - Pick" Operation; Definition - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.73301
  (1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, a cause of action shall not arise for injuries to a person who is on the...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.74101
  As used in this part: (a) "Commercial motor vehicle" means a commercial vehicle as defined in section 7 of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949...
• Legislative Findings; Duties of Department - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.74102
  (1) The legislature finds: (a) Michigan state parks preserve and protect Michigan's significant natural and historic resources. (b) Michigan state parks are appropriate and...
• Duties of Commission; Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.74102a
  (1) The commission shall do all of the following: (a) Advise and make recommendations to the governor and the legislature on state parks policy...
• Transfer of 100 Acres or More Than 15% of Total Acreage of State Park; Proposal; Public Hearing; Recommendation; Conditions; Website; Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.74102b
  (1) Prior to recommending that the state transfer more than 100 acres or more than 15% of the total acreage of a state park,...
• Powers of Department; Land Acquisition and Improvement Program - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.74103
  In implementing the responsibilities under this part, the department may do 1 or more of the following: (a) Enter into contracts or agreements that...
• Shooting Range; Posting Hours of Operation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.74103a
  At each state park that contains a designated shooting range that is open to visitors, the department shall post a notice at the entrance...
• "adopt - a - Park" Program - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.74104
  (1) The department shall establish an "adopt-a-park" program that will allow volunteer groups to assist state park staff in maintaining and enhancing state parks....
• Volunteers; Appointment; Immunity From Civil Liability; Carrying of Firearm Prohibited - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.74105
  The department may appoint persons to serve as volunteers for the purpose of facilitating the responsibilities of the department as provided in this part....
• Revenue Bonds; Issuance; Amount; Notice; Includable Costs; Resolution - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.74106
  For the purpose of providing a park improvement program, the commission may issue revenue bonds as provided in this part. The commission may issue...
• Authority of Department - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.74107
  The commission may authorize the department, but only within limitation which shall be contained in the commission's authorizing resolution, to do 1 or more...
• Resolution Authorizing Issuance of Bonds; Contents - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.74108
  A resolution adopted by the commission authorizing the issuance of bonds shall contain all of the following: (a) A description in reasonable detail of...
• Repealed. 2003, Act 170, Eff. Jan. 1, 2004. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Revenue Bonds; State Debt; Extent of Liability - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.74110
  Any bond issued under this part shall state that it is not a general obligation of the state of Michigan, but is a revenue...
• Revenue Bonds; Refunding Issue - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.74111
  The commission may issue bonds for the purpose of refunding any obligations issued under this part, or may authorize a single issue of bonds...
• Maximum Rate of Interest; Sale and Award of Bonds; Public or Private Sale; Advertisement; Notice of Sale - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.74112
  (1) The maximum rate of interest on bonds issued under this part shall be that set forth for bonds in the revised municipal finance...
• State Park Revenues; Fiscal Agent; Receiving Fund; Expenses; Designation of Paying Agents - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.74113
  All state park revenues shall be deposited with the state treasurer who shall act as the fiscal agent for the department. The state treasurer...
• Fees; Establishment; Collection; Deposit - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.74114
  The department may establish fees and collect fees for activities in state parks except those activities for which fees are established under this part....
• Free Entry of Motor Vehicles Into Posted Park Prohibited - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.74115
  Except as otherwise provided in this part, free entry of a motor vehicle shall not be permitted into any state park or portion of...
• Entry Into State Park by Nonresident or Resident Motor Vehicle; Permit; Payment of Recreation Passport Fee; Registration Tab or Sticker; Exceptions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.74116
  (1) Subject to subsection (4), the operator of a nonresident motor vehicle or commercial motor vehicle shall not enter any state park with that...
• Park Permits Beginning October 1, 2010; Requirements; Park Permits; Waiver; Fees; Report; Additional Permits for Special Services or Park Privileges; Sales; Surety Bond; Commercial Motor Coaches or Vans; Use of Credit Card; Lost or Destroyed Park Permit; "Resident Motor Vehicle" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.74117
  (1) This subsection and subsections (2) to (9) apply beginning October 1, 2010. The department shall prepare and distribute park permits as necessary to...
• Park Permits; Monthly Accounting; Compensation; Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.74118
  On or before the tenth day of every month, all persons authorized to sell park permits shall pay to the department all money received...
• Michigan State Parks Endowment Fund - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.74119
  (1) In accordance with section 35a of article IX of the state constitution of 1963, the Michigan state parks endowment fund is created within...
• Rules; Applicability of Rules After April 1, 2014 - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.74120
  (1) The department may promulgate rules to implement this part. (2) The department may promulgate rules providing a method for an individual to pay...
• State Parks; Prohibited Conduct - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.74121
  A person shall not do the following in a state park: (a) Destroy, damage, or remove any tree, shrub, wildflower, or other vegetation or...
• Violation; Presumption; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.74122
  (1) A person who violates this part or a rule promulgated under this part is guilty of a misdemeanor. This subsection does not apply...
• Repealed. 2010, Act 32, Eff. Oct. 1, 2010. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Create "Gem of the Parks", "Volunteer of the Year", and "Employee of the Year" Award Program - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.74124
  (1) The department shall create a "gem of the parks" award to recognize key state parks for their contribution to the state parks system,...
• Bonds; Exemption From Taxation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.74125
  All bonds issued pursuant to this part and the interest on those bonds is exempt from taxation by the state, or by any municipality,...
• "Fred Meijer White Pine Trail State Park"; "Fred Meijer Berry Junction Trail"; Criteria for Naming State Parks and State Owned Recreational Facilities - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.74126
  (1) The state owned land containing the White Pine trail, which traverses an abandoned rail corridor between Comstock Park and Cadillac, shall be known...
• Camp Registration Card; Posting; Definition - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.74201
  (1) A person shall not camp on any state owned lands under the jurisdiction or control of the department without having first posted a...
• Camp Registration Card; Obtaining; Contents; Posting - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.74202
  A person may obtain without charge from a conservation officer or a person authorized to issue fishing or hunting licenses a camp registration card...
• Disposal of Rubbish - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.74203
  Upon breaking camp, every member of a camping party is responsible for the disposal, by burying or burning, of all rubbish, papers, cans, containers,...
• Camp Registration Cards; Printing and Distribution - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.74204
  The department shall have printed and distributed a sufficient number of camp registration cards to implement this part.
• Enforcement of Part; Duty of Peace Officers - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.74205
  It is the duty of any peace officer, including conservation officers, to enforce this part.
• Violation of Part; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.74206
  A person who violates this part is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment for not more than 90 days, or a fine of...
• Applicability of Part - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.74207
  This part does not apply to any state park, campground, or recreation area administered by the department.
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.74301
  As used in this part: (a) "Foundation" means the Michigan state parks foundation created in section 74302. (b) "State park" means a state park...
• Michigan State Parks Foundation; Appointment and Terms of Members; Vacancy; Removal; Meetings; Quorum; Selection of Chairperson, Vice - Chairperson, and Other Officials; Compensation; Staff Assistance; Conducting Business At Public Meeting - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.74302
  (1) The department shall create a foundation to be known as the Michigan state parks foundation. The foundation shall exercise its powers, functions, and...
• Michigan State Parks Foundation; Purpose - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.74303
  The purpose of the foundation is to support the overall enhancement of the Michigan state parks system and to foster awareness, appreciation, understanding, and...
• Michigan State Parks Foundation; Duties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.74304
  The foundation shall do the following: (a) Determine those projects or undertakings for which the foundation will solicit funding. In determining projects to fund,...
• Michigan State Parks Foundation; Management; Use of Assets - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.74305
  The foundation shall be managed solely pursuant to and for the purpose set forth in this part and money or other assets of the...
• Accounting - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.74306
  The foundation shall annually prepare or cause to be prepared an accounting which shall be a public document and shall transmit a copy of...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.75101
  As used in this part: (a) "Dark sky preserve" means an area designated in section 75102. (b) "Fully shielded" means outdoor light fixtures shielded...
• Designation as Dark Sky Preserves; Description; Prohibition as to Establishment in Upper Peninsula - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.75102
  (1) The following lands are designated as dark sky preserves: (a) State-owned land at lake Hudson, legally described as: All state-owned land located in...
• Outdoor Lighting; Installation; Limitation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.75103
  (1) The commission shall ensure that outdoor lighting within a dark sky preserve is not installed unless necessary for safety, security, or the reasonable...
• Outdoor Lighting; Requirements - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.75104
  (1) The commission shall ensure that all outdoor lighting within a dark sky preserve conforms to the following: (a) Lighting shall be directed downward....
• Use and Development Not Restricted; Conditions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.75105
  This part does not restrict the use and development of the state owned land at lake Hudson as prescribed by the master plan approved...
• Repealed. 2002, Act 3, Eff. Mar. 31, 2003. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.76101
  As used in this part: (a) "Abandoned property" means an aircraft; a watercraft, including a ship, boat, canoe, skiff, raft, or barge; the rigging,...
• Aboriginal Records and Antiquities; Right to Explore, Survey, Excavate, and Regulate Reserved to State; Possessory Right or Title to Abandoned Property - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.76102
  (1) The state reserves to itself the exclusive right and privilege, except as provided in this part, of exploring, surveying, excavating, and regulating through...
• Underwater Salvage and Preserve Committee; Creation; Purpose; Appointment, Qualifications, and Terms of Members; Vacancy; Compensation; Appointment, Term, and Duties of Chairperson; Committee as Advisory Body; Functions of Committee; Limitation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.76103
  (1) The underwater salvage and preserve committee is created in the department to provide technical and other advice to the department and the department...
• Deed; Clause Reserving to State Property and Exploration Rights in Aboriginal Antiquities; Exceptions; Waiver - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.76104
  A deed, as provided by this part, given by this state, except state tax deeds for the conveyance of any land owned by the...
• Permit for Exploration or Excavation of Aboriginal Remain; Exception - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.76105
  (1) A person, either personally or through an agent or employee, shall not explore or excavate an aboriginal remain covered by this part upon...
• Removal of Relics or Records of Antiquity; Consent of Landowner Required - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.76106
  Without the consent of the land owner, a person shall not remove any relics or records of antiquity such as human or other bones;...
• Permit to Recover, Alter, or Destroy Abandoned Property; Recovered Property as Property of Department of History, Arts, and Libraries; Prohibitions as to Human Body or Remains; Violation; Penalty; Prior Convictions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.76107
  (1) Except as provided in section 76108, a person shall not recover, alter, or destroy abandoned property which is in, on, under, or over...
• Recovery of Abandoned Property Without Permit; Report; Availability of Recovered Property for Inspection; Release of Property - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.76108
  (1) A person may recover abandoned property outside a Great Lakes bottomlands preserve without a permit if the abandoned property is not attached to,...
• Recovery of Abandoned Property; Permit; Scope; Application; Filing, Form, and Contents; Additional Information or Documents; Approval or Disapproval of Application; Conditions; Payment of Salvage Costs; Recovery of Cargo Outside Great Lakes Bottomlands Preserves; Administrative Review; Conduct of Hearing; Combined Appeals; Joint Decision and Order; Duration of Permit; Issuance of New Permit; Transfer or Assignment of Permit - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.76109
  (1) A person shall not recover abandoned property located on, in, or located in the immediate vicinity of and associated with a sunken aircraft...
• Recovered Abandoned Property; Report; Examination; Removal From State; Action for Recovery; Release of Property - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.76110
  (1) Within 10 days after recovery of abandoned property, a person with a permit issued pursuant to section 76109 shall report the recovery in...
• Great Lakes Bottomlands Preserve; Establishment; Rules; Determination; Factors; Granting Permit to Recover Abandoned Artifacts; Limitation; Intentional Sinking of Vessel; Prohibited Use of State Money; Thunder Bay Great Lakes State Bottomland Preserve - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.76111
  (1) Subject to subsection (7), the department of environmental quality shall establish Great Lakes bottomlands preserves by rule. A Great Lakes bottomlands preserve shall...
• Rules Generally - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.76112
  (1) The department and the department of history, arts, and libraries, jointly or separately, may promulgate rules as are necessary to implement this part....
• Limitations Not Imposed by Mcl 324.76107 to 324.76110 - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.76113
  Sections 76107 to 76110 shall not be considered to impose the following limitations: (a) A limitation on the right of a person to engage...
• Suspension or Revocation of Permit; Grounds; Hearing; Civil Action - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.76114
  (1) If the department or the department of history, arts, and libraries finds that the holder of a permit issued pursuant to section 76105...
• Dangers Accepted by Participants in Sport of Scuba Diving - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.76115
  Each person who participates in the sport of scuba diving on the Great Lakes bottomlands accepts the dangers that adhere in that sport insofar...
• Violation as Misdemeanor; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.76116
  (1) A person who violates section 76105 or 76106 is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment for not more than 30 days, or...
• Attaching, Proceeding Against, or Confiscating Equipment or Apparatus; Procedure; Disposition of Proceeds - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.76117
  (1) If a person who violates this part or a rule promulgated under this part uses a watercraft, mechanical or other assistance, scuba gear,...
• Underwater Preserve Fund; Creation; Sources of Revenue; Purposes for Which Money Appropriated - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.76118
  (1) The underwater preserve fund is created as a separate fund in the state treasury, and it may receive revenue as provided in this...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.76501
  As used in this part: (a) "Commission" means the Mackinac Island state park commission created in section 76503. (b) "Director" means the director of...
• Mackinac Island State Park; Establishment - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.76502
  Pursuant to the turning over to the state of Michigan, for use as a state park, and for no other purpose, the military reservation,...
• Mackinac Island State Park Commission; Members; Appointment and Qualifications; Resident Commissioners; Terms; Vacancies; Expenses; Officers; Powers and Duties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.76503
  (1) The Mackinac Island state park commission shall consist of 7 members appointed by the governor. (2) Members of the commission shall be citizens...
• Mackinac Island State Park; Control and Management by Commission; Quorum; Conducting Business At Public Meeting; Notice; Powers of Commissioners; Rules; Deputy Sheriffs; Disposition of Moneys; Availability of Writings to Public; Annual Report; Statement of Receipts and Expenditures; Recommendations and Suggestions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.76504
  (1) The Mackinac Island state park shall be under the control and management of the commission, and a majority of the members of the...
• Fort Mackinac; Flag; Maintenance - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.76505
  The director shall see to it that the United States flag is kept floating from the flagstaff at Fort Mackinac, and rules relative thereto...
• Fort Debuade; Restoration; Fees; Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.76506
  The Mackinac Island state park commission may acquire by purchase, lease, grant, or transfer the use of certain state land in the county of...
• Mackinac Island State Park; Operation of Vehicle Without Permit; Misdemeanor; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.76507
  Except as provided in section 76504, a person who operates a motor vehicle on land within the Mackinac Island state park without a permit...
• Damaging or Removing Trees, Vegetation, or State Property; Violation; Civil Liability - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.76507a
  (1) A person shall not cut, peel, damage, destroy, or remove a tree or other vegetation or state property located in any park or...
• Special Police; Appointment; Supervision; Powers and Duties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.76508
  The director may appoint, by and with the consent of the commission, such number of special police as the commission may by resolution direct,...
• Mackinac Island State Park Commission; Acceptance of Gifts - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.76509
  The Mackinac Island state park commission, for and on behalf of the state of Michigan, is authorized to receive, accept, and hold, by gift,...
• "commission" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.76701
  As used in this part, "commission" means the Mackinac Island state park commission.
• Mackinac Island State Park Commission; Additional Powers - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.76702
  The Mackinac Island state park commission may, in addition to the powers already conferred on it by law, exercise the following powers: (a) To...
• Mackinac Island State Park Commission; Gross Revenue Bonds; Purpose; Cost; Interim Receipts or Certificates; Maximum Rate of Interest; Sale and Award of Notes; Notice; Resolution; Contents; Trust Indenture; Money Received as Trust Funds; Disposition; Gross Revenue Refunding Bonds; Powers of Commission; Annual Audit; Signature on Bonds; Attestation; Electronic Format; Issuance of Bonds Subject to Agency Financing Reporting Act; Interest Rate Agreement - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.76703
  (1) The commission may issue its gross revenue bonds in anticipation of the collection of all or any part of its revenues, for the...
• Mackinac Island State Park Commission; Charges and Fees; Payment of Bonds - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.76704
  The commission shall prescribe and collect charges and fees as above authorized for admission to and for the use of the services, facilities and...
• Mackinac Island State Park Commission; Public Body Corporate; Tax Exemptions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.76705
  The commission is a public body corporate constituting an instrumentality of the state of Michigan and carrying out duties and functions imposed upon and...
• Construction of Part; Indebtedness - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.76706
  This part shall not be construed or interpreted as authorizing or permitting the incurring of the indebtedness of the state of Michigan contrary to...
• Mackinac Island State Park Commission; Authorizing Resolution; Publication; Validity - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.76707
  The commission may in its discretion cause any resolution authorizing the issuance of bonds under this part to be published 1 time in a...
• Mackinac Island State Park Commission; Acts; Approval - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.76708
  Except to the extent that the state constitution of 1963 may be construed to require the approval of any act of the commission under...
• Construction of Part - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.76709
  If 1 or more provisions of this part are inconsistent with any other act, general or special, this part is controlling.
• Mackinac Island State Park Commission; Rules; Care and Preservation; Violation; Fine - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.76901
  (1) The Mackinac Island state park commission may promulgate and enforce reasonable rules for the care and preservation of the Mackinac Island state park...
• Repealed. 2001, Act 78, Eff. Aug. 6, 2001. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Mackinac Island State Park Commission; Rules; Jurisdiction - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.76903
  All rules promulgated by the Mackinac Island state park commission under this part, this act, or any other act shall be effective within the...
• Mackinac Island State Park Commission; Contract for Fire Protection - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.77101
  The Mackinac Island state park commission and the city of Mackinac Island by its governing body are authorized to enter into a continuing contract...
• Old Mission Church; Acquisition; Description - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.77301
  The Mackinac Island state park commission is authorized to acquire, in consideration of the payment of the sum of $1.00 and other considerations to...
• Old Mission Church; Maintenance as Historic Shrine - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.77302
  The property acquired by the Mackinac Island state park commission under this part shall be maintained as a historic shrine by the Mackinac Island...
• Repealed. 2001, Act 78, Eff. Aug. 6, 2001. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Michilimackinac State Park; Control; Name Change - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.77701
  The Mackinac Island state park commission shall have the control and management of the site formerly occupied as a military post under the name...
• Michilimackinac State Park; Rules; Protection and Maintenance - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.77702
  The Mackinac Island state park commission may promulgate and enforce reasonable rules for the care and preservation of Michilimackinac state park, for the maintenance...
• Repealed. 2001, Act 78, Eff. Aug. 6, 2001. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Michilimackinac State Park; Rules; Jurisdiction of Commission - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.77704
  All rules promulgated by the Mackinac Island state park commission under this part, this act, or any other act shall be effective within the...
• Mill Creek Site; Control and Management - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.77901
  The Mackinac Island state park commission shall have the control and management of the site known as the Mill Creek site described in 1975...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.78101
  As used in this part: (a) "Commercial motor vehicle" means that term as defined in section 74101. (b) "Commission" means the Michigan state waterways...
• Michigan State Waterways Commission; Creation; Appointment, Qualifications, and Terms of Members; Oath; Reimbursement for Expenses; Removal of Members; Vacancies; Seal; Rules; Election of Officers; Action by Commission; Offices and Equipment - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.78102
  There is created a state commission to be known and designated as the Michigan state waterways commission. The commission shall consist of 7 members,...
• Waterways Commission; Conducting Business At Public Meeting; Notice of Meeting; Availability of Writings to Public - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.78103
  (1) The business which the Michigan state waterways commission may perform shall be conducted at a public meeting of the commission held in compliance...
• Waterways Commission; Director; Appointment; Qualifications; Term; Compensation; Duties; Assistants; Salaries; Expenses - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.78104
  There is established the office of administrative director of the commission. The director qualified by a record of experience in connection with boating shall...
• Powers and Duties of Department; Designation of State - Operated Boating Access Sites Requiring Passes - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.78105
  (1) The department shall have the following powers and duties: (a) To acquire, construct, and maintain harbors, channels, and facilities for vessels in the...
• Authority of Local Agencies and Public Colleges and Universities to Enter Contracts With Department - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.78106
  The local units of government of this state, within the jurisdiction of which are situated inland waterways connected with or connecting the waters of...
• Facilities in Harbors and Connecting Waterways; Use - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.78107
  Facilities in harbors and connecting waterways established under this part shall be open to all on equal and reasonable terms.
• Financing Local Agencies and Public Colleges and Universities to Obtain Federal Participation; Contracts With Army Corps of Engineers - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.78108
  (1) The department may do 1 or more of the following: (a) Take actions as may be necessary to provide the finances required of...
• Administration of Part; Advice by Commission - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.78109
  The commission shall advise the department on the administration of this part.
• Waterways Account; Use - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.78110
  Money in the waterways account shall be used only for the following: (a) The construction, operation, and maintenance of the following that are associated...
• State Appropriation as Advancement - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.78111
  It is the purpose of this part, in providing for harbors and channels, that the appropriation made by the state be considered an advancement,...
• State Acceptance of Federal Program for Construction of Harbors of Refuge - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.78112
  In addition to the other matters contained in this part, this part shall constitute prima facie evidence of the acceptance by the state of...
• Public Boating Access Site Advisory Committee - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.78113
  (1) Within 30 days after the effective date of this section, the department shall establish a public boating access site advisory committee to advise...
• Acquisition of Public Boating Access Site; Placement of Land Option - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.78114
  (1) Prior to acquiring a public boating access site, the department shall obtain a 90-day option on the land proposed for acquisition. In obtaining...
• Public Boating Access Sites Grant Program - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.78115
  (1) The department shall establish a public boating access sites grant program. The grant program shall provide funding with money in the waterways account...
• Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.78116
  The department may promulgate rules to implement this part.
• Township Ordinances Regulating Activities At Public Boating Access Site; Scope - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.78117
  A township may by ordinance regulate activities at a public boating access site owned by the department and located on an inland lake or...
• Entry Into Designated State - Operated Boating Access Site; Pass, Tab, or Sticker Required; Recreation Passport Fee; Exceptions; Violation as Civil Infraction; Fine; Evidence - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.78119
  (1) Subject to subsection (4), a person shall not enter, in a nonresident motor vehicle or commercial motor vehicle, a designated state-operated public boating...
• Ferry Docks At Straits of Mackinac; Jurisdiction and Control; Transfer; Description - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.78301
  The jurisdiction and control of the following described lands is transferred from the state transportation department to the department: Mackinaw City Dock Lots 1...
• Operation and Maintenance of Docks and Approaches to Docks; Determination; Purpose; Relinquishment of Control - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.78302
  The department shall operate and maintain the docks, and approaches to the docks, as the department determines is necessary to serve tourism and boating...
• Ferry Docks At Straits of Mackinac; Leases; Concessions; Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.78303
  Subject to the provisions of this part, the department may grant leases and concessions for the use of the properties transferred by this part....
• Entering Into Lease With Village of Mackinaw City; Duration; Duties of Village - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.78304
  The department may enter into a lease for a period not to exceed 25 years with the village of Mackinaw City, whereby the village...
• Entering Into Lease With City of St. Ignace; Duration; Duties of City - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.78305
  The department may enter into a lease for a period not to exceed 25 years with the city of St. Ignace, whereby the city...
• Land Transferred From Mackinac Island State Park Commission to Department; Small Craft Harbor Facility - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.78306
  (1) The jurisdiction and control of the following described land is transferred from the Mackinac Island state park commission to the department: A parcel...
• Disposition of Revenues - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.78307
  All revenues received by the department under this part shall be deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the state waterways fund...
• Administration of Part; Advice by Commission - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.78308
  The Michigan state waterways commission created in part 781 shall advise the department on the administration of this part.
• Cheboygan Lock and Dam; Acquisition - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.78501
  The department may purchase and receive from its owners on behalf of the state for a nominal consideration of not to exceed $1.00 and...
• Cheboygan Lock and Dam; Leases; Agreements - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.78502
  The department may operate, control, maintain, and lease such property and may establish and revise fees and hours of operation for the facility. The...
• Revenues; Disposition - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.78503
  Revenues received by the department under this part shall be deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the waterways account of the...
• Administration of Part; Advice by Commission - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.78504
  The Michigan state waterways commission created in part 781 shall advise the department on the administration of this part.
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.79101
  As used in this part: (a) "Commission" means the Michigan state waterways commission created in part 781. (b) "Harbor" means a portion of a...
• Providing Assistance to Certain Persons - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.79102
  The department may provide assistance to a person seeking to secure construction, operation, and maintenance of recreational boat slips on the waters of this...
• Purchase of Real Property for Development of Marinas - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.79103
  The department may purchase real property accessible to, or capable of being made accessible to, the waters of this state for the development of...
• Purchase of Property Located Within Local Unit of Government - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.79104
  The department shall not purchase property located within a local unit of government, under this part, if the local unit of government where the...
• Sale of Structures, Real Property, or Rights or Interest in Real Property - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.79105
  The department may sell or remove buildings or other structures on real property acquired by the department under this part, and may sell real...
• Construction of Nonrevenue - Producing Harbor Facilities - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.79106
  If, in the judgment of the department, real property acquired under this part requires modification or improvement to make it financially attractive to potential...
• Leases of Real Property - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.79107
  After real property is acquired under this part, the department may enter into leases of the real property or portions of the real property...
• Solicitation and Evaluation of Proposals - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.79108
  (1) If the department determines that real property acquired by it under this part is suitable for use as a marina, the department shall...
• Term of Lease; Extension; Rule Establishing Penalty Schedule for Nonpayment of Lease Payments; Notice of Taxation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.79109
  (1) A lease entered into by the department under this part shall be for an initial term of not more than 25 years. A...
• Sale, Transfer, or Assignment of Lease; Transfer by Bequest or Descent of Lessee - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.79110
  A lease entered into by the department under this part or an interest in a lease entered into by the department under this part...
• Consideration for Issuance of Lease; Reduction of Initial Financial Burden - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.79111
  A lease entered into by the department under this part shall not be issued without consideration. However, the department may establish annual lease payments,...
• Lease Agreements With 1 or More Local Units of Government; Apportionment of Revenue - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.79112
  The department may enter into lease agreements for purposes of this part with 1 or more local units of government or public colleges or...
• Minimum Standards for Construction and Operation of Harbor Facilities by Lessee - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.79113
  The department may establish minimum standards applicable to the construction and operation of harbor facilities by a lessee including, but not limited to, restrooms...
• Disposition of Revenue From Lease Contracts - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.79114
  All revenue from lease contracts entered into under this part shall be deposited in the state treasury and credited to the waterways account of...
• Liability - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.79115
  The department shall not be liable for loss of life or injury or damage to persons or property as a result of the conditions...
• Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.79116
  The department shall promulgate rules as are necessary to implement this part.
• Administration of Part; Advice by Department - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.79117
  The Michigan state waterways commission created in part 781 shall advise the department on the administration of this part.
• Discrimination Prohibited - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.79118
  A person shall not deny another individual the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, or accommodations created under this...
• "political Subdivision" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.79301
  As used in this part, "political subdivision" means any local unit of government or port district of this state and any other governmental agency...
• Political Subdivision; Powers - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.79302
  A political subdivision may do 1 or more of the following: (a) Adopt and amend all necessary rules, regulations, and ordinances for the management,...
• Political Subdivisions; Joint Action - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.79303
  All powers, rights, and authority granted to any political subdivision in this part may be exercised and enjoyed by 2 or more political subdivisions,...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.79501
  As used in this part: (a) "Commission" means the Michigan jobs commission. (b) "Department" means the department of environmental quality. (c) "Gaming facility" means...
• Waterfront Redevelopment Grants Program; Establishment; Provisions; Funding Sources; Waterfront Public Access - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.79502
  (1) The department shall establish a waterfront redevelopment grants program. A local unit of government may apply to the department for a grant to...
• Waterfront Redevelopment Plan; Preparation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.79503
  A local unit of government that wishes to apply for a grant shall prepare a waterfront redevelopment plan that provides for the improvement of...
• Grant Application - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.79504
  A local unit of government that wishes to be considered for a grant shall submit a written grant application to the department in a...
• Grant Application; Review by Department and Commission - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.79505
  Upon receipt of a grant application under section 79504, the department shall forward a copy of the application to the commission. The department and...
• Issuance of Grants - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.79506
  The department, with the approval of the commission, shall issue grants under this part for projects that the department determines meet the requirements of...
• Recovery of Costs - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.79507
  The department and the department of attorney general may recover costs expended pursuant to section 79502(1)(a) and all other costs recoverable under part 201...
• Administration of Part - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.79508
  Grants made under this part are subject to the applicable requirements of part 196. The department shall administer this part in compliance with the...
• Definitions; a to C - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80101
  As used in this part: (a) "Airboat" means a motorboat that is propelled, wholly or in part, by a propeller projecting above the water...
• Definitions; D to L - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80102
  As used in this part: (a) "Dealer" means a person and an authorized representative of that person who annually purchases from a manufacturer, or...
• Definitions; M to O - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80103
  As used in this part: (a) "Manufacturer" means a person engaged in any of the following: (i) The manufacture, construction, or assembly of boats...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80104
  As used in this part: (a) "Highly restricted personal information" means an individual's photograph or image, social security number, digitized signature, and medical and...
• Application of Part - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80105
  (1) This part applies to vessels and associated equipment used, to be used, or carried in vessels used on waters subject to the jurisdiction...
• Administration of Part; Advisory Representative - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80106
  The department shall be responsible for administration of this part except as otherwise provided in this part. The Michigan sheriffs' association shall designate an...
• Review of Boating Accidents, Safety Education Programs, and Policies - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80107
  The department shall review boating accidents on Michigan waters and study the development of marine safety education programs and other policies of state government...
• Regulations of Waterborne Vehicles; Exclusive Diving, Fishing, Swimming or Water Ski Areas; Special Local Regulations - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80108
  The department may regulate the operation of vessels, water skis, water sleds, aquaplanes, surfboards, or other similar contrivances on the waters of this state....
• Lists of Information; Sale Prohibited - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80108[1]
  The department or any other state department or agency that maintains or collects lists of information as part of its duties or responsibilities under...
• Operation of Airboat Within Certain Distance of Residence; Limitation; Exceptions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80108a
  (1) A person shall not operate an airboat on the waters of this state within 450 feet of a residence between the hours of...
• Rules; Subsection (1) Inapplicable to Special Local Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80109
  (1) Except as provided in subsection (2), the department shall promulgate rules authorized by this part. The department shall publish the approved rules in...
• Special Rules for Vessels, Water Skis, Water Sleds, Aquaplanes, Surfboards, or Other Similar Contrivances; Investigations and Inquiries; Preliminary Report; Notice of Public Hearing; Presentation of Views by Interested Persons; Determination by Department; Proposal for Local Ordinance; Appeal; "Water Body" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80110
  (1) The department may initiate investigations and inquiries into the need for special rules for the use of vessels, water skis, water sleds, aquaplanes,...
• Proposed Local Ordinance; Submission to Governing Body; Approval or Disapproval; Enactment; Enforcement - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80111
  A local ordinance proposed pursuant to section 80110 shall be submitted to the governing body of the political subdivision in which the water body...
• Special Local Ordinances; Request for Assistance; Form; Receipt of Resolution by Department - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80112
  Local political subdivisions that believe that special local ordinances of the type authorized by this part are needed on waters subject to their jurisdiction...
• Enforcement of Local Ordinances; Existing Rules; Enactment of Statutory Provisions as Ordinance - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80113
  (1) State, county, and local peace officers shall enforce local ordinances enacted in accordance with this part. (2) All rules establishing special local watercraft...
• Rules; Violation; Fine - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80114
  (1) The department may promulgate rules to establish performance or other safety standards relating to boat construction or the installation, use, or carriage of...
• Prohibition Against Operation of Motorized Vessel; Exemption; Marine Exemption Certificate; Physician's Attestation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80114a
  (1) A marine law that prohibits the operation of a motorized vessel on a portion of the waterways of this state shall not be...
• Disposition of Revenues; Credit to Waterways Account; Appropriation; Fees - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80115
  (1) The revenue received under this part shall be deposited in the state treasury. The revenue division, department of treasury, shall annually present to...
• Boating Safety Program; Compliance With Rules; Federal Financial Assistance - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80116
  The department shall do all things necessary to conduct a comprehensive boating safety program as provided in chapter 131 of part I of subtitle...
• Marine Safety Program; State Aid; Formula; Limitation on Determination; Use; Statement of Expenditures - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80117
  (1) Each county of the state is entitled to receive state aid as provided in this part. A county board of commissioners desiring to...
• Allocation of State Aid to Counties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80118
  The amount of state aid to be allocated to a county pursuant to this part shall be determined by the department in the manner...
• Marine Safety Program; Audits of County Records; Refunds to State - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80119
  Annually the department of the treasury shall audit the county records pertaining to the marine safety program to assure the proper disposition of this...
• Marine Safety Program; Cooperation With County Sheriffs; Records; Reports - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80120
  The department and the county sheriffs shall cooperate in the conduct of the marine safety program. The county sheriffs shall maintain records and submit...
• Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80121
  The department may promulgate rules as may be necessary to implement this part.
• Conditions to Operation of Vessels; Violation; Fine - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80122
  (1) Except as otherwise provided in this part, a person shall not operate or give permission for the operation of a vessel of any...
• Exemption - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80123
  (1) The owner of a vessel is not required to pay a fee and a vessel is not required to be numbered and to...
• Application for Certificate of Number; Certificate of Title; 15 - Day Permit; Fee; "the Length of Vessel" Defined; Tax Exemption; Issuance; Delinquent Fee or Tax; Penalty; Retention of Certificate of Number on Shore; Contents of Lease or Rental Agreement; Painting or Attaching Number; Assigning Block of Numbers; Federally Documented Vessel; Decal; Issuance of Original Certificate of Number, Numbering Renewal Decal, or Other Renewal Device; Numbering System; Registration; Issuance of Certificate of Number; Historic Vessel; Refund to Owner of Nonmotorized Canoe or Kayak; Refund and Computation of Fee - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80124
  (1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the owner of a vessel required, pursuant to sections 80122 and 80123, to be numbered and...
• Great Lakes Protection Specialty Watercraft Decal - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80124a
  (1) Subject to subsection (4), the secretary of state shall make available for purchase an annual Great Lakes protection specialty watercraft decal. The Great...
• Great Lakes Protection Specialty Watercraft Decal; Use of Money Received From Sale; Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80124b
  (1) Money received by the secretary of state from the sale of each Great Lakes protection specialty watercraft decal under section 80124a shall be...
• Notice of Destruction, Abandonment, or Sale of Vessel; Transfer of Vessel; Change of Address; Surrender of Certificate; Cancellation of Certificate and Reassignment of Number; Certificate for Replacement Vessel; Refund; Recording New Address and Returning Certificates; Application for Transfer of Certificate; Fees; Duration of Certificate; Duplicate Certificate - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80125
  (1) The owner of a vessel shall notify the secretary of state within 15 days if the vessel is destroyed, abandoned, or sold; if...
• Dealer Certificates of Number and Dealer Decals - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80126
  (1) A dealer shall apply for and obtain from the secretary of state dealer certificates of number and dealer decals for each vessel of...
• Payment of Fee by Credit Card or Check - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80127
  The secretary of state may accept payment by a credit card or check in lieu of cash of a fee required under this part....
• Secretary of State; Certificate of Number - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80128
  The secretary of state may award any certificate of number directly or may authorize any person to act as his or her agent for...
• Maintenance of Records; Availability to the Public - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80129
  Records maintained under this part, other than those declared to be confidential by law or which are restricted by law from disclosure to the...
• Commercial Lookup Service; Disposition of Fees; Computerized Central File; Purpose; Creation; Maintenance; Providing Records to Nongovernmental Person or Entity; Payment; Admissibility in Evidence - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80130
  (1) The secretary of state may provide a commercial lookup service of records maintained under this part. For each individual record looked up, the...
• Disclosure of Information Prohibited; Exceptions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80130a
  (1) Except as provided in this section and section 80130c, personal information in a record maintained under this part shall not be disclosed, unless...
• Resale or Redisclosure of Personal Information; Maintenance of Records; Duration; Availability for Inspection - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80130b
  (1) An authorized recipient of personal information may resell or redisclose the information for any use permitted under section 80130a. An authorized recipient of...
• Furnishing List of Information to Federal, State, or Local Governmental Agency; Contract for Sale of List of Information; Insertion of Safeguard in Agreement or Contract; Resale or Redisclosure of Information; Disclosure of List Based on Watercraft Operations or Sanctions to Nongovernmental Agency - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80130c
  (1) Upon request, the secretary of state may furnish a list of information from the records of the department maintained under this part to...
• Prohibited Conduct; Violations as Felony; Penalties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80130d
  (1) A person who makes a false representation or false certification to obtain personal information under this part, or who uses personal information for...
• Violation of Part or Ordinance; Record of Charge or Citation; Forwarding Abstracts or Report to Secretary of State; Statement; Certification; Noncompliance; Public Inspection; Basis for Issuing Order; Transmitting and Entering Order of Reversal; Modifying Requirements - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80131
  (1) Each municipal judge and each clerk of a court of record shall keep a full record of every case in which a person...
• Applicability of Mcl 324.80134 and 324.80135; Applicability of Section - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80132
  (1) Sections 80134 and 80135 apply to a vessel operated on waters subject to the jurisdiction of this state when the vessel is either...
• Casualty Involving Vessel; Assistance to Injured Persons - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80133
  (1) The operator of a vessel involved in a collision, accident, or other casualty, and the operator of any other vessel, to the extent...
• Casualties Involving Vessels; Exchange of Identification - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80134
  In the case of collision, accident, or other casualty involving a vessel, the operator shall stop his or her vessel and give his or...
• Accident Involving Serious Impairment of Body Function or Death; Remaining At Scene of Accident; Violation as Felony; "serious Impairment of a Body Function" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80134a
  (1) The operator of a vessel who knows or who has reason to believe that he or she has been involved in an accident...
• Casualty Involving Vessel; Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80135
  (1) In the case of collision, accident, or other casualty involving a vessel, the operator shall report the collision, accident, or other casualty to...
• Peace Officer Receiving Report or Investigating Casualty Involving Vessel; Report to Department and County Sheriff; Form and Contents - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80136
  A peace officer receiving a report or investigating the collision, accident, or other casualty involving a vessel shall prepare and submit within 15 days...
• Casualty Reports Involving Vessel; Use; Fee; Copies; Admissibility in Court - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80137
  All collision, accident, or other casualty reports involving a vessel shall be without prejudice and shall be for the information of the department. Any...
• Transmission of Information for Analytical or Statistical Purposes - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80138
  In accordance with a request by an authorized official or agency of the United States or by the department, information compiled or otherwise available...
• Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80139
  The department shall promulgate rules to establish a state vessel collision, accident, or other casualty reporting system in conformity with that established by the...
• Educational Programs; Establishment; Youthful Boat Operators Training Program; Certificates of Completion; Information to Be Included in Program - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80140
  (1) In order to protect the public interest in the prudent and equitable use of the waters of this state and to enhance the...
• Operation of Motorboat by Person Less Than 12 Years of Age; Operation of Motorboat by Person 12 Through 15 Years of Age; Operation of Motorboat by Person on or After July 1, 1996 - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80141
  (1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, a person less than 12 years of age shall not operate a motorboat on the waters...
• Wearing of Personal Flotation Device by Child Required; Exception; "charter Boat" and "class C Vessel" Defined; Violation; Fine - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80142
  (1) Except as provided in subsection (3), a person shall not operate a vessel on the waters of this state unless each person in...
• Barge; Lights; Number; Placement; Position; Barges Moored Together; Limitation; Order to Move Moored Vessel; Violation as Misdemeanor; Penalty; Costs; Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80143
  (1) The owner of a barge shall place his or her name, address, and telephone number on a prominent place on the hull of...
• Carrying, Storing, Maintaining, and Using Marine Safety Equipment Onboard Vessel; Violation as Civil Infraction; Fine - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80143a
  A person who operates a vessel, or the owner of a vessel who operates or causes or permits the vessel to be operated, on...
• Operation of Vessels; Rules; Violation; Fine - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80144
  (1) When vessels are being operated in such a manner as to make collision imminent or likely, the following apply: (a) When 2 vessels...
• Operation of Vessels; Speed; Interference With Use of Waters by Others; Violation; Fine - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80145
  A person operating or propelling a vessel upon the waters of this state shall operate it in a careful and prudent manner and at...
• Maximum or Unlimited Motorboat Speed; Rules; Maximum Motorboat Speed Where Limits Not Established; Exceptions; Resolution Requesting Reduction in Maximum Speed Limit; Conditions Requiring Slow--no Wake Speed or Minimum Speed; Violation; Fine; Exceptions; Waiver - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80146
  (1) The department may promulgate rules to establish maximum motorboat speed limits or to allow unlimited motorboat speed on the waters of this state....
• Reckless Operation of Vessels; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80147
  (1) If a person carelessly and heedlessly operates a vessel upon the waters of this state in disregard of the rights or safety of...
• Operating Motorboat At More Than Slow--no Wake Speed; Prohibitions; Exceptions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80148
  (1) Subject to the exceptions described in subsection (2), a person shall not operate a motorboat at more than slow--no wake speed if any...
• Operation of Vessels in Counter - Clockwise Fashion; Distance Between Persons Being Towed and Other Objects; Exception; Violation as Misdemeanor; Violation as Civil Infraction; Fine - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80149
  (1) A person operating a vessel on the waters of this state in areas not marked by well defined channels, canals, rivers, or stream...
• Operation of Vessels; Prohibited in Certain Areas - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80150
  A person shall not operate a vessel on any of the waters of this state within a lawfully authorized restricted area clearly marked by...
• Towing of Persons; Prohibited Time; Violation; Fine - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80151
  (1) A person operating a vessel shall not have in tow or otherwise be assisting in the propulsion of a person on water skis...
• Towing or Assisting Person Prohibited; Exceptions; Violation; Fine; Subsections (1) and (3) Inapplicable Under Certain Conditions; Standards; Rules; Certification; Information to Be Provided; Specification of Bodies of Water for Use in Practice - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80152
  (1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, a person shall not operate a vessel on the waters of this state while towing or...
• Vessels; Use of Portions Unintended for Occupancy Prohibited; Exceptions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80153
  Any occupant or operator of any vessel under way on the waters of this state shall not sit, stand, or walk upon any portion...
• Interference With Operation of Vessel by Nonoccupant - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80154
  A person not in a boat shall not intentionally rock, tip, jostle, or otherwise interfere with the operation of any vessel, except under supervised
• Divers; Marking Point of Submergence; Distance From Diver's Flag - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80155
  Any person diving or submerging in any of the waters of this state with the aid of a diving suit or other mechanical diving...
• Motorboat; Muffler or Underwater Exhaust System Required; Maximum Sound Levels; Test and Maximum Decibel Levels; New Motorboat to Comply With Prescribed Sound Levels; Exceptions; "db(a)" Defined; Violation as Misdemeanor; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80156
  (1) Subject to subsection (2), a person shall not operate a motorboat on the waters of this state unless the motorboat is equipped and...
• Liability of Vessel Owner for Negligent Operation; Presumption of Consent to Use - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80157
  The owner of a vessel is liable for any injury occasioned by the negligent operation of the vessel, whether the negligence consists of a...
• Responsibility of Vessel Owner for Damage Caused by Vessel Wake - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80158
  The owner of any vessel operated upon the waters of this state is personally responsible for any damage to life or property resulting from...
• Buoys or Beacons; Permit for Placement; Application; Revocation; Removal - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80159
  A person shall not place a beacon or buoy, other than a mooring buoy, in the waters of this state except as authorized by...
• Buoys or Beacons; Uniform Marking System - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80160
  The department shall establish a uniform waterway marking system for the marking of all buoys and beacons authorized by this part to be placed...
• Buoys or Beacons; Compliance With Federal Law or Regulations; Permits - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80161
  Sections 80159 and 80160 do not exempt any person from compliance with applicable federal law or regulation, and sections 80159 and 80160 do not...
• Buoys or Beacons; Use as Moorings; Moving, Removal or Damaging - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80162
  A person shall not moor or fasten a vessel to a lawfully placed buoy or beacon, except mooring buoys, or willfully move, remove, or...
• Anchored Raft or Other Item or Material; Relocation or Removal as Navigation Hazard; Costs; Failure to Pay; Lien - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80163
  (1) If an anchored raft or other item or material, whether floating free or attached to the bottomland or a shoreline, presents a hazard...
• Regattas; Rules; Permit; Authorization; Applications - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80164
  The department may authorize the holding of regattas, motorboat or other boat races, marine parades, tournaments, or exhibitions, or trials for those events, on...
• Personal Flotation Device and Throwable Flotation Device; Exception From Requirements - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80164a
  The requirements for having a personal flotation device and a throwable flotation device in a vessel do not apply to a person in a...
• Regattas, Races, or Trials; Compliance With Federal Law or Regulation; Permit; Waiver - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80165
  Section 80164 does not exempt a person from compliance with an applicable federal law or regulation, and it shall not be construed to require...
• Peace Officers; Stopping of Vessels; Duty of Operator; Reasonable Suspicion; Furnishing False Information as Misdemeanor; Arrest Without Warrant - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80166
  (1) Upon the direction of a peace officer acting in the lawful performance of his or her duty, the operator of a vessel moving...
• Agreement With United States Coast Guard - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80166a
  (1) The department may enter into an agreement with the United States coast guard, the United States coast guard auxiliary, or an organization sponsored...
• Arrest Without Warrant; Cases in Which Arrested Person Arraigned by Magistrate or Judge - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80167
  If a person is arrested without a warrant for any of the following, the arrested person shall, without unreasonable delay, be arraigned by a...
• Arrest Without Warrant; Notice to Appear in Court; Time; Place; Appearance; Acceptance of Pleas - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80168
  (1) When a person is arrested without a warrant for a violation of this part punishable as a misdemeanor, or of a provision of...
• Arrest Without Warrant; Nonresidents; Recognizance; Receipt and Summons; Failure to Appear; Deposit of Money; Report; Embezzlement - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80169
  (1) If a person not a resident of this state is arrested without a warrant for a violation of this part under conditions not...
• Violation by Officer, Magistrate, or District Court Judge as Misconduct in Office; Removal From Office; Applicability and Construction of Mcl 324.80168 and 324.80169 - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80170
  (1) Any officer, magistrate, or district court judge violating section 80168 or 80169 is guilty of misconduct in office and is subject to removal...
• Violation of Part; Penalties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80171
  Unless otherwise specified under this part, a violation of this part or rules promulgated under this part is a misdemeanor. A political subdivision having...
• Negligent Crippling or Death; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80172
  A person who, by the operation of any vessel at an immoderate rate of speed or in a careless, reckless, or negligent manner, but...
• Felonious Operation of Watercraft; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80173
  A person who operates any vessel carelessly and heedlessly in willful and wanton disregard of the rights or safety of others, or without due...
• Negligent Homicide Included in Charge of Manslaughter - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80174
  The crime of negligent homicide is included within every crime of manslaughter charged to have been committed in the operation of any vessel, and...
• Nonresidents; Secretary of State as Attorney for Service of Summons; Service; Procedure; Sufficiency; Death; Appointment of Secretary of State as Attorney; Abatement of Actions; Costs; Applicability to All Courts - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80175
  (1) The operation by a nonresident of a vessel upon the waters of this state, or the operation on the waters of this state...
• Operation of Vessel by Person Under Influence of Intoxicating Liquor or Controlled Substance; Violation as Felony; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80176
  (1) A person shall not operate a vessel on the waters of this state if either of the following applies: (a) The person is...
• Violation of Mcl 324.80176(1) and 324.80176(2); Sanctions; "prior Conviction" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80177
  (1) If a person is convicted of violating section 80176(1), the following apply: (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), the...
• Violation of Mcl 324.80176(3); Sanctions; "prior Conviction" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80178
  (1) If a person is convicted of violating section 80176(3), the following apply: (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), the...
• Enhanced Sentencing Based on Prior Convictions; Conditions; Attempted Violation of Mcl 324.80176(1), Mcl 324.80176(3), or Local Ordinance - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80179
  (1) If the prosecuting attorney intends to seek an enhanced sentence under section 80177 or 80178 based upon the defendant having 1 or more...
• Peace Officer; Arrest Without Warrant; Reasonable Cause; Conditions; Returning Vessel and Occupants to Shore; Effect of Not Charging Person Receiving Citation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80180
  (1) A peace officer, without a warrant, may arrest a person if the peace officer has reasonable cause to believe that the person was,...
• Chemical Test and Analysis of Blood, Urine, or Breath; Collection of Sample or Specimen; Application of Administrative Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80181
  (1) The following apply with respect to a chemical test and analysis of a person's blood, urine, or breath, other than a preliminary chemical...
• Chemical Test; Administration At Request of Peace Officer, During Medical Treatment, or by Medical Examiner if Operator of Vessel Is Deceased; Procedures - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80182
  (1) A chemical test described in section 80181 shall be administered at the request of a peace officer having reasonable grounds to believe the...
• Chemical Test; Introduction of Other Competent Evidence; Availability of Test Results - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80183
  (1) The provisions of sections 80181 and 80182 relating to chemical testing do not limit the introduction of any other competent evidence bearing upon...
• Chemical Analysis of Blood, Urine, or Breath; Amount of Alcohol in Operator's Blood; Presumptions; Refusal to Submit to Chemical Test as Evidence - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80184
  (1) Except in a prosecution relating solely to a violation of section 80176(1)(b), the amount of alcohol in the operator's blood at the time...
• Advising Defendant of Penalties and Sanctions; Ordering Screening, Assessment, and Rehabilitative Services - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80185
  (1) Before accepting a plea of guilty or nolo contendere under sections 80176 to 80179, or a local ordinance substantially corresponding to section 80176(1),...
• Sentencing as Multiple Offender; Consideration of Prior Convictions; Sanctions; "another Boating Substance Abuse Offense" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80186
  (1) Immediately upon acceptance by the court of a plea of guilty or nolo contendere or upon entry of a verdict of guilty for...
• Consent to Chemical Tests of Blood, Breath, or Urine; Circumstances; Exception; Administration - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80187
  (1) A person who operates a vessel on the waters of this state is considered to have given consent to chemical tests of his...
• Refusal to Submit to Chemical Test At Request of Peace Officer; Obtaining Court Order; Forwarding Report to Secretary of State - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80188
  (1) If a person refuses the request of a peace officer to submit to a chemical test offered pursuant to section 80181 or 80182,...
• Refusal to Submit to Chemical Test; Notice of Right to Request Hearing - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80189
  (1) If a person refuses to submit to a chemical test pursuant to section 80181 or 80182, the peace officer shall immediately notify the...
• Refusal to Submit to Chemical Test; Failure to Request Hearing; Manner and Conditions of Hearing if Requested; Record of Proceedings; Order; Petitions to Review Order or to Review Determination of Hearing Officer - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80190
  (1) If a person who refuses to submit to a chemical test pursuant to section 80181 or 80182 does not request a hearing within...
• Order Not to Operate Vessel on Waters of State; Convictions Requiring Issuance of Order by Secretary of State; Effectiveness of Order if More Than 1 Conviction Resulting From Same Incident - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80191
  (1) Notwithstanding a court order issued under section 80176(1), (3), (4), or (5), section 80185 or 80186, former section 171(1), (3), (4), or (5),...
• Convictions Requiring Order With No Expiration Date; Terminating Order; Multiple Convictions From Same Incident; Judicial Review - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80192
  (1) Upon receipt of the appropriate records of conviction, the secretary of state shall issue an order with no expiration date that the person...
• Failure to Answer Citation or Notice to Appear in Court or Comply With Judgment or Order; Notice of Issuance of Order Without Expiration Date; Conditions Terminating Order - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80193
  (1) If a person is charged with, or convicted of, a violation of section 80176(1), (2), (3), (4), or (5) or a local ordinance...
• Petition for Review of Determination; Order Setting Cause for Hearing; Service; Authority and Duty of Court; Applicability of Section - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80194
  (1) A person who is aggrieved by a final determination of the secretary of state under this part may petition for a review of...
• Petition for Stay of Order; Entering Ex Parte Order; Terms and Conditions; Exception - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80195
  (1) Within 63 days after the determination, a person who is aggrieved by a final determination of the secretary of state under this part...
• Person Subject to Order Not to Operate Vessel on Waters of State; Prohibited Conduct; Violation of Subsection (1) as Misdemeanor; Penalty; Extending Length of Order; Obtaining and Furnishing Boating Record; Applicability of Section; Confiscating Certificate of Number and Cancelling Registration Numbers - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80196
  (1) A person who is ordered not to operate a vessel on the waters of this state and who has been notified of the...
• Impoundment of Vessel; Order; Execution; Liability for Expenses; Rights of Conditional Vendor, Chattel Mortgagee, or Lessor of Vessel - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80197
  (1) When a person is convicted under section 80196(1), the vessel, if it is owned in whole or in part by that person, shall...
• Conviction Based on Plea of Nolo Contendere - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80197a
  A conviction based on a plea of nolo contendere shall be treated in the same manner as a conviction based on a plea of...
• Administrative Order Processing Fee; Disposition and Allocation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80198
  Whether with or without an expiration date, an order not to operate a vessel on the waters of this state or to operate a...
• Public Dock, Pier, Wharf, or Retaining Wall; Entry or Use Prohibited Under Certain Wind Conditions; Barricades; Notice - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80198a
  (1) When wind conditions on the Great Lakes attain a magnitude whereby 1/3 of the waves resulting from the conditions cause any public dock,...
• Public Bathing Beaches; Buoys Required; Prohibited Swimming Area; Exception; Violation; Fine - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80198b
  (1) The owner or person in charge of a bathing beach maintained primarily for public use shall not knowingly permit a person to bathe...
• Part Not to Affect Owner's Rights Under Laws of United States - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80199
  This part does not affect any of the rights of an owner under the laws of the United States.
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80201
  As used in this part: (a) "Associated equipment" means any of the following that are not radio equipment: (i) An original system, part, or...
• Scope - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80202
  (1) This part applies to personal watercraft and associated equipment used on the waters of this state. (2) Except where expressly indicated otherwise, this...
• Administration of Part - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80203
  Except as otherwise provided in this part, the department is responsible for the administration of this part.
• Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80204
  The department shall promulgate rules authorized by this part under the administrative procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24.201 to 24.328. The...
• Operation of Personal Watercraft; Requirements; Violation; Fine; Exception; Accident Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80205
  (1) A person shall not operate a personal watercraft on the waters of this state unless each person riding on or being towed behind...
• Operation of Personal Watercraft; Prohibition; Violation as Civil Infraction; Fine - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80206
  (1) A person shall not operate a personal watercraft on the waters of this state outside of a channel or in an area where...
• Liability of Personal Watercraft Owner; Negligence; Presumption of Consent - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80207
  The owner of a personal watercraft is liable for any injury occasioned by the negligent operation of the personal watercraft, whether the negligence consists...
• Reckless Operation of Personal Watercraft; Violation; Penalty; Impoundment; Storage Cost - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80208
  (1) If a person carelessly and heedlessly operates a personal watercraft upon the waters of this state in disregard of the rights or safety...
• Operation of Personal Watercraft; Distance Requirements; Exceptions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80209
  (1) Except when traveling at slow--no wake speed perpendicular to the shoreline, a person who operates a personal watercraft on 1 of the Great...
• Possession of Boating Safety Certificate - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80210
  An individual who is required to complete a boating safety course under this part shall not operate a personal watercraft upon the waters of...
• Advancement of Boating Safety; Educational Programs - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80211
  (1) In order to protect the public interest in the prudent and equitable use of the waters of this state and to enhance the...
• Boating Safety Certificate; Issuance - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80212
  (1) The department shall issue a boating safety certificate to each individual who successfully completes a boating safety course as described in section 80211...
• Boating Safety Certificate; Display - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80213
  (1) An individual who is required to complete a boating safety course under this part and who operates a personal watercraft on the waters...
• Modification or Suspension of Boating Safety Certificate Requirements - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80214
  The director may by written authorization modify or suspend the boating safety certificate requirements under this part if the modification or suspension of those...
• Operation of Personal Watercraft; Graduated Age Provisions; Amendatory Act Known and Cited as "Ashleigh Iserman's Law." - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80215
  (1) Until October 1, 2011, except as provided in subsection (2), a person under the age of 14 shall not operate a personal watercraft...
• Dealers of Personal Watercraft; Advising Buyer About Sources of Boating Safety Courses; Violation; Fine - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80217
  (1) A dealer of a new or used personal watercraft shall advise each person who buys a personal watercraft from the dealer of the...
• Creation and Availability of Documents by Department; Documents Provided by Dealer to Buyer; Violation; Fine - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80218
  (1) The department shall create and make available to dealers of personal watercraft both of the following: (a) A document that summarizes the laws...
• Violation of Part; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80219
  Unless otherwise specified in this part, a person who violates this part is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment for not more than...
• Tracking Offenses; Duties of Secretary of State - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80220
  (1) Not later than April 30, 2000, the secretary of state shall begin tracking individual offenses of this part. (2) In order to accomplish...
• Enforcement - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80221
  Peace officers shall enforce this part. If a person has received a citation for a violation of a certification requirement prescribed in section 80210,...
• Compliance - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80222
  Except as otherwise provided in this part, a personal watercraft operator shall comply with part 801.
• Additional Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80301
  As used in this part: (a) "Highly restricted personal information" means an individual's photograph or image, social security number, digitized signature, and medical and...
• Exceptions; Appropriate Forms - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80302
  (1) This part does not apply to any of the following: (a) A boat from a jurisdiction other than this state temporarily using the...
• Rules; Cancellation of Improperly Issued Certificate of Title - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80303
  (1) The secretary of state shall promulgate rules to implement this part. (2) If it appears that a certificate of title is improperly issued,...
• Sale, Purchase, or Other Disposition or Acquisition of Watercraft; Certificate of Title Required - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80304
  (1) A person, except as provided in section 80306, shall not sell or otherwise dispose of a watercraft without delivering to the purchaser or...
• Acquisition of Watercraft From Owner; Certificate of Title or Manufacturer's or Importer's Certificate Required; Waiver or Estoppel; Judicial Recognition of Right, Title, Claim, or Interest - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80305
  (1) A person acquiring a watercraft from the owner of the watercraft, whether the owner is a manufacturer, importer, dealer, or otherwise, shall not...
• Sale or Other Disposition of New Watercraft to Dealer for Display or Resale; Manufacturer's or Importer's Certificate Required; Contents; Assignment - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80306
  (1) A manufacturer, importer, dealer, or other person shall not sell or otherwise dispose of a new watercraft to a dealer, to be used...
• Certificate of Title; Application; Form; Fee; Evidence of Ownership; Certificate of Hull Identification Number; Duties of Secretary of State; Surety Bond; Name in Which Certificate of Title to Be Obtained - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80307
  (1) Application for a certificate of title for a watercraft shall be made upon a form prescribed by the secretary of state. The application...
• Application for Watercraft Certificate of Title; Certification; Contents; Permanent or Assigned Hull Identification Number; Affixing or Imprinting Assigned Hull Identification Number - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80308
  (1) An application for a watercraft certificate of title shall include a certification. The owner or purchaser of the watercraft shall sign the application...
• Certificate of Title; Issuance; Contents; Assignment Form - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80309
  The secretary of state shall issue a certificate of title containing the information required in the application for a certificate of title, as prescribed...
• Certificate of Title; Uniform Method of Numbering; Indexes; Destruction by Secretary of State; Furnishing Information to Law Enforcement and Conservation Officers - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80310
  (1) The secretary of state shall prescribe a uniform method of numbering certificates of title, and shall maintain in his or her office indexes...
• Fee for Processing Application for Certificate of Title or Duplicate; Additional Fee; Check or Draft Not Paid on First Presentation as Delinquent Fee; Liability; Notice or Demand; Suspension of Certificate; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80311
  (1) The secretary of state shall charge a fee of $5.00 for the processing of an application for a certificate of title or a...
• Certificate of Title for Watercraft; Issuance; Compliance; Transfer of Ownership; Requirements; Petition for Watercraft Not Owned; Proof of Ownership and Right of Possession; Statement of Lien - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80312
  (1) The secretary of state may issue a certificate of title for a watercraft to a person who complies with subsection (2) or (3)...
• Dismantling, Destroying, or Changing Watercraft; Surrender, Cancellation, and Destruction of Certificate of Title - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80313
  (1) An owner of a watercraft and a person mentioned as owner in the last certificate of title, when the watercraft is dismantled, destroyed,...
• Loss, Mutilation, or Illegibility of Certificate of Title; Application and Fee for Duplicate Copy; Issuance and Contents of Duplicate Copy; Rights and Indemnification of Purchaser; Surrender and Cancellation of Original Certificate; Conditions Not Requiring Duplicate of Lost Watercraft Certificate of Title At Time of Transfer; Record; Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80314
  (1) If certificate of title is lost, mutilated, or becomes illegible, the person to whom that certificate of title was issued shall apply to...
• Records Available to the Public; Commercial Lookup Service of Watercraft Title Records; Disposition of Fees; Computerized Central File; Creation; Maintenance; Providing to Nongovernmental Person or Entity; Payment; Admissibility in Evidence - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80315
  (1) Records maintained under this part, other than those declared to be confidential by law or that are restricted by law from disclosure to...
• Disclosure of Personal Information; Uses - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80315a
  (1) Except as provided in this section and section 80315c, personal information in a record maintained under this part shall not be disclosed, unless...
• Resale or Redisclosure of Information; Maintenance of Records; Duration; Availability for Inspection - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80315b
  (1) An authorized recipient of personal information under section 80315a may resell or redisclose the information for any use permitted under section 80315a. (2)...
• Furnishing List of Information to Federal, State, or Local Governmental Agency; Contract for Sale of List of Information; Insertion of Safeguard in Agreement or Contract; Resale or Redisclosure of Information; Duties of Recipient - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80315c
  (1) Upon request, the secretary of state may furnish a list of information from the records of the department maintained under this part to...
• Authorized Agents - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80316
  Manufacturers and importers shall appoint and authorize agents who shall sign manufacturer's or importer's certificates. The secretary of state may require that a certified...
• Stolen or Converted Watercraft; Information; Record; Report; Notice of Recovery; Removal of Record From File - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80317
  (1) Upon receiving knowledge of a stolen watercraft, a law enforcement agency shall immediately furnish the sheriff's department of the county in which the...
• Prohibited Conduct Generally - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80318
  A person shall not do any of the following: (a) Operate in this state a watercraft for which a certificate of title is required...
• Additional Prohibited Conduct; Violation as Misdemeanor; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80319
  (1) A person shall not do any of the following: (a) Alter or forge a certificate of title, or a manufacturer's or importer's certificate,...
• Prohibited Conduct; Violations as Felony; Penalties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80319a
  (1) A person who makes a false representation or false certification to obtain personal information under this part, or who uses personal information for...
• Secured Interest in Watercraft; Notation; Discharge; Perfection - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80320
  (1) A party with a secured interest in a watercraft, upon presentation of a properly completed application for certificate of title to the secretary...
• Watercraft Acquired Prior to January 1, 1977 - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80321
  A watercraft acquired by the owner prior to January 1, 1977, is not the subject of a certificate of title until it is mortgaged,...
• Violation; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.80322
  A person who violates sections 80301 to 80319 or rules promulgated under this part is guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be imprisoned for...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.81101
  As used in this part: (a) "ATV" means a 3-, 4-, or 6-wheeled vehicle designed for off-road use that has low-pressure tires, has a...
• Vehicles Exempt From Licensure Provisions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.81102
  (1) A vehicle registered under the code or a vehicle registered under part 801 is exempt from the licensure provisions of this part, unless...
• Orv; Certificate of Title Generally - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.81103
  (1) After April 1, 1991, every ORV sold by a dealer to a retail purchaser shall be subject to the certificate of title provisions...
• Application for Title to Orv Under Code - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.81104
  The owner of an ORV that has been and is titled under this part may, if the ORV is otherwise eligible, apply for a...
• Orv; Sale or Assignment of Ownership; Purchase or Acquisition; Requirements - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.81105
  After an ORV has been titled under this part, both of the following shall occur: (a) The owner, except as provided in section 81104,...
• Orv Exempt From Mcl 257.1101 to 257.1133 and Mcl 500.3101 to 500.3179 - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.81106
  An ORV is exempt from the motor vehicle accident claims act, Act No. 198 of the Public Acts of 1965, being sections 257.1101 to...
• Manufacturer's Certificate of Origin - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.81107
  (1) A person shall not sell or otherwise transfer an ORV to a dealer, to be used by the dealer for purposes of display...
• Application for Orv Certificate of Title; Form; Contents; Security Agreement; Perfection of Security Interest; Priority - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.81108
  (1) An application for an ORV certificate of title shall be on a form prescribed by the department of state. The application shall include...
• Making Application to Department of State for Issuance of Orv Certificate of Title - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.81109
  (1) The purchaser or other transferee of an ORV subject to the titling provisions of this part shall, except as provided in subsection (2),...
• Fee for Processing Application for Orv Certificate of Title - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.81110
  (1) The department of state shall charge a fee of $11.00 for processing an application for an ORV certificate of title or a duplicate...
• Refusal to Issue Orv Certificate of Title; Grounds; Issuance and Delivery; Requiring Certification of Ownership - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.81111
  (1) The department of state may refuse to issue an original or duplicate ORV certificate of title if any of the following occur: (a)...
• Manufacturing Requirements for Orv Certificate of Title; Uniform Method of Numbering; Contents; Prohibited Acts; Penalties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.81112
  (1) An ORV certificate of title shall be manufactured in a manner to prevent as nearly as possible the reproduction, alteration, counterfeiting, forging, or...
• Loss, Mutilation, or Illegibility of Orv Certificate; Application for and Issuance of Duplicate; Legend; Indexes - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.81113
  (1) If an ORV certificate of title or duplicate certificate of title is lost or mutilated or becomes illegible, the person entitled to possession...
• Records Available to the Public; Commercial Lookup Service; Disposition of Fees; Computerized Central File; Purging Records; Providing Records to Nongovernmental Person or Entity; Payment; Admissibility in Evidence - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.81114
  (1) Records maintained under this part, other than those declared to be confidential by law or that are restricted by law from disclosure to...
• Disclosure of Personal Information; Uses - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.81114a
  (1) Except as provided in this section and in section 81114c, personal information in a record maintained under this part shall not be disclosed,...
• Resale or Redisclosure of Personal Information; Maintenance of Records; Duration; Availability for Inspection - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.81114b
  (1) An authorized recipient of personal information under section 81114a may resell or redisclose the information for any use permitted under section 81114a. (2)...
• Furnishing List of Information to Federal, State, or Local Governmental Agency; Contract for Sale of Lists of Records; Surveys, Marketing, and Solicitations; Insertion of Safeguards in Agreement or Contract; Resale or Redisclosure of Information; Disclosure of List Based on Orv Operation or Sanctions to Nongovernmental Agency - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.81114c
  (1) Upon request, the secretary of state may furnish a list of information from the records of the department maintained under this part to...
• Licensing of Orv Required; Exceptions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.81115
  (1) A person shall not operate an ORV under any of the following conditions unless the ORV is licensed with the department or a...
• Application for License by Owner or Dealer of Orv; Filing; Form; Fee; False Information Prohibited; Issuance of License; Validity; Purchase and Resale of Orv Licenses; Refunds; Records; Attachment of License to Vehicle; License Not Required for Vehicle Used and Stored Outside State; Lost or Destroyed License - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.81116
  (1) The owner of an ORV requiring licensure under this part shall file an application for a license with the department or a dealer...
• Off - Road Vehicle Account - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.81117
  (1) Money in the off-road vehicle account shall be used only for the following: (a) Signage for and improvement, maintenance, and construction of ORV...
• Repealed. 2004, Act 587, Eff. Dec. 23, 2006. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Distribution of Revenue in Form of Grants - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.81119
  (1) Not less than 50% of the money in the off-road vehicle account shall be distributed each year in the form of grants for...
• Prohibited Conduct; Violations as Felony; Penalties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.81120
  (1) A person who makes a false representation or false certification to obtain personal information under this part, or who uses personal information for...
• Renting, Leasing, or Furnishing Orv; Maintaining Safe Operating Condition; Explanation of Operation; Liability Insurance - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.81121
  (1) A dealer shall maintain in safe operating condition an ORV rented, leased, or furnished by the dealer. The dealer, dealer's agents, or employees...
• Prohibited Operation of Unregistered Orv; Exceptions; Operator as Prima Facie Negligent - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.81122
  (1) A person shall not operate an ORV that is not registered under the code upon a public highway, street, or right-of-way of a...
• Comprehensive Plan for Management of Orv Use of Certain Areas, Routes, and Trails; Revision; Approval; Designation of Orv Trails and Areas for Nonconflicting Recreation Trail Use; Designated Scramble Area; Maps of Trails - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.81123
  (1) The department shall, by October 1, 1991, develop a comprehensive plan for the management of ORV use of areas, routes, and trails maintained...
• Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.81124
  If the department finds that rules are necessary to implement the regulatory provisions of this part or to clarify the intent of this part,...
• Repealed. 2003, Act 111, Eff. Oct. 1, 2003. - Mich. Comp. Laws
• Applicability of Mcl 324.81123, 324.81125, and 324.81127 to Upper Peninsula; Upper Peninsula Task Force; Creation; Appointment of Members; Meetings; Evaluation; Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.81126
  (1) Except as otherwise provided in sections 81119 and 81125, sections 81123, 81125, and 81127 do not apply to the Upper Peninsula of this...
• Comprehensive System; Considerations - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.81127
  (1) Under the comprehensive system previously approved and implemented under former section 16d of 1975 PA 319, all state owned land under the jurisdiction...
• Citizens Review Board - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.81128
  (1) Effective January 1, 1994, a citizens review board shall be established. The review board shall consist of 6 members of the general public...
• Operation of Orv or Atv by Child; Requirements; Orv Information, Safety Education, and Training Program; Course Instruction; Orv Safety Certificates; Rules; Exceptions; Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.81129
  (1) Subject to subsections (2), (3), (17), and (18), a parent or legal guardian of a child less than 16 years of age shall...
• Orv Safety Education Course - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.81130
  (1) A person who is under 16 years of age, before operating an ATV or ORV, shall complete an ORV safety education course approved...
• Ordinance Allowing Disabled Person to Operate Orv; Notice of Public Hearing; Closure of Road to Operation of Orvs; Operation of Orv With Flow of Traffic; Maintaining Road or Street Not Required; Immunity From Liability; "Gross Negligence" Defined; Operator of Orv as Prima Facie Negligent; Violation as Municipal Civil Infraction; Deposit of Fines; Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.81131
  (1) A municipality may pass an ordinance allowing a permanently disabled person to operate an ORV in that municipality. (2) Subject to subsection (4),...
• Rules; Ordinance Enacted Under Authority of Rule; Enforcement - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.81132
  (1) The department may promulgate rules governing the operation and conduct of ORVs, vehicle speed limits, use of vehicles by day and hour, and...
• Operation of Orv; Prohibited Acts - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.81133
  An individual shall not operate an ORV: (a) At a rate of speed greater than is reasonable and proper, or in a careless manner...
• Operation of Orv by Person Under Influence of Intoxicating Liquor or Controlled Substance; Authorizing or Permitting Operation; Violation as Misdemeanor; Penalty; Subsequent Convictions; Violation as Felony; Screening, Assessment, and Rehabilitative Services; Duty of Court Before Accepting Guilty Plea; Record - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.81134
  (1) A person who is under the influence of intoxicating liquor or a controlled substance, as defined by section 7104 of the public health...
• Operation of Orv by Person Visibly Impaired; Violation as Misdemeanor; Penalty; Prior Convictions; Community Service; Screening, Assessment, and Rehabilitative Services; Duty of Court Before Accepting Guilty Plea; Record - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.81135
  (1) A person shall not operate an ORV if, due to the consumption of intoxicating liquor, a controlled substance, as defined by section 7104...
• Chemical Analysis of Operator's Blood, Urine, or Breath; Admissibility; Request for Results of Test; Presumptions; Taking Sample of Urine or Breath; Withdrawing Blood; Liability; Administration of Tests by Person of Arrested Person's Own Choosing; Refusal to Take Test; Other Evidence; Jury Instruction; Admissibility of Blood Withdrawn After Accident; Sample of Decedent's Blood - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.81136
  (1) In a criminal prosecution for violating section 81134 or 81135 or a local ordinance substantially corresponding to section 81134 or 81135, or in...
• Implied Consent to Chemical Tests of Blood, Breath, or Urine; Exception - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.81137
  (1) Except as provided in subsection (2), a person who operates an ORV is considered to have given consent to chemical tests of his...
• Chemical Tests; Advising of Right to Refuse; Court Order; Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.81138
  (1) A person who is requested pursuant to section 81137(1) to take a chemical test shall be advised of the right to refuse to...
• Administrative Hearing; Notice - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.81139
  (1) Upon receipt of a report made pursuant to section 81138, the secretary of state shall immediately notify the person in a writing, mailed...
• Suspension of Right to Operate Orv; Appointment of Hearing Officer; Notice; Powers of Hearing Officer; Scope of Hearing; Conduct of Hearing; Final Decision or Order; Petition; Review; Order; Record of Proceedings - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.81140
  (1) If a person who refuses to submit to a chemical test pursuant to section 81138 does not request an administrative hearing within 14...
• Suspension or Revocation of Operator's or Chauffeur's License; Operation of Orv Prohibited; Violation as Misdemeanor; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.81140a
  (1) If the operator's or chauffeur's license of a person who is a resident of this state is suspended or revoked by the secretary...
• Preliminary Chemical Breath Analysis; Arrest; Admissibility of Results; Requirements; Civil Infraction; Fine - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.81141
  (1) A peace officer who has reasonable cause to believe that a person was operating an ORV and that the person by the consumption...
• Operation of Orv After Right Suspended as Misdemeanor; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.81142
  A person whose right to operate an ORV has been suspended pursuant to this part and who operates an ORV is guilty of a...
• Accident Resulting in Injury, Death, or Property Damage; Notice; Report; Report by Medical Facility; Collection and Evaluation of Information; Duties of Operator - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.81143
  (1) The operator of a vehicle involved in an accident resulting in injuries to, or the death of, a person, or resulting in property...
• Arrest Without Warrant of Alleged Operator of Orv - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.81144
  If a peace officer has reasonable cause to believe that a person was, at the time of an accident, the operator of an ORV...
• Violations; Appearance Tickets; Prima Facie Evidence of Operation by Owner - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.81145
  (1) Law enforcement officers may issue appearance tickets for violations of this part, pursuant to sections 9a to 9g of chapter 4 of Act...
• Failure or Refusal to Obey Signal or Request to Stop; Misdemeanor - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.81146
  (1) An operator of an ORV, who is given by hand, voice, emergency light, or siren a visual or audible signal by a law...
• Violation of Part as Misdemeanor or Civil Violation; Penalties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.81147
  (1) Except as otherwise provided in this part, a person who violates this part is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not...
• Condemnation of Orv Unauthorized Where Trespass Is Result of Emergency - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.81148
  A person shall not have an ORV condemned pursuant to section 81147 if the trespass is the result of an emergency situation.
• Survey to Determine Total Unrefunded Gasoline Sales Tax Money; Report; Recommendations; Budget Requests - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.81149
  The department shall conduct a survey to determine the total unrefunded gasoline sales tax money it estimates to have been collected from the sale...
• Uniform Interpretation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.81150
  The department shall disseminate information to its field officers and to state and local law enforcement agencies on a uniform interpretation of this part...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82101
  As used in this part: (a) "Conviction" means a final conviction, the payment of a fine, a plea of guilty or nolo contendere if...
• Snowmobiles; Exemption From Taxes and Fees - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82102
  Snowmobiles are exempt from all taxes and fees imposed on vehicles under the Michigan vehicle code, Act No. 300 of the Public Acts of...
• Michigan Snowmobile Advisory Committee - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82102a
  (1) The Michigan snowmobile advisory committee is created in the department. The committee shall consist of 7 individuals appointed by the director for 2-year...
• Certificate of Registration and Registration Decal Required; Exceptions; Violation; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82103
  (1) Except as otherwise provided, a snowmobile shall not be operated unless the owner first obtains a certificate of registration and a registration decal....
• Special Event; Certificate of Registration or Registration Decal Not Required - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82104
  A certificate of registration or a registration decal is not required for a snowmobile that is exclusively operated in a special event of limited...
• Application for Registration; Forms; Signature; Fee; Recording Application; Issuance of Certificate of Registration and Decal; Contents, Legibility, and Inspection of Certificate; Surety Bond; Issuance, Duration, and Renewal of Certificate and Registration Decal; Display of Decal; Destroying Record of Certificate - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82105
  (1) Before operating a snowmobile requiring registration in this state, the owner shall apply for registration with the department of state on forms provided...
• Fees; Delinquency; Penalty; Deposit and Use of Collected Penalties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82105a
  (1) If a check, draft, or electronic payment of a required fee is not paid on its first presentation, the fee is delinquent as...
• Cancellation, Suspension, Revocation, or Refusal to Issue Snowmobile Registration; Conditions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82105b
  The department of state may cancel, suspend, revoke, or refuse to issue a snowmobile registration if any of the following occur: (a) The applicant...
• Historic Snowmobile Registration Decal; Issuance; Placement; Fee; Validity; Revocation; Exemption From Registration; Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82105c
  (1) The secretary of state may issue to the owner of a historic snowmobile a historic snowmobile registration decal which shall bear the inscription...
• Disposition of Revenue; Designation of State Recreational Trail Coordinator; Plan for Statewide Recreational and Snowmobile Trails System; Expenditures; Construction of Recreational Trail Facilities or Major Improvements on Private Land; Interconnecting Network of Statewide Snowmobile Trails and Use Areas; Alternative Nonconflicting Off - Season Recreational Trail Uses - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82106
  (1) Except as otherwise provided in this part, revenue received from the registration fees under this part shall be deposited as follows: (a) Twenty-two...
• Annual Budget Request to Include Amounts for Department Enforcement of Part and Local Snowmobile Programs; Financial Assistance to Counties; Cooperation in Conduct of Program; Records; Reports; Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82107
  (1) The annual budget request of the department shall include an amount for department enforcement of this part, for department administration of the programs...
• Snowmobile Safety Education and Training Program - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82108
  (1) The department shall design by May 1, 1995 the minimum content of a comprehensive snowmobile safety education and training program, which shall include...
• Appropriation; Uses; Allocation; Grants; Contract Payments; Financial Assistance; Conditions; Application; Grant Agreement or Contract; Payment; Term; Request for Information; Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82109
  (1) Money appropriated to the department from the recreational snowmobile trail improvement subaccount shall be used for 1 or more of the following: (a)...
• Recreational Snowmobile Trail Improvement Subaccount; Use; Deposits; Rules; Projects Open to Public - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82110
  (1) The recreational snowmobile trail improvement subaccount is created as a subaccount of the snowmobile account. Money in the subaccount shall be used upon...
• Permanent Snowmobile Trail Easement Subaccount - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82110a
  (1) The permanent snowmobile trail easement subaccount is created as a subaccount of the snowmobile account. (2) The state treasurer may receive money or...
• Snowmobile Registration Fee Subaccount; Creation - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82111
  The snowmobile registration fee subaccount is created as a subaccount of the snowmobile account. History: Add. 1995, Act 58, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1995...
• Operation of Snowmobile Program; Review of Effectiveness; Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82112
  (1) The department, in consultation with the snowmobile advisory board, shall conduct a review of the effectiveness of operation of the snowmobile program by...
• Registration Decal; Display; Issuance; Expiration of Certificate of Registration; Awarding Certificate of Number - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82113
  (1) The owner of a snowmobile having been issued a certificate of registration for the snowmobile shall affix to each side of the forward...
• Destruction, Abandonment, Sale, or Transfer of Snowmobile; Change of Address; Notice; Surrender of Certificate; Cancellation of Certificate; Destruction of Record; Recording New Address; Return of Certificate to Owner; Application by Transferee for New Certificate; Fee; Operation Without Certificate Prohibited; Duplicate Certificate; Replacement Registration Decal - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82114
  (1) The owner of a snowmobile shall notify the department of state within 15 days if the snowmobile is destroyed or abandoned, or is...
• Certificates of Registration for Dealers and Manufacturers; Use; Fee; Placement of Registration Decal - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82115
  A dealer or manufacturer, upon application to the department of state upon forms provided by it, may obtain certificates of registration for use in...
• Snowmobile Numbers; Stamping on Frame or Plate; Location of Number; Possession of Snowmobile With Altered, Defaced, or Obliterated Number - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82116
  (1) A snowmobile that is manufactured after December 1, 1972 for sale in this state shall have an identifying number that is stamped into...
• Alteration, Removal, or Defacement of Vehicle Number; Application for Special Identifying Number; Missing Vehicle Number; Replacement; Fee - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82116a
  (1) The owner of a snowmobile whose vehicle number has been altered, removed, or defaced, including the owner of a snowmobile who intends to...
• Dealers; Duties; Liability Insurance - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82117
  (1) A dealer shall maintain in safe operating condition all snowmobiles rented, leased, or furnished by him or her. The dealer or the dealer's...
• Michigan Snowmobile Trail Permit - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82118
  (1) In addition to registration of a snowmobile under section 82105 or registration in another state or province, except as otherwise provided in this...
• Operation of Snowmobiles Prohibited; Exceptions; Permanent Prohibition; Requirements; Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82119
  (1) A person shall not operate a snowmobile upon a public highway, land used as an airport or street, or on a public or...
• Supervision of Child Less Than 12 Years of Age; Exception; Conditions for Operation of Snowmobile by Person 12 but Less Than 17 Years of Age; Snowmobile Safety Certificate; Crossing Highway or Street; Duty of Snowmobile Owner; Report of Violation; Suspension of Certificate - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82120
  (1) A parent or legal guardian shall not permit his or her child who is less than 12 years of age to operate a...
• Use of Snowmobile to Hunt Wild Bird or Animal - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82121
  A snowmobile shall not be used to hunt, pursue, worry, or kill a wild bird or animal.
• Lights and Brakes; Minimum Safety Standards; Certification as Proof of Compliance - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82122
  (1) A snowmobile shall not be operated unless it has at least 1 headlight, 1 taillight, and adequate brakes capable, while the snowmobile travels...
• Crash Helmet Required - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82123
  A person operating or riding on a snowmobile shall wear a crash helmet on his or her head. Crash helmets shall be approved by...
• Ordinances; Duty to Maintain Highway; Immunity From Liability; "gross Negligence" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82124
  (1) Any municipality may pass an ordinance regulating the operation of snowmobiles if the ordinance meets substantially the minimum requirements of this part. A...
• Rules Governing Operation and Conduct of Snowmobiles; Special Rules; Hearing; Notice; Corresponding Ordinances; Suspension, Amendment, or Repeal; Enforcement - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82125
  (1) The department may promulgate rules to govern the operation and conduct of snowmobiles, speed limits, and the times when a snowmobile may be...
• Operation of Snowmobile; Prohibitions; Exemption; Construction, Operation, and Maintenance of Snowmobile Trail; Conditions; Demarcation of Trail by Signing; "operate" Defined; Prohibited Conduct; Assumption of Risk; Violation of Subsection (2) as Civil Infraction; Fine - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82126
  (1) A person shall not operate a snowmobile under any of the following circumstances: (a) At a rate of speed greater than is reasonable...
• Operation of Snowmobile; Prohibited Conduct; Violation as Civil Infraction - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82126a
  (1) A person shall not operate a snowmobile upon a highway, public trail, frozen surface of a public lake, stream, river, pond, or another...
• Operation of Snowmobile; Prohibited Conduct; Violation as Misdemeanor; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82126b
  (1) A person shall not operate a snowmobile upon a highway, public trail, frozen surface of a public lake, stream, river, pond, or another...
• Operation of Snowmobile; Conduct Causing Death or Serious Impairment of Bodily Function; Violation as Misdemeanor or Felony; Penalty; Definition; Order Prohibiting Operation of Snowmobile - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82126c
  (1) A person who operates a snowmobile in a careless or negligent manner causing the death or serious impairment of bodily function of another...
• Authorizing or Permitting Snowmobile to Be Operated by Person Under Influence of Intoxicating Liquor or Controlled Substance Prohibited; Violation Causing Death or Long - Term Incapacitating Injury; Penalty; "serious Impairment of a Body Function" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82127
  (1) A person shall not operate a snowmobile in this state if either of the following applies: (a) The person is under the influence...
• Violations; Sanctions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82128
  (1) If a person is convicted of violating section 82127(1), the following apply: (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), the...
• Violations; Sanctions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82129
  (1) If a person is convicted of violating section 82127(3), the following apply: (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), the...
• Enhanced Sentence; Listing of Prior Convictions; Attempted Violations - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82130
  (1) If the prosecuting attorney intends to seek an enhanced sentence under section 82128 or 82129 based upon the defendant having 1 or more...
• Display of Lighted Headlight and Taillight Required; Applicability of Section to Snowmobile 25 Years or Older - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82131
  (1) A person shall not operate a snowmobile without displaying a lighted headlight and a lighted taillight. However, the headlight shall not be covered...
• Accidents; Notice; Reports - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82132
  The operator of a snowmobile involved in an accident resulting in injuries to or the death of any person or property damage in an...
• Violation of Part; Misdemeanor - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82133
  Except as otherwise provided in this part, a person who violates this part is guilty of a misdemeanor.
• Violations; Appearance Tickets; Presumption - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82134
  (1) A peace or police officer may issue appearance tickets for violations of this part pursuant to sections 9a to 9e of chapter 4...
• Failure to Stop on Signal of Uniformed Officer; Penalty; Identification of Official Vehicle - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82135
  An operator of a snowmobile who is given by hand, voice, emergency light, or siren a visual or audible signal by a peace, police,...
• Arrest Without Warrant; Preliminary Chemical Breath Analysis - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82136
  (1) A peace officer, without a warrant, may arrest a person if the peace officer has reasonable cause to believe that the person was,...
• Chemical Tests and Analysis of Person's Blood, Urine, or Breath; Provisions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82137
  (1) The following apply with respect to a chemical test and analysis of a person's blood, urine, or breath, other than a preliminary chemical...
• Chemical Test and Analysis of Person's Blood, Urine, or Breath; Additional Provisions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82138
  (1) A chemical test described in section 82137 shall be administered at the request of a peace officer having reasonable grounds to believe the...
• Introduction of Other Evidence Not Limited by Mcl 324.82137 and 324.82138; Availability of Chemical Test Results - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82139
  (1) The provisions of sections 82137 and 82138 relating to chemical testing do not limit the introduction of any other competent evidence bearing upon...
• Amount of Alcohol in Driver's Blood; Presumptions; Refusal to Submit to Chemical Test; Admissibility - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82140
  (1) Except in a prosecution relating solely to a violation of section 82127(1)(b), the amount of alcohol in the driver's blood at the time...
• Acceptance of Guilty Plea or Nolo Contendere; Advisement by Court of Maximum Imprisonment and Fine; Screening, Assessment, and Rehabilitative Services; Record - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82141
  (1) Before accepting a plea of guilty or nolo contendere under section 82127 or a local ordinance substantially corresponding to section 82127(1), (2), or...
• Consideration of Prior Convictions; Sanctions; "another Snowmobile Substance Abuse Offense" Defined - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82142
  (1) Immediately upon acceptance by the court of a plea of guilty or nolo contendere or upon entry of a verdict of guilty for...
• Implied Consent to Chemical Tests; Circumstances; Exception; Administration of Chemical Test - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82143
  (1) A person who operates a snowmobile is considered to have given consent to chemical tests of his or her blood, breath, or urine...
• Refusal to Submit to Chemical Test; Court Order; Report to Secretary of State - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82144
  (1) If a person refuses the request of a peace officer to submit to a chemical test offered pursuant to section 82137 or 82138,...
• Refusal to Submit to Chemical Test; Notice of Right to Hearing - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82145
  (1) If a person refuses to submit to a chemical test pursuant to section 82144, the peace officer shall immediately notify the person in...
• Refusal to Submit to Chemical Test; Failure to Request Hearing; Order; Hearing Procedures - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82146
  (1) If a person who refuses to submit to a chemical test pursuant to section 82144 does not request a hearing within 14 days...
• Issuance of Order by Secretary of State; Operation of Snowmobile Prohibited; Imposition of Suspension for More Than 1 Conviction or Probate Court Dispositions From Same Incident - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82147
  (1) Notwithstanding a court order issued under section 82127(1), (3), (4), or (5), section 15a(1), (3), (4), or (5) of former 1968 PA 74,...
• Suspension or Revocation of Operator's or Chauffeur's License; Operation of Snowmobile Prohibited; Violation as Misdemeanor; Penalty - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82147a
  (1) If the operator's or chauffeur's license of a person who is a resident of this state is suspended or revoked by the secretary...
• Convictions Prohibiting Operation of Snowmobile; Order; Sharing Conviction Records; Termination of Indefinite Order; Multiple Convictions or Probate Court Dispositions Resulting From Same Incident; Hearing; Record; Judicial Review - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82148
  (1) Upon receipt of the appropriate records of conviction, the secretary of state shall issue an order with no expiration date that the person...
• Operation of Snowmobile Prohibited; Issuance of Order Without Expiration Date; Notice; Expiration of Order; Conditions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82149
  (1) If a person is charged with, or convicted of, a violation of section 82127(1), (2), (3), (4), or (5), former section 15a(1), (2),...
• Final Determination by Secretary of State; Petition for Review in Circuit Court; Consideration of Record by Court; Authority of Court to Affirm, Modify, or Set Aside Order; Applicability of Section - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82150
  (1) A person who is aggrieved by a final determination of the secretary of state under this part may petition for a review of...
• Ex Parte Order to Stay Pending Order - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82151
  (1) Within 63 days after the determination, a person who is aggrieved by a final determination of the secretary of state under this part...
• Operation of Snowmobile Prohibited; Knowingly Permitting Operation by Person Subject to Order Prohibited; Violation of Subsection (1) as Misdemeanor; Extension of Length of Order; Cancellation of Certificate of Registration - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82152
  (1) A person who is ordered not to operate a snowmobile and who has been notified of the order by personal service or first-class...
• Impoundment of Snowmobile - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82153
  (1) When a person is convicted under section 82152(1), the snowmobile, if it is owned by that person, shall be ordered impounded for not...
• Conviction Based on Plea of Nolo Contendere - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82154
  A conviction based on a plea of nolo contendere shall be treated in the same manner as a conviction based on a plea of...
• Expiration of Order Not to Operate Snowmobile; Administrative Order Processing Fee - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82155
  Whether of definite or indefinite length, an order not to operate a snowmobile does not expire until the person subject to the order pays...
• Availability of Records to Public; Commercial Lookup Service of Snowmobile Operation, Title, and Registration; Disposition of Fees; Individual Record; Computerized Central File; Providing Records to Nongovernmental Person or Entity; Payment; Admissibility in Evidence - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82156
  (1) Records maintained under this part, other than those declared to be confidential by law or that are restricted by law from disclosure to...
• Disclosure of Personal Information; Uses - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82156a
  (1) Except as provided in this section and in section 82156c, personal information in a record maintained under this part shall not be disclosed,...
• Resale or Redisclosure of Information; Maintenance of Records; Duration; Availability for Inspection - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82156b
  (1) An authorized recipient of personal information disclosed under section 82156a may resell or redisclose the information for any use permitted under section 82156a....
• Furnishing List of Information to Federal, State, or Local Governmental Agency; Contract for Sale of Lists of Records; Surveys, Marketing, and Solicitations; Insertion of Safeguards in Agreement or Contract; Duties of Recipient of Personal Information; Disclosure of List Based on Snowmobile Operation or Sanctions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82156c
  (1) Upon request, the secretary of state may furnish a list of information from the records of the department maintained under this part to...
• Abstract or Record to Be Kept by Court Clerk of Record - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82157
  (1) Each district judge and each clerk of a court of record shall keep a full record of every case in which a person...
• Operator of Snowmobile Detained by Officer; Conduct of Operator as Misdemeanor; Arrest Without Warrant - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82158
  (1) The operator or person in charge of a snowmobile being used or operated in this state, who is by hand, voice, emergency light...
• Person Arrested Without Warrant to Be Taken Before Magistrate or Judge - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82159
  If a person is arrested without a warrant for any of the following, the arrested person shall be taken, without unreasonable delay, before a...
• Prohibited Conduct; Violations as Felony; Penalties - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.82160
  (1) A person who makes a false representation or false certification to obtain personal information under this part, or who uses personal information for...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.83101
  As used in this part: (a) "Concession" means an agreement between the department and a person under terms and conditions as specified by the...
• Recreation Within State Forest; Scope - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.83102
  The department shall develop, operate, maintain, and promote an integrated recreation system that provides opportunities for hunting, fishing, camping, hiking, snowmobiling, off-road vehicle trail...
• Implementation of Mcl 324.83102; Powers of Department; Disposition of Money Collected; Grant and Award of Concessions; Notice to Legislature; Report - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.83103
  (1) In implementing section 83102, the department may do any of the following: (a) Enter into contracts or agreements with a person as may...
• Forest Recreation Account; Use - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.83104
  Money in the forest recreation account shall be used by the department to develop, maintain, operate, and promote forest recreation activities and to implement...
• Forest Recreation Activities; Volunteers - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.83105
  (1) The department may appoint persons to function as volunteers for the purpose of facilitating forest recreation activities. While a volunteer is serving in...
• Camping Permit; Fee; Permit to Use Lands and Facilities; Exception; Deposit of Money Into Account - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.83106
  (1) The department may require a person to obtain a permit for camping in designated state forest campgrounds and may establish and collect a...
• Rules; Enforcement by State Forest Officers - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.83107
  To ensure compliance with this part, rules promulgated under this part and this act, including the state land use rules provided in R 299.331...
• Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.83108
  The department may promulgate rules to implement this part.
• Violation as State Civil Infraction; Fine - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.83109
  A person who violates this part or a rule promulgated under this part is responsible for a state civil infraction and may be ordered...
• Repeal of Certain Acts and Parts of Acts - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.90101
  (1) The following acts and parts of acts that are codified in article I, general provisions, and article II, pollution control, are repealed: PUBLIC...
• Repeal of Certain Acts and Parts of Acts - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.90102
  The following acts and parts of acts that are codified in article I, general provisions, and article II, pollution control, are repealed: PUBLIC ACT...
• Repeal of Certain Acts - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.90103
  (1) The following acts that are codified in article III, chapter 1, entitled habitat protection, are repealed: 346 1972 281.951 to 281.966 203 1979...
• Repeal of Certain Acts and Parts of Acts - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.90104
  (1) The following acts that are codified in article III, chapter 2, entitled management of renewable resources, are repealed: PUBLIC ACT NUMBER YEAR OF...
• Repeal of Certain Acts and Parts of Acts - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.90105
  (1) The following acts and parts of acts that are codified in article III, chapter 3, entitled management of nonrenewable resources, are repealed: PUBLIC...
• Repeal of Certain Acts - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.90106
  (1) The following acts that are codified in article III, chapter 4, entitled recreation, are repealed: PUBLIC ACT NUMBER YEAR OF ACT MICHIGAN COMPILED...
• Short Title - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.95101
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "clean Michigan initiative act".
• Bonds; Limitation on Amount; Issuance; Full Faith and Credit; Purpose - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.95102
  The state shall borrow a sum not to exceed $675,000,000.00 and issue the general obligation bonds of this state, pledging the full faith and...
• Bonds; Issuance; Conditions and Procedures - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.95103
  Bonds shall be issued in accordance with conditions and procedures to be established by law.
• Sale of Bonds; Disposition of Proceeds; Disbursement; Expenditure - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.95104
  The proceeds of the sale of any series of the bonds, any premium and accrued interest received on the delivery of the bonds, and...
• Borrowing and Issuance of Bonds; Submission of Question to Vote of Electors - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.95105
  The question of borrowing a sum not to exceed $675,000,000.00 and the issuance of the general obligation bonds of the state for the purposes...
• Performance of Acts by Secretary of State - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.95106
  The secretary of state shall perform all acts necessary to properly submit the question prescribed by section 5 to the electors of this state...
• Approval by Vote Required - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.95107
  Bonds shall not be issued under this act unless the question set forth in section 5 is approved by a majority vote of the...
• Payment on Outstanding Bonds; Costs; Annual Executive Budget - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.95108
  (1) After the issuance of the bonds authorized by this act, there shall be appropriated from the general fund of the state each fiscal...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.95151
  As used in this act: (a) "Department" means the department of natural resources. (b) "Livestock" means those species of animals used for human food...
• Gray Wolves; Removal, Capture, or Use of Lethal Force; Report to Department Official; Violations as Misdemeanors; Penalties; Photographs; Response by Department Official; Use of Hotline to Report Taking of Gray Wolf - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.95153
  (1) The owner of livestock or his or her designated agent may remove, capture, or, if deemed necessary, use lethal means to destroy a...
• Operation and Enforcement of Sections 1 and 3; Conditions; Notice - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.95155
  (1) Sections 1 and 3 shall not be operational and enforceable until 1 of the following occurs: (a) A final appellate court issues a...
• Definitions - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.95161
  As used in this act: (a) "Department" means the department of natural resources. (b) "Dog" includes a domesticated dog and a dog used for
• Removal, Capture, or Use of Lethal Means to Destroy Gray Wolf; Conditions; Procedure - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.95163
  (1) The owner of a dog or his or her designated agent may remove, capture, or, if deemed necessary, use lethal means to destroy...
• Rules - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.95165
  The department may promulgate rules to implement this act pursuant to the administrative procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24.201 to 24.328....
• Operation and Enforcement of Sections 1 to 5; Conditions; Notice - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.95167
  (1) Sections 1 to 5 shall not be operational and enforceable until 1 of the following occurs: (a) A final appellate court issues a...
• Short Title - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.95201
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Great Lakes water quality bond authorization act".
• Financing Sewage Treatment Works Projects, Storm Water Projects, and Nonpoint Source Projects; Bonds - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.95202
  The state shall borrow a sum not to exceed $1,000,000,000.00 and issue the general obligation bonds of the state, pledging the full faith and...
• Bonds; Issuance; Conditions and Procedures - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.95203
  Bonds shall be issued in accordance with conditions and procedures to be established by law.
• Disposition of Bond Proceeds - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.95204
  The proceeds of the sale of any series of the bonds, any premium and accrued interest received on the delivery of the bonds, and...
• Submission of Question to Electors; Vote Required - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.95205
  The question of borrowing a sum not to exceed $1,000,000,000.00 and the issuance of the general obligation bonds of the state for the purposes...
• Submission of Question to Electors; Duties of Secretary of State - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.95206
  The secretary of state shall perform all acts necessary to properly submit the question prescribed by section 5 to the electors of the state...
• Vote of Majority Required - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.95207
  Bonds shall not be issued under this act unless the question set forth in section 5 is approved by a majority vote of the...
• Appropriation From General Fund; Budget Recommendations of Governor - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.95208
  (1) After the issuance of the bonds authorized by this act, there shall be appropriated from the general fund of the state each fiscal...
• Transfer of Powers and Duties of the Waste Reduction Assistance Service, Small Business Clean Air Assistance Program, and Site Reuse and Redevelopment Program From Department of Commerce to Department of Natural Resources - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.99901
  324.99901 Transfer of powers and duties of the waste reduction assistance service, small business clean air assistance program, and site reuse and redevelopment program...
• Transfer of Powers and Duties of the Orv Trails Advisory Committee in Sections 16b and 16c of Act 26 of 1995 to the Commission of Natural Resources by a Type III Transfer; Abolish Orv Trails Advisory Committee - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.99902
  324.99902 Transfer of powers and duties of the ORV trails advisory committee in sections 16b and 16c of Act 26 of 1995 to the...
• Creation of Department of Environmental Quality; Transfer of Certain Powers and Duties From Department of Natural Resources to Department of Environmental Quality - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.99903
  324.99903 Creation of department of environmental quality; transfer of certain powers and duties from department of natural resources to department of environmental quality. WHEREAS,...
• Transfer of Michigan Environmental Science Board From Department of Management and Budget to Department of Environmental Quality by Type I Transfer; Transfer of Powers and Duties of Environmental Administration Division of Department of Management and Budget to Department of Environmental Quality by Type II Transfer - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.99904
  324.99904 Transfer of Michigan environmental science board from department of management and budget to department of environmental quality by type I transfer; transfer of...
• Transfer of Powers and Duties of Temporary Reimbursement Program Advisory Board to Department of Environmental Quality by Type III Transfer; Abolishment of Temporary Reimbursement Program Advisory Board - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.99905
  324.99905 Transfer of powers and duties of temporary reimbursement program advisory board to department of environmental quality by type III transfer; abolishment of temporary...
• Transfer of Powers, Duties, and Funds of Michigan Underground Storage Tank Financial Assurance Policy Board to Department of Environmental Quality by Type III Transfer; Abolishment of Michigan Underground Storage Tank Financial Assurance Policy Board - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.99906
  324.99906 Transfer of powers, duties, and funds of Michigan underground storage tank financial assurance policy board to department of environmental quality by type III...
• Transfer of Powers and Duties of Groundwater Advisory Council Created Under Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Act to Department of Agriculture by Type III Transfer; Transfer of Powers and Duties of Groundwater Conservation Advisory Council Created Under Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Act to Department of Environmental Quality by Type III Transfer; Abolishment of Groundwater Advisory Council and Groundwater Conservation Advisory Council - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.99907
  324.99907 Transfer of powers and duties of groundwater advisory council created under natural resources and environmental protection act to department of agriculture by type...
• Transfer of Powers and Duties of Laboratory Data Quality Assurance Council to Department of Environmental Quality by Type III Transfer; Abolishment of Laboratory Data Quality Assurance Advisory Council - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.99908
  324.99908 Transfer of powers and duties of laboratory data quality assurance council to department of environmental quality by type III transfer; abolishment of laboratory...
• Transfer of Powers and Duties of Agriculture and Rural Communities Roundtable to Department of Environmental Quality by Type III Transfer; Abolishment of Agriculture and Rural Communities Roundtable - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.99909
  324.99909 Transfer of powers and duties of agriculture and rural communities roundtable to department of environmental quality by type III transfer; abolishment of agriculture...
• Transfer of Powers and Duties of Invasive Species Advisory Council to Department of Natural Resources by Type III Transfer; Abolishment of Invasive Species Advisory Council - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.99910
  324.99910 Transfer of powers and duties of invasive species advisory council to department of natural resources by type III transfer; abolishment of invasive species...
• Transfer of Powers and Duties of Michigan Environmental Science Board to Department of Environmental Quality by Type III Transfer; Abolishment of Michigan Environmental Science Board - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.99911
  324.99911 Transfer of powers and duties of Michigan environmental science board to department of environmental quality by type III transfer; abolishment of Michigan environmental...
• Transfer of Powers and Duties of Advisory Committee on Septage Waste Storage Facility Management Practices to Department of Environmental Quality by Type III Transfer; Abolishment of Advisory Committee on Septage Waste Storage Facility Management Practices - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.99912
  324.99912 Transfer of powers and duties of advisory committee on septage waste storage facility management practices to department of environmental quality by type III...
• Transfer of Powers and Duties of Environmental Education Advisory Committee to Department of Environmental Quality by Type III Transfer - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.99913
  324.99913 Transfer of powers and duties of environmental education advisory committee to department of environmental quality by type III transfer. WHEREAS, Section 1 of...
• Transfer of Powers and Duties of Great Lakes Protection Fund Technical Advisory Board to Department of Environmental Quality by Type III Transfer - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.99914
  324.99914 Transfer of powers and duties of Great Lakes protection fund technical advisory board to department of environmental quality by type III transfer. WHEREAS,...
• Transfer of Pbde Advisory Committee to Department of Environmental Quality by Type III Transfer - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.99915
  324.99915 Transfer of PBDE advisory committee to department of environmental quality by type III transfer. WHEREAS, Section 1 of Article V of the Michigan...
• Transfer of Citizen's Advisory Committee for Natural Beauty Roads to Department of Natural Resources by Type III Transfer - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.99916
  324.99916 Transfer of citizen's advisory committee for natural beauty roads to department of natural resources by type III transfer. WHEREAS, Section 1 of Article...
• Transfer of Public Boating Access Site Advisory Committee to Department of Natural Resources by Type III Transfer - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.99917
  324.99917 Transfer of public boating access site advisory committee to department of natural resources by type III transfer. WHEREAS, Section 1 of Article V...
• Transfer of Siting Criteria Advisory Committee to Department of Environmental Quality by Type III Transfer; Abolishment of Siting Criteria Advisory Committee - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.99918
  324.99918 Transfer of siting criteria advisory committee to department of environmental quality by type III transfer; abolishment of siting criteria advisory committee. WHEREAS, Section...
• Creation of Department of Natural Resources and Environment; Transfer of Commission of Natural Resources From Department of Natural Resources to Department of Natural Resources and Environment by Type II Transfer; Renaming Commission of Natural Resources to Natural Resources Commission; Designation of Chairperson by Governor; Creation of Michigan Trails Advisory Council; Transfer of Powers and Duties of Department of Natural Resources to Department of Natural Resources and Environment by Type II Transfer; Abolishment of Department of Natural Resources; Transfer of Certain Committees, Commissions, Authorities, and Councils From Department of Natural Resources to Department of Natural Resources and Environment; Transfer of Certain Powers and Duties of the Department of Environmental Quality to Department of Natural Resources and Environment by Type II Transfer; Abolishment of Department of Environmental Quality; Transfer of Office of Great Lakes From Department of Environmental Quality to Department of Natural Resources and Environment by Type I Transfer; Transfer of Low - Level Radioactive Waste Authority, and Powers and Duties of Its Commissioner, From Department of Environmental Quality to Department of Natural Resources and Environment; Transfer of Site Review Board From Department of Environmental Quality to Department of Environmental Quality; Abolishment of Site Review Board; Transfer of Michigan Commission of Agriculture to Department of Agriculture by Type II Transfer; Appointment of Director of Department of Agriculture by Governor; Transfer of Agricultural Preservation Fund Board and Pesticide Advisory Committee to Department of Agriculture by Type III Transfer; Transfer of Powers and Duties of Office of Racing Commissioner From Department of Agriculture to Michigan Gaming Control Board; Membership of State Interagency Council on Spanish - Speaking Affairs - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.99919
  324.99919 Creation of department of natural resources and environment; transfer of commission of natural resources from department of natural resources to department of natural...
• Transfer of Certain Powers and Duties of Department of Agriculture to Commission of Agriculture; Duties of Director of Department of Agriculture; Creation of Michigan Agriculture Preservation Fund Board; Powers and Duties of Natural Resources Commission Previously Vested in Commission on Natural Resources; Renaming of Michigan Trails Advisory Council to Michigan Snowmobile and Trails Advisory Council - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.99920
  324.99920 Transfer of certain powers and duties of department of agriculture to commission of agriculture; duties of director of department of agriculture; creation of...
• Abolishment of Department of Natural Resources and Environment; Creation of Department of Natural Resources; Transfer of Natural Resources Commission From Department of Natural Resources and Environment to Department of Natural Resources by Type II Transfer; Appointment of Director of Department of Natural Resources by Governor; Transfer of Certain Powers and Duties From Department of Natural Resources and Environment to Department of Natural Resources by Type II Transfer; Transfer of Certain Commissions, Boards, and Authorities From Department of Natural Resources and Environment to Department of Natural Resources by Type I Transfer; Creation of Department of Environmental Quality; Appointment of Director of Department of Environmental Quality by Governor; Transfer of Certain Powers and Duties From Department of Natural Resources and Environment to Department of Environmental Quality by Type II Transfer; Transfer of Certain Offices and Authorities From Department of Natural Resources and Environment to Department of Environmental Quality by Type I Transfer; Effect of Executive Reorganization Order on Certain Public Acts - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 324.99921
  324.99921 Abolishment of department of natural resources and environment; creation of department of natural resources; transfer of natural resources commission from department of natural...