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451-1994-III-2
- CHAPTER 2 MANAGEMENT OF RENEWABLE RESOURCES (324.40101...324.52909)
Section 324.40106 ‑ Game or protected animal; taking, releasing, transporting, selling, buying, or possessing; construction of section.
Section 324.40107 ‑ 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.
Section 324.40107b ‑ Taking of live raptors for use in falconry; order; establishment of season; scope of section.
Section 324.40107c ‑ Control and management of double-crested cormorants; administration of program; organization of states; funds.
Section 324.40107d ‑ Control and management of double-crested cormorants; administration of program; organization of states; funds.
Section 324.40109 ‑ Transportation of game; identification of sex and species; tagging; section inapplicable to skins, pelts, and hides.
Section 324.40110 ‑ Designation of species as game; establishment of first open season; removal from list of game; orders; definitions.
Section 324.40110b ‑ Legislative findings and declaration; establishment of first open season for wolf.
Section 324.40111 ‑ 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.
Section 324.40112 ‑ Obstructing or interfering in lawful taking of animals; prohibited conduct; petition; injunction; violation as misdemeanor; penalties; section inapplicable to peace officer.
Section 324.40113a ‑ Legislative findings and declarations; taking of game; issuance of orders; right to hunt, fish, and take game.
Section 324.40114 ‑ 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.
Section 324.40116 ‑ Hunter orange; exceptions; noncompliance not as evidence of contributory negligence; "hunter orange" defined.
Section 324.40117 ‑ Possession of parts of animal as prima facie evidence of violation.
Section 324.40119 ‑ 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.
Section 324.40501 ‑ Wildlife restoration, management, and research projects; authority of department to cooperate with federal government; use of hunters' license fees.
Section 324.41103 ‑ 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.
Section 324.41302 ‑ Adding or deleting from list of prohibited species or restricted species; consultation; procedure; determination.
Section 324.41303 ‑ Possession of live prohibited or restricted organism; prohibition; exceptions; notification of location where found.
Section 324.41305 ‑ Introduction of prohibited or restricted species, or genetically engineered or nonnative aquatic plant, bird, crustacean, fish, mammal, or mollusk; exceptions.
Section 324.41306 ‑ Permit; application; fee; approval; revocation; modification; hearing; administration; enforcement.
Section 324.41309 ‑ Violation; penalties; liability for damages to natural resources; exceptions.
Section 324.41311 ‑ Invasive species fund; creation; disposition of funds; money remaining in fund; expenditures; purposes.
Section 324.41325 ‑ 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.
Section 324.41405 ‑ 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.
Section 324.41409 ‑ Prevention of introduction and spread of AIS through trade; report; recommendations.
Section 324.41411 ‑ Draft next vessel general permit; development of recommendations by council.
Section 324.41412 ‑ Phragmites australis control measures; review and recommendations.
Section 324.41504 ‑ Saginaw bay; control; rules; enforcement; violation of subpart; penalty.
Section 324.41505 ‑ Lake Erie submerged lands in Monroe and Wayne counties; public shooting and hunting ground; fishing privileges.
Section 324.41507 ‑ Lake Erie submerged lands; destruction of submarine vegetation; violation as misdemeanor; penalty.
Section 324.41508 ‑ Great Lakes, Kalamazoo, Grand and Muskegon rivers; submerged and swamp lands; public shooting and hunting grounds; boundaries; excluded lands.
Section 324.41509 ‑ Public shooting and hunting ground; inclusion of subsequently acquired swamp or submerged lands.
Section 324.41510 ‑ Swamp or submerged lands; ratification of certain conveyances; title.
Section 324.41511 ‑ Land subject to fish and game laws; navigation; private and municipal dockage.
Section 324.41512 ‑ Trespassers; officers to protect possession; operation of statute of limitations.
Section 324.41513 ‑ Control by county commissioners; permissible destruction of submarine vegetation.
Section 324.41514 ‑ Destruction of submarine vegetation; consent required; violation as misdemeanor; penalty.
Section 324.41515 ‑ Driving ducks away from hunters; violation as misdemeanor; penalty; navigation.
Section 324.41702 ‑ Game bird hunting preserves; license; fee; duration; Sunday hunting.
Section 324.41704 ‑ Species under game bird hunting preserve license; limitation; propagation, sale, and release of birds; requirements for wild turkeys or wild turkey hybrids.
Section 324.41705 ‑ Licenses; determination by department of percentage of species hunted.
Section 324.41712 ‑ Violation as misdemeanor; penalty; grounds for suspension or revocation of license.
Section 324.41901 ‑ Regulation and prohibitions in certain areas; powers of department; area closures; hearings, investigations, studies, and statement of facts; regulations.
Section 324.41902 ‑ Submission of findings and recommendations; approval or disapproval of prescribed controls; ordinance; certified copy; repeal of ordinance; enforcement; rules.
Section 324.41903 ‑ Closure notice signs; materials, form, placement, maintenance, spacing, publication of notice; rescission of closure.
Section 324.42101 ‑ Special dog training area; permit; application; fee; size; limitation; additional permits.
Section 324.42104 ‑ Area for field dog trials and dog training on state-owned lands; establishment; closing areas; fee; bond; care and maintenance of areas.
Section 324.42105 ‑ Dog training areas; boundary fence or poster; mutilation, injury, or destruction prohibited.
Section 324.42501 ‑ Dealers in furs, hides, plumage, or pelts; licenses; fees; beaver trapping; designation by department of nonsaleable plumage and skin; “plumage” defined.
Section 324.42506 ‑ Money received from sale of licenses; credit to game and fish protection account; use.
Section 324.42702 ‑ Possession of game for propagation and dealing and selling of game; license; denial; zoning requirements; license nontransferable; validity.
Section 324.42706 ‑ 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.
Section 324.42708 ‑ Game covered by license; manner of taking or killing; requirement for wild turkey or wild turkey hybrids.
Section 324.42709 ‑ Removal of game from premises; identification; seals, bands, and tags; removal of certain fertile eggs prohibited.
Section 324.42711 ‑ Released or escaped game as property of state; permission to release game birds required.
Section 324.43101 ‑ Foxes in captivity as domestic animals; protection; construction of part.
Section 324.43102 ‑ Brands or tattoo marks; recording; prima facie evidence of ownership.
Section 324.43103 ‑ Prohibited acts; trespass on premises; killing, trapping, injuring or disturbing fur-bearing animal; consent.
451‑1994‑III‑2‑2 ‑ SUBCHAPTER 2 HUNTING AND FISHING LICENSES (324.43501...324.44106)
Section 324.43509 ‑ Taking aquatic species; taking or possessing wild animal; license.
Section 324.43510 ‑ Carrying or transporting firearm, slingshot, bow and arrow, crossbow or trap; license required; exception; applicability to taking of wild animal.
Section 324.43511 ‑ Deer or elk season; transporting or possessing shotgun or rifle; license required; exception.
Section 324.43513 ‑ Carrying, transporting, or possessing firearm, slingshot, bow and arrow, or crossbow; hunting license not required; carrying or possessing unloaded weapon.
Section 324.43515 ‑ Permit authorizing mentally retarded person or resident of home for aged to fish without license.
Section 324.43516 ‑ Hunting, fur harvester, or fishing license; carrying license; exhibiting license on demand; firearm deer license with unused kill tag; exhibiting tag on request.
Section 324.43517 ‑ Hunting by minor child; order establishing mentored youth hunting program.
Section 324.43520 ‑ 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.
Section 324.43522 ‑ Issuance of sportcard to persons not possessing driver license or other identification; fee.
Section 324.43524 ‑ Wild turkey hunting license; fees; lottery; issuance of license; use of fees; report.
Section 324.43525 ‑ 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.
Section 324.43526 ‑ Firearm deer license; second firearm deer license; fees; orders; kill tag.
Section 324.43527 ‑ 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.
Section 324.43530 ‑ 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.
Section 324.43531 ‑ Fur harvester's license; exception; fees; conditions to issuance of nonresident fur harvester's license; rights of licensee.
Section 324.43532 ‑ Restricted fishing license; fees; rights of licensee; all-species fishing license.
Section 324.43536 ‑ Senior restricted fishing license; fee; senior all-species fishing license.
Section 324.43536a ‑ Obtaining license by member of military; “member of the military” defined.
Section 324.43537 ‑ 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.
Section 324.43540 ‑ License; application and issuance by mail, on-line computer service, or telephone; fees; delinquent payment.
Section 324.43540a ‑ Sportsmen against hunger program; implementation; duties of department; financial donations; contract with nonprofit organization to administrate program; contract requirements; "program" defined.
Section 324.43540c ‑ Sportsmen against hunger program; donation; creation; disposition of money or other assets; money remaining in fund; expenditure; costs; limitation; "fund" defined.
Section 324.43541 ‑ Retaining percentage of fees for sportcard, license, duplicate license, application, or permit; additional charges.
Section 324.43543 ‑ Course of instruction in safe handling of firearms; instructors; registration; certificate of competency.
Section 324.43544 ‑ License, sportcard, or kill tag; loss or destruction; duplicate; certification of loss form; fees.
Section 324.43546 ‑ Senior hunting and fishing licenses; appropriating sum equal to fees not collected; crediting appropriation to game and fish protection account.
Section 324.43547 ‑ Preparation and issuance of sportcards and licenses; information; equipment; conservation law enforcement stamps.
Section 324.43548 ‑ Persons authorized to issue limited fishing licenses without equipment; bond; remittance of money; limitation on fee; fees held in trust.
Section 324.43553 ‑ Disposition of money received from sale of passbooks and licenses; payments; grants; youth hunting and fishing education and outreach fund; annual report.
Section 324.43555 ‑ Wildlife resource protection fund; creation; transmission and deposit of additional fee; money credited; expenditures; voluntary contribution; annual report.
Section 324.43556 ‑ 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.
Section 324.43557 ‑ License application lists, information, and publications; sale; price; disposition of proceeds.
Section 324.43558 ‑ Prohibited conduct; misdemeanor; penalties; carrying firearm under influence of controlled substance or alcohol; effect of prior conviction; violation of subsection (1)(d) as misdemeanor.
Section 324.43559 ‑ Violation; revocation of license; suspension order; compliance; rescission; failure to answer citation or notice to appear; failure to comply with court order or judgment.
451‑1994‑III‑2‑2‑437 ‑ PART 437 MICHIGAN GAME AND FISH PROTECTION TRUST FUND (324.43701...324.43705)
Section 324.43702 ‑ Michigan game and fish protection trust fund; establishment; composition.
Section 324.43703 ‑ Transfer of interest and earnings; manner of maintaining corpus of trust fund; transfer of funds.
Section 324.43704 ‑ Investment of trust fund; report on accounting of revenues and expenditures.
Section 324.43705 ‑ Joint legislative work group; establishment; purpose; composition; membership; appointment; service; vacancy; first meeting; quorum; compensation; assistance and staff support; report.
451‑1994‑III‑2‑2‑439 ‑ PART 439 MICHIGAN NONGAME FISH AND WILDLIFE TRUST FUND (324.43901...324.43907)
Section 324.43902 ‑ Michigan nongame fish and wildlife trust fund; establishment; composition; investment; annual report.
Section 324.43903 ‑ Retention of certain money in trust fund on permanent basis; expenditures.
Section 324.43906 ‑ Determination of projects to be funded; solicitation and approval of proposals.
Section 324.44102 ‑ Lifetime hunting or fishing licenses; fees; privileges, responsibilities, and duties; validity; comprehensive lifetime hunting and fishing license.
Section 324.44103 ‑ 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.
Section 324.44104 ‑ Game and fish lifetime license trust fund; creation; purpose; crediting money received; investment of trust fund.
Section 324.44105 ‑ Maintenance and investment of corpus, interest, and earnings of trust fund; crediting certain amount to game and fish protection account.
Section 324.44502 ‑ 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.
Section 324.44503 ‑ Conditions to advertising or arranging for carrying passenger on charter boat.
Section 324.44504 ‑ Rules establishing minimum safety standards for charter boats; vessel ventilation and rail height.
Section 324.44505 ‑ Public liability insurance; notice of cancellation or expiration.
Section 324.44507 ‑ Inspection of charter boats and equipment; certificate of inspection; number of crew; effect of noncompliance.
Section 324.44508 ‑ Availability of fish in waters utilized by charter boats; catch activity committee; composition; duties; reports; charter boat operator engaged in fishing; duties.
Section 324.44509 ‑ Operation of charter boat in violation of terms of certificate of inspection.
Section 324.44510 ‑ State pilot's license or renewal; examination; reexamination; revocation; issuance; duration.
Section 324.44511 ‑ 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.
Section 324.44513 ‑ Reciprocity; annual operating permit; amount and use of fees; education and enforcement program; printed materials.
Section 324.44515 ‑ Rules requiring equipment and minimum safety standards for livery boats.
Section 324.44516 ‑ 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.
Section 324.44518 ‑ Affixing inspection decal, plate, or tab to motorized livery boat; expiration; fees; information; amount, disposition, and use of fees.
Section 324.44519 ‑ Removing, damaging, or mutilating inspection decal, plate, or tab.
Section 324.44520 ‑ Written rental contract required for certain livery boats; relinquishing physical control; responsibility of individual renting livery boat; display of information.
Section 324.44520a ‑ Nonmotorized livery boat; liability for injury or death to user; notice; definitions.
Section 324.44521 ‑ Presenting rental contract or lease agreement for examination by peace officer; prohibited conduct by person renting, leasing, or operating livery boat.
Section 324.44522 ‑ Rental of personal watercraft; prohibition; certification required; rental agreement; contents; validity; liability; violation of subsection (1) or (2) as misdemeanor; impoundment.
Section 324.44524 ‑ Violation as misdemeanor; penalties; seizure, condemnation, and confiscation of vessel; issuance of appearance ticket.
Section 324.45501 ‑ Frogs; limitation on taking or killing; spearing with aid of artificial light prohibited.
Section 324.45503 ‑ Frogs; permits to take for scientific or experimental purposes; revocation.
Section 324.45705 ‑ Applications and licenses; record; receipts; disposition; "nonresident" defined.
Section 324.45706 ‑ Mussels; number of boats permitted; crowfoot bars; hand rods; prohibited devices; mufflers.
Section 324.45708 ‑ Mussels; closed areas; orders of department; publication; effective date.
Section 324.45709 ‑ Mussels; report to department by license holder; prerequisite to new license.
Section 324.45710 ‑ Taking mussels for culture or scientific investigation; permit required.
Section 324.45906 ‑ Importation of game fish or viable eggs; prohibition or restriction; rules.
Section 324.45908 ‑ Violation of part or rules as misdemeanor; penalty; suspension or revocation of license.
Section 324.46507 ‑ Fishing shanties; Lake St. Clair; removal; conditions; violation.
Section 324.46508 ‑ Ordinance, rule, or regulation of local unit of government; effect.
Section 324.46509 ‑ Violation as misdemeanor; penalty; reimbursement to governmental entity.
Section 324.46901 ‑ Soo Rapids and certain connecting waters of St. Marys river; closed seasons on rainbow trout; excepted waters.
Section 324.47101 ‑ Department; fish-breeding duties; property tax exempt; superintendent of fisheries; duties.
Section 324.47301a ‑ Obstruction or interference in lawful taking of fish; prohibited conduct; injunction; violation as misdemeanor; penalty; applicability of section to peace officer; definitions.
Section 324.47302 ‑ Fishing license; limited number to be issued; qualifications; provisions; expiration date; suspension or revocation; renewal; transfer.
Section 324.47306 ‑ Commercial fishing law; setting of nets or hook lines prohibited; connecting waters.
Section 324.47307 ‑ Setting of nets or hook lines prohibited; channel at mouth of stream or outlet of inland lake; fishing from docks; spearing through ice.
Section 324.47308 ‑ Set hook lines, spears, and gill nets; use permitted; marketing prohibited; unused bait.
Section 324.47310 ‑ 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.
Section 324.47311 ‑ Closed seasons; setting of nets or hooks; disposition of fish taken during closed season; revocation of license; chilling fish.
Section 324.47315 ‑ Taking fish for fish culture; powers of department; sale; disposition of proceeds.
Section 324.47319 ‑ Minimum length and weight requirements; unlawful possession and marketing.
Section 324.47321 ‑ Taking of certain fish by commercial fishing devices prohibited; return to waters.
Section 324.47324 ‑ Power of department to take fish for cultural purposes; price; basis.
Section 324.47326 ‑ Report of fish in possession by commercial fishermen; contents; inspection; prohibited possession.
Section 324.47328 ‑ License to use fishing devices; sport trolling; licensing boats for hire; license not required under certain conditions in lake St. Clair.
Section 324.47329 ‑ Commercial fishing licenses; application; contents; “overall length” defined; fee.
Section 324.47331 ‑ Commercial fishing licenses; form; tag attached to boat; fee; transfer procedure.
Section 324.47332 ‑ Licenses; expiration date; record of applications and licenses; disposition of fees.
Section 324.47333 ‑ Wholesale fish market or house; license; fee; label on containers; record.
Section 324.47335 ‑ Nets and seines; prohibited use in certain waters of Lake Superior.
Section 324.47338 ‑ Setting or using nets near public docks or piers prohibited; exceptions.
Section 324.47349 ‑ Fishing in certain water of upper Lake Huron with fishing devices; prohibition; exceptions; spearing through ice for certain fish; open season.
Section 324.47701 ‑ Fish restoration; cooperation with federal government; funds accruing from license fees; use.
Section 324.47902 ‑ Nonresident fishing license; fee; forfeiture; disposition of money accrued.
Section 324.48303 ‑ Order to provide free passage of fish; compliance; kind and manner.
Section 324.48306 ‑ Construction of passageways for fish by department; expenses; payment; tax assessment.
Section 324.48307 ‑ Passage of fish through and over dams; apparatus obstructing rivers, streams, or creeks prohibited; violation; authority of department.
Section 324.48702 ‑ Fish, reptiles, amphibians, mollusks, and crustaceans as property of state; exception; registration under Michigan aquaculture development act.
Section 324.48702a ‑ Definitions; obstruction or interference in lawful taking of aquatic species; prohibited conduct.
Section 324.48703 ‑ Fishing means or device; lines; hooks; tip-up or similar device; spear, bow and arrow, or crossbow; order to regulate nets.
Section 324.48703a ‑ Taking of fish; regulation by commission; issuance of orders; providing copy of order to legislature.
Section 324.48705 ‑ Reptiles, amphibians, mollusks, and crustaceans; manner and times of taking; fishing license for turtles or frogs; commercial reptile and amphibian license; fee.
Section 324.48710 ‑ Applicability of part to gaff, landing net, person propagating fish, or to fish caught by device; requirements as to landing net.
Section 324.48711 ‑ Possession of fishing devices; prohibition; confiscation; exceptions; evidence; certain controls not affected.
Section 324.48714 ‑ Nonresident as commercial fishing guide; “commercial fishing guide” defined.
Section 324.48718 ‑ Establishment of closed season; spawning beds; notices; use of boat or floating device over spawning bed; opening waters out of season.
Section 324.48723 ‑ Purchase, sale, transportation or possession of certain fish prohibited; exceptions.
Section 324.48724 ‑ “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.
Section 324.48727 ‑ Snagging of fish illegal on and after October 26, 1993; management of fisheries on Pere Marquette river.
Section 324.48731 ‑ Minnow seines; glass or wire traps; hand nets; hook and line; dip nets.
Section 324.48732 ‑ “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.
Section 324.48733 ‑ Cisco, whitefish, suckers and carp season; designation of waters for use of spear and artificial light; purchase or sale; Higgins lake; season.
Section 324.48735 ‑ 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.
Section 324.48736 ‑ Removal of caddis fly larvae or other insect larvae from trout streams; prohibition; exception.
Section 324.48739 ‑ Violation of part as misdemeanor; possession or sale of multipointed hook with weight permanently attached as misdemeanor; penalties.
Section 324.48740 ‑ Additional penalties; forfeitures; probation; default; disposition of forfeitures.
Section 324.49101 ‑ Reciprocal agreements with adjoining states to cover taking of fish.
Section 324.50108 ‑ Forest restoration pilot project; purpose; sources of funding; allocation of funds.
Section 324.50111 ‑ 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.
Section 324.50115 ‑ Mandate for public benefit; standards for conduct of forest practices.
Section 324.50116 ‑ Changes in forest management plan; approval; appeal; determination; service of changes on members; effective date of changes.
Section 324.50118 ‑ Approved reserve fund; establishment; purpose; payments into fund; resolution as to use of money; limitations.
Section 324.50120 ‑ Duties of department generally; applicability of provisions to western Upper Peninsula forest improvement district.
Section 324.50122 ‑ Primary consideration in promulgating rules and disposing of timber and other products; timber volume agreement; forest improvement program.
Section 324.50125 ‑ Creation of district; hearing; notice; determination; defining boundaries of district; actual notice.
Section 324.50127 ‑ 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.
Section 324.50128 ‑ District as governmental subdivision and public body corporate and politic.
Section 324.50130 ‑ 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.
Section 324.50131 ‑ 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.
Section 324.50132 ‑ Nominating petition; filing; signatures; notice; eligibility to vote.
Section 324.50133 ‑ 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.
Section 324.50134 ‑ 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.
Section 324.50141 ‑ Notification of compliance with forest practice rules; forest management plan; forms; contents of notification; notice of change in information; validity of notification.
Section 324.50142 ‑ Violation of district forest practice rule; notice; order; hearing.
Section 324.50143 ‑ 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.
Section 324.50145 ‑ Agreements to share cost of forest practices; schedule of cost share percentages.
Section 324.50146 ‑ 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.
Section 324.50147 ‑ 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.
Section 324.50148 ‑ Cost-share payments, loans, or annual incentive payments; eligibility; conditions; guidelines.
Section 324.50149 ‑ Applications for financial assistance; selection of programs; factors; preferences; criteria for evaluation and approval.
Section 324.50150 ‑ Cost-share payments, loans, or annual incentive payments; federal payments or other assistance; limitation.
Section 324.50151 ‑ Cost-share payments, loans, or annual incentive payments; refund; interest; payments as lien on forest land; filing lien; legal action.
Section 324.50153 ‑ Schedule of fees for services; establishment; uniform severance fee.
Section 324.50154 ‑ Severance and service fees; collection and disposition; responsibility for payment of severance fee; stumpage values and units of measurement; remittance; reports; records.
Section 324.50157 ‑ Resolution authorizing bonds; principal, interest, payment, and security; full faith and credit; trustees.
Section 324.50158 ‑ 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.
Section 324.50160 ‑ Applicability of part and resolution; enforcement of duties; recital in bond as evidence of validity; publication and effective date of resolution.
Section 324.50162 ‑ Adoption of bonds by resolution of majority of board; bonds subject to revised municipal finance act.
Section 324.50163 ‑ Pledge and lien of pledge valid and binding; recordation not required.
Section 324.50165 ‑ Pledge and agreement of state not to impair rights and remedies of bondholders; bonds as negotiable instruments; bonds as securities; investment in bonds.
Section 324.50301 ‑ Duties of departments of agriculture and rural development and natural resources.
Section 324.50503 ‑ Michigan forest finance authority; creation; exercise of powers, duties, and functions; handling of funds.
Section 324.50504 ‑ 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.
Section 324.50505 ‑ 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.
Section 324.50507 ‑ 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.
Section 324.50508 ‑ 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.
Section 324.50510 ‑ 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.
Section 324.50513 ‑ Bonds or notes; authority of board member, executive director, or other officer of authority.
Section 324.50520 ‑ Property and income of authority; exemption from taxes and special assessments; bonds or notes exempt from taxation.
Section 324.50701 ‑ 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.
Section 324.50702 ‑ Use of leased property; purposes; use and disposition of proceeds; implementation of forest management demonstration program.
Section 324.50703 ‑ County forestry committee; creation; appointment, qualifications, and terms of members; approval of committee actions; vacancy.
Section 324.50704 ‑ Instrument conveying leasehold interest; approval by attorney general.
Section 324.51103 ‑ Commercial forest; application for classification; "contiguous" defined; requirements for eligibility; application form; postmark or delivery date; providing certain information and fee to department; brochure; notification; certification that forest management plan prepared and in effect; violation; exemption from disclosure.
Section 324.51104 ‑ Forestland; evaluation; hearing; notice; conduct; approval; record.
Section 324.51105 ‑ 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.
Section 324.51106 ‑ Acreage as commercial forestlands; certifying to state treasurer; payment to county treasurer; distribution of remaining funds; payment in full required.
Section 324.51108 ‑ Withdrawal of forestland as commercial forest; application; fee; penalty; calculation; publication on website; withdrawal not subject to penalty; granting application without payment of fee or penalty; forestland acquired by federally recognized Indian tribe; disposition; distribution; notice to applicant, township supervisor, and register of deeds; filing list of withdrawn lands; definitions.
Section 324.51109 ‑ Determining proportion for disbursement of revenues and attribution of revenues; number of mills levied for local school operating purposes; distribution of revenues; “revenues” defined.
Section 324.51110 ‑ Cutting, harvesting, or removing forest products prohibited; exceptions.
Section 324.51113 ‑ Prohibited use of forestland by owner; exception; denying or inhibiting access for public hunting or fishing; exploration for minerals; removal of commercial mineral deposits, sand and gravel, and oil and gas; exploration for wind energy development.
Section 324.51116 ‑ Removal of designation; declassification; notice; recording; fee.
Section 324.51119 ‑ Representatives of department; right of entry on commercial forestlands; access to books and papers.
Section 324.51201 ‑ 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.
Section 324.51302 ‑ Management and utilization of private forestland and private forest resources; purpose and intent of part.
Section 324.51306 ‑ List of qualified foresters; preparation; maintenance; registration; removal; publication on department's website.
Section 324.51502 ‑ Department of natural resources; authority; appointment of assistants.
Section 324.51507 ‑ Extreme fire hazard conditions; proclamation by governor as to use of fire; prohibited acts.
Section 324.51508 ‑ Emergency assistance; persons subject to call; compensation; refusal; penalty.
Section 324.51509 ‑ Fire suppression expenses; liability; determination; collection of claim; actions.
Section 324.51511 ‑ Department of natural resources officer, employee, or agent; right of entry.
Section 324.51513 ‑ Administration of part; rules; investigations; surveys; construction of part as to other law enforcement agencies and local ordinances and regulations.
Section 324.51514 ‑ Forest fire control; interstate and federal assistance agreements authorized; employee training considered as work within state.
Section 324.51701 ‑ Legislation, rules, or policies creating conditions promoting, fostering, or leading to forest fires.
Section 324.51901 ‑ Forest cutting, slash, and debris; disposal methods, specifications, and elimination; approval by department.
Section 324.51902 ‑ Forest cutting, slash, and debris; public utilities; responsibility for disposal.
Section 324.51903 ‑ Forest cutting, slash, and debris; time for disposal; burning permit required.
Section 324.51904 ‑ Forest cutting, slash, and debris; noncompliance; disposal by department; statement of expenditures; reimbursement; neglect or refusal to pay amount; action; money collected; disposition.
Section 324.52503 ‑ Forestry development, conservation, and recreation management plan.
Section 324.52504 ‑ Harvest and sale of timber; deposit of proceeds into forest development fund; report.
Section 324.52505 ‑ Third-party certification that forestry standards satisfied; report.
Section 324.52703 ‑ Municipal forestry commission; members; appointment; terms; vacancies.
Section 324.52706 ‑ Authority to sell state lands to municipalities for forestry; reversion; relinquishing reversionary interest; re-acquisition; definitions; use of term "this section."
Section 324.52707 ‑ Forestry commissions and department of natural resources; cooperation.
Section 324.52710 ‑ Special forestry fund; creation; payments in lieu of property taxes.
Section 324.52901 ‑ Removal of certain plants; “plant” defined; bill of sale or other evidence of title required.
Section 324.52903 ‑ Sale of plants; bill of sale or other evidence of title required; records of transactions.
Section 324.52905 ‑ Law enforcement officers; inspection; impoundment of plants or equipment; failure to exhibit bill of sale or other evidence of title.
Section 324.52908 ‑ Violation of part; penalties; determination of total value; prior convictions; prohibition; additional penalties.
