capitol dome
Michigan Legislative Website


Michigan Compiled Laws Complete Through PA 29 of 2013

Michigan Legislative Website

Main Content

MCL Index

Show update info: 
NOTE: Dates reflect any modification to item, not necessarily a change in law.

Act 89 of 1986 - MICHIGAN BIDCO ACT (487.1101 - 487.2001)
89‑1986‑1 ‑ ARTICLE 1 SHORT TITLE, PURPOSES, AND DEFINITIONS (487.1101...487.1106)
     Section 487.1101 ‑ Short title.
     Section 487.1102 ‑ Purposes of act.
     Section 487.1103 ‑ Meanings of words and phrases.
     Section 487.1104 ‑ Definitions; A to C.
     Section 487.1105 ‑ Definitions; I to M.
     Section 487.1106 ‑ Definitions; O to T.
89‑1986‑2 ‑ ARTICLE 2 REGULATION, REPORTING, AND EXAMINATION (487.1201...487.1217)
     Section 487.1201 ‑ Administration of act; orders; rules; imposition of conditions; applications for declaratory rulings; judicial review.
     Section 487.1203 ‑ Application; form; information; business plan.
     Section 487.1205 ‑ Investigations; purposes; oaths and affirmations; witnesses; evidence; documents or records; failure to comply with subpoena.
     Section 487.1207 ‑ Service of process.
     Section 487.1209 ‑ Establishment of annual schedule of fees; payment; action for recovery of fees or penalties; failure to submit report; disposition.
     Section 487.1211 ‑ Books, accounts, and other records of licensee; location and preservation; valuation of assets; audit report.
     Section 487.1213 ‑ Making or keeping of books, accounts, or other records by person other than licensee; applicability of act; approval of commissioner.
     Section 487.1215 ‑ Filing reports with commissioner; form; contents.
     Section 487.1216 ‑ Publication and distribution of information on impact of act.
     Section 487.1217 ‑ Examination of licensee or subsidiary of licensee; exhibiting books, accounts, and other records; facilitating examination; retention of person to assist commissioner.
89‑1986‑3 ‑ ARTICLE 3 LICENSING (487.1301...487.1317)
     Section 487.1301 ‑ Licensure; eligibility.
     Section 487.1303 ‑ Review of information; approval of application for license; determinations; net worth; findings; grounds.
     Section 487.1304 ‑ Business development enterprise; designation; application; criteria; notification by board of Michigan strategic fund.
     Section 487.1304a ‑ Reports.
     Section 487.1305 ‑ Application for preliminary approval of application for license; order; conditions to final approval; fee.
     Section 487.1307 ‑ Denial of application; written statement of explanation.
     Section 487.1309 ‑ License; issuance; posting; nontransferable and nonassignable.
     Section 487.1311 ‑ Prohibited representations; permissible acts.
     Section 487.1313 ‑ Misrepresentation of license.
     Section 487.1315 ‑ Michigan corporation or limited liability company licensed under another law.
     Section 487.1317 ‑ Application to commissioner to accept surrender of license; approval; notice to owners and creditors; filing objection; sending copy of objection to commissioner.
89‑1986‑4 ‑ ARTICLE 4 CORPORATE MATTERS (487.1401...487.1407)
     Section 487.1401 ‑ Name of licensee; inclusion of word "BIDCO."
     Section 487.1403 ‑ Board of directors; number of directors; membership; meetings.
     Section 487.1405 ‑ Death, resignation, or removal of director, officer, or manager; election of director; appointment of officer or manager; notice to commissioner; additional information.
     Section 487.1407 ‑ Dividend and distribution policies; buying back share of stock or membership interest.
89‑1986‑5 ‑ ARTICLE 5 TRANSACTION OF BUSINESS (487.1501...487.1513)
     Section 487.1501 ‑ Offices of licensee; number; location; posting sign bearing corporate name; personnel; establishing, relocating, or closing office.
     Section 487.1503 ‑ Business of licensee; powers and privileges of licensee.
     Section 487.1505 ‑ Forms, terms, and conditions of financing assistance; participation in program of small business administration; compliance; scope of management assistance; purpose of financing assistance or management assistance; exercise of incidental powers; extension of credit; interest; violation as felony; penalty; “interest” defined.
     Section 487.1507 ‑ Holding control of business firm; order approving or denying application; “hold control” defined; plan for acquiring and holding control of business firm; demonstrating necessity to hold control of business firm.
     Section 487.1509 ‑ Transacting business in safe and sound manner; considering risks; authority of commissioner not limited.
     Section 487.1511 ‑ Definitions; transactions involving potential conflict of interest; authority of commissioner to determine conflict of interest not limited.
     Section 487.1513 ‑ Lien on or security interest in property of licensee.
89‑1986‑6 ‑ ARTICLE 6 MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS (487.1601...487.1603)
     Section 487.1601 ‑ Acquiring control of licensee; application for approval; determinations by commissioner.
     Section 487.1603 ‑ Merger of licensee with another business firm; conditions; purchase by licensee of business of another person; sale of business; application for approval of merger, purchase, or sale; determinations.
89‑1986‑7 ‑ ARTICLE 7 ENFORCEMENT (487.1701...487.1719)
     Section 487.1701 ‑ Action to enjoin violation or enforce compliance; restraining order, preliminary or permanent injunction, or writ of mandamus; appointment of receiver or conservator; bond.
     Section 487.1703 ‑ Violation of MCL 487.1311; cease and desist order; filing application for hearing on order; rescission of order; judicial review.
     Section 487.1705 ‑ Cease and desist order; affirmative action to correct condition; application for hearing on order; affirming, modifying, or rescinding order; judicial review.
     Section 487.1707 ‑ Order removing subject person from office and prohibiting further participation in business of licensee; notice and hearing; determinations; order suspending subject person from office and prohibiting further participation in business of licensee; application for hearing on order; affirming, modifying, or rescinding order; judicial review; “office” defined.
     Section 487.1709 ‑ Crime involving dishonesty or breach of trust; order suspending subject person from office and prohibiting further participation in business of licensee; application for hearing on order; affirming, modifying, or rescinding order; judicial review; conviction not required; “office” defined.
     Section 487.1711 ‑ Disclosure to owners.
     Section 487.1713 ‑ Calling meeting of board of directors of licensee or of owners of licensee; notice; expenses.
     Section 487.1715 ‑ Order directing licensee to refrain from providing additional financing assistance to business firms; notice and hearing; determinations; request for hearing; affirming, modifying, or rescinding order; resumption of financing assistance; application to modify or rescind order.
     Section 487.1717 ‑ Appointment of conservator for licensee; reimbursement of expenses of conservatorship; powers and duties of conservator; liquidation of licensee; appointment of receiver; determinations; manner of liquidation.
     Section 487.1719 ‑ Violation of act; amount and disposition of civil penalty; applicability of section; provisions cumulative; liability for certain violations.
89‑1986‑8 ‑ ARTICLE 8 CERTAIN UNLAWFUL ACTIVITIES (487.1801...487.1819)
     Section 487.1801 ‑ Definitions.
     Section 487.1803 ‑ Willful untrue statement or omission of material fact in application or report.
     Section 487.1805 ‑ Willful refusal to allow inspection or making copies of books, accounts, and other records.
     Section 487.1807 ‑ Books, accounts, or other records; false entries; omission of required entry; alteration, concealment, or destruction.
     Section 487.1809 ‑ Financing assistance to associate of licensee.
     Section 487.1811 ‑ Financing assistance to discharge obligation to associate of licensee; transactions to which section inapplicable.
     Section 487.1813 ‑ Financing assistance to business firm to which associate of licensee provides financing assistance; applicability of section.
     Section 487.1815 ‑ Compensation of associate of licensee for procuring or influencing licensee's action with respect to providing financing assistance; section inapplicable to fees received for bona fide closing services; criteria.
     Section 487.1817 ‑ Exemptions.
     Section 487.1819 ‑ Violation of article; penalty; applicability of section; power of state to punish not limited by act.
89‑1986‑9 ‑ ARTICLE 9 GENERAL PROVISIONS (487.1901...487.1905)
     Section 487.1901 ‑ Liberal construction.
     Section 487.1903 ‑ Proceedings subject to administrative procedures act; exemptions.
     Section 487.1905 ‑ Applicability of provisions of licensee's incorporating or organizing statute.
89‑1986‑10 ‑ ARTICLE 10 REPEAL (487.2001...487.2001)
     Section 487.2001 ‑ Repeal of MCL 487.851 to 487.867; certain statutory references considered references to BIDCO.