Michigan Laws 207.505 – Exemptions
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The following instruments and transfers shall be exempt from this act:
(a) Instruments where the value of the consideration is less than $100.00.
Terms Used In Michigan Laws 207.505
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. Source: OCC
- grantee: may be construed as including every person to whom any such interest or estate passes in like manner. See Michigan Laws 8.3e
- Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
- grantor: may be construed as including every person from or by whom any estate in lands passes in or by any deed. See Michigan Laws 8.3e
- Joint tenancy: A form of property ownership in which two or more parties hold an undivided interest in the same property that was conveyed under the same instrument at the same time. A joint tenant can sell his (her) interest but not dispose of it by will. Upon the death of a joint tenant, his (her) undivided interest is distributed among the surviving joint tenants.
- Personal property: All property that is not real property.
- state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories belonging to the United States; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
- United States: shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
- Value: means the current or fair market worth in terms of legal monetary exchange at the time of the transfer. See Michigan Laws 207.501
(b) Instruments evidencing contracts or transfers which are not to be performed wholly within this state insofar as such instruments include land lying outside of this state.
(c) Written instruments which this state is prohibited from taxing under the constitution or statutes of the United States.
(d) Instruments or writings given as security or any assignment or discharge thereof.
(e) Instruments evidencing leases, including oil and gas leases, or transfers of such leasehold interests.
(f) Instruments evidencing any interests which are assessable as personal property.
(g) Instruments evidencing the transfer of rights and interests for underground gas storage purposes.
(h) Instruments (i) in which the grantor is the United States, the state, any political subdivision or municipality thereof, or officer thereof acting in his official capacity; (ii) given in foreclosure or in lieu of foreclosure of a loan made, guaranteed or insured by the United States, the state, any political subdivision or municipality thereof or officer thereof acting in his official capacity; (iii) given to the United States, the state, or 1 of their officers as grantee, pursuant to the terms or guarantee or insurance of a loan guaranteed or insured by the grantee.
(i) Conveyances from a husband or wife or husband and wife creating or disjoining a tenancy by the entireties in the grantors or the grantor and his or her spouse.
(j) Judgments or orders of courts of record making or ordering transfers, except where a specific monetary consideration is specified or ordered by the court therefor.
(k) Instruments used to straighten boundary lines where no monetary consideration is given.
(l) Instruments to confirm titles already vested in grantees, such as quitclaim deeds to correct flaws in titles.
(m) Land contracts whereby the legal title does not pass to the grantee until the total consideration specified in the contract has been paid.
(n) Instruments evidencing the transfer of mineral rights and interests.
(o) Instruments creating a joint tenancy between 2 or more persons where at least 1 of the persons already owned the property.