Terms Used In Michigan Laws 450.504

  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
   If by reason of the death, absence, or other legal impediment of the officers of any corporation, there is no person duly authorized to call or preside at a legal meeting of the corporation, the district or municipal court of the judicial district or municipality where the corporation is established may, on a written application of 3 or more of the members of the corporation, issue a warrant to 1 of the members, directing him or her to call a meeting of the corporation, by giving notice as shall have been previously required by law; and the judge may, in the same warrant, direct the person to preside at the meeting until a clerk is duly chosen and qualified, if there is no other officer present legally authorized to preside at the meeting.