§ 125.2301 Short title
§ 125.2302 Definitions
§ 125.2303 Mobile home commission; creation; appointment, qualifications, and terms of members; vacancy; compensation and expenses; quorum; action by commission; meetings; chairperson and vice-chairperson; remov
§ 125.2304 Powers of commission; duties of director; prohibition; exception
§ 125.2305 Mobile home code; promulgation; rules
§ 125.2306 Promulgation of rules by department of environmental quality; representatives of local government to act in advisory capacity; procedures for effective coordination
§ 125.2307 Higher standard proposed by local government; filing; rules; implementation; review; approval; adoption by ordinance; relation of ordinance to specific section of code; standard not subject to filing
§ 125.2308 Exemptions
§ 125.2309 Rules establishing fees and charges for licenses or permits; application of fees and charges; funding for commission; rules to adjust fees; mobile home code fund; creation; administration; disposition
§ 125.2310 Reproducing documents requested as public record
§ 125.2311 Preliminary plan for development of mobile home park or seasonal mobile home park; submission; contents; review; preliminary approval
§ 125.2312 Submission of legal documents and final plans draft; application fee; review; approval; issuance of construction permit
§ 125.2313 Construction permit required
§ 125.2314 Affidavit
§ 125.2316 License to operate mobile home park or seasonal mobile home park required; term; issuance; rules; report; fees; licensure of campground as seasonal mobile home park
§ 125.2316a Occupancy of mobile home in seasonal mobile home park
§ 125.2317 Inspection of mobile home parks and seasonal mobile home parks; report; findings; inspection for purpose other than issuing or renewing license
§ 125.2318 Variances
§ 125.2321 Licensing mobile home dealers, installers, or repairers; initial or renewal license; application; consent to service of process; duration and expiration of license; license fee; license of successor;
§ 125.2322 Mobile home dealer; surety bond; deposit; rules
§ 125.2323 Mobile home dealer; accounts and other records
§ 125.2324 Mobile home dealer; prohibited conduct
§ 125.2325 Installation and setup of mobile home; rules; licensing requirements
§ 125.2327 Mobile home, mobile home site, or equipment; fraudulent practices
§ 125.2328 Owner or operator of mobile home park or seasonal mobile home park; unfair or deceptive practices; action by tenant; violation of water utility tariffs; qualification of owner for regulation as water
§ 125.2328a Rules or regulations governing physical condition and aesthetic characteristics of mobile homes; applicability of subsection (1)(f); expense of moving mobile home to comparable site; termination of te
§ 125.2328b Children and pets; enforcement of rules
§ 125.2328c Action to terminate tenancy; liquidated damages
§ 125.2329 Shutoff of utility service for nonpayment; notice
§ 125.2330 Mobile home subject to certificate of title provisions
§ 125.2330a Certificate of title; application; form; fee; signature; acknowledgment; contents; bond; examination of application; determination; investigation; additional information; rejection of application; dup
§ 125.2330b Certificate of title; issuance; contents; mailing or delivering to owner or other person
§ 125.2330c Transfer or assignment of title or interest; indorsement; mailing or delivering certificate; effective date of transfer; issuance of new certificate; fee; reservation or creation of security interest;
§ 125.2330d Creation of security interest in mobile home; assignment of security interest; assignee named as holder of security interest; perfection of security interest; termination statement; issuance of new ce
§ 125.2330e Termination of owner’s interest by enforcement of security agreement; duty of transferee; duty of holder of security interest; mailing or delivering certificate; application for new certificate; affid
§ 125.2330f Filing surrendered certificate of title; maintaining file for period of 10 years
§ 125.2330g Cancellation of or refusal to issue certificate of title; grounds; notice; hearing
§ 125.2330h Rules
§ 125.2330i Affixation of mobile home to real property; ownership interest
§ 125.2330k Ownership without certificate of title; affidavit of missing title; recording; fees; civil liability
§ 125.2331 Action to rescind transaction and recover damages
§ 125.2332 Certain conditions, stipulations, or provisions voided
§ 125.2333 Statute of limitations; rejection of valid rescission as bar to action
§ 125.2335 Service of process
§ 125.2336 Powers of department, prosecuting attorney, or law enforcement officer; evidence; copies of pleadings; assistance to local government or state agency
§ 125.2337 Administrative proceedings; notice; response; assurance of discontinuance
§ 125.2338 Order to show cause; grounds; notice to show cause; stopping construction after notice and opportunity for hearing
§ 125.2339 Entry and notice of order to show cause; hearing; powers of department for purpose of investigation or proceeding; order of circuit court for information; issuance of subpoenas or orders
§ 125.2340 Effect of appeal
§ 125.2341 Injunction
§ 125.2342 Violation as misdemeanor; penalty
§ 125.2343 Violation of act; penalties; disposition of fine; notice of determination to local government, owner, operator, and surety; failure to perform or commence maintenance or repair; extension; expenses; a
§ 125.2343a Summary suspension of license
§ 125.2344 Remedies not mutually exclusive
§ 125.2345 Other prosecution and enforcement not prohibited
§ 125.2348 Order to correct violation; imminent threat to health or safety; failure of owner or operator to comply with order; enforcement action; motion for preliminary injunction or other temporary relief; ser
§ 125.2348b Imminent danger to health or lives of individuals; order by local health department
§ 125.2349 Legislative intent and declarations
§ 125.2350 Availability of list of powers and duties of state or local governmental entity

Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapter 125 > Act 96 of 1987 - The Mobile Home Commission Act

  • Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
  • Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
  • Affiliate: means a person, other than an individual or governmental entity, to which any of the following apply:
  (i) A credit union directly or indirectly owns or controls a majority of the person's voting shares or other voting ownership interests. See Michigan Laws 490.102
  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • annual meeting: when applied to townships, mean the annual meeting required by law to be held on the Saturday immediately preceding the first Monday in April. See Michigan Laws 8.3d
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
  • Appraisal: A determination of property value.
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Associate board member: means an individual appointed by a credit union board to the position described in section 342(10). See Michigan Laws 490.102
  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • Bank: means a bank that is organized under the laws of this state, any other state, the District of Columbia, or a territory or protectorate of the United States, or a national banking association chartered by the federal government under the national bank act, 12 USC 21 to 216d, and whose deposits are insured by an agency of the federal government. See Michigan Laws 490.102
  • Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
  • Board member: means a member of a board of directors, board of trustees, or similar governing body of an organization. See Michigan Laws 490.102
  • Borrower: means a member who obtains a loan from a credit union. See Michigan Laws 490.102
  • Branch: means , except as otherwise provided in this subdivision, an office or other place of business at which a credit union receives deposits, pays checks, or lends money. See Michigan Laws 490.102
  • Campground: means a campground as defined in section 12501 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 125.2302
  • Code: means all or a part of the mobile home code promulgated under section 5. See Michigan Laws 125.2302
  • Commission: means the manufactured housing commission. See Michigan Laws 125.2302
  • Commissioner: means the director. See Michigan Laws 490.102
  • Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Corporate credit union: means a credit union whose field of membership consists primarily of other credit unions. See Michigan Laws 490.102
  • 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.
  • county drain commissioner: means the elected county drain commissioner or the person or persons designated to perform the duties of the elected county drain commissioner as provided in section 21 and 21a. See Michigan Laws 280.4
  • Credit union: means a domestic or foreign credit union. See Michigan Laws 490.102
  • Credit union board: means a board of directors, board of trustees, or other governing body of a credit union. See Michigan Laws 490.102
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Department: means the department of insurance and financial services. See Michigan Laws 490.102
  • Department: means the department of licensing and regulatory affairs, except as follows:
  •   (i) Department means the department of state in all of the following circumstances:
      (A) As used in section 5(1) with respect to rules promulgated under section 5(1)(h). See Michigan Laws 125.2302
  • Devise: To gift property by will.
  • Director: means the director of the department. See Michigan Laws 490.102
  • Domestic credit union: means a cooperative, nonprofit entity organized under this act for the purposes of encouraging thrift among its members, providing a variety of financial services to its members, and providing an opportunity for its members to use and control their own money on a democratic basis in order to improve their economic and social condition. See Michigan Laws 490.102
  • drain: whenever used in this act , shall include the main stream or trunk and all tributaries or branches of any creek or river, any watercourse or ditch, either open or closed, any covered drain, any sanitary or any combined sanitary and storm sewer or storm sewer or conduit composed of tile, brick, concrete, or other material, any structures or mechanical devices, that will properly purify the flow of such drains, any pumping equipment necessary to assist or relieve the flow of such drains and any levee, dike, barrier, or a combination of any or all of same constructed, or proposed to be constructed, for the purpose of drainage or for the purification of the flow of such drains, but shall not include any dam and flowage rights used in connection therewith which is used for the generation of power by a public utility subject to regulation by the public service commission. See Michigan Laws 280.3
  • Eligibility record date: means a record date that is 1 year or more before the adoption of a plan of conversion by a credit union board and is set forth in a plan of conversion for determining eligible members of a converting credit union. See Michigan Laws 490.102
  • Emergency: means a condition, event, or occurrence that meets both of the following:
  •   (i) It has or may interfere with the conduct of normal business operations, or poses an imminent or existing threat to the safety and security of a person or property, at the principal place of business or 1 or more branches of a credit union. See Michigan Laws 490.102
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
  • Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
  • Federal credit union: means a credit union that is organized under the laws of the United States. See Michigan Laws 490.102
  • Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Field of membership: means that term as established under section 352. See Michigan Laws 490.102
  • Financial institution: means a credit union, bank, savings bank, or savings and loan association. See Michigan Laws 490.102
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • 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
  • Foreign credit union: means a credit union organized under the laws of another state or territory of the United States or a federal credit union. See Michigan Laws 490.102
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Guideline: means that term as defined in section 3 of the administrative procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24. See Michigan Laws 125.2302
  • in writing: shall be construed to include printing, engraving, and lithographing; except that if the written signature of a person is required by law, the signature shall be the proper handwriting of the person or, if the person is unable to write, the person's proper mark, which may be, unless otherwise expressly prohibited by law, a clear and classifiable fingerprint of the person made with ink or another substance. See Michigan Laws 8.3q
  • Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. Source: FDIC
  • Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies.
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • Insolvent: means a credit union that meets either of the following:
  •   (i) It is not able to pay its debts and other obligations, including those related to member shares, as they become due. See Michigan Laws 490.102
  • Installer and repairer: means a person, including a mobile home dealer, that for compensation installs or repairs mobile homes. See Michigan Laws 125.2302
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • Local government: means a county or municipality. See Michigan Laws 125.2302
  • Membership share: means a share of a domestic credit union equal in amount to the par value of the credit union's shares that is credited to an account of a member by the credit union, is required as a condition of membership in the credit union, and is subject to any withdrawal restriction or other standards established by the domestic credit union for membership shares. See Michigan Laws 490.103
  • Mobile home: means a structure that is transportable in 1 or more sections, built on a chassis, and designed to be used as a dwelling, with or without a permanent foundation, when connected to the required utilities, and includes the plumbing, heating, air-conditioning, and electrical systems contained in the structure. See Michigan Laws 125.2302
  • Mobile home dealer: means a person other than a manufacturer engaged in the business of buying mobile homes for resale, exchange, lease, or rent or offering mobile homes for sale, lease, rent, or exchange to customers. See Michigan Laws 125.2302
  • Mobile home park: means a parcel or tract of land under the control of a person upon which 3 or more mobile homes are located on a continual, nonrecreational basis and which is offered to the public for that purpose regardless of whether a charge is made for the parcel or tract of land, together with any building, structure, enclosure, street, equipment, or facility used or intended for use incident to the occupancy of a mobile home. See Michigan Laws 125.2302
  • month: means a calendar month; the word "year" a calendar year; and the word "year" alone shall be equivalent to the words "year of our Lord". See Michigan Laws 8.3j
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Municipality: means a city, village, or township. See Michigan Laws 125.2302
  • Mutual savings bank: means a savings bank that is not authorized by its articles of incorporation to issue capital stock. See Michigan Laws 490.103
  • National Credit Union Administration: The federal regulatory agency that charters and supervises federal credit unions. (NCUA also administers the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund, which insures the deposits of federal credit unions.) Source: OCC
  • Net worth: means the sum of a credit union's undivided earnings and reserves. See Michigan Laws 490.103
  • Nolo contendere: No contest-has the same effect as a plea of guilty, as far as the criminal sentence is concerned, but may not be considered as an admission of guilt for any other purpose.
  • Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
  • oath: shall be construed to include the word "affirmation" in all cases where by law an affirmation may be substituted for an oath; and in like cases the word "sworn" shall be construed to include the word "affirmed". See Michigan Laws 8.3k
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Office of financial and insurance services: means the department. See Michigan Laws 490.103
  • Officer: means the chairperson of the board, the vice-chairperson of the board, the secretary, the treasurer, the general manager, an individual whose title is "president" an assistant treasurer, or an assistant secretary of a credit union, or any other individual who is specifically designated as an officer of a credit union by the credit union board. See Michigan Laws 490.103
  • Official: means a member of a credit union board or an officer, member of a credit committee or supervisory committee, or member of any other committee performing functions similar to a credit committee or supervisory committee, of a credit union. See Michigan Laws 490.103
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • Person: means an individual, partnership, association, trust, or corporation, or any other legal entity or combination of legal entities. See Michigan Laws 125.2302
  • Person: means an individual, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, association, governmental entity, or any other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 490.103
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
  • Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
  • Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
  • Principal place of business: means the place where a domestic credit union keeps its principal records. See Michigan Laws 490.103
  • Probate: Proving a will
  • Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
  • Rescission: The cancellation of budget authority previously provided by Congress. The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 specifies that the President may propose to Congress that funds be rescinded. If both Houses have not approved a rescission proposal (by passing legislation) within 45 days of continuous session, any funds being withheld must be made available for obligation.
  • Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
  • Savings and loan association: means a savings association that is organized under the laws of this state, a savings and loan association, building and loan association, or homestead association that is organized under the laws of any other state, the District of Columbia, or a territory or protectorate of the United States, or a federal savings association organized under the home owners' loan act, 12 USC 1461 to 1470, and whose deposits are insured by an agency of the federal government. See Michigan Laws 490.103
  • Savings bank: means a savings bank that is organized under the laws of this state, any other state, the District of Columbia, a territory or protectorate of the United States, or of the United States, and whose deposits are insured by an agency of the federal government. See Michigan Laws 490.103
  • seal: shall be construed to include any of the following:
  •   (a) The impression of the seal on the paper alone. See Michigan Laws 8.3n
  • Seasonal mobile home park: means a parcel or tract of land under the control of a person upon which 3 or more mobile homes are located on a continual or temporary basis but occupied on a temporary basis only, and which is offered to the public for that purpose regardless of whether a charge is made for the parcel or tract of land, together with any building, enclosure, street, equipment, or facility used or intended for use incident to the occupancy of a mobile home. See Michigan Laws 125.2302
  • Secured party: means that term as defined in section 9102 of the uniform commercial code, 1962 PA 174, MCL 440. See Michigan Laws 125.2302
  • Security interest: means that term as defined in section 1201 of the uniform commercial code, 1962 PA 174, MCL 440. See Michigan Laws 125.2302
  • Senior management employee: means any individual who is designated as a senior policy-making employee of a credit union by the board of the credit union. See Michigan Laws 490.103
  • Service center: means a place of business of a credit union, other than the principal place of business or a branch, where the credit union may transact business authorized by the credit union board. See Michigan Laws 490.103
  • Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • shall not apply: means that the pertinent provision is not operative as to certain persons or things or in conjunction with a particular date or dates. See Michigan Laws 8.4c
  • 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
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Stock savings and loan association: means a savings and loan association that is authorized by its articles of incorporation to issue capital stock. See Michigan Laws 490.103
  • Stock savings bank: means a savings bank that is authorized by its articles of incorporation to issue capital stock. See Michigan Laws 490.103
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
  • Termination statement: means that term as defined in section 9102 of the uniform commercial code, 1962 PA 174, MCL 440. See Michigan Laws 125.2302
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. Source: OCC
  • United States: shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
  • Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.
  • Writ of certiorari: An order issued by the Supreme Court directing the lower court to transmit records for a case for which it will hear on appeal.