Title 600, REVISED JUDICATURE ACT OF 1961

Sec. 8231. (1) The court administrator, under the supervision and direction of the supreme court, shall call an annual statewide meeting of the judges of the district court and such additional statewide and regional meetings of such judges as the supreme court directs, for the pu…

Sec. 8251. (1) In districts of the first class, the court shall sit at each county seat. In districts of the first class consisting of 1 county having a population of 130,000 or more, the court shall also sit at each city having a population of 6,500 or more, except the court is …

Sec. 826. (1) A probate judge who is elected or appointed for a county in which the salary of that office is or would have been increased by sections 2a, 3, or 4 of chapter 1 of Act No. 288 of the Public Acts of 1939, as those sections were amended by Act No. 147 of the Public Ac…

Sec. 8261. Court facilities shall be provided at those places where the court sits. In districts of the first and second class they shall be provided by the county and in districts of the third class they shall be provided by each political subdivision where the court sits.

Sec. 8262. Facilities for magistrates shall be provided by the district control unit.

Sec. 8263. Rental of court or magistrate facilities constitutes the providing of such facilities and those units of government responsible for providing same may contract with the state, its political subdivisions, corporations or persons for the rental thereof.

Sec. 8271. (1) The governing body of each district funding unit shall annually appropriate, by line-item or lump-sum budget, funds for the operation of the district court in that district. However, before a governing body of a district funding unit may appropriate a lump-sum budg…

Sec. 8273. Effective October 1, 1996, each employee of the former state judicial council serving in the district court in the thirty-sixth district shall become an employee of the Detroit judicial council if that council is created pursuant to section 8274 or, if that council is …

Sec. 8274. (1) The city council of the city of Detroit, by resolution, may create the Detroit judicial council. The council shall be created not later than September 30, 1996, and, if created, shall begin exercising its powers and duties effective October 1, 1996. (2) The Detroit…

Sec. 8275. An employee of the state judicial council serving in the district court in the thirty-sixth district who becomes an employee of the Detroit judicial council or the city of Detroit serving in the district court in the thirty-sixth district on October 1, 1996, shall rema…

Sec. 828. In a probate court district a probate judge who holds court in a county other than the county of his residence shall be reimbursed for his actual and necessary expenses incurred in so holding court upon his certification of the expenses to the state court administrator …

Sec. 8281. (1) In each county within a district of the first class, in each district of the second class, and in each political subdivision where the court sits within a district of the third class, the district judge or judges of the district shall appoint a clerk of the court. …

Sec. 8283. In the thirty-sixth district, the district control unit shall be responsible for maintaining court security. Persons providing security services shall be assigned subject to the approval of the chief judge of the thirty-sixth district and, when performing services in t…

Sec. 829. (1) When a probate judge of another county or probate court district is performing duties under sections 824 or 825, he or she shall receive an additional salary and reimbursement for expenses as provided in section 225(6). (2) The county treasurer shall pay the compens…

Sec. 8301. (1) The district court has exclusive jurisdiction in civil actions when the amount in controversy does not exceed $25,000.00. (2) The district court has jurisdiction over civil infraction actions.

Sec. 8302. (1) In addition to the civil jurisdiction provided in sections 5704 and 8301, the district court has equitable jurisdiction and authority concurrent with that of the circuit court in the matters and to the extent provided by this section. (2) In cases brought under cha…

Sec. 8303. The district court shall have equitable jurisdiction over forfeiture proceedings brought under chapter 47. The district court may hear and determine a forfeiture action or a motion relating to a forfeiture action, and may issue and enforce any order or judgment relatin…

Sec. 8304. In a district court district in which the district court is affected by a plan of concurrent jurisdiction adopted under chapter 4, the district court has concurrent jurisdiction with the circuit court or the probate court, or both, as provided in the plan of concurrent…

Sec. 8306. (1) Subject to the limitations of jurisdictional amount and venue otherwise applicable in the particular court, the district court and municipal courts shall have the same power with respect to attachment and garnishment as the circuit court. (2) The conditions upon wh…

Sec. 8307. A garnishee defendant shall not use the fact that the principal defendant has had 1 or more actions brought against him under the provisions of section 8306 or chapter 40 as a cause of discipline or discharge of the principal defendant from employment. A garnishee defe…

Sec. 8308. (1) Subject to the limitations of jurisdictional amount and venue otherwise applicable in the particular court, the district court, municipal court, and a common pleas court shall have the same power as the circuit court with respect to civil actions to recover the pos…

Sec. 831. (1) The probate judges of a county having 2 or more probate judges shall have equal powers, duties, and compensation except that the power of nomination, appointment, and removal of the several employees as provided by law for the probate court in that county, and of th…

Sec. 8311. The district court has jurisdiction of all of the following: (a) Misdemeanors punishable by a fine or imprisonment not exceeding 1 year, or both. (b) Ordinance and charter violations punishable by a fine or imprisonment, or both. (c) Arraignments, the fixing of bail an…

Sec. 8312. (1) In a district of the first class, venue in criminal actions for violations of state law and all city, village, or township ordinances shall be in the county where the violation took place. (2) In a district of the second class, venue in criminal actions for violati…

Sec. 8313. (1) A violation of state criminal law shall be prosecuted in the district court by the prosecuting attorney. A violation of an ordinance of a political subdivision that is a misdemeanor or that is not designated as a civil infraction shall be prosecuted in the district…

Sec. 8314. In each district of the district court, the judge or judges of the district may establish a probation department within a district control unit. The necessary and reasonable expense of a probation department shall be borne by the district control unit.

Sec. 8315. The district court shall not have jurisdiction in actions for injunctions, divorce or actions which are historically equitable in nature, except as otherwise provided by law. However, the district court has jurisdiction and power to make any order proper to fully effec…

Sec. 8316. (1) District judges and magistrates may perform marriages and shall charge a fee of $10.00 that shall be deposited in the treasury of the district control unit at the end of each month. A fee paid under this section shall be remitted to the district court in which the …

Sec. 8317. The district court has the same power to issue warrants; subpoena witnesses; and require the production of books, papers, records, documents, and other evidence; and to punish for contempt as the circuit court now has or may hereafter have. The district court and the s…

Sec. 8318. Pleadings and procedures in the district court shall be governed by rules established by the supreme court and the district court under supervision of the supreme court, except as otherwise provided by law.

Sec. 8319. Except as to an action commenced in the small claims division, the existence of any basis of jurisdiction provided for in chapter 7 shall enable the district court to exercise the jurisdiction provided therein.

Sec. 832. The clerk of the probate court shall have possession of the seal, records, books, files, and papers belonging to the probate court in the respective county or probate court district and, in accordance with supreme court rules, shall maintain every record created by or f…

Sec. 8320. (1) As used in this section: (a) "Multiple district area" means an area composed of either of the following: (i) Two or more districts of the district court within a county participating or proposing to participate in a multiple district plan. (ii) Two adjoining distri…

Sec. 8321. (1) Civil process in the district court shall be served by a sheriff, deputy sheriff or a court officer appointed by the judges of the court for that purpose, except that officers of the department of state police or conservation officers of the department of natural r…

Sec. 8322. (1) An individual serving as a bailiff of the common pleas court of Detroit on August 31, 1981, under an appointment under section 23 of former 1929 PA 260, shall become a bailiff of the district court in the thirty-sixth district on September 1, 1981. A bailiff is con…

Sec. 8323. Witnesses in the district court shall be entitled to receive the same fees and mileage allowances to which witnesses in circuit court are entitled. Where the county is responsible for such expenses in the circuit court, the district control unit for the place where the…

Sec. 8326. The schedule of fees and the rate for mileage provided in section 2559 shall be the fees and the rate of mileage for process served out of the district court.

Sec. 833. (1) In each county the probate judge of the county or probate court district, or the chief probate judge in a county having 2 or more probate judges, may appoint a probate register, at a reasonable salary fixed by the county board of commissioners. The probate register …

Sec. 8331. All proceedings in the district court, except as otherwise provided by law or supreme court rule, shall be recorded.

Sec. 834. (1) Except as provided in subsection (2), a probate register or deputy probate register is competent to exercise any of the following powers in an uncontested matter or hearing if authorized by general order of the probate judge or chief probate judge of the county in w…

Sec. 8341. Appeals from the district court shall be on a written transcript of the record made in the district court or on a record settled and agreed to by the parties and approved by the court.

Sec. 8342. (1) Appeals from the district court shall be to the circuit court in the county in which the judgment is rendered. (2) Except as provided in subsections (4) and (5), all appeals from final judgments shall be as of right and all other appeals shall be by application. (3…

Sec. 8343. All orders and judgments entered prior to January 1, 1969 by courts abolished under section 9921 shall be appealable in like manner and to the same courts as applicable prior to January 1, 1969.

Sec. 8344. The validity and enforceability of a judgment are not affected by the destruction of the piece of paper upon which the judgment is entered, but the register of actions itself, or a certified reproduction of the register of actions under the records reproduction act, 19…

Sec. 8345. All causes of action transferred to the district court by the provisions of this act from any court abolished by the provisions of this act shall be as valid and subsisting as they were in the court from which they were transferred.

Sec. 835. (1) The probate judge or chief probate judge of any county or probate court district may appoint, and in counties having a population of 50,000 or more shall appoint, 1 or more official court reporters or certified recorders of the probate court, at a reasonable salary …