Title 324, NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

Sec. 44513. (1) The department may enter into reciprocal agreements with other states and countries concerning the operation and inspection of charter boats from those states and countries that operate on the waters of this state. Reciprocity shall be granted only if a state or c…

Sec. 44515. The department shall promulgate rules requiring equipment and minimum safety standards for livery boats that are rented or leased to the public by boat liveries. The rules shall be for the purpose of ensuring the safety of those persons utilizing the facilities of boa…

Sec. 44516. (1) A boat livery shall not rent a motorized livery boat unless the livery boat has a current annual inspection decal, plate, or tab as provided under section 44518. (2) Regardless of whether the livery boats are motorized or nonmotorized, a person shall not operate a…

Sec. 44518. (1) The sheriff of the county where a boat livery is located or a deputy sheriff shall affix or cause to be affixed an inspection decal, plate, or tab to each motorized livery boat that passes the inspection under section 44516. (2) An inspection decal, plate, or tab …

Sec. 44519. A boat livery owner, the designated representative of the boat livery owner, or any other person, except an inspecting officer, shall not remove, damage, or mutilate a valid inspection decal, plate, or tab affixed to a livery boat except that when a livery boat is sol…

Sec. 44520. (1) The owner of a boat livery shall not rent a livery boat more than 20 feet in length to be used on navigable water except pursuant to a written rental contract between the boat livery owner and the renter. (2) A boat livery owner or agent of the owner shall not rel…

Sec. 44520a. (1) An owner of a nonmotorized livery boat is not liable for an injury to or the death of a user of the nonmotorized livery boat resulting from a risk inherent in the use or operation of a nonmotorized livery boat. (2) An owner of a nonmotorized livery boat shall dis…

Sec. 44521. (1) Any person renting, leasing, or operating a livery boat on navigable waters that is more than 20 feet in length shall present for examination, upon demand of any peace officer, a copy of the rental contract or lease agreement. (2) A person renting, leasing, or ope…

Sec. 44522. (1) A boat livery shall not rent a personal watercraft to any of the following: (a) A person who is under 14 years of age. (b) A person who does not display to the boat livery owner or the owner's agent, if it is required under part 802, a boating safety certificate t…

Sec. 44522a. In addition to inspections conducted for purposes of section 44516 or under section 80166, a peace officer may inspect any livery boat at a boat livery. The peace officer shall give the owner of the boat livery at least 72 hours' advance notice of an inspection under…

Sec. 44523. (1) A boat livery owner denied a permit to operate a boat livery by an inspecting officer designated by the department may petition the department for an evidentiary hearing pursuant to the administrative procedures act of 1969, Act No. 306 of the Public Acts of 1969,…

Sec. 44524. (1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, a person who violates this part or a rule promulgated under this part is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not more than 1 year or a fine of not more than $1,000.00, or both. (2) A person who fails…

Sec. 44525. (1) Except for the reporting requirements of section 44508, this part does not apply to a vessel that is required to be inspected by federal law or regulations for the purposes of carrying passengers for hire and that carries a valid and current certificate of inspect…

Sec. 44526. Except as otherwise provided in section 44504, rules promulgated pursuant to former Act No. 244 of the Public Acts of 1986 or an act repealed by that former public act remain in effect until replaced by rules promulgated pursuant to former Act No. 244 of the Public Ac…

Sec. 4501. The term "municipality" or "municipalities" as used in this part means and includes a county, city, village, township, school district, metropolitan district, port district, drainage district, authority, or other governmental authority, agency, or department within or …

Sec. 4502. The legislature hereby determines all of the following: (a) That it is essential for the public health, safety, and welfare of the state and the residents of the state to undertake a complete program of construction of facilities to abate and prevent pollution of the w…

Sec. 4503. The state shall borrow the sum of $335,000,000.00 and issue the general obligation bonds of the state, pledging the faith and credit of the state for the payment of the principal and interest on the bonds, for the purpose of providing money for the planning, acquisitio…

Sec. 4504. (1) The bonds shall be issued in 1 or more series, each series to be in the principal amount, to be dated, to have the maturities that may be either serial, term, or term and serial, to bear interest at a rate or rates not to exceed 6% per annum if issued before Septem…

Sec. 4505. The proceeds of sale of the bonds or any series of the bonds and any premium and accrued interest received on the delivery of the bonds shall be deposited in the treasury in a separate account and shall be disbursed from the separate account only for the purposes for w…

Sec. 4506. Bonds issued under this part are fully negotiable under the uniform commercial code, Act No. 174 of the Public Acts of 1962, being sections 440.1101 to 440.11102 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, and the bonds and the interest on the bonds are exempt from all taxation by …

Sec. 4507. Bonds issued under former Act No. 76 of the Public Acts of 1968 or this part are securities in which all banks, bankers, savings banks, trust companies, savings and loan associations, investment companies, and other persons carrying on a banking business; all insurance…

Sec. 4508. The question of borrowing the sum of $335,000,000.00 and issuing bonds of the state for the purpose set forth in this part shall be submitted to a vote of the electors of the state qualified to vote on the question in accordance with section 15 of article IX of the sta…

Sec. 4509. The secretary of state shall take such steps and perform all acts as are necessary to properly submit the question to the electors of the state qualified to vote on the question at the general November election to be held on November 5, 1968.

Sec. 4510. After the issuance of the bonds authorized by former Act No. 76 of the Public Acts of 1968 or this part, or any series of the bonds, the legislature shall each year make appropriations fully sufficient to pay promptly when due the principal of and interest on all outst…

Sec. 45101. A person shall not take any fish from any of the inland lakes of this state, within which fish are planted at the expense of the people of this state, if the public is excluded from taking fish from those waters. However, this part does not apply to any small inland l…

Sec. 45102. A person who violates this part is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment for not more than 30 days, or a fine of not less than $10.00 or more than $100.00, or both.

Sec. 4511. Bonds shall not be issued under this part unless the question set forth in section 4508 is approved by a majority vote of the qualified electors voting on the question at the general November election to be held on November 5, 1968.

Sec. 45301. In any of the navigable or meandered waters of this state where fish have been or are propagated, planted, or spread at the expense of the people of this state or the United States, the people have the right to catch fish with hook and line during the seasons and in t…

Sec. 45302. An action shall not be maintained against a person entering upon the waters for the purpose of fishing, by the owner, lessee, or other person having the right of possession of adjoining lands, except for actual damage done. In such an action, the defendant under a pro…

Sec. 45701. As used in this part: (a) "Mussel" means the pearly freshwater mussel, clam, or naiad, and the shells of the pearly freshwater mussel, clam, or naiad. (b) "Crowfoot bar" means a bar of any material bearing a series of hooks designed to catch or adapted for catching mu…

Sec. 45702. A person shall not take, catch, or kill mussels by means of any kind of apparatus or in any manner in any of the inland waters of this state without first registering with the department and obtaining a license issued for this purpose in accordance with this part.

Sec. 45703. A person shall not take, catch, or kill mussels in any of the inland waters of this state without applying to the department on a form provided for that purpose by the department. The application shall be accompanied by a fee of $3.00, if the applicant is a resident o…

Sec. 45704. The department shall upon receipt of an application and the proper fee issue a license to take, catch, or kill mussels. All licenses shall begin July 1 and expire on September 30, following issuance. Licenses shall be consecutively numbered as issued, and a record of …

Sec. 45705. The department shall keep a record of all applications and licenses issued and on the first day of each month shall pay to the state treasurer all money received for the sale of licenses issued under this part, and the money shall be credited to the game and fish prot…

Sec. 45706. Any person to whom a license has been issued under this part may operate not more than 1 boat, with or without a motor, in taking, catching, or killing mussels. The person may use 1 additional boat, with or without a motor, for the purpose of towing only when an appar…

Sec. 45707. A person shall not take, catch, kill, offer for sale, or possess, in a quantity of more than 1% by weight, mussels of the varieties known either as mucket or pocketbook species of a size less than 3 inches at the greatest dimension. Undersized mussels shall be immedia…

Sec. 45708. The department may, for the conservation of the mussel resources of the state, prescribe areas in any part of the state from which mussels shall not be taken for a period specified by the department. A person shall not take, catch, or kill mussels in closed waters. Al…

Sec. 45709. On or before December 31 of the year in which any license was issued, the holder of the license shall make a written report to the department, on a form furnished by the department, under oath if requested to do so, stating the total weight of mussel shells taken, cau…

Sec. 45710. A person shall not take from any of the inland waters of this state any kind of mussels in any manner for the purpose of culture or scientific investigation without first obtaining a permit from the department.

Sec. 45711. A person who violates this part is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not less than $10.00 or more than $100.00 and costs of prosecution, and in default of the payment of the fine, by imprisonment for not more than 90 days, or both.

Sec. 45901. As used in this part: (a) "Game fish" includes all species of fish in the families of salmonidae (trout and salmon), thymallidae (grayling), esocidae (northern pike and muskellunge), serranidae (white bass and striped bass), centrarchidae (bass, bluegill, and crappie)…

Sec. 45902. (1) A person shall not propagate, rear, or have in possession for the purpose of offering for sale or selling any kind of game fish except as authorized by a license issued by the department pursuant to part 13. A license is nontransferable and expires on December 31 …

Sec. 45903. Any person owning or having control of private waters in this state who desires a license under this part shall make application for the license to the department, accompanied by a fee of $5.00. The application shall state the name and address of the applicant and inc…

Sec. 45904. A person shall not propagate, rear, or possess, for the purpose of offering for sale or selling, any game fish, except at the location described in his or her license. The license shall be conspicuously posted at the person's place of business at all times.

Sec. 45905. The department may promulgate and enforce rules as may be necessary to carry out the intent of this part and to protect the public interest.

Sec. 45906. (1) A person shall not import into this state any live game fish, including viable eggs of any game fish, except as authorized by a license as provided for in this part issued by the department pursuant to part 13. A license under this subsection does not apply to a g…