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Michigan Statutes, Title 484

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Title 484, TELEPHONE, TELEGRAPH, AND RADIO

16 chapters · 239 sections in this title.

All chapters in Title 484239 Ch 32-of-1986, EMERGENCY 9-1-1 SERVICE ENABLING ACT62 Ch 179-of-1991, MICHIGAN TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT61 Ch 49-of-2002, MICHIGAN BROADBAND DEVELOPMENT AUTHO…25 Ch 59-of-1851, TELEGRAPH COMPANIES21 Ch 48-of-2002, METROPOLITAN EXTENSION TELECOMMUNICA…20 Ch 480-of-2006, UNIFORM VIDEO SERVICES LOCAL FRANCHI…15 Ch 224-of-2020, BROADBAND EXPANSION ACT OF MICHIGAN11 Ch 129-of-1883, TELEPHONE AND MESSENGER SERVICE COMP…7 Ch 218-of-2010, MILITARY PERSONNEL WIRELESS CONTRACT ACT7 Ch 123-of-1867, TELEGRAPH COMPANIES4 Ch 195-of-1893, TELEGRAPH COMPANIES2 Ch 221-of-1951, ACTIONS AGAINST BROADCASTING STATION…2 Ch E.R.O. No. 2009-35, EXECUTIVE REORGANIZATION ORDER1 Ch 206-of-1913, TELEPHONE COMPANIES AS COMMON CARRIERS1

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Mich. Comp. Laws § 484.2603 Repeal of acts and parts of acts.
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Sec. 603. The following acts and parts of acts are repealed: Year Public Act Section Compiled Law of Act Number Numbers Sections (1979) 1883 72 484.51 1913 206 1 to 3f 484.101 to 484.103f 4 to 11a 484.104 to 484.111a 12 to 14 484.112 to 484.114 19 to 24 484.119 to 484.124 26 484.…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 484.251 Duty to serve; civil liability.
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Sec. 1. That it shall be the duty of all telegraph companies incorporated either within or without this state, doing business within this state to receive dispatches from and for other telegraph companies' lines, and from and for any individual, and on payment of their usual char…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 484.252 Duty to transmit dispatches in order; civil liability.
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Sec. 2. It shall likewise be the duty of every such telegraph company to transmit all such dispatches in the order in which they are received. In case such telegraph company shall refuse or neglect to so transmit such dispatches, such telegraph company shall be liable for all dam…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 484.125 Delivering commercial advertising by recorded message; transfer, assignment, or sale of authorization to contact subscriber; evidence of intention to violate act; action for damages; reporting violations; use of automatic dialing equipment; termination of call; violation as misdemeanor; penalty.

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Sec. 25. (1) As used in this section: (a) "Caller" means an individual, corporation, firm, partnership, association, or legal or commercial entity who attempts to contact or who contacts a subscriber in this state via telephone or by using a telephone line. (b) "Caller identifica…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 484.1901 Short title.

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Sec. 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "military personnel wireless contract act".

Mich. Comp. Laws § 484.1902 Definitions.

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Sec. 2. As used in this act: (a) "Active duty" means active duty pursuant to an executive order of the president of the United States, an act of congress, or an order of the governor. (b) "Armed forces" means that term as defined in section 2 of the veteran right to employment se…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 484.1903 Contract with wireless telecommunications provider; termination; requirements.

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Sec. 3. If a service member is transferred, or deployed overseas, on active duty for a period of 179 days or more, to an area where the service member's existing wireless telecommunications provider does not offer facilities-based wireless service, the service member, or the spou…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 484.1904 Termination of contract; effective date; conditions.

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Sec. 4. A termination of a contract with a wireless telecommunications provider under section 3 is effective on the date all of the following are met: (a) The service member who is transferred, or deployed overseas, on active duty, or the service member's spouse, provides the les…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 484.1905 Charges incurred before termination; early termination charge.

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Sec. 5. (1) If a contract with a wireless telecommunications provider is terminated under this act, the service member remains responsible for any use charges incurred before termination. (2) If a contract with a wireless telecommunications provider is terminated under this act, …

Mich. Comp. Laws § 484.1906 Violation of act; filing of civil action by attorney general; disposition of recovered money.

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Sec. 6. In addition to any other penalty that may be provided by law, the attorney general may file a civil action in which the court may impose on a wireless telecommunications provider that violates this act a civil fine of not more than $2,000.00 for each violation. Money reco…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 484.1907 Act inapplicable to prepaid wireless telecommunications services.

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Sec. 7. This act does not apply to prepaid wireless telecommunications services.

Mich. Comp. Laws § 484.331 Actions for damages against owners, operators or licensees of radio broadcasting stations for defamatory statements.

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Sec. 1. The owner, licensee or operator of a visual or sound radio broadcasting station or network of stations, and the agents or employees of any such owner, licensee or operator, shall not be liable for any damages for any defamatory statement published or uttered in or as a pa…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 484.332 Defamatory statement by or on behalf of candidate for public office; liability.

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Sec. 2. The owner, licensee or operator, or the agents or employees of any such owner, licensee or operator of such a station or network of stations, shall not be liable for any damages for any defamatory statement uttered over the facilities of such station or network by or on b…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 484.3251 Short title.

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Sec. 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "broadband expansion act of Michigan".

Mich. Comp. Laws § 484.3252 Definitions.

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Sec. 2. As used in this act: (a) "Applicant" means an internet service provider that submits an application for a grant after collaborating with the community in the unserved area. (b) "Broadband service" means a retail service, not including a satellite service, capable of deliv…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 484.3253 Statewide broadband service grant program; appropriation.

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Sec. 3. Within 60 days after receiving an appropriation or federal funding to implement this act, the department shall establish and implement a statewide broadband service grant program called the broadband expansion act of Michigan grant program. Money for the program must be p…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 484.3254 Awarding of grants for unserved areas; certain conditions prohibited; limitations.

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Sec. 4. (1) The department shall only use money from the grant program to award grants to applicants for projects that exclusively extend broadband service into unserved areas in this state and for the department's costs to administer the program. (2) The department shall not, di…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 484.3255 Competitive grant process; criteria; priorities.

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Sec. 5. (1) An award of funds must be issued by a competitive grant process. The grant process must be technology neutral, and result in awards to applicants proposing projects based on objective and efficient procedures. The criteria for determining the award of funds must inclu…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 484.3256 Competitive scoring criteria; establish and publish on website.

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Sec. 6. Within 30 days after receiving an appropriation or federal funding to implement this act, the department shall establish and publish on the department's website the criteria for competitively scoring applications. Within 60 days after the department publishes the criteria…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 484.3257 Application requirement; priorities in making grant award recommendations; publication of grant recommendations; conditions of denial.

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Sec. 7. (1) An applicant for a grant under this act shall provide the following information on the application: (a) The location of the project in the unserved area described by either the specific street addresses to be served or a shapefile as that term is defined in 47 USC 641…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 484.3258 Request to delineate an area as unserved; requirements; subject to challenge by internet service providers.

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Sec. 8. (1) As part of an application under this act, an applicant may request that the department specifically delineate an area within a census block as being an unserved area. To tentatively establish an unserved area within a census block, an applicant must attest to all of t…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 484.3259 Notice of grant award recipients.

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Sec. 9. At the time a grant is awarded to an applicant, the department shall immediately provide notice on its website of each application receiving a grant, including the name of the entity, the amount of money being received, the broadband speed, and the unserved area for which…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 484.3260 Semiannual report.

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Sec. 10. The department shall require an applicant awarded a grant to submit a semiannual report from the time the applicant receives the grant to 3 years after completion of the project. The semiannual reports must be made available on the department's website with any proprieta…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 484.3261 Falsification of statement; ineligible for grant.

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Sec. 11. A person that files a false statement under this act is ineligible to receive a grant under this act the next time grants are issued after filing that false statement.

Mich. Comp. Laws § 484.3301 Short title; definitions.

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Sec. 1. (1) This act shall be known and may be cited as the "uniform video services local franchise act". (2) As used in this act: (a) "Cable operator" means that term as defined in 47 USC 522(5). (b) "Cable service" means that term as defined in 47 USC 522(6). (c) "Cable system"…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 484.3302 Uniform video service local franchise agreement; form; provisions.

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Sec. 2. (1) No later than 30 days from the effective date of this act, the commission shall issue an order establishing the standardized form for the uniform video service local franchise agreement to be used by each franchising entity in this state. (2) Except as otherwise provi…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 484.3303 Franchise agreement with local unit of government; notice of completion; approval; transferability; termination or modification; notice of change in information; duration of franchise; renewal; certain conditions prohibited.

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Sec. 3. (1) Before offering video services within the boundaries of a local unit of government the video provider shall enter into or possess a franchise agreement with the local unit of government as required by this act. (2) A franchising entity shall notify the provider as to …

Mich. Comp. Laws § 484.3304 Public, education, and government access channels; availability; manner of retransmission; interconnection; editorial control; liability; access to signals of local broadcast television station; prohibited conduct by provider; use of reception technology; use for noncommercial purposes; applicability of subsections (7) to (11); request specifying number of channels in actual use.

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Sec. 4. (1) A video service provider shall designate a sufficient amount of capacity on its network to provide for the same number of public, education, and government access channels that are in actual use on the incumbent video provider system on the effective date of this act …

Mich. Comp. Laws § 484.3305 Renewal or extension of existing franchise agreement; unreasonable and unenforceable provisions; burdensome terms, conditions, or requirements.

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Sec. 5. (1) As of the effective date of this act, no existing franchise agreement with a franchising entity shall be renewed or extended upon the expiration date of the agreement. (2) The incumbent video provider, at its option, may continue to provide video services to the franc…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 484.3306 Video service provider fee; payment; "gross revenues" defined; calculation; additional fee; credits; assessment; inapplicability of subsection after December 31, 2009.

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Sec. 6. (1) A video service provider shall calculate and pay an annual video service provider fee to the franchising entity. The fee shall be 1 of the following: (a) If there is an existing franchise agreement, an amount equal to the percentage of gross revenues paid to the franc…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 484.3307 Audits; claims for unpaid fees or refunds; identification and collection as separate line item.

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Sec. 7. (1) No more than every 24 months, a franchising entity may perform reasonable audits of the video service provider's calculation of the fees paid under section 6 to the franchising entity during the preceding 24-month period only. All records reasonably necessary for the …

Mich. Comp. Laws § 484.3308 Installation, construction, and maintenance of video service or communications network within public right-of-way; access; fee; limitation.

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Sec. 8. (1) A franchising entity shall allow a video service provider to install, construct, and maintain a video service or communications network within a public right-of-way and shall provide the provider with open, comparable, nondiscriminatory, and competitively neutral acce…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 484.3309 Denial of service access due to race or income; defense to violation of subsection (1); video service requirements; number of households; report on compliance with subsections (2) and (3); use of alternative technology; waiver or time extension; service outside provider's existing telephone exchange boundaries not required; mandatory build-out or deployment provisions, schedules, or requirements.

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Sec. 9. (1) A video service provider shall not deny access to service to any group of potential residential subscribers because of the race or income of the residents in the local area in which the group resides. (2) It is a defense to an alleged violation of subsection (1) if th…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 484.3310 Prohibited conduct; establishment of dispute resolution process; notice to customers; filing of complaint; manner of dispute resolution.

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Sec. 10. (1) A video service provider shall not do in connection with the providing of video services to its subscribers and the commission may enforce compliance with any of the following to the extent that the activities are not covered by section 2(3)(l): (a) Make a statement …

Mich. Comp. Laws § 484.3311 Confidentiality.

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Sec. 11. (1) Except under the terms of a mandatory protective order, trade secrets and commercial or financial information submitted under this act to the franchising entity or commission are exempt from the freedom of information act, 1976 PA 442, MCL 15.231 to 15.246. (2) If in…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 484.3312 Administration of act; limitations; report.

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Sec. 12. (1) The commission's authority to administer this act is limited to the powers and duties explicitly provided for under this act, and the commission shall not have the authority to regulate or control a provider under this act as a public utility. (2) The commission shal…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 484.3313 Voluntary franchise agreement.

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Sec. 13. This act does not prohibit a local unit of government and a video service provider from entering into a voluntary franchise agreement that includes terms and conditions different than those required under this act, including, but not limited to, a reduction in the franch…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 484.3314 Violation; remedies and penalties; costs; appeal and review.

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Sec. 14. (1) After notice and hearing, if the commission finds that a person has violated this act, the commission shall order remedies and penalties to protect and make whole persons who have suffered damages as a result of the violation, including, but not limited to, 1 or more…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 484.3315 Costs to commission in exercising duties; assessment of amount against each video service provider; limitation; deduction; credit of payments to special account; applicability of section.

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Sec. 15. (1) Effective January 1, 2010, the commission within 30 days after the enactment into law of any appropriation to it shall ascertain the amount of the appropriation attributable to the actual costs to the commission in exercising its duties under this act and that amount…