Title 324, NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

Sec. 20137. (1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3), in addition to other relief authorized by law, the attorney general may, on behalf of the state, commence a civil action seeking 1 or more of the following: (a) Temporary or permanent injunctive relief necessary to protect the p…

Sec. 20138. (1) All unpaid costs and damages for which a person is liable under section 20126 constitute a lien in favor of the state upon a facility that has been the subject of response activity by the state and is owned by that person. A lien under this subsection has priority…

Sec. 20139. (1) The penalties provided in this section only apply to a release that occurs after July 1, 1991. (2) A person who does any of the following is guilty of a felony and shall be fined not less than $2,500.00 or more than $25,000.00 for each violation: (a) Knowingly rel…

Sec. 20140. (1) Except as provided in subsections (2) and (3), the limitation period for filing actions under this part is as follows: (a) For the recovery of response activity costs and natural resources damages pursuant to section 20126a(1)(a), (b), or (c), within 6 years of in…

Sec. 20142. (1) Except as provided in section 20126a(5), a person who has complied with the requirements of this part or is exempt from liability under this part is not subject to a claim in law or equity for performance of response activities under part 17, part 31, or common la…

Sec. 2015. (1) The off-road vehicle account is established as an account within the legacy fund. (2) The off-road vehicle account shall consist of both of the following: (a) All money in the trail improvement fund, formerly created in section 81117, and the safety education fund,…

Sec. 2020. (1) The recreation improvement account is established as an account within the legacy fund. (2) The recreation improvement account shall consist of both of the following: (a) All money in the recreation improvement fund, formerly created in section 71105, immediately p…

Sec. 2025. (1) The snowmobile account is established as an account within the legacy fund. (2) The snowmobile account shall consist of both of the following: (a) All money in the recreational snowmobile trail improvement fund, formerly created in section 82110, and the snowmobile…

Sec. 2030. (1) The state park improvement account is established as an account within the legacy fund. (2) The state park improvement account shall consist of both of the following: (a) All money in the state park improvement fund, formerly created in section 74108, immediately p…

Sec. 20301. As used in this part: (a) "Hazardous material" means a chemical or other material which is or may become injurious to the public health, safety, or welfare, or to the environment. (b) "Remedial action" means an activity to protect the public health, safety, welfare, o…

Sec. 20302. (1) A volunteer who assists in remedial actions associated with a spill of a hazardous material into the waters of the state following a declaration by the governor pursuant to section 3 of the emergency preparedness act, Act No. 390 of the Public Acts of 1976, being …

Sec. 2035. (1) The waterways account is established as an account within the legacy fund. (2) The waterways account shall consist of both of the following: (a) All money in the Michigan state waterways fund, formerly created in section 78110, the Michigan harbor development fund,…

Sec. 2045. (1) The department shall distribute recreation passport fee revenue as follows: (a) First, for necessary expenses incurred by the secretary of state each state fiscal year in administration and implementation of section 805 of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MC…

Sec. 2101. (1) The department may sell tax reverted state lands under its control to school districts, to churches and other religious organizations, to public educational institutions for public purposes, to the United States, and to governmental units of this state and agencies…

Sec. 2102. Notwithstanding section 2101, the department may convey tax reverted land to a public agency described in section 2101 without monetary consideration but subject to a reverter to this state upon termination of the use of the land for which the conveyance was approved b…

Sec. 2102a. If the state sells or transfers land containing a Michigan trailway established under part 721, an off-road vehicle trail established under part 811, or a snowmobile trail established under part 821, the state shall retain an easement for the continued use of the trai…

Sec. 2103. (1) On October 1 of each year, the department shall prepare lists showing the descriptions of lands upon which taxes have been assessed for the current year while the lands were part-paid, but which had been patented by the state, and upon which taxes have not been pai…

Sec. 2104. (1) Any of the lands under the control of the department, the title to which is in this state, and which may be sold and conveyed may be exchanged for lands of equal area or approximately equal value belonging to the United States or owned by private individuals if it …

Sec. 2105. If the department determines that it is in the best interests of the state to relinquish or convey to the United States under the laws of the United States any part or portion of the lands described in section 2104 in exchange for other lands of equal area or approxima…

Sec. 2106. (1) The department shall maintain on its website and make available in writing to persons seeking to purchase land from, sell land to, or exchange land with the department under this part information about relevant requirements and procedures under this part and sectio…

Sec. 2107. If the state acquires lands under this subpart, under former Act No. 193 of the Public Acts of 1911, or pursuant to the laws of the United States providing for an exchange of lands between the United States and the state, the lands acquired by the state shall become a …

Sec. 2108. Any land that is exchanged, relinquished, or otherwise conveyed to the United States under this subpart shall be conveyed pursuant to the property rights acquisition act, Act No. 201 of the Public Acts of 1986, being sections 3.251 to 3.262 of the Michigan Compiled Law…

Sec. 2109. The department shall record, in a suitable book or books kept for that purpose, true copies of all deeds issued by the department for tax homestead lands under the laws of this state providing for the disposal of tax homestead lands, and these copies of deeds issued an…

Sec. 2110. The registers of deeds in the several counties of this state shall receive and record all copies of tax homestead deeds, duly certified to by the department or other officer having the custody of the records, and the record of the certified copy has the same force and …

Sec. 21101. As used in this part: (a) "Department" means the department of natural resources, underground storage tank division. (b) "Fund" means the underground storage tank regulatory enforcement fund created in section 21104. (c) "Local unit of government" means a municipality…

Sec. 21102. (1) A person that is the owner of an underground storage tank system shall register and annually renew the registration on the underground storage tank system with the department. However, the owner or operator of an underground storage tank closed prior to January 1,…

Sec. 21102a. (1) Except as provided in subsection (2), a person shall not install an underground storage tank that meets any of the following conditions: (a) Is within 2,000 feet of an existing type I community or type IIa noncommunity public water well. (b) Is within 800 feet of…

Sec. 21103. (1) The registration required by section 21102(1) and (2) shall be provided either: (a) On a form provided by the department and in compliance with section 9002 of the solid waste disposal act, 42 U.S.C. 6991a. (b) On a form approved by the department and in complianc…

Sec. 21104. (1) The underground storage tank regulatory enforcement fund is created in the state treasury. The fund may receive money as provided in this part and as otherwise provided by law. The state treasurer shall direct the investment of the fund. Interest and earnings of t…

Sec. 21105. The department shall collect and evaluate the information obtained through the registration of underground storage tanks required by section 21102. Not later than September 30, 1987, the department shall provide to the legislature a report containing a compilation of …

Sec. 21106. The department shall promulgate rules relating to underground storage tank systems that are at least as stringent as the rules promulgated by the United States environmental protection agency under subtitle I of title II of Public Law 89-272, 42 U.S.C. 6991 to 6991i. …

Sec. 21107. A person who installs or removes underground storage tank systems shall maintain pollution liability insurance with limits of not less than $1,000,000.00 per occurrence.

Sec. 21108. (1) The department shall enforce this part and the rules promulgated under this part. (2) The department may delegate the authority to enforce this part and the rules promulgated under this part to a local unit of government that has sufficient employees who are certi…

Sec. 21109. (1) The department may, upon resolution of the governing body of a local unit of government in whose jurisdiction an underground storage tank system is being installed, require additional safeguards, other than those specified in rules, when the public health, safety,…

Sec. 2111. The department or other officer having charge of the records described in this subpart shall, upon application from any person, make a certified copy of any tax homestead deed, as provided in this subpart, upon the payment by the applicant of $1.50 for each certified c…

Sec. 21110. (1) A person shall not knowingly deliver a regulated substance into an underground storage tank system that is not registered under this part. (2) A person shall not repair or test an underground storage tank system that is not registered under this part.

Sec. 21111. The following are deferred from regulation under this part until such time as the department determines that they should be regulated: (a) Wastewater treatment tank systems. (b) An underground storage tank system containing radioactive material that is regulated under…

Sec. 21112. (1) A person who violates this part or a rule promulgated under this part or who knowingly submits false information when registering an underground storage tank system under this part is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not more than 6 months or…

Sec. 21113. This part is repealed upon the expiration of 12 months after part 215 becomes invalid pursuant to section 21546(3).

Sec. 2120. (1) The department shall adopt the notes of the surveys on file in the surveyor general's office as the basis upon which they will receive the swamp lands granted to the state by an act of congress of September 28, 1850. (2) Swamp lands described in subsection (1) shal…

Sec. 2120a. (1) This section applies and sections 2120 and 2121 do not apply to the receipt of the following lands by patent or otherwise from the United States or to the conveyance of those lands by the department as provided in this section: Property located in Clarence Townshi…

Sec. 2121. The state treasurer may receive from the United States any money that may have been received, or that may hereafter be received, for any of the swamp lands donated to this state, and the department may take an assignment of all bounty land warrants received for any swa…

Sec. 2123. (1) Subject to sections 2123a and 2124, the department may grant or otherwise provide for an easement for a road over state-owned land under the jurisdiction of the department to an individual if all of the following conditions are met: (a) The individual applies for t…

Sec. 2123a. (1) Subject to section 2124 and notwithstanding section 2123, the department shall grant or otherwise provide for an easement for a road over state-owned land under the jurisdiction of the department to an individual if all of the following conditions are met: (a) The…

Sec. 2124. The department shall not grant an easement over state-owned land under the jurisdiction of the department if any of the following apply: (a) The proposed easement is over land designated as a wilderness area, wild area, or natural area under part 351. (b) The proposed …

Sec. 2125. (1) The department shall not grant an easement over state owned land under the jurisdiction of the department to an individual unless that individual has an interest, as that term is defined in this section, in the land to which the easement is to provide access. (2) A…