Michigan Statutes

300-1949-II - CHAPTER II ADMINISTRATION, REGISTRATION, CERTIFICATE OF TITLE AND ANTI-THEFT (257.201...257.259)

Section 257.201 - Reference to “division”.
Section 257.202 - Secretary of state as exclusive state agent.
Section 257.203 - Appointment of employees.
Section 257.203a - Meaning of “commissioner” in MCL 257.301 to 257.327; effect of MCL 257.201 to 257.203a.
Section 257.204 - Administration and enforcement of act; establishment of highway patrol prohibited; rules; official seal.
Section 257.204a - Central file of individual driving records; certified copies as evidence; electronic certification; use of computer-generated certified information; persons who may receive informat
Section 257.204b - Conviction of attempted violation; effect.
Section 257.205 - Secretary of state; office and branch offices; establishment; employees; bond; liability for loss of money; person appointed to conduct branch office; compensation and expenses.
Section 257.206 - Forms.
Section 257.207 - Administering oaths and acknowledging signatures without fee; certified copy of record; fee; evidence; electronic certification; use of computer-generated certified information.
Section 257.207a - Electronic driver license status check; request by approved agency; maintenance of written permission by organization; compliance with safeguards; fee.
Section 257.208 - Destruction of certain records; maintaining of records involving operation of commercial motor vehicles.
Section 257.208.amended - Destruction of certain records; maintaining of records involving operation of commercial motor vehicles.
Section 257.208a - Availability of records to the public.
Section 257.208b - Commercial look-up service; records and information maintained by driver training school operator or limo carrier of passengers; disposition of fees; providing file to nongovernment
Section 257.208c - Disclosure of personal information; uses.
Section 257.208d - Resale or redisclosure of personal information; duties of recipient.
Section 257.209 - Application for registration; certificate of title; operator's or other license, investigation.
Section 257.210 - Title, registration certificate, permit, license or plate; seizure; possession and custody of plate; security interest.
Section 257.211 - Synopsis, summary, or compilation of laws relating to vehicles; selling price of compilation; disposition and use of money collected.
Section 257.212 - Methods of giving notice; proof.
Section 257.213 - Officers and investigators; powers.
Section 257.214 - Badge of authority.
Section 257.215 - Vehicle unregistered or without certificate of title; operation; misdemeanor, exception.
Section 257.216 - Vehicles subject to registration and certificate of title provisions; exceptions.
Section 257.217 - Application for registration and certificate of title; out-of-state vehicle; form; fee; signature of owner; contents; leased pickup truck or vehicle; duties of dealer and person sell
Section 257.217a - Special registration plate inscribed with official amateur radio call letters; application; proof; fees; issuance of plate for vehicle bearing registration issued pursuant to MCL 25
Section 257.217b - Moped; manufacturer's identification number.
Section 257.217c - Acquisition of salvage, distressed, or older model vehicles; issuance of salvage or scrap certificates of title; salvage vehicle inspections; sale of vehicles; notice of designation
Section 257.217d - Special congressional medal of honor registration plate.
Section 257.217e - Certificate of title for school bus; condition to issuance.
Section 257.217f - Sale, assignment, or other disposition of vehicle for which salvage certificate of title required.
Section 257.217g - Pickup camper; manufacturer's identification number.
Section 257.217h - Liability of motor vehicle manufacturer.
Section 257.217m, 257.217n - Repealed. 2006, Act 562, Eff. Jan. 1, 2007.
Section 257.217o - Organ and tissue education fund; creation; deposit; money remaining in fund; disbursement of money to chronic disease division; administrative expenses; "fund" defined.
Section 257.218 - Specially constructed, reconstructed, or foreign vehicle; application for registration; fees.
Section 257.219 - Refusal of registration, transfer of registration, certificate of title, or salvage certificate of title; grounds; temporary registration plate.
Section 257.219.amended - Refusal of registration, transfer of registration, certificate of title, or salvage certificate of title; grounds; temporary registration plate.
Section 257.220 - Application for original registration or certificate of title; examination of indexes and stolen car records.
Section 257.221 - Application for registration; creation and maintenance of computerized central file; records; preservation; availability.
Section 257.222 - Registration certificate and certificate of title; issuance; rebuilt, salvage, or scrap certificate of title issued by another state; delivery; manufacture; contents; coat of arms of
Section 257.223 - Registration certificate; carrying; display; violation as civil infraction.
Section 257.224 - Registration plate generally.
Section 257.225 - Registration plate; attachment to vehicle; legibility; color; distinctive registration plates; name plate, insignia, or advertising device prohibited; violation as civil infraction.
Section 257.226 - Expiration of vehicle registration; duties of secretary of state; issuance of registration; tax; validity of certificate of title; special registration; certification; registration o
Section 257.226a - Temporary registration plates or markers.
Section 257.226b - Temporary registration; duration; form; fee; use of vehicle.
Section 257.226c - Reflectorized reflector plates, tabs, and stickers.
Section 257.227 - Application for renewal of vehicle registration; fee; presentation of certificate of title; waiver; proof of vehicle insurance; transmission of vehicle identification number as proof
Section 257.227a - Vehicle involved in violation; renewal, replacement, or transfer of registration plate; appearance of owner or representative at branch office required; cancellation of registration
Section 257.227b - Private insurance verification board.
Section 257.228 - Notification of old and new addresses; violation as civil infraction.
Section 257.229 - Duplicate registration certificate, registration plate, certificate of title, or duplicate certificate of title.
Section 257.230 - Special identifying number after alteration or defacement of serial number; record.
Section 257.230a - Motorcycle without visible vehicle identification number; seizure; procedure; “person” defined.
Section 257.231 - Registration of replacement engines.
Section 257.232 - Furnishing list of information to federal, state, or local governmental agency; contract for sale of lists of driver and motor vehicle records; records maintained in bulk; surveys, m
Section 257.232a - Furnishing name and address of lessee of vehicle to secretary of state or police officer.
300-1949-II-DEALERS-AND-WRECKERS-MUST-BE-LICENSED - DEALERS AND WRECKERS MUST BE LICENSED (257.248...257.251e)
- Section 257.248 - Dealer license; investigation; report; bond or renewal certificate; dealer plates; stipulation as to service of process; prohibited conduct, application, and classification; expirati
- Section 257.248a - Vehicle dealer; prohibited advertising or representations.
- Section 257.248b - Foreign salvage vehicle dealer license; form and contents of application; division of dealer licensees into quarter segments; expiration and renewal of license; investigations; stip
- Section 257.248c - Sale, transfer, or release of distressed late model vehicle; applicability of subsections (1) and (3).
- Section 257.248d - Repealed. 1992, Act 304, Imd. Eff. Dec. 21, 1992.
- Section 257.248e - Salvage vehicle agent license.
- Section 257.248f - Vehicle dealer or salvage vehicle agent license; criminal history check; fingerprints; disclosure of information; violation of subsection (7) as misdemeanor; "criminal history recor
- Section 257.248g - Salvage vehicle agent; duties.
- Section 257.248h - Persons engaged in prohibited conduct; penalties; refusal to issue or renew license; revocation or suspension of license; denial or revocation of license without hearing.
- Section 257.248i - Attending pool or auction selling salvage or scrap titled vehicles.
- Section 257.248j - Acting as dealer without license; warning; administrative fine; notice of assessment; actions; informal conference; administrative hearing; payment of administrative fine; reduction
- Section 257.249 - Denial, suspension, or revocation of license as dealer; grounds.
- Section 257.249a - Denial, suspension, or revocation of license as automotive recycler, used or secondhand vehicle parts dealer, vehicle scrap metal processor, or foreign salvage vehicle dealer; groun
- Section 257.250 - Vehicle dealer's licensee; procedure for denial, suspension, revocation.
- Section 257.251 - Dealer records; form; contents; delivery of written statement to buyer; conditions to valid sale; maintenance and inspection of dealer records and inventory; inspections; summary sus
- Section 257.251a - Copies of documents.
- Section 257.251b - Renting, leasing, or furnishing motorcycle; license to operate required.
- Section 257.251c - Renting, leasing, or furnishing motorcycle; duties of dealer.
- Section 257.251d - Renting, leasing, or furnishing motorcycle; license to operate as condition of use by third party.
- Section 257.251e - Renting, leasing, or furnishing motorcycle; motor vehicle liability policy.
300-1949-II-OFFENSES-AGAINST-REGISTRATION-LAWS-AND-CANCELLATION-OF-REGISTRATION - OFFENSES AGAINST REGISTRATION LAWS AND CANCELLATION OF REGISTRATION (257.255...257.259)
- Section 257.255 - Valid registration plate required; exceptions; violation of subsection (1) as civil infraction or misdemeanor; penalty; nonpayment of apportioned fee under international registration
- Section 257.256 - Unlawful lending or use of certificate of title, registration certificate, registration plate, special plate, or permit; unlawful carrying or display of registration certificate or p
- Section 257.257 - Altering, forging, or falsifying documents; penalty.
- Section 257.258 - Registration or certificate of title; grounds for cancellation; elected gross weight violations; penalty; notice; hearing.
- Section 257.259 - Evidence of registration; title; dealer or wreckers' licenses; return to state on cancellation; failure or refusal to surrender unlawful.
300-1949-II-PERMITS-TO-NONRESIDENT-OWNERS - PERMITS TO NONRESIDENT OWNERS (257.243...257.243)
- Section 257.243 - Nonresident owner of foreign vehicle; registration; exemption; transportation for compensation; temporary permit; agent for secretary of state; pleasure vehicle; business vehicle.
300-1949-II-SPECIAL-ANTI-THEFT-LAWS - SPECIAL ANTI-THEFT LAWS (257.252...257.254)
- Section 257.252 - Reports of stolen and recovered vehicles.
- Section 257.252a - Abandoned vehicle; presumption of responsibility; violation; penalty; "abandoned vehicle" defined; duties of police agency; contest by owner; hearing; request; fee; towing and stora
- Section 257.252b - Registered and unregistered abandoned scrap vehicles; duties of police agency; release of vehicle; certificate of title or certificate of scrapping; release form; retention of recor
- Section 257.252c - Repealed. 2005, Act 142, Eff. Oct. 1, 2005.
- Section 257.252d - Removal of vehicle from public or private property to place of safekeeping; circumstances; arrival of owner; duties of police agency; release of vehicle; entry of vehicle as abandon
- Section 257.252e - Jurisdiction to determine propriety of police, towing agency or custodian, or private owner action; venue in district court; use of bond to pay towing or storage fees; exclusive rem
- Section 257.252f - Filing petition; hearing; notice; burden; decision.
- Section 257.252g - Manner of conducting public sale; application of money received; absence of bidders; acquisition of distressed vehicle; application for salvage certificate of title; canceling entry
- Section 257.252h - Abandoned vehicle fund; creation; sources of funding; investment; interest and earnings; money remaining in fund; expenditures.
- Section 257.252i - Towing and storage fees.
- Section 257.252j - Abandoned vehicles; number and placement of vehicles on private property.
- Section 257.252k - Towing or removing vehicle without owner's consent; notice; requirements.
- Section 257.252m - Notification of civil fines and sanctions.
- Section 257.253 - Report of stolen vehicle; filing; transferring certificate of title; record of stolen or abandoned vehicles not reported or recovered; availability; reports by other states of stolen
- Section 257.254 - False statement in application for certificate of title or in assignment of title; possession of stolen vehicle; penalties.
300-1949-II-SPECIAL-PLATES-TO-MANUFACTURERS-TRANSPORTERS-DEALERS - SPECIAL PLATES TO MANUFACTURERS, TRANSPORTERS, DEALERS (257.244... 257.247b)
- Section 257.244 - Operation of vehicle by manufacturer, subcomponent system producer, dealer, or transporter with special plate; unauthorized use of special plate; penalties; surety bond or insurance;
- Section 257.244a - Motorcycle dealer license plates; size.
- Section 257.245 - General distinguishing number and special plates for manufacturer, transporter, or dealer; application; proof; issuance; duration; fee.
- Section 257.246 - Special plates; expiration.
- Section 257.247 - Special plates; manufacturers and transporters, record of uses; inspection by peace officers.
- Section 257.247a, 257.247b - Repealed. 1992, Act 306, Eff. Mar. 31, 1993.
300-1949-II-TRANSFERS-OF-TITLE-OR-INTEREST - TRANSFERS OF TITLE OR INTEREST (257.233...257.242a)
- Section 257.233 - Transfer or assignment of title to, or interest in, registered vehicle; disposition of plates; application for new registration certificate; penalty; indorsement on certificate of ti
- Section 257.233a - Transfer of title or interest in vehicle; disclosure of odometer mileage.
- Section 257.233b - Definitions; disclosure by dealer of damage or repair; exception; grounds for revocation.
- Section 257.234 - Presentation of certificate of title and registration certificate to secretary of state; fees; issuance of new certificate of title and registration certificate; mail or delivery; re
- Section 257.235 - Dealer as transferee of vehicle; requirements; duties; liability of dealer or transferee; transfer of title or interest to another dealer; duties of dealer; dealer reassignment of ti
- Section 257.235a - Licensed dealer or junk dealer purchasing vehicle for purpose of destroying or junking vehicle; acceptance and disposition of certificate of title; fee.
- Section 257.236 - Procuring title to vehicle acquired by operation of law; validity of registration upon death of owner; application for title by surviving spouse or heir; proof of death; certificatio
- Section 257.236a - Termination of owner's interest by enforcement of security agreement; application for new certificate; certification; holding vehicle for resale; termination of owner's inte
- Section 257.237 - Transfer of registration; issuance of new registration certificate and certificate of title; filing surrendered certificate of title; retention of records.
- Section 257.238 - Security interests in vehicle; certificate of title; assignment; termination statement.
- Section 257.239 - Certificate of title; failure to endorse or deliver, penalty.
- Section 257.240 - Liability for use or ownership of vehicle after transfer of endorsed certificate of title; conditions; violation of subsection (2); civil infraction; fine; towing and storage fees.
- Section 257.241 - Repealed. 1978, Act 507, Eff. July 1, 1979.
- Section 257.242 - Sale of vehicle for salvage.
- Section 257.242a - Regrooved or recut motor vehicle or motorcycle tires; sale or possession with intent to sell prohibited; exception; misdemeanor.