Michigan Statutes

Chapter 290 - WEIGHTS, MEASURES, AND STANDARDS

Act 10 of 1945 - Repealed-WEIGHTS FOR PACKAGED FLOURS, CORN MEALS, HOMINY, AND HOMINY GRITS (290.111 - 290.113)
Act 17 of 1929 - FRUIT STANDARDS (290.21 - 290.21)
- Section 290.21 - Legal fruit standards.
Act 29 of 1970 - STATE POTATO INDUSTRY COMMISSION (290.421 - 290.430)
- Section 290.421 - Definitions.
- Section 290.422 - State potato industry commission; creation; appointment, qualifications, and terms of members; vacancies; meetings generally; nominations; chairperson; quorum; conducting business at
- Section 290.423 - Powers and duties of commission; rules.
- Section 290.424 - Assessment on growers and shippers; rate; exemption; shipper application and certificate; records; inspection; reports; payment of assessment by shipper.
- Section 290.424a - Exemption of certain information from freedom of information act.
- Section 290.425 - Failure to pay assessment; penalty.
- Section 290.426 - Failure to pay assessment or file report; false information; penalty.
- Section 290.427 - Enforcement; reimbursement for costs; appropriation.
- Section 290.428 - Referendum; votes; rules; petition to terminate shipper assessments; referendum by mail; conditions for termination of shipper assessments; adoption of assessment increase; public he
- Section 290.429 - Petition to terminate commission; referendum by mail; conditions for termination of commission.
- Section 290.429a - Referendum; vote as to whether commission shall levy assessments and carry out act.
- Section 290.430 - Repeal.
Act 44 of 1984 - MOTOR FUELS QUALITY ACT (290.641 - 290.650d)
- Section 290.641 - Short title.
- Section 290.642 - Definitions.
- Section 290.643 - Establishment of standards by rules.
- Section 290.644 - Transferring, selling, dispensing, or offering gasoline for sale; posting notice on pump dispensing gasoline; contents and design of notice; exception; rule to contain design for uni
- Section 290.644a - Testing storage tank at retail outlet to determine water or water-alcohol level; prohibited sales; testing supplies.
- Section 290.645 - Prohibitions; contents of bill, invoice, or other instrument evidencing delivery of gasoline, diesel fuel, biodiesel, biodiesel blend, or hydrogen fuel; violation; disposition of civ
- Section 290.645a - Renewable fuels fund; creation; deposits; investment; funds at close of fiscal year; disbursement; department as administrator; definitions.
- Section 290.646 - License required; coordination of licensing; expiration and renewal of license; license fee; disposition of fees; application for license; grounds for suspending, denying, or revokin
- Section 290.647 - Inspection, investigation, and testing program; establishment; purpose; monitoring; payment of expenses; consumer hot line; violation; providing documents; authority of director; enf
- Section 290.648 - Gasoline inspection and testing fund; creation; administration; investment of money; use of money and earnings from investment; disposition of civil fines, appropriations, federal mo
- Section 290.649 - Civil action for damage to motor vehicle; costs; other rights to relief not restricted.
- Section 290.649a - Rules.
- Section 290.649b - Dispensing facility exempt from certain requirements; annual report; records; notice.
- Section 290.649c - Repealed. 2006, Act 104, Imd. Eff. Apr. 6, 2006.
- Section 290.649d - Maintenance of stage I vapor-recovery system; inspection of systems; repair, modification, or tampering prohibited.
- Section 290.649e, 290.649f - Repealed. 2006, Act 104, Imd. Eff. Apr. 6, 2006.
- Section 290.649g - Records.
- Section 290.649h - Duties of director to implement MCL 290.649a to 290.649h; rejected or condemned equipment; enforcement; temporary restraining order or permanent injunction.
- Section 290.649i - Dispensing permit; requirements; fees; issuance of license within certain time period; report; “completed application” defined.
- Section 290.649j - Delivery of gasoline; Stage I vapor-recovery system; applicability of subsection (7).
- Section 290.649k - Declaration of emergency.
- Section 290.650 - Hindering, obstructing, assaulting, or committing bodily injury upon director or authorized representative as misdemeanor; penalty.
- Section 290.650a - Violation; administrative fine; hearing; judicial review; action brought by attorney general; payment and disposition of fine, costs, and economic benefit.
- Section 290.650b - Conduct as misdemeanor or felony; assessment of costs.
- Section 290.650c - Stage I vapor control program; implementation.
- Section 290.650d - Areas requiring certain vapor pressure; termination of requirement.
Act 57 of 1925 - STANDARD GRADES OF NAVAL STORES (290.301 - 290.305)
- Section 290.301 - Naval stores standards; definitions.
- Section 290.302 - Standards of quality and purity.
- Section 290.303 - Prohibited acts.
- Section 290.304 - Enforcement; rights and duties of commissioner and agents.
- Section 290.305 - Violation of act; penalty.
Act 63 of 1877 - BUSHEL OF APPLES; WEIGHT (290.71 - 290.71)
- Section 290.71 - Apples; weight of bushel.
Act 74 of 1917 - STANDARD CLIMAX BASKETS, BASKETS, OR OTHER CONTAINERS (290.131 - 290.137)
- Section 290.131 - Standard climax baskets for fruits and vegetables.
- Section 290.132 - Standard containers for small fruits, berries and vegetables.
- Section 290.133 - Violations of act; penalty; foreign shipments.
- Section 290.134 - Examination and test; compliance; determination by department.
- Section 290.135 - Duty of prosecuting attorney.
- Section 290.136 - Guaranty relieving dealer from prosecution; liability of guarantor.
- Section 290.137 - Effective date.
Act 84 of 1871 - WEIGHT OF LIME (290.41 - 290.41)
- Section 290.41 - Stone lime; weight of bushel.
Act 87 of 1939 - Repealed-STATE APPLE COMMISSION; ASSESSMENT ON APPLES (290.51 - 290.66)
Act 88 of 1917 - STANDARD BARREL FOR FRUITS, VEGETABLES, AND DRY COMMODITIES (290.101 - 290.104)
- Section 290.101 - Standard barrel for fruits, vegetables and dry commodities other than cranberries.
- Section 290.102 - Violation; definition; penalty.
- Section 290.103 - Variations; prosecutions; commodities sold by weight or count.
- Section 290.104 - Effective date.
Act 101 of 1871 - Repealed-SIZE OF PEACH BASKETS (290.121 - 290.121)
Act 110 of 1909 - LINSEED OR FLAXSEED OIL (290.251 - 290.256)
- Section 290.251 - Linseed or flaxseed oil; raw or boiled, requirements; adulterated.
- Section 290.252 - Linseed or flaxseed oil; name on barrel or container; evidence of violation.
- Section 290.253 - Linseed or flaxseed oil; compounds, branding; misbranded, definition.
- Section 290.254 - Enforcement.
- Section 290.255 - Right of access; samples; duty to prosecute; hindering prohibited.
- Section 290.256 - Penalty for violation of act.
Act 114 of 1965 - BEANS (290.551 - 290.568)
- Section 290.551 - Definitions.
- Section 290.552 - Division of state into districts.
- Section 290.553 - Michigan bean commission; creation; appointment, qualifications, and terms of members; ex officio members; reapportionment.
- Section 290.554 - Michigan bean commission; procedure for appointment of members; meetings; cessation of membership; vacancies.
- Section 290.555 - Michigan bean commission; quorum; compensation and expenses; conducting business at public meeting; notice.
- Section 290.556 - Michigan bean commission; election of chairman, treasurer, and other officers; appointment and compensation of executive secretary.
- Section 290.557 - Bean commission; deposit of money received; treasurer's bond; “financial institution” defined.
- Section 290.558 - Bean commission; body corporate, seal, records as evidence.
- Section 290.559 - Bean commission; state and employees not liable for acts; disbursements.
- Section 290.560 - Michigan bean commission; powers and duties generally; prohibitions.
- Section 290.561 - Enforcement; reimbursement for costs.
- Section 290.562 - Grower assessment on beans grown and produced.
- Section 290.562a - Assessment on beans grown and produced; payment; report; use; research advisory board; referendum.
- Section 290.562b - Changing method or amount of assessment; referendum; implementation of proposed change.
- Section 290.563 - Repealed. 1976, Act 403, Imd. Eff. Jan. 5, 1977.
- Section 290.564 - Supplemental assessment for special projects; referendum to determine rate; collection.
- Section 290.565 - Records of first receiver; preservation; availability; records of grower processing or retailing own production.
- Section 290.566 - Violation; penalties; prosecution.
- Section 290.567 - Referendum on continuation of commission functions; referendum on termination of commission; petition; notice; hearings; cessation of operations and transfer of assets; voting; submi
- Section 290.568 - Effective date.
Act 132 of 1937 - Repealed-STANDARD GRADES FOR APPLES (290.81 - 290.90)
Act 145 of 1925 - Repealed-STANDARD GRADES FOR GRAPES (290.141 - 290.148)
Act 153 of 1975 - MARKETING FEES FOR FRUITS AND VEGETABLES (290.691 - 290.693)
- Section 290.691 - Deduction and remittance of marketing fees by purchaser of fruits and vegetables; statement.
- Section 290.692 - Enforcement; complaint; investigation; hearing; powers and duties of hearing officer; judicial order; contempt; rules.
- Section 290.693 - Order requiring remittance of moneys to designated association; cease and desist order; recovery of costs and expenses; order dismissing complaint; civil penalty.
Act 158 of 1964 - WHOLESALE POTATO DEALERS (290.451 - 290.466)
- Section 290.451 - Definitions.
- Section 290.452 - License required; exemptions.
- Section 290.453 - Application for license; contents; fee; submission of false information; expiration.
- Section 290.454 - Wholesale potato dealers; display of license, inspection.
- Section 290.455 - Wholesale potato dealers; identification card; fees.
- Section 290.456 - Grounds for refusal, suspension, or revocation of license; hearing.
- Section 290.457 - Records; examination.
- Section 290.458 - Irrevocable letter of credit or surety bond required; exemptions; falsification of application, statement, or record.
- Section 290.459 - Surety bond or irrevocable letter of credit generally.
- Section 290.460 - Default of licensee; filing statement of grower's claim or certified copy of judgment; time.
- Section 290.461 - Repealed. 1968, Act 63, Eff. May 31, 1968.
- Section 290.461a - Examination of records; inquiries; seizing assets of licensee; hearing; order; appeal; action against seized assets; distribution to claimants; return of remaining assets to license
- Section 290.462 - Filing claim; time period.
- Section 290.463 - Repealed. 2000, Act 377, Imd. Eff. Jan. 2, 2001.
- Section 290.464 - Waiver.
- Section 290.465 - Violation of act; misdemeanor, penalty.
- Section 290.466 - Repeal.
Act 162 of 1955 - LIMING MATERIAL (290.531 - 290.538)
- Section 290.531 - Liming material; definition; container label, contents; exception.
- Section 290.532 - Liming material; vendor's certificates of analysis and contents, samples.
- Section 290.533 - Liming material; license fee; records.
- Section 290.534 - Liming material; annual analysis.
- Section 290.535 - Annual report of director of agriculture; surplus from license fees.
- Section 290.536 - Violation; penalty, damages for misrepresentation.
- Section 290.537 - Selection of material for analysis; inspection; seizure.
- Section 290.538 - Director; enforcement of act.
Act 168 of 1913 - Repealed-WEIGHTS AND MEASURES (290.1 - 290.10)
Act 184 of 1994 - MICHIGAN GINSENG ACT (290.751 - 290.781)
- Section 290.751 - Short title.
- Section 290.753 - Definitions.
- Section 290.755 - Ginseng management program; establishment; administration; purpose; ginseng management program fund; payment, deposit, and use of money; rules.
- Section 290.757 - Inspection; seizure; forfeiture; deposit of proceeds from sale of seized ginseng; inspection fee.
- Section 290.758 - Ginseng certificate required; prohibited conduct.
- Section 290.759 - Ginseng plants or plant parts sold for propagation.
- Section 290.761 - Sale of cultivated ginseng by grower.
- Section 290.763 - Wild ginseng.
- Section 290.765 - Grower's license; dealer's license; fee; expiration; requirement.
- Section 290.767 - Prohibited conduct by dealer.
- Section 290.769 - Cultivated and wild ginseng submitted for weighing.
- Section 290.771 - Record of sale.
- Section 290.773 - Retention of record; availability for inspection.
- Section 290.777 - Prohibited conduct.
- Section 290.779 - Violation as misdemeanor.
- Section 290.781 - Administrative fine; warning in lieu of fine; civil action by attorney general to recover fine.
Act 208 of 1941 - STANDARD LOG RULE (290.401 - 290.401)
- Section 290.401 - Standard log rule; establishment.
Act 208 of 1961 - Repealed-STATE POTATO INDUSTRY COUNCIL (290.181 - 290.192)
Act 220 of 1929 - STANDARD GRADES FOR TABLE STOCK POTATOES (IRISH POTATOES) (290.151 - 290.162)
- Section 290.151 - Standard grades for table stock potatoes; sale of unclassified potatoes.
- Section 290.152 - Potatoes; definitions.
- Section 290.153 - Unlawful sale or commerce in ungraded potatoes.
- Section 290.154 - Sale and transportation without required branding on container unlawful; cards; conclusive evidence.
- Section 290.155 - Inspection of potatoes in storage or in transit.
- Section 290.156 - Inspection of potatoes in storage or in transit; taking samples, payment.
- Section 290.157 - Enforcement; right of entry for inspection.
- Section 290.158 - Enforcement; rules and regulations.
- Section 290.159 - Intent of act.
- Section 290.161 - Person, definition; liability for violation by employe.
- Section 290.162 - Violation of act; misdemeanor, penalty.
Act 223 of 1863 - WEIGHT PER BUSHEL (290.31 - 290.31)
- Section 290.31 - Weight per bushel.
Act 227 of 1915 - GALVANIZED WIRE FENCE (290.351 - 290.360)
- Section 290.351 - Galvanized wire fence; standard test gauge.
- Section 290.352 - Galvanized wire fence; galvanizing test.
- Section 290.353 - Galvanized wire fence; standard grades.
- Section 290.354 - Galvanized wire fence; label.
- Section 290.355 - Galvanized wire fence; label, annexing conditions; fee.
- Section 290.356 - Galvanized wire fence; test, board of agriculture; permit; label contents.
- Section 290.357 - Galvanized wire fence; unlawful sales, penalty; civil liability.
- Section 290.358 - Galvanized wire fence; taking samples; tests.
- Section 290.359 - Tests, accounts, publication; expenses; unexpended balance.
- Section 290.360 - Effective date.
Act 227 of 1929 - Repealed-HANDLING AND TRANSPORTATION OF POTATOES (290.171 - 290.174)
Act 228 of 1947 - Repealed-CHERRIES (290.501 - 290.515)
Act 232 of 1965 - AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES MARKETING ACT (290.651 - 290.674)
- Section 290.651 - Agricultural commodities marketing act; short title.
- Section 290.652 - Definitions.
- Section 290.653 - Marketing agreements; provisions allowed; provisions required; substantial compliance.
- Section 290.654 - Inspection and grading; approved inspectors.
- Section 290.655 - Assessments to defray program and administrative costs; collection; maximum assessment to be specified; collection by processors, distributors, or handlers; disposition; trust fund;
- Section 290.656 - Marketing program; temporary suspension, duration.
- Section 290.657 - Committee; establishment; appointment, qualifications, and terms of members; reapportionment of districts; expenses and per diem; duties and responsibilities; conducting business at
- Section 290.658 - Disposition of moneys or assets collected; expenditures.
- Section 290.659 - Refunds.
- Section 290.660 - Petition for program or amendment; notice; public hearing; decision by director; producers.
- Section 290.661 - Referendum to determine assent of producers and processors.
- Section 290.662 - Referendum; director to establish procedures for determination of volume.
- Section 290.663 - Termination of program; petition, hearing, recommendation, referendum.
- Section 290.664 - Program approved by referendum; duties of director.
- Section 290.665 - Repealed. 2002, Act 601, Imd. Eff. Dec. 20, 2002.
- Section 290.666 - Deposit by applicants of funds for expenses; reimbursement.
- Section 290.667 - Marketing agreements with producers, handlers and others; effective upon signing.
- Section 290.668 - Rules and regulations; duty of director.
- Section 290.669 - Action to enforce compliance; injunction; jurisdiction.
- Section 290.670 - Suspension of statute where marketing program approved; exception.
- Section 290.671 - Referendum; requirements; exception; time period.
- Section 290.672 - Interest on unpaid assessment.
- Section 290.673 - Violations; penalties.
- Section 290.674 - Venue for prosecution of violation; enforcement; institution of prosecution for violation.
Act 272 of 2006 - RENEWABLE FUELS COMMISSION ACT (290.581 - 290.586)
- Section 290.581 - Short title.
- Section 290.582 - Definitions.
- Section 290.583 - Renewable fuels commission; establishment; powers and duties; report.
- Section 290.584 - Membership; appointment; qualifications.
- Section 290.585 - Report.
- Section 290.586 - Repeal of act.
Act 283 of 1964 - WEIGHTS AND MEASURES ACT (290.601 - 290.634)
- Section 290.601 - Short title.
- Section 290.602 - Definitions.
- Section 290.603 - Recognized systems of weights and measures; use; recognized definitions, tables, and equivalents governing equipment and transactions.
- Section 290.604 - State primary standards of weights and measures; certification; storage and maintenance; removal from laboratory; use.
- Section 290.605 - Keeping copies of state primary standards as secondary standards; field standards and equipment; verification.
- Section 290.606 - State director of weights and measures; deputy, inspectors.
- Section 290.607 - Custody and records of standards and equipment; enforcement of act; general supervision; annual report.
- Section 290.608 - Rules; exemptions.
- Section 290.609 - State director of weights and measures; testing of standards, inspections; testing of weights and measures for state purchases.
- Section 290.609a - Weighing device; measuring device; certificates of conformance; participating laboratory.
- Section 290.609b - Service persons and agencies; registration requirements; denial, suspension, or revocation of registration.
- Section 290.610 - State director of weights and measures; inspecting and testing of weights and measures kept for sale or used commercially; sampling.
- Section 290.610a - Inspection fee; fees and expenses for special services; disposition of moneys.
- Section 290.610b - Fee schedules.
- Section 290.611 - State director of weights and measures; investigation of complaints; commercial transactions.
- Section 290.612 - State director of weights and measures; weight, measurement, or inspection of packages of commodities, sampling procedures.
- Section 290.613 - State director of weights and measures; stop-use orders, stop-removal orders, removal orders.
- Section 290.614 - State director of weights and measures; approval, rejection, condemnation, confiscation.
- Section 290.615 - State director of weights and measures; enforcement, seizure without formal warrant.
- Section 290.616 - State director of weights and measures; powers of deputy director and inspectors.
- Section 290.617 - Sealer of weights and measures, deputy sealers, supervising inspectors, city and county inspectors; appointment.
- Section 290.618 - Sealer of weights and measures, deputy sealers, supervising inspectors, city and county inspectors; jurisdiction; city or county ordinances.
- Section 290.619 - City and county official standards; comparison with state standards.
- Section 290.620 - Joint county and city weights and measures jurisdiction; powers.
- Section 290.621 - State director of weights and measures; concurrent enforcement powers.
- Section 290.622 - Rejected or condemned weights and measures; disposition.
- Section 290.623 - Commodities, liquid, nonliquid, measurement; exceptions.
- Section 290.624 - Package labels; contents; allowable variations.
- Section 290.625 - Package labels; random weights, measures or counts, additional declarations.
- Section 290.626 - Packages; misleading wrappers.
- Section 290.627 - Packages; advertisement, declaration of quantity.
- Section 290.628 - Commodities; sale by weight, net weight.
- Section 290.628a - Meat, meat products, poultry and seafood sold by weight; food combination sold by weight, quantity representation by total weight of product or combination.
- Section 290.628b - Commodity or service; sale by weight, measure or count; misrepresentation; display of price including fraction of a cent.
- Section 290.628c - Commodity sale; method; packaging and labeling requirements; certificate of conformance; compliance standards; registration for service persons and agents.
- Section 290.628d - Gross weight of vehicle or truck tractor with multiple trailers; determination; scale; inapplicability of section to enforcement of vehicle weight under Michigan vehicle code.
- Section 290.629 - Assaulting, inflicting bodily injury upon, hindering, or obstructing certain persons in performance of official duties as misdemeanor; penalties.
- Section 290.630 - Impersonation of officers.
- Section 290.631 - Prohibited acts; penalties; fines; closure of facility; inspection; consent order; disposition of fines or recovered amounts; "intentional" defined.
- Section 290.631a - Consent agreement; proceeding; fines.
- Section 290.632 - Temporary restraining order; preliminary or permanent injunction.
- Section 290.633 - Proof of existence of weight, measure or device; presumption.
- Section 290.634 - Repeal.
Act 317 of 1941 - Repealed-BREAD STANDARDS (290.201 - 290.203)
Act 344 of 1972 - AGRICULTURAL MARKETING AND BARGAINING ACT (290.701 - 290.727)
- Section 290.701 - Short title.
- Section 290.702 - Definitions.
- Section 290.702a - Excluded sales.
- Section 290.703 - Agricultural marketing and bargaining board; creation; purpose; appointment, qualifications, and terms of members; vacancy; removal; quorum; per diem reimbursement and expenses; serv
- Section 290.704 - Voluntary associations; unfair practices; complaints; orders.
- Section 290.705 - Enforcement of orders; temporary relief or restraining order; jurisdiction; objections; findings; additional evidence; review.
- Section 290.706 - Proposed bargaining unit; determination of appropriateness.
- Section 290.707 - Accreditation of association; requirements.
- Section 290.708 - Request for accreditation; contents; fee; reports.
- Section 290.709 - Request for accreditation; determination by board; amended request; hearing; notice.
- Section 290.710 - Request for accreditation; issuance and publication of determination; preliminary declaration; service fees; effective date of accreditation; referendum; denial of accreditation.
- Section 290.711 - Annual report of accredited association.
- Section 290.712 - Revocation of accreditation.
- Section 290.713 - “Bargaining” defined; accredited association as exclusive representative; negotiations; notice.
- Section 290.714 - Mediation of issues; duties of board; designation of person to act in board's behalf, fee.
- Section 290.715 - Election not to purchase or sell during marketing period.
- Section 290.716 - Arbitration; agreements as to agricultural commodities; disputed quantities; offer; claim for relief; determination of reasonableness; joint settlement committee.
- Section 290.717 - Hearing; notice; duties of chairperson; intervention; evidence; informal proceedings; verbatim record; transcripts; expense; adjournment; conclusion; majority actions and rulings.
- Section 290.718 - Committee; powers; oaths; subpoenas; contempt.
- Section 290.719 - Committee; findings of fact; issuance of award.
- Section 290.720 - Basis for committee's decision.
- Section 290.721 - Finality of committee's decision; enforcement.
- Section 290.722 - Disobeying or resisting order; contempt.
- Section 290.723 - Judicial review of committee awards.
- Section 290.724 - Mailing copy of contract or award to board.
- Section 290.725 - Access of board to evidence; refusal to obey subpoena; service of process.
- Section 290.726 - Antitrust law not violated.
- Section 290.727 - Repealed. 1976, Act 155, Imd. Eff. June 17, 1976.
R.S. of 1846 - Repealed-Revised Statutes of 1846 (290.17 - 290.19)
E.R.O. No. 2007-7 - EXECUTIVE REORGANIZATION ORDER (290.741 - 290.741)
- Section 290.741 - Transfer of powers and duties of agricultural marketing and bargaining board to department of agriculture by type III transfer; abolishment of agricultural marketing and bargaining b