Dearborn Heights, MI

In the City of Dearborn Heights it is unlawful to feed wild animals or leave food on the ground where raccoons, skunks, rats, waterfowl, and other wildlife can reach it. The only…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, feeding pigeons, gulls, or doves on public or commercial property is outright illegal, and feeding them on private property is banned if it causes…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, feeding feral or stray cats without prior approval from the director of animal control is unlawful, whether by hand-feeding or leaving food out…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, owners of pit bull dogs, defined by breed under City Code Sec. 6-162, must be at least 18, microchip and license the dog as a pit bull, and provide…

City Code § 6-66 bars keeping any animal or domestic fowl in Dearborn Heights except dogs, cats, canaries or small household pets. Section 6-96 reinforces this by naming horses, cows…

City Code § 6-67 bans keeping any poisonous reptile in Dearborn Heights outright and bars keeping or selling a wild or exotic reptile or animal unless the owner holds the applicable…

City Code § 6-91 caps residential pet ownership in Dearborn Heights at three animals over four months old per household. The limit sits in Chapter 6's Article V on prohibited acts and…

City Code § 6-94 bars a dog or animal from running at large anywhere in Dearborn Heights and requires a leash or adequate owner control whenever the animal is on a public area or…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, City Code Sec. 36-173 sets the zoning standards a veterinary clinic must follow. The clinic must be run by a licensed or registered veterinarian, keep…

Michigan sets no statewide beekeeper license or registration. Under the Apiary Law, 1976 PA 412, MDARD runs voluntary hive inspections and holds standby authority to quarantine bee…

Dearborn Heights lets homeowners paint their address number on the curb in front of their house, but never requires it under Sec. 28-2. Anyone who does must use weather-resistant…

Under Sec. 32-118, the Dearborn Heights police department can tag a vehicle left on public or private property as abandoned and tow it if it is not removed within forty-eight hours of…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, the city traffic engineer sets the location and posted hours of passenger and freight curb loading zones under City Code § 32-169. Businesses that want…

City Code § 32-537 bars parking in the City of Dearborn Heights on sidewalks, in front of driveways, within intersections, within fifteen feet of a fire hydrant, on crosswalks, and in…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, City Code Sec. 32-554 bans parking on any street once snow or ice has piled up three inches deep, or whenever the mayor declares a parking emergency…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, Sec. 32-806 lets residents keep a recreational vehicle, boat, or trailer only if it's parked or stored in an enclosed building or in the rear yard at…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, Sec. 32-816 limits everyday street parking to automobiles, motorcycles, light pickups under three-quarter-ton hauling capacity, and noncommercial…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, off-street parking at single-family and two-family homes must use a parking strip, parking bay, driveway, or garage, and City Code § 36-364 bars…

Wayne County sets no tow or storage rate anywhere in its code. Its impound law is a seizure and forfeiture scheme: Sec. 207-7 requires a written Notice of Seizure, gives the owner…

Sec. 30-3 bars building any nonportable swimming pool in Dearborn Heights until the building and engineering department issues a permit. The application must include detailed plans…

Sec. 30-5 requires every swimming pool in Dearborn Heights to be enclosed by a fence between four and six feet tall with a self-closing, self-latching gate that locks from the inside…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, no fence may go up until the Building and Engineering Department issues a zoning permit under City Code Sec. 13-2. Applications need a complete plan…

Dearborn Heights treats a retaining wall as zoning-regulated work: City Code Sec. 36-4 lists retaining walls among the improvements that need a zoning compliance certificate from the…

City Code Sec. 13-3 caps residential fences at six feet in the rear yard and generally bars fences in the front or side yard except for a short list of exceptions with their own height…

When a Dearborn Heights property owner puts up a new privacy fence next to an existing chain-link fence on a shared property line, City Code Sec. 13-5 makes that owner responsible for…

Dearborn Heights bans barbed wire and razor wire on any residential fence citywide under City Code Sec. 13-7, and Sec. 13-4 limits acceptable fence material to four-foot or six-foot…

The Dearborn Heights Fire Code, adopted at City Code Sec. 14-46, bans open burning citywide unless the Fire Code Official issues an outdoor fire permit under Section 105.6.30, and…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, igniting, discharging or using any firework other than novelties is banned year-round except during specific state-authorized holiday windows, with…

The City of Dearborn Heights requires at least one working smoke detector in every sleeping area of every dwelling unit under City Code Sec. 7-510, listed by an independent testing…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, a recreational fire pit is capped at 2 feet across and 1 foot high and needs no permit, but it must sit at least 25 feet from any structure. Barbeque…

Michigan requires plan review and a state certificate from LARA's Bureau of Fire Services Storage Tank Division before installing any LP-gas system with a single 2,000-gallon tank, a…

City Code § 6-93 makes it unlawful to harbor or keep any animal whose loud, frequent or habitual barking, yelping, howling, crying or squawking annoys the neighborhood or people…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, City Code § 32-425 makes it a misdemeanor to operate or park a vehicle, on public or private property, from which music, voices, or any amplified sound…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, outdoor sound crossing into a receiving zoning district cannot exceed the numeric caps in City Code Table A: 55 dB(A) for residential areas from 7:00…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, City Code Sec. 36-341(2) bars construction, drilling, or demolition tools and equipment from creating a noise disturbance across a residential district…

Wayne County bans amplified music and sound equipment audible off your property after 10 p.m. on weeknights and after midnight on Fri/Sat, or over 60 decibels at the property line.

Wayne County bars loud, amplified sound audible off your property from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. Sunday through Thursday nights, and from 12:01 a.m. to 7 a.m. on Friday and Saturday, unless…

Michigan's Aeronautics Code preempts local regulation of aircraft operations and noise, leaving control over aircraft noise to state and federal authorities under MCL 259.1 et seq.

In the City of Dearborn Heights, Sec. 33-34 requires every owner of a tree overhanging a street or right-of-way to trim it so branches don't block streetlights or intersection…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, Sec. 33-30 requires a tree permit from the Department of Public Works before anyone removes, relocates, or destroys a tree on private or non-city…

City Code Sec. 33-52 caps grass, weeds, and other vegetation at 6 inches on every lot in the City of Dearborn Heights and requires the owner or occupant to cut it before it goes to…

From June 1 through October 1 each year, City Code Sec. 35-47 limits lawn and garden sprinkling in the City of Dearborn Heights to odd-numbered addresses on odd calendar days and…

The City of Dearborn Heights allows one accessory dwelling per residential parcel in the R1 and RM districts, but only inside the principal single-family structure, never in a detached…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, an accessory dwelling can only be added to a home that is the owner's actual primary and permanent legal residence, per Dearborn Heights City Code…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, City Code Sec. 36-251 caps a shed at 200 square feet of floor area, counted toward an 800-square-foot ceiling on all accessory buildings combined…

A Dearborn Heights home occupation must stay "clearly incidental and secondary" to the home's use as a residence, and cannot occupy more than 15 percent of the habitable floor area of…

A Dearborn Heights home occupation cannot bring more than 10 customer or client visits per day or 30 per week, and no more than two customers may be on site at once, under Dearborn…

A Dearborn Heights home business cannot put up its own commercial sign; signage is limited to whatever chapter 26 already permits for a residential property, per Dearborn Heights City…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, a family day care home caring for one to six children is treated as a private-home use under City Code Sec. 36-37 and needs no special land use…

Michigan's Cottage Food Law lets you sell qualifying non-hazardous homemade foods without a license or inspection as long as gross sales stay under $50,000 a year. A $75,000 cap…

Michigan has never created a microenterprise home kitchen permit. The word "microenterprise" returns zero results in a full-text search of the Michigan Compiled Laws, and the only…

Michigan imposes a 6% use tax on short-term rental accommodations under 30 days. Hosts must register with Treasury and remit tax monthly or quarterly, regardless of where they operate.

In the City of Dearborn Heights, yard waste (grass, leaves, brush, Christmas trees, weeds and branches) must go into a heavy-duty paper bag or a locking receptacle no larger than 35…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, waste and receptacles cannot go to the curb before 6:00 p.m. the day before collection and must be pulled back in by 8:00 p.m. on collection day…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, large items collected through the city's special pick-up program do not need to go in a receptacle, but they cannot sit outdoors except right before…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, recyclables set at the curb or placed in a city recycling receptacle become the property of the city or its authorized hauler. Picking through or…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, Section 17-29(a) bars anyone from disposing of solid waste originating in the city except through the city or a solid waste hauler it has licensed…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, Section 17-33 bars anyone from placing offal, garbage, refuse, animal or vegetable matter, waste or rubbish of any kind in the streets, alleys or other…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, Section 17-35 requires every household to keep waste and its receptacles out of public view, storing them in a garage or a rear yard not visible from…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, Section 17-35(b)(2) requires items to be recycled that are stored outdoors to be kept in recycling bins of a type the city deems acceptable. Section…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, City Code Sec. 36-253 governs where commercial dumpsters can sit and how they must be screened. Dumpsters are barred at single- and two-family homes…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, a five-member Historical Commission is charged with collecting and preserving historical objects, buildings and sites, and may acquire historic…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, any production license issued under City Code Section 8-47 comes with mandatory conditions covering road and lane closures. Licensees must notify…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, a production license under City Code Chapter 8 is normally required before anyone films, tapes, or photographs on private or public property. Section…

The City of Dearborn Heights requires a production license under Code Sec. 8-42 before any filming or stationary photography, backed by at least $1 million in liability insurance under…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, no one may operate a massage business without a city license, which costs $500 a year and requires a police background investigation, fingerprinting…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, anyone operating a smoking lounge, tobacco retail specialty store, hookah bar, cigar lounge, or zero-percent-nicotine establishment needs an annual…

Anyone who wants to buy, sell or store used metal, secondhand auto parts or other junk in the City of Dearborn Heights needs a city junkyard license, cannot transact between 8:30 p.m…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, anyone without a current Michigan medical license may not tattoo a person under eighteen without first obtaining the written, phone- or…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, a tow company that removes a vehicle from private property at someone else's direction, not the owner or police, must immediately notify the Dearborn…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, City Code Sec. 36-143(c)(2) expressly prohibits automobile-oriented uses, including auto repair, as a home occupation in every residential zoning…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, City Code Sec. 36-231 keeps adult regulated uses at least 1,000 feet from any residential zoning district, church or place of worship, school, licensed…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, begging without the property owner's or lessee's consent is a misdemeanor. Begging in public streets, alleys or rights-of-way is presumed unconsented…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, it is unlawful to loiter, loaf, wander or stand idle in a public place after a police officer has told you to move on if doing so blocks a street…

City Code § 4-29 bans drinking alcoholic liquor on public streets, in public parking lots or structures, or inside the public part of a business not licensed for on-premises…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, a responsible person who exercises control over a residence or rental premises commits a violation if an open house party occurs there and a minor…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, City Code § 32-216 keeps anyone on roller skates, or riding a coaster, toy vehicle, or similar device, a category that reaches skateboards, off any…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, pedestrians cannot cross the roadway anywhere but a marked crosswalk once traffic-control signals are in operation, under City Code § 32-499, and in…

The City of Dearborn Heights bans marihuana establishments entirely rather than zoning them into any district. City Code Section 8-60 invokes Section 6.1 of the Michigan Regulation and…

Michigan's MRTMA allows adults 21+ to grow up to 12 plants at home, preempting local bans on personal cultivation.

In the City of Dearborn Heights, the 2005 National Electrical Code governs all electrical work, adopted by reference under City Code Sec. 7-46 with three copies on file with the city…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, the Michigan Plumbing Code 2012, based on the 2012 International Plumbing Code, governs plumbing work under City Code Sec. 7-156. The director of the…

City Code Sec. 7-622 sets the inspection steps for rental dwellings in the City of Dearborn Heights: written notice, a 14-day window to schedule, tenant notification, and, if access is…

City Code Sec. 36-5 requires a building permit from the building official before anyone excavates for, constructs, moves, or renovates a building or structure in the City of Dearborn…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, City Code Sec. 36-166 sets the zoning standards a child care center must meet before it can operate. Centers must be licensed by the State of Michigan…

Wayne County, Michigan runs a childhood lead testing program under Code of Ordinances Ch. 151, screening children ages six months to six years for lead poisoning countywide, regardless…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, City Code Article VII names specific conditions, from stored junk to unlicensed vehicles, as blight factors it is unlawful to maintain on any property…

Sec. 28-29 makes it unlawful for a Dearborn Heights property owner to let snow or ice pile up on the sidewalk, alley, approach or servicewalk next to their land. All snow and ice must…

The City of Dearborn Heights makes it unlawful for an owner, occupant, or anyone in charge of any lot, including a vacant or unimproved parcel, to let noxious weeds like Canada…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, every dwelling unit must have a private bathroom with a flush toilet, tub or shower, and lavatory, plus water heated to at least 120 degrees…

Every rental dwelling in the City of Dearborn Heights must be registered with the building department under City Code Sec. 7-620, and an out-of-area owner must name a local responsible…

Before evicting, a Michigan landlord must serve the correct written demand: 7 days for nonpayment of rent, 7 days for serious health hazards, extensive damage, or physical violence…

Michigan eviction procedure is governed uniformly by the Summary Proceedings Act. Landlords must follow statutory notice and court process under MCL 600.5701 through 600.5759.

Michigan has no statute requiring a landlord to give advance notice before entering a rented unit. A tenant's protection comes instead from the lease terms and from MCL 600.2918, which…

Either party may end a Michigan estate at will or month-to-month tenancy by giving one month's notice. When rent is payable at intervals shorter than three months, the notice need only…

Michigan has no statewide rent control and no cap on rent increases. A 1988 state law, MCL 123.411, bars every local government from enacting, maintaining, or enforcing any ordinance…

Michigan's Landlord-Tenant Act caps a residential security deposit at one and one-half months' rent. A landlord who keeps any of the deposit for damages must mail the tenant an…

Michigan requires 15 years of adverse possession before a squatter can claim title to land. Under MCL 600.5801 the owner's action to recover land is barred after 15 years in most…

The City of Dearborn Heights bans the installation of any billboard, defined as a freestanding sign over 200 square feet advertising a business unrelated to its site. Sec. 26-11 also…

The City of Dearborn Heights allows political signs advertising a candidate, election or ballot question up to 4.5 square feet, but they cannot go up more than 30 days before the vote…

In commercial sign-control districts of the City of Dearborn Heights, interior business signs displayed in a window cannot cover more than 25 percent of the store's window area, cannot…

The City of Dearborn Heights allows garage, rummage, yard, attic, flea market, estate and lawn sale signs up to 3 square feet, posted for no more than three days tied to the sale, and…

The City of Dearborn Heights bans exterior string lights on a commercial premises under its sign chapter's list of prohibited signs, but carves out an exception for holiday…

Sec. 28-1 of the Dearborn Heights City Code bars using any public sidewalk, alley or right-of-way, or the strip between the property line and street curb, for the sale, display or…

Sec. 28-26 makes the owner of the abutting property responsible for constructing and maintaining every sidewalk, alley, splashguard and driveway approach in Dearborn Heights. If an…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, City Code § 37-21 requires a use permit from the city before anyone places an improvement, defined broadly to include pipes, poles, conduits, wires, or…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, licensed street vendors cannot stop to sell within 500 feet of any school or church, or park longer than 15 minutes within 60 feet of an intersection…

Any mobile food vendor operating in the City of Dearborn Heights needs a street vendor license from the city clerk for every vehicle used, plus county health department inspection of…

The City of Dearborn Heights routes ordinance complaints through the Department of Ordinance Enforcement, created under City Code § 2-901 pursuant to Charter § 5.12. The department…

The City of Dearborn Heights caps residential garage, rummage, yard, attic, flea market and lawn sales at three consecutive days each, and allows no more than two such sales per…

Dearborn Heights' Fire Code, at Section 307.4, allows barbeque grills, charcoal burners, LP-gas and natural gas burners for one- and two-family dwellings, and Section 307.5 requires…

Dearborn Heights City Code § 3-23 makes it unlawful to leave a handbill, including from peddlers or agents, on any premises posted with a "No Trespassing," "No Peddlers or Agents," or…

The City of Dearborn Heights requires any peddler, transient merchant, or business doing direct in-person sales solicitation to hold a city business license under Code Sec. 8-2, with…

In the City of Dearborn Heights it is unlawful to deliver, furnish, supply or give away hypodermic syringes, needles or empty gelatin capsules to any person known to be a nonmedical…

City Code Sec. 7-530 requires every basement or cellar opening in a dwelling in the City of Dearborn Heights that could let in rodents or vermin to be screened, while Sec. 7-543…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, Section 16-123(13) requires every employee of a bakery or bulk food establishment to hold a food handler's certificate of current issue. The…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, it is unlawful to use, occupy, frequent or loiter in any public park between 8:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. from October 1 through March 31, or between 10:00…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, minors under seventeen may not loiter, idle or congregate on a public street, alley, park or other public place between 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. unless…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, a resident who wants to use a public park during its closed hours must apply in writing to the mayor, chief of police or director of parks and…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, no parade or procession may march or proceed along any roadway without a permit from the chief of police, per City Code § 32-355. The requirement…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, the Building and Engineering Department inspects dwellings for housing-code compliance under City Code Sec. 7-466, but a tenant or occupant can refuse…

The City of Dearborn Heights requires a rental dwelling certificate of compliance, valid three years, before any rental unit can be occupied under City Code Sec. 7-621, and a suspended…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, Chapter 15 regulates every area of special flood hazard identified in FEMA's Flood Insurance Study for the city completed May 6, 1996. No structure or…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, Section 15-57 requires the lowest floor, including the basement, of any new or substantially improved residential structure in a special flood hazard…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, City Code Chapter 39 requires a stormwater construction approval from the Building and Engineering Department before regulated development begins, with…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, City Code §§ 39-32 and 39-44 require a vegetated buffer strip along watercourses used in a stormwater system and mandate soil erosion protection at…

Michigan's Part 323 NREPA preempts local coastal rules in designated high-risk erosion, flood-risk, and environmental areas along the Great Lakes.

In the City of Dearborn Heights, City Code § 32-269 bars motor vehicles from driving on or across a marked bicycle lane except to enter or leave adjacent property, and from parking in…

Michigan does not legalise golf carts on public streets statewide, and it does not leave the question to every council either. MCL 257.657a switches street use on only where the local…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, Chapter 33 defines poplar, willow, box elder, and elm as 'prohibited species,' and Sec. 33-28 blocks anyone from using them to satisfy the street tree…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, City Code § 36-401 lists Ailanthus altissima, the tree of heaven, on the zoning ordinance's table of prohibited plant materials because of its…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, Sec. 33-28 requires every new residence to have one or more street trees planted before the city issues a certificate of occupancy, with a winter grace…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, Sec. 33-30(h) protects any tree of 24 inches DBH or larger as a 'landmark tree,' and separately lists common species like oak, maple, ash, and beech as…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, no one may remove a tree from private or non-city property without a tree permit from the Department of Public Works. Any tree 24 inches DBH or larger…

In the City of Dearborn Heights' R1 district, a principal home on a lot narrower than 60 feet is capped at 30 feet in height, while a home on a lot 60 feet wide or greater can rise to…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, concrete flatwork, pavers, and other impervious surfaces cannot exceed 25 percent of a lot's total site area, 40 percent of the front yard, or 25…

In the City of Dearborn Heights' R1 single-family district, the combined side yard must total 30 percent of the lot's width with at least 10 percent on the narrower side, the rear yard…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, City Code § 36-442 caps light trespass onto a neighboring lot at 0.5 foot-candles measured five feet above the ground at the property line, and…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, City Code § 36-443 requires full shielding on street, parking, security, and sports lighting fixtures using high- or low-pressure sodium, metal halide…

The Taylor Dearborn Heights Gateway Overlay District along Van Born Road imposes detailed design standards under City Code Sec. 36-119: traditional, natural materials must cover at…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, City Code Sec. 36-234 requires a permit from the building and engineering department before installing any solar collector that sits in the open rather…

Since April 2, 2025, Michigan's Homeowners' Energy Policy Act (2024 PA 68, MCL 559.301 to 559.317) makes any provision of a homeowners' association agreement that prohibits or has the…

Wayne County levies a 1% excise tax on charges for accommodations provided to transient guests countywide, funding the stadium and land development fund.

Michigan Unmanned Aircraft Systems Act (PA 436 of 2016, MCL §259.301–259.327) creates a comprehensive state framework for drones and preempts local ordinances regulating UAS ownership…

Michigan minimum wage is set by the Improved Workforce Opportunity Wage Act (PA 337 of 2018). The Local Labor Regulatory Limitation Act (PA 105 of 2015, MCL §123.1381+) preempts local…

Michigan preempts local paid leave ordinances; statewide paid sick leave is governed by the Earned Sick Time Act under MCL 408.961.

Michigan's Local Government Labor Regulatory Limitation Act preempts local predictive scheduling and fair workweek ordinances under MCL 123.1387.

Michigan issues Concealed Pistol Licenses (CPLs) under MCL 28.425 series, with statewide rules that local governments cannot override or supplement.

Michigan firearms preemption (MCL §123.1101–123.1104) prohibits local units of government from imposing any ordinance, regulation, or policy on the purchase, registration, ownership…

Michigan law under MCL 750.227 makes it a felony to carry a concealed pistol in a vehicle without a valid Concealed Pistol License or other statutory exemption.

Michigan's Gaming Control and Revenue Act reserves commercial casino gaming to cities whose local legislative body passes an ordinance approving it and signs a certified development…

Michigan bars bingo, raffles, charity games, numeral games, and millionaire parties unless a licensed 'qualified organization' runs them under the Traxler-McCauley-Law-Bowman Bingo…

Michigan's penal code makes no exception for private, social, or "friendly" gambling. MCL 750.301 criminalizes accepting money contingent on an uncertain event's outcome: full stop…

Michigan legalized internet sports betting under the Lawful Sports Betting Act, but the Michigan Gaming Control Board can license only two kinds of operators: existing commercial…

Michigan condominium associations get an automatic statutory lien for unpaid assessments under MCL 559.208, foreclosable like a real-estate mortgage. Michigan has no general non-condo…

Michigan's Condominium Act gives co-owners a records right and almost nothing else on meeting mechanics. MCL 559.157(1) makes the books, records, contracts and financial statements…

Michigan condo associations enforce the master deed, bylaws, and rules through MCL 559.165, which makes compliance mandatory, backed by fines, injunctions, and liens. Non-condo HOAs…

Michigan's Homeowners' Energy Policy Act, 2024 PA 68, took effect April 2, 2025 and made any homeowners' association provision that bans an "energy-saving improvement or modification"…

Michigan protects home EV charging through the Homeowners' Energy Policy Act, 2024 PA 68, which took effect April 2, 2025. MCL 559.303(c)(ix) counts "electric vehicle supply equipment"…

Michigan's flag protection is one sentence long and narrower than most. MCL 559.156a bars a developer or association of co-owners from prohibiting a co-owner from displaying a single…

The Michigan Condominium Act lets associations levy fines, but only after due process. Under MCL 559.206 a condo association may impose late charges and, after notice and a hearing…

A Michigan condominium association can foreclose its assessment lien by advertisement, meaning it never has to file a lawsuit, but MCL 559.208(3) bars it from starting until it records…

Michigan runs the opposite way from states that shield owners who rent. MCL 559.212(1) of the Condominium Act says that after the transitional control date the association of co-owners…

Michigan does not run sobriety checkpoints, and the reason is unusual. Michigan's own checkpoint programme was the one the United States Supreme Court upheld under the Fourth Amendment…

Michigan has no statute granting an express right to film police, and no statute forbidding it either. What governs is the 1966 eavesdropping chapter of the Michigan Penal Code, and…

Michigan has never enacted a general stop-and-identify statute. Nothing in the Michigan Compiled Laws makes it an offence to stand on a sidewalk and decline to give a police officer…

Michigan is one of the few states where the answer to a roadside search question is written into a statute rather than left to case law. Section 5 of the Michigan Regulation and…

The Michigan Right to Farm Act (Act 93 of 1981, MCL §286.471 et seq.) provides nuisance protection for qualifying commercial farms following Generally Accepted Agricultural and…

Michigan PA 389 of 2016 (MCL 445.572b) prohibits local governments from banning, taxing, or regulating plastic bags and other auxiliary containers.

Michigan set the minimum age to buy, possess, or use tobacco and vapor products at 21 through PA 167 of 2022, which amended the Youth Tobacco Act (MCL 722.641), aligning with federal…

Michigan currently has no statewide ban on flavored tobacco or vape products; an attempted 2019 emergency ban was struck down in court.

Michigan runs a closed list rather than a list of banned colors. MCL 257.698(4) provides that unless a lamp is both covered and unlit, a vehicle on Michigan highways must not carry a…

Michigan sets no measured windshield zone for a camera and no sticker size limit. What it regulates is the screen. MCL 257.708b(1) prohibits operating a motor vehicle with a television…

Michigan bans lane splitting in plain words. MCL 257.660(5) says a person operating a motorcycle, moped, low-speed vehicle, electric personal assistive mobility device or electric…

Michigan does not regulate license plate covers by naming them. It regulates the result. MCL 257.225(2) requires that the plate be maintained free from foreign materials that obscure…

Radar detectors are legal in a private vehicle in Michigan, and the state says so in the statute rather than by silence. MCL 750.508 restricts carrying a police-frequency radio…

Michigan does not run a studded tire season the way its neighbours do. MCL 257.710(b) forbids operating on a highway any tire carrying a block, stud, flange, cleat, spike or other…

Michigan does not set a visible light transmission percentage for any window. MCL 257.709(1)(a) instead bans film outright on the front windshield and on the side windows and sidewings…