Shelby, MI

Shelby treats yelling, shouting and loud verbal noise between 11:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. as prima facie evidence of a noise violation if it can be heard 50 feet from its source. The same…

Shelby requires every engine to discharge exhaust through a muffler that prevents loud or explosive noise, and treats a modified exhaust that is louder than factory-original as…

Shelby limits noisy construction work to the hours between 7:00 a.m. and sundown. Erecting, demolishing, altering or repairing a building outside that window is a noise violation…

Village of Shelby treats habitual barking as an animal-control violation, not just a noise complaint. Section 100-8(F) bars harboring or keeping any dog that commits frequent or…

Shelby's noise ordinance bars radios, phonographs and musical instruments played loud enough to disturb neighbors, and sets a bright-line test overnight: audible at 50 feet between…

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.

The Village of Shelby allows recreational fires only in a pit no wider than 24 inches burning natural cut wood no longer than 24 inches, kept at least 25 feet from any combustible…

In the Village of Shelby, the Shelby-Benona Fire Department or police can order any recreational fire or open burning extinguished for high winds, burning prohibited materials, a…

Michigan's Fireworks Safety Act (PA 256 of 2011), significantly amended by PA 634 of 2018 (MCL 28.451 et seq.), legalizes consumer-grade 1.4G fireworks statewide for adults 18+. Local…

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…

Between November 15 and April 1, Shelby directs drivers to park in Municipal Lot B exactly as posted signage instructs. If a vehicle blocks the Village's snow-removal equipment or…

Shelby caps on-street parking at 48 consecutive hours anywhere in the Village and bans parking entirely on First Street. On Michigan Avenue between Second and Fourth Streets, vehicles…

From November 15 through April 1, Shelby bars parking on any Village street, alley, or in Municipal Lot A between 2:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. The seasonal overnight ban, aimed at keeping…

Michigan's Vehicle Code establishes uniform statewide procedures for declaring, towing, and disposing of abandoned vehicles, preempting most local rules.

Michigan regulates nonconsensual towing through the Michigan Vehicle Code, 1949 PA 300. MCL 257.252k makes an owner or lessor of private real property post a sign at every vehicular…

Village of Shelby makes it a violation to feed wild animals, stray cats or stray dogs anywhere in the village. Section 100-8(G) lists the feeding of wildlife and strays among the…

Village of Shelby ordinance § 100-4 requires every dog and cat to stay under restraint: confined to the owner's property or on a leash no longer than six feet. Dogs and cats cannot run…

Village of Shelby does not require pet owners in general to spay or neuter their animals, but § 100-6(B) bars the county or contracted animal shelter from releasing any dog or cat for…

Village of Shelby caps how many dogs and cats a household may keep outside a licensed kennel, veterinary clinic or commercial use. Section 100-12(A) sets the limit at three adult dogs…

Village of Shelby does not restrict ownership by breed, but § 100-13 imposes strict leash, muzzle, confinement, signage and $50,000 liability insurance requirements on any dog a court…

Village of Shelby allows backyard poultry on a sliding scale tied to lot size, from four female birds on a 6,000-square-foot parcel up to fifteen per acre, while livestock requires a…

Village of Shelby bans keeping lions, tigers, bears, wolves, apes, large monkeys, alligators and other dangerous wild species as pets. Section 100-14(B) lists the prohibited animals by…

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…

Village Code § 430-4 bars placing fences or other obstructions in any Shelby Village street or right-of-way except under a permit issued under Chapter 430, Article II. Fences are…

Village Code § 430-25 requires Shelby Village property owners and occupants to keep the sidewalks abutting their premises clear, trimming protruding branches and overhanging shrubbery…

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's Child Care Organizations Act preempts local zoning that would exclude licensed family or group child care homes from residential districts.

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.

Michigan's Public Health Code Part 125 sets uniform safety, lifeguard, and water quality standards for public and semi-public pools. State rules apply statewide regardless of local…

Shelby bars skateboards, bicycles, roller blades and scooters from the public sidewalks along North Michigan Avenue between Second and Fourth Streets, and from Getty Park entirely…

Shelby's disorderly conduct chapter makes it unlawful to loiter in any public place or to obstruct the free passage of the public there. The same section also bars prowling on private…

Shelby bans smoking in any public park in the village, unless the area has been designated a smoking area by the village. The ban sits inside the disorderly conduct chapter and is…

Anyone under 17 must be off Shelby streets by 10:00 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and by midnight on Friday and Saturday. The Chief of Police enforces the curfew and can demand…

The Village of Shelby has opted out entirely under the Michigan Regulation and Taxation of Marihuana Act. Chapter 277 prohibits marihuana establishments and the sale and purchase of…

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

The Village of Shelby requires every rental dwelling to pass a Building Inspector inspection under Chapter 358 before a certificate of compliance is issued, then re-inspects on a…

Village Code § 430-26 requires the occupant, or owner if the property is vacant, to clear all snow and ice from sidewalks adjoining their lot within 36 hours after daytime snowfall…

Under Village Code § 412-28, the Shelby Village Council can declare any lot, building or structure a public nuisance because of debris, weed overgrowth, age or dilapidation that…

Rental dwellings in the Village of Shelby must meet the maintenance standards of the 2021 International Property Maintenance Code, adopted village-wide under Chapter 340 and applied to…

Every rental dwelling in the Village of Shelby must register with the Village under Chapter 358, with new rentals registering before occupancy, existing rentals registered within six…

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 Village of Shelby caps casual sales, meaning garage, yard, basement and rummage sales, at four per calendar year per person, organization or property, and no single sale can run…

The Village of Shelby allows one on-site sign per casual sale, capped at six square feet and non-illuminated, plus up to three off-site signs on a main thoroughfare with the adjacent…

Michigan election law universally prohibits political signs and electioneering within 100 feet of any polling place entrance on Election Day, applying uniformly across all…

The Village of Shelby has no locally written permit chapter of its own; instead, Chapter 150 adopts the Michigan State Construction Code by reference for the entire village and hands…

The Village of Shelby's subdivision ordinance forbids platting land subject to flooding for residential use. Under Chapter 440, Section 440-4E, the Village Council can also refuse…

Shelby's groundwater protection article requires any site plan for a business handling more than 100 kilograms of regulated substances a month to design stormwater and drainage…

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

Michigan's Part 91 of NREPA imposes uniform statewide soil erosion permits for earth changes near water or disturbing one acre or more.

Shelby's littering ordinance bars dumping yard waste, refuse or debris on streets, private property or into any stream, ditch or culvert, and separately restricts where shoveled snow…

Shelby requires every vendor truck to hold a Village Clerk-issued license before operating, with a Council-set fee, a detailed application, and exemptions for tax-paying local…

Shelby confines licensed vendor trucks to commercial and industrial zoning districts, so a truck cannot legally set up and sell in a residential zone anywhere in the Village.

Shelby's own noise ordinance carves out agricultural operations, exempting activity protected by Michigan's Right to Farm Act and run under current GAAMPs from the Village's general…

Shelby requires anyone peddling or soliciting door-to-door to first get a permit from the Village Clerk/Treasurer, good for no more than 30 days, with a fee set by Council resolution…

Shelby lets residents block solicitors outright by posting a no-soliciting sign and confines all door-to-door peddling and soliciting to an 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. window, whatever the…

Village Code § 430-6 sets the permitting process for any private use of a Shelby Village street or right-of-way authorized under Chapter 430, Article II. Applicants apply to the…

Village Code § 430-23 puts most sidewalk replacement and repair costs on the Village, but shifts responsibility to the abutting property owner when defects are caused by conditions on…

Village Code § 430-24 makes it unlawful to place snow, dirt, trash, goods, wares, or merchandise on any public sidewalk in Shelby Village, or to obstruct free pedestrian passage over a…

Michigan regulates retail sale of vapor products and alternative nicotine products under the Youth Tobacco Act, MCL 722.641 and MCL 333.12601.

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…

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…

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

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…

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…