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A city may extend the term of a commercial facilities exemption certificate for a period not to exceed twelve years after the completion of the facility based upon factors, criteria, and objectives placed in writing and approved at the time the exemption certificate was approved by the municipality.

A memorandum of land contract, duly executed and acknowledged by the parties before a notary public, is entitled to be recorded by the register of deeds in the county where the land is located without a certification by the county treasurer that there are no tax liens or titles on the property and that all property taxes have been paid for the five years next preceding the date of the instrument.

An electric utility company wishing to construct a transmission line must obtain a certificate of public convenience and necessity from the Michigan Public Service Commission before instituting condemnation proceedings, if, under the particular circumstances, a certificate is required by 1929 PA 69, MCL 460.501 et seq, or the Electric Transmission Line Certification Act, 1995 PA 30, MCL 460.561 et seq. Thus, a company must obtain a certificate from the Commission before commencing condemnation proceedings if: 1) An electric utility has 50,000 or more residential customers in this State or is an affiliated transmission company or an independent transmission company, and the line is a "major transmission line"; 2) An electric utility company of any size, an affiliated transmission company, or an independent transmission company voluntarily applies for a certificate for a non-major transmission line; or 3) The construction of the transmission line falls within section 2 of 1929 PA 69, MCL 460.502. Section 5 of 1923 PA 238, MCL 486.255, requires an independent transmission company or an affiliated transmission company to exercise its power of condemnation in accordance with applicable provisions of the Electric Transmission Line Certification Act, 1995 PA 30, MCL 460.561 et seq, and the Uniform Condemnation Procedures Act, 1980 PA 87, MCL 213.51 et seq. To the extent a company is required by the Electric Transmission Line Certification Act to obtain a certificate of public convenience and necessity before commencing condemnation proceedings, section 3(2) of 1923 PA 238, MCL 486.253(2), requires it to do so. A company may seek a limited license to conduct preconstruction activity on property in accordance with the terms of section 11 of the Electric Transmission Line Certification Act, MCL 460.571, and section 4 of the Uniform Condemnation Procedures Act, MCL 213.54, even though it has not yet applied to the Michigan Public Service Commission for a certificate of public convenience and necessity under the Electric Transmission Line Certification Act.

Official certification of service for Private Alfred White in the 102nd U.S. Colored Infantry signed by the Adjutant General, Roy C. Vandercook dated March 1, 1912.

Pension certificate for Hamilton Potter dated June 6, 1910.

Letter from Edwin A. Bush to friends at home dated October 13. 1862. In the letter, the 17th Michigan Regiment was ordered to march to Fredericksburg, Virginia to protect the city from Confederate cavalry. He also describes how he is getting along with his new life as a soldier.

A death certificate must be filled out and signed by a funeral director before a burial or removal permit may be obtained. The presence of a funeral director or mortuary science licensee is required for the preparation of dead human bodies for transportation and to supervise the burial or disposition thereof. One who merely transports a dead human body need not be a licensed funeral director or a mortuary science licensee. A county medical examiner may file a death certificate and thereby obtain a burial or removal permit as a person in charge of a corpse.

The statutory requirement of U.S. citizenship as a qualification for a certificate as a school teacher is unconstitutional.

The State Board of Education is without authority to certificate school administrators in the public schools.

The Michigan Corporation and Securities Commission may not issue a certificate of authority pursuant to 1931 PA 326, as amended, to an Ohio corporation, seeking to be admitted into Michigan for the purpose of entering a partnership.

A foreign educational corporation may not secure a certificate of authority to do business in Michigan unless it first obtains a statement of adequacy from the State Board of Education in accordance with 1931 PA 327, Sec. 171._x001D_The State Board of Education may request the Attorney General to bring an appropriate legal action to enjoin a foreign educational corporation, which has not secured a statement of adequacy, from doing business in Michigan.

A restoration or replactment of industrial property, including obsolete industrial property, constitutes a 'replacement facility' for the purposes of an industrial facilities exemption certificate._x001D_An industrial facilities exemption certificate may not be denied a replacement facility where machinery and equipment are added to increase productive capacity, evey significantly, where other criteria of 1974 PA 198 are met._x001D_Where partial demolition of obsolete property and partial reconstruction thereof or installation of new property of similar utility ensues, the industrial property is eligible for replacement facility status._x001D_The term 'similar utility' is defined to mean the complete or partial reconstruction or installation of new property which enables the owner of an obsolete industrial facility to conduct industrial operations or functions which are like, have a general likeness to, or are reasonably comparable to the industrial functions performed within the obsolete property prior to its replacement._x001D_Holders of existing industrial facilities exemption certificates may request the State Tax Commission to modify a certificate from 'new facility' status to 'replacement facility' status for the unexpired term of the original certificate provided that the Commission find compliance with all requirements of 1974 PA 198 for replacement facility status._x001D_The State Tax Commission may not order a modification of the certificate on its own initiative.

A member of a township board may not participate in approving the transfer of the property tax exemption certificate for an agricultural cooperative of which he or she is a member or stockholder._x001D_Township members who are so disqualified may be counted for purposes of establishing a quorum.

A change in the composition of partners in a partnership through addition or subtraction of a partner does not thereby result in a discontinuance of the partnership and the county clerk is required to receive a new certificate showing the changes so as to inform the public of the composition of the partnership.

A dealer may use a certificate of number on a vessel while engaged in using the vessel to determine or display its attributes and performance characteristics, as in a race, or while demonstrating the vessel to a prospective purchaser to display its special value or merits.

The state registrar should require a local registrar to substitute a new certificate of birth established by the state registrar for the original one. The local or state registrar should seal from inspection the old certificate of birth.

Upon expiration of an elementary provisional certificate, the certificate holder is obligated to meet the educational requirements as set forth in 2 Administrative Code 1979, R 390.1129a for renewal of the certificate where the holder, during the life of the certificate, did not teach in Michigan, did not sign the statutory oath of office on the certificate, and did not record the certificate in the office of a superintendent of schools in Michigan.

The State Board of Education is not authorized to modify or revise a previously issued teaching certificate, or endorsement thereon, at the selective request of the certificate holder.

The “sex-reassignment surgery” required by MCL 333.2831(c) to change the sex designation on a birth certificate is unconstitutional because it violates an individual’s equal protection rights under the United States and Michigan Constitutions. The “sex-reassignment surgery” required by MCL 333.2831(c) to change the sex designation on a birth certificate may also violate an individual’s due process rights under the United States and Michigan Constitutions .

Currently there are only two approved heart, heart/lung or lung transplantation services existing in Michigan, and thus there is one available certificate of need for these services under section 4(1) of the Certificate of Need Review Standards for Heart/Lung and Liver Transplantation Services.

Promotion Certificate for Albert Sonewald to the rank of Sergeant for Company A of the 1st Michigan Infantry dated August 30, 1862.