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Michigan Laws and Public Offices

• Laws, Rules, and Regulations
• Public Offices
  • State of Michigan
    
  • Executive Branch and Departments
    
  • Legislative Branch
    
• Key sites for finding Michigan resources

See also Michigan Courts.

Laws, Rules, and Regulations

• Michigan Constitution of 1963
  
• Michigan Compiled Laws (MCL)
  Sponsor: Library of Michigan, Michigan Legislative Counsel, Michigan Legislature
  
• Public Acts and Bills
  Sponsor: Library of Michigan, Michigan Legislative Counsel, Michigan Legislature
  
• Michigan Administrative Code
  Sponsor: Office of Regulatory Reform
  

State of Michigan

• State of Michigan Web Site
  
• Government telephone directory
  

Executive Branch

• Michigan Governor's Office
  Executive orders, Governor's office press releases, links to executive departments.

Departments

• Agriculture
  Information about the various divisions of the department, agricultural statistics, climatology, press releases, and other information.
• Attorney General
  Addresses and telephone numbers of divisions within the Attorney General's office.
  Sponsor: Michigan Electronic Library
• Community Health
  The Department of Community Health is a consolidation of the Departments of Public Health and Mental Health and the Medical Services Administration. Contains information about Medicaid (FAQs, proposals for programs, community health information, child immunization registry status reports, and updates), press releases, and e-mail addresses.
• Labor and Economic Growth
  Formerly the Department of Consumer and Industry Services. Includes information about the department and the Office of Policy and Legislative Affairs, including some new legislation and bill analysis.
  • Bureau of Commercial Services
    Corporation Bureau forms, frequently asked questions, and information about the Bureau, plus search for records of domestic corporations, limited liability companies, and limited partnerships and of foreign corporations.
  • Office of Financial and Insurance Services
    In April of 2000, an executive order merged the former Insurance Bureau, Financial Institutions Bureau, and Securities Division of the Corporations, Securities and Land Development Bureau into the Office of Financial and Insurance Services (OFIS).
  • Public Service Commission
    Information about divisions (gas, electric, motor carrier, etc.), press releases, commission orders and notices, reports, and announcements.
  • Tax Tribunal
    Recent decisions, rules of practice and procedure, phone directory, and other information.
• Education
  Information about the department, offices, reports, statistics, legislation, and state aid. Includes a Department of Education gopher.
• Environmental Quality
  The department calendar, information about district offices, press releases, and other environmental information.
  • Environmental Science Board
    Department reports, procedures, and announcements.
• Family Independence Agency
  Formerly the Department of Social Services; contains information about welfare reform and the department, food stamps fact sheet, and myths and facts about welfare. Posts the names of parents who are delinquent in child support payments and has links to national Web sites that assist in locating parents who have fled the state to avoid their child support obligations.
• Management and Budget
  Department information, the budget for the coming year, and press releases.
  • Information Center
    Demographic, economic, geographic, and educational data.
  • Office of Retirement Systems
    General information about this office and more specific information about the State Employees Retirement System. Includes the ORS Connections Retiree Newsletter (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader, a free software program).
• Military Affairs
  Information about the army and air national guard, press releases, and the online version of Wolverine Guard Magazine.
• Natural Resources
  Links to divisions, including extensive site for the Law Enforcement Division; the department's organizational chart, calendar, and management plan; hunting and fishing license fee revisions.
• Secretary of State (SOS)
  License plate renewal information, online pamphlets, list of fax-on-demand forms and documents, 1996 election results, and information from the Bureau of Automotive Regulation. Includes SOS branch locations.
• State Police
  Information on bureaus and divisions, reports and publications, Uniform Crime Report, "most wanted" list, missing children, unidentified human remains, and links to local law enforcement agencies.
• Transportation
  Motorist and road information (National Functional Classification maps), facts and figures, average daily traffic volume maps, and information about the department.
• Treasury
  Treasury news, description of department, tax forms, and treasury publications.

Legislative Branch

• Michigan House of Representatives
  
• Michigan Senate
  
• Michigan House of Representatives Fiscal Agency

Key sites for finding Michigan resources

• Michigan State and Local Government on the Web
  Organized links to Michigan law and government resources on the Web.
  Sponsor: University of Michigan Documents Center
  
• State and Local Government on the Net—Michigan
  Links to state, legislative, executive, judicial, county, and city offices.
  Sponsor: Piper Resources