Mich. Comp. Laws § 21.161
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Grants and gifts to state; acceptance by governor, report to legislature.
Official statutory text
Sec. 1.
Whenever any grant, devise, bequest, donation, gift or assignment of money, bonds or choses in action, or of any property, real or personal, shall be made to this state, the governor is hereby directed to receive and accept the same, so that the right and title to the same shall pass to this state; and all such bonds, notes or choses in action, or the proceeds thereof when collected, and all other property or thing of value, so received by the state as aforesaid, shall be reported by the governor to the legislature, to the end that the same may be covered into the state treasury or appropriated to the State University, or to the public schools, or to such state charities as may be here after directed by law.
History: 1901, Act 145, Eff. Sept. 5, 1901; CL 1915, 282; CL 1929, 341; CL 1948, 21.161
Whenever any grant, devise, bequest, donation, gift or assignment of money, bonds or choses in action, or of any property, real or personal, shall be made to this state, the governor is hereby directed to receive and accept the same, so that the right and title to the same shall pass to this state; and all such bonds, notes or choses in action, or the proceeds thereof when collected, and all other property or thing of value, so received by the state as aforesaid, shall be reported by the governor to the legislature, to the end that the same may be covered into the state treasury or appropriated to the State University, or to the public schools, or to such state charities as may be here after directed by law.
History: 1901, Act 145, Eff. Sept. 5, 1901; CL 1915, 282; CL 1929, 341; CL 1948, 21.161
Status: in_force · Read it on the official government site
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