Mich. Comp. Laws § 3.454b
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Reservation of jurisdiction; rights of person residing on lands ceded to United States.
Official statutory text
Sec. 4b.
(1) This state reserves jurisdiction as follows over lands and waters within the Pictured Rocks national lakeshore, to which legislative jurisdiction is ceded to the United States under this act:
(a) The state's entire legislative jurisdiction with respect to taxation by this state or a political subdivision of this state.
(b) The state's entire legislative jurisdiction with respect to marriage, divorce, annulment, adoption, commitment of the mentally incompetent, and descent and distribution of property.
(c) Concurrent or separate power to enforce the criminal law.
(d) The power to execute any process, civil or criminal, issued under authority of this state.
(2) A person residing on lands within the Pictured Rocks national lakeshore, to which legislative jurisdiction is ceded to the United States under this act, shall not be deprived of any civil or political rights, including the right of suffrage, by reason of the cession of jurisdiction to the United States.
History: Add. 2012, Act 116, Imd. Eff. May 2, 2012
(1) This state reserves jurisdiction as follows over lands and waters within the Pictured Rocks national lakeshore, to which legislative jurisdiction is ceded to the United States under this act:
(a) The state's entire legislative jurisdiction with respect to taxation by this state or a political subdivision of this state.
(b) The state's entire legislative jurisdiction with respect to marriage, divorce, annulment, adoption, commitment of the mentally incompetent, and descent and distribution of property.
(c) Concurrent or separate power to enforce the criminal law.
(d) The power to execute any process, civil or criminal, issued under authority of this state.
(2) A person residing on lands within the Pictured Rocks national lakeshore, to which legislative jurisdiction is ceded to the United States under this act, shall not be deprived of any civil or political rights, including the right of suffrage, by reason of the cession of jurisdiction to the United States.
History: Add. 2012, Act 116, Imd. Eff. May 2, 2012
Status: in_force · Read it on the official government site
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